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From: "Harold Fuchs" <harold AT wolfeden DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Missing Programs
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:57:03 -0000
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Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-12-21, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running Win XP Pro/SP2
>>
>> I just downloaded and installed cygwin. I didn't choose any
>> special options; I didn't ask to have anything special excluded; I
>> didn't ask to have anything special included.
>>
>> I found and installed the pdksh package because I know the
>> Kornshell and I don't know the Bourne shell. I have modified the
>> .bat file and my /etc/passwd file to reference ksh instead of
>> bash. It all seems to work but ...
>>
>> I now find that things like more, pg, terminfo, vi and I don't
>> know what else are all missing. I have used Windows's Search
>> function to try finding "more.*", "pg.*" and so on but they are
>> not there.
>>
>> What have I done wrong, please? Where can I find these things? I
>> have searched the FAQs but ...
>
> You just haven't installed them yet.
>
>    http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages
>
> HTH,
> Gary
Thanks. Never occurred to me that stuff as fundamental as more, pg etc.
would be hived off as a separate package.
Regards, Harold




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