

	Midas on Windows XP 
	-------------------


 ESO-Midas is now also implemented on a PC running MS-Windows.
 This is done via the cygwin environment which emulates a Linux framework
 on top of Windows.

 Thus, you have to install first cygwin on Windows and then Midas within the
 cygwin environment.
 The setup.exe for installing cygwin on Windows can be obtained from 
 http://www.cygwin.com.
 Executing this setup will download and install the individual packages,
 with a choice of mirror sites. At ESO we had good experience with the
 sites: ftp://ftp.funet.fi, or ftp://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.c

 The most simple option is to install all packages (toggle All<>Install
 on top of the GUI). With that the dir. for the downloaded packages comes
 to ~490MB, and the installed cygwin to ~4.3 GB.



