Re: setup.exe a mystery -SOLVED

2015-10-23 Thread Tom Axehult
Following your suggestion solved my problems On 22.10.2015 14:37, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/22/2015 6:28 AM, Tom Axehult wrote: I lost bash weeks ago and hence cygwin which I used to start from Cywin.bat as administrator, by the well known bash --login -i For reasons beyond me, I can run Xemacs

What to do to makewhatis

2013-05-17 Thread Tom Axehult
Running makewhatis as shown only produces an empty remnant file 'whatis' in folders flagging FIND errors. What can I do ? Tom Axehult 15:58:42 ~ > /usr/sbin/makewhatis -v -w -c & [2] 7540 04:27:16 ~ > about to enter /usr/local/man FIND: Invalid switch FIND: Invalid switch

RE: Error preparing make with .configure : another case of 'Device or resource busy'

2005-11-05 Thread Tom Axehult
Dear cygwinners, My appeal for assistance hereby revoked. My cygwin root was flagged with write protection in windows explorer aimed as a protection of a shared volume in my wlan. How 'setup' has been allowed to perform its doings hence confuses me. / Tom Axehult -Origin

Cygwin build of perl5.8.5 (cygwin-thread-multi-64int )

2004-12-01 Thread Tom Axehult
installation. How shall I start cygwin assuming var. USER and USERNAME contain white space. I try in my .bash_profile in '/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Tom Axehult ' to export USER="Tom" export HOME=/home/$USER to source .bashrc in '/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Tom'   Tom Axehult

Cygwin build of perl5.8.5 (cygwin-thread-multi-64int)

2004-12-01 Thread Tom Axehult
uote   An interesting observation is the correct result in 09:34:26 ~ > perl -e 'sub intRand { return 3; } my @a=qw( a b c d e f ); print qq(>$a[intRand(45)]<\n);' >d<   Tom Axehult, Stockholm   A comment on error 487: Attempt to access invalid address.   Cygwin Config