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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:22:26 -0500
To: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: RE: Is the Cygwin 1.3.2 DLL Win 2000 compatible?
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At 03:54 AM 3/3/2002, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Friday 1 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes:
> > Perhaps.  It's an esoteric one.  The original poster of this question wanted
> > to know if Cygwin 1.3.2 would work with Win2000.  I replied with the FAQ 
> > entry that says Cygwin works with 9x/Me/NT/W2K/XP.  The reply I got back 
> > from the poster then was that he had seen this entry but thought it 
> > referenced only the current Cygwin DLL (1.3.9 at that point).  So the only
> > question I was raising was whether you think it would be more or less 
> > confusing to people to add some wording to the FAQ entry that specifies
> > that any recent Cygwin DLL works with Windows, not just the latest.
> > It's not clear to me that this additional wording wouldn't raise more 
> > questions than it answers.  Judging by your response, I think leaving things
> > as is may be the best option.  What do you think?
>
>I think it's best to leave this entry as it is.


Very good.  Thanks for the 'ruling'. :-)



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