cygwin-owner wrote on 02/16/2011 01:13:37 PM:
On 02/16/2011 11:07 AM, L Anderson wrote:
Could the following signal a possible string buffering problem?
Nope. Rather, it's an indication that cygcheck is a native windows
program...
However,when I do
echo $(cygcheck /bin/sh.exe)
Eric wrote on 02/10/2011 12:15:33 PM:
On 02/10/2011 10:13 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Might the ability to identify cygwin's root be a good
thing to add to cygpath?
And what's so hard about 'cygpath -w /'?
Under System information, one could have an option
-R,
cygwin-owner wrote on 02/10/2011 03:35:53 PM:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:23:38PM -0500, RISINGP1 wrote:
Eric wrote on 02/10/2011 12:15:33 PM:
On 02/10/2011 10:13 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Might the ability to identify cygwin's root be a good
thing to add
On Feb 2 11:13, Rachel Trent wrote:
I have a seemingly simple problem that I either haven't found the
answer to or I didn't understand the answer when I saw it. I presume
I'm not describing it with the correct terminology...
Short version:
In layman's terms, the Cygwin window cuts off at
When using cmd.exe, when I am prompted for a password, no characters are
displayed, but the password gets entered. However, when I use mintty, the
characters I type at the password prompt are displayed. TERM=xterm. How
can I stop this from happening?
In cmd.exe:
---
sqlplus
On 9/2/2010 3:47 AM, Peter Münster wrote:
Hello,
I would like to run a Dos program, that needs keyboard input (just one
Y),
automatically via make in an ssh-session.
How could I simulate the Y keypress?
echo Y | DosProgram.exe does not work...
The keypress is accepted only in a
I use pdksh as my login shell - I have been using the Korn shell (thanks
Dave!) since 1984 or so, so it is what I am used to and has features I
haven't been able to find in bash - at least not yet. So to expedite
script writing, I use the ksh language and features Every time that I
write a
preferred shell (some tools, like mintty, honor
that setting).
My /etc/passwd entry:
RISINGP1:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:287838:10545:RISINGP1,U-NWIE\RISINGP1,S-1-5-21-725345543-616249376-1177238915-277838:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/risingp1:/bin/pdksh
My cygwin.bat:
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
REM
to call pdksh instead of bash. You can also edit
/etc/passwd to set your preferred shell (some tools, like mintty, honor
that setting).
My /etc/passwd entry:
RISINGP1:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:287838:10545:RISINGP1,U-NWIE\RISINGP1,S-1-5-21-725345543-616249376-1177238915-277838:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home
Ah, so you mean how to change /bin/sh to be pdksh instead of bash.
Simple:
cp /bin/{pdk,}sh
But be prepared to redo that every time you upgrade bash via
setup.exe,
and don't come crying to the list if things break that were expecting
bash when they got pdksh.
Thanks. I was
On 06/08/2010 10:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/08/2010 08:43 AM, Steven Collins wrote:
directory as can be demonstrated by a simple touch foo foo.exe
command. Both files will be created.
Arguably, both should NOT be created, for the same reasons. That is, it
is probably worth a patch to make
On 06/08/2010 09:42 AM, risin...@nationwide.com wrote:
As to the cp issue, while IMHO, it should go ahead and do the copy,
a more instructive error message would be helpful:
cp: cannot create regular file `my': File 'my.exe' exists
Huh? Do the copy, then give a failure message? No. A
I disagree. This seems to me to be adopting the Microsoft policy of
doing
the user's thinking for them: I don't care what they want - we know
what's best for them. If a person wants to have foo and foo.exe
in
the same directory, that should be allowed. A few times getting
tripped
up by
I was having trouble with the backspace key, but it was with pdksh, so I
don't know if this will work for you, but it is worth a try...
Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote:
From the cygwin-1.7.5 release announcement:
- Support DEC Backarrow Key Mode escape sequences (ESC [ ? 67 h,
ESC [ ?
When using the set -o vi mode in pdksh, the backspace key is no longer a
movement key - it does not make the cursor move to the left over the
existing characters leaving them unchanged when the command line edit mode
is entered using the ESC key. The cursor does not move at all.
Steps to
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