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Re: New FAQ entry?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:16:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: New FAQ entry?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305151029560.7299-100000@localhost.localdomain>
- Reply-to: lhall at rfk dot com
Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
In light of the two questions on this subject in as many (or less) days, I
thought I'd search the FAQ for the answer to "Why doesn't this (very
common) command work?" and didn't find it there, so I thought I'd offer a
text.
It's basically the same text I wrote in
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00897.html, but slightlt
generalized..
Why doesn't this (very common) command work?
(or: Why doesn't patch work?")
--------------------------------------------
While the Cygwin Net distribution contains many packages, not all of them
are installed by default. Many programs, including some very common ones
(like "patch", "ls", "tar", "gzip", etc.), have to be installed before
they can be used.
You can use the search engine at http://cygwin.com/packages/ to look which
package you need for the "patch" utility, and then use
http://cygwin.com/setup.exe to install the appropriate package.
I certainly have no problem with this entry but I think I should point
out that it serves a similar purpose to:
What packages should I download?
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC13>
Perhaps these two should be merged. Also, it may make sense to mention
the directory/file name collisions as a corner case that can cause problems
even if the utility in question is installed.
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