> 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. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
