Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B73618D.6D9E9F96@usq.edu.au> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:22:37 +0000 From: Ron House X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16-3 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: PROBLEM SOLVED: NT/2000 failure References: <3B71FD9D DOT 1AE29C53 AT usq DOT edu DOT au> <3B72B4C0 DOT 4020100 AT earthlink DOT net> <3B732FA1 DOT 3C31E18D AT usq DOT edu DOT au> <997405375 DOT 12638 DOT 0 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> <3B7339B0 DOT 2B8F97C1 AT usq DOT edu DOT au> <997407997 DOT 3564 DOT 3 DOT camel AT robertlinux> <3B735E7C DOT 577243B AT usq DOT edu DOT au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ron House wrote: > > Okay, the installation entries seem to say that the necessary component > is the package cygwin itself. I installed that via setup.exe on the > W2000 box, but still I get the "Error opening terminal: cygwin." > message. (As an aside, that setup prog is darned infuriating if you want > to skip all but one package.) Following this, I installed the ncurses package and everything worked. I have a feeling that only a tiny part of that big ncurses pack is actually used to make exes function. My thanks to Robert Collins and the others who helped me out with this one. -- Ron House house AT usq DOT edu DOT au http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/