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From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it>
Subject: R: Backward compatibility
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--- Mer 31/3/10, Csaba Raduly  ha scritto:

> Hi all,
> I have a program which was compiled under Cygwin 1.5; I ran
> it
> accidentally under 1.7 and it appeared to work. Is this by
> design or
> am I just exceptionally lucky ?
>=20
> --=20

By design.=20
A lot of packages were built for 1.5 and not yet rebuilt for 1.7


Marco






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