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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
To: "Georges, Chris" <Chris DOT Georges AT disney DOT com>,
        "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:26:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Error:  couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
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At 01:30 AM 11/7/2000, Georges, Chris wrote:

>I just upgraded my cygwin installation from 1.0 to the latest cygwin DLLs
>(cygwin-1.1.5-4) and now almost every utililty (ls,cat,etc) prints out
>"couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" when it starts.  tcsh prints the
>error and exits.  I backed out to cygwin-1.1.4 and got the same problem.  I
>am running all of these apps remotely in a telnet window connected a windows
>2000 telnet server (the default one that comes with win2k) on a remote
>machine, this worked fine until I upgraded cygwin.  The apps appear to run
>OK when run in a normal window on the local machine.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>chris



A cygcheck -s -r -v may be helpful.  My guess is you have a mixture of 1.0
and 1.1.x stuff that's causing you troubles, but that's purely a guess.
The results of cygcheck should help you determine this.



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