From: bje AT cygnus DOT com (Ben Elliston)
Subject: Re: Question...
12 Jul 1998 14:18:52 -0700
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To: Michael Weiser <michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de>
Cc: "Marcel R." <marshall AT cwb DOT matrix DOT com DOT br>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> >I send a program that i compiled here for a friend... He said that this is
> >asking for the file cygwin.dll ... To run my program the other person has
> >to have this dll???

> Yep, he has to have this DLL in the same directory the executable is
> in. It contains the UNIX/POSIX-Emulation-Layer that's been developed
> to make porting of UNIX Applications to NT as easy as possible.

What's wrong with having the DLL in a directory that is listed in the PATH
environment variable?

Ben

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