From: jtaylor AT station1 DOT spherenet DOT com ("Jim Taylor") Subject: Re: No CPP in cygwin32 for NT 16 Oct 1996 15:48:45 -0700 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199610161834.OAA07958.cygnus.gnu-win32@spherenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: Jeff Bronte Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello, Thank you for taking the trouble to reply. On checking http://www.ssc.com re their "What's LInux" and "Distribution Configurations Table" I see that Linux is apparently a Unix system, and from what I can see installing it would drastically change my basic machine set up. It would involve me in replacing my Win-95 operating system, complete with involvement in obtaining drivers, and all kinds of other related extra work. My immediate need is for a version of C/C++ that will handle templates, and GNU will do that with its compatibility with HP STL. I need something that will more or less co-operate with Win-95. Since stumbling across Mr. Noer's endeavours, I have become more and more intrigued with his approach and strategy and now just have to find some way to get up the learning curve and over the hump. GNU WIN32 is "almost working" on my machine at this point. I'm sure the problems I'm having are mainly my own "Finger Problems" in my not setting the right directory structure, not configuring the right 'pointer scripts' (or whatever you call the places where one sets things like SET_INCLUDE_PATH, .profile, or ..bashrc). These problems follow from my current lack of knowledge and a proper "overview" of what the set-up layout should be. I am slowly finding bits and pieces of the puzzle by going through the old mail list archives, faq's, etc. and will eventually get there. However; going after Linux would involve starting at square one again, so I don't think that would serve me well at this point. I have to get a working C environment that will handle templates before we hit "templates" in the C/C++ course I am taking. I do have, and use, MSVC professional, ver. 1.5 for my immediate needs. (An interesting note on this is that it works much better under Win-95 than it ever did under Win-3.1, which it was designed for.) What 1.5 calls templates however is not what the course I am taking requires (apparently). Thanks for the input though. Regards, Jim Taylor ( jtaylor AT spherenet DOT com ) > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:15:48 -0700 > To: "Jim Taylor" > From: Jeff Bronte > Subject: Re: No CPP in cygwin32 for NT > My best advice is for you to delay using the 'work-in-progress' versions > of gnu win32 and put Linux on your machine. It works out of the box, > has all the tools you desire, and you can look at source code for > utilities and commands, even the kernel. It's the best! > > Jeff Bronte > ... > ... > At 06:51 PM 10/15/96 +0000, you wrote: > > ... > > ... > > Please, would you do this? Is there a way to encourage others > > ... > > ... > My apologies if this turns out to be unsigned. Am just starting to use Pegasus Mail app. and may not have it set right, yet. -- jtaylor AT spherenet DOT com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".