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From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACoZoo2Xgv20t1pJ4As97LTXCNRksXdms_KnZG82TLbr6LmfxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5820C561.1040209@idirect.com>

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rus wrote:
<snip>
> I understand that Cygwin 2.5.2 was the last version that actually worked
> with Windows-XP.
> I tried to run the setup-x86.exe program, and it just fails.  Quite
> unfortunate, as this
> will simply force me to abandon further usage of Cygwin.
<snip>
> Short of messing around with the "Cygwin Time Machine", is there a simple
> way to just
> download some of the 2.5.2 source and/or the executables? (I need bzip2.exe,
> for example,
> and I find I only had gzip.exe installed.  Arrrrgh.).


What "messing around" is there?  I downloaded the setup.exe provided
from the time machine and installed cygwin on a freshly loaded XP-SP3
host without issue...

-- Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-07 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-07 18:18 Rus
2016-11-07 18:24 ` Erik Soderquist [this message]
2016-11-07 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-08 12:37 Fergus
2016-11-08 14:18 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2016-11-08 16:54 ` Ken Brown
2016-11-10  7:25 Fergus

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