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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:13:41PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-61.
>>
>> This is another bugfix update:
>>
>> - Correctly interpret Interix symlinks (read-only).
>>
>> - Set R/O attribute on a file only if ACLs are not active.
>>
>> - Don't interpret a volume reparse point as a symlink.
>>
>> - Add two new code pages: 20866 (KOI8-R) and 21866 (KOI8-U).
>>
>> - Fix problems when running destructors in dynamically loaded DLLs.
>>
>> FAQ:
>> ====
>>
>> - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-61?
>>
>>   A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-09-11 01:25"
>>   
>Huzzah! Thanks. Or, you could run:
>
>cygcheck -cd cygwin|sed -e '1,2d' -re 's/cygwin[ \t]+//'

Various on that particular line have probably been in at least 50+ 1.7
release messages.  Your method, besides being complicated, reports on
what is installed, not what is running.

cgf

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