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From:	Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:25:34 -0500
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> 
>> But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to 
>> be relied on as they might not be there forever. 
> 
> 
> Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at 
> least one registry entry which denotes the [active] installation path of 
> Cygwin. IOW I was sort of requesting it. Again, it's only my opinion. 
> But to me it seems logical that you gotta know where to start... and the 
> registry is there, partially for such a purpose....

What do you mean by [active]?  It is possible to have multiple cygwins 
installed.  The easiest way would be to have 2 different users install 
local for "Just Me".

And about searching for "bin/cygwin1.dll".  You could first try 
"C:\cygwin\bin\" (which should match 99% of all cases), and only if that 
fails, look for the DLL the hard way.

-Rolf



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