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Re: Remote Shell Extension
- To: juliano at cs dot unc dot edu
- Subject: Re: Remote Shell Extension
- From: Gunnar Degnbol <degnbol at danbbs dot dk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:04:02 +0200
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000711002709.01e98a10@mail.danbbs.dk>
At 09:42 11-07-2000 -0400, Jeffrey Juliano wrote:
> > I assume the location of the xfree libraries (x11.dll and xext.dll) is
> > %systemdrive%\usr\x11r6\bin. I am not sure how safe that is, or if
> there is
> > a better way to guess the location ?
>
>The location of cygwin's `/' is stored in the mount table, which is stored
>in the registry. One option is to read it out of the registry. Note that
>you need to check both local_machine and current_user, and check for
>/usr/X11R6 and /usr/X11R6/bin as well as plain `/'.
I've done that. The new version can be downloaded from
http://www.danbbs.dk/~degnbol/software/rse-0.20.1.zip.
Gunnar