From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: TkMan with Win32 TCL stuff 3 Nov 1997 06:11:17 -0800 Message-ID: <19971103130821.20592.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: cloder AT acm DOT org Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com If you are porting UNIX packages the easyist is to set up just like UNIX. However, if the configure package is setup properly you can specify with the --prefix=dir switch where to install the package. For the cygwin setup I have a directory called C:\root. I have mounted C:\root as /. To do this do (assuming you are in bash): umount / mount -b C:\\root / As far as setting the PATH; both unix and dos/win32 have always required that the path point to the executables. If you've installed any comercial windows package you should have noticed that the dll's go into the location of the executables, or in c:\windows or one of it's subdirectories. Usually they will automatically update the autoexec.bat file to modify the PATH variable. As for tkMan: I've looked at it. It requires TCL/TK version 8 and also requires some patch to be applied to TCL/TK. I haven't taken the time to install the patch so I don't have it up. Instead I have chosen to use rman, (aka: PolyglotMan and RosettaMan). Rman is a man page reformatter; therefore you can reformat to HTML and use the web browser. I forget the URL path 8-{. Good luck, - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- >Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 19:51:59 -0500 (EST) >From: Chad Loder >Reply-To: cloder AT acm DOT org >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: TkMan with Win32 TCL stuff > >Does anyone know if it's possible (without major headaches) to get TkMan to >run under Win32? > >Also, while I'm on the subject...I am familiar with UNIX tools, etc., and >the setup of GNU-Win32 has been fairly easy. My problem is that I'm having >trouble deciding on the best directory structure for my Windows NT system. > >Right now, I have something like this: > >E:\ (mount point corresponds to /) > > utils > rktools > gnu-win32 > mkstools > (various other programs) > rman > DevStudio > apps > gstools > Program Files > WinZip > WinRAR > CRT (a great telnet/rlogin program!) > (various other programs) > >Now, I want to use .exe's from all of these directories, but I don't want to >add all of these directories to my path. I decided to make a /bin directory >and put symbolic links to my commonly used .exe's, but some of these require >DLLs and whatnot...how should I organize all this stuff? Most UNIX systems >I've used have been pretty huge and messy, with various packages and things >floating around in /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, and all of their >subdirectories, so it was pretty hairy. > >I would rather not mess up my existing structure too badly...I'm of the >opinion that any program or script which absolutely requires a program to be >in a certain hard-coded directory is a piece of crap (e.g., requiring /bin/sh >to exist). > >Does anyone have suggestions on how to organize my directories so I can >access my tools from the bash command line and still keep the tools separate? > >-chad > > > >---------------------------------------------------- >| Chad Loder - Somerville, MA, USA | >| EMail: cloder AT acm DOT org | >| Home Page: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cloder | >---------------------------------------------------- > > > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".