Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Slowness of Cygwin (and NT/2000 failure) From: Robert Collins To: Ron House Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3B735E7C.577243B@usq.edu.au> References: <3B71FD9D.1AE29C53@usq.edu.au> <3B72B4C0.4020100@earthlink.net> <3B732FA1.3C31E18D@usq.edu.au> <997405375.12638.0.camel@lifelesswks> <3B7339B0.2B8F97C1@usq.edu.au> <997407997.3564.3.camel@robertlinux> <3B735E7C.577243B@usq.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12 (Preview Release) Date: 10 Aug 2001 14:12:22 +1000 Message-Id: <997416746.5372.1.camel@robertlinux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Aug 2001 04:13:05.0970 (UTC) FILETIME=[C173A120:01C12152] On 10 Aug 2001 04:09:32 +0000, Ron House wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > > mystified. > > > I'm not. You don't have a mount table. you also don't have termcap > > files. static linking just means that you need less .dll's, not that any > > other part of cygwin can be skipped. I should have said terminfo here - I'm not a ncurses programmer (does it show?) :] > > See the installing cygwin entries in the faq, or the mailing list > > archives. > > Okay, the installation entries seem to say that the necessary component > is the package cygwin itself. I installed that via setup.exe on the > W2000 box, but still I get the "Error opening terminal: cygwin." > message. (As an aside, that setup prog is darned infuriating if you want > to skip all but one package.) I believe it also says that if you ahve nay problems, install the lot. You should read and follow up on Chuck Wilsons comments in this thread because - now you have a mount table - that is the remaining step.. Rob > -- > Ron House house@usq.edu.au > http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house -- _____________________________ Robert Collins CEO IT Domain Pty Limited Your Application Solution Partner 02 9476 4223 Mobile: 0414 693 367 www.itdomain.com.au _____________________________ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/