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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:20:08 -0400
To: John Franco <johnnyc AT eskimo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: no dice yet on .net server?
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At 11:08 PM 10/23/2002, John Franco wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've installed cygwin on a Microsoft .Net Server machine (yes, a
>"release candidate" build) just so that I can use bash, but it refuses
>to run.  I've noticed the web page says 'The Cygwin DLL works with
>all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 versions of Windows
>since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.'  Does that
>mean cygwin deliberately checks the OS version and bails out if
>it's not among those expected, or simply that you haven't yet tested
>it on this OS and I've hit an incompatibility?



This has been reported before.  If you're looking for details, check the
email archives.  Cygwin, however, does not actively exclude any Windows
version from running. 



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