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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Fri, 14 May 1999 16:47:34 -0400
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: YIKES user.exe stupidity.
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In-Reply-To:	<199905142044.QAA30922@envy.delorie.com>; from DJ Delorie on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 04:44:02PM -0400

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 04:44:02PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Some nice netizen downloaded user.exe and managed to overlay his
>> system32/user.exe with it.  See the recent user archives for details.
>
>Yowza!  We should have thought of that earlier.  Imaging how many more
>Linux machines there'd be ;-)
>
>> Here's the obvious suggestion, rename user.exe to usertools.exe without delay.
>
>Done!  At least, when the ftp mirrors update themselves.
>
>I added a user.exe.README that explains what happened.

Aren't there consequences to renaming this?  Isn't this documented in
various places?  Does the installation still work correctly?

cgf

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