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PROBLEM SOLVED: 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. (As an aside, that setup prog is darned infuriating if you want
> to skip all but one package.)
Following this, I installed the ncurses package and everything worked. I
have a feeling that only a tiny part of that big ncurses pack is
actually used to make exes function.
My thanks to Robert Collins and the others who helped me out with this
one.
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Ron House house@usq.edu.au
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