On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rus wrote: <snip> > 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. <snip> > Short of messing around with the "Cygwin Time Machine", is there a simple > way to just > download some of the 2.5.2 source and/or the executables? (I need bzip2.exe, > for example, > and I find I only had gzip.exe installed. Arrrrgh.).
What "messing around" is there? I downloaded the setup.exe provided from the time machine and installed cygwin on a freshly loaded XP-SP3 host without issue... -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple