* Throughout, eliminate Windows 2000 from the documentation.
* overview.sgml (brief-history): Mention native AMD64 support.
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2013-04-23 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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* Throughout, eliminate Windows 2000 from the documentation.
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* overview.sgml (brief-history): Mention native AMD64 support.
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2013-04-23 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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* Makefile.in (SGMLDIRS): Accommodate dropping utils_source and
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<para>
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Unfortunately, no standard set of tools included with all versions of
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Windows exists. If you are unfamiliar with the tools available
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on your system, here is a general guide. Windows 2000 has only a basic
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set of tools, which later versions of Windows expanded. Microsoft also
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provides free downloads for Windows 2000 (the Resource Kit Tools), and XP
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(the Windows Support Tools). Generally, the younger the Windows version,
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the more complete are the on-board tools. Additionally, many independent
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Windows exists. Generally, the younger the Windows version, the more
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complete are the on-board tools. Microsoft also provides free downloads
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for Windows XP (the Windows Support Tools). Additionally, many independent
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sites such as
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<ulink url="http://download.com">download.com</ulink>,
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<ulink url="http://simtel.net">simtel.net</ulink>,
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may be interested in <command>rasdial.exe</command> for automating dialup
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connections.
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Users who frequently change their network
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configuration can script these changes with <command>netsh.exe</command>
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(Windows 2000 and later). For proxy users, the open source
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configuration can script these changes with <command>netsh.exe</command>.
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For proxy users, the open source
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<ulink url="http://apserver.sourceforge.net">
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NTLM Authorization Proxy Server</ulink> or the no-charge
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<ulink url="http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/socks/index.html">
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error message. Note, however, that the IPv6 stack on these systems
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don't fully support all features of IPv6.</para>
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<para>There's also a very experimental IPv6 stack for Windows 2000, and
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Cygwin will try its best to support it, but it's not recommended to install
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it.</para>
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<para>For more information about IPv6 on Windows and how to install the
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IPv6 stack, see the <ulink url="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx">Microsoft TechNet IPv6 FAQ article</ulink>
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</para></answer></qandaentry>
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</screen>
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<para>Again: This works on all existing versions of Windows NT, at the
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time of writing from at least Windows 2000 up to Server 2008 R2. Only
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time of writing from at least Windows XP up to Server 2012. Only
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the GUIs aren't able (or willing) to deal with that order.</para>
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</sect2>
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<para>Since Windows XP, Windows users have been accustomed to the
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"Switch User" feature, which switches the entire desktop to another user
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while leaving the original user's desktop "suspended". Another Windows
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feature (since Windows 2000) is the "Run as..." context menu entry,
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which allows you to start an application using another user account when
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right-clicking on applications and shortcuts.</para>
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feature is the "Run as..." context menu entry, which allows you to start
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an application using another user account when right-clicking on applications
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and shortcuts.</para>
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<para>On POSIX systems, this operation can be performed by processes
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running under the privileged user accounts (usually the "root" user
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providing substantial <ulink url="http://www.pasc.org/#POSIX">POSIX</ulink>
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(Portable Operating System Interface) system call functionality, and a
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collection of tools, which provide a Linux look and feel. The Cygwin DLL
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works with all x86 and AMD64 versions of Windows NT since Windows 2000.
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works with all x86 and AMD64 versions of Windows NT since Windows XP SP3.
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The API follows the
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<ulink url="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html">Single
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Unix Specification</ulink> as much as possible, and then Linux practice.
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</para>
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<para>
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The latest major improvement in this development is the 1.7 release in
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The biggest major improvement in this development is the 1.7 release in
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2009, which dropped Windows 95/98/Me support in favor of using Windows
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NT features more extensively. It adds a lot of new features like
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case-sensitive filenames, NFS interoperability, IPv6 support and much
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more.</para>
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<para>The latest big improvement is the 64 bit Cygwin DLL which
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allows to run natively on AMD64 Windows machines. The first release
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available in a 64 bit version is 1.7.19.</para>
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</sect1>
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HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\obcaseinsensitive
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</screen>
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<para>to 0 and reboot the machine. For least surprise, Cygwin expects
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this registry value also on Windows 2000, which usually doesn't know this
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registry key. If you want case-sensitivity on Windows 2000, just create
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that registry value and set it to 0. <emphasis role='bold'>Only</emphasis>
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on Windows 2000 you don't have to reboot to bring it into effect, rather
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stopping all Cygwin processes and then restarting them is sufficient.</para>
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<para>to 0 and reboot the machine.</para>
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<note>
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<para>
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