cygpath Suggestion

2003-11-07 Thread Barry Buchbinder
It might be useful to have a cygpath option that outputs %COMSPEC% and exits directly and without needing to do `cygpath "$COMSPEC"` (I know -- PTC -- but I'm not a programer.) - Barry Buchbinder __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity w

Question about Managed Mode and UMSDOS

2003-08-22 Thread Barry Buchbinder
Just a question. (I googled http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acygwin.com%20umsdos and did not find an answer -- at least one that I could recognize.) Are the file structures used by managed mode consistant with those used by Linux's UMSDOS file system? For example, will a Cywin managed mode

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-24 Thread Barry Buchbinder
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: > Does setup.exe support command-line options? see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01490.html - Barry Buchbinder __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculat

Re: bash lockup

2003-02-03 Thread Barry Buchbinder
I see this all the time, too (in Win98se). WINOLDAP seems to be how Windows handles the cygwin console. It also uses it for win95cmd. And it is there even when nothing is locked up. Windows doesn't seem to use WINOLDAP for a COMAND.COM DOS box. Don't think of it as a problem or bug (or even a

Re: cygwin official logo ?

2002-12-02 Thread Barry Buchbinder
Don't even think about it. It's under Disney copyright, and the word "agressive" doesn't come close to describing how Disney protects their copyrights. - Barry -Original Message- From: Jehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:35 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

re: Cygwin official logo ?

2002-11-29 Thread Barry Buchbinder
Friday, 29 November, 2002 Barry Buchbinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BB> How about a penguin looking through a window? It'd be clearly misleading. Cygwin is not Linux for Windows. We have enough confusion already with people thinking otherwise. _

Re: Cygwin official logo ?

2002-11-29 Thread Barry Buchbinder
has curvy windows with trailing "pixels", I wouldn't think that there would be any trademark infringement because there is no chance that one could confuse the two. - Barry Buchbinder -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, Nov

Setup Command Line Options

2002-11-26 Thread Barry Buchbinder
work. - Barry Buchbinder __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Document

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-07 Thread Barry Buchbinder
From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:42 PM Subject: Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:26AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote: > > C:\> gawk '{print "

RE: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-07 Thread Barry Buchbinder
howed that the leading 123 was being inserted correctly before "xy" overwrote the "12". Any more data I could collect to help someone debug this? (I'm a user, not a programmer.) - Barry -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Problems with find -exec somecommand | tosomeother command

2002-10-04 Thread Barry Buchbinder
Assuming none of the files have any spaces in their names, the following would be faster (and works). wc -l `find . -name \*.frm -print` - Barry -Original Message- From: Sheryl McKeown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:39 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Prob

RE: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-04 Thread Barry Buchbinder
the script is on the command line, the error is in line 2.) Thanks again, - Barry Buchbinder -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:51 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gawk not taking redirected input under comman

RE: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-02 Thread Barry Buchbinder
not taking redirected input under command.com On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:47:52AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote: >I have a problem with gawk. > >Under bash, it works as expected. > >Under command.com (win98se) it does the following when >taking input from a pipe or by redirectio

gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-02 Thread Barry Buchbinder
I have a problem with gawk. Under bash, it works as expected. Under command.com (win98se) it does the following when taking input from a pipe or by redirection. C:\> cat autoexec.bat | gawk '{ print "!" $0 "!" }' GAWK: cmd. line:2: fatal: file `-' is a directory C:\> gawk '{ print "!" $0

RE: gcc doesn't work but seemed to install fine...

2002-09-24 Thread Barry Buchbinder
ubject -- one can read it as "gcc installed fine", > so I assumed she > actually explicitly installed gcc... My bad. > Igor > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Barry Buchbinder wrote: > > > download.com just points to setup.exe on the > cygwin > > home page

RE: gcc doesn't work but seemed to install fine...

2002-09-24 Thread Barry Buchbinder
download.com just points to setup.exe on the cygwin home page so what she got was up to date but incomplete. Betty didn't see the instructions for how to install so didn't install gcc and man, as neither gcc nor man are part of the base install. Betty should see the the installation instructions