> The Windows term for these things is 'shortcut'.
> Perhaps you want to call your tool mkshortcut?
> Yeah, it's longer, but it's less ambiguous than
> mklink. There's already enough confusion between
> linking executables from object modules and hard and
> symbolic links in the file syste
DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional java developer
>There is exactly no advantage to using CMD.exe to
>initiate a Java SDK tool, or the Java interpreter of
>JRE.
I was under the impression that interacting with
java's BufferedReader, etc. from within a cygwin bash
shell was a Bad Idea because of
> I would like to be able to create a .lnk file to a
> batch file (and ideally associate an icon with it)
> from a bash script on a Windows 2000 machine.
I've written a program that does just this. It's a
fully scriptable and can set icons. I'm
hoping to get it included in cygwin sometime, but
Well, a quick search of the cygwin mailing list about
Java would have unfortunately told you that Java is
not "cygwin-aware". I run javac from cmd.exe for this
reason. You might try wrapping your Java program in
a script like:
CMD.EXE /c "javaprog.exe"
Hope it helps.
--- "pramod m." <[EMAIL PRO
Ralf,
Is this presentation public domain? So it could be
used in classroom networking classes at a uni to
help explain socket programming? I think it could be
helpful to others, as well. I think there are a few
professors who read the list.
> I'm sorry, I doesn't know that. You can find a
> vi
> COMMON_DESKTOP=`regtool get
>
'\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
> Folders\Common Desktop'`
> ALLHOME=`cygpath -u "$COMMON_DESKTOP/../.."`
Don't know if you care, but the latest version of
cygpath has -D and -A options that will output the
"All Users' Desktop"
dire
> OK, I learned a few valuable lessons in the
> couple of days last month it took me to
> clue into install-info ("dir is a file?"), and
> maybe this is more of a "pons asinorum" than
> an "Instructions for opening are on the inside"
> situation.
>
> That being said, I really would have appreciat
Here's a possible patch to include a couple rxvt
lines REMed out. No changelog yet since I figure it
needs comments. Anyone?
--- desktop.cc-orig Fri Jan 11 10:38:12 2002
+++ desktop.cc Fri Jan 11 10:46:18 2002
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ make_cygwin_bat ()
backslash (concat (get_root_dir
A while ago I was helping students that were new
to bash and UNIX and I wrote a little guide in HTML.
Late I put together "Cygwin-Lite" (Cygwin on a floppy)
and added the guide. This was before the setup.exe
changes that made a minimal install easy. I've
stopped updating Cygwin-Lite but I think
Try this:
start $(cygpath -w $(which notepad)) &
or, just
start c:\\winnt\\system32\\notepad.exe
> leesb@leesb-kr ~
> $ which notepad
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/notepad
>
> leesb@leesb-kr ~
> $ cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/notepad
> c:\WINNT\system32\notepad
>
> leesb@leesb-kr ~
larly puzzling why you would redirect
> this here when there is
> no guarantee that the original poster is even
> subscribed to cygwin-apps.
>
> cgf
>
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:24:30PM -0800, Joshua
> Franklin wrote:
> >You might also try getting a free-mai
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