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Re: Question about old win32 api


On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Andrey Repin  wrote:
> Greetings, Jacob.A.Lamberson@l-3com.com!
>
> 1. https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU pretty please.
>
>> Upgrading would be a pain,
>
> Who said that?...
>
>

PMFJI,

Between Cyg 1.5 and 1.7 the command-line interface changed on the "nc"
utility and, from the point of view of someone who at the time did not
read this list, it was a silent, breaking change. So I would not be
surprised if OP had a situation where recompiling an old version was
best.

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