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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:59:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:29:54PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >
> > > [snip]
> > > I don't know if it's necessary (but perhaps worth a shot?) to make a
> > > link from /etc/hosts to the Windows hosts file, which is in
> > > %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc for 2k/xp.
> > >
> > > Brian
> >
> > The "base-files" package already does that (for Win9x also).
> >       Igor
>
> And it's not necessary.  Winsock doesn't care for Cygwin's /etc directory.
>
> Corinna

Depends on how you look at it.  Winsock will ignore /etc/hosts on Cygwin.
So, for Brian's recipe (of adding the hostname to /etc/hosts) to work, the
link *is* necessary. :-)
	Igor
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