Hi Paul and Gordon. I'm also posting my response to this in the Cygwin list. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul, > thanks. I had a similar experience in going to multiple sites - each one > being > able to download something that had not come across before. I still don't > know > if I have a complete set. Originally we were looking at this product because > 'sqsh' (a database client tool normaly resident in UNIX) was supported on NT > via cygwin, but we are having cold feet for . I was also trying it on '98 but > > it refused to recognise the '|' character. > Gordon, please don't blame the Cygwin product for bad internet experiences. There are a lot of bytes to download and that is just one of the reasons we've modularized the distribution. Cygwin is a very stable product. I've been using it for the past 3.8 years and use it daily. I know of no reason for you to have "cold feet" about using Cygwin. As for the '|' character, perhaps this thread from the archives can be of some help, http://www.egroups.com/message/gnu-win32/27970. Cheers, Earnie. > Regards, > Gordon > > -----Original Message----- > From: PHarper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:15 AM > To: Gordon.Baillie > Cc: PHarper; earnie.boyd > Subject: Re: Getting Past 'command not found' > > > Dear Gordon > came across your post on the cygwin message board. > I had the same problem, and solved it in the following way. > When I initially downloaded, I got an error that the opengl tar file had a > permission denied > and no opengl tar file was downloaded. the rest of the install seemed to run > normally, except that on openeing the shell, I got the same messages you did > mkdir not found > id not found > etc and ls -l also did not work > So then after downloading everything again, I went to a mirror site. The > install was smart enough to know that it only needed the opengl file, I > downloaded that, then did a new install from my local harddrive, and this > time everything was fine. > Dont know why the opengl module caused install to leave out bits, but it > did. > Hope this helps > Paul Harper > Paul, I'm glad you're able to successfully use Cygwin for your project. As for opengl there were some problems with the packaging that have since been corrected. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/> --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows <http://www.mingw.org/> --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
