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John Emmas wrote:
> 
> confused about why the program worked when I built it under Linux.  

As Brian said, glibc's inet_pton() is apparently doing something beyond 
what the standard requires.  Cygwin doesn't use glibc, it uses a 
different standard C library called newlib.

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