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Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ


On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > Nevertheless, the advice about using "mv" to rename cygwin1.dll won't
> > work on every version of Windows and needs to be changed.
>
> Hmm, it's worked for me on Win98, Win2k, and WinXP (though I suppose
> there could be differences on, say, WinNT4 or something)...  I basically
> wanted to avoid giving too many things to do in Windows Explorer.  But
> no matter -- I'll submit a patch with this change shortly.

And here it is.
	Igor
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2006-01-12  Igor Peshansky  <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>

	* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.snapshots): Rename DLL using Windows tools.

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