Thanks for responding! The problem appears to be that the csh (and now tcsh) variants I have tried are not complete (e.g. one didn't understand "setenv"). I have attempted to use tcsh's from the following URLS without success:
>From: Craig Chambers
>To: jason kinzer
>CC: cecil@cs.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: simple vortex installation question
>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:10:55 -0800
>
>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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