missing telnet, solution

[Phil Burk]

I followed all the steps to install Cygwin/XFree from the user guide.
Everything worked great until I got to the part about telnet. It was missing
from my installation. I spent about two hours looking over the Cygwin site
trying to figure out how to get and install telnet. I noticed in this forum
that other folks had the same problem but no working solution was offered.

I finally figured it out. Here's how:

- re-run the SETUP.EXE program that you used to install Cygwin,

- select "Install from Internet" option,

- select same install directory as before,

- choose a download site as before,

- when you get a list of packages, click the '+' next to the "Net" category,

- select the "inetutils" package and the "openssh" package,

- continue downloading.

Your installation will be updated with those new packages.

Perhaps the Cygwin/XFree86 User Guide could be modified to make sure telnet
and ssh get included in the installation the first time. It currently tells
people to leave the default settings alone but the default does not include
telnet.

Phil Burk