Re: Error: procedure entry point in cygwin1.dll

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:31:57PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > The overall point to be taken home here is that you can't trust the 
> > search facility in XP unless you are prepared to ask people if they have 
> > done things in a very specific way *and* you are prepared to trust their 
> > response to those questions.  It ends up being a huge waste of time when 
> > you could instead run a command-line search and be done with it.
>
>
> I'm pretty certain that using the search facility in XP for the purpose
> of searching for duplicate cygwin1.dll's should work just fine.

Again, it might work in this case.  But, I'm talking about reasons for 
using a different approach that works in all cases.  It really doesn't 
matter though.

> Using cygwin's command-line search in a scenario where cygwin doesn't
> work is obviously not going to work and using dir/s is rather laborious
> and error-prone if you have multiple drives.

I guess.

> In the many years of advising people to use GUI utility, I've never
> heard anyone say that they failed to find what they were looking for
> with this method.

Well, many years of prior experience doesn't really matter since I am 
complaining about the broken search functionality in XP, which isn't 
many years old :)  Search did work fine in Windows until XP, but now it 
has a lot of caveats, and I am not good at remembering caveats.

Harold