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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:21:49 -0600
From: Xantius <xantius AT xantius DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Minicom for Cygwin
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chris AT equate DOT dyndns DOT org wrote:

>>Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hello, Xantius!
>>>
>>>On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:27PM -0600, Xantius wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Please let me know if you have questions, if people are still
>>>>interested in minicom, etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Definitely. I'm personally accustomed to kermit, but I would love to see
>>>minicom as a cygwin package, installable via setup. These times I'm kind
>>>of busy, but I'll ask my colleagues to test it.
>>>
>>>With kind regards,
>>>Baurjan.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>It seemed that previously there were a few people asking for minicom to
>>be put into the cygwin release, but no response yet from the cygwin
>>team.  I'd be glad to work with them to get it setup, because it'd make
>>life a lot easier for people.  Any Cygwin gods listening?   :-)
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>I'd love to have it as a cygwin package..
>I did manage to get it to compile myself, but I couldn't get it to start,
>as it refused to go past the stage where I had to be root to set up a
>config, which isn't really an option in cygwin..
>On that note.. How did you get round it? :-)
>
>
>Chris
>  
>
I was able to setup a root user on my system.  It was a PITA, but it did 
work.  There was a howto out there somewhere that I followed.  
Unfortunatly I can't find it again, so I can't tell you where it was.  
I'll post it if I find it.

Xantius

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