why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE?

2003-01-09 Thread Eric De Mund
Hello, Why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE, when the native Windows 2000 hostname.exe outputs lowercase? Is this something I've unwittingly enabled? Regardless, shouldn't RFC 1178's suggestion be followed? (It states, "convention dictates that computer names appear all lowercase.") Or is this a

RE: Setup.exe

2003-01-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Acck!! Sorry guys, I meant for this to go to Gary and only to Gary. > > My goof > Well, since the deed is done, I suppose I should go on the record for all who may be pondering my .sig, lest confusion be sown in the world. I'll do it to "cygwin at" though: > > > -- > > > Gary R. Van Sickle > >

Re: cron, Oracle, and sqlplus

2003-01-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, James Schnedar wrote: > I am experiencing a problem with running Oracle sqlplus within a shell > script using cron. The shell script runs correctly from the command > line, but once I add it to cron, the shell script will execute up until > the sqlplus command. Therefore, cro

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread Sergey Okhapkin
net start init chkconfig rsync on chkconfig rsync off bluescreen... Win2000. I have no rsync installed. I set system environment variable CYGWIN to "nontsec", restarted init service and the problem went away... Sergey Okhapkin Somerset, NJ - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAI

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread Rui Carmo
Erm... I can't help with the blue screens, but if you can mount the filesystems you want to sync, there is an alternative called "ssync" (Google or Freshmeat for it) that runs OK in cygwin (I recall patching a utime() check or something similar, but it's a fairly straightforward matter). Best

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread Bruce Dobrin
hmmm, that didn't seem to help, but things I did notice: if I "net stop init" /usr/sbin/chkconfig rsync on net start init and I add: rsync 873/tcp in services file, everything works just fine. I seem to be able to chkconfig on/off all but rsync while init is running. I've tryed this now o

specviewperf 7.0 misses inttypes.h

2003-01-09 Thread Stefan Thiede
Hi Folks, I tried to compile SPECViewPerf 7.0 on cygwin 1.3.17 with X11 and OpenGL installed. make -f makefile.unx gcc -c clock.c -o objs/clocks.o -O2 -Ivpaux/libaux -I/usr/X11/R6/include -DXWINDOWS -DSSEARCHPATH In File included from clock.c:42: viewperf.h:54: inttypes.h: No such file or directo

cron, Oracle, and sqlplus

2003-01-09 Thread James Schnedar
I am experiencing a problem with running Oracle sqlplus within a shell script using cron. The shell script runs correctly from the command line, but once I add it to cron, the shell script will execute up until the sqlplus command. Therefore, cron is working correctly as well, but the addition of

Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-09 Thread hv
"linda w \(cyg\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : What were the _original_ design goals of Cygwin -- i.e. as :sponsored by "RedHat"? I do not think perl5-porters is the best place to be having that discussion; perhaps it would be better served by a new thread in the appropriate forum. Thanks,

Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-09 Thread Kurt Starsinic
On Jan 09, linda w (cyg) wrote: > > Cygwin targets POSIX compatibility wherever possible. Any > > discussion about paths that ignores the POSIX standards will > > need to be reviewed with POSIX in mind. It's easier to do > > that up front. > --- > What were the _original_ design goals of C

[Bug] 1.3.18-1: Problem with arrow keys and rxvt/bash/mc

2003-01-09 Thread Marcel Telka
Hi. I'm starting bash in rxvt using this cygwin.bat file: =8<=== chdir \cygwin\bin set EDITOR=vim set VIM=/usr/share/vim/vim61 set CYGWIN=codepage:oem tty binmode title rxvt -bg black -fg white -g 120x50+30+80 -fn "lucida console-16" -sr -sl 5000 -e bash --login -i =

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-09 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
> Cygwin targets POSIX compatibility wherever possible. Any > discussion about paths that ignores the POSIX standards will > need to be reviewed with POSIX in mind. It's easier to do > that up front. --- What were the _original_ design goals of Cygwin -- i.e. as sponsored by "RedHat"?

Re: Header File Package

2003-01-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, DEEPA SIVASANKARANE wrote: > Hi, > Could some one please point me to cygwin header files > package ? That creates /usr/include and /usr/include/sys > directories ? > Where could I download it from ? > > Thank you, > regards, > Deepa Hi, First of all, cygwin-apps at cygwin

Re: fix for "wrong number of arguments" emacs problem

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
JB> There have been a couple people with an emacs problem whose symptom JB> is LISP error messages complaining about a bad number of arguments JB> to a function call. JB> JB> Dr. Andrew Mayer cured this problem through a reinstall. Here are JB> the details: JB> JB> ... JB> http://cygwin.com/ml/c

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem

2003-01-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Hmmm...now there's a thought. Perhaps, perhaps... Said "stub" executable would have to do ALL of the things the script does, and then pass that environment to its exec'ed target in .libs/ -- does native windows provide an exec() command? Environment inheritance? You'd

Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem

2003-01-09 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Chuck" == Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Chuck> 'Course, there's the whole cross-compiler issue (running Chuck> on linux, building stuff intended for cygwin). Yes. Sigh. [...] Chuck> Said "stub" executable would have to do ALL of the Chuck> things the script does, a

Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem

2003-01-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Chuck> However, the Makefile target is "foo$(EXEEXT)" -- which Chuck> isn't satisfied by the "foo" wrapper script, so 'make' Chuck> keeps trying to create it. Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding is that wrapper scripts are generated only when linking programs w

gdb attach hang (w/pthreads on Cygwin)

2003-01-09 Thread Brian Ford
gdb on Cygwin can not attach to a running process if the main thread has exited via a call to pthread_exit(). The attach just hangs. Here is the test case: w/o GDB_HANG defined, all is well; with GDB_HANG defined, attaching is not possible. #include #include void * spinner(void *v) { for

Header File package

2003-01-09 Thread DEEPA SIVASANKARANE
Hi, Could some one please point me to cygwin header files package ? That creates /usr/include and /usr/include/sys directories ? Where could I download it from ? Thank you, regards, Deepa -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://c

RE: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread Sergey Okhapkin
Try "chmod a+w /etc/xinetd.d" > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bruce Dobrin > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: xinted rsync bluescreen > > > I'm setting up rsyncd on a 1.3.18 win2000 and an X

Header File Package

2003-01-09 Thread DEEPA SIVASANKARANE
Hi, Could some one please point me to cygwin header files package ? That creates /usr/include and /usr/include/sys directories ? Where could I download it from ? Thank you, regards, Deepa -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.

RE: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There have been issues with rsync in the past, though I don't recall reported bluescreen issues. Still, bluescreening is a problem with the underlying O/S and/or drivers, not an application specific issue really (although sometimes applications can work around O/S problems of this type). I'd su

xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I'm setting up rsyncd on a 1.3.18 win2000 and an XP box I've setup xinetd and init etc, when I "chkconfig rsync on" I get an immediate bluescreen. is this a known issue? (and is there a known fix?). didn't see anything in the mailing list on rsync and bluescreen or crash or xinet pertaining to t

Re: Support for DDWARF-2 debug info? (on Cygwin)

2003-01-09 Thread Brian Ford
Please CC me on replys. I am not currently subscribed to any of these lists. I am interested in contributing to this endeavor, but I need help with a few specific problems. Any pointers or information about known issues would be greatly appreciated. I have built gcc 3.2.1 (just --enable-languag

fix for "wrong number of arguments" emacs problem

2003-01-09 Thread Joe Buehler
There have been a couple people with an emacs problem whose symptom is LISP error messages complaining about a bad number of arguments to a function call. Dr. Andrew Mayer cured this problem through a reinstall. Here are the details: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00410.html http://cygwi

Re: Fwd: Cygwin

2003-01-09 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:51:00 +0100 (MET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Everytime I start cygwin.bat I get the following message: > ---cut- > > 9 [main] bash 400 init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for > checking, > Win32 er

RE: cygpopt-0.dll missing after reinstall

2003-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks like the www.cygwin.com/packages page is back now. I quick check says you're missing, perhaps not surprisingly, the libopt0 package. What app is complaining? We should make sure that it has this package as a dependency (and that it wasn't just a problem with your fat fingers! ;-) ) La

Re: fopencookie

2003-01-09 Thread crusader
>> How can I use the libc function >> fopencookie( ) >> in cygwin? In Mandrake Linux 9.0, it's declared in stdio.h and linked >>in librpmio.a, but it seems like it doesn't exist in cygwin. >> I've already installed all the packages from the online installation. >It's a glibc-specific function,

Re: Problem compiling cygwin-1.3.18

2003-01-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Yann Crausaz wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to compile cygwin-1.3.18/ (extracted from cygwin-1.3.18-1-src.tar.bz2) > : I've made a './configure', then a 'make', and I get the following error > : > configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in .. ./.. > Here is a outp

Re: inetutils ftpd fcntl(F_SETOWN) failure message suppression patch

2003-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:49:43AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:44:36AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > >Would you be willing to to consider the following: > > > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00116.html > > > >Or, is it too esoteric for you? > > Judging b

RE: Universal NFS Server is terribly slow through cygwin

2003-01-09 Thread Robb, Sam
Harendra, The nfs-server package hasn't been released yet - discussions about it should probably go to the cygwin-apps mailing list, so I've redirected this message there for sake of continuity. Keep in mind you're running a user mode NFS server on top of a Unix layer on top of another operat

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.0.5-1

2003-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:22:30AM +1100, Gareth Pearce wrote: > > > Note that if this is the first time that you've run the new GUI version > > of setup, it will currently download the whole cygwin net release again. > > After this point it will only download what is needed. > > Huh?? Hmm is th

Re: Bash appears to have changed...

2003-01-09 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Thanks a lot Andrew, that's exactly what I needed. The changes I am contemplating will fix the problem in your situation. FYI, it looks like you must be in the Administrators group to run chmod -R and fix the permission display, but you already have at least Windows RX permissions on the files

cygpopt-0.dll missing after reinstall

2003-01-09 Thread Fred Kulack
After having problems upgrading using setup, I've deleted and reinstalled cygwin yesterday. I assume I just selected/deselected an incorrect package somewhere during the install because I'm having a problem with cygpopt-0.dll not being present (used by at least cygstart). Having read the FAQ and

Re: Setup.exe

2003-01-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Warren Young wrote: > Tommy Butler wrote: > > You know, if you let your eyes drift out of focus ever so slightly, you can get > > that 3-D effect and the boxes pop out at you. It almost looks like > > rainbow-bright meets tron. > > Awright, who spiked the mailing list headwate

Problem compiling cygwin-1.3.18

2003-01-09 Thread Yann Crausaz
Hello, I'm trying to compile cygwin-1.3.18/ (extracted from cygwin-1.3.18-1-src.tar.bz2) : I've made a './configure', then a 'make', and I get the following error : configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in .. ./.. Here is a output sample for cygcheck -s : Cygwin DLL version in

Re: inetutils ftpd fcntl(F_SETOWN) failure message suppression patch

2003-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:44:36AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >Corinna, > >On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:04:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:32:22AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >> > Corrina, >> >> s/rrin/rinn/ > >Argh! Sorry, again. > >> > 2003-01-03 Jason Tishler

Recent (1.3.18) Pipe Changes

2003-01-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Am I to understand from the lack of any response to my and other people's reports of long delays in pipe access under Cygwin 1.3.18 when low-priority CPU demand is present that this behavior is not considered problematic, undesirable or unacceptable? Is there any chance of getting better b

Re: inetutils ftpd fcntl(F_SETOWN) failure message suppression patch

2003-01-09 Thread Jason Tishler
Corinna, On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:04:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:32:22AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > > Corrina, > > s/rrin/rinn/ Argh! Sorry, again. > > 2003-01-03 Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * ftpd/ftpd.c (main): Add Cygwin guard t

Re: Setup.exe

2003-01-09 Thread Warren Young
Tommy Butler wrote: You know, if you let your eyes drift out of focus ever so slightly, you can get that 3-D effect and the boxes pop out at you. It almost looks like rainbow-bright meets tron. Awright, who spiked the mailing list headwaters with LSD? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem

2003-01-09 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Chuck" == Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chuck> There has been a long-standing problem with libtool on windows-ish Chuck> platforms (cygwin, mingw, others?), in which libtool relinks exe's Chuck> over and over and over, when the exe depends on a shared lib that is Chuck> also

RE: fopencookie

2003-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One post to the list is enough. Repeats will often annoy readers. Sorry, this isn't in Cygwin. If you'd like it, I'd encourage you to implement it and consider contributing it for everyone's benefit. Larry Original Message: - From: crusader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 08 Jan

Fwd: Cygwin

2003-01-09 Thread Stefan . Karrmann
Everytime I start cygwin.bat I get the following message: ---cut- 9 [main] bash 400 init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for checking, Win32 error 1 ls282km@HOST ~ $ ---cut---

Re: Bash appears to have changed...

2003-01-09 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:00:28PM -0800, Andrew Mayer wrote: > However, the default file permissions just seem wrong. Here's a sample, the > full ls -lR is too big to post but looks about the same. > > .: > total 2 > d-+ 9 mayerNone0 Jan 8 21:01 ./ > d-+ 9 ma

Universal NFS Server is terribly slow through cygwin

2003-01-09 Thread Harendra Kumar
Hi, I am using the Cygwin version of the universal NFS Server. It works fine but the only problem is that it is terribly slow. The NFS server version is 2.2.47-cygwin. I am running the nfs server through cygwin version 2.125.2.10 on a windows NT machine with pentium III 800 MHZ and 128 MB RAM. I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.0.5-1

2003-01-09 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Note that if this is the first time that you've run the new GUI version > of setup, it will currently download the whole cygwin net release again. > After this point it will only download what is needed. Huh?? Hmm is this paragraph Really old, or ... did i miss something :P Gareth -- Unsubsc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.0.5-1

2003-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of sed to 4.0.5-1. This introduces the latest sed version 4.0.5 plus an additional patch to solve the following problem on Cygwin: When using the -i option to allow in place editing, the original file isn't updated and the temporary file containing the edited output

Re: install problems

2003-01-09 Thread a12
Bill, Any user that belongs to group Administrators will do. William Joye wrote: > I'm unable to install and run cygwin 1.3.18-1 unless I'm logged in as > 'administrator'. If I try to run cygwin logged in as another user, I get the > console window, but it appears to hang. I've tried both a clea

fopencookie

2003-01-09 Thread crusader
How can I use the libc function fopencookie( ) in cygwin? In Mandrake Linux 9.0, it's declared in stdio.h and linked in librpmio.a, but it seems like it doesn't exist in cygwin. I've alreade installed all the packages from the online installation. CRV§ADER/KY -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

RE: Setup.exe

2003-01-09 Thread Dave Hooper
> Maybe I was a bit unclear here; I'm "always" doing other stuff while > the/any download proceeds in the background. I'd still like to be > notified(sp) about it having finished, in a sane manner - so I can go on > typing (or whatever)... > NOTE THE PROBLEM: Do not pop up an ACTIVE dialog; I woul

fopencookie

2003-01-09 Thread crusader
How can I use the libc function fopencookie( ) in cygwin? In Mandrake Linux 9.0, it's declared in stdio.h and linked in librpmio.a, but it seems like it doesn't exist in cygwin. I've alreade installed all the packages from the online installation. CRV§ADER/KY -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: /etc/group, /etc/passwd usage by cygwin layer ?

2003-01-09 Thread jurgen . defurne
Thanks, I found out how to prune that file without loosing my needed information. Jurgen Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2003 01:02 PM Please respond to cygwin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/PHILIPS

Re: Movies

2003-01-09 Thread big
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package rxvt-2.7.9-3

2003-01-09 Thread Rui Carmo
Randall R Schulz wrote: By the way, even though there appears to be no command-line options for choosing among the three available kinds of scroll bars, I don't know why the resources file is "far preferable" since only with command line options can you readily have different variations availab

Re: /etc/group, /etc/passwd usage by cygwin layer ?

2003-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:28:04AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Are the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files referenced much by cygwin while > executing programs or doing file accesses ? Yes, the content of both files is read into memory. Cygwin needs the information, especially name

Re: Setup.exe (was: General comments... )

2003-01-09 Thread Max Bowsher
Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >> The directory you specify in "Select Local Package Directory". > > Nice :-), now the thing that is missing is just mentioning this > on an obvious place, or maybe; change the initial > "Choose A Download Source" into "Choose operation(s)" > with a 'li

Re: thanks, makewhatis works, still have man problems

2003-01-09 Thread Max Bowsher
Geoff Begley wrote: > Let my preface by saying thank you to Max Bowsher for his help! No problem. > I reinstalled cygwin, and no longer get have the problems accessing > programs from scripts. Good. > I ran >man bash, and received > no manual entry for bash (same for sh, grep, or anything else)

cron swallows my group memberships

2003-01-09 Thread Nils . Dehn
Platform: W2K SP3, German version $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 R1004276 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54 i686 unknown When I log on as user "root" and do "id" I get: $ id uid=1003(root) gid=513(Kein) groups=513(Kein),544(Administratoren),545(Benutzer),547(Hauptbenutzer),1002(Oracle Hauptbenutzer) Wh

RE: Setup.exe (was: General comments... )

2003-01-09 Thread jurgen . defurne
One feature that I find missing from setup.exe, is the possibility to check/uncheck all proposed upgrade packages. Regards, Jurgen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

/etc/group, /etc/passwd usage by cygwin layer ?

2003-01-09 Thread jurgen . defurne
Hello, Are the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files referenced much by cygwin while executing programs or doing file accesses ? The reason for asking is the following. I have a server process which schedules build jobs. This process awakes every five seconds, to have a good response time. However,

RE: Setup.exe (was: General comments... )

2003-01-09 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
> From: Max Bowsher [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Please keep replies on list. Sigh, "Microsoft Default replies" goes personal. (Or might it be that I'm not on the list?) > Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > >> From: Max Bowsher [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>> From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage

Re: dig and nslookup for cygwin

2003-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:42:04PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 07:59 PM 1/8/2003, Mirza Muharemagic wrote: > >Hi, > > > >are tools like dig and nslookup included in cygwin? > > > See the FAQ entry: > > What packages should I download? > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#

Re: Bash PATH via ssh

2003-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:54:21PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:02:06PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: > > Thanks. I now have ensured that ~/.profile, ~./bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, > > /etc/profile all contain the lines: > > > > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PAT

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-09 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Ok, did I mention POSIX? Posix != Unix. So what's your point? > I've been on multiple unices [bogus latinization, but unix's >doesn't roll of the tongue nearly so well]: sun, hp, sgi, linux, >xenix, sco, others I don't remember. I don't recall "//" being >anything other than "/" on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package rxvt-2.7.9-3

2003-01-09 Thread Olaf Foellinger
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:59:20AM -0800, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: > At 09:09 AM 1/8/2003 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >By the way, even though there appears to be no command-line options for > >choosing among the three available kinds of scroll bars, I don't know why > >the resources file is "f

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 19:08, LA Walsh wrote: > Ok, did I mention POSIX? Posix != Unix. So what's your point? Cygwin targets POSIX compatability wherever posible. Any discussion about paths that ignores the POSIX standards will need to be reviewed with POSIX in mind. It's easier to do tha

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-09 Thread LA Walsh
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > There you go again, making relative assertions about "good/bad" > > again. It's common practice to define a $(ROOT)/foobar > underwhich to > > build or install a program. It is common to have ROOT=/ > when you want > > to install i