Hallo Gerrit, (Whats the spelling of "vie geits" (what's up)?)
Thanks for the reply. Cygwin is amazing and fun. Yes - W98 is a umm .... flakey (I am being nice). XP is way better (duh). Anyway, I'll try the updated version. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Perl page fault - old news ?? > Hallo John, > > Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 um 22:13 schriebst du: > > > I'm learning Cygwin and Perl. Perl is currently 5.8.0 under Windows > > 98. I have run setup today so I think everything is current. > > > $ perldoc CGI > > > results in a Windows pop which contains ... > > > PERL caused an invalid page fault in > > module FCNTL.DLL at 017f:00b931b8. > > Windows 98 is known to have problems with Cygwin Perl. > > > > Is there something I can do or should do to make this work better? > > Yes, you may try to use perl-5.8.1 which was reported to behave > better. That means only one error where you get several with 5.8.0. > There is also a debugging version of perl-5.8.1 available if you're > interested in tracking down what goes wrong: > ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/ > There are two tarballs needed for debugging, the > perl_debug-5.8.1-2-srctree.tar.bz2 and the binaries > perl_debug-5.8.1-2.tar.bz2, both extracted from the Cygwin root. > > > I've no Win98 since about three years now and I feel much better! > > Gerrit > -- > =^..^= > > -- 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/
