Batch-style variables to detect change in Cygdrive

Is there anyway I can get batch-style relative drive paths in Cygwin? An example of what I mean is "%~d0". The reason for is is that I would like to mount folders from a USB, so the drive (the variable I showed does drive) will change everytime I plug the USB in. After abit of playing around I

Re: gcc Cygwin package maintainer

On 08/08/2010 00:00, Jerry DeLisle wrote: > So I have sjlj backwards. I will fix that. Then the following I am not > sure about. > > --disable-__cxa_atexit > > --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc > > Shall I include these? Yes, do. I think they're mostly the default anyw

Re: Opening .n extensions

Eliot Moss cs.umass.edu> writes: > On 8/8/2010 4:54 AM, Nicholas Sherlock wrote: > > On 8/08/2010 7:23 p.m., Luetta wrote: > > The 168 byte length strongly suggests that it is a 160 byte SMS > (text) message with a few extra bytes added by the phone for its > own purposes. And the contents sugge

Possible pipe(2) bug

I think the pipe(2) implementation may have a bug. The pipe function creates a pipe and returns two file descriptors (which are just numbers), one for reading and one for writing. However sometimes (but rarely) two subsequent calls to the pipe function returns the same file descriptor twice. T

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

On 8/7/2010 4:46 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I'm willing to try again if anything has improved. But there were also issues about me signing off contracts to Redhat or something -- not something normal to most open source projects...and that was a bit of a put off as well. Has anything changed? I b

Re: Problem with subversion-apache2

Again, . Don't feed the spammers. On 8/6/2010 8:22 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: Yep, I made sure to shut down all cygwin applications I am aware of that were running which were shown in the Windows Services. Unfortunately I don't know what the errorno 6 me

Re: Opening .n extensions

On 8/8/2010 4:54 AM, Nicholas Sherlock wrote: On 8/08/2010 7:23 p.m., Luetta wrote: The 168 byte length strongly suggests that it is a 160 byte SMS (text) message with a few extra bytes added by the phone for its own purposes. And the contents suggest that as well, though why they are not more

Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

On 08/08/2010 12:40 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Bopp" : It sounds like your Samba configuration requires authentication in order to access this share. Are you able to access the share as \\server\share using the Windows file explorer without first mapping the share to a drive or

Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

Quoting "Jeremy Bopp" : It sounds like your Samba configuration requires authentication in order to access this share. Are you able to access the share as \\server\share using the Windows file explorer without first mapping the share to a drive or authenticating in some other way? Cygwin uses

Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

On 08/08/2010 03:42 AM, Phil Reynolds wrote: > In order to cut down on the overall time my backups are taking, I am > thinking of running flexbackup under cygwin. However, I will want it to > write to a directory I have shared from my Linux box using samba, > without mounting it explicitly. > > I

Re: Opening .n extensions

I guess I would also mention that you could learn to use the cygwin tools to figure this out on your own later :) The above "file not found" after the story could even be due to the lack of phone related headers in the request if this mumbo jumbo is designed to lock you to certain devices. If you g

Re: Moses with Cygwin on Windows 7

Dear Morgan, thanks for the tip. Can you turn it off for only some recognised programs? It does not mention this option in Microsoft's online Guided Help (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975788). Unfortunately, I don't have Windows 7 yet so I can't test it myself. Thanks, Llio Humphreys

Re: Moses with Cygwin on Windows 7

Dear Eliot, your script does indeed sound much better. Is it available to share? Many thanks for sharing your insights in any case. Best regards, Llio Humphreys Quoting Eliot Moss : On 8/7/2010 5:23 PM, cbs...@bangor.ac.uk wrote: many thanks for your reply. On why we need cygwin: the lang

Re: Opening .n extensions

On 8/08/2010 7:23 p.m., Luetta wrote: [..] When my phone said the files were too large and was unable to open the files I downloaded them to my computer to open. Windows said it needed to go to the internet to obtain the program to open the file. I went onto the web and no programs, [save expen

Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

In order to cut down on the overall time my backups are taking, I am thinking of running flexbackup under cygwin. However, I will want it to write to a directory I have shared from my Linux box using samba, without mounting it explicitly. I understand that this at least ought to be possible

Re: Opening .n extensions

On 8 August 2010 08:23, Luetta wrote: > First of all I would like to Thank You! in advance for answering this > question. > I read the 'stupid question' warnings, read through the forum topics, searched > dogpile, google, and yahoo search engines and could not find the answer.  I > admit ahead of

Opening .n extensions

Hi, First of all I would like to Thank You! in advance for answering this question. I read the 'stupid question' warnings, read through the forum topics, searched dogpile, google, and yahoo search engines and could not find the answer. I admit ahead of time to having a rudimentary understand