Re: missing 'which' documentation
--- Lee D. Rothstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install. If anybody wants this, I will find or create the 'man' page and make it cover '-a', and then do *what* with it? Pointers appreciated! To see the value of this option try (assuming you have MS executable directories in your path): which ping vs which -a ping which find vs which -a find and which dir == which -a dir i.e., 'dir' is an internal of 'cmd.exe' Lee Rothstein would be good, though I realised that for programs, like squid (whose cygwin port does not even seem to work, but there is a windows port).. One is expected to go online for the documentation! So I consider an internet connection somewhat mandatory - unfortunately. I have typed man which, at google. I did notice that cygwin had no man or info page for which. on a related note- i also check /usr/share/doc , since programs can put documentation there, and furthermore, that documentation is different, not conforming to the strict man page format. I guess there is no excuse for a simple thing like a man page to not be installed - available offline. Even a large man page is small enough, and this is a small man page. ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ ___ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:51:46 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: glib != glibc. Yeah, I realized my error (faulty memory) just an hour or two ago when I ran setup again and read the short package descriptions: glib is part of GNOME, and Cygwin Ports doesn't have a port of glibc. :( And I don't see why this is specific to Cygwin Ports, because the main Cygwin distro has glib and glib2 as well. It's not specific to CP-- they host the standard Cygwin distro as well, which is convenient when a CP package has dependencies. But again these are *not* in any way related to glibc. Yep, this error brought to you by an arguably POSIX-noncompliant environment running on 52-year-old wetware, which is consequently subject to bit rot from time to time... -- Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near stable enough for a release. -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
On Dec 12 22:55, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install. If anybody wants this, I will find or create the 'man' page and make it cover '-a', and then do *what* with it? Pointers appreciated! Cygwin's which is quite an old one written by me. The best way to move forward would probably be to remove it from the Cygwin distro in favor of the which used in several (all?) Linux distros: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/which/ Anybody volunteering to become which maintainer for Cygwin? See http://cygwin.com/setup.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
Ha. I just saw this subject and though man which, then I got hungry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee D. Rothstein Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:55 PM To: Cygwin Subject: missing 'which' documentation Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install. If anybody wants this, I will find or create the 'man' page and make it cover '-a', and then do *what* with it? Pointers appreciated! To see the value of this option try (assuming you have MS executable directories in your path): which ping vs which -a ping which find vs which -a find and which dir == which -a dir i.e., 'dir' is an internal of 'cmd.exe' Lee Rothstein -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:34:48 +0100 (CET), Marco Atzeri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Lee D. Rothstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install. my info which says `--all' `-a' Print all matching executables in `PATH', not just the first. but I am using the 2.16 version of cygwinports :-) Heh heh... Care to write a little more about that? I didn't see a base package (other than the cygport packager tool) or installation with that version number, but was delighted to see a port of glib there. That will be very useful for those apps that expect glib and won't build under newlib. -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:24:29 +0100, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 12 22:55, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install. If anybody wants this, I will find or create the 'man' page and make it cover '-a', and then do *what* with it? Pointers appreciated! Cygwin's which is quite an old one written by me. The best way to move forward would probably be to remove it from the Cygwin distro in favor of the which used in several (all?) Linux distros: I recall (perhaps even correctly :) ) that SunOS had a where command with the functionality of your 'which -a'. The idea was that where would show you all scripts and executables of a given name in your command path (ie. where they are), while which would tell you *which* one of them would execute at the shell prompt. So unusual, to see a pair of utilities whose names were so nearly self-explanatory. :) Is the Linux which like yours (ie. 'which -a' == SunOS 'where')? -- Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near stable enough for a release. -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
On Dec 13 07:31, Jeff wrote: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin's which is quite an old one written by me. The best way to move forward would probably be to remove it from the Cygwin distro in favor of the which used in several (all?) Linux distros: I recall (perhaps even correctly :) ) that SunOS had a where command with the functionality of your 'which -a'. [...] Is the Linux which like yours (ie. 'which -a' == SunOS 'where')? Yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
Marco Atzeri wrote: but I am using the 2.16 version of cygwinports :-) Jeff wrote: Heh heh... Care to write a little more about that? I didn't see a base package (other than the cygport packager tool) or installation with that version number, but was delighted to see a port of glib there. That will be very useful for those apps that expect glib and won't build under newlib. Marco Atzeri wrote: http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/ Uhm... thanks! :) Guess I forgot to mention it, but that is where I saw glib, but didn't see a base package (other than the cygport tool)-- I do make some effort to research things first before posting questions, and this site turned up near the top of a Google search. I also saw their pages on http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwin-ports/ but searching the two (very low volume) mailing lists for 2.16 turned up nothing useful. Finally, I added ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports as a user URL to setup.exe as suggested on the cygwinports home page (nice of them to maintain a setup.ini file so that their users don't have to figure out package dependencies) and looked at the packages listed for install, but didn't see anything in the base category that is any different from what standard Cygwin mirrors show, even with Exp(erimental versions) selected. So I am still curious to know about this cygwinports package that stands at ver. 2.16, and seems to have documentation not included in the standard Cygwin packages. Jeff -- Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near stable enough for a release. -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
Jeff wrote: that version number, but was delighted to see a port of glib there. That will be very useful for those apps that expect glib and won't build under newlib. glib != glibc. And I don't see why this is specific to Cygwin Ports, because the main Cygwin distro has glib and glib2 as well. But again these are *not* in any way related to glibc. Brian -- 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/
missing 'which' documentation
Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install. If anybody wants this, I will find or create the 'man' page and make it cover '-a', and then do *what* with it? Pointers appreciated! To see the value of this option try (assuming you have MS executable directories in your path): which ping vs which -a ping which find vs which -a find and which dir == which -a dir i.e., 'dir' is an internal of 'cmd.exe' Lee Rothstein -- 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: missing 'which' documentation
--- Lee D. Rothstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install. my info which says `--all' `-a' Print all matching executables in `PATH', not just the first. but I am using the 2.16 version of cygwinports :-) Regards Marco ___ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- 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/
