Does cygwin E-mail list still work?

2018-11-01 Thread Frank Farance
Hi, I haven't seen any E-mail traffic since 2018-09-11. Is the list still active? Did I get unsubscribed? Frank Farance -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-05 Thread Frank Farance
On 2018-06-05 20:04, Steven Penny wrote: [...] If OP is suggesting people can only reply if they are subscribed, then I am not a fan of that. No, I'm not suggesting that one must be subscribed, I'm pointing out that if one wants to have a back and forth discussion (in a practical sense), some

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Frank Farance
- regardless of which spam reduction mechanisms is chosen. Make sense? -FF -- __ Frank Farance, Farance Inc.T: +1 212 486 4700 M: +1 917 751 2900 mailto:fr...@farance.com http://farance.com Standards/Products/Services for Information/Communication Technologies -- Prob

Re: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)

2016-08-31 Thread Frank Farance
s the way it has looked on UNIX for about 40 years: Linux: Wed Aug 31 08:56:10 EDT 2016 Cygwin: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 08:54:49 In other words, on Cygwin: get rid of the commas, put back the timezone. -FF -- ______ Frank Farance, Faran

Re: clock skew detected in archive member

2016-07-19 Thread Frank Farance
in fact, does not describe what is happening on my machines. The timezones/summer time has been broken on DOS and Windows since Day 1, and they broke it again, and they broke it again. -FF -- __________ Frank Farance, Faran

Re: ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill ping

2016-03-19 Thread Frank Farance
to eliminate "surprises". Again, thank you in advance for your help. -FF -- ______ Frank Farance, Farance Inc.T: +1 212 486 4700 M: +1 917 751 2900 mailto:fr...@farance.com http://farance.com Standards/Pr

ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill ping

2016-03-14 Thread Frank Farance
P address that is unresponsive (route-able to the last subnet, but dies on the floor at the end), then I can kill via ctrl-c. My only solution to the hanging "ping" is to kill the terminal window. Any suggestions on: - Why "ping" behaves this way? - How to avoid this proble

Re: But it is cygwin related.

2013-04-04 Thread Frank Farance
On 2013-04-04 09:15, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Frank Farance wrote: I haven't posted in a long while, but the question seems reasonable and relevant to cygwin. If one were writing assembler code to be compatible with cygwin, one would need the answer to the que

Re: But it is cygwin related.

2013-04-04 Thread Frank Farance
ay when writing a mix of C and assembler code 40 years ago on UNIX systems. -FF -- __________ Frank Farance, Farance Inc.T: +1 212 486 4700 M: +1 917 751 2900 mailto:fr...@farance.com http://farance.com Standards/Product

Re: Problem with daylight saving time, off by one hour

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Farance
Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Frank Farance wrote: > >> >> So I don't believe this is a WinSCP problem, AND the problem is >> demonstrated independent of WinSCP. >> > > What is TZ set to in your Cygwin environment? Tr

Re: Problem with daylight saving time, off by one hour

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Farance
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 29 12:49, G.W. Haywood wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> >>> 175712 by: "Frank Farance" >>> 175717 by: Corinna Vinschen >>> 175719 by: "Frank Farance" >>> 175720 by: Corinna Vinschen >

Re: Problem with daylight saving time, off by one hour

2012-02-28 Thread Frank Farance
Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> >> I don't know.  I can't see that anything's wrong with Cygwin here.  I >> just searched the web and found other people having timestamp problems >> with WinSCP without any Cygwin involvement: >> >>  http://win

Re: Problem with daylight saving time, off by one hour

2012-02-28 Thread Frank Farance
> On Feb 28 11:19, Frank Farance wrote: > >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>>> Furthermore, ls reports the wrong time (via --full-time) as 11:46 >>>> -0400. >>>> Yes, ls has the right timezone offset (it was summer time in NYC on >>>&g

Re: Problem with daylight saving time, off by one hour

2012-02-28 Thread Frank Farance
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 28 10:00, Frank Farance wrote: > >> I've had Cygwin running on a Windows XP workstation for years using >> rsync as my primary backup tool for my data files. The workstation just >> crashed with a hard drive failure, I've replaced

Problem with daylight saving time, off by one hour

2012-02-28 Thread Frank Farance
ther tools get this right (e.g., WinSCP), and (3) it used to work right on old versions of cygwin (I've been using cywin rsync for at least a dozen years). I have several million files to back up (with integrity), so I need an rsync-like solution. Thank you, in advance, for your help and insig