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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:26:47 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: "David A. Rogers" <darogers AT speakeasy DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ?
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I hope that one or the other occurs.  I spent free time for weeks trying
to figure out why my perl cgi scripts didn't work under cygwin/apache.

At least with a faq entry, a google for "cygwin socket error" would turn
up something useful.

-- Now that I think of it, this thread will probably also come up through
the mail list archives.  :-)

dar

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Didn't we resolve that the need for SYSTEMROOT in the environment should
> be in the FAQ at some point?
>
> Joshua, could you add something about how SYSTEMROOT is required for proper
> operation with winsock?
>
> Or, even better yet, Corinna could we force SYSTEMROOT to be used
> somehow but masked if someone removes it from the environment?
>
> cgf
>
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