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Re: Installing on NT


Hi Adam,

>When I double click on the full.exe file the command
>window says: "This program can not run in DOS mode". I
>am trying to install Cygwin from scratch. What am I missing?

There must have gone something wrong with your download, so the full.exe
binary seems to be broken.
If you download with for example with Netscape, try to right klick the
download link and choose "save as" instead of a regular klick.
If you use some ftp client, be sure to use binary mode.


Bye.
Michael.
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