On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >Hi Terry, > >Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with >98. Like you say, could be just a slow machine. You'd have to debug it >to know for sure. > >One point. /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin == c:\usr\share\terminfo\c\cygwin >only if the Cygwin root mount point (/) == c:\. As you can see, you get >this for free if your current drive is c: but that's not guaranteed. You >may want to add one step and one binary to your installation procedure. >That is, after plopping the files down where you want them, invoke the >following: > > mount -s c:/ / > >This will require privileges to write to the system hive of the registry. >If you don't have this right or can't get it, you can omit the '-s' flag, >but the mount will only be available for the current user. You will need >to repeat the command (minus the '-s') for all the users that need your >application on that machine. You don't need to leave 'mount' on the >machine after installation.
Larry - mount defaults to "-s" these days. If you want user-mode mounts, you need to use "-u". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
