RE: automated cygwin install

Andrew Schulman wrote: > Nirvana. A one-click new Cygwin installation, with all of my favorite > packages. I hope it's useful to others. Excellent, thanks for doing the leg work. I had been thinking about this off and on for a couple years but never got around to it. Eric -- Problem repor

RE: Strange cygpath behavior.

Marco atzeri wrote: > you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a > windows path ... On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces. $ cygpath -sm "$PROGRAMFILES" -- Problem reports:

RE: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > Could someone else please test this under Windows 7 to confirm the bug? Windows 7 Pro 64-bit $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a ls: cannot access C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a: No such file or directory $ uname -a

RE: CYGWIN=tty round 2

Angelo Graziosi wrote: > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/runas.exe /user:pippo 'C:\cygwin-2\bin\bash > --login -i' > > works in a dos-like shell (Cygwin.bat) but not in mintty. Is there some trick > to do the job also in mintty? Angelo, I'm not completely sure about what you are trying to do, but