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From: "Paul Garceau" <pgarceau AT qwest DOT net>
Organization: New Dawn Productions
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:06:32 -0800
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Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll
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On 21 Feb 2001, at 16:52, the Illustrious Earnie Boyd wrote:

> Kirran DOT Bari AT sf DOT frb DOT org wrote:
> > 
> > Earnie,
> > 
> > You're right - the setup log says that the file was installed
> > right in the bin folder.  The file is there but just hidden.
> > 
> 
> Hidden?  What do you mean hidden?

	Not sure, but think he means that the file is de-archived as a 
hidden file.  This is not unusual with Win9x systems which, by 
default, typically hide anything that looks anything like an 
executable, etc.  (postfixes, etc.).


>Do you have symlinks for /bin
> or /usr/bin?  If you do have symlinks these are known not to work
> with setup.exe which is by the way a non-Cygwin executable so it
> 1) doesn't understand symlinks and 2) doesn't know about the
> Cygwin registry wrt actually using it to find files are
> concerned.

	Win9x/ME, if I remember the original post properly, can't 
support symlinks.

	Peace,

		Paul G.

> 
> Earnie.
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