From: darren AT onlinemagic DOT com (Darren Evans) Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 10 Aug 1998 19:49:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980810150803.00ae27e0.cygnus.gnu-win32@mailhost.onlinemagic.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. > >Thanks :) > >> 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... > >Already done... > >> even better would be a tcl/tk utility to edit the registry settings. > >Good idea, though it'll likely be a Perl/Tk utility if I write it. > >> 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... > >Indeed. I'll be adding stuff to my site describing how to add these basic >utilities (man/groff/etc immediately come to mind). Hopefully I'll be able >to mirror the various ports too. > >> 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. > >Hmmm. Sounds like a cool idea... Definetly. I tried and tried to get sendmail running, I even asked the coolview author (thanks Sergey! :) to get it working, but it would'nt. That would be an essential tool too. I like the tcl/tk registry editing tool, sounds very cool. Darren ------------------------------------------ Darren Evans 0171 573 5961 Systems Administrator FAX 0171 573 5959 Systems Operation Group Online Magic Ltd - 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".