Greetings, Lord Laraby! > This would be a nice mechanism for typical windows home systems except for > the format of the cygwin tag that goes in the comment field.
???... > Home users that utilize 'net user USERNAME "/comment:yadda yadda"' command > cannot use equal signs on the command line, That's just not true, unless someone holding their hands away from keyboard, mouse and every other input device. > and the entire string has to be quoted to prevent angle brackets from > messing with redirection. Well, see the statement above. Simply not true. > Equal signs are stripped by CMD.exe and the nexted quotes are stripped as > well. > Example: I entered the following at elevated cmd prompt, > C:\WINDOWS\system32>net user TestUser "/comment:<cygwin check="maybe" > then="okay>" But Corinna did not said to enter this. She told you to enter (in your case): net user TestUser /comment:"<cygwin check=\"maybe\" then=\"okay\"/>" Or, using Cygwin shell (console or mintty): net user TestUser /comment:'<cygwin check="maybe" then="okay"/>' > The command completed successfullly. > C:\WINDOWS\system32>net user TestUser > User name TestUser > Full name Test User > Comment <cygwin check=maybe then=okay> > ... > The command completed successfullly. Of course, it did. Computers are very stupid. They do what you tell them to do, no more, no less. > So, I do not know how to get the information into the field in the proper > format. Exactly as Corinna told you to. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 13.02.2014, <23:01> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
