RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-13 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
At 08:47 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Eduardo Chappa wrote: That was CGF himself, he volunteered to not to volunteer. He brought this topic onto himself. This statement is disingenuous. For shame. Perhaps, perhaps not. I'm still waiting

RE: cygwin: /proc and /cygdrive insvisible

2004-07-13 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
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RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Eduardo Chappa wrote: That was CGF himself, he volunteered to not to volunteer. He brought this topic onto himself. This statement is disingenuous. For shame. Perhaps, perhaps not. I'm still waiting for somebody, other than you Chris[1], to

RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
On Sun, July 11, 2004 10:22 pm, LDR said: --- Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *PCYMTNQREAIYR* -- Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. - What mailers (mail clients?) do

RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
cygwin-ownerXXXYOU_KNOW_THE_REST wrote on Sunday, July 11, 2004 7:54 PM: On Sun, July 11, 2004 10:22 pm, LDR said: --- Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *PCYMTNQREAIYR* -- Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your

RE: Extending long threads

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
GARY VANSICKLE wrote: There's three reasons people knee-jerk against HTML email: 1. It isn't ASCII (i.e. the Back in my day a child would open up a gift and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb! That's the way it was and we liked it![1] Defense). 2a. There isn't

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Responding before I read the whole thread, as I'm sure this gets a whole lot uglier: On Jul 9 11:03, William Blunn wrote: I think not. I think the counter argument would be Yes we know it makes the occasional command-line appear line-wrapped, but that is a nano-issue compared to

RE: Extending long threads (was: RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?))

2004-07-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
As a person who regularly uses HTML style email and posting (much to many peoples chargrin and complaints) I rarely fester them with all sorts of colors and fonts. Other HTML emails and posts I receive are also rarely festered with all sorts of colors and fonts. Why? Because doing so

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Nobody's trying to force you to read. You shouldn't try to force them to write in a particular style. In the end communication, at least civil communication and I'd say any communication that is, in the long term, successsful, always requires *compromise* on both parties. Your stated

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I never used the word fix, please do not misunderstand me. I refer to this as enhance. Yes, it is broken, by the way. So, it's broken and you want me to enhance it so that it won't be broken anymore but you were not suggesting a fix. Got it. Can somebody show me where anybody made

RE: higher-level IO very slow with cygwin1.dll 5.10 (due to set_flags?)

2004-06-26 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Possibly I should add that I am comparing the behavior of version 1.5.10 to a much older version that I was using before. It wasn't by chance... oh... say... B20? ;-) So whatever is causing this odd behavior on my system may not be a feature that was new to version 1.5.10. I am

RE: Delete key... was home directory.

2004-06-17 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Am I the only one that thinks reading a 12 page document, and possibly editing 5 different config files is a hell of a lot of work just to get the delete key to work?!?!?! You want to make the delete key delete in bash? No, he just wants the delete key to work as God intended it to work.

RE: Generic build script instructions

2004-06-16 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
So, to answer that question, why not something like this: # --- BEGIN_DEFS --- if [ -f ${FULLPKG}.defs ]; then . ${FULLPKG}.defs fi # --- END_DEFS --- So, if my source package name is foo.tar.Z, then I can put the [snip] following in my defs file: # Maintainer defs

[SEMI-OT]: XP SP2 (was: RE: Unable to open files including Korean names)

2004-06-13 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Hello from Gregg C Levine Actually Gary, its called SP2 RC1, for XP. Its going through that phase, with SP1 RC2 due out towards the end of the month, and the actual SP2 going to the RTM phase so that its in time to be released by the 21 July, date. (If you can believe that.) I of course

RE: Unable to open files including Korean names

2004-06-12 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I did some test and found out that ``every file whose path includes Korean characters weren't openable.'' Still, I could move arround those [snip] I just installed the XP SP2 preview or whatever they call it. One of the things in the very long list of things it claims to fix is some problem

RE: Please include unsubscribe information in announcement email

2004-06-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I hesitate to enforce a standard template for all announcements but I really would like to see people start including unsubscribe instructions in their announcement email. Please do me a favor and include unsubscribe instructions in your announcement email. Please just copy the few lines

RE: more pain - YAM

2004-06-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
When you send messages to a mailing list, you invite discussion. That is why we have mailing lists. Well, that's why other organizations have mailing lists anyway. (Please send all we're just means to the list or not at all. I have a very thin skin and get offended if somebody sends me

RE: flushall

2004-06-04 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Not sure what an hdf5 is, but in general it is not possible to do sync-to-backing-storage from an arbitrary account in Windows. Not even on removable media, which of course is where you often need it most. Microsoft's rationale behind this escapes me, but there it is. Furthermore, even

RE: flushall

2004-06-01 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I'm trying to port some code that uses flushall() to cygwin. The non-windows version of the code uses 'system(sync)' but this fails the builtin tests. The code is hdf5-1.6.2, in case that helps. Not sure what an hdf5 is, but in general it is not possible to do sync-to-backing-storage from

RE: Data loss in Cygwin's creator?

2004-05-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I got this *System Error* message in my e-mail: *plonk* Ahh... cgf I'm concerned that creator might be dropping some critical data. However someone more knowledgeable in these matters will have debug this. I also don't have a 64 sheet test roll installed in my bathroom.

RE: Data loss in Cygwin's creator?

2004-05-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I got this *System Error* message in my e-mail: *plonk* Ahh... cgf I'm concerned that creator might be dropping some critical data. However someone more knowledgeable in these matters will have debug this. I also don't have a 64 sheet test roll installed in my bathroom. Brian

RE: Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-22 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:26:00AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) that Cygwin is different (e.g. we could do this in the cygwin :) applications mailing list). :) :) Why do you want to change so many programs when all you need is a :) cygwin managed mount? IMO, the correct

RE: Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-21 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Hello, I have been trying to fix a patch for maildir for Pine, and while thinking about this I recalled that support for Maildir in Cygwin (e.g Mutt) has been discussed a couple of times. It seems to be that the only thing stopping people from being able to use it is a agreement on the

RE: Comparative Performance of C++ Compilers (including gcc cygming special)

2004-04-21 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
[snip] New copying methods have been added and checked: Test file modes : text, binary -- Testsuites -- C-01 : Functions getc() and putc() C-02 : Functions fgetc() and fputc() C-03 : Functions fread() and

RE: working sync() code

2004-04-10 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Hi all, I found a way to issue an actual sync() on win32, and as browsing through winsup directory gave me only this winsup/sygwin/syscalls.cc #1128 extern C int sync () { return 0; } I think cygwin DLL might benefit from a code I found by looking in sync.exe by

RE: working sync() code

2004-04-10 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
[snip] SUSv3 has this to say about sync(): quote The sync() function shall cause all information in memory that updates file systems to be scheduled for writing out to all file systems. The writing, although scheduled, is not necessarily complete upon return from sync(). /quote

RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.

2004-04-04 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Noo... Please, remove all of these safety checks. There must be some kind of user sanity presupposition. Or else the tools soon will be crippled to a state where they are unusable for normal work. FWIW I'm with Hannu. Should rm ask you, Do you *really* want to delete this file?, or make a

RE: cygwin... from Turkey

2004-04-01 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Subject: Re: cygwin... from Turkey ...NER NERRR! Keep on rockin' in the Free world!... ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into