Please do not send me private mail concerning cygwin. These questions
belong on the cygwin mailing list. I've redirected this mail and set
the Reply-To appropriately.
--Chuck
zhlg_shuhan wrote:
Mr. chales,
I know to you through cygwin mail list.I am a beginner of cygwin,so many
The file /etc/passwd needs to be properly created.
Type 'man mkpasswd' for better directions than I can give, and search for
mkpasswd in the mailing lists. Also
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html
If that doesn't work, change the environment variable PS1 to something less
alarming
-Original Message-
From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:37 PM
Anyway, though I think just about everybody who's got any familiarity
with the free software world at all knows that Linux packages (RPMs
and Debian packages) are available for
Christopher Faylor wrote:
You're working from an assumption that cygwin is an unknown project.
It is currently the most popular project on sources.redhat.com, so I
don't think it is suffering too badly from lack of awareness.
I don't disagree with your conclusion, Chris, but you're
I don't disagree with your conclusion, Chris, but you're
using a flawed
model. So *what* if cygwin is the most popular project on
sources.redhat?
Just for the record: any number of unix + windows related
searches (bash for windows, gnu for windows, unix for
windows, gcc for windows, free
However, I do agree that cygwin is pretty well known -- if only as the
black sheep of the free software family (Imagine! Allowing Gatesians to
use GNU software. The horror!)
To quote the great Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon, What matters is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight, it's
/mailman/listinfo/lsb-xml-sgml
-Original Message-
From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17. maj 2002 18:49
To: Michael Smith
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: name: GNU/Cygwin system
snip /
To tell you the truth, I don't see there being much hope -- or reason
for -- the LSB
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
It's never been a goal of Cygwin to adhere to something like the LSB
and we already refer to the Single UNIX Specification for reference.
This is another thing that you could have gleaned from inspection
of the mailing list archives.
I'm not trolling (and maybe for all I know, this has already been
talked out) but I wanted to suggest that it might be appropriate for
Cygwin to describe and advertise itself as the GNU/Cygwin system,
giving credit where credit it very much due -- just as Debian does by
describing itself as a
-Original Message-
From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: name: GNU/Cygwin system
I'm not trolling (and maybe for all I know, this has already
been talked out) but I wanted to suggest that it might
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-Original Message-
From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
I'm not trolling (and maybe for all I know, this has already
been talked out) but I wanted to suggest that it might be
appropriate for Cygwin to describe and
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:51:22AM -0500, Michael Smith wrote:
At this point, I've gone offtopic, so I'll just be quite now :}
Yeah, I guess the discussion probably isn't of interest to most people
on this list, so I'll shut up about it now too.
But if somebody can let me know off-list who I
Michael Smith wrote:
I'm not trolling (and maybe for all I know, this has already been
talked out) but I wanted to suggest that it might be appropriate for
Cygwin to describe and advertise itself as the GNU/Cygwin system,
giving credit where credit it very much due -- just as Debian does by
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