On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:57:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >On 1/11/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >> As mentioned in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00537.html>, > >> here's a patch to the FAQ to clarify the section on installing > >> snapshots. I didn't know whether the various *.texinfo files are > >> still used, so I ported the modifications there as well, just in > >> case. > > > >Applied to faq-setup.xml
Thanks. > >(the texinfo files are no longer used... I suppose I should remove > >them). Yes, please. > >It would be nice to have a sample batch file that automated the > >cygwin1.dll replacement, too. > > I was hoping for a little more discussion about this. I think Corinna > and I are both a little despondent over the fact that we have to be > SUPER precise about obvious things like when you say something like "cd > /tmp" it means that you should be doing it in a POSIX shell. I have to > wonder what kind of useful feedback we'll get from people who can't > figure this out. I also was going to caution against telling everyone > to "try a snapshot" at the first hint of trouble. I don't think that > this should be used as a panacea, although I realize that the length of > time since the last cygwin release has made it attractive. > > ...but that's not an issue for this mailing list... Right. > Nevertheless, the advice about using "mv" to rename cygwin1.dll won't > work on every version of Windows and needs to be changed. Hmm, it's worked for me on Win98, Win2k, and WinXP (though I suppose there could be differences on, say, WinNT4 or something)... I basically wanted to avoid giving too many things to do in Windows Explorer. But no matter -- I'll submit a patch with this change shortly. FWIW, I usually do "cd /bin && cygstart cmd", and then close the bash shell and do the renaming in the CMD window. However, I don't think this particular set of instructions can rely on the presence of cygstart... > I didn't read much else besides that because I was just too depressed by > the fact that the current words were <quote>confusing</unquote>. Sigh... I'm sure there'll be complaints about my wording too. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"