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From: "Chris January" <chris@atomice.net>
To: "Cygwin@Cygwin.Com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: no dice yet on .net server?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:47:38 +0100
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> Hello,
>
> I've installed cygwin on a Microsoft .Net Server machine (yes, a
> "release candidate" build) just so that I can use bash, but it refuses
> to run.  I've noticed the web page says 'The Cygwin DLL works with
> all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 versions of Windows
> since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.'  Does that
> mean cygwin deliberately checks the OS version and bails out if
> it's not among those expected, or simply that you haven't yet tested
> it on this OS and I've hit an incompatibility?
>
> I have cygwin running just fine on my Windows 2000 machines.

It also works fine on .NET Server-ish (Windows XP SP1 switched to server
mode with NTSwitch), which is a shame because I was going to try to debug
it. I will try it on RC1 next week sometime and have a look-see.

Chris


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