Dave Korn wrote: > You know, we may be barking up the wrong hippo here. Perhaps it's now worth > installing IE4 on the recalcitrant machine and see if having the whole package > actually does make the difference or not; maybe there's *another* significant
I think it's entirely appropriate to require IE3 or IE4 installed as a prerequsite for these ancient systems. I see software requirements listed as "windows 9x with IE5" all the time so we would hardly be unique here. Or put another way, you aren't going to be able to run much of anything modern on a win95 system without IE3, so why should Cygwin be any different. > there's a difference there that matters. I don't remember w95 all that well - > does it install winsock and tcp/ip by default, or was it an optional component > back then? Win95 did include TCP/IP in the stock install, I am pretty sure. It was win 3.x where it was an optional component, and indeed I remember running the third party shareware Trumpet Winsock back in the early days of SLIP-based dialup networking precisely because the MS winsock was not available for whatever reason. Or maybe it was only included in Windows for Workgroups which I didn't have, or something. Thank Hippo those days are gone. Brian -- 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/
