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Re: Installing python's pypiwin32
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 03:52:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Installing python's pypiwin32
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Dennis Putnam <dap1 <at> bellsouth.net> writes:
> On 4/4/2016 5:53 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > On 04/04/2016 11:28, Dennis Putnam wrote:
> >> I'm trying to install pypiwin32 and have hit a stone wall. That module
> >> wants _winreg so I installed cygwinreg. However, I cannot find a way to
> >> tell pip to use cygwinreg rather than _winreg. Is there a way to alias
> >> or some way to get pip to use the right module? TIA.
> > I doubt the package is cygwin compatible
> If that is the case then is there another way to open message boxes
> without running Xwin?
If you don't care how you do it, while looking for an alternative to XP cmd
msg, found http://stackoverflow.com/a/8965189:
$ mshta "javascript:alert('Message\n\nMultiple\nLines\ntoo\!');close();"
Works on Win7 at least, as long as you don't strip .../Windows/system32 from
PATH.
More suggestions and variations at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12514475/how-can-you-create-pop-up-messages-in-a-batch-script
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