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     3 * About Cygwin.

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     5 * Installation.

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     7 Run setup.exe. Use output dir like:

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     9   d:\opt\cygwin

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    11 Add to your PATH env var exactly before C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS values:

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    13    set PATH=d:\opt\cygwin\bin;d:\opt\cygwin\usr\local\bin;%PATH%

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    15 Set CYGWIN env var:

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    17   REM Set CYGWIN variable to 'nontsec'. That makes sure that permissions

    18   REM on your windows machine are not updated as a side effect of cygwin

    19   REM operations.

    20   SET CYGWIN=binary nontsec nodosfilewarning codepage:utf8

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    22 Set HOME env var (where places config file and projects):

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    24   set HOME=d:\home