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RE: Problems
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Problems
- From: "Mais, Dale" <DMais at ligand dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:40:24 -0800
I need it to run a Spectrum synthesis program which is available for
astrophysics applications. I may not be a guru but I am willing to learn so
I can achieve my goals of running this application.
Dale
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:35 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: DMais@ligand.com
Subject: Re: Problems
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:32:39AM -0800, Mais, Dale wrote:
>I have tried to install cygwin on both an NT and Win98 machine and while it
>seems to install OK, when I try to open all I get is a fraction of a second
>appearance of a DOS window that disappears. I cannot get beyond this
>"flash". Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks
>
>I am not a computer guru and have forgotten what little I knew of DOS so
>trying to understand the language of the guidance on your web page does me
>little good, I just don't understand all the lingo.
Then why are you even downloading this package? Stick with Microsoft pointy
clicky tools. This is a UNIX emulation environment.
If you don't have any ideas what that means then you don't need cygwin.
cgf
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