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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: FW: newly installed cygwin does not work, seems to be screwing up windows as well. Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:22:43 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Koskie, Sarah" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Sep 2004 20:22:43.0313 (UTC) FILETIME=[970CEE10:01C49A98] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i8EKN0ja031788 -----Original Message----- From: Koskie, Sarah Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:20 PM To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com' Subject: newly installed cygwin does not work, seems to be screwing up windows as well. Please help if possible. I reinstalled cygwin yesterday. (First default, then added packages that sounded useful as directed.) Big mistake. I had been running a version I installed about a year ago and hoped to take advantage of improvements since then. Now many things don't work and the things that do work don't work as well. I have tried checking the mail archives and found a claim that the installation process leaves a tarball of the old version. If this is so, please tell me a) where and b) how to undo my reinstallation. After this experience, I'd be happy -- no make that ecstatic and grateful -- to forget it and go back to what I was using. I don't see any files that look likely, but can't untar anything anyway because apparently gzip is no longer used. Files are now labeled .bz2 and I don't know what to use to unzip them. There's no manual entry for bzip. Alternatively, if there is a known stale mirror that I could use, that would be fine, but I don't know how about figuring out which of the 20 or so mirror sites would have a year-old version. No need to tell me how stupid I was to install without backing cygwin first. At this point, I have pretty much identified all the various stupid steps I took. Just want to know whether can be undone and if so how. Thanks!!! -- 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/