Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) garbage_collector@telia.com
Thu Mar 27 21:39:00 GMT 2003


> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Rolf Campbell
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> And about searching for "bin/cygwin1.dll".  You could first try
> "C:\cygwin\bin\" (which should match 99% of all cases),

 Sorry. I count for more than 1% ;-)
  <just this time; to break your assumption>

Software packages belong in  C:\Program\*  and nowhere else (Note that this
is equal to "C:\Program Files\*" on ENGLISH Win98.

> and only if that
> fails, look for the DLL the hard way.

 Ouch...

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden

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