RE: Hypermail runs with cygwin on Win9x!

Xual[SMTP:xual_at_danathara.dhs.org] sez:

> > > > * If you don't have WinZip, you'll need to copy the tarball
> > > > to a Unix machine on which you have a shell account,
> extract
> > > > the files, and copy them all back to your Windows machine.
> > >
> > > Only one comment, as I gave up on cygwin around b19 and moved to
> linux...
> > > tar and gzip are both included in the shell install, so:
> > >
> > > tar zxvf hypermail-2b25.tar.gz
> > >
> > > will work fine within the bash shell.
> > >
> > Yes it will, and that's terrific for the second time
> > you install cygwin. It's not so hot for installing
> > cygwin the first time.
>
> Actually, the section I commented on was "Extracting Hypermail", which
> followed the installation and testing of cygwin and gcc. The next step
> was
> ./configure, which also requires a bash shell. I think it's safe to
> assume
> that if the compiler and autoconf are functioning, tar and gzip will too.
> The only reason I mention this is that I don't know any windows users who
> have access to a *nix account and wouldn't just skip the hassle and run
> hypermail there instead.
>

Doh! Thanks very much.

Bob Crispen
bob.crispen_at_boeing.com Received on Mon 18 Oct 1999 02:12:07 PM GMT