Slowness of Cygwin (and NT/2000 failure)

[Charles Wilson]

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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