[Coco] ack!

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:11:57 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> Lothan,
> So far all has gone well up to step 6 with the exception of a ton of
> "warnings" in the lwtools build. No errors though. I may have missed
> a support file as that part wasn't explained thoroughly. i.e. step 1
> "etc..." When one knows NOTHING of the system, "etc.." is absolutely
> useless. A full list is needed as to what needs to be included. The
> Cygwin installation was painless, but not knowing "what" to include
> as "etc." isn't a Cygwin option. It's these kind of instructions that
> killed OS-9 for newbies in the 80s and 90s. I'm not saying you were
> not helpful or that I'm the average unknowledgable user, but when
> details matter, they should be included. I just downloaded the
> defaults as I didn't know what else to include. I already had
> Mercurial installed on my system from a previous attempt at creating
> my own repository for something else. I assumed it would work and it
> did. I don't know if I missed anything else.
> 
> Here's what I get in step 6.
> 
> This works fine:
> hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9
> 
> This gives an error:
> hg update lwtools-port
> "abort: no repository found in 'c:/cygwin/home/username' (.hg not
> found)"
> 
> So what am I doing wrong here?

Bill:

	You need to change to the nitros9 directory before the update.


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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