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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:22:37 +0000
From: Ron House <house@usq.edu.au>
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Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED: NT/2000 failure
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Ron House wrote:
> 
> 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.)

Following this, I installed the ncurses package and everything worked. I
have a feeling that only a tiny part of that big ncurses pack is
actually used to make exes function.

My thanks to Robert Collins and the others who helped me out with this
one.

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Ron House     house@usq.edu.au
              http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house

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