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| If you are an experienced UNIX user who misses a powerful command-line |
| environment, you will enjoy Cygwin. |
| Developers coming from a UNIX background will find a set of utilities |
| they are already comfortable using, including a working UNIX shell. The |
| compiler tools are the standard GNU compilers most people will have previously |
| used under UNIX, only ported to the Windows host. Programmers wishing to port |
| UNIX software to Windows NT will find that the Cygwin library provides |
| an easy way to port many UNIX packages, with only minimal source code |
| changes. |
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| Note that there are some workarounds that cause Cygwin to behave differently |
| than most UNIX-like operating systems; these are described in more detail in |
| <a class="xref" href="using-effectively.html" title="Using Cygwin effectively with Windows">the section called “Using Cygwin effectively with Windows”</a>. |
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| Use the graphical Cygwin Setup program (available from the |
| <a class="ulink" href="https://cygwin.com/" target="_top">Cygwin homepage</a>) |
| any time you want to update or install a Cygwin package. This program must |
| be run manually every time you want to check for updated packages since Cygwin |
| does not currently include a mechanism for automatically detecting |
| package updates. |
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| By default, the Cygwin Setup program only installs a minimal subset of |
| packages. Add any other packages by clicking on the <code class="literal">+</code> |
| next to the Category name and selecting the package from the displayed |
| list. You may search for specific tools by using the |
| <a class="ulink" href="https://cygwin.com/packages/" target="_top">Setup Package Search</a> |
| at the Cygwin web site. |
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| After installation, you can find Cygwin-specific documentation in |
| the <code class="literal">/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/</code> directory. |
| </p><p> |
| For more information about what each option in Cygwin Setup means, |
| see <a class="xref" href="setup-net.html#internet-setup" title="Internet Setup">the section called “Internet Setup”</a>. |
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