I tried to install Cygwin at a friend's last night and after it finished he did not have the program "less" installed, and his whole cygwin directory structure was only about 32 MB in size after the install. I do not have a clean install as a reference point as I've already installed XFree86 on my own computer, but my /bin directory is over 50 MB, so if his whole directory structure is only 32 MB I suspect he is missing more than just "less".
I have helped others install it on their computers in the past (2-3 months ago) and have never had a problem, so I think something may have been broken recently in the install program. I noticed the package listing interface is different now that a few months back, so I assume that part has changed, perhaps with an additional feature of a new bug. Mark ______________________________________________________________________________ Send a friend your Buddy Card and stay in contact always with Excite Messenger http://messenger.excite.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
