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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: <http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html>

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</a> page.
 </p>
 
+<h2><a id="requirements" name="requirements">Minimum System Requirements</a></h2>
+<p>The <tt>setup.exe</tt> program requires the Microsoft C Runtime Library
+(<tt>MSVCRT.DLL</tt>) as well as the Microsoft Common Controls Library
+(<tt>COMCTL32.DLL</tt>) 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 <tt>setup.exe</tt>.  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 <tt>setup.exe</tt> will
+function.</p>
+
 <h2><a id="download" name="download">Downloads</a></h2>
 <p>Source code for <tt>setup.exe</tt> is available from 
 <a href="http://cygwin.com/setup/">http://cygwin.com/setup/</a>.  However,
@@ -83,6 +93,6 @@ http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps
 <a href="http://sources.redhat.com">sources.redhat.com</a><br/>
 </div>
 
-<div id="footer"><p>&copy; 2003-4<br/></p></div>
+<div id="footer"><p>&copy; 2003-2006<br/></p></div>
 
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