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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Works fine for me.  Except in one case:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00459.html
>
> I opened a support case at Microsoft but it has been refused.
>
> Since the problem occurs in a Microsoft DLL, we have no way to fix it
> in Cygwin.  Cygwin 1.7 has a crude workaround for this situation,
> though.  So your choices are
>
>   

Boy if that doesn't smack of monopoly abuse. Brings back memories of 
DR-DOS and others.

 -Ben




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