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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 12:15:31 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Two newbie problems.
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At 12:07 PM 11/8/2001, James Matthews wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I'm an absolute newbie to this, so please bear with me if I do/say something
>stupid. :) I've just downloaded and installed Cygwin (everything) and
>installed it. The first program I tried to run was "vim" and I got the
>following error:
>
>The VIM.EXE file is
>linked to missing export CYGINTL.DLL:bind_textdomain_codeset.


These two FAQ entries apply here:

What packages should I download?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC13


What if setup fails?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC15



>Any ideas?
>
>The other problem is that when I start Cygwin, I'm listed as "James
>Matthews AT OEMCOMPUTER" now I've heard that spaces in the username cause
>problems so I altered "etc/profile" to read:
>
>USER="jmatthews"
>
>NOT:
>
>USER="`id -un`"
>
>..but when I restarted Cygwin, I was still listed as "James Matthews...".
>Any ideas there?



You'll find information about this issue and possible resolutions in the
email archives.

Good luck,



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