Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:52:08 -0500, Robert Pendell shinji+gmane[at]elite-systems[dot]org wrote: Brian Dessent brian[at]dessent[dot]net wrote: since DOS hasn't existed in Windows in the last approx. 7 years. I should rephrase for him. TRUE dos support is non-existant anymore. This started

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dave Korn wrote: Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, not a cygwin one. I only use 'cygcheck' that comes with Cygwin! Brian Dessent wrote: I think you mean it's a MSVCRT-based program Does this mean that the 'cygcheck' has used MSVCRT-based program to build

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:35:53 -0800, Brian Dessent brian[at]dessent[dot]net wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, not a cygwin one. I think you mean it's a MSVCRT-based program I guess that's one way to describe them. I've heard them

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Lilja
Angelo, think about. Of course it's native windows program without any dependency on cygwin1.dll. It's supposed to be able to inspect your cygwin installation even when it's so hosed that you can't even launch a bash shell. Thus, it's a pure windows program and generates line breaks the way

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Eric Lilja wrote: Of course it's native windows program without any dependency on cygwin1.dll Oh yes! only now I have realized: $ cygcheck /bin/cygcheck.exe C:\cygwin\bin/cygcheck.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:35:53 -0800, Brian Dessent brian[at]dessent[dot]net wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, not a cygwin one. I think you mean it's a MSVCRT-based program

A question on cygcheck

2007-12-20 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have noted that the command $ cygcheck -cv check.out creates the check.out file in DOS (CR+LF) style. Is this correct? Cheers, Angelo. --- http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi Facesti come quei che va di notte, che porta il lume dietro e se' non giova, ma dopo se' fa

RE: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 December 2007 22:41, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have noted that the command $ cygcheck -cv check.out creates the check.out file in DOS (CR+LF) style. Is this correct? Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, not a cygwin one. cheers, DaveK

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, not a cygwin one. I think you mean it's a MSVCRT-based program since DOS hasn't existed in Windows in the last approx. 7 years. (And now if I could only get people to stop incorrectly referring to a