On Tue February 28 2006 3:45 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
You downloaded "it?" Cygwin? It's just like a Linux distribution insofar as it comprises a great many packages totaling hundreds of megabytes of tarballs formatted for the Cygwin installer (which is what I suspect your downloaded, from the main page of cygwin.com).
you are correct, I downloaded the setup.exe from cygwin.
If you did just download the installer, beware that you've got a big download ahead (which must be preceded by package selection, unless you're willing to just go for the whole huge set of packages).
how do you select these packages, and what do I look for/need/want to install for ssh/sftp ?
Cygwin is quite good and the only way to make Windows usable to those of the Unix / Linux ilk such as myself. I immediately install it on every Windows computer I must use on an ongoing basis.
once I get it "installed" and working I'll have a better idea what you are talking about:) kinda hard to think about *NIX on a gates box.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-pcartwright/key.asc