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According to Ingo Brueckl on 1/4/2006 12:38 PM:
> 
> So what shall I do? There is one in cygwin\bin (which was the current
> directory at this time) and a copy in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM for my cygwin
> programs to run. As far as I understood, the copy in the bin directory must
> be there or shall I delete it? (It was installed there from the setup
> program.)

NEVER put a copy of cygwin1.dll in c:\windows\system.  Instead, update
your PATH environment variable to include c:\cygwin\bin (or where the lone
copy of cygwin1.dll lives).  Otherwise, you are asking for problems due to
multiple versions of the .dll.

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