cgf wrote: >After installing cygwin on one of my boss's machines, he too was > >missing grep - and I know for certain he's never installed cygwin on > >his machine. However, I'll hunt this down. On my machine at least I > >have maybe half a dozen different installs sitting around in various > >states of disrepair. Once I can get it working correctly on my > >machine, I'll look at his. > > Hopefully, you have finally bitten the bullet and just installed > grep by rerunning setup.exe by now...
That's the only way I've ever installed cygwin. I have rerun and rerun and rerun setup ... more than a half dozen times just this go around ... dozens and dozens of times on various machines over the last few years. Every single install I recall has missed something. It's always been a matter of how much annoyance I could tolerate. An absence of grep far exceeds the limit - and so I make inquiry. Following the instructions on that web page Larry gave me, I've completely eradicated cygwin from my machine and begun the reinstall (30% complete). I should know very shortly whether this will work. Also, it turns out there was indeed a cygwin1.dll loaded with xgobi (an app I only used a short while and then forgot about). k -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/