cygwin on windows 8

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Knope
Started playing with Cygwin on the just released Windows 8 developer preview and got this message and it says to report it here: 2 [main] bash 3256 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. All I did was start Cygwin.bat . It seems to run but always barfs out that error when

Re: cygwin finally installed on vista but now other errors (fixed)

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Knope
Well, I did AFTER you reminded me and I removed my head from my a... Now everything is happy in Vista land once more. Thanks, Mike >Mike Knope wrote: >I finally got cygwin installed. It seems that the download site I >used was not up to a recent build or something. However, n

cygwin finally installed on vista but now other errors

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Knope
I finally got cygwin installed. It seems that the download site I used was not up to a recent build or something. However, now that I have it running I'm seeing errors like this: $ 3 [main] rxvt 1664 D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygX

Re: errors trying to install cygwin on vista

2006-12-11 Thread Mike Knope
Well, I must be dumb cuz I tried everything and it still fails to complete the install. Always fails with "sed.exe has stopped working". I guess I'll just wait a while and see if something shows up in the future. It just will not install for me. Thanks, Mike On Dec 9 21

errors trying to install cygwin on vista

2006-12-09 Thread Mike Knope
OK. I've looked thru the archives and I've even tried installing as the "true" Administrator and all I get are errors either saying that sed.exe stopped working when I try to run setup on Vista, or I get install-info.exe stopped working if I try to reinstall after the sed fail. I even tried p