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Commit ee84009c authored by Neil Conway's avatar Neil Conway
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Reword suggestion that libpq.dll be installed in WINNT\SYSTEM32 under

Windows. Per Magnus Hagander, this is not recommended.
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<chapter id="install-win32">
<title>Client-Only Installation on <productname>Windows</productname></title>
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</para>
<para>
The only file that really needs to be installed is the
<filename>libpq.dll</filename> library. This file should in most
cases be placed in the <filename>WINNT\SYSTEM32</filename> directory
(or in <filename>WINDOWS\SYSTEM</filename> on a Windows 95/98/ME
Normally you do not need to install any of the client files. You should
place the <filename>libpq.dll</filename> file in the same directory
as your applications .EXE-file. Only if this is for some reason not
possible should you install it in the <filename>WINNT\SYSTEM32</filename>
directory (or in <filename>WINDOWS\SYSTEM</filename> on a Windows 95/98/ME
system). If this file is installed using a setup program, it should
be installed with version checking using the
<symbol>VERSIONINFO</symbol> resource included in the file, to
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