Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:36:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: New FAQ entry? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In light of the two questions on this subject in as many (or less) days, I thought I'd search the FAQ for the answer to "Why doesn't this (very common) command work?" and didn't find it there, so I thought I'd offer a text. It's basically the same text I wrote in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00897.html, but slightlt generalized.. Why doesn't this (very common) command work? (or: Why doesn't patch work?") -------------------------------------------- While the Cygwin Net distribution contains many packages, not all of them are installed by default. Many programs, including some very common ones (like "patch", "ls", "tar", "gzip", etc.), have to be installed before they can be used. You can use the search engine at http://cygwin.com/packages/ to look which package you need for the "patch" utility, and then use http://cygwin.com/setup.exe to install the appropriate package. HTH rlc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/