From: sgrubbs AT sd DOT inri DOT com (Steve Grubbs) Subject: Cygwin newbie questions 12 Sep 1998 05:51:38 -0700 Message-ID: <35F99135.4E7B94E3.cygnus.gnu-win32@sd.inri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I just got Cygwin32, and it's great. It's working exactly how I'd expect it for the most part. The problem is the small things that aren't working really bug me. I have a feeling these may be linked, and I was hoping someone more knowledgable could help me here. 1) At my new job, I'm working under WinNT, but we use good ol' CVS for revision control (archive is on a Unix box). I don't really know the source of the "cvs" executable (our 2 main sysadmins just left within 2 weeks, so nobody I've asked really knows where they came from). The problem is that it doesn't work under cygwin. It works fine from a cmd prompt, but if I run it from cygwin, I get no output. I don't get "command not found", I just get nothing. Any ideas what's up with this? BTW, I test this with safe cvs commands like "cvs -v", which should work even if cvs settings were messed up. 2) One thought I had was to download cvs source and compile it under cygwin. When I try to run "configure", though, I get "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory". But configure IS there.... What's up with that? Does configure not work? Do I just have to edit the Makefile myself? 3) FTP hangs from cygwin. I assume its calling the WinNT ftp. Does this just not work? Do I need to get a different ftp for cygwin? 4) I've found some WWW pages with ports and stuff, but they don't seem to have a lot. Anyone know of any hard-to-find pages with good stuff? Thanks. -- Steve - 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".