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Re: more about sockets?


On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:29:54PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> > I don't know if it's necessary (but perhaps worth a shot?) to make a
> > link from /etc/hosts to the Windows hosts file, which is in
> > %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc for 2k/xp.
> >
> > Brian
> 
> The "base-files" package already does that (for Win9x also).
> 	Igor

And it's not necessary.  Winsock doesn't care for Cygwin's /etc directory.

Corinna

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