Re: Cannot write files if they are hidden

My opinion of this matter: Hidden should not imply read-only... There are read-only and system attributes which can perform this feat. Why in the world Microsoft decided hidden should be read-only in some of the time (dos edit -- for those of us who've had to use it when necessary) is beyon

shortcut settings (was Re: emacs issues)

Brian Dessent wrote: C-SPC does not work in a Cygwin terminal. Is there a way to fix this? I would suggest rxvt. Personally, I use the "CMD.EXE prompt" as little as possible (i.e., not at all) with Cygwin because frankly, it sucks hard. I suspect that I am not alone. Brian I use cyg

Re: Hopefully unsual issue

I copied a psudo snapshot from mirrors.kernel.org as mentioned, using ncftpget. Althought this does not resolve my issue of connecting to cygwin.com:80 I was able to install from the local directory, everything except those 4 packages. Running setup again, it gpfs immediatly on the on the s

Re: Hopefully unsual issue

Hi Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I cannot reach port:80 cygwin.com. I can ping cygwin.com and I can ftp to it, but I cannot access the web. I have no filters in place to stop me from reaching there. Currently hoping for a responce from my ISP in regard to the issue. I also pestered [EMAIL

Hopefully unsual issue

Hi, Don't know how long this has been an issue, it's been over a month. I cannot reach port:80 cygwin.com. I can ping cygwin.com and I can ftp to it, but I cannot access the web. I have no filters in place to stop me from reaching there. Currently hoping for a responce from my ISP in regar