From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com>
To: Alice Bilton <abilton1@sheffield.ac.uk>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:51:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANnLRdit-HAqP0DM9LNnAoPZqYMfbHnKq53S93FFeXHXCeu3pA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C31EEACC-330A-4490-9C1A-D8EB6AF41220@sheffield.ac.uk>
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 08:45, Alice Bilton via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
> WARNING: Couldn’t compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to
> the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>
>
> I’m not sure what this means. Am I unable to download the software, or is
> there something that I can do to help it? I left the initial instal window
> open and is seems to have continued with some of the installation process -
> I am now able to access the MASS DEMO, but upon opening the cygwin batch
> file, I get the following message:
> 2 [main] bash 6936 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn’t compute FAST_CWD
> pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list
> cygwin@cygwin.com <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>
>
> Can you help?
>
> Thanks
> Alice
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 12:51 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 [this message]
2020-09-28 12:55 ` Alice Bilton
2020-10-01 9:42 ` Andrey Repin
-- 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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