I suggest changing the default application to mintty

2010-01-26 Thread Clinton Goudie-Nice
I've experienced a variety of people who have used Cygwin, and then been frustrated by the inability to scale the window or cut and paste effectively. Often I ask if they've used mintty and they don't even know what I'm talking about since it's not installed by default, and even if it were, they wo

I suggest changing cygwin bug reporting to use bugzilla, or a similar tool

2010-01-18 Thread Clinton Goudie-Nice
Greetings, I recently had to report my first bug to Cygwin, and I would like to suggest you change to use bugzilla for bug reporting. Here was my experience for bug reporting. --- I started at cygwin.com, and clicked reporting problems. I then read the 3 pages of text. I searched the FAQ for a

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1-1 Setup.exe version 2.676 fails to install on Windows 7 x64

2010-01-18 Thread Clinton Goudie-Nice
Thanks. It is fixed now. >Try again with 2.677. It's out now. If you don't get it when you >download from cygwin.com, make sure none of your servers are >caching an old copy. >Right. There was a bad version of setup.exe installed (by me) which >failed to install zero-length files like what you

Cygwin 1.7.1-1 Setup.exe version 2.676 fails to install on Windows 7 x64

2010-01-16 Thread Clinton Goudie-Nice
ks for your help, Clinton Goudie-Nice cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple