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From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell@tropicnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:38:09 -0500
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>>And about searching for "bin/cygwin1.dll".  You could first try
>>"C:\cygwin\bin\" (which should match 99% of all cases),
> 
>  Sorry. I count for more than 1% ;-)
>   <just this time; to break your assumption>
> 
> Software packages belong in  C:\Program\*  and nowhere else (Note that this
> is equal to "C:\Program Files\*" on ENGLISH Win98.

Ahhh... yeah.  So, what is the rest of the disk for?  Why not just put 
everything in a directory called "C:\Everything"?



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