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At Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:07 PM, Yin Ming wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:07:41 -0400 > "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:07 PM, Yin Ming wrote: >>> But, the version of vim package is too new, it's 6.3-1, but my >>> cygwin is only 1.9.10-1 ( the version of cygwin package ). Must I >>> update the whole. >>> >>> And, from my home, it's very slow to download packages via >>> setup.exe, is there a fast http/ftp url to download the whole >>> package ? >> >> Versions refer to the individual packages, there is not overall >> version number for a "cygwin distribution". See "What version of >> Cygwin is this, anyway?" in the FAQ >> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC5. Also see the >> recent email archives for discussion of creating a versioned >> release. >> >> The most recent version of the cygwin1.dll and associated utilities >> is >> 1.5.11-1. (1.9.10-1 "the version of cygwin package" does not yet >> exist.) Your vim (6.3-1) is up to date. > I pressed the wrong key, it's only 1.3.10-1... sigh, have to download > it again. > > Thank you, men. The cygwin package itself is only a bit over a megabyte, so it does not take that long, even over dial-up. (I speak from experience -- I have 56k dial-up at home.) You do not have to redownload everything. Setup is capable of figuring out what needs to be updated and downloading just that. In the chooser, change the "View" to "Partial". -- 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/
