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Re: ncurses install crashes on Win 2000
"McIntyre, Terry" wrote:
>
> Installed Cygwin and Xfree on Win 2000 machine. attempt to start xterm gives
> error: cygncurses5.dll not found.
> Per FAQ, reinstall ncurses. This proceeds fine, until a "Blue Screen of
> Death" appears, and my machine reboots.
> The reboot hangs; power cycle is required to restart Windows. This is an IBM
> Thinkpad T20.
>
> Haven't found any solution in the usual places.
>
> What can I do to get past this problem?
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
Do you happen to have a McAffee virus scanner running on this
machine ? If so turn it off... There was a thread on the maling
list recently about this issue. Dont remember the exact keywords
though
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