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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:22:38 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Updated: Cygwin DLL 1.1.2
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In-Reply-To: <393F21CB.87993925@Wanadoo.fr>; from JGMBenoit@Wanadoo.fr on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:32:11PM -0600

I don't know what's wrong with your browser but the dates are ok.
I've just looked at them with Internet Explorer, Netscape, and ncftp.

cgf

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:32:11PM -0600, Jerome Benoit wrote:
>Ok my first message was quiet ambiguous:
>my trouble was that at the address
>
>ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/latest/cygwin/
>
>I read (Netscape broswer)
>
>cygwin-1.1.2.tar.gz         1525 Kb Mon Jun 07 23:36:00 1999 WinZip File
>
>note that for the `setup.exe', I read:
>
>setup.exe 426 Kb    Mon Jun 07 23:40:00 1999 Binary Executable
>
>Whereas the others dates sound good.
>
>I have just downloaded the setup.exe file and run it, its banner is
>
>This is the Cygwin setup utility (v1.45.2.2),
>built on Jun  7 2000 19:39:27.
>
>
>If my remarks it very naive,
>I am very sorry for that.
>
>@+
>Jerome
>
>
>
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> I'm sorry I don't have a clue what you are talking about.
>> 
>> The last update to the DLL was on 15-May-2000.  It was announced in
>> a mail message dated 'Mon, 15 May 2000 00:51:24 -0400'.
>> 
>> The date of the DLL tar file on sourceware.cygnus.com was 'May 14 20:49'.
>> 
>> There is no 1999 in any of these dates.
>> 
>> It does, of course, take some time for the mirrors to get the latest
>> version of cygwin.
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:13:20PM -0600, Jerome Benoit wrote:
>> >It seems that the actual date of the last update is wrong: the year is
>> >1999
>> >
>> >I guess it is why this latest version is available from the mirrors.
>> >
>> >I hope it help,
>> >Jerome BENOIT
>> >
>> >Chris Faylor wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I've updated the version of the cygwin DLL in cygwin/latest to 1.1.2.
>> >>
>> >> A partial, unordered list of what's changed is below.  If anyone who has
>> >> submitted changes that are not mentioned below wants to chime in, please
>> >> feel free.
>> >>
>> >> To update your installation, CREATE AN EMPTY DIRECTORY, cd to it, and
>> >> download the latest version of setup.exe from the cygwin/latest
>> >> directory at a cygwin mirror site near you.  Then type:
>> >>
>> >> setup cygwin
>> >>
>> >> Answer the questions as you did when you first installed cygwin.  This
>> >> procedure should only update the cygwin package.
>> >>
>> >> Note that if you use the "cygwin -u" syntax, you will not be able to
>> >> upgrade the DLL to 1.1.2 if you have previously downloaded a snapshot.
>> >> This is due to the fact that the snapshot versions were already
>> >> 1.1.2.
>> >>
>> >> Using "setup cygwin" will force a new copy of cygwin to be downloaded and
>> >> installed, as long as you do this IN AN EMPTY DIRECTORY.
>> >>
>> >> Christopher Faylor
>> >> Cygwin Engineering Manager (and developer)
>> >> Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
>> >>
>> >> Visible Changes:
>> >>
>> >> - Use of the /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/lib and /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/include
>> >>   directories has been deprecated.  Starting with this release, these
>> >>   directories have been moved into /usr.
>> >>
>> >> Fixes:
>> >>
>> >> - Fixed problems with \r\n line endings manifesting when text mode
>> >>   was specified.
>> >>
>> >> - Fixed problem exiting rxvt on Windows 95.
>> >>
>> >> - Fixed problem with 'cd' when current directory is a path mapped
>> >>   to something like '/c'.
>> >>
>> >> - Fixed problem loading certain functions from advapi32.dll on older
>> >>   versions of Windows 95.
>> >>
>> >> - Avoid setting "ENOTDIR" errno when attempting to delete a non-existent
>> >>   file.
>> >>
>> >> - Eliminate test for a "writable directory" which arbitrarily limited
>> >>   the ability to delete files in a "read-only" directory.  This is
>> >>   only a limitation of UNIX.  Windows allows this.
>> >>
>> >> - Scan LOCAL_MACHINE registry as well as current user registry when
>> >>   looking for per-program cygwin options.
>> >>
>> >> - Eliminate occasional "couldn't dynamically determine load address"
>> >>   errors.
>> >>
>> >> - Correct header file problem in include/cygwin/in.h where in6_addr
>> >>   was incorrectly named.
>> >
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