Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 6:12 PM Bill Stewart wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:49 PM Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin > wrote: > >Windows protected your PC >> Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. >> Running this ap

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin
I cannot run setup 2.917. When trying to start setup-x86_64 -n -B under cmd.exe or by cygstart under bash, I get the following error message. Unable to start 'C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\setup-x86_64.exe': The operating system denied access to the specified file. Adding -w to the command line does n

RE: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

2020-09-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin
> -Original Message- > From: David Eisner via Cygwin > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 2:33 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary > > Cygwin started in 1995. [1] Does anybody know the date of the first release? > I recognize that there

RE: non-persistent storage?

2019-12-13 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin
>On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:08 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >>Erik Soderquist sent the following at Thursday, December 12, 2019 5:45 pm >> >> On Thu 2019-12-12 (21:59), Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin >> wrote: >>> >>> If the temp fil

RE: non-persistent storage?

2019-12-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin
Eliot Moss sent the following at Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:19 pm >On 12/12/2019 7:00 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >> I need to store some data (a few kB) non-persistent. >> On a real UNIX I would use /var/run, because after a shutdown all its >> content is lost. >> But on cygwin /var/run is stor

fdupes option

2019-12-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin
According to the GitHub page https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes fdupes has a --time (or -t) option that lists the file times. The Cygwin version doesn't have this feature. It is not clear to me whether this is something to do with how cygwin was compiled or this is an option added aft