Re: Why didn't a Cygwin install create the default dot files?

2020-03-26 Thread Andrey Repin
home, which is different from my setup, but I think that's fine. This suggests something in the environment. Possibly your colleague have %HOME% defined. Cygwin will pick it up. > What seems odd is that he didn't get the default dot files created, being > .profile, .bash_profi

Why didn't a Cygwin install create the default dot files?

2020-03-26 Thread David Karr via Cygwin
ink that's fine. What seems odd is that he didn't get the default dot files created, being .profile, .bash_profile, and .bashrc. I don't even remember whether this happened the first time I set it up. In any case, I handed him my dot files to template from, but I was curious about

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 22 15:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 17 18:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 17 17:32, koerner.sebastian wrote: > > > Hello Corinna, > > > > > > Oh, btw. In your OP you claimed that you have netapps for which Cygwin > > > returns "cifs" and other netapps for which Cygwin retu

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 18:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 17 17:32, koerner.sebastian wrote: > > Hello Corinna, > > > > Oh, btw. In your OP you claimed that you have netapps for which Cygwin > > returns "cifs" and other netapps for which Cygwin returns "vfat" as > > filesystem. The above one is clea

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 18 08:56, Gary wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Oh, btw. In your OP you claimed that you have netapps for which Cygwin > > returns "cifs" and other netapps for which Cygwin returns "vfat" as > > filesystem. The above one is clearly one of the "cifs" type. > > > > Here's the question: D

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 17:32, koerner.sebastian wrote: > Hello Corinna, > > Oh, btw. In your OP you claimed that you have netapps for which Cygwin > returns "cifs" and other netapps for which Cygwin returns "vfat" as > filesystem. The above one is clearly one of the "cifs" type. > > Here's the questio

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-17 Thread koerner.sebast...@t-online.de
Hello Corinna, Oh, btw. In your OP you claimed that you have netapps for which Cygwin returns "cifs" and other netapps for which Cygwin returns "vfat" as filesystem. The above one is clearly one of the "cifs" type. Here's the question: Do you *really* have some for which the latest Cygwi

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 16:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 17 15:16, koerner.sebast...@t-online.de wrote: > > Hi Corinna, > > > > > Try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > I used the one from Nov 2th. No change. Dotfiles are created and the > > mount does not say "netapp"

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 15:16, koerner.sebast...@t-online.de wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > > Try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > I used the one from Nov 2th. No change. Dotfiles are created and the > mount does not say "netapp" > > Anyway, if the latest snapshot does not solve

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-17 Thread koerner.sebast...@t-online.de
TE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE bash-3.2$ pwd /cygdrive/s bash-3.2$ Maybe there is an unhappy coincidence with the netapps and this is a race condition between find -exec and rmdir that did not occur before 1.7? Because from your earlier postings i expect rmdir to leave

Re: NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 10:20, koerner.sebast...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am referring to > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00164.html > where Slide reports about weird files appearing on netapp and Corinna > Vinschen says that this is fixed in CVS - and this recycle bin method shoul

NetAPP / cygwin 1.7.7-1 avoid Recycle BIN dot files

2010-11-17 Thread koerner.sebast...@t-online.de
Hello everyone, I am referring to http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00164.html where Slide reports about weird files appearing on netapp and Corinna Vinschen says that this is fixed in CVS - and this recycle bin method should not be used for netapp devices. We currently have the same i

Re: dot files

2007-10-10 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Another way is to open a cygwin prompt and type touch .filename -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: dot files

2007-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Morgan Gangwere on 10/10/2007 6:50 AM: > Obviously, Windows Explorer is stupid, and has a mundane limitation. The > workaround is to use cygwin to create . files. > >> there is another option, use another file manager such as >> totalCom

Re: dot files

2007-10-10 Thread Morgan Gangwere
ancky Leyn\My Documents\.foo > > with the Windows explorer file manager this doesn't work. > > Explorere says: "You must type a file name". > > > > What is wrong here? Must I rename the .dot files/dirs, so that they > > have a basename? > > Obvious

Re: dot files

2007-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
pe a file name". > > What is wrong here? Must I rename the .dot files/dirs, so that they > have a basename? Obviously, Windows Explorer is stupid, and has a mundane limitation. The workaround is to use cygwin to create . files. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun