chere (=> windows explorer context menu) not working with German umlaut in Path

2018-03-09 Thread Josef Frank
The "chere" package installs an entry in the windows explorer context menu to open a mintty window running bash at an arbitrary location. However the context menu entry "Bash prompt here" does not work, when the directory path contains a German umlaut in any position. E.g.: using it for

dd -- bs>=2G, error writing to /dev/null - possible bug? (win7; coreutils 8.26)

2017-03-11 Thread Josef Frank
Dear all, dd utility has problems to write to /dev/null with bs>=2^31, while bs<2^31 is ok. Increasing bs further to 2^33 leads to extended error message For description see below jf Steps to reproduce: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=2147483647 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records