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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:16:26 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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Subject: Re: New FAQ entry?
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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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