On 21 Feb 2001, at 16:52, the Illustrious Earnie Boyd wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Earnie,
> >
> > You're right - the setup log says that the file was installed
> > right in the bin folder. The file is there but just hidden.
> >
>
> Hidden? What do you mean hidden?
Not sure, but think he means that the file is de-archived as a
hidden file. This is not unusual with Win9x systems which, by
default, typically hide anything that looks anything like an
executable, etc. (postfixes, etc.).
>Do you have symlinks for /bin
> or /usr/bin? If you do have symlinks these are known not to work
> with setup.exe which is by the way a non-Cygwin executable so it
> 1) doesn't understand symlinks and 2) doesn't know about the
> Cygwin registry wrt actually using it to find files are
> concerned.
Win9x/ME, if I remember the original post properly, can't
support symlinks.
Peace,
Paul G.
>
> Earnie.
>
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