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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:26:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Green, Keith" <KGreen AT ida DOT org>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: a standard place to get cygwin
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Green, Keith wrote:

> Once again I'm required to use cygwin.
> Once again I'm having trouble.
>
> I notice that when I download from different places, I get different
> things included.
> [snip]
> This has happened previously on other installs and is among the primary
> reasons I never use cygwin unless I'm forced into it.  I think if I
> could just find 'the right site' that had everything in it ... one I
> could depend on to always include the sensible stuff at least (grep,
> gawk, Image Magick, the standard stuff) .. that this would be a much
> less irritating experience.  Does such a site exist? Where is THE place
> from which to download cygwin?

Any one of the official Cygwin mirrors at <http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html>
should have an up-to-date mirror of all Cygwin packages.  Since anl.gov
(you do mean <ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin.com/>, right?) is one of
them, it should be one of THE places you ask for.

I suspect the problem isn't with the mirror.  You mention a previous
installation of Cygwin -- perhaps you have stale mounts?  Please review
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html> for Cygwin problem reporting guidelines,
including the kind of information you should provide about your system for
us to be able to help you.
	Igor
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