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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:53:28 +0100
From: Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:44:29PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 AT 03:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cygwin installation
> > > from setup into a library, and distribute a small cygdetect.exe that links
> > > with it?
> >
> > ... and cygdetect.exe will be placed in /bin :-)
> 
> That wouldn't matter.  Like cygcheck.exe and setup.exe, it'll be a MinGW

Download like cygcheck.exe ?
So, then simply download cygcheck.exe and run it with appropriate parameters...

> application, independent of cygwin1.dll.  You'd be able to download it
> from the web (preferably from cygwin.com), and running it would output the
> Windows path to /bin.

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