I just subscribed and have been browsing the threads. FWIW, I don't even know what the heck the problem IS, but I can fix it from memory I've run into it in so blinking many threads. Now if I could just remember whether I downloaded Cygwin BEFORE or AFTER Christopher's post about pulling the setup.exe... :(
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... : At 03:37 PM 3/21/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : >Sorry for the rant, and I'm sure the people on the list see this question : >many times a month. I should have posted the stuff I found in the archive : >and what I had already done first. I am tempted to just install ALL of : >Cygwin : >and try it again. : : : Actually, we've seen it a couple dozen times (or it seems like it) in the last : two days, which is why I directed you to the email archives. It's a new (and : short-lived) problem. A simple search of the last couple of days or even a : deep wade through all those messages would have found you all the pertinent : threads and brought you up to speed on the problem and the solution without : that much pain. But I'm glad to hear that you at least made the attempt at : finding the solution, though I'm not sure how you missed all the important : threads. : : Alright, I'll bite once more on this one. Here's the work-around if you don't : want to install w32api again: : : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg01180.html : : Here's the solution for all those that just want to run setup and have it : do the right thing. : : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg01223.html : : Now that I've done everyone's homework for them, let's see how many people : still ask the list for this information... : : : Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] : RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com : 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office : Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX : : : -- : Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple : Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html : Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html : FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ : : -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
