Subject: Re: Why is cygwin.dll?
From: [email-masked] (Martin Oldfield)

16 Jan 1997 07:27:08 -0800
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What happens if we change the name of cygwin.dll to include a (major)
version number ? Then people can keep cygwin1.dll, cygwin2.dll, &c on
their machine and run both old and new executables without any
problems.

CHeers,
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