Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

2002-05-03 Thread John A. Turner
Cliff Hones wrote: > > > Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? > > Here in England we say: > Jee Sea Sea > and SIG-win > > Across the pond, and in the antipodes, it could well be > different, though :-). absolutely - here we pronounce it "Throatwarbler Mangrove" -JT -- Un

nondeterministic results of uname -n

2002-03-03 Thread John A. Turner
I want to make it clear that I'm neither complaining nor asking for a change - just reporting something I've noticed in case it's of interest to anyone basically, the nodename reported by uname is sometimes uppercase, sometimes lowercase - i.e. on my laptop sometimes I see: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ubik 1.

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-28 Thread John A. Turner
Charles Wilson wrote: > > Jon Cast wrote: > > > Sorry to start a flamewar, but this needs replying to: > > Sure. In PRIVATE mail. > > Please take this incipient flamewar offline. I have no interest in a flame war even offline. I didn't even understand half of what Jon was saying about politi

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-27 Thread John A. Turner
Jon Cast wrote: > FWIW, I'm a GNU fanatic who wouldn't touch XEmacs with a ten-foot > pole :) smiley notwithstanding, that doesn't seem all that amusing to me XEmacs is of course GPL'd, and I'd direct anyone who might wonder about the source of misguided comments such as the above to: http://w

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-26 Thread John A. Turner
Robert Collins wrote: > > We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a snapshot for anyone >willing to be our guinea pigs. > > It is accessible via http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. > > Please use this, and report any bugs back to us. We know of one with

Re: Cygwin without installing

2002-02-22 Thread John A. Turner
"Robinow, David" wrote: > > arborescence is a perfectly legitimate French word meaning > "tree structure". It's quite popular as can be seen by a simple search. It > has fewer letters than it's english equivalent so I see no reason not to use > it and I intend to, now that I know what it mean

Re: New setup.exe snapshot

2002-01-25 Thread John A. Turner
Robert Collins wrote: > Any and all testing/feedback is needed. I've been using it for a while, and have a bit of feedback... o if the window gets covered up, clicking on its button on the taskbar doesn't bring it back to the top like it does with other apps o it seems to crash on certain

Re: process memory limit

2002-01-05 Thread John A. Turner
Christopher Faylor wrote: > >after digging through the mail archives and docs, I've checked > >out the sources in hopes of finding a parameter that could be > >increased > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00141.html damn... I sure wish I had found that - would have saved me hour

process memory limit

2002-01-05 Thread John A. Turner
[member of the "Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently" club...] I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory, and I've gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice. Brief Summary - it appears that a cygwin app can't alloc more than around 256MB, even