[Techtalk] Some questions about cygwin

[Yaroslav Fedevych]

Hello All,

I have installed cygwin, and it runs pretty OK, but there are still some 
annoying problems.

I'm really sorry; I ought check in docs, but at the place of my work 
traffic is pretty expensive, so I don't have such an opportunity. I 
simply cannot abuse the "generosity" of my boss. Besides, it's not about 
Linux, however, I think it's closely related.

The first problem is that I cannot find out how to set my locale data 
properly. I've codepage:oem in my CYGWIN environment variable, so that 
MC displays line art correctly. But with NLS, it's total mess, as I 
cannot even determine which codepage it's gonna show me. OEM is cp866, 
and native Windows codepage is CP1251.

The next problem is that alternative keymaps do not work properly; When 
I try Cyrillic, it behaves like I press Alt/Control key combinations and 
functional keys. How do I set the keyboard properly?

And the most annoying thing. Has someone compiled a thing under cygwin? 
When trying to compile tetex, configure said that the compiler cannot 
produce executable code. How do I handle that?

Thanks for your kind attention.