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From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen DOT leake AT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:47:28 -0500
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Subject: Re: Finding cygwin
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Hi,

Actually there is a link there ... under the header "Open Source Resources",
under the sub-header "Developer Network", click on "sourceware.cygnus.com"
and, voila, you're at <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/>.

Regards,
Doug Wyatt

> I just helped a colleague install cygwin on his Windows NT box. The
> hardest part was finding the Cygwin web page! I didn't remember the
> bookmark from my computer, so I started at "www.cygnus.com". That dumped
> me at www.redhat.com. Ok, that's the parent company. But there's nothing
> on the main page that mentions Cygwin or even Cygnus. So I went to 
> "downloads"; no luck, just linux stuff (good stuff, but not what I 
> wanted!). So I went to "search", searched for "cygwin". Lots of hits
> in mailing list archives, nothing useful. Gave up and went to 
> www.altavista.com, searched for "cygwin", found it!
> 
> I hope this is just growning pains, and not an indication that Red Hat
> is not interested in supporting Cygwin!
> 
> One other hint: "setup.exe" should remember which download site was 
> used last, and offer that as the default.
> 
> -- Stephe
> 
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