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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:28:11 -0500
From: Ken Dibble <kdibble AT alltel DOT net>
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Seemanto Barua wrote:

>Hi ,
>
>I have installed cygwin for my windows XP from http://cygwin.com/. The
>installation went fine without any errors. But now when i open a
>session by running cygwin.bat I get the minimalistic shell. I dont
>have VI editor.Bash says command not found for 'vi' or 'vim' . Do i
>have to install new packages for VI ? One more thing, do i need to
>install PERL module separetely ?
>  
>


You'll need to install vim and perl. 
You'll find vim in the editors category and perl in the interpreters 
category using the cygwin setup program.

Ken


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