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Steven Woody wrote:

> i heard there is a full.exe which is a full installer of cygwin.
> where can i get it? thanks!

If such a thing did exist it would certainly not be officially
recommended or supported to it's off-topic for this list.  In the bad
old days the Cygwin distro used to be one monolithic file but it was too
cumbersome because it became the file became obsolete the second any
individual package needed to be updated.  So this idea is very
unworkable in practice, which is why it hasn't been done that way for
about 9 or 10 years.

Brian

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