Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

>> Cygwin installation on XP >> 1. Use the following version of setup*.exe: >> 32-bit: ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/snapshots/setup-x86-2.874.exe >> 2. Run setup*.exe with the -X option, using the following mirror: >> 32-bit: ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2016/08/30/104223

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

On 11/8/2016 7:37 AM, Fergus wrote: > Come on, the Time > Machine is really hard to navigate. If all you want to do is update a Cygwin installation on XP, the instructions at http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html#cygwintimemachine boil down to this: 1. Use the following version of

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

On 8 November 2016 at 07:37, Fergus wrote: >> WinXP is not supported. Complain as you wish, write as long a posts as you > were, it won't change. >> If you need old, outdated and unsupported OS, go into old, outdated and > unsupported Cygwin Time Machine. > > Hang on,

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

> WinXP is not supported. Complain as you wish, write as long a posts as you were, it won't change. > If you need old, outdated and unsupported OS, go into old, outdated and unsupported Cygwin Time Machine. Hang on, this is just a bit dismissive. Years ago the Cygwin nobility gave us all loads of

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

Greetings, Rus! > Hi, > I have cygwin utilities installed on an upgraded/enhanced Win-XP box. WinXP is not supported. Complain as you wish, write as long a posts as you were, it won't change. If you need old, outdated and unsupported OS, go into old, outdated and unsupported Cygwin Time Machine.

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rus wrote: > I understand that Cygwin 2.5.2 was the last version that actually worked > with Windows-XP. > I tried to run the setup-x86.exe program, and it just fails. Quite > unfortunate, as this > will simply force me to abandon further usage of Cygwin. > Short

New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

Hi, I have cygwin utilities installed on an upgraded/enhanced Win-XP box. There are several reasons (too much to go into here), that I need to maintain this new box, but run it with the original Win-XP/SP3 O/S. It would be nice if I could access some of the Cygwin utilities that I do not have.