to add another testimony, I've been successfully running FSL off cygwin for the past year and a half (using exactly all the directions on the FSL website) so I'd be happy with keeping it in cygwin.. martin Paul Macey wrote: > Hi > > I find the cygwin very handy for making calls from matlab scripts, > which lets me combine the useful features of FSL/SPM... so I would > vote for a cygwin release! I have installed VMPlayer, and it took > quite a while to get it running properly; it is certainly more > complicated to install than cygwin, even with having to use the 2005 > cygwin release. > > Best wishes, > Paul > > Steve Smith wrote: >> Jolly good - for the next release we have fixed the TCL/TK problems. >> >> However, we are quite likely, for FSL on Windows, to switch >> completely upon the next FSL release: we propose, hopefully, instead >> of using Cygwin, to use VMPlayer (freely available) within which >> Linux would run, and a pure linux version of FSL). This should be >> just as easy to setup and use as Cygwin, if not easier. We would be >> interested in comments on this plan from anyone out there. >> >> Cheers, Steve. >> >> >> On 2 Apr 2007, at 16:43, Alle Meije Wink wrote: >> >>> Ah- I was going to ask if it's the current cygwin that doesn't work >>> with the current Tcl/Tk or that the Tcl/Tk of the current cygwin >>> doesn't work with FSL. But I guess that doen't really matter :) >>> >>> I'm quite happy to use the command-line tools at the moment. Will >>> keep an eye open for cygwin developments on the FSL site for >>> building the `glossy' version. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Alle Meije >>> >>> Steve Smith wrote: >>>> Hi - probably the main point here is that you currently have to >>>> have the exact version of Cygwin pointed to from the FSL web page - >>>> the current version of Cygwin doesn't work correctly with TCL/TK. >>>> Cheers, Steve. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering >> Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre >> >> FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK >> +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) >> [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- -------------------------------------------- "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin; but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever say in my life!" [Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland] - Mais alors que dois-je devenir? - Un curieux! - Ce n’est pas un métier. - Ce n’est pas encore un métier. Voyagez, écrivez, traduisez, apprenez à vivre partout. Commencez tout de suite. L’avenir est aux curieux de profession. [Truffaut - Jules et Jim] I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. [E.A. Poe] - “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; - and if it were so, it would be; - but as it isn’t, it ain’t. - That’s logic.” [Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass] - "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" - "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. - "I don't much care where-" said Alice. - "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. - "As long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. - "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." [Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland] -------------------------------------------- Martin M. Monti Princeton University Department of Psychology Green Hall 3-S-8 (609) 258-5679 www.webmartin.net --------------------------------------------