Re: alias appears to not work inside a called bash script

2017-08-24 Thread L A Walsh
Kaz Kylheku wrote: There is an issue there (though not for the Cygwin project). I don't see where ... "expanding aliases in interactive mode, but ignoring them in non-interactive operation" [is required by POSIX]. POSIX seems to unequivocally be calling for Alias Expansion to occur under al

Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING (was: alias appears to not work...)

2017-08-24 Thread L A Walsh
If you can't trim your quoted text, then please stop burying the new stuff on the bottom. Some people expect to be able to read every email like a separate book --- with everything in the topic included in EACH email. This is just abusive because they demand that everyone put things in "book" o

Re: System crontab with username containing a space

2017-08-24 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > I ran into a similar issue where I had a space in a mount, and I had > to use some form of octal/hex encoding, but I no longer remember the > exact details... > > > I will try to reproduce this and see what I can find. Well, I confirmed wha

Re: [UUASC] Networking two Linux desktops with USB

2017-08-24 Thread Keith Christian
I'll mull this over. Desktop PC's with USB-A connectors. Didn't see any internet posts with info about the goodyelife USB-A cable. Hoping for USB 3.0 speed, we'll see. I have more research to do. Thanks again, EVERYONE (-: for the ideas. Keith On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Shane Tzen wro

Re: System crontab with username containing a space

2017-08-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-05-25 17:19, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > Due to circumstances beyond my control, I've got a user account on a > remote PC which contains a space in the username, i.e. "Test > Computer". > I've set up Cygwin and cron, and am having problems with the system crontab. > I can't figure out how to pu

Re: System crontab with username containing a space

2017-08-24 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > Hey folks :) > > Due to circumstances beyond my control, I've got a user account on a > remote PC which contains a space in the username, i.e. "Test > Computer". > I've set up Cygwin and cron, and am having problems with the system crontab.

Re: 'whois' no longer following referrals ?

2017-08-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-08-24 04:46, Jay Libove wrote: > Once upon a time, the UNIX/cygwin ‘whois’ program would follow referrals. > So, you could ask, for nearly any domain, ‘whois name.domain’ and whois would > first find out which whois server could answer the question, and then would > query that whois server

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

2017-08-24 Thread Keith Christian
Thanks, Ken. Good to know that, I included all troubleshooting info and methods that I've gleaned from the mailing list over the years. Maybe the bind-utils maintainer can offer a fix. Keith On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/24/2017 9:36 AM, Keith Christian wrote: >> >>

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

2017-08-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/24/2017 9:36 AM, Keith Christian wrote: Some Cygwin programs are failing even after reboots, re-installing the faulty program, and the customary automatic rebasing (e.g. 'dig', Line 1 below) after a recent update: Some cygwin64 packages were installed (see line 17 below (even though I am ru

Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

2017-08-24 Thread Keith Christian
Some Cygwin programs are failing even after reboots, re-installing the faulty program, and the customary automatic rebasing (e.g. 'dig', Line 1 below) after a recent update: Some cygwin64 packages were installed (see line 17 below (even though I am running *32* bit cygwin, installed using setup-*x

Re: Aw: Re: Strange errors with gcc and top, even after rebaseall

2017-08-24 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/24/2017 3:16 AM, nobo...@web.de wrote: Hi, the 64bit version, with all packages installed, has no problem. But i also want a 32bit version. You can have the 32 bit version installed, but not all the packages. Cygwin's approach to making fork work as closely as possible to the way it wo

'whois' no longer following referrals ?

2017-08-24 Thread Jay Libove
Once upon a time, the UNIX/cygwin ‘whois’ program would follow referrals. So, you could ask, for nearly any domain, ‘whois name.domain’ and whois would first find out which whois server could answer the question, and then would query that whois server and get the answer. Lately (months? more?),

Aw: Re: Strange errors with gcc and top, even after rebaseall

2017-08-24 Thread nobodyO
Hi,   the 64bit version, with all packages installed, has no problem. But i also want a 32bit version.   Regards   Rolf   Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. August 2017 um 04:15 Uhr Von: "cyg Simple" An: cygwin@cygwin.com Betreff: Re: Strange errors with gcc and top, even after rebaseall On 8/23/2017 5:39