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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:51:27 +0100
Message-ID: <41-Mon25Aug2003155127+0100-jpff@codemist.co.uk>
From: jpff AT codemist DOT co DOT uk
To: janneke AT gnu DOT org
CC: mats DOT bengtsson AT s3 DOT kth DOT se, lilypond-user AT gnu DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-reply-to: <87u185yg38.fsf@peder.flower> (message from Jan Nieuwenhuizen on
	Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:19:55 +0200)
Subject: Re: RedHat7.3 and Windows
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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> writes:

 Jan> [followup set to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]

 >> No I do not have access to a Windows machine connected to the net.

 Jan> You can simply mirror the Cygwin distribution on your server.  Run
 Jan> setup.exe on the windows client, and enter your server as download
 Jan> mirror.  Consult the cygwin mailing list archives.

All I wanted was Lilypond on my Windows machines

 Jan> By the way, this has nothing to do with lilypond, please followup to
 Jan> cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.

 >> Why is there not a zip or complete package?

 Jan> No-one has made one.  Do you know how Cygwin works?  I think a
 Jan> `complete package' would be a very bad idea.

I do not want to know how cygwin works; i have used it in the past
without any detailed knowledge.  I am not interested in cygwin, just
music typesetting.

Clearly the question was ill posed, and there is no such creature.
Back to the Linux world.

==John ffitch

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