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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:54:00PM -0500, Benjamin Madore wrote:
>So as to add to the confusion...
>
>At one point, and maybe still, you could "Restart Windows" without rebooting
>your computer. If I recall correctly, it would drop to the subsystem (DOS?)
>and a message stating "Restarting Windows..." would display on your screen.
>
>So, restarting was not necessarily rebooting at one time. I don't know how
>this plays out, though, as either would do what you wanted.
>
>BTW, can one say they restarted Cygwin without restarting windows? Does that
>make sense?

No, it doesn't.  Can we move on now, please?

cgf

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