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["Robert Lopez" <address@hidden>]

 

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From: Joris van der Hoeven

To: Robert Lopez

Cc: address@hidden

Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:28 PM

Subject: Re: installation

Hi Robert,

Please resend your message to the mailing list, because it may interest others.
We'll try to reply to it shortly.

Best wishes, Joris

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:22:50PM -0700, Robert Lopez wrote:
> Hello.
>
> First thank you to everyone for giving your time to free software.
>
> My Windows XP system already had cygwin (several years old), xemacs, aspell, maxima, LaTeX et al (from TeX users group CD), and strawberry perl. All the cygwin stuff was rooted at C:\cygwin.
>
> I tried just the texmacs install and I then had problems with two cygwin1.dll files (one in cygwin and one in the new cygtexmacs). I took a deep breath and decided to completely replace the old cygwin. (Replacing older perl with strawberry perl was such a good move I was encouraged to upgrade.) So, I removed it and the new cygtexmacs dir trees. I then downloaded and installed a complete cygwin tree. I was surprised to find it did not have any texmacs editor. Looking around I found a lot of empty dirs in the new tree and a log file which indicated a lot of files were not found (some unidentified place). So I tried to install just the editor package on top of the new cygtexmacs tree created by the install of cygwin.
>
> Now I can not get the cygwin batch job  to work. It flashes open and faster than I can read, it closes. Other things that depended upon the old tree are working (ex Gimp, ghostscript) with the new environmental vars.
>
> It seems from the files I read that the editor should have been a part of the complete cygwin install. I was searching for "cygtexmax" and "texmacs" and could not find it. Now it does fire up (after quite some time) but most of my other stuff is broken. 
>
> While I look for problems, was it a terrible error to dump the editor tree out on top of the cygwin tree?
>
> PS. I tried to subscribe to user mail list, but I have not received any response yet.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Robert Lopez