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Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Ingo Brueckl <ib at wupperonline dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:48:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)
- References: <43bc23ee@wupperonline.de>
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According to Ingo Brueckl on 1/4/2006 12:38 PM:
>
> So what shall I do? There is one in cygwin\bin (which was the current
> directory at this time) and a copy in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM for my cygwin
> programs to run. As far as I understood, the copy in the bin directory must
> be there or shall I delete it? (It was installed there from the setup
> program.)
NEVER put a copy of cygwin1.dll in c:\windows\system. Instead, update
your PATH environment variable to include c:\cygwin\bin (or where the lone
copy of cygwin1.dll lives). Otherwise, you are asking for problems due to
multiple versions of the .dll.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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