From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: questions about user tools 27 Nov 1997 05:29:11 -0800 Message-ID: <6icFffkppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <347B341B DOT 83F AT intuit DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Doug, [...] >1) I don't see a way to get a directory listing of the current drive. >If I'm on the e: drive (for example) and enter "ls /", I'll see a >listing of the c:/ directory. Is there some work around without using >"ls e:/"? ls //e/ or mount -b e:/ /somedir cd /somedir ls > >2) I also downloaded and installed less330-cygwin32.zip. It seems to >work (start up) a bit faster than the standalone less. Unfortunately, >all of the text searches seem to fail without warning -- making the "/" >and "?" commands useless (even when searching for plain text). Should I >go back to the standalone tool? Or, is there a work-around? Do you >know of a more recent version? Did you compile it yourself or was that a binary ? If you compiled it yourself: You have to put an include file into your C_INCLUDE_PATH, which is in the source code package of the cdk, but which has been forgotten in the binary distribution (rx.h). Recompile less after that. If it was a binary, you have to get a new one or compile it yourself. > >2a) This version of less also seems to have a rather bizarre keyboard >mapping. Backspace and Delete keys *both* do nothing useful -- >Backspace enters ^H and Delete does nothing. Do you have ncurses ? What is your TERM env var set to ? > >3) I noticed a number of references to environment variables on Sergey >Okhapkin's web page. Most of them seemed to deal with the development >tools (most of which don't interest me today). But, is there a listing >somewhere of the environment variables which may be used to control the >beta 18 user tools? Yes, it is in the README, which came with the cdk. > >3a) I'd also appreciate a description of how to make tcsh or bash my >primary DOS shell under Windows 95. Just create a shortcut for them on your desktop and/or set COMSPEC env var to the appropriate path. > >4) How would I download just the CygWin gmake, dmake or make tool? That >will be useful when I start developing Perl scripts on this system. No way, ask someone to send it to you. > >5) Under Windows 95, the mkgroup and mkpasswd tools do not work. Is >there anything else to be aware of in this environment? Many things, but I don't think, there is a list for that somewhere. > >6) How would I find the ports of man and the [gnt]roff tools mentioned >in your FAQ? There are no links for most of these tools. Anything >which makes the *.info and *.[135] files you provide more readable >(short of using NT emacs which is sometimes slow and may require moving >files around) would be appreciated. Perhaps info2html would be of any help for you ? man can be obtained from my site (see below), groff is too big for that. Best would be to compile it yourself - it compiles out of the box from the original sources. > >By the way, the tools are installed in the default location. I've only >modified the configuration by adding a mount point: > mount C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32 /usr That doesn't matter - they work, if you set the env vars appropriately. > >thanx, > doug Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".