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[Harold L Hunt II]

Frank,

Cygwin/XFree86 is a subproject of the Cygwin project that is focused on 
the XFree86 (a free X Window System implementation) port to Cygwin.

If you install Cygwin/XFree86, then you have by definition installed 
Cygwin.  You can select the Cygwin/XFree86 packages under the XFree86 
category in Cygwin's setup.exe.  Select only the XFree86-base package 
(in addition to the other default packages) if you are unsure of which 
XFree86 packages you need.

Harold

Lane, Frank L wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> My first post.  I tried to get the faq and list info and the listbot told me
> they weren't available.
> 
> I have a couple of questions, hopefully they aren't asked to much.
> 
> One: On my installation I didn't get vim.  And I'm not finding it out on the
> net anywhere.  What can I do about this?
> I found a downloadable binary of gvim but when I try to run it it complains
> about the file libICE.dll not being in the path.
> 
> Two:  How is the xfree project different from mainstream cygwin?
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank