From: pete AT horus DOT cix DOT co DOT uk (Pete Jordan) Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 8 Aug 1998 02:46:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: <35CA0117 DOT 764E5833 AT sigma6 DOT com> Reply-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Jeff Sturm wrote: > This looks like a good starting point. I've just started working with > cygwin32 myself... I learned a few things from this website, and saw > numerous other items that I've learned elsewhere or figured out for > myself. Thanks :) > The installation page mentions hacking the registry to mount / in binary > mode (why does it default to non-binary anyway? CRLF text mode is evil) > but why not mention the registry keys... sure, they're not hard to find, > but still... Already done... > even better would be a tcl/tk utility to edit the registry settings. Good idea, though it'll likely be a Perl/Tk utility if I write it. > b) it is horrible for a newcomer to find his way around and tame > it into a nice, useable GNUish package (why no vim, less in the > distribution?) I guess that's why it's beta... Indeed. I'll be adding stuff to my site describing how to add these basic utilities (man/groff/etc immediately come to mind). Hopefully I'll be able to mirror the various ports too. > Why doesn't someone build a distribution of cygwin32 configured with > all the goodies, updates, egcs, X11, etc? There are several people at > my organization who downloaded cygwin32 independently, and I can > guarantee they don't know how powerful this software is. A polished, > quick-to-install distribution would knock their socks off... personally > I'd jump at the chance if I were a CD maker. Hmmm. Sounds like a cool idea... Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications Ltd ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ "In short, just as the Multics mentality of careful access controls shows up throughout Unix, the cretinous CP/M mentality of uncontrolled havoc shows up in DOS and all its mutant children." Tom Christiansen - 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".