Asking for help with adding commands (programs).

Asking for help with adding commands (programs).

[KOIDE,Ryouta]

Hi, my name is Ryota Koide. 

I work for a localization company in Japan and deal with a lot of text
manupulations and issues. Unfortunately, we don't have Unix installed on
each workstation so Cygwin will be a big help since I am used to and
love playing with text files with Unix commands and shell scripts. 

I dowloaded Cygwin and was suprised that it was actually working but
looks like there are some useful commands (programs) missing for the
default setup like vi and more. I know they are available out there for
dowload but I don't know where. And I won't know how to set them up so
that they will be typed at prompt and work like other commands. 

Anyway, I would appreciate it if you could help me with my questions.
Thank you.

P.S. Looks like I cannot type (or cut&paste) any double-bye letters like 
（ and ）or even any Japanese letters. Is there any package available to
solve this? I don't think there is currently huge demand for this
software from Japanese users so I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't.


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Asking for help with adding commands (programs).

[John Vincent]

Hi,

The cygwin setup program only downloads and installs a
small selection of packages by default. You could simply
install all packages, or you could look on the web page
for the option to search packages and then search for
what you want. You'll find packages for compilation,
X-server, text processing, etc.

By the way: to find the vi editor, search for "vim" since
searching for "vi" returns too much to be useful.

Also if you know a little about programming, most "free"
software for linux can be downloaded (as source code) and
compiled using the cygwin tools to run under windows as
part of the cygwin installation.

I hope this info helps you.

/John Vincent.


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Re: Asking for help with adding commands (programs).

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

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Ryouta, 

You need to run setup.exe again and select packages such as "vim" and
"more". Actually you should try using "less" instead of "more" since it
has more features, such as being able to move back as well as forward.
I usually just select the "man" package, which automatically selects
dependencies such as "less". 

As for Japanese support, you might try this page:

http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~fujieda/cygwin/

Unfortunately with my 8-yr.-old's reading level of Japanese I can't tell
you whether it works, but I'm sure you'll have better luck.

> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 17:13:32 +0900
> From: "KOIDE,Ryouta" <koide_r@sunflare.co.jp>
> Subject: Asking for help with adding commands (programs).
>
> Hi, my name is Ryota Koide. 
> 
> I work for a localization company in Japan and deal with a lot of text
> manupulations and issues. Unfortunately, we don't have Unix installed on
> each workstation so Cygwin will be a big help since I am used to and
> love playing with text files with Unix commands and shell scripts.
>
> I dowloaded Cygwin and was suprised that it was actually working but
> looks like there are some useful commands (programs) missing for the
> default setup like vi and more. I know they are available out there for
> dowload but I don't know where. And I won't know how to set them up so
> that they will be typed at prompt and work like other commands. 
> 
> Anyway, I would appreciate it if you could help me with my questions.
> Thank you.
>
> P.S. Looks like I cannot type (or cut&paste) any double-bye letters like
> ¡Ê and ¡Ëor even any Japanese letters. Is there any package available to
> solve this? I don't think there is currently huge demand for this
> software from Japanese users so I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't.


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Re: Asking for help with adding commands (programs).

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

No problem. 
If $HOME/.inputrc does not exist, you can safely create it. Or, if
you want your changes to effect everyone on your system, you can 
create /etc/inputrc instead. See 'man bash' under "Readline Initialization"
for more details than you probably want.

--- "KOIDE,Ryouta" <koide_r@sunflare.co.jp> wrote:
> Sorry to bother you again. I found out that I would have to edit
> .inputrc or inputrc in order to type in Japanese but I cannot find it.
> Somebody says that it is under etc/ but I don't have that file. Is it
> available to download somewhere? Sorry again for taking up your time.
> 
> 
> Ryota
> 


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