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Sorry, I don't understand your reply, either.

To put it very simply:  To intstall the snapshot:

    (1) Where do I put the downloaded snapshot files?

    (2) Do I run the 4 listed commands from a Windows command prompt,
        or instead from within Cygwin.

I will greatly appreciate straightforward answers to these perfectly 
simple and straightforward questions.

Dave Korn wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately, the instructions in FAQ # 2.15 "How do I install
>>snapshots?" is not completely clear.  It says that one should first
>>close all Cygwin applications and shells.  But then it says to "run" a
>>sequence of commands:
>>
>>   cd /
>>   tar .......
>>   cd /tmp
>>   tar ......
>>
>>Now given that I was supposed to exit Cygwin, presumably these commands
>>are to be run from a Windows command prompt.
>>
>>But then to what does root directory "/" refer?  To the Cygwin root?
>>And if so, where should I have put the downloaded
>>cygwin-inst-YYMMDD.tar.bz2 ?  And if "/" does not refer to the Cygwin
>>root, to what does it refer?
>>
>>If the commands are to be run within Cygwin, on the other hand, then
>>that would seem to contradict the first instruction, namely, to close
>>all Cygwin applications and shells.
> 
> 
>   The instructions say
> 
>  [... Few paras of intro ...]
>   1.  Download the snapshot, and run [... series of commands ...]
>   2.  After closing all cygwin apps, [ .... do something ...]
> 
>   Just because the intro section at the top refers in advance to one of the
> steps of the procedure doesn't mean you're supposed to do the steps of the
> procedure out-of-order!  
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK



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