Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount)

2008-07-18 Thread phil long
As a follow-up and clarification to my previous post, what I would like to be able to do is to pipe output to a printer, e.g. ls -l | lpr This doesn't work for me as I explained previously. Using notepad /P I'll bet it doesn't! From the lpr manpage: No formatting is done -- data is sent raw.

Re: pdksh package: Error when issuing a 'typeset -r' statement

2008-05-15 Thread phil long
Mark J. Reed markjreed at mail.com writes: I had to modify it somewhat to make it bash-friendly (main culprits: array syntax, unsupported typeset options, print, whence, coprocesses.) What do U use to replace ksh coprocesses? -- Unsubscribe info:

Default Location of Cygwin

2008-04-28 Thread phil long
Hello: This past weekend, I updated the Cygwin installation on my laptop. It broke big-time, because I have a customization that is apparently no longer allowed. Most installations put the root at c:/cygwin, but I put mine at c:/util/cygwin. My attempts to install from three or four mirrors all

Re: Installer tasks

2007-08-17 Thread phil long
George george at alink.co.za writes: Hi All, Assuming I wish to copy the c:\cygwin\ directory from one computer to another, are there any further utilities/updates which I need to do to ensure it works correctly? I have create a script which redoes the mount points (mount -m). Is

Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] We soon will be blocking legal disclaimers

2007-08-10 Thread phil long
Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net writes: Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: Sigh ... if I had a way, I'd clip out the bozo string my employer's email server tacks onto the end of every message. nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin

RE: Deprecating ntea

2007-03-01 Thread phil long
Corrina Vinschen wrote: Hi, I think it's time to remove the CYGWIN=ntea setting from Cygwin. (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) The reason is that it's just a fake. It fakes POSIX permission bits by using the extended attributes capability built into NTFS. it

RE: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-15 Thread phil long
On 10-jan-2007 Dave Korn wrote: On 09 January 2007 22:15, David Smiley wrote: I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the case. Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they are case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALWAYS