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: <3B736234.3090501@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:25:24 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ron House CC: Robert Collins , 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> <3B735E7C.577243B@usq.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. Have you installed the ncurses package (in order to get the terminfo database)? > (As an aside, that setup prog is darned infuriating if you want > to skip all but one package.) Pre-emptive strike: "It would be nice if somebody added an unattended/scriptable mode to setup.exe" Yes, it would. Patches gratefully accepted. Alternative: install from your own local archive, with a custom setup.ini file that only lists cygwin and ncurses. --Chuck -- 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/