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According to Vincent Richomme on 2/26/2010 12:05 PM:
> however once installed it will end up inside CYGWINDIR/bin
> and not CYGWINDIR/usr/bin.

That's all due to the magic of mount points - in cygwin, /bin and /usr/bin
are two spellings for the same directory from cygwin's point of view
(unless you manually change /etc/fstab to state otherwise, which is not
recommended).  The files are visible in both locations.

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