Robert Collins wrote:
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:17, M. Evans wrote:
I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses
the % sign.
Thats a hasty generalization
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html.
And
even if you guys were right (which you
Max,
There are more flavors of wrongness than legal/factual. These include
moral, ethical, and software-horse-sense.
Politeness is a human quality one must learn from elders, and I can't
help you there.
Since the responses here have been unhelpful I will just unsubscribe.
You are very defensive
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, M. Evans wrote:
Since the responses here have been unhelpful I will just unsubscribe.
So what ?
There is another way to solve the whole problem. Cygwin could put the
tarballs where I tell it, not in some deeply nested %-laden path that
changes with every download. The
Answering for the archives, so future enquirers don't get a distorted
view.
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:27, M. Evans wrote:
Max,
There are more flavors of wrongness than legal/factual. These include
moral, ethical, and software-horse-sense.
This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted the
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 07:42, Robert Collins wrote:
This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted the discussion
insert to being only
legally or factually wrong.
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The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a
problem for many Windows file managers. These include Directory
Toolkit and 2xExplorer.
The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some
similarly innocuous character instead of percent signs.
Regards.
Mark
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:09, M. Evans wrote:
The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a
problem for many Windows file managers. These include Directory
Toolkit and 2xExplorer.
The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some
similarly innocuous
Robert Collins wrote:
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:09, M. Evans wrote:
The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a
problem for many Windows file managers. These include Directory
Toolkit and 2xExplorer.
The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:48, M. Evans wrote:
Yep. Why not contact the authors of the programs you mention and get
them to fix their bugs.
Already done that. I agree with you that it's legal but also think
what is legal is not always what is ethical. It would be better for
Cygwin to
I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses
the % sign.
There are many obscure features of Windows that are best avoided. And
even if you guys were right (which you are not) you should be more
polite.
Regards.
Mark
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:17, M. Evans wrote:
I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses
the % sign.
Thats a hasty generalization
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html.
And
even if you guys were right (which you are not)
You haven't
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