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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:30:13 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com,
        cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: YIKES user.exe stupidity.
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In-Reply-To: <19990514141856.A13492@cygnus.com>; from Geoffrey Noer on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:18:56PM -0700

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:18:56PM -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Fri, May 14, 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:
>[...]
>> Hmmm... Anyone want to volunteer to rename their user.exe to
>> usertools.exe and try installing it?  If not, I'll either try it
>> myself, or wait and see if anyone complains ;-)
>
>This isn't a problem.  You can rename installshield exes with
>impunity...

Unless someone has built an explicit dependency on the filename
into the executable.

cgf