Problems with Emacs/Bash on Win

[Benedikt Stefansson]

I'm co-teaching a class on Swarm in the UCLA PoliSci department at the
moment,
and thanks to "Bill" the wast majority of students will be using the
Windows version
of Swarm to practice. A number of students have unfortunately run into a
problem installing Emacs and Bash.

For Emacs we have suggested that they copy the files directly from the
CD-ROM using the bash shell:

    $ cp -R d:/emacs-20.3.1 c:
    $ mv c:/emacs-20.3.1 c:/emacs
    $ cd c:/emacs/bin
    $ ./addpm.exe

I have done this on several NT workstations with no problems, but in
accordance with Murphy's law, when I demoed this in the computer lab
yesterday Start->GNU Emacs produced an "illegal operation" error and
crashed. Several students have reported the same problem.

Second problems is that bash is messed up after installation of Cygwin
and Swarm, the errors it spits out are:

bash.exe: /H-i386-cygwin32/bin/tr: No such file or directory
bash.exe: /H-i386-cygwin32/bin/grep: No such file or directory
bash.exe: /H-i386-cygwin32/bin/tr: No such file or directory
bash.exe: /H-i386-cygwin32/bin/grep: No such file or directory
bash.exe-2.01$

I got the same message when I demoed this, but bash worked after we
rebooted the machine. A student reports rebooting does not clear up the
problem.

As far as I can tell the people having problems are all working from
copies of the Swarm CD-ROM and installing on C: in Windows95 or
Windows98.

Any hints/ideas?

-Benedikt



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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477          Tel. (310) 825-1777



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