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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Alice Bilton <abilton1@sheffield.ac.uk>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:42:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1307682042.20201001124233@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8082EECC-7ADE-4674-A491-18B13FFA489C@sheffield.ac.uk>

Greetings, Alice Bilton!

>>
>> I am a Sheffield University student trying to install MASS software.
>> However, during the process I have received the following message a number
>> of times:
>> 
>> 
>> The problem is that the MASS software is meant for an older version of
>> Cygwin which has not been shipped in 10 years. The error is misleading and
>> from when Cygwin was a commercial product. The professor who assigned this
>> software will need to find a newer version for students.
>> 

> Thank you for getting back to me so quickly!. Do you mean that my professor
> needs to find a newer version of Cygwin or Mass, for it to work?

See the KB article linked by the bot: https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings

Also, please no top-posting in this list.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, October 1, 2020 12:41:41

Sorry for my terrible english...


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-28 12:44 Alice Bilton
2020-09-28 12:45 ` cygwinautoreply
2020-09-28 12:51 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2020-09-28 12:55   ` Alice Bilton
2020-10-01  9:42     ` Andrey Repin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-08-19 12:11 Rick.Grape
2022-08-19 12:15 ` cygwinautoreply
2022-08-19 12:23 ` Oskar Skog
2022-08-21 15:28   ` Erik Soderquist
2021-06-14 14:15 Olokunwolu, Elizabeth (FKN) - contr
2021-06-14 14:17 ` cygwinautoreply
2018-05-03 18:20 emoctezuma
2018-05-03 18:24 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-11-08  5:25 Ramirez Castro, Jesus Miguel
2017-11-08  8:42 ` Brian Inglis
     [not found] <CAD1QJjUppq_ogX+VwM-H+0Fc=eM0k0YC8Mj5=imJBE3ceKBZ_g@mail.gmail.com>
2017-08-17 23:23 ` Fwd: " Richard Mateosian
2017-08-18  8:16   ` Csaba Raduly
2017-04-04 16:05 Tony An
2017-04-04 16:18 ` Douglas Coup
2017-04-04 23:05 ` Andrey Repin

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