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Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows.
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<LI>A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a UNIX emulation layer
providing substantial UNIX API functionality.</LI>
<LI>A collection of tools, ported from UNIX, which provide
UNIX/Linux look and feel.</LI>
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<P>The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release
candidate", ix86 versions of Windows since Windows 95, with
the exception of Windows CE.</P>
<P><A href="#bottom">Contact, web page, other
info...</A> <A href="faq/faq_1.html">Historical
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<P class="c5">Use the <TT>setup.exe</TT> tool both to initially
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The latest net releases of the Cygwin DLL are numbered
<EM>1.1.x</EM> or <EM>1.3.x</EM>. <EM>1.n.x</EM> versions of the
Cygwin DLL are newer than previous beta Bxx (i.e. <EM>B19</EM>,
<EM>B20</EM>, <EM>B20.1</EM>) versions. The last commercial
release was <EM>v1.0</EM> which was <STRONG>only</STRONG>
released on CD-ROM and is no longer available. Red Hat has no
current plans to release a new commercial CD. The Red Hat GNUpro
release version is currently 1.2.x and is available only with <A
href="http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/";>Red Hat
support contracts</A>.
<P>The last <EM>Bxx</EM> release was in December 1998. The
<EM>Bxx</EM> releases are no longer available. In fact, older
versions of the DLL or utilities are not usually available on
this web site. Any cygwin program built from December 1998 onward
should work correctly with newer DLLs.</P>
<P>Note that the <EM>1.n.x</EM> version numbering refers only to
the Cygwin DLL. Individual packages like <EM>bash</EM>,
<EM>gcc</EM>, <EM>less</EM>, etc. are released independently of
the DLL. The <TT>setup.exe</TT> utility, which is downloaded when
you click on the <A href="setup.exe">above link</A>, tracks the
versions of all installed components and provides the mechanism
for <STRONG>installing</STRONG> or <STRONG>updating</STRONG>
everything.</P>
<P>Note also that, by default, <TT>setup.exe</TT> <STRONG>does
not install everything</STRONG>. Only the <EM>base</EM> cygwin
distribution is installed by default. When running
<TT>setup.exe</TT>, clicking on categories and packages in the
<EM>package installation</EM> screen will provide you with the
ability to control what is installed or updated. For instance,
clicking on the "Default" field next to the
"All" category will provide you with the opportunity to
install every Cygwin package. Be advised that this will download
and install hundreds of megabytes to your computer. The best plan
is probably to click on individual categories and install either
entire categories or packages from the categories themselves.</P>
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<P><A href=
"http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-07/msg00008.html";><STRONG>
New Cygwin DLL 1.3.12-2 release</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jul 8 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-07/msg00002.html";>
<STRONG>New Cygwin DLL 1.3.12 release</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jul 3 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-06/msg00012.html";>
<STRONG>New Cygwin DLL 1.3.11 release</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jun 23 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href="http://gmane.org";><STRONG><EM>Unofficial</EM> Off-site
Cygwin News Server</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Mar 2 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Daniel Adams</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00063.html";><STRONG>New
Cygwin DLL 1.3.10 release</STRONG></A>
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<SMALL><EM>Feb 27 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00030.html";><STRONG>
New Cygwin DLL 1.3.9 release</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jan 21 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00026.html";><STRONG>
New Cygwin DLL 1.3.8 release</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jan 20 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00023.html";><STRONG>
New Cygwin DLL 1.3.7 release</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jan 19 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00169.html";><STRONG>New
Cygwin DLL 1.3.6 release</STRONG></A>
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<SMALL><EM>Dec 2 2001, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00140.html";><STRONG>New
Cygwin DLL 1.3.5 release</STRONG></A>
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<SMALL><EM>Nov 11 2001, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Christopher Faylor</A></EM></SMALL></P>
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<P><A href=
"http://www.sanface.com/archive/txt2pdf.tar.gz";><STRONG>txt2pdf
6.0</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><BR>
Major release with Japanese support. <EM>Sep 2 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>SANFACE Software</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href="http://ircd-hybrid.com/";><STRONG>Hybrid 7rc1
IRCD</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jul 29 2002, <A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Zeke
Gomez</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href="http://www.shaolinsecureftp.com";><STRONG>Shaolin Secure
FTP v0.98 Beta 3</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jul 4 2002, <A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Joseph
S. Testa II</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://www.gnu.org/directory/recode.html";><STRONG>Recode -
character set conversion</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jun 25 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Francois
Pinard</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/";><STRONG>ImageMagick
5.4.6</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>Jun 18 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Bob
Friesenhahn</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href="http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/";><STRONG>Singular - A
Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>May 28 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Viktor Levandovskyy
(Singular Team)</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://mservice.sdf-eu.org/SocksCleaner-0.4/sockscleaner-0.4-cygwin.tar.gz";>
<STRONG>IRC Socks Scanner Sockscleaner 0.4</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>May 21 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Diego Duarte</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://batousai.sdf-eu.org/gmp-4.0.1/gmp-4.0.1-cygwin.tar.gz";><STRONG>
The Gnu GMP 4.0.1</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>May 21 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Diego Duarte</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://mservice.sdf-eu.org/Hybrid-6.3/hybrid-6.3-cygwin-stable.tar.gz";>
<STRONG>Hybrid 6.3 IRCD</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>May 21 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Diego Duarte</A></EM></SMALL></P>
<P><A href=
"http://batousai.sdf-eu.org/mICQ-0.4.8-pl5/mICQ-0.4.8.pl5-cygwin.tar.gz";>
<STRONG>micq 0.4.8</STRONG></A>
<BR>
<SMALL><EM>May 19 2002, <A href=
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Diego Duarte</A></EM></SMALL></P>
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<P><EM>For Cygwin licensing or commercial support, please visit the <A
href="http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/";>Red Hat Cygwin
Product</A> site.</EM></P>
<P><EM>For <STRONG>all</STRONG> other questions and observations, please
check the resources available at this site, such as the <A href=
"http://cygwin.com/";>FAQ</A>, the <A href=
"http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html";>User's
Guide</A> and the <A href="http://cygwin.com/lists.html";>mailing list
archives</A>. If you've exhausted these resources then please send
email to an <A href="http://cygwin.com/lists.html";><STRONG>appropriate
mailing list</STRONG></A> . This includes observations about web pages,
setup questions, questions about where to find things, questions about
why things are done a certain way, questions about the color preferences
of Cygwin developers, questions about the meaning of the number 42,
etc.</EM></P>
<P>Please send notification of technical problems (bad html, broken
links) concerning these web pages to <A href=
"http://cygwin.com/lists.html#cygwin";>the cygwin mailing list</A>.</P>
<P>Please <STRONG>do not</STRONG> send personal email with "quick
questions" to individual cygwin developers. The cygwin mailing lists
are the places for all questions. Really. I mean it.</P>
<P>Not responsible for errors in content, meaning, tact, or judgement.
Live and let live. Toes go in first. Enjoy. Copyright © 2000, 2001,2002
Red Hat, Inc.</P>
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