[olug] looking for an application

William E. Kempf wekempf at cox.net
Fri Feb 28 09:57:39 UTC 2003


Phil Brutsche said:
> CM Miller wrote:
>>
>> What steps do you take to run Cygwin?  I have a W2K
>> box and  Linux box, the .exe is on the W2K box and
>> what I do I need to setup on the linux box to make
>> this happen?
>
> Nothing.  Cygwin runs and installs directly under Windows 2000.

Mostly true.  There's a whole load of crap you need to do to get it to
work "nicely", however.  mkpasswd, mkgroups, normal environment setup,
non-normal environment setup to make the terminal behave well enough to
use apps like emacs, etc.

-- 
William E. Kempf





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