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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:37:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: Setup.exe?
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> What I don't understand is what does the setup.exe program do?
> Setup.exe is currently downloading all the packages (seems as though
> it's gonna take forever!).
> 
> Then what will setup.exe?  .

Setup will give you a cygwin environment, which is a posix-like
development and runtime environment.

> Also if setup.exe fails and I reattempt to run it, is it intelligent
> enough to download only the packages I don't have?

Yes, it will go much faster the second time.

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