[CWB] CWB for cygwin

[Stefan Evert]

Hi Diana,

nice to hear you're still an active CWB user! :-)

I have two suggestions:

1) If you want to use Cygwin, you should definitely compile from source, especially if the binaries are several years old.  I used to have a lot of problems with the CWB in Cygwin (some problem with memory-mapping, at least on larger corpora above 10 M words), which went away with a recent version of Cygwin.

2) Why not try the native Windows version that's currently in beta testing?  It may have some limitations in interactive use, but it should be more robust and efficient than the Cygwin one.  You can download a binary release here:

	http://cwb.sourceforge.net/beta.php

Andrew Hardie is in charge of the beta testing releases (3.1 for Windows, and 3.2 with Unicode support), so he may have something to add.

I'd like to encourage you to try option 2 -- we're very grateful for all beta testers!

Best wishes,
Stefan