Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
> Windows programs will only ever see a Windows-style PATH no matter what; > however, they WILL see the Cygwin paths converted to Windows-style and > prepended IF they were run from a login shell under Cygwin. Yes, that's how I'm getting these Message too long messages. -- Reinier -- Problem re

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:42:01PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe <> wrote: > > 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: > >>> If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you > >>> will either need to stri

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
00 chars) that, although it successfully locates many Windows executables, attempts to run them fail with an error message: % dot -h /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Graphviz/bin/dot: Message too long. Workaround: % env - "`which dot`" -h Other than that it works well. (This is Cygwin 1.

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-28 Thread Reinier Post
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:11:07PM -0600, Charles D. Russell wrote: > > But there is no alternative for external storage that is to be readable > on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. And I use Cygwin scripts for all my > backups and housekeeping. Just a side note: I don't know about Mac, but I'm

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-27 Thread Reinier Post
there, that's great. > cheers, > DaveK Thanks for the helpful replies everybody. -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven -- 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: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-27 Thread Reinier Post
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:56:08AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 26 19:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:20:50AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:39:39PM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: > > >> I wonder if some p

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Reinier Post
al with this situation in any case. Not sure how. Thanks for your suggestions. (I'm running the same script on Linux now, if only because it's running more than 100 times as fast there. But that has nothing to do with tar bugs.) -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven -- Problem reports:

tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-26 Thread Reinier Post
*not* exist, which causes maybe_recoverable() to return 1 and the loop to repeat forever. I don't know why this is happening, let alone how to repair it. Does Cygwin have a bugtracker? Help! -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: