Re: Why sh failed 'Process Substitution'?

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel B.
Dave Korn wrote: Pan ruochen wrote: Hi All, Why sh failed to recognize Process Substitution, even if /bin/sh.exe is a copy of /bin/bash.exe? $cat test.sh #!/bin/bash A="A" B="B" diff <(echo $A) <(echo $B) $sh test.sh a.sh: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `(' a.sh: line 4: `diff <(echo

"watch" option processing broken

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel B.
I'm a little rusty on CygWin bug reporting; where should I report the following? The "watch" command isn't parsing some of its options correctly (as documented in "man watch" and in its usage message, and as it works normally on Linux). Additional, when it thinks there's a problem, it doesn't rep

does rxvt support cut and paste?

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel B.
Does the rxvt application support cutting and pasting? If so, how (what keystrokes)? If not, does anyone know why not? Thanks, Daniel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-02-02 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: ... Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user. Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus that's his consent. Not quite. Try clicking on the root installer node to specify to install everything. You get

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Daniel B.
William R. Knox wrote: ... If you don't like the fortunes, don't install them. Unfortunately, that argument (or admonition) doesn't quite hold water: * It requires recognizing that the fortune package is part of what you're installing. That doesn't happen if you select to install all of CygWi

Re: no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel B.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > ... > Daniel, > > Did I say your report was unwelcome? It seemed so at first. ("If you feel that documentation is lacking, write the appropriate sections..." sounded like "if you don't like it, fix it yourself.") Sorry for perceiving your meaning wrong. Daniel --

Re: no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel B.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daniel B. wrote: > > > On the documentation page at http://cygwin.com/docs.html, there no > > mention of installation instructions. It's not obvious that they are > > hidden in the FAQ list. > > > >

no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel B.
On the documentation page at http://cygwin.com/docs.html, there no mention of installation instructions. It's not obvious that they are hidden in the FAQ list. Which is the right mailing to use to suggest to the documentation developers that the installation instructions be pulled into an insta