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Re: New user / CD installation problems
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: mtw at birdseye dot view dot net dot au
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:29:00 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: New user / CD installation problems
> After writing the report in TeX (with emacs) I produce a PDF file
> which I take to work to print out. It has to be checked there before
> being issued, and if some small correction is needed I can't do it on
> the spot, it means at least a day's delay. Hence Cygwin as a
> solution.
If this is your only reason, have you thought about using native Win32 TeX?
> 2. In text mode, I can't exit emacs with Ctrl-X Ctrl-C. To get out I
> have to background it with Ctrl-Z and then find its process number
> with ps and kill it.
Do you have CYGWIN=tty?
> It is the runnable installation, the "cygwin" directory tree, that I
> am talking about. Some time ago I tried it with the source tree on
> the CD, running setup and trying to install from that, but it was a
> total failure (the setup program refused to look at the CD and I could
> find no way of directing it to do so.)
You need to copy the ftp3a%2f%2f... directory *with* setup.ini and the
release/ dir to your local hard drive.
> 6. File names that are all lowercase in the standard installation
> switch to all uppercase when copied either from the CD or the
> cpio.gz file. Can anyone explain what is happening here, and if
Sounds like ISO9660 to me.
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