Re: problems installing cygwin on vista (fwd)

2007-10-27 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
ith the fix, please, somebody let me know. Thank you, Rup Ruprecht Machleidt wrote on 10/27/2007: --- In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP systems with no problems. However, I am encountering severe problems installing cygwin on vista. The

problems installing cygwin on vista

2007-10-27 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP systems with no problems. However, I am encountering severe problems installing cygwin on vista. The installation process stalls quietly during the postinstall phase at /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh The only way to end the process is to '

problems installing cygwin on vista

2007-10-26 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP systems with no problems. However, I am encountering severe problems installing cygwin on vista. The installation process stalls quietly during the postinstall phase. The only way to end the process is to 'cancel'. No home diretory is cr

problems installing cygwin on vista

2007-10-26 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP systems with no problems. However, I am encountering severe problems installing cygwin on vista. The installation process stalls quietly during the postinstall phase. The only way to end the process is to 'cancel'. No home diretory is cre

cygwin on Vista

2007-10-17 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
This is to ask if the problems with cygwin on Vista have by now all been straightened out. Or to be more concret: If one wants to install cygwin on Vista, can one just click on the usual "Install or update now" and get the right stuff that is also compatible with Vista? Or does one have to downloa

Re: IMSL and cygwin

2007-03-31 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
>From Absoft, I have bought the (compiled) Fortran77 IMSL for Intel architecture and LINUX Release 2.0 or higher ("libimsl.a"). But I do not know how to make this package work on cygwin. If I include the libimsl.a in a standard g77 statement, like, g77 -o xxx program.f libimsl.a (with the libim

IMSL and cygwin

2007-03-30 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
Is there anybody out there who has tried to use the Fortran77 IMSL (International Math and Stat Library of Fortran77 routines) on cygwin? The problem with the IMSL is that it is sold only in compiled form (by Visual Numerics and by Absoft). They don't sell the sourse codes. If one could get a han