On 02/10/2010 12:45 PM, breako wrote:
Hi, so the standard cygwin install is to run the setup. This puts some dll's on your file system and would also I presume update your registry.
Hm. Just because the installation puts a few incidentals in the registry doesn't mean that it whole-heartedly relies on it to run. There is even less reliance on the registry with 1.7.x than with 1.5.x. In fact, you should never need to go to
the registry to change something for Cygwin. Just forget that it's there.
I'd like to do be able to run some simple cygwin programs such as grep and ls without having to run the set up and change my registry. I am wondering if this is possible.
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