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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:17:45 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Michael Hale schrieb:
> What is the correct way for someone to run multiple versions of cygwin 
> on their machine then?  

There's none!

 > This seems like a very useful feature to me,
> since among other uses it would allow a new version to be tested along 
> side an older but known version of cygwin.

Kill all cygwin processes (via net stop or psservice and then via 
taskman or pskill),
backup the current cygwin1.dll and rename the new (snapshot) cygwin dll 
to cygwin1.dll,
start the autostarting cygwin processes again (ipc-daemon2, cron, ...),
test it.

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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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