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Re: XEmacs 21.1.13 for Windows and Cygwin


I ran into the same stumbling block. I didn't have to wait very long for the
download to fail. I sure would like to have emacs in both environments. Thanks for
your work in that area


Henry S. Thompson" wrote:

> Andy Piper <andy@xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > The XEmacs team are proud to announce the availability of a self installing
> > binary kit of XEmacs 21.1.13 for Microsoft Windows, native and Cygwin 1.1.x
> >
> >
> > The kit is located at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/setup.exe and
> > all the usual mirrors.
> >
> >
> > This release is different to other releases in that it is supplied through a
> > `net' installer which will download and install the components you select over
> > the internet. The installer is based on the cygwin installer. The release
> > supports binaries for both native Windows (95, 98, NT & W2K) and for Cygwin
> > 1.1.6 or greater as well as all the relevant XEmacs packages.
>
> Great idea, didn't work for me :-(
>
> Downloaded setup.exe (1.1.2.14) from mirror.ac.uk, took 'install from
> internet', 'direct connection' choices, got as far as the
>
>   'Downloading Packages
>
>    mirrors.lst
>
>    Connecting'
>
> step and nothing happened.  Cancelled after several minutes, same
> thing.  Any way I can help with more information?  Running Win2K,
> Cygwin1.1.8, no problems with Cygwin setup in the past, and I checked
> just now and it got past the mirrors.lst step without problems.
>
> ht
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