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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:23:32 -0700
To: "Warren Postma" <warren-postma@rogers.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: Installing XFree 4.2 on Cygwin.
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Warren,

Two things:

1) Wrong list. There's a list specifically devoted to XFree68 on Cygwin. 
Check here for information on the list you need: 
<http://cygwin.com/lists.html>.

2) If you read and follow the installation instructions, you won't have the 
"extract" problem.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 17:12 2002-04-13, Warren Postma wrote:
>I downloaded the cygwin port of XFree 4.2 from one of the Cygwin mirrors. 
>I ran "sh ./Xinstall.sh" and it complained that it couldn't find the 
>extract utility in the current directory. Apparently it's not looking for 
>the microsoft 'extract.exe' that ships in most versions of windows.   I 
>thought I had done a full install of Cygwin.
>
>Anyone know what all I need to get Xfree to install on Cygwin?
>
>Warren


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