[Xastir] INSTALL HELP! ! !

[Jacob Tennant]

Opps I overslept this morning!!!

OK I changed my laptops setup so that I must login to it like you had
mantioned. I am now reinstalling CYGWIN from the downloaded files.

I am using my main home computer for email now with the laptop close by.

Hopefully we can get this up and running...

Jacob Tennant  K8JWT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Jacob Tennant" <k8jwt at ntelos.net>
Cc: <Xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] INSTALL HELP! ! !


> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jacob Tennant wrote:
>
> > OK I AM LOST NOW!
> >
> > > It sounds like you don't have a PATH set up so that BASH knows where
> > > to find the commands.  I haven't had that happen before.
> > >
> > > If you can create a ".profile" file in the c:\cygwin\home\<user>\
> > > directory, please do so and make it look like this:
> > >
> > Went into the cygwin directory and there is not a "home" directory? Can
I
> > just make one? (Using Widows Explorer to look at things)
>
> Cygwin appears to work differently on systems where you don't have a
> network login screen with user/password on Windows startup.  A
> friend's system was like that, and it ended up creating a
> /home/unknown directory (c:\cygwin\home\unknown).  It turns out you
> need a home directory _somewhere_.
>
> When you first bring up a Cygwin window, if you type "pwd", what does
> it tell you?
>
>
> > > export
> >
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin:/cygdrive/c/WIN
> >
NT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/TCWIN45/BIN:/usr/X11R6/bin:/lib:/u
> > sr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib:.
> > >
> > >
> > Where do I put this? the ".profile" file?  How do I create a profile
file?
>
> You need to put it wherever Cygwin thinks is  your home directory.
> That's the problem we're trying to work through first.
>
> As far as creating it, you can create the file under some other
> filename using Notepad/Wordpad/etc, then rename it to ".profile"
> and make sure it's in your home directory for Cygwin.
>
>
> > > Change the the "WINNT" portion to whatever the Windows directory is
> > > on your machine.  Then start up a new Cygwin window and type:
> > >
> > Don't understand any of the above???
>
> Where it said "WINNT" above, change it to "WIN98", "WINDOWS", or
> whatever you have on your system where Windows itself is located.
> I took the example line off an NT4 workstation, so it won't be
> quite the same as what you need on yours.
>
> Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo.com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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>