Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <199905170824.BAA13865@shell4.ba.best.com> Subject: Re: cygwin.bat fails In-Reply-To: <199905170216.TAA29699@everest.netidea.com> from "gregm@netidea.com" at "May 16, 99 07:23:33 pm" To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 04:24:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Glenn Spell Reply-To: glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us (Glenn Spell) Organization: the aerie X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since neither Suhaib nor Greg had the time or disposition to make proper attributions in their respective messages, please forgive me if I erred in trying to cover their misgivings. Greg Martin wrote: > In private email, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: > > > You can make better use of Cygwin if you upgrade to Win NT. > > Win98 and 95 are too flaky and are meant only playing games, not > > for serious computings. Actually, Win95/98 have no competition, to speak of, in their particular market segmet, the desktop OS. It's the best thing. WinNT, on the other hand, serves no particular purpose in its particular market segment, the server OS. Almost every other contender in that segment runs circles around NT. Why would anyone with half a brain even consider using NT as a server when there are so many more reasons to use FreeBSD, Linux, or even Solaris. The only people, by and large, who use NT are those who get paid to do so. And the decision to pay them is made by those who have little or no knowledge of what they are buying, in terms of software and personnel. They're buying "hype". And, of course, Microsoft prices NT out of the desktop market. A few people, for one reason or another, end up using NT as a desktop OS. Due primarily to its heretage (OS/2), NT does perform most tasks as a desktop OS better than Win95/98. But not being positioned to compete in that market, it's not a contender. Even those shops that claim to be an "NT Shop" probably have more Win95/98 seats in the house than WinNT. In fact, there are probably still more Win31 seats in corporate America than WinNT. So, anyone (including you and Cygnus) who brushs aside the Win95/98 market does so at their own peril. Cygwin fits like a hand-in-glove with Windows 95 and Windows 98. > Personally I prefer FreeBSD for programming but want to use cygwin > for some windows projects. Personally I'd like to see ms os's done > away with all together but I have a recording studio and the ware I > use requires mswindows. What's a sod to do? :-) Guess you'll just have to keep using Pegasus for FreeBSD. ;-) > > Greg Martin wrote: > > > > > I can run sh then bash just fine but there seems to be a > > > problem with the bat file that the start menu accesses. I can't > > > see a problem and am hopiung someone can for me. The errors I > > > get are: > > > Too many parameters > > > Bad command or file name Is the .BAT file formatted in DOS/Windows style or Unix? > > > The bat file looks like this: > > > @ECHO OFF > > > SET MAKE_MODE=UNIX > > > SET PATH=d:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN;%PATH% > > > bash Add "REM " before "@ECHO OFF" to help see what's happening. > > > I'm thrilled to have unix emulation on mswindows. Then what will you do if your wish that "ms os's done away with all together" comes true? > > > Any chance I'll get a core dump instead of the blue screen of > > > death? ;-) Core dumps are coming with the next release. The BSODs will always be with us. -glenn -- ) Glenn Spell ) _ _____ ) Fayetteville, North Carolina, C. S. A. )_ (__\____o /_/_ | ) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ) >-----._/_/__]> )- blue skies - happy trails - sweet dreams -) `0 | -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com