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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <emcb_exposure AT hotmail DOT com>
To: <cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Which DLL should be active?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:19:44 +0100
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When you run setup and install a new copy of the dll, and the dll is in use
it doesn't place the new dll in the dir (c:\cygwin\bin for ex.). Instead it
calls it dllname.dll.new, and replaces the files when you next reboot your
machine.

Elfyn
----- Original Message -----
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: Which DLL should be active?


> I recently did a download and install while a cygwin bash window
> was open.  I now find the following files present:
>
> [2] c:\cygwin>dir bin\cygwin1.dll*
>
>  Volume in drive C is WD30-PRI41     Serial number is 3CE4:239B
>  Directory of  C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll*
>
>  7-06-02   2:19         904,008  cygwin1.dll
> 10-13-02  23:16         926,024  cygwin1.dll.new
>       1,830,032 bytes in 2 files and 0 dirs
>
> The question is: should the older dll be discarded and replaced
> with the new? My original install was done on 2002-10-11.
>
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