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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:40:39 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <20000501110821.A4978@cygnus.com>; from cgf@cygnus.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 11:08:21AM -0400

Sorry.  I forwarded this to the wrong list.

cgf

On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 11:08:21AM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>In this case, just download the cygwin-2000xxxx.dll.gz, uncompress it
>with gzip -d and copy it over your current DLL.
>
>If none of this makes sense, then you should probably just wait for the
>next release.
>
>cgf
>
>On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:30:01AM -0700, Mindy Beseler wrote:
>>How do the snapshots work?  Can I just download winsup-src-20000430.tar.gz
>>or do I need to download all the snapshots to get cygwin to build?  This is
>>my first experience with cygwin so maybe this is a stupid question.  But I
>>thought the cygwin stuff was just for the purpose of getting the gnu stuff
>>to build on a windows system?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Mindy
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:24:52AM -0700, Mindy Beseler wrote:
>>>I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.  I have tried this at
>>>least a 10 times and get the same results each time!!
>>
>>Unfortunately, what you're doing wrong is building on Windows 98.
>>
>>The latest cygwin snapshot may work better but there are never any
>>guarantees with Windows 9x.