Re: [ITP] mlcscope-14.1.8

2006-07-27 Thread Dave Diane
Hi Reini, I've updated the packages at http://www.lowtechnet.com/cscope . Could you take another look and let me know if anything else stands out or needs fixing? I have one issue that I'm not sure about. I moved the notes.* files back in to the src dir, but I am not sure if this is the

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2006-07-27 Thread Admin
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Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-27 Thread Dirk Schleicher
Am Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:51 -0400 (EDT) schrieb Igor Peshansky: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Dirk Schleicher wrote: Am Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:04:53 -0500 schrieb René Berber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Sorry, I didn't saw it. Hope its better now.

Re: XWindows version of Java?

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
siegfried wrote: I notice the cygwin version of emacs runs in XWindows and is one of the few XWindows programs I run frequently on windows. I assume (I have not tried it yet) I can run the cygwin version of emacs on my home windows machine from a remote machine with the xhost and ssh -X

RE: XWindows version of Java?

2006-07-27 Thread Benton, Kevin
Remote X-Windows from Cygwin apps has worked fine for me including Emacs. I haven't tried it with javaw, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. --- Kevin Benton Perl/Bugzilla Developer/Administrator, Perforce SCM Administrator AMD - ECSD Software Validation and Tools The opinions stated

Re: XWindows version of Java?

2006-07-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, siegfried wrote: I notice the cygwin version of emacs runs in XWindows and is one of the few XWindows programs I run frequently on windows. I assume (I have not tried it yet) I can run the cygwin version of emacs on my home windows machine from a remote machine with the

Re: ImageMagick 6.0.4 no longer executes with package xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1

2006-07-27 Thread Jason
/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll. I also discovered that this DLL itself relies on another missing DLL: /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll which I found in the same package. Work-around: I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the previous version of this package

Re: ImageMagick 6.0.4 no longer executes with package xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Hadfield
Jason wrote: I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and hand-installing them by copying them into the relevant directory. Fortunately they are still compatible with the other DLLs they depend on. I am

Re: XWindows version of Java?

2006-07-27 Thread René Berber
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, siegfried wrote: I notice the cygwin version of emacs runs in XWindows and is one of the few XWindows programs I run frequently on windows. I assume (I have not tried it yet) I can run the cygwin version of emacs on my home windows machine from a

Re: XWindows version of Java?

2006-07-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, René Berber wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, siegfried wrote: I notice the cygwin version of emacs runs in XWindows and is one of the few XWindows programs I run frequently on windows. I assume (I have not tried it yet) I can run the cygwin

Keyboard and Mouse Input delay/pausing using 6.8.99.901

2006-07-27 Thread Hill, Shane
G'day All, I just updated to 6.8.99.901 from 6.8.2.0 for Xorg under Cygwin. Logging in via XDMCP to a remote hosts is causing me some issues now. I connect okay, but as soon as I enter some text into a Konsole or the like, a variable keyboard delay of 0.5-1.0 seconds seems to start. It also seems

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandle ...

2006-07-27 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-27 09:11:39 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandler_socket.cc net.cc select.cc Log message: * fhandler.h (class fhandler_socket): Remove

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc ...

2006-07-27 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-27 13:58:54 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc poll.cc select.cc Log message: * fhandler_socket.cc: Revert misguided attempt to handle FD_CLOSE error

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog cygpath.cc

2006-07-27 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-27 21:07:33 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog cygpath.cc Log message: * cygpath.c (get_long_name): Cover the case that GetLongPathName doesn't return valid information

Re: [send|recv]msg tidy

2006-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 26 22:03, Brian Ford wrote: * fhandler_socket.cc (fhandler_socket::recvmsg): Remove unused tot argument. All callers changed. (fhandler_socket::sendmsg): Likewise. * net.cc (cygwin_recvmsg): Likewise. (cygwin_sendmsg): Likewise, and prevent calling

Re: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 26 21:35, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to John and Holly Klug on 7/25/2006 7:32 PM: It would still be nice if cygwin find supported junctions. cygwin find will only support junctions if the underlying cygwin is changed to support them,

RE: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

2006-07-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:26 PM: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:12:51AM -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote: Yes. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg8.html. If you are using a POSIX-like OS (i.e. Cygwin), you should be using POSIX paths. That's not an

Re: 1.5.20: Occasional crash at address 0x6100365f (cygthread::stub() in cygthre

2006-07-27 Thread Kiyo Kelvin Lee
At least not for me. See my another post in this thread. Both 1.5.21 and snapshot 20060718 do not help. And I have the feeling that crashes happen more often with 1.5.21. Great to hear that I am not alone having the problem. Regards, Kiyo Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jon Harrison wrote: Hi, I

RE: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27 July 2006 08:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 26 21:35, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to John and Holly Klug on 7/25/2006 7:32 PM: It would still be nice if cygwin find supported junctions. cygwin find will only support junctions if

cygwin and db2

2006-07-27 Thread prz
I have different machines with cygwin and db2 installed There is 1 machine that is acting differently from the other machines, although I don't modify many setting in cygwin/windows The case is that if I connect to database : this is successfull but this connection is immediatly lost. I execute

Re: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 09:42, Dave Korn wrote: On 27 July 2006 08:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 26 21:35, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to John and Holly Klug on 7/25/2006 7:32 PM: It would still be nice if cygwin find supported junctions.

Re: [Q] About halting problems at installation of cygwin

2006-07-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reformatted to avoid top-posting: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf ^^^ Please avoid raw email addresses in

cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread aldana
hi, i've got usb 2.0, when i copy through TotalCommander the copy speed is quite high. when i copy through cygwin shell it seems that it is transmitting data only with usb 1.x speed. very spooky, because i thought that cygwin is calling windows drivers/api so it should be indirectly supporting

Re: Problem using ftp with rxvt

2006-07-27 Thread Charles D. Russell
Thanks. You provided several solutions to my problem. Try searching for bin/script\b on the Cygwin package search page Is the syntax for the Cygwin package search described somewhere? I don't know the meaning of \b. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Problem using ftp with rxvt

2006-07-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Charles D. Russell on 7/27/2006 6:58 AM: Thanks. You provided several solutions to my problem. Try searching for bin/script\b on the Cygwin package search page Is the syntax for the Cygwin package search described somewhere? I

Re: [Q] About halting problems at installation of cygwin

2006-07-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Eric Blake wrote: In your setup.log.full, you had lots of these messages: 2006/07/25 17:12:47 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory My recollection is that this has been improved in a recent snapshot of setup.exe - who is in charge of releasing

Re: 1.5.20: Occasional crash at address 0x6100365f (cygthread::stub() in cygthre

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:55:55PM +1000, Kiyo Kelvin Lee wrote: At least not for me. See my another post in this thread. Both 1.5.21 and snapshot 20060718 do not help. And I have the feeling that crashes happen more often with 1.5.21. Great to hear that I am not alone having the problem. I'm

RE: libplot program on cygwin

2006-07-27 Thread Kenneth Nellis
This sounds like possibly the same problem as I reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00147.html, which was a bug introduced in Cygwin version 1.5.20 and fixed in 1.5.21. --Ken Nellis -Original Message- From: Eric Inazaki [mailto:einazaki668 at yahoo dot com] Sent:

RE: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: aldana Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:15 AM Subject: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0 hi, i've got usb 2.0, when i copy through TotalCommander the copy speed is quite high. I have no idea what a TotalCommander is, but from the context here I assume it's a native Windows app that

cygwin-1.5.21: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

2006-07-27 Thread Matthias Bolz
Hi, after updating from cygwin 1.5.19-4 to 1.5.21-1 cygpath seems to show a bug when called with the --long-name (or -l) option: Assuming that the filename 12345678901234567890 does NOT exist in the current dir, cygpath shows the following output: $ cygpath -m -l 12345678901234567890

Re: Where is complex.h

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Fisher
On 7/26/06, TV JOE wrote: Would any of you that replied be interested in assisting me with compiling this program. It's a C program written for a Suse Linux distribution. The author maintains the only problem would be resolving the complex.h warnings. just for completion on the mailing

RE: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread aldana
total commander is a clone of norton commander. something like midnight commander on linux. i thought the same: choice between usb 1.x and 2.0 is done far lower level that cygwin can really influence it. but the difference of speed made me consipicious. example, copying a single file (.tar.gz)

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
aldana wrote: total commander is a clone of norton commander. something like midnight commander on linux. i thought the same: choice between usb 1.x and 2.0 is done far lower level that cygwin can really influence it. but the difference of speed made me consipicious. example, copying a single

Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

2006-07-27 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Hirsch wrote: On 7/21/06, mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Hirsch wrote: Here is a sample Makefile that breaks with Gnu Make 3.81-1 under Cygwin, but works fine with Gnu Make 3.80-1. We have been writing these types of Makefiles for years, using both Windows and Cygwin

Re: tar, win-path conversion bug

2006-07-27 Thread mwoehlke
Linda Walsh wrote: I think I've run into a bug concerning tar and the use of windows format paths. It's not a bug that is difficult to work around, but it still seems as though it is a bug that someone may wish to address (in their spare time, of course :-). I wanted to save a list of files

Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:00:41PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Michael Hirsch wrote: I see. Unfortunately, I am trying to use cygwin to make my life easier on Windows, but I am still constrained to use windows programs. Many of them cannot use the cygwin paths, but require a path like c:/my/path.exe.

Re: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-27 Thread mwoehlke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] Another annoying fact is that we have three different types of symlinks then. Sigh. Four, if Interix symlinks were supported :-(. -- Matthew Ok, so the quotes aren't entirely original. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: libplot program on cygwin

2006-07-27 Thread Eric Inazaki
Kenneth Nellis knellis at syntek-usa.com writes: This sounds like possibly the same problem as I reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00147.html, which was a bug introduced in Cygwin version 1.5.20 and fixed in 1.5.21. --Ken Nellis I am a dope. After reading your post I

Apache2-2.2.2-1 Bug starting server

2006-07-27 Thread Razi Khaja
Hello, (1) I installed the binary package for Apache2-2.2.2-1 (2) I did not edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (3) I executed the command /usr/sbin/apachectl2 -t and the output was: httpd2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.1.106 for ServerName

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread aldana
when running a little program using CopyFile() under cygwin it is about as quick as totalcommander. so it must be the abstraction layer of cygwin which makes copying vry slow... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/cygwin-copy-problems-usb-2.0-tf2009189.html#a5528112

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
aldana wrote: when running a little program using CopyFile() under cygwin it is about as quick as totalcommander. so it must be the abstraction layer of cygwin which makes copying vry slow... Not necessarily. To draw that conclusion, you would want to compare the implementation of 'cp'

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:17:14PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: aldana wrote: when running a little program using CopyFile() under cygwin it is about as quick as totalcommander. so it must be the abstraction layer of cygwin which makes copying vry slow... Not necessarily. To draw that

Windows popup/message box?

2006-07-27 Thread Richard Foulk
Aloha, Looking for a simple way to popup a message box on Windows via a Perl script on a system with Cygwin. Looking for portability, light weight, foolproof. The `net send' option doesn't seem very reliable or portable. Thanks! Richard -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 14:10, mwoehlke wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] Another annoying fact is that we have three different types of symlinks then. Sigh. Four, if Interix symlinks were supported :-(. No, no, no. Two is bad enough, three is worse, but at least the third method is a native one,

Re: Apache2-2.2.2-1 Bug starting server

2006-07-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Razi Khaja wrote: Hello, (1) I installed the binary package for Apache2-2.2.2-1 (2) I did not edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (3) I executed the command /usr/sbin/apachectl2 -t and the output was: httpd2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread aldana
isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker cp-implementation? i mean 4 minutes for a copy of 70MB to a memstick (instead of CopyFile() 20 sec.) is not really good performance. i guess there is a reason for that... -- View this message in context:

Re: cygwin-1.5.21: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

2006-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 19:10, Matthias Bolz wrote: i.e., as long as the file name does not exist and exceeds a certain length, it gets scrambled with the -l option. Without the -l option, in posix format, or if the file exists, the output is fine. Can you confirm this bug? Is there a workaround? Thanks

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 13:48, aldana wrote: isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker cp-implementation? i mean 4 minutes for a copy of 70MB to a memstick (instead of CopyFile() 20 sec.) is not really good performance. i guess there is a reason for that... Right, how did you know? The

Re: Windows popup/message box?

2006-07-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Richard Foulk wrote: Looking for a simple way to popup a message box on Windows via a Perl script on a system with Cygwin. Looking for portability, light weight, foolproof. The `net send' option doesn't seem very reliable or portable. Theoretically, it should be as

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bd To summarize, the Cygwin version of make prior to 3.81 contained bd local patches to support both posix and Windows paths. The Cygwin bd maintainer got tired of continuously maintaining these local bd patches and so when packaging 3.81 the

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% I wrote: pds I believe that this support is limited to handling drive letters without pds choking on the :, actually: IIRC the native support still requires pds forward slashes (/) rather than backslashes (\). I could be wrong pds though. I'm not sure how Cygwin's pathname management

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
aldana wrote: isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker cp-implementation? i mean 4 minutes for a copy of 70MB to a memstick (instead of CopyFile() 20 sec.) is not really good performance. i guess there is a reason for that... Chris has already given you the answer but feel

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 27 13:48, aldana wrote: isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker cp-implementation? i mean 4 minutes for a copy of 70MB to a memstick (instead of CopyFile() 20 sec.) is not really good performance. i guess

How to run a cygwin command from the window scheduler

2006-07-27 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I need to schedule a job and it is not worth installing cron on our W2K3 hosts for just for this one backup application. I have a name.sh script that if I run in a bash window it runs fine. In a W2K3 command prompt window I have tried C:\cygwin\usr\bin\bash.exe -c

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: In fact, I'm wondering if there is an advantage to building GNU make using the Cygwin environment, vs. using a native MingW (for example) build of GNU make? I'm afraid I'm woefully ignorant about the details. There is no advantage

How do I get spawn and twist options to work in hosts.deny(allow)

2006-07-27 Thread mike c
Hi, I have the cygwin sshd daemon installed and running on my machine. I have edited the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files to use tcp wrappers. I can get the daemon to recognize the process, the client-list and to either deny or allow access to sshd depending on the client-list rules in the

Re: How to run a cygwin command from the window scheduler

2006-07-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I need to schedule a job and it is not worth installing cron on our W2K3 hosts for just for this one backup application. I have a name.sh script that if I run in a bash window it runs fine. In a W2K3 command prompt window I have tried

RE: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread William Sheehan
There is no advantage using cygwin if you want to use a Makefile which contains MS-DOS paths. Using MinGW makes perfect sense in that case. I strongly disagree with this statement. A primary benefit of using Cygwin is that so many Linux-like tools are available from one central installer. If

find version 4.3.0, -path someNonDir -prune

2006-07-27 Thread Robbie Gates
Hi All, i am seeing strange behaviour with the most recent findutils update when using -prune with a -path which is an existing file which is not a directory. It seems the pruning is held over for the next found file. : 1030; mkdir C : 1031; touch B C/X C/Y D : 1032; find . \( -path ./A -prune

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Brian Dessent
William Sheehan wrote: I can imagine that the immediate response to this complaint will be fix your Makefiles to work with Cygwin if it's such an important component. As others have mentioned, this is no simple task in very large Makefile systems that support a wide variety of compilation

NT-5.1 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-07-27 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
Hi, I'm not sure this is the correct place for bug reporting but I couldnt find anything else on the website, so here goes. For the sake of argument, there are two fileformat=dos files A and B, each having n lines. A has the single character 'a' (other than linebreaks) on each line, B has the

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:31:53PM -0700, William Sheehan wrote: There is no advantage using cygwin if you want to use a Makefile which contains MS-DOS paths. Using MinGW makes perfect sense in that case. I strongly disagree with this statement. A primary benefit of using Cygwin is that so many

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:40:18PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: William Sheehan wrote: I can imagine that the immediate response to this complaint will be fix your Makefiles to work with Cygwin if it's such an important component. As others have mentioned, this is no simple task in very large

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we have had people who have complained because make became confused by certain uses of a ':' in the old version of make. I see now that this is because of the attempt to interpret a valid make rule as a MS-DOS path. So, I'm less inclined to want to

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:07:50PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we have had people who have complained because make became confused by certain uses of a ':' in the old version of make. I see now that this is because of the attempt to interpret a valid make rule

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Bob Rossi
I can imagine that the immediate response to this complaint will be fix your Makefiles to work with Cygwin if it's such an important component. As others have mentioned, this is no simple task in very large Makefile systems that support a wide variety of compilation toolchains. Cygwin make

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Michael Eager
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: In fact, I'm wondering if there is an advantage to building GNU make using the Cygwin environment, vs. using a native MingW (for example) build of GNU make? I'm afraid I'm woefully ignorant about the

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:16:38PM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: There are two equally unpleasant resolutions recommended: either install two products (Cygwin and MinGW) or retain a back-level version of make, forgoing all future bug fixes. Neither are very good, but I've opted for the second

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Hadfield
William Sheehan wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: There is no advantage using cygwin if you want to use a Makefile which contains MS-DOS paths. Using MinGW makes perfect sense in that case. I strongly disagree with this statement. A primary benefit of using Cygwin is that so many