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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: Can't build Insight with Cygwin
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Peter Rockett wrote:

> 
> Final point: Why does the Windows firewall chuck-up a message box when I
> start Insight? What is Insight trying to do that should concern the
> firewall?

  It's a local-only loopback connection.  Many of the windows internal
components are implemented as RPC services (or to be precise, COM objects
accessed by RPC interfaces).  It's nothing to worry about.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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