From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Newbie questions 6 Feb 1998 17:58:58 -0800 Message-ID: <19980207031940.54314.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19980205124710 DOT 9901 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: felix AT laas DOT fr Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 06-Feb-1998, Francois Felix Ingrand wrote: > > - I grabbed and installed less. It works fine, exept that it keeps complaining > about the terminal being too stupid... indeed, TERM is currently set to > dumb... is there any better possible TERM setting? Try TERM=ansi or TERM=linux. > - I use NT CVS 1.9. They distribute their own diff, patch, grep , etc > utilities. Which one should I use? Last night gnu-win32 patch failed to update > a CVS file, so I am really wondering if I should not use the cvs patch... This is probably text-vs-binary issues. Do you have your file system mounted with mode "text=binary"? If so, then you will probably have problems, because (my guess is that) NT CVS will use the usual DOS/Windows text file convention, i.e. "text!=binary". On the other hand, if you *don't* have your file system mounted with mode binary, you will probably have problems, because much of the software has not been ported to work with mode "text!=binary". In other words, either way, you're likely to have problems ;-) You might have more luck compiling cvs from the source code using gnu-win32. Then you could get a version of cvs that uses the same mode as cygwin32 (in particular, that uses "text=binary", if the filesystem is mounted that way). But I don't know whether cvs has been ported to cygwin32; if not, you may run into other problems. > - is it possible to get bash in a scrollable window? On NT, yes: just right-click on your dos window to edit the display properties and set the scrollback length. (Sorry if that description is a bit vague, I've been fortunate enough to avoid Windows for a few months.) -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - 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".