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On Apr 21 12:59, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Chris January, le Fri 21 Apr 2006 11:56:23 +0100, a écrit :
> > On 21/04/06, Samuel Thibault <no-no-no> wrote:
> > > Chris January, le Fri 21 Apr 2006 08:51:07 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > On 20/04/06, Christopher Faylor
> > > > <why-does-gmail-insist-on-quoting-addresses> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:42:14PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > > >I tried to install cygwin on win95 this afternoon, but setup.exe can't
> > > > > >start, because it is linked with MSVCRT.DLL, which is not available
> > > > > >under windows 95.
> > > > >
> > > > > MSVCRT.DLL or its variant has been available since Windows 3.1, AFAIK.
> > > > > I'm sure you can find it somewhere.
> > > >
> > > > MSVCRT.DLL only comes as part of the base operating system install
> > > > with Windows 95 OSR 2 or higher.
> > >
> > > Mmm, even a fresh install of OSR2 didn't bring me it.
> > 
> > My mistake. It's actually a part of Windows 95 OSR2.5 which includes IE4.
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q175430/
> 
> Ok, but the question remains: does cygwin still target windows 95?

Just the setup tool has some problem, apparently.
Cygwin still runs on 95, which will probably change at one point, since
it's getting incredibly awkward to support it.


Corinna

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