From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: Newbi question about less (NBY) 13 Mar 1998 23:57:56 -0800 Message-ID: References: <19980312122950 DOT 25632 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In article <19980312122950 DOT 25632 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com>, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>Hi there! >>I downloaded less from C. Faylor's page. When I tried to use it, I get an >>error that tells me I am supposed to have a file called cygwin.dll. >>Where do I get this file and what do I do with it? Is this the same as the >>cygwinb19.dll ? Do I overwrite cygwinb19.dll ? > >That less must have been built with version b18. We are currently in >version b19. cygwin.dll is the name of the dll that match >cygwinb19.dll. > >You do not want to get rid of cygwinb19.dll, however, you do want the >cygwinb19.dll and the sh.exe updates from C. Faylor's page. > >As for less and the missing cygwin.dll you can ask Christopher if he >would put up the last cygwin.dll he had or ask him to update less.exe or >get the less package from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu and build it >yourself. > >>Confused. Thanks for your help. ^^^^^^^^ This is the operative term. The less currently on my web page is a B19 version. Prior to that it was labelled as B18 only. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - 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".