From: dougb AT intuit DOT com (Doug Bunting) Subject: questions about user tools 26 Nov 1997 03:00:58 -0800 Message-ID: <347B341B.83F.cygnus.gnu-win32@intuit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, I'm sorry to be sending this message directly to the developers, rather than viewing the mailing list. I just don't have time to go though all of those messages. I'm perfectly willing to follow links to particular messages, if relevant... I'm having a couple of problems with the beta 18 user tools I've used so far: 1) I don't see a way to get a directory listing of the current drive. If I'm on the e: drive (for example) and enter "ls /", I'll see a listing of the c:/ directory. Is there some work around without using "ls e:/"? 2) I also downloaded and installed less330-cygwin32.zip. It seems to work (start up) a bit faster than the standalone less. Unfortunately, all of the text searches seem to fail without warning -- making the "/" and "?" commands useless (even when searching for plain text). Should I go back to the standalone tool? Or, is there a work-around? Do you know of a more recent version? 2a) This version of less also seems to have a rather bizarre keyboard mapping. Backspace and Delete keys *both* do nothing useful -- Backspace enters ^H and Delete does nothing. 3) I noticed a number of references to environment variables on Sergey Okhapkin's web page. Most of them seemed to deal with the development tools (most of which don't interest me today). But, is there a listing somewhere of the environment variables which may be used to control the beta 18 user tools? 3a) I'd also appreciate a description of how to make tcsh or bash my primary DOS shell under Windows 95. 4) How would I download just the CygWin gmake, dmake or make tool? That will be useful when I start developing Perl scripts on this system. 5) Under Windows 95, the mkgroup and mkpasswd tools do not work. Is there anything else to be aware of in this environment? 6) How would I find the ports of man and the [gnt]roff tools mentioned in your FAQ? There are no links for most of these tools. Anything which makes the *.info and *.[135] files you provide more readable (short of using NT emacs which is sometimes slow and may require moving files around) would be appreciated. By the way, the tools are installed in the default location. I've only modified the configuration by adding a mount point: mount C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32 /usr thanx, doug - 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".