Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:52:08 -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >> Brian Dessent 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 with Windows XP. ntvdm as you described is a virtual

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 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

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 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 all

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:35:53 -0800, Brian Dessent 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 described as "nati

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 bu

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 NT/2k/

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,