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Subject: Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.
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On 12/31/2009 04:35 AM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
> It should have been obvious from my 'cygcheck' output, but emphasis
> doesn't hurt. My root (/) is not located at 'c:\Cygwin', it is
> instead located at 'c:\_0'.
>
> However, this was the case for my Vista 32b config. (different
> PC), and in all prior configs (different PCs), it was at 'c:\_r',
> yet 'chere' worked in all those.

Right.  I would be surprised if the root directory was a problem.
FWIW, I typically install to the root of a DOS drive and that's the
configuration of the Windows 7 x64 machine I ran the test on.

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