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Re: Package Information needed


At 12:30 PM 6/11/2001, Oliver Thieke wrote:

>         Hi out there !
>
>Although this might be a very newbie question I am
>kind of stuck...
>
>Where can I get information about the contents and 
>usage of the various packages shipped within cygwin ?
>
>I browsed the FAQ, the User Guide, RedHat Web-Site, 
>local Cygwin-Dir for Info - nothing.
>
>I am quite familiar with unix - hence bash, csv, make, 
>gcc, gdb, diff, grep, tar and so on are known.
>But I can't figured out why and what for I would need
>packages like cygrunsrv, binutils, fileutils, 
>openssl...
>
>Thanx in advance from Berlin :-).



The packages themselves generally have READMEs, man/info pages, and other
documentation.  If you don't want to download the package to find out 
about it (although this list highly discourages picking-and-choosing your 
packages if you don't know that you won't need them), you can check the
email archives for announcements of the packages.  There's often some
brief description of what's in it.



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