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Re: Windows 2000 binary? |
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Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:53:00 +0200 (CEST) |
I have the same interest for an NT version...
On 7 Oct, Ed Suominen wrote:
> When I discovered a Win32 binary of Octave a month ago at
> http://tech-research.buffalostate.edu/þtom/index.html, I was as happy as a
> pig in mud. It is an amazing piece of software, and I was thrilled to be
> able to play with "Matlab" again. I even started having pangs of conscience
> that perhaps I ought to donate $50 or so to John Eaton's development fund
> in view of the successful work it allowed me to do recently on one of my
> crypto inventions.
>
> Then, this weekend, I got a new system running Windows 2000 Professional
> and - uh oh - the same Cygwin installation that worked fine under Win 98
> doesn't work. Here's the error:
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> "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
> Invalid program file name, please check your pif file."
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> Is Cygwin incompatible with Win 2000? Is there something I can do? I've
> even thought of getting Microsoft's UNIX emulator (See
> http://www.interix.com) if that would let me run the program, but I'm
> pretty ignorant of UNIX.
>
> Can anyone help? I promise I'll send John the fifty bucks if I get this
> resolved. (honest!) :-)
>
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Francis
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