1.7.7: Postinstall issue with boxes.sh

Hi, there seems to be a small glitch with the grep pattern. I have attached the error log and a patch for file /etc/postinstall/boxes.sh. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ setup.log.full Description: Binary data

Re: USB flash drive not showing up in Cygwin under Windows 7

* Jeffrey J. Kosowsky (Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:32:33 -0500) > My USB thumb drive does not show up in /cygdrive/ (or seemingly > anywhere else for that matter). It does of course show up in the > regular Windows 7 GUI in the "Computer" folder. > > This happens even if I open the cygwin window using "Ru

Cygwin Support for Shadow Copies Exposed As Drives?

I have hit a brick wall in the Cygwin 1.7 arena -- shadow copies exposed as drives can no longer be accessed. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00954.html for an example of previous documentation on this issue.  Are there any plans for a patch or work-around to allow an exposed shadow d

Re: Cygwin 1.7 : Checking -fPIC Failed when building the gcc 4.5.1 with --enable-plugin

On 23/12/2010 05:54, Lucky Lu wrote: > I am having trouble with building the gcc 4.5.1 with --enable-plugin on > Cygwin. Sorry, GCC plugins are only supported on systems that use the ELF executable file format such as Linux, they can't work on Windows-based systems owing to limitations of the P

ls Slow When Using /cygdrive/...

I am having a problem with ls being VERY slow on at least in some circumstances. For example, ls c:/ is quick, but lc /cygdrive/c/ is very slow. I've DAGS but have not seen anything responsive on this problem. Ideas? -- T

Re: File output Question

On 3 January 2011 03:04, ERIC HO wrote: > Looking at this closer, I've found the file contains hex '00' between > characters. In vim, it displays ^@ for hex '00'. So it looks unreadable. But > when I use cat or tail commands, it strips off hex '00' and looks readable. > For example. in vim, it d

Re: Cygwin Support for Shadow Copies Exposed As Drives?

On 1/3/2011 9:56 AM, Leon Vanderploeg wrote: I have hit a brick wall in the Cygwin 1.7 arena -- shadow copies exposed as drives can no longer be accessed. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00954.html for an example of previous documentation on this issue. Are there any plans for a patc

Re: File output Question

Thanks Andy for your explanation on why vim interpreting the utf 16 file as ascii. Eric. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs