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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:09:21 -0500
To:	zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cut-down Cygwin on a USB Memory Stick?
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At 09:40 AM 1/28/2004, zzapper you wrote:
>Hi Y'All
>
>Anyone investigated putting a cutdown version of CygWin onto a memory
>stick (128MB or bigger).
>What would you need the dlls vim,find,grep,ls etc??
>
>
>zzapper (vim & cygwin & zsh)


Yes, it has been investigated.  You can find some discussion of it in 
the email archives.  It's similar to the discussion of Cygwin on a CD,
though simpler in a way since the memory sticks are writable and CDs
(generally) are not.



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