Re: Where is the link to cygwin?

Richard Sydney-Smith schrieb:
> Reading this through comes an interesting point. With the windows 32
> beta coming out an increasing number of people will be trialing
> PostgreSQL. Those whoose machines are not up to spec for the W32 project
> will want to run CYGWIN version on their ME /98/ NT4 boxes. Yet the
> installation for this project is "harder" to run.
>
> Question is it possible to include short cuts to initdb / start server /
> stop server in the CYGWIN install package?

Yes,
A new initd script will come with 8.0,
which just calls pg_ctl and
adds service install/uninstall args.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2004 9:17 AM
> To: Richard Sydney-Smith
> Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Where is the link to cygwin?
>
>
> On Monday 18 October 2004 13:49, Richard Sydney-Smith wrote:
>
>>Have been using the W32 port and need to access the cygiwn version
>>again for a friend with w9X instead of wXP. Need a version that will
>>run the the Fat32 environment.
>>
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/text/FAQ_CYGWIN
>

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