From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Newbie Questions / Win 95 17 Jun 1998 02:17:33 -0700 Message-ID: <19980616114633.7857.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Mike Bandy , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ---Mike Bandy wrote: > > Hello, Hi Mike, > > I'm a brand new Cygnus 19 Beta user on Windows 95. I have a couple > simple questions: > > 1) What's the use for the "mount" command? Why is it needed? The mount command is similar in nature to the mount command in UNIX. It creates a relative path to a physical path (these are only understood by cygwin compiled programs). One of the first uses will be to do: mount -b //c/cygnus/b19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin /bin mount -b //c/cygnus/b19/H-i386-cygwin32/etc /etc cd /bin umount / mount -b //c / mount -b //c /c mount -b //d /d mount -b //? /? (where ? is to be replaced by any other disk). NOTE: don't do any other command between the umount / and the first mount. > > 2) What's the name of the bash file that's executed when you first start up a > bash window? What directory does it go into? I'd like to put in a file with > some aliases, like my Solaris box's ~/.cshrc. Where is the bash FAQ file so > I don't have to ask simple questions again? The file name is ~/.bashrc, you will need to SET HOME= from DOS or within the cygnus.bat file before starting bash. For the documentation, it is in info format in the cdk-man.tar.gz file. > > 3) After installing Cygnus my Windows 95 boot sequence hangs for about 30 > seconds just before the user screen appears (i.e. a black screen after the > big splash panel but before the screen with the "Start" button on it). > What's it waiting for? I haven't heard this one yet. Does anyone else remember anything on this one? My guess would be some registry bit for network services; but, I really don't have a clue. I know that nothing is added to the "Start Up" folder. At first, I thought you were talking about the starting of bash, but then I realized that you're saying that installing the CDK has changed the way the system starts. > > Thanks. You are welcome. Be sure to read the IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE at the end of this note. > > Mike > -- > Mike Bandy > michael DOT bandy AT jhuapl DOT edu | If you go into a situation with nothing > Johns Hopkins University | planned, sometimes wonderful stuff happens. > Applied Physics Laboratory | -Jerry Garcia > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Please, research your question via the Searchable Mail Archives first. http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Searchable Mail Archives) Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://dvpraktikum.informatik.uni-koeln.de:3232/ (Cygwin32 Porting Project) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.downloadwizard.com/ak/gnu-win32/bash.html (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt (Package Porting Notes) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 (David fox - RPM packages) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 update from the Cygnus Site). Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if you're using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that comes with the tools has lots of problems that have been fixed with the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset. URL's are listed above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? 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