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From: "Erdely, Michael" <mike AT erdelynet DOT com>
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References: <E950EF47BA67A548A32EFCD0B90697E83CE4B0 AT za-exchange DOT za DOT mosaicsoftware DOT net>
Subject: Re: time to download
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 02:37:13 -0500
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> I'm the sole Cygwin user in my group, and this thread has touched a
> nerve.
????

> I heartily second this motion. I'm using sitecopy [1] to maintain a
> remote site, and would like to install it for a colleague. I'm compiling
> sitecopy from source under Cygwin. However, my colleague would not take
> kindly to the idea of a multi-megabyte install for the sake of running
> an executable of less than a megabyte.
I have no experience with sitecopy, but it's already been ported:
http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/cygwin/
In general, when you just want to run one Cygwin-ported tool, all you really
need is the Cygwin1.dll file somewhere in your path and the tool.  Take a
look at the bootstrap.zip
(ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/latest/bootstrap.zip).

> I do appreciate that the likelihood of this happening anytime soon is
> not high ..
??????

-ME

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Jordaan" <Jean AT mosaicsoftware DOT com>
To: "Cygwin-L" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:21 AM
Subject: RE: time to download

<snip>

>
> Regards,
> --
> Jean Jordaan   --    technical writer    --    Mosaic Software
>
> [1] http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/
>
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