RE: Is the Cygwin 1.3.2 DLL Win 2000 compatible?

[David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>]

On Friday 1 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes:
> Perhaps.  It's an esoteric one.  The original poster of this question wanted
> to know if Cygwin 1.3.2 would work with Win2000.  I replied with the FAQ 
> entry that says Cygwin works with 9x/Me/NT/W2K/XP.  The reply I got back 
> from the poster then was that he had seen this entry but thought it 
> referenced only the current Cygwin DLL (1.3.9 at that point).  So the only
> question I was raising was whether you think it would be more or less 
> confusing to people to add some wording to the FAQ entry that specifies
> that any recent Cygwin DLL works with Windows, not just the latest.
> It's not clear to me that this additional wording wouldn't raise more 
> questions than it answers.  Judging by your response, I think leaving things
> as is may be the best option.  What do you think?

I think it's best to leave this entry as it is.

Thanks,
David


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