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(2) Do I run the 4 listed commands from a Windows command prompt, or instead from within Cygwin.
Murray Eisenberg wrote:
Unfortunately, the instructions in FAQ # 2.15 "How do I install snapshots?" is not completely clear. It says that one should first close all Cygwin applications and shells. But then it says to "run" a sequence of commands:
cd / tar ....... cd /tmp tar ......
Now given that I was supposed to exit Cygwin, presumably these commands are to be run from a Windows command prompt.
But then to what does root directory "/" refer? To the Cygwin root? And if so, where should I have put the downloaded cygwin-inst-YYMMDD.tar.bz2 ? And if "/" does not refer to the Cygwin root, to what does it refer?
If the commands are to be run within Cygwin, on the other hand, then that would seem to contradict the first instruction, namely, to close all Cygwin applications and shells.
The instructions say
[... Few paras of intro ...] 1. Download the snapshot, and run [... series of commands ...] 2. After closing all cygwin apps, [ .... do something ...]
Just because the intro section at the top refers in advance to one of the
steps of the procedure doesn't mean you're supposed to do the steps of the
procedure out-of-order!
cheers, DaveK
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