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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Installing 1.5?
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On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:46:02PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Christopher Faylor
><cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:37:00PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
>>>Sadly, that seems to grab an up to date setup.
>>>
>>>http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/ pointed me to
>>>http://cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe,
>>
>> Or you could just read the Cygwin web page where this is referenced.
>
>I tried.  I followed the link from the text
>For users who are still running one of these legacy versions of
>Windows, see below (http://cygwin.com/#win-9x )
>but that didn't seem to go anywhere, just showed the list of 1.7 and 1.5
>announcements.  I clicked on that again just now, and finally saw the
>text Users of Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me can obtain a legacy
>version of Cygwin which still runs on these systems here
>(http://cygwin.com/win-9x.html).

Yes, and that points you at setup-legacy.exe.  So if you want to run a
legacy version of Cygwin you now know what to do.

cgf

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