Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
After the deletions, only one directory and file were unable to be deleted, the file named nul in the directory dev . This is well known (if you're an old timer - think cp/m, then DOS) as it's a reserved word. CON: NUL: LPT!: are all examples of this. The solution is easy: :: for files del

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
For testing, I went out of my way and installed a local x64 Windows Server 2008 Datacenter machine.  Apart from updating to SP2 plus all the latest Microsoft patches and configuring to match my environment, I have not changed anything else, nor did I install any third-party software. Then I

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
On 7/15/2010 11:44 AM, Ernest Mueller wrote: Michael, did you ever find a fix for this? I had to give up on cygwin on the Amazon 64-bit and instead cobbled together freesshd and random freewares. Larry or others - what's the right way to report this as a bug? I think