Re: Allowing EASY install of thirtd party software (RE: Two GPLclarifications)

re: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html supplimental -> supplemental version. i.e. For package -> version. I.e., for package _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=feature

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

You wrote "vmtools" and "vmware." Is that or ? Both? Something else? www.vmware.com On unrelated (but original) note: Now I'm seeing the MS-DOS window stop responding part-way thru the setup download of packages, and the system tend

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

$$$ 2003-03-29 Decided to think like a programmer, and repeat the test I did before that ended at locking up Windows apparently. (A good first question is usually, "is it repeatable".) virgin Win98 Install From Internet Just Me Unix C:\cygtest ftp://mirrors.rcn.net default pack

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

I'd say there is something wrong with your system/installation of Windows... Could be. But, it is a clean win98 install, then I installed vmtools, then I've run cygwin setup (the experimental one), three times, and only done really minor things in the cygwin terminal ("mkdir", "touch", "ls -l"

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Robert Collins, If you happen to be quite interested in this apparent problem I've just found (altho I certainly don't know if it is setup related or not) at this moment, and wish to discuss this via Instant Messenger (eg, to give me some directions on what retests you'd like to me try), send me e

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

$$$ 2003-03-29 Follow-on to existing (virgin Win98, Install From Internet, Just Me, Unix C:\cygtest, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net, default package set) Continuing this win98 system, I ran setup and added pkgs autoconf, automake, binutils, bison, flex, gcc, gettext, gettext-devel, l

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

$$$ 2003-03-29 virgin Win98 Install From Internet Just Me Unix C:\cygtest ftp://mirrors.rcn.net default package set Seems to work ok, but when I reboot & run setup again, it doesn't remember the pkg directory. I guess I don't know if it ever did, as this is the first time I'm n

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

I'll bump this once then let it drop assuming no one is interested. (This is in regards to the two test installs I did, and my considering trying other tests.) _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://jo

Re: root user of cygwin

On a traditional Unix system, a root user is one with uid=0 (uid is an abbreviation of user id). On an MS-Windows NT family system (NT, 2000, XP), an administrative account is one in the group Administrators. I'm no expert (rather a novice in many ways with cygwin), but I suspect that the upper con

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

virgin XP Install From Internet All Users Unix C:\cygwin ftp://mirrors.rcn.net default package set NTFS partition this time. All chmods but the last one seem the same as under UNIX. $ cd /tmp $ mkdir j $ cd j $ touch p $ ls -l -rw-r--r-- $ chmod a+x p $ ls -l -rwxr-xr-x $ chmod a-r p $ ls -l --wx--

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Summary: Successful install on virgin 98 machine, I think, but I'm not sure if chmod is working correctly (due to my ignorance of how it should work on FAT-32). virgin Win98 Install From Internet All Users Unix C:\cygwin ftp://mirrors.rcn.net default package set It seems to work; I'm not actually s