Subject: Re: simple vortex installation question
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 12:10:55 PST
Sorry for the installation problems. On winnt, I use tcsh as my shell. The
winnt port was something we did to the extent we could, so it's not as complete
a port as the Unix versions. Vortex did work for me on my machine, but I can't
promise very much how stable it would be for other people. The right thing
would be to use a more widely available shell, like bash, but I don't know bash
very well, and we have a large investment in csh shells.
I don't know what the problem might be with the syntax errors. Maybe there's
some sort of problem with the ^M's that Windows includes for its end of lines?
-- Craig Chambers
jason kinzer wrote:
>
> Dear UW Cecil/Vortex team,
>
> Thanks for making public such cool software!
> I realize there's no support as such for this software, but I would be
> profoundly grateful if you could clear up some very basic confusion I have
> on the vortex install process.
>
> I am installing Vortex on cygwin32/winnt. I assume the INSTALL document is
> be followed for this platform, but I have so far been unsuccessful since csh
> is not included and third-party variants don't seem to work too well. Is
> this the right approach, and if so, what csh does UW use for win32? (Note
> that I have also tried just blindly following QUICK-START-VORTEX without
> working through the install, but executing vortex bombs out with a "Syntax
> error: unrecognized input" when reading the standard.profile (or anything
> else for that matter) -- the cecil interpreter works fine however).
>
> I apologize for this most idiotic of questions. Any help is greatly
> appreciated though certainly not deserved ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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