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Re: Problems
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Problems
- From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:35:29 -0500
- Cc: DMais at ligand dot com
- References: <81CFFDBDD157D211B34700805F9A13B3017BD394@cairo>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:32:39AM -0800, Mais, Dale wrote:
>I have tried to install cygwin on both an NT and Win98 machine and while it
>seems to install OK, when I try to open all I get is a fraction of a second
>appearance of a DOS window that disappears. I cannot get beyond this
>"flash". Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks
>
>I am not a computer guru and have forgotten what little I knew of DOS so
>trying to understand the language of the guidance on your web page does me
>little good, I just don't understand all the lingo.
Then why are you even downloading this package? Stick with Microsoft pointy
clicky tools. This is a UNIX emulation environment.
If you don't have any ideas what that means then you don't need cygwin.
cgf
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