Thanks for the help. Since your advice kept me from having to "install" cygwin on the machines I'm going to run this on, the mounting, I suppose defaults to what it was on my compiling machine, which is the C drive for cygwin in my case.
Thanks. Larry Hall wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > 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". > > Heh. Right. Sorry about that. > > I will always consult the documentation before posting. > I will always consult the documentation before posting. > I will always consult the documentation before posting. > . > . > . > > (Good advice for new users too. ;-) ) > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > -- > 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/ -- 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/
