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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVb89SVw8lUoNHwRPV+t/ffgr28Db7b3vQtrYgf7E8qBsyyKJiPF/lRX Message-ID: <3F2988BB.2040806@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:23:07 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ncurses and terminal definitions References: <3F29629E.23CEFFE7@staktek.com> <3F296B2F.3030309@cygwin.com> <3F29711D.68FD15FD@staktek.com> <3F298051.2010809@cygwin.com> <20030731210249.GB12450@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030731210249.GB12450@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > >>Hi Terry, >> >>Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with >>98. Like you say, could be just a slow machine. You'd have to debug it >>to know for sure. >> >>One point. /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin == c:\usr\share\terminfo\c\cygwin >>only if the Cygwin root mount point (/) == c:\. As you can see, you get >>this for free if your current drive is c: but that's not guaranteed. You >>may want to add one step and one binary to your installation procedure. >>That is, after plopping the files down where you want them, invoke the >>following: >> >> mount -s c:/ / >> >>This will require privileges to write to the system hive of the registry. >>If you don't have this right or can't get it, you can omit the '-s' flag, >>but the mount will only be available for the current user. You will need >>to repeat the command (minus the '-s') for all the users that need your >>application on that machine. You don't need to leave 'mount' on the >>machine after installation. > > > Larry - mount defaults to "-s" these days. If you want user-mode mounts, > you need to use "-u". Heh. Right. Sorry about that. I will always consult the documentation before posting. I will always consult the documentation before posting. I will always consult the documentation before posting. . . . (Good advice for new users too. ;-) ) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/