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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 26 September 2006 05:22, Artie Ziff wrote:
> 
>> I recently experienced a similar scenario, posted a general description
>> of the user experience (with some questions) in an attempt to elicit
>> general comments. I rcv'd the same response as those before me... as is
>> evidenced in the archives. That is, no response. I suppose the
>> philosophy is: if there is no response then no problem exists. ;-)
> 
>   Nope.  The philosophy is: if there is no information, then no diagnosis can
> be made.
> 
>>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   Cygchecks, gentlemen, please.  As attachments, please.  Let's see what
> you've got so far, and then later we might need to look at setup logs and
> suchlike.
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK


I wonder if perhaps they think they can't run cygcheck because they 
haven't finished installing cygwin yet?

It does seem that many people are unaware that cygcheck is a native 
win32 binary...


Chris

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