On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> This thread, though getting on my nerves,
Hear, hear...
> actually has a relatively interesting question in it. I think the answer
> is kinda obvious, though..
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:36:07AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > P.S.
This thread, though getting on my nerves, actually has a relatively interesting
question in it. I think the answer is kinda obvious, though..
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:36:07AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> P.S. Speaking of special treatment, how come Cygwin is the only free
> software proj
Edward Peschko wrote:
>> This is your second warning on this subject, btw.
>
> Chris,
> what are your warnings?
The warning is that further mail from you may be automatically
kill-filed by most readers of this list, once they get the impression
that you have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the
>
> P.S. Speaking of special treatment, how come Cygwin is the only free
> software project whose maintainers say "PTC" instead of "PGA"? How
> naive all those other maintainers must be!
I remember it used to be PGA until the day CFG coined PTC on a particualy
mean day.
(I could hear the yelp
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:23PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>
> >maybe then having your 'finger on the button' isn't the right response?
> >Maybe tolerance is in order? maybe letting people voice their opinions
> >without a verbal smackdown? A
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:23PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>I never said that the msys tools are 'great'. It just seems to be the
>standard that people have adhered to for the win32 side of things. My
>point is that talking about merging the two is impossible without
>considering how mingw w
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:57:41PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:39:12PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >Edward Peschko wrote:
> >
> >>The problem is, chris, that I have no way of telling what you will find
> >>'off-topic' and what you won't.
> >You could always as
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:39:12PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Edward Peschko wrote:
>
>>The problem is, chris, that I have no way of telling what you will find
>>'off-topic' and what you won't.
>You could always ask...
>
>>One of my gut feels is that you find the whole idea of combining the tw
Edward Peschko wrote:
The problem is, chris, that I have no way of telling what you will find 'off-topic' and what you won't.
You could always ask...
One of my gut feels is that you find the whole idea of combining the two
projects together in any way 'off-topic'.
No need for gut feelings, I
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:08:53PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>Personally, I think that gunter had the best option - if you don't like
>what I say, just - personally - direct me to /dev/null. Problem
>solved. If people think that I'm not 'on topic' I'll get ignored.
Sorry. You don't get speci
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:51:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:28:24PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
> >Give me a month or so. And please, if you don't want to hear what I
> >say, or otherwise disagree with what I say, redirect me to /dev/null!
>
> This mailing li
Edward Peschko wrote:
FAQ? FAQ? What is that supposed to mean? Why can't you just speak English? How are we supposed to know that we should look in obscure places for information that should just be presented at the cygwin prompt?
temper, temper... I honestly think you should calm down, t
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:28:24PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>Give me a month or so. And please, if you don't want to hear what I
>say, or otherwise disagree with what I say, redirect me to /dev/null!
This mailing list is not a free for all. If "what you say" is
repeatedly off-topic, you will
Edward Peschko wrote:
yeah, I did a little more mucking around and came up with cygpath. Its
not the most obvious place to find that information though, nothing in
unix screams out 'cygpath is what you want!!!'
Unix is a kind and polite OS. As such it does not scream at you! :-)
I've never fou
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:12:51PM -0500, guenter strubinsky wrote:
> I took the liberty to zap mr. peschko as of now from my inbox as background
> noise (using a microsoft product which uses paths 'correctly' aka. ms-dos
> style). It can't be considered spam since he does not OFFER anything of
> d
n not to be mis-associated with
this newsgroup!
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Edward Peschko
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 October, 2003 19:35
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: pwd option to return windows path
>
> Msys is not a discussion topic for this mailing list. If you want to
> comment on Msys then use the appropriate msys mailing list. When you do
> this, you might ask them why, when you run the msys version of "sh" and
> type "pwd" it reports something like "/usr/bin" or "/c" rather than
> "C:\ms
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:34:45PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>In order to use it effectively, every single module/item that is ported
>to mingw expects to see certain behaviors, as generated by the msys
>tools. One example was uname, here's another example - pwd. Like it
>or not, msys and ming
> FAQ? FAQ? What is that supposed to mean? Why can't you just speak
> English? How are we supposed to know that we should look in obscure
> places for information that should just be presented at the cygwin
> prompt?
temper, temper... I honestly think you should calm down, take a stress pill,
> As has been previously pointed out, the point of cygwin is to present a
> UNIX environment to users. We do not go out of our way to modify every
> executable in the distribution so that it provides an MS-DOS look and
> feel for those who are not comfortable with UNIX path names.
>
> We've provi
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:09:32PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Edward Peschko wrote:
There is no option.
>>>
>>>If your "terse cgf reply decoder ring" has not yet arrived, you may be
>>>interested in "man cygpath", e.g. "cygpath -w `pwd`".
>>
>>yeah, I did a little more mucking around and cam
Edward Peschko wrote:
> > > There is no option.
> >
> > If your "terse cgf reply decoder ring" has not yet arrived, you may be
> > interested in "man cygpath", e.g. "cygpath -w `pwd`".
>
> yeah, I did a little more mucking around and came up with cygpath. Its not the most
> obvious place to find
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>I think that the same options that are on cygpath should also be on
>pwd; this might make things a little more user friendly.
As has been previously pointed out, the point of cygwin is to present a
UNIX environment to users. We do n
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > >I've been using a hack through the environmental variable !C:
> > >(provided by tcsh) and pwd in order to return a windows32 path
> > >(ie: C:/cygwin/...)
> > >
> > >There's *got* to be a better way t
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >I've been using a hack through the environmental variable !C:
> >(provided by tcsh) and pwd in order to return a windows32 path
> >(ie: C:/cygwin/...)
> >
> >There's *got* to be a better way to do this. Is there a switch to pwd
> >that returns a windows path instead of
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Edward Peschko wrote:
> all,
>
> I've been using a hack through the environmental variable !C:
> (provided by tcsh) and pwd in order to return a windows32 path
> (ie: C:/cygwin/...)
>
> There's *got* to be a better way to do this. Is there a switch to pwd
> that returns a wind
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:09:57PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>all,
>
>I've been using a hack through the environmental variable !C:
>(provided by tcsh) and pwd in order to return a windows32 path
>(ie: C:/cygwin/...)
>
>There's *got* to be a better way to do this. Is there a switch to pwd
>t
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