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On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 08:45, Alice Bilton via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a Sheffield University student trying to install MASS software.
> However, during the process I have received the following message a number
> of times:
>
>
The problem is that the MASS software is meant for an older version of
Cygwin which has not been shipped in 10 years. The error is misleading and
from when Cygwin was a commercial product. The professor who assigned this
software will need to find a newer version for students.



> WARNING: Couldn’t compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to
> the public mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>
> I’m not sure what this means. Am I unable to download the software, or is
> there something that I can do to help it? I left the initial instal window
> open and is seems to have continued with some of the installation process -
> I am now able to access the MASS DEMO, but upon opening the cygwin batch
> file, I get the following message:
> 2 [main] bash 6936 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn’t compute FAST_CWD
> pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list
> cygwin AT cygwin DOT com <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>
> Can you help?
>
> Thanks
> Alice
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