Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:47:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs install problem Message-ID: <20020813164742.GQ9193@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000701c242c8$c1635480$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk> <3D591E74.4010001@hekimian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D591E74.4010001@hekimian.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:57:56AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote: >fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: > >>~> emacs >>bash: emacs: command not found >> >>Yes. I got this with 21.2-1 and I'm still getting it with the recently >>available 21.2-3. Hard to tell what's going on during setup, but it doesn't >>seem to me that emacs gets installed at all. The progress bar flashes for >>an >>instant and then it's zooming on to the next thing. Most 'large' components >>such as this one take a measurable time ... dunno. Totally perplexed. > >I wonder if the lack of a .exe suffix on the emacs binary is causing this? > >What OS are y'all running? Is this really happening? That would DEFINITELY cause a problem. Windows 9x derivatives can't run programs unless they have a .exe extension. cgf -- 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/