Re: Press for Cygwin

2001-08-30 Thread yap_noel
>Basically, SSHing into a Windows box without a full Cygwin install >is a pretty empty experience. I agree, but I thought it was pretty neat that I can bring up an xterm on my Sun box and have it display a DOS shell :-) Noel This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not

Re: link(2) and atomic file creation on NFS

2001-08-29 Thread yap_noel
Would a mkdir do the trick? Noel I have some existing code which uses link(2) to achieve atomic locking on Unix over NFS (since O_EXCL does not work over NFS). The application (a GPLed SCCS clone) now compiles under Cygwin, but one remaining problem is that the lockfile code uses link(2) to cr

Re: dos2unix or equivalent

2001-08-22 Thread yap_noel
sed 's/^M$//' Where ^M can be typed on the command line by using Ctrl-v,Ctrl-m. Noel Hi, Is there an equivalent to the dos2unix command in cygwin? Or is there a fancy way with grep and/or sed to convert dos crlf files to unix cr files? === John Daniel Doucett