RE: Mixing / and \ path separators

2003-03-13 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thanks, I didn't realize the possibility of illegal characters, just hit some non-alphanumeric keys. And another check with touch a\ \&\ o worked as expected. Regards Diete

RE: Mixing / and \ path separators

2003-03-13 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just out of curiosity triggered by this thread: How do I create a path or file name like & ? ? Neither of Unix' ways: touch \&\ \? or touch '& ?' nor touch '\&\ \?' apparently work. Regards

RE: Advocacy

2003-03-04 Thread Dieter Meinert
|=> "--IGNORE-LONG-DISCLAIMER-BELOW--" One might rather write: "--Be-Aware-of-Any-Disclaimer-Below--" to avoid legal problems on the side of the sender BTW by the addressee cygwin at cygwin dot com any usr of the list IS addressed. no need to inform the sender about any failure. Reg

FW: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-18 Thread Dieter Meinert
|=> -Original Message- |=> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |=> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:01 PM |=> To: Dieter Meinert; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |=> Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install? |=> |=> |=> Dieter Meinert

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-17 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I was going through all this thread wondering if noone would see the (to me as a late Un*x guy) obvious: Consider a slow net connection, e.g by 14.4 K Modem, or as Hannu does, several hosts to be updated. The natural thing to me appe

RE: Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-13 Thread Dieter Meinert
Dieter Meinert |=> -Original Message- |=> From: Vince Hoffman |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] => Sent: Wednesday, |February 05, 2003 4:05 PM |=> To: Dieter Meinert; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |=> Subject: RE: Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory |failure => |=> |=> Just

Re: Amanda and the windows world [Q]

2003-02-12 Thread Dieter Meinert
sed amanda on different Unices for several years and would like to have it running here, too. Regards Dieter Meinert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

RE: Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-05 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I also tried defragmentation, but both did not help :-( Regards Dieter Meinert |=> -Original Message- |=> From: Tim Prince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |=> Sent: Wednesday, February 0

Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-05 Thread Dieter Meinert
or any packages myself, lacking access to important internet protocols. Regards Dieter Meinert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>

RE: Emacs Problem

2003-01-16 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Will this go into the FAQ ? For me the hint solved the problem (cygwin window running tcsh: setenv CYGWIN tty; emacs [C-X C-C];) Regards, Dieter *** * Dr. Dieter Meinert

Fetchmail or some other interface to MS Exchange ?

2002-12-19 Thread Dieter Meinert
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