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Re: missing telnet, solution
> I'm at a loss understanding why Cygwin/XFree86 would need to tell people
> that ssh and telnet are required. Neither is needed for X applications.
Many people use XWindows on a PC to communicate to remote Unix computers.
This is very common for telecommuters. The Installation Guide tells you how
to do this but the instructions do not work.
http://cygwin.com/xfree/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html
They fails because these instructions do not tell you to download telnet:
http://cygwin.com/xfree/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-downloading.html
It says "All packages, downloaded size of 56.1 MiB as of 2001-04-19, are
selected for download by default; I do not recommend changing the list of
packages to download unless you really know what you are doing." But in my
case, only some of the packages were selected by default. Perhaps SETUP.EXE
has changed. So I had to go back and get telnet and ssh.
Perhaps the instructions could say that IF you plan to use telnet or ssh you
have to select them and then tell how. It would haved me several hours time.
Thanks!
Phil Burk