Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

2003-03-25 Thread Robert Praetorius
> > FWIW: I am not a lawyer. > And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored. Just for reference, if someone's looking for a lawyer not to ignore, that would probably Eben Moglen, FSF general counsel and board member (also a professor of law and legal history, formerly a cl

Re: Is this OK with the GPL?

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Praetorius
> That's ok, though. As long as they supply source, I'm happy. I'm not > going to quibble about how much they charge to do it. How much does the > FSF charge for a CD? Anyone know? Prices listed at http://gnu.sunsite.utk.edu/order/order.html run from $35 to $5000 (the latter inc

Re: COM

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Praetorius
> Hi Gang > How do I link my COM pgms? For half a second I was ready to fling http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. at you - then I realized that grepping the web (or even the cygwin.com corner of it) for COM is a nontrivial proposition. I don't know from COM, b

RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output

2003-01-13 Thread Robert Praetorius
> If this one doesn't move before you get there, this should help. If it > seems unrelated to your plight, "search the archives!" ;-) Just use > google or gmane instead of cygwin.com! ;-) Catch 22 here. Assuming the relevant search terms are perldoc less , neither Google nor Gman

Re: how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Praetorius
> Also, if I am downloading files for later install, it seems to not > work if I start with one machine and then later download some stuff > from a different machine. The machine name is used in the directory > path of the files that I download. So if I get some from one machine > and some more fr

SOTBOMT Re: dumb question: where is gcc?

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Praetorius
[Semi Off Topic But On Meta Topic] > It's worthwhile to make a check of the email archives too when looking > for information like this. It's a far more complete resource than the > FAQ, albeit more wordy and with some additional noise. ;-) Gets me to thinking. . . I see lots of pointers t

RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?

2002-02-13 Thread Robert Praetorius
> I think DG's and PJA's original assessment was correct and > BASH should be modified. Support for cross-platform scripts > is important, and the #!/bin/env trick is used frequently. bashref.html says: "Suggestions and `philosophical' bug reports may be mailed to [EMAIL PRO

Re: OT: MS Visual C++ Makefiles

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Praetorius
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:21:55AM -, Simon McCaughey wrote: > > Has anyone ever written a makefile converter so that a project written in MS > > VC++ can be compiled with gcc? > > > > Would anyone else find this useful? > > This *might* be OT but actually I would find that useful, yes. >

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Praetorius
I have a crude, tacky workaround for this that I've been using with the AT command since the NT 3.51 days. It fits much better with cron than with telnet (although perhaps something could be hacked up for telnet, too). Anyway, I have a little .BAT file in my Startup folder* that (im