RE: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-17 03:50): >> I don't understand why it matters that the first message would be >> deleted since you can't predict if the message would be directly to >> you or to the cygwin list. However, please don't enlighten me since >> I

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-17 03:50): >I don't understand why it matters that the first message would be >deleted since you can't predict if the message would be directly to you >or to the cygwin list. However, please don't enlighten me since I can >live with not knowing. More impor

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:32:56PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >Hi, > >* Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-16 23:19): >>On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:55:49PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>>* Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 21:19): >>>Your email client *sets* Mail-Followup-To, so it must be pretty crapp

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-16 23:19): >On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:55:49PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>* Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 21:19): >>Your email client *sets* Mail-Followup-To, so it must be pretty crappy >>to ignore it on inbound mail. > >This field is added by the ezmlm

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:55:49PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >* Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 21:19): >Your email client *sets* Mail-Followup-To, so it must be pretty crappy >to ignore it on inbound mail. This field is added by the ezmlm software that is used to manage our mailing lists. >I've

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 22:29): >At 03:55 PM 7/16/2004, you wrote: Actually, I wonder what possible reasons could exist to send every mail twice, and even by default. I haven't checked, but I guess you cannot subscribe this list or any other write-only, so in what possib

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Please tell me how I activate the write-only subscription. See . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

At 03:55 PM 7/16/2004, you wrote: >>>Actually, I wonder what possible reasons could exist to send every >>>mail twice, and even by default. I haven't checked, but I guess you >>>cannot subscribe this list or any other write-only, so in what >>>possible situation would the second mail enhance co

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 20:36): >Thorsten Haude wrote: > >>The path is also displayed at various places. The user might be >>surprised to see surplus slashes. > >[Starting to drift OT, sorry..] > >Who's generating the surplus slashes? Is this because of trailing "/" in >paths, and yo

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 21:19): >At 02:13 PM 7/16/2004, you wrote: >>I sent the sollowing message to Larry via private mail: > >Sorry. Everything I post to the list I want to be on the list. I expected that to be a misconfiguration of some kind, now you say you do that on purpose. It'

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

At 02:13 PM 7/16/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >I sent the sollowing message to Larry via private mail: Sorry. Everything I post to the list I want to be on the list. So only the list version got through. I guess you figured that out by now. If you would like to continue this or some other discussi

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Thorsten Haude wrote: The path is also displayed at various places. The user might be surprised to see surplus slashes. [Starting to drift OT, sorry..] Who's generating the surplus slashes? Is this because of trailing "/" in paths, and you're internally compositing names somehow? I thought the on

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, I sent the sollowing message to Larry via private mail: - - - Schnipp - - - Hi Larry, please don't use tofu mails. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html * Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 17:41): >The best way to insure that you get only one copy of any response from the >list is to set your reply

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Thorsten, The best way to insure that you get only one copy of any response from the list is to set your reply-to to point to the list. Depending on the software you use, you may find that you can easily filter out duplicates too. I don't second-guess the implied intent of posters to whom I res

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

On Jul 16 15:10, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Corinna Vinschen wrote (2004-07-16 15:01): > >even if I repeat other postings, please note that double slashes are > >absolutely fine according to the standards. Leading double slashes may > >have a special meaning on POSIX implementations and th

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Corinna Vinschen wrote (2004-07-16 15:01): >even if I repeat other postings, please note that double slashes are >absolutely fine according to the standards. Leading double slashes may >have a special meaning on POSIX implementations and the *well* *known* >Windows specific meaning is an UN

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

On Jul 16 14:06, Thorsten Haude wrote: > I think some people might see the surprising path, *think* the > software is broken and stop using it. Another problem ist the toolkit. > > I agree that the leading extra slash should be supported, but it might > not be as easy as it sounds. Thorsten, eve

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, please send me every mail only once. Thanks. * Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 04:21): >At 07:30 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: >>* Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): >>>Thorsten Haude wrote: - Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up before in other applications?

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

At 07:30 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >* Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): >>Thorsten Haude wrote: >>>- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up >>>before in other applications? >> >>I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. >>Just han

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up >>before in other applications? > >I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. >Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both th

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Thorsten Haude wrote: - Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up before in other applications? I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both the user and the OS know what it is they are trying to d

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-15 07:18): >I don't know why knowing that someone says it's official helps much. It doesn't I just wanted to make sure whether there are any other issues that might come up later. Thank you for your help. Thorsten -- Guns don't protect freedom, people p

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:48:36AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >Hi, > >* Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-15 06:15): >>On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:32:32AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>>I know that NEdit is not the only application ignoring multiplied >>>slashes, so I wonder how this is normally

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-15 06:15): >On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:32:32AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>I know that NEdit is not the only application ignoring multiplied >>slashes, so I wonder how this is normally handled with Cygwin. Indeed, >>a simple test on Linux seems to indicat

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:32:32AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >I'm trying to find the best approach to solve a bug reported against >NEdit: >https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=873188&group_id=11005&atid=111005 > >The reporter complains that NEdit cannot open files from net