Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken.
2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT
Hi George,
probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that
your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general.
Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain
does "D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll" exist ?
Regards
Marco
Hi Marco,
Yes. The file exists, but it is in the sub-directory
Avast5 of the AlwilSoftware directory. Apparently their
installer does not make everything perfect when it upgrades
from a previous version.
Should I then rip out both cygwin and the antivirus,
then run a re-install of antivirus first, then the cygwin?
Forgive me, install and re-install pretty much summarizes
my suite of computing skills. When all that I have is a
hammer, everything looks to me like a "hammer" kind of
job.
George gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu