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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:10:37 +0300
From: Anoq of the Sun <anoq AT HardcoreProcessing DOT com>
Organization: Hardcore Processing
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Subject: setup problems on NT 4.0 and Win2000?
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Hello!


I have tried installing Cygwin on a Windows NT 4.0 and a Windows 2000
machine without success, even though it installed fine on a Windows XP
machine.

It seems to run the installation for a while and then go into an infinite
loop - usually when installing a text-file of some package, such as
a Licence, README or Changes file (on Windows 2000 it happened on some
file with a .m4 extension though and I'm not quite sure what those
files are supposed to contain). If I try selecting "skip" for some
of the offending packages the problem just seems to come up at
another package. I even tried installing just the base packages,
but still no gain.

I also tried selecting both DOS and UNIX textmodes during setup.

However one thing should be noted:
The Windows XP machine where it installed fine was the machine
where I downloaded everything on, and Cygwin was installed
from the directory where it was downloaded to. The NT and 2000
installations was from a second machine where I tried installing
both over the network from the XP-machine and tried copying the
files locally to the NT/2000 machine. I hope that I'm supposed
to be able to copy the installation directory around like this,
since it seems a little silly to have to download it for
every machine on a local network :) (and in fact I only have
Internet access from the XP machine, so I can't even download
it on the other machine).

And some random speculations on what the problem might be:
(without ever having seen the Cygwin source though :)

I have been unfortunate enough to have to gain
the experience that there IS actually a difference in how
Windows NT and Windows 2000 converts the CR / LF characters
when writing files in textmode! I don't know if Windows XP has
yet a third way of converting this. And seeing that this problem
seems to be on textfiles, it's just a guess of where the problem
might be... So yes, when writing to a textmode stream in C with
functions like fprintf, fwrite etc. and you are writing certain
things containing \n, \10 or \13 there IS a difference between
what is actually written to the textfile!
As far as I remember it occurs at least when writing either
\13\10 or \10\13 for the output stream function. E.g.

fprintf(stream, "Hello World\10\13");

might not produce the same output to stream...

If the file is opened in binary mode this should not
happen of course.

Does anyone have any clue as to what might cause this problem?


Cheers
-- 
http://www.HardcoreProcessing.com


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