Re: cygcheck bug: symlinks with unix paths are wrongly resolved

2010-10-22 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Csaba Raduly! ... The API can handle / as the path separator, but cmd.exe can't. You're seriously wrong... How? (Which part is wrong?) The Start menu's Run... command accepts forward slashes, and cmd.exe parses unquoted forward slashes as parameter

Re: bash bug?: nested bash --login -i doesn't run /etc/profile (still runs ~/.bash_profile)

2010-10-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/5/2010 10:12 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/4/2010 12:19 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Can anyone confirm (or anti-confirm) this behavior?: ... When bash is started using the Cygwin shortcut (which runs cygwin.bat, which executes

Re: bash bug?: nested bash --login -i doesn't run /etc/profile (still runs ~/.bash_profile)

2010-10-05 Thread Daniel Barclay
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/4/2010 12:19 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: I wrote: The behavior of bash --login -i seems to vary depending on whether it is a root invocation or a nested invocation of bash. This is inconsistent with the description man bash, and seems to be a bug. Can anyone

Re: How to get cygwin path

2010-10-04 Thread Daniel Barclay
Afflictedd2 wrote: Ok. nm... it has to be this way: cygpath -u C:\Users\Viper\Tmp Using single quotes would be more general. Consider the difference if the pathname includes a substring like \r. (Backslash is inert in (bash/sh/etc.) single-quoted strings, but sometimes escapes the

Re: bash bug?: nested bash --login -i doesn't run /etc/profile (still runs ~/.bash_profile)

2010-10-04 Thread Daniel Barclay
I wrote: The behavior of bash --login -i seems to vary depending on whether it is a root invocation or a nested invocation of bash. This is inconsistent with the description man bash, and seems to be a bug. Can anyone confirm (or anti-confirm) this behavior?: Details: When bash is started

bash bug?: nested bash --login -i doesn't run /etc/profile (still runs ~/.bash_profile)

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Barclay
The behavior of bash --login -i seems to vary depending on whether it is a root invocation or a nested invocation of bash. This is inconsistent with the description man bash, and seems to be a bug. Details: When bash is started using the Cygwin shortcut (which runs cygwin.bat, which executes

Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem

2010-09-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Eric Blake wrote: On 09/22/2010 03:02 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Again, why does Cygwin's (virtual) file system _not_ include those devices (when listing /dev)? (Why doesn't it do it more like Linux's /proc, etc., which gives a consistent view and which tells you what's available without

Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem

2010-09-22 Thread Daniel Barclay
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: ... To go there directly: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices Regarding where that page says: These devices cannot be seen with the command ls /dev/ ... I've wondered about that--why aren't those

Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem

2010-09-22 Thread Daniel Barclay
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 9/22/2010 1:29 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: ... To go there directly: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices Regarding where that page says: These devices cannot be seen

where was mention of what creates NUL files?

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Does anyone recall a mention of what in CygWin (or possibly Emacs) creates files with a simple name of NUL? Thanks, Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... Note: Don't use DOS device names in Cygwin! Wrong: $ echo foo NUL $ echo foo nul $ echo foo nul: Right: $ echo foo /dev/null Yes, I know. I'm not using NUL (or nul or nul:, etc.), but something is. (Now I'm thinking that it's an

Re: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why?

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 9/8/2010 1:24 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 8 September 2010 17:35, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Isn't the whole reason for Cygwin actually to enable doing Unixy things in Windows (that is, providing Windows/Unix interoperablity? No, that's not a key goal. From the

Re: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why?

2010-09-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:13:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/02/2010 11:45 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: I don't quite understand this behavior: $ ls C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe C:\tools\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe $ C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin

Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why?

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
I don't quite understand this behavior: $ ls C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe C:\tools\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe $ C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe bash: C:\tools\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe: command not found In particular, why is it that bash does not understand that Windows

bash igncr documentation - where?

2010-09-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Where is the documentation of the igncr (ignore-CR) option for Cygwin 1.7's bash? (There does not appear to be any reference to it in - the current Cygwin User's Guide (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/), - the current CygWin FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq.html), or - in bash man page from CygWin.

Re: bash igncr documentation - where?

2010-09-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Eric Blake wrote: On 09/01/2010 12:12 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Where is the documentation of the igncr (ignore-CR) option for Cygwin 1.7's bash? (There does not appear to be any reference to it in - the current Cygwin User's Guide (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/), - the current CygWin FAQ

bash igncr and BASH_ENV (was: bash igncr documentation - where?)

2010-09-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Yep - that email (most recently here[1]), along with /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/bash.README, are the definitive sources of all documentation to cygwin-specific patches to bash (of which igncr is one). [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-08/msg00015.html That read-me file says: 4c. To

Re: rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters [Was: Re: why Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject?]

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Charles Wilson wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote: However, I suggest rather than blindly re-installing/un-installing packages at random Hey, I wasn't randomly installing and uninstalling packages. My setup was seemingly working fine until I installed some unrelated package (Ruby) and then rxvt

Re: widely-spaced characters in rxvt

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Dave Korn wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote on 12 May 2008 17:39: What causes rxvt to switch to displaying characters with lots of space in between them? Did you overlook Chuck Wilson's reply in our thread last week? No, I didn't. That post didn't address why things were changing seemingly

widely-spaced characters in rxvt

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Barclay
What causes rxvt to switch to displaying characters with lots of space in between them? I heard that there's some interaction between X11-mode rxvt setup and plain-window rxvt setup. I don't think I've installed any X11 libraries, servers, or even fonts since rxvt was working right, but now

Re: widely-spaced characters in rxvt

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Barclay
René Berber wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote: What causes rxvt to switch to displaying characters with lots of space in between them? The font it's using. I heard that there's some interaction between X11-mode rxvt setup and plain-window rxvt setup. I don't think I've installed any X11

Re: widely-spaced characters in rxvt

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Barclay
René Berber wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote: What causes rxvt to switch to displaying characters with lots of space in between them? The font it's using. But why exactly would it display characters with lots of space between them? Surely the font isn't designed that way. What is actually

Re: rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters [Was: Re: why Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject?]

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Barclay
Charles Wilson wrote: However, with regards to rxvt in native mode, the widely spaced characters you are seeing happens when rxvt can't find, or doesn't understand, the font you specified. Well, I didn't specify anything. I haven't touched any of /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt, ~/.Xdefaults

Re: rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters [Was: Re: why Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject?]

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Barclay
I wrote: I am using whatever the CygWin packages and installer installed on my machine, which evidently changes in non-intuitive ways when I re-run it to modify the combinations of packages I have installed even though I'm not (consciously) touching any X11 or font-related packages). Just

why Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject?

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
cygwin@cygwin.com: Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject. This is probably due to an off-topic post. ... --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. ... Subject: widely-spaced characters in rxvt (non-X11 mode) What the heck is off-topic about

Re: why Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject?

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Dave Korn wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote on 09 May 2008 17:22: cygwin@cygwin.com: Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject. This is probably due to an off-topic post. ... --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. ... Subject: widely-spaced

Re: Spammers watching this user forum

2003-07-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Elfyn McBratney wrote: I don't think harvesters have frame-enabled browser's :-) :-) :-) Why not? It's just as easy to handle frame SRC='someurl' as it is to handle a href='someurl'. Daniel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: how to use current directory as bash startup directory

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Daniel Barclay wrote: Can bash inherit the working directory setting from the process that invoked bash instead of always setting its initial working directory (to the user's home directory)? ... Normally, you should be able to just not pass

how to use current directory as bash startup directory

2003-07-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Can bash inherit the working directory setting from the process that invoked bash instead of always setting its initial working directory (to the user's home directory)? On Unix, Emacs' shell command gets me a shell whose working directory is set based on what I was editing. However, when I use

Re: Installing cygwin NOT from web

2003-03-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
Max Bowsher wrote: Charles D. Russell wrote: ... 1) setup.exe is really designed to work best for direct installation from the web, so do that first on some computer with an internet connection. 2) when you install from the web, copies of all the downloaded files - including setup.exe - are