X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4BC78D11.3010001@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:02:57 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running old cygwin.dll under Windows 7 References: <6f62d1bea185679fde064cb679af0e9e.squirrel@www.patwanet.co.uk> In-reply-to: <6f62d1bea185679fde064cb679af0e9e.squirrel@www.patwanet.co.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 4/15/2010 5:56 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: If reported problems before the release of 1.7 were any indications, you'll find running 1.5 on Windows 7 a sub-par experience. I myself haven't been interested in trying it. > However, I tried running the legacy setup but Cygwin will not start, with > the Windows 7 Subsystem for Unix complaining of invalid applications and > .pif files. Can you explain this sentence? No matter how many times I read it, I can't make sense of all the content together. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple