> > I doubt he has a older version of the DLL. > > But maybe the is some program that installed an older version without > him > > ever knowing it was used, I'll tell him to search his hard-disk for > > cygwin1.dll's > Thats actually quite likely. There are quite a few programs out there > that have unix origins that include cygwin1.dll - sometimes without > telling the user. Grr.
Sadly that's not the case (sadly because that would have been the solution to the problem)... any other idea? No-one else has that problem with XP? Any chance there is a renamed copy of cygwin dll? Anyway I just suggested my friend to do a "cygcheck -s" and to send it here... let's see... -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/