cygwin1.dll replica's?

[Michael Kairys]

I have it happen to me that something puts a cygwin dll in my system dir and 
sets it hidden and/or system. Go to your windows dir in a command prompt and 
say "attrib cygwin1.dll /s"

"Affan Ahmed" <affanahmed@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:cd0969680804111850o7694e8ex10e6b38af97cc1cf@mail.gmail.com...
> So here is the deal, I am trying to run cygwin through poderosa, and I
> always get the error saying that "procedure entry point _fopen64 could
> not be located in the dll cygwin1.dll"
>
> So being a good guy, I google for this problem, figure out its an
> issue of cygwin1.dll replica's and set out to find one. None of my
> windows search or google desktop search showed me two replicas.
> Frustrated, I uninstalled cygwin by removing it directory and deleting
> the registry entries. I then fresh installed it and was still running
> into the same issue.
>
> So this time a do a find -name thing at the top of the cygwin tree.
> Here it returned me two places where cygwin1.dll was... /bin and
> /usr/bin. However, it seems /usr/bin is just a hard (symbolic?) link
> to /bin and I cant actually delete anything in there since it is
> pointing to the only copy of cygwin in /bin.
>
>
> So I am still at the same point.... I get this problem everytime I
> start a cygwin shell through Poderosa and I cant get rid of the error?
> Any help?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Affan.
> 



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