Re: wtfindex produces corrupt files on DOS mounts
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vince Rice wrote: /home/vrice\ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 SRS8100 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin /home/vrice\ which wtfindex /usr/bin/wtfindex /home/vrice\ ls -Fal /usr/bin/wtfindex.exe -rwxrwxrwx1 vriceUsers 12800 Sep 4 11:12 /usr/bin/wtfindex.exe* On DOS mounts, wtfindex produces a .dat file that causes coredumps in wtf. I had edited my acronyms file, ran wtfindex, then wtf started coredumping. I reinstalled wtf, then saved off the existing acronyms.dat, and ran wtfindex against acronyms without making any changes. The resulting acronyms.dat differed from the original by thirteen bytes, and a comparison showed that where OD existed in the original, 0D0A existed in the newly generated one. Switching to a Unix mount generated an identical file to the original, no coredumps. I think this is enough information that a cygcheck shouldn't be needed, but if you think otherwise just let me know. Thanks, Vince P.S. -- I'm one of the tens of thousands who have never had a problem, so I seldom have any reason to post. So to offset the problem report, let me say that Cygwin is the best thing sinced sliced bread. I've used it off and on since before B19 (and what a wonderful release THAT was! :) ), and it's been a huge productivity enhancer at several client sites. Thanks to ALL the volunteers who make it possible. Vince, Thanks for the report. It would have been great if you also specified the version of wtf that you used. However, I've just reproduced this with wtf-0.0.4-4. Expect a new release soon. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: wtfindex produces corrupt files on DOS mounts
--- Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vince, Thanks for the report. It would have been great if you also specified the version of wtf that you used. However, I've just reproduced this with wtf-0.0.4-4. Expect a new release soon. My apologies. I did try to figure out the version, but I couldn't find anything that would tell me. There appears to be only one command line switch (-a), it wasn't in the man page, I tried cygcheck wtf, and I tried an old filever utility I have on the wtf.exe itself. While I'm typing it occurs to me I could have run through setup and let it tell me... I know this is a lean and mean program, but would you consider supporting command line options -v or --version in wtf itself? I just did the setup thing, and it is indeed 0.0.4-4 that I have as well. Thanks for the quick fix! Vince P.S. -- I got to thinking about how setup knew, so I poked around some more on cygcheck and found that cygcheck -c told me the information as well. So now I'll know for next time. However, supporting -v or --version in the program itself would still be nice. :) __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: wtfindex produces corrupt files on DOS mounts
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vince Rice wrote: --- Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu wrote: Vince, Thanks for the report. It would have been great if you also specified the version of wtf that you used. However, I've just reproduced this with wtf-0.0.4-4. Expect a new release soon. My apologies. I did try to figure out the version, but I couldn't find anything that would tell me. There appears to be only one command line switch (-a), it wasn't in the man page, I tried cygcheck wtf, and I tried an old filever utility I have on the wtf.exe itself. While I'm typing it occurs to me I could have run through setup and let it tell me... I know this is a lean and mean program, but would you consider supporting command line options -v or --version in wtf itself? That's up to the upstream maintainer. I'll suggest it to him. I just did the setup thing, and it is indeed 0.0.4-4 that I have as well. Thanks for the quick fix! Vince P.S. -- I got to thinking about how setup knew, so I poked around some more on cygcheck and found that cygcheck -c told me the information as well. So now I'll know for next time. However, supporting -v or --version in the program itself would still be nice. :) That's exactly what cygcheck is for. If you don't want it to do integrity checking, you can give it a -d (dump-only) option in addition to -c, and it'll simply query the installed package version (which may be different from any particular executable's version, BTW, although not in case of wtf). Another place to look would be /usr/share/doc/Cygwin for wtf*.README. The version on that file should correspond to the package version. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
