vim speed issue

Hello, OK newbe cygwin user here, have read manual + faq ... so not just lept in with a question ! I have a 700MHz PIII 256MB, I have installed cygwin on 98SE. When running it can seem a little slow, ie "man man" takes 2-3 seconds, vim screen ripples as I scroll up. In the FAQ it states that u

Re: vim speed issue

Larry Hall wrote: David Selby wrote: Hello, OK newbe cygwin user here, have read manual + faq ... so not just lept in with a question ! I have a 700MHz PIII 256MB, I have installed cygwin on 98SE. When running it can seem a little slow, ie "man man" takes 2-3 seconds, vim screen

Re: vim speed issue

Larry Hall wrote: David Selby wrote: Larry Hall wrote: David Selby wrote: Hello, OK newbe cygwin user here, have read manual + faq ... so not just lept in with a question ! I have a 700MHz PIII 256MB, I have installed cygwin on 98SE. When running it can seem a little slow, ie "ma

starting up in rxvt ?

I am running cygwin on top of win98, I am using rxvt which I start from bash. I am trying to get cygwin to use rxvt from bootup rather than me execute a command to call it. I tried putting it in ~/.bashrc ... I enterd a recursive loop ! ... opps ... I have looked through the FAQs, but unless I

Re: starting up in rxvt ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do not start with a bash process. If you try starting things with Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash that will start a rxvt terminal which reads ~/.bashrc. If you try Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i that will star

default X wm + .LIBX11.DLL missing

Hello Last query for a while, don't want to wear you guys out ... Everything is OK, got bash, vim, rxvt working as I want them but I have one last problem ... I have installed X. When I executed "startx" It paused, then booted X, and booted into a window manager. All OK Problem 1... I decide

Yes but I don't understand ...

Randall R Schulz wrote: David, At 12:28 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ... Your problem is that /bin/sh is ash, not BASH. To get BASH, use /bin/bash #!/bin/sh Dave You are dead right, I tried /bin/bash

Re: Yes but I don't understand ...

Randall R Schulz wrote: David, At 13:14 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: You are dead right, I tried /bin/bash

Now I understand !

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Selby wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: David, At 12:28 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ... Your problem is that /bin/sh is ash, not BASH. To get BASH, use /bin

Re: Now I understand !

David Selby wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Selby wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: David, At 12:28 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ... Your problem is that /bin/sh is ash, not BASH. To get BASH, use

bash $substitution in 2.05b.0-9

I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ... #!/bin/sh test="123456789" temp=${test:1:2} echo $temp If I execute the above in debian woody bash 2.05a.0(1) I get 23 OK so far. I have cgywin on 98SE, with bash 2.05b.0-9. When I run the above I get ... :syntax error:bad substit

bash won't clear down ?

Ive been using cygwin for a few weeks now, its great & so darn usefull, however I have one query. I run 98SE, use rxvt for a terminal. When I close the shell & tell windows to re-boot it frequently refuses saying a program will not shut down. There are no programms running. If I ctrl-alt-del, o

Re: bash won't clear down ?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, David Selby wrote: Ive been using cygwin for a few weeks now, its great & so darn usefull, however I have one query. I run 98SE, use rxvt for a terminal. When I close the shell & tell windows to re-boot it frequently refuses saying a prog