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On 3/28/2011 10:43 AM, Dante Allegria wrote:
> We just discovered that a whole bunch of our Windows machines had
> everything under their c:/cygwin directories deleted over the weekend.
You said "we" and "bunch" which leads me to believe that you are using
this at a company.  Is that so?  Do you have an aggressive IS
department who might have decided they don't like Cygwin?

Damon Register

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