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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:11:19 -0400
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> An existing setup-cygwin1.dll could potentially interfere.

Setup will blindly overwrite it.  If it can't, setup will fail anyway.
The reason I check for an empty directory is because if it isn't, the
results are *subtly* wrong.