RE: Suggesting an application

2004-11-30 Thread John Macallister
I too would find having tcpdump available a great asset. I use windump but it has some failing which irritate me. For example I haven't been able to get it to display hex and ascii output at the same time as tcpdump can and which is very useful. Cheers, John Name: John B. Macallister E-mail:

RE: A vexing installation problem

2004-11-30 Thread John Macallister
>If that doesn't work, entirely wipe out c:\local\cygwin, run regedit, and remove the "HKLM/Cygnus Solutions" and the HKCU/Cygnus Solutions keys entirely. >Then reboot and try reinstalling just a minimal installation. If you run cygcheck to check that your system is clear of cygwin note that it a

FW: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-29 Thread John Macallister
I've done some more tests and here's what I did. I saved cygcheck from a previous failed installation which created a bin directory with some contents but didn't complete. I removed virtually everything from the system apart from Windows itself, including all references to Cygwin/Cygnus in the re

RE: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-26 Thread John Macallister
> Your abbreviation of the error message is rather unhelpful. I have no idea what that error is. I've repeated the installation procedure and this is what happens. Start with clean (no Cygwin files on disk) Windows2000 system. Downloaded kit from Internet using "Install". This completes succe

RE: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-25 Thread John Macallister
ing in the registry because I had been installing and using 1.5.9. I'll redo the installation to get the precise text of the first error message. Cheers, John From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 25/11/2004 20:22 To: John Maca

Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-25 Thread John Macallister
I've installed Cygwin a few times before and I was fairly confident of installing version 1.5.12 but what a disaster this distribution is! I don't want anyone in particular to feel they're the object of criticism but this release may put off many users from trying to use Cygwin at all because it's

RE: Problem running g77,etc

2002-05-22 Thread John Macallister
I've deleted all files and started again. When I performed the installation last time I thought "Default" would mean that that item would be installed. This time round I chose "Install" (rather than "Default") for everything and now all is OK. Thanks to everyone for pointing out that gcc (and man

Problem running g77,etc

2002-05-22 Thread John Macallister
I've installed cygwin (current version from www.cygwin.com ) (1.3.10-1 ?) on a Windows2000 system. I then installed the Mumit Khan distribution of gcc (2.95.2). When I try any of the compilers I get the message (for example with g77) : $ g77 gtest.for g77: installation problem, cannot exec `as':