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From: | Karen Barrett |
Subject: | downloading, installing, using Cygwin in MS Windows XP Professional |
Date: | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:21:02 -0400 |
There are so many questions, & probably some
I'm not aware of, so if you know how to do the above, please let me know.
I would very much like to download the Brahms piano concerto #1 in Dm Op 15
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Installation -- for "root
directory", is <C:/DRIVERS> OK?
For "default text file type", my internet subscription service (Baltimore County
Public Library (BCPL)) says I can't use UNIX because it won't work with MS
Windows and DOS would seem potentially problematic for MS XP Professional
Windows. So - what to do here?
On
"local package directory" -- which one's appropriate for me? Why would I
need all that stuff? Is "current" right? what would work
here?
Shouldd
I choose "direct connection"?
For
download site -- which one works? I didn't choose sites with ftp because I
wondered about a UNIX connection. http sites were immediately regurgigated
by this monster.
On one of my
trips on this "merry"-go-round, 6 folders named bin, etc, lib, tmp, usr and var
appeared on my desktop along with 3 more Cygwin icons -- 1) dimensions 72 x 72
6.85KB, on dbl right click it made a blank window with a Cygwin icon in the
middle and a little toolbar row on the bottom; 2) on double right click, this
one flashed very quickly off; 3) "type MS-DOS Batch File Size: 95 bytes A right
click produced properties, general, compatibility tabs. I followed the
compatibility instructions for windows and wound up with the plethora of sites
from which to choose "get software from". which one?
So, if you would
send me directions applicable to my situation to install, download and use this
lilypond/cygwin software that any dummy such as moi could use, I would much
appreciate it. thank you
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