Re: Posting Order

2019-02-09 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-02-09 17:36, L A Walsh wrote: > On 2/9/2019 10:26 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:On 2019-02-09 17:36, L A Walsh > wrote:> On 2/9/2019 10:26 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2019-02-09 07:46, L A Walsh wrote: >>> That's why it is very surprising to see computer people treat >>> 'email' as a "log" inst

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 9, 2019, at 6:01 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > > On 2/9/2019 11:06 AM, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:46 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > >> What you think about this is irrelevant. > >Not really. Yes, really. > >> What I think about this is >> irrelevant. The only thoughts that matter

Re: Posting Order

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/9/2019 3:02 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > For the record I tend to prefer top posting. > I only prefer it because most readers display the first snippet of something. I'd prefer full editing of quotes, but if they can't do that, having the old stuff down off the bottom of my wind

Re: Posting Order

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/9/2019 10:26 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-02-09 07:46, L A Walsh wrote: > >> That's why it is very surprising to see computer people treat >> 'email' as a "log" instead of like a chat w/history... >> > > Logs can be displayed most recent first, - > usually not without a sp

find_fast_cwd Problem reg-

2019-02-09 Thread Mundru Suresh
I have got a warning message while opening bash shell in windows 10. Please provide a solution to fix this warning. Is this a serious warning?? The warning message is as below, *"1 [main] bash 124704 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the pub

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
On 2/9/2019 11:06 AM, Vince Rice wrote: >> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:46 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > What you think about this is irrelevant. Not really. > What I think about this is > irrelevant. The only thoughts that matter are the ones of those who > manage the list, But they only

Re: Posting Order (was: Getting error message...)

2019-02-09 Thread bzs
Whether one prefers top, bottom, or inline posting often has a lot to do with the mail program they use. And sometimes the actual context and whether or not it might be confusing what is being responded to exactly. For example top or bottom posting "yes" to a bunch of questions can be confusing,

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:46 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > … > > For me, … What you think about this is irrelevant. What I think about this is irrelevant. The only thoughts that matter are the ones of those who manage the list, and they have said this is a "do not top post" list. Others who say "do not

Re: Posting Order (was: Getting error message...)

2019-02-09 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-02-09 07:46, L A Walsh wrote: > That's why it is very surprising to see computer people treat > 'email' as a "log" instead of like a chat w/history... Logs can be displayed most recent first, as with directories or lists in most products, and chats with history are in chronological order,

Posting etiquette: Was: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread Jack
On 2/9/19 9:46 AM, L A Walsh wrote: If a list is a conversational list where people think everyone reads everything, then maybe chronological might be better, but even many forums will show you the newer messages first. The behavior/display of a list of messages does not have to be the same as t

Re: fcntl with O_APPEND fails to force append mode on stderr for native Windows programs

2019-02-09 Thread Tom Honermann
On 2/9/2019 9:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 8 22:25, Tom Honermann wrote: >> The following program demonstrates the problem. >> [...] >> Here is where things go bananas. If the program is run with stdout >> initially redirected to a pipe, then the stderr output from the native >> Window

Re: fcntl with O_APPEND fails to force append mode on stderr for native Windows programs

2019-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 22:25, Tom Honermann wrote: > The following program demonstrates the problem. > [...] > Here is where things go bananas. If the program is run with stdout > initially redirected to a pipe, then the stderr output from the native > Windows program ends up overwriting the stdout output from

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread L A Walsh
Coud you reconsider that, otherwise someone posting a README would violate the rules, (for exampe) which has most recent changes at the top and you can read down as far as you want, going back in time. Also, like your sentence, below, you put the category of your "PS-no top posting" with the categ

Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin

2019-02-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, akshay chavan! > I think I found out why I faced this problem. When downloading Cygwin, I > had chosen "download without installing". This installed only the base > package. Later, I followed the instructions at > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html#setup-cygwin-x-installing to insta