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From:	John Dallaway <jld AT ecoscentric DOT com>
Subject:	Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:32:52 +0000
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I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net installation 
programatically. More precisely, I need to determine the native path to the 
directory containing cygwin1.dll from outside the Cygwin environment. I 
could interrogate the registry for mount points, but in the worst case I 
would have to look under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for 
both the "/bin" and "/" mount points. Is there a more robust method?

John Dallaway


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