From: nigels AT eisa DOT net DOT au (Nigel Stewart)
Subject: Cygwin32 Newbie
5 Feb 1998 14:30:08 -0800
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I'm writing this to say g'day, and pose some newbie type questions.
If you've got better things to do than answers these, please ignore.. ;)

I downloaded cdk.exe yesterday, and been doing some fiddling...

1.	I get the impression that gcc is slower than the djgpp
	binary.  Also, bash can be somewhat unresponsive and
	sometimes when I type I get funny characters, as if a 
	buffer is overflowing somewhere.  Are these issues related
	to cygwin32, my slow 486 machine, win95, or something else?

2.	Is there somewhere I could get binaries for X11 by ftp?
	I have the feeling that it would take a very long time to
	compile on my box.

3.	Is it possible to cross-compile between djgpp, cygwin32 and/or
	Linux, in theory or practice?

4.	Does someone have a joe binary handy?  ( I love unix, but not vi! ;)

5.	What is the proposed text/binary behavior for cygwin32?
	I expected unix "binary as default", but found the opposite for
	fopen, open, setmode, etc...   

Thanks in advance...

Nigel Stewart


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Nigel Stewart, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Email: nigel AT anon DOT nymserver DOT com (Ask me for PGP key.)

      
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