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RE: Old Cygwin Versions -or- Elusive Compatability Problem
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:05:08 +0100
- Subject: RE: Old Cygwin Versions -or- Elusive Compatability Problem
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 24 June 2004 14:55
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Alan Larkin wrote:
> > how do we get older versions of the Cygwin dll?
>
> The answer is simple: stale mirrors. Just do
> a web search
> for "cygwin-1.5.5-1.tar.bz2", and use the resulting mirrors
Or alternatively you could get the old source out of the sourceware CVS
repository (using the -D option to "cvs checkout" to specify the exact date
from which you want the sources) and build it yourself.
Wonderful thing, version control!
cheers,
DaveK
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