From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fergus Henderson To: felix@laas.fr Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 11:19:00 -0000 Message-id: <19980207031940.54314@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19980205124710.9901.qmail@hotmail.com> <199802060927.KAA21386@alf.laas.fr> X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00169.html On 06-Feb-1998, Francois Felix Ingrand wrote: > > - I grabbed and installed less. It works fine, exept that it keeps complaining > about the terminal being too stupid... indeed, TERM is currently set to > dumb... is there any better possible TERM setting? Try TERM=ansi or TERM=linux. > - I use NT CVS 1.9. They distribute their own diff, patch, grep , etc > utilities. Which one should I use? Last night gnu-win32 patch failed to update > a CVS file, so I am really wondering if I should not use the cvs patch... This is probably text-vs-binary issues. Do you have your file system mounted with mode "text=binary"? If so, then you will probably have problems, because (my guess is that) NT CVS will use the usual DOS/Windows text file convention, i.e. "text!=binary". On the other hand, if you *don't* have your file system mounted with mode binary, you will probably have problems, because much of the software has not been ported to work with mode "text!=binary". In other words, either way, you're likely to have problems ;-) You might have more luck compiling cvs from the source code using gnu-win32. Then you could get a version of cvs that uses the same mode as cygwin32 (in particular, that uses "text=binary", if the filesystem is mounted that way). But I don't know whether cvs has been ported to cygwin32; if not, you may run into other problems. > - is it possible to get bash in a scrollable window? On NT, yes: just right-click on your dos window to edit the display properties and set the scrollback length. (Sorry if that description is a bit vague, I've been fortunate enough to avoid Windows for a few months.) -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: < http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh > | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".