Dennis Putnam <dap1 <at> bellsouth.net> writes: > On 4/4/2016 5:53 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > On 04/04/2016 11:28, Dennis Putnam wrote: > >> I'm trying to install pypiwin32 and have hit a stone wall. That module > >> wants _winreg so I installed cygwinreg. However, I cannot find a way to > >> tell pip to use cygwinreg rather than _winreg. Is there a way to alias > >> or some way to get pip to use the right module? TIA. > > I doubt the package is cygwin compatible > If that is the case then is there another way to open message boxes > without running Xwin?
If you don't care how you do it, while looking for an alternative to XP cmd msg, found http://stackoverflow.com/a/8965189: $ mshta "javascript:alert('Message\n\nMultiple\nLines\ntoo\!');close();" Works on Win7 at least, as long as you don't strip .../Windows/system32 from PATH. More suggestions and variations at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12514475/how-can-you-create-pop-up-messages-in-a-batch-script -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
