Re: How to check cygwin version?

Hack the attached at will... --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net cygver Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml

Is this a valid synopsis of Cygwin Permission Handling?

lly correct. Thanks. ##### Karl Botts, [18.06.20 09:17] On that dialog box: I must confess, you should know: I may have caused that, by running in root of I: drive, aka in I:/ : chmod -R 777 . I did that _after_ screwing around with WinExplorer security dialogs. Was not getting anyw

Is Cygwin 3.1.X Stable Enough to Use?

there for the rest of the year if necessary. That is not the issue. Would it make sense for Disable_pcon (spelling?) to be the default, until the new pty code settles down? --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?

upgrade several others. I untar into an empty dir, then use native cmd.exe 'move' to swap the dirs. Be sure to use 64-bit cygwin. The 32-bit used to work, but now and then I would have to fuss with "rebase". I have never had that problem with the 64-bit. --- Karl Botts,

Cygwin vs. Native Symlinks

ually want to: I just want to know if I can, and to test behavior of a Cygwin symlink.) Is there a tool which will tell me whether a given symlink is Cygwin or native? (The output of both readlink and symlinks looks the same, regardless.) --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem report

Re: Cygwin-3 and the Bleeding Edge

pendencies of the package to be installed are older than the package > itself. While setup now supports versioned dependencies in principle, > this is not currently used, so you'll have to do this via other means. Fine. Makes sense. I can do that. And again, thank you all for decad

Cygwin-3 and the Bleeding Edge

, has been built against cygwin-3 base. Am I reasonably safe to assume it will still work with cygwin-2.11.2? Does this generalize to all, or at least most, other packages? Thank you all for your advice. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

hen rename it on the dest with a DOS command, with cygwin shut down.) I do that about once a year. I have about 6 active machines -- home, work, Acure -- and this keeps them all in sync. Compared to Visual Studio and ilk, maintaining cygwin is a breeze this way. --- Karl Botts, kdbo.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.4

soever. Good grief, me too! Please, plain text by default, anything else explicit opt in, if at all! Mintty is an ANSI terminal emulator: it needs to do that well, and that is all. When I want VSCode, I will use that. --- Karl Botts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

GitForWindows vs. Cygwin

_still_ a stale fork of Cygwin, or a fork at all? Is it descended from MSysGit? I have been googling all over, but not finding good answers. I just want to watch out for the damn thing, and try to keep it away... --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

// is Very Useful

true-Linux world about adopting or adapting the syntax for similar purposes. Which I find a cheerful thought: the ardent ancient warriors on both sides are becoming more pragmatic in their old age. As am I... --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: Cygwin alongside WSL

I (karl Botts) wrote: > Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux... Thank you, arri, Brian Inglis, Frank Fesevur, Michael Enright, Thomas Wolf, and anybody else I missed. Your overviews are exactly what I was hoping for. Not to go into details now, bu

Cygwin alongside WSL

Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux (hence WSL) on the same machine, alongside Cygwin? --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

Karl Botts>> I use Cygwin32 on Windows-64. Warren Young> Then you’re artificially making rebase’s job harder. > The list of 32-bit-only Cygwin packages is tiny these days, and you’ve just > rebuilt your Cygwin environment. With my new find-cyg-roots script, you could > rebui

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

ou think he's in charge? Ha-ha, I bet so did he, when he took the job. But he is trying to change a corporate culture, without breaking too many eggs. Good luck to him. Heroin might help. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

you get this all working, it is pretty reliable: I have to fuss with this stuff maybe a couple times a year. Cygwin is worth it. I still don't understand why MS did not just help cygwin get a better installation/maintenance procedure, and fix the damn fork problems, instead of going down the

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

s think we have identified a defect in UoW. Do we notify the MS people? Whom and how? I guess I think we should, though I'm not happy about it. (If they are wise, they will be lurking here, for exactly this reason...) Really, I am just curious, no dog in any fight... --- Karl Botts,

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

How about the perms on the dir containing the file? --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: native Linux userland in Windows 10

will make it useless to me. I could be wrong. I'll give it a year or two to settle, and then give it a try. I just hope it does not interfere too much with my Cygwin setup, which I expect to keep for the foreseeable future. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports:

Re: Mintty font problem

to me. I set it to 800, looks fine now. No problem, just tinkering required. Might be other changes involving fonts in new mintty. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

was a red herring. Thanks for everyone's help and patience. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

> --- > > please reply on the list > > and Bottom post please. > > > > On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote: > > >> How largish ? > > > > > > Any size larger than a few meg. That is, any s

less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

rom either bash or cmd.exe. Two files are attached: Karl2.cygcheck.out, which is the 'cygcheck -s -v -r' output, and LessBugMoreInfo.txt, which contains background info and some speculation. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net Karl2.cygcheck.out Description: Binary data I am almust sure