RE: Installation How-To Draft

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I am not sure why you need to chmod.  It must be your Windows NT setup
which alters permissions when files are extracted?

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Olivier
> Jacquemin
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:44 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: Installation How-To Draft
>
>
> Hello,
>
> The installation how-to document seems seems very good to me (thanks for
> this), except for one point: IMO the
> 'chmod o+x,u+x,g+x *.dll'
> step should be added to the installation steps.  I had to find this
> information in the mailing list archive (otherwise all applications failed
> with error code 0xc0000022).  Or even better: isn't it possible to put set
> the right mode *before* building the tar ball in which they are
> distributed
> ? This seems to be the case for dlls distributed with the Cygwin
> platform...
> Apart from this, my first installation went fine on my PC (running Win NT
> 4.0 SP 6).
> Thanks again,
>
> 	_Olivier_
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Harold Hunt [SMTP:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, September 11, 2000 2:24 AM
> > To:	Cygx (E-mail)
> > Subject:	Installation How-To Draft
> >
> > Please check out my Installation How-To draft at
> > http://63.106.166.5/KB/HowTo/CygXFreeInstall.htm
> >
> > I think I have permissions setup properly on that machine to
> allow you all
> > to read the document; please let me know if you find otherwise.
> >
> > Umm... just so everyone knows, that machine is owned by my
> employer, whom
> > has nothing to do with X, so please mirror the document if you
> would like
> > to
> > point others to it.
> >
> > Let me know any of your tips and suggestions.  I hope you like it,
> >
> > Harold L Hunt II
> > Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> > Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com