CygWin in windows

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You use the setup program to get new packages, and last time I tried it,
it was not very easy to use -- you had to find  the up and down arrows
in order to scroll the list.

Glenn <glennervin at cableone.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm running windows 7 32, and I installed CygWin.
> I don't know allot about using it.
> I want to have access to some of the power of Linux.
> I'm most familiar with Debian-based systems.
> I use Jaws, and the CygWin terminal does not automatically read the returned information, and I don't like routing the Jaws cursor to read the terminal.
> Can SpeakUp be installed into CygWin?
> I saw a youtube thing about wget, but the person in the video did not really indicate the command for getting wget.
> I found that apt-get nor aptitude work, so is there a command for installing packages in CygWin?
> Thanks.
> Glenn
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