Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:10:46PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >David Balazic wrote: >> is so complicated that an outsider should download sources and create patch. > >For better or worse the only hard currency of the FOSS world is the >patch. And the fool's good is "the opinion". cgf -- Unsubsc

naim fails to work with screen

[redirected from -apps] Andrew Schulman schrieb: Package looks good and works fine. OK, thanks. I forgot to mention that detaching and reattaching sessions works fine in all terminals AFAIK, except that in a DOS console you have to set CYGWIN=tty before opening the console. Otherwise reattac

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

David Balazic wrote: > Wouldn't $TEMP/cygwinfiles be a better default than "random" ? It's really just a difference of expectations. Wearing my user hat, I find it reasonable that setup offers the default of CWD for the location to store downloaded files, because my use case is saving setup.exe

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

Quoting "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Balazic wrote: > > Quoting Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> David Balazic wrote: > >> > >>> I downloaded http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe > >>> version 2.573.2.2 (as displayed in the first page of the wizard). > >>> > >>> I enter

Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling

I've checked in a fairly major change to cygwin today. I yanked out a lot of the win9x specific pipe handling code in the latest snapshot and used pure Windows NT (and later) functionality instead. That means that fifos are actually named pipes under the hood and both fifos and pipes are using ov

RE: Problem: Why the file in the mount (as system) directory can't be found?

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Liping Zeng wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2007Äê7ÔÂ7ÈÕ 10:39 > To: Liping Zeng > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As Larry said, . Thanks. > Subj

XP home edition user always member of group users?

I want to be sure it is not a standard behaviour Can anybody with xp home edition create a user, throw it out of the group users (all from windows) and then do a mkpassword and mkgroup login (via ssh preferably) as that user and give the command groups. Is it according to cygwin still in th

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

David Balazic wrote: Quoting Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: David Balazic wrote: I downloaded http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe version 2.573.2.2 (as displayed in the first page of the wizard). I entered "C:\Program Files\cygwin" ad the root directory. Then on the next page "Select Local P

Re: Problem: Why the file in the mount (as system) directory can't be found?

. Reformatted. Liping Zeng wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:pechtcha cs nyu edu] . Thanks. Sent: 2007年7月7日 10:3

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

Quoting Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Balazic wrote: > > > I downloaded http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe > > version 2.573.2.2 (as displayed in the first page of the wizard). > > > > I entered "C:\Program Files\cygwin" ad the root directory. > > Then on the next page "Select Local Pack

RE: Problem: Why the file in the mount (as system) directory can't be found?

Wtxtcl is not a Cygwin program, but as what I do, the environment are same for both executions. The diffrence is the work directory. In /: $ wtxtcl /tornado/host/src/hutils/muntch.tcl > couldn't read file "host/src/hutils/munch.tcl": no such file or directory In /tornado $ wtxtcl /tornado/host

Re: Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

David Balazic wrote: > I downloaded http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe > version 2.573.2.2 (as displayed in the first page of the wizard). > > I entered "C:\Program Files\cygwin" ad the root directory. > Then on the next page "Select Local Package Directory" the offered > directory was "C:\Program F

Setup offers bad directory for Local Package Directory

Hi! I downloaded http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe version 2.573.2.2 (as displayed in the first page of the wizard). I entered "C:\Program Files\cygwin" ad the root directory. Then on the next page "Select Local Package Directory" the offered directory was "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox", which