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Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Cygwin installed and running fine.
>
> So "IE3 required" should somehow be added to FAQs.
Well I'm not sure it's going to be asked that frequently given the age
and obscurity of such systems. However I have checked in the attached
so that this is documented on the setup hompage should it ever come up
again:
Brian
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Index: setup.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/htdocs/setup.html,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.17 setup.html
--- setup.html 24 May 2005 00:03:03 -0000 1.17
+++ setup.html 26 Apr 2006 00:44:14 -0000
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ href="package-server.html">package
server page.
+
+The setup.exe program requires the Microsoft C Runtime Library
+(MSVCRT.DLL) as well as the Microsoft Common Controls Library
+(COMCTL32.DLL) version 4.7 or higher. These components have been
+included as part of Windows for many years, so in almost all cases nothing needs
+to be installed to run setup.exe. However, if you are using a very
+old version of Windows 95 without Internet Explorer installed, you will have
+to first install IE version 3 (or higher) before setup.exe will
+function.
+
Source code for setup.exe is available from
http://cygwin.com/setup/. However,
@@ -83,6 +93,6 @@ http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps
sources.redhat.com
-
+