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 Message-ID: <3B735E7C.577243B@usq.edu.au> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:09:32 +0000 From: Ron House X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16-3 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Collins CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Slowness of Cygwin (and NT/2000 failure) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > > 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.) -- Ron House house@usq.edu.au http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house -- 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/