Hi Stephen, Thank you for getting back to me so quickly!. Do you mean that my professor needs to find a newer version of Cygwin or Mass, for it to work?
Thank you! Alice > On 28 Sep 2020, at 13:51, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 08:45, Alice Bilton via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com > <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Sheffield University student trying to install MASS software. However, > during the process I have received the following message a number of times: > > > The problem is that the MASS software is meant for an older version of Cygwin > which has not been shipped in 10 years. The error is misleading and from when > Cygwin was a commercial product. The professor who assigned this software > will need to find a newer version for students. > > > WARNING: Couldn’t compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the > public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com> > <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>> > > I’m not sure what this means. Am I unable to download the software, or is > there something that I can do to help it? I left the initial instal window > open and is seems to have continued with some of the installation process - I > am now able to access the MASS DEMO, but upon opening the cygwin batch file, > I get the following message: > 2 [main] bash 6936 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn’t compute FAST_CWD pointer. > Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com> <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com > <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>> > > Can you help? > > Thanks > Alice > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > <https://cygwin.com/problems.html> > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ <https://cygwin.com/faq/> > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > <https://cygwin.com/docs.html> > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > <https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple> > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
