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Re: Please try the 6/1 Cygwin DLL snapshot -- this may be the one
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- Subject: Re: Please try the 6/1 Cygwin DLL snapshot -- this may be the one
- From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:38:28 -0700 (PDT)
Just thought I'd offer some feedback. I've been using the 6/1 snapshot for a
couple of days now with no problems. All of my mounts are textmode and I've
seen none of the problems that appeared in the 1.1.1 release.
Rick
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--- Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com> wrote:
> The 2000-Jun-01 snapshot should fix any lingering problems with text
> mode reads or writes being performed in binary. It is available here:
>
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/snapshots/cygwin1-20000601.dll.gz
>
> This file should be copied to your /bin directory. There should also
> be a cygwin1.dll in this directory. If there isn't, you're in the wrong
> directory.
>
> Once it's downloaded please:
>
> 1) Terminate all running cygwin applications
>
> 2) In the command shell, cd to the MS-DOS equivalent of your /bin
> directory, e.g.,
> d:
> cd cygwin\bin
>
> 3) gzip -d cygwin1-20000601.dll.gz
>
> 4) copy cygwin1.dll cygwin1.dll.safe
>
> 5) copy cygwin1-20000601.dll cygwin1.dll
>
> 6) Check any failing applications for correct operation.
>
> Note that the setup utility mounts your root in "binmode" by default.
> This DLL does not change that. It only fixes the problems with reading
> files in text mode that were most clearly illustrated by make and sed.
>
> It should also fix a couple of other problems reported here in the last
> week. Check the ChangeLog for more info:
>
>
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/winsup-src-20000601.tar.gz/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
>
> If there is not too much grumbling about this snapshot, it will probably
> become the next net release of the Cygwin DLL.
>
> If you do try out this DLL, I would appreciate hearing success or failure
> reports here in the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list. Do not
> send them to me personally.
>
> Thanks,
> cgf
>
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