Re: Comments and questions

[An]

Thanks. Still have the following questions attached below. For easier
identification, I used bold font for my questions.

> > (1) Swarm on-line
> > FAQ by Paul Johnson (question 3.1) suggested another site for downloading
> > the Swarm Windows version:
> > ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest,
> > where the zipped files are much fewer than the above website. What is the
> > difference? 
>
> the "testing" directory is the source code. You can build Swarm
> from source for yourself with that
>
> the "w32/latest" directory is binary "prebuilt"
> versions for windows.

> (a) Should I unzip or untar everything in
> the "testing" directory  into a local folder (say,
> C:\Swarm)? There are three sub-folders under "testing," i.e.,
> OSF5-Tru64, old, and COM--how to deal with them?


> > (2) In addition,
> > when I was trying to unzip the zipped file
> > "Swarm-2.2-pretest-2.tar.gz" from
> > ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest,
> > the unzipping process failed after 5 minutes, and the computer went
> > cracked--I got a warning message, "A problem has been detected and
> > Windows has been shut down to prevent  damage to your computer.
> > IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL,...***STOP: 0X0000000A (0XC0000000, 0X00000002,
> > 0X00000000,0X804FA688) Beginning dump of physical memory, physical memory
> > dump comlete, ...". What is wrong?
>
> Looks like a windows XP problem.  This error happens inside a cygwin
> shell?  I would not trust any windows tool to do your unzipping and
> untarring.

(b) Are you suggesting to do unzipping and untarring in cygwin
shell?


Thanks,

Li An