Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us

Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us

Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer - Properties -

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer - Properties -

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer -> Properties ->

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH, or you have Cygwin in your PATH, which has a different version of sh.exe, before Msys. This advice is about if you have used the installer where you download the needed helper programs. OTOH, the LyXWinInstaller provides the Msys

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH, or you have Cygwin in your PATH, which has a different version of sh.exe, before Msys. This advice is about if you have used the installer where you download the needed helper programs. OTOH, the LyXWinInstaller provides the Msys

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve sp

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH, or you have Cygwin in your PATH, which has a different version of sh.exe, before Msys. This advice is about if you have used the installer where you download the needed helper programs. OTOH, the LyXWinInstaller provides the Msys

cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message

cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message

cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message