From: jsturm AT sigma6 DOT com (Jeff Sturm) Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 7 Aug 1998 02:13:31 -0700 Message-ID: <35CA0117.764E5833.cygnus.gnu-win32@sigma6.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com This looks like a good starting point. I've just started working with cygwin32 myself... I learned a few things from this website, and saw numerous other items that I've learned elsewhere or figured out for myself. The installation page mentions hacking the registry to mount / in binary mode (why does it default to non-binary anyway? CRLF text mode is evil) but why not mention the registry keys... sure, they're not hard to find, but still... even better would be a tcl/tk utility to edit the registry settings. BTW my initial impressions with this package are: a) it is excellent quality, compared to even commercial offerings from Softway and AT&T (I've tried most of them). b) it is horrible for a newcomer to find his way around and tame it into a nice, useable GNUish package (why no vim, less in the distribution?) I guess that's why it's beta... Why doesn't someone build a distribution of cygwin32 configured with all the goodies, updates, egcs, X11, etc? There are several people at my organization who downloaded cygwin32 independently, and I can guarantee they don't know how powerful this software is. A polished, quick-to-install distribution would knock their socks off... personally I'd jump at the chance if I were a CD maker. Pete Jordan wrote: > > I'm setting up some pages that will contain the distilled wisdom(!) of my > experience of setting up and running GNU-Win32, along with mirroring some > of the more geographically remote software (coolview and QUB Perl as I > write) for fast UK access. > > I only started writing it yesterday so it's very minimal ATM, but it won't > remain so. Any useful hints and tips for inclusion gratefully received at > mailto:pete AT horus DOT cix DOT co DOT uk :) - I'm particularly looking for good > descriptions of all the CYGWIN32 env variable options. > > URL: http://www.skydancer.demon.co.uk/gnu-win32/ > > Any constructive comments welcome (I'm expecting flak from Micro$oft > and/or the FSF for my GNU-Win32 logo ) > > Oh, and complaints about the usage of frames and JavaScript will be > ignored - it's my site and that's the way I've written it... > > Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications Ltd ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ > > "Ninevah, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand > persons that know not how to distinguish their right hand from their > left, not to mention many camels." ~ /God/ > - > 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". -- Jeff Sturm jsturm AT sigma6 DOT com - 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".