Re: setup program problem

[Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>]

Please keep replies to the list- and you don't need to cc me, I read the 
list regularly and take special note of threads that I respond to. I 
usually cc people when I am not sure if they are list members- if you 
are a list member, just let me know and I won't cc you on replies in 
this or any other thread. Also I don't know everything about cygwin- so 
the messages that you send to me alone are missing out on a great 
resource of people on the list who would like to help you if you gave 
them the chance.

 > What I tried to run was cygwin.exe
Last I checked there was no such thing as cygwin.exe. Maybe that has 
changed lately. Are you sure it was cygwin.exe and not cygwin.bat?

 > but it did not put them anywhere.
Are you using the program setup.exe that you downloaded from cygwin.com? 
If not, you are on your own. This mailing list only supports standard 
installations, no one has the time to help out every odd flavor of 
customized installations (which are usually doomed to fail, unless the 
person installing knows a whole lot about cygwin).

Setup.exe will unpack all the files to the correct locations, and when 
it has completed, cygwin will be ready to use. I would suggest deleting 
whatever you "installed" already, downloading setup.exe again, and 
trying to "Install from Local Directory". If that doesn't work, try 
running setup.exe again and downloading all the packages again (maybe 
from another mirror).

I have to add- your "i dont have time to let anyone help me" replies and 
messages are not helping the list members, let alone yourself. Please 
take the time to write full sentences, with capitalization and 
punctuation, and answer some of the questions that we have. Believe me- 
Cygwin is a great product, and the people on this list (myself included) 
*want* to help you start using it, but you are making it *exceedingly* 
difficult for us to even guess what the problem may be.

HTH,
Peter

turn787@aol.com wrote:

> mount.exe was not installed either.
> What I tried to run was cygwin.exe
> 

turn787@aol.com wrote:

> what I need to know is where do I unpack this files to.


turn787@aol.com wrote:
> all i believe.  I found the programs, cygwin-1.3.4-2.tar.bz2, but it did not 
> put them anywhere.  I found both cygwin1.dll and cygpath






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