Question about old win32 api

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 20:31:00 GMT 2015


On 21/09/2015 21:55, Michael Enright wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Andrey Repin  wrote:

>>
>>> Upgrading would be a pain,
>>
>> Who said that?...
>>
>>
>
> PMFJI,
>
> Between Cyg 1.5 and 1.7 the command-line interface changed on the "nc"
> utility and, from the point of view of someone who at the time did not
> read this list, it was a silent, breaking change. So I would not be
> surprised if OP had a situation where recompiling an old version was
> best.
>

the change in nc had nothing to do with cygwin
change between 1.5 and 1.7

https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-05/msg00015.html



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