Hi Adrian,

  This problem sounds like a standard problem I have had.  I
thought I fixed it in the a7 distribution.  (and a7 is the
most recent.)

   For venus to run, it must have the cygwin.dll loaded.  A quick
fix is to copy the cygwin.dll (in a cygwin shell) from /usr/bin
to /usr/local/sbin where venus is located.  If that doesn't do
the job, let me know.

   (Sometimes, installing coda a 2nd time gets things set correctly.)

--Phil

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