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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Andrei Stebakov wrote:

> I am using the current cygwin installed by cygwin.exe.
> Also on the same machine I need to use an older versin of Cygwin so I
> wonder what's the best way to have two cygwin environments on the same
> machine, under the same user so they don't collide.

The Cygwin DLL strives to be backward-compatible (i.e., any applications
that run using the older Cygwin1.dll should also run using the newer DLL).
Is there a reason you really need the older DLL around?
	Igor
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