Midnight Commander problem

[Ruslan Fedyarov]

Sending the cygcheck output. May cue to the problem is that I haven't 
used setup.exe for installation, I got used to just unpacking the 
necessary package under Linux.


Igor Peshansky wrote::

>On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Ruslan Fedyarov wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Thank all you Cygwin contributors for MC under Win32, at last I can use
>>the same rules in both Windows and Linux. There's a little problem with
>>running programs from CD:
>>
>>If I'm right MC uses /tmp directory for small sh scripts doing run job,
>>but when you change to /cygdrive/d or whatever other than C:, you can't
>>run any .exe program placed there (bash tells there's no '/tmp'
>>directory).
>>
>>The only way to run a program from CD under MC is to change back to
>>/cygdirve/c and run the necessary program with full path, e.g.
>>'/cygdrive/d/setup.exe'. I've tried to change system MC_TMPDIR and
>>TMPDIR variables, but nothing happened, MC_TMPDIR still points to /tmp
>>under MC.
>>
>>I guess Cygwin's MC should use /cygdrive/c/tmp or $TMP/$TEMP instead of
>>/tmp for running programs. Please correct it. I'd appreciate also mouse
>>support in MC someday :). But probably it's ncurses maintainers matter.
>>
>>I also propose to use 'Open=/cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe /c %f'
>>in the last 'default/*' section of extension bindings, otherwise one
>>can't run '.msi' and other unknown files from MC.
>>    
>>
>
>Ruslan,
>
>First off, there was no need to Cc: the maintainer (Pavel), as I'm sure he
>reads this list.
>
>I don't know exactly what MC does to get that error, but /tmp should work
>regardless of what directory you're currently in.  We'll need more
>information about your system to be able to provide an accurate diagnosis.
>Please review and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
><http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the part about attaching (as
>an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr".
>	Igor
>  
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