Windows 2000 binary?

[Ed Suominen]

When I discovered a Win32 binary of Octave a month ago at 
http://tech-research.buffalostate.edu/Šþtom/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:

"16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
Invalid program file name, please check your pif file."

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!)  :-)

Ed Suominen
Registered Patent Agent
Web Site: http://eepatents.com
PGP Public Key: http://eepatents.com/key



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