RE: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-19 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
Hmm... I forgot to mention/clarify these facts: 1) The bat script MUST be run from the dir where you want G:\ to be 2) Use the NON-virtual device to set/reset G:\ (It won't work otherwise) e.g. "cd G:\" followed by "setres_g" won't work. "cd " is a MUST. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Ma

RE: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-12 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin --8<-- > > It is the runnable installation, the "cygwin" directory tree, that I > > am talking about. Some time ago I tried it with the source tree on > > the CD, running setup and trying to install from that, b

Re: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, At 05:41 2003-03-12, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: In 2003-03-11 08:29 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: ... > Do you have CYGWIN=tty? Never heard of it. Thanks. It fixed the problem. Gave me a new one, though. After leaving emacs, what I type is not echoed to the screen. This ca

Re: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Prince
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 06:52, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > --- Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You solved just about all my problems. The speed problem, that > > everything takes 10 or more times as long as on Linux, I assume is > > normal... > > Well, yes and no. On

Re: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-12 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. In text mode, I can't exit emacs with Ctrl-X Ctrl-C. To get out I > > > have to background it with Ctrl-Z and then find its process number > > > with ps and kill it. > > > > Do you have CYGWIN=tty? > > Never heard of it. Than

Re: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
In 2003-03-11 08:29 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > 2. In text mode, I can't exit emacs with Ctrl-X Ctrl-C. To get out I > > have to background it with Ctrl-Z and then find its process number > > with ps and kill it. > > Do you have CYGWIN=tty? Never heard of it. Thanks. It f

Re: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> After writing the report in TeX (with emacs) I produce a PDF file > which I take to work to print out. It has to be checked there before > being issued, and if some small correction is needed I can't do it on > the spot, it means at least a day's delay. Hence Cygwin as a > solution. If this is

Re: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-10 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cygwin Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:52:45 +1030 (CST) Subject: New user / CD installation problems 1. Cygwin is very slow. Remarkably so. I guess this might be just ho

New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Dear list members, I have installed Cygwin on Windows 98 and want to do a CD installation onto Windows 95. I would just like to compare notes on the problems I have encountered. I normally use Linux. I need to install TeX and friends at work to correct reports that I write at home. I am paid t