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Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> If I install Cygwin from the internet and copy the cygwin files to my
> USB, can I later install Cygwin on another machine from those files?

  As long as by "Copy the cygwin files", you mean the local package directory,
rather than the cygwin install tree, then yes.  Just run setup.exe on the
other machine in install-from-local mode and point it at the dir on the usb drive.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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