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misc basic installation problems with cygwin
- From: "Werner Beck" <werner dot beck dot wds at web dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 10:08:53 +0200
- Subject: misc basic installation problems with cygwin
- Reply-to: <werner dot beck dot wds at web dot de>
Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and
searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that
seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such
questions ... if not, I would appreciate a pointer to "the right thing
to do".
On WinXP Pro, the installation leaves all file permissions to
"---------+". Is that the way it should be - probably not ?? Anyway,
nothing worked.
After I opened file permissions a little and re-ran the postinstall
scripts, some things started working.
However, there are still many problems.
Like, the terminal type 'cygwin' is unknown.
Or, the 'man' command fails with:
groff: can't find `DESC' file
groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
Is there some documentation that I've just not stumbled across that
would tell me what I forgot, or did incorrectly ?
Thanks,
Werner
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