Re: Uninstalling windows octave destroyed my cygwin installation!

[Christoph Dalitz]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:27:59 -0800
"Joshua Scholar" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Originally I was running a version of cygwin that's about a year old.
> Of course I'm running the newest one now - and that's the one the
> uninstaller blew up.
> 
> If I install Octave again, I'm going to install the cygwin version (instead
> of the stand alone version) and leave compatability testing to people who
> have fast connections and can download fixes faster than I can.
> 
Why did you install the standalone Octave package when you have Cygwin
installed already?

I am no Cygwin wizard, but it sounds logical to me that the standalone Octave
version, which has a private copy of Cygwin, cannot play well with another 
Cygwin
install on the same machine.

Christoph



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