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Re: what package tr and cat?
- To: Pedro Jones <calroc at mindspring dot com>
- Subject: Re: what package tr and cat?
- From: "Robert Praetorius" <RPraetorius at AspenRes dot Com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:12:36 +1000
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Ministry of Hobo Regalia, Gauntlet Division
- Reply-to: RPraetorius at AspenRes dot Com
> I'm trying to build python and the configure script reports that it
> can't find tr and cat
> I've been downloading packages piecemill because I have a slow modem
> connection, but I've tried getting a few likely packages without nabbing
> those two so I thought I'd ask for help.
For cygwin packages that are just ports of GNU packages, you can
find this info at
<GNU mirror>/ProgramIndex or <GNU mirror>/DESCRIPTIONS
, where <GNU mirror> is one of the mirror sites listed at
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
For a general answer to which cygwin package contains the binary for
X, I don't know where to look.
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