From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: cygwin.dll
16 Jan 1997 18:50:40 -0800
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Original-To: M.Carter@gcal.ac.uk
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Hi, you wrote:

: On the other hand, if I want to distribute a binary which stands alone
: from the cygnus project, then I'd have to include the whopping 3Mb
: dll in the distribution - which is a bit off-putting for a
:  potential downloader. Then,
: if he transfers stuff with floppies (which I do, because I'm using
: a Win 3.11 486 to connect to the Internet, but I have a Pentium
: Win 95 at home, where I do most of my programming), he's then got the
: hassle of splitting files up, and recombining them, etc. etc..

You could compile and distribute a stripped down version like libclite
which used to be available at the days of Linux 0.99.13 and maybe still...


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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