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Re: Slowness of Cygwin (and NT/2000 failure)
Ron House wrote:
> Okay, the installation entries seem to say that the necessary component
> is the package cygwin itself. I installed that via setup.exe on the
> W2000 box, but still I get the "Error opening terminal: cygwin."
> message.
Have you installed the ncurses package (in order to get the terminfo
database)?
> (As an aside, that setup prog is darned infuriating if you want
> to skip all but one package.)
Pre-emptive strike: "It would be nice if somebody added an
unattended/scriptable mode to setup.exe" Yes, it would. Patches
gratefully accepted.
Alternative: install from your own local archive, with a custom
setup.ini file that only lists cygwin and ncurses.
--Chuck
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