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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:38:32 +0200
From: Marius Gedminas <marius DOT gedminas AT uosis DOT mif DOT vu DOT lt>
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Subject: Re: midnight commander
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In-Reply-To: <3AB9FA8D.823D5145@ism.tu-berlin.de>; from fusz@ism.tu-berlin.de on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:13:49PM +0000
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:13:49PM +0000, Georg Fusz wrote:
> What means RPM?

It is a package management system used on many Linux distributions.  It
keeps a database of installed packages and files that belong to them, so
you can always know which files belong to which packages, what packages
are installed and so on.  It also knows about dependencies between
packages.

There is a CygWin port of RPM and links to some packages (including MC)
in RPM format avaulable at this address:

> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > You can find a precompiled Midnight Commander version 4.1.36 for CygWin at
> > http://cygwin-rpm.sourceforge.net/

Marius Gedminas
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