Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:37:32PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >The updated sectioned webpage is now up, just in time for the new month. >It will be at least a couple of weeks before I can get the single HTML file >and PDF on the website, or release an updated cygwin-doc package. >WE APOLO

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:35:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Once again, having "CYGWIN=tty" isn't meaningful when running rxvt. > here at the end - just to emphasize it. Got it. > Oh... The paragraph about .lnk-files (included below for ref.): > The sentences "feels" long and windi

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

--- Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > >backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped > > > >from shells such as bash (COMPUTER\\Printer Share). If you have a > > > > > >

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:35:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >> Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:20:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > My comments: >> > >> > Please don't suggest tha

RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > > > > > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with > > > Windows" section for t

RE: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:20:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > My comments: > > > > Please don't suggest that setting CYGWIN=tty is necessary for running > > rxvt. The only reason to set CYGWIN=tty i

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > >backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped > > >from shells such as bash (COMPUTER\\Printer Share). If you have a > > > > Rather than talk about escaping backslashes, why not just use >

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Igor, > > >> There are no Cygwin-native java compilers, right? > > > Well, I use jikes, which, IIRC, built OOTB. Haven't gotten around to > > packaging it up yet, but probably will work on that shortly. > > There is also gcj included in the late

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

Hallo Igor, >> There are no Cygwin-native java compilers, right? > Well, I use jikes, which, IIRC, built OOTB. Haven't gotten around to > packaging it up yet, but probably will work on that shortly. There is also gcj included in the latest GCC package which seems to produce binaries. Gerrit -

RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

ED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > >> > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > >> > >> > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Eff

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

--- Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > > > > > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with > > > Windows" section for the User's Guide. > > > > > > If

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:58:44PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >By the way, this has nothing to do with the User's Guide, but I made >a script to download (using the mailing list archive) all the July >emails into mbox format. I thought it would be easier than asking someone >for the archi

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin >> >> > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with >> > Windows" section for the User's Guide. >>

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:18:07AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >If you'd like to look at it as a web page: > > > > > >I'm going to be leaving this broadband connection in under 48 hours, > >so I'll probably put this into CVS tomorrow

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > > > > > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with > > > Windows" section for the User's Guide. > > > > > > If you'

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > > > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with > > Windows" section for the User's Guide. > > > > If you'd like to look at it as a web page: > >

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:55:13PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > --Q: Does anyone know of a page that lists command line configuration > > utilities included with Windows 95/98/ME vs. Windows NT4/2000/XP? > > Try >

RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> I would suggest adding a section on the PATH environment and its use > when invoking bash from DOS. I'm not sure what this means... maybe that you need to add c:\cygwin\bin to your DOS PATH to use the binaries from DOS? Could you provide a sample of what you mean? -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:18:07AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" >section for the User's Guide. > >If you'd like to look at it as a web page: > > >I'm going to be

RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:18 PM > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with > Windows" > section for the User's Guide. > > If you'd like to look at it as a web page: >

RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at it as a web

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

Joshua, Thanks for doing this. I'll take a look at the document itself later on. For now, a few quick comments (inline below). On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" > section for the User's Guide. > > If y

"Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at it as a web page: I'm going to be leaving this broadband connection in under 48 hours, so I'll probably put this