Newbie question

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:11:54AM -0800, Ton Machielsen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just started using CygWin do have soe Unix commands available on my Win98 box.
> I have downloaded the latest CygWin distribution and everything works OK.
> 
> However, i am missing a lot of Unix commands like nslookup, finger, etc. Where do i get the binaries or sources for these utilities. I've checked the web, but these simple tools are all included in standard distributions and therefore hardly available as source or binary.
> 
> Can anyone guide me in the right direction?

nslookup is in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM on 9x systems. You can add a symbolic
link for convenience:

    ln -s /c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/NSLOOKUP.EXE /usr/local/bin/nslookup

All other tools _are_ available as source at least.
Look at http://www.gnu.org for example.

Corinna

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