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Re: Installation Problem???


--- Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com> wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> At 15:51 2002-07-21, Jim Balcom wrote:
> >On a Windows 95 machine - quite standard, I installed Cygwin from the 
> >internet.
> >It didn't seem to be complete, so the next morning I did another
> install 
> >from another mirror.
> >
> >In both cases, for example, I am told that Midnight Commander is
> included 
> >in the initial installation. It did not seem to install in either 
> >installation. Nor, using MC for windows, can I find it on the hard
> drive.
> >
> >I went back to download and install Joe. I downloaded it, but Cygwin
> can't 
> >find anyway to unzip it (bzip).
> >
> >...
> 
> 
> The command for unzipping and zipping BZip2 archives is "bunzip2" and 
> "bzip2" (resp.).

Sigh, even I make this mistake now and then.  I've symlinked bzip2->bzip
and bunzip2->bunzip on my machine.  Perhaps this symlink should exist in
the packaged bzip2?  I mean it isn't like anyone is going to have the
original bzip installed at this point...

> I install (and update) everything from the Cygwin net release, and
> Midnight 
> Commander is present in /bin (a.k.a. /usr/bin) with the name "mc." It's
> a 
> little too "old school" for my taste, but hey, de gustibus...
> 
> 
non disputantum est...

Cheers,
Nicholas

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