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Re: rcp, rsh don't work on Vista?


On Thu, 31 May 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> TITTTL'd
>
> Dave Korn wrote:
> >   We need a new description for the specially vicious and malign kind of
> > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#3PP who not only installs cygwin1.dll in the
> > systemroot, but then goes to the extra lengths of hiding it as well.
> >
> >   Maybe we could call them 3PP++ ;-)
>
> Not that I don't like 3PP++ also, but I vote for EV3PP (EV = Extra
> Vicious).

The extra viciousness comes from Windows, which, by default, hides the
contents of SYSTEMROOT...  Much as we'd like to blame 3PPs, this one is
not their fault. :-)
	Igor
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