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Re: Setup.exe?
- To: Steve_Anderson at paradise dot net dot nz
- Subject: Re: Setup.exe?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:37:02 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200101280120.f0S1KZ122235@deborah.paradise.net.nz>
> What I don't understand is what does the setup.exe program do?
> Setup.exe is currently downloading all the packages (seems as though
> it's gonna take forever!).
>
> Then what will setup.exe? .
Setup will give you a cygwin environment, which is a posix-like
development and runtime environment.
> Also if setup.exe fails and I reattempt to run it, is it intelligent
> enough to download only the packages I don't have?
Yes, it will go much faster the second time.
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