Re: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Igor, There are no Cygwin-native java compilers, right? Well, I use jikes, which, IIRC, built OOTB. Haven't gotten around to packaging it up yet, but probably will work on that shortly. There is also gcj included in the latest GCC package which seems to produce binaries. Gerrit --

Re: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Igor, There are no Cygwin-native java compilers, right? Well, I use jikes, which, IIRC, built OOTB. Haven't gotten around to packaging it up yet, but probably will work on that shortly. There is also gcj included in the latest GCC

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped from shells such as bash (COMPUTER\\Printer Share). If you have a Rather than talk about escaping backslashes, why not just use

RE: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:20:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: My comments: Please don't suggest that setting CYGWIN=tty is necessary for running rxvt. The only reason to set CYGWIN=tty is if you

RE: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: Joshua Daniel Franklin I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:35:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:20:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: My comments: Please don't suggest that setting

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped from shells such as bash (COMPUTER\\Printer Share). If you have a Rather than talk

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:35:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Once again, having CYGWIN=tty isn't meaningful when running rxvt. here at the end - just to emphasize it. Got it. Oh... The paragraph about .lnk-files (included below for ref.): The sentences feels long and winding with

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:37:32PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: The updated sectioned webpage is now up, just in time for the new month. It will be at least a couple of weeks before I can get the single HTML file and PDF on the website, or release an updated cygwin-doc package. WE

Re: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Joshua, Thanks for doing this. I'll take a look at the document itself later on. For now, a few quick comments (inline below). On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's Guide. If you'd

RE: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Lisbeth Kellogg
I would suggest adding a section on the PATH environment and its use when invoking bash from DOS. --- Lisbeth Kellogg Office: 651-675-2610 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:18 PM To:

RE: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:18 PM I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at it as a web page:

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:18:07AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at it as a web page: http://iocc.com/~joshua/tmp/using-effectively.html I'm going to be leaving

Re: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:55:13PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --Q: Does anyone know of a page that lists command line configuration utilities included with Windows 95/98/ME vs. Windows NT4/2000/XP? Try

Re: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: Joshua Daniel Franklin I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at it as a web page:

Re: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: Joshua Daniel Franklin I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:18:07AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: If you'd like to look at it as a web page: http://iocc.com/~joshua/tmp/using-effectively.html I'm going to be leaving this broadband connection in under 48 hours, so I'll probably put this into CVS tomorrow (with any

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: Joshua Daniel Franklin I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's Guide. If you'd

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:58:44PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: By the way, this has nothing to do with the User's Guide, but I made a script to download (using the mailing list archive) all the July emails into mbox format. I thought it would be easier than asking someone for the archive

Re: Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: Joshua Daniel Franklin I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at

Re: Using cygwin Effectively with Windows -- Draft of new User's Guide section

2003-07-30 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: From: Joshua Daniel Franklin I've thrown together a prospective Using Cygwin Effectively with