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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:00:01 -0500
To: "Yves Petinot" <ypetinot AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: silly question
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At 09:54 PM 1/22/2003, Yves Petinot wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am fairly new to cygwin and this question is certainly silly but i cannot seem to figure out what the cause to my problem is.
>
>I have a pretty complete installation of cygwin running on my machine (W2K) and it seems i never got basic commands such as "cp", "ls", "rm" to be installed. This is troublesome and it seems to prevent more complex features to be properly installed : i tried downloading and installing all the packages listed through the internet installation, but i still cannot get these commands to be available,
>
>any suggestion on what i should do ?



Yes.  Check out <www.cygwin.com/bugs.html>, particularly the portion 
regarding cygcheck.


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