On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:07:23 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:08:03PM -0500, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote: >>On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:14:38 +0000, Ryan _ wrote in >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>Cygwin, a window appeared (looked like a dos prompt) then disappeared. >> >>My suggestion. Delete the whole cygwin directory, save up your copy of >>setup.exe, nuke the cached files, use regedit and search all >>KH*/Programs/Cygnus trees in the registry and kill them. Reinstall >>from the internet afresh. > >Argh. No. > >This is undoubtedly due to an old version of cygwin1.dll somewhere on >the system, maybe in \windows\system32 (where it doesn't belong). Ahh yes! I knew I had forgotten something: "After removing cygwin from your system search you system partition and all the extra directories available in your path variable for additional copies of cygwin1.dll". :-) >Following the instructions at http://cygwin.com/problems.html should >be adequate for tracking the problem down. I sometimes think people want to blow their legs with a shotgun at the height of their lower belt line (particularly young men in first-year college and late high-school); I am happy to oblige. It is not my place to judge; as the millenary Shri-Lanka saying says (properly quoted by Arthur C. Clarke): "Even the Gods themselves are helpless against human stupidity...". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
