getting windows ntfs file info

2013-12-30 Thread Jon Retting
Hello,     Typed up this one liner function for getting a files actual windows details/properties information.  I needed a tertiary way to compare executable/drivers, so a version number from windows seemed like a viable option. Hopefully someone will find this handy, seeing as i feel so guilty

Re: chmod Not Working

2013-12-30 Thread bartels
On 12/30/2013 06:16 AM, Nithin Kurien wrote: When I type the following sequence of commands: cd ~; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0700 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" sample; rm -rf sample; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0755 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" sample the output is: 770 1001 513 775 1001 513 Why is chmod

RE: chmod Not Working

2013-12-30 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: bartels > > On 12/30/2013 06:16 AM, Nithin Kurien wrote: > > When I type the following sequence of commands: > > > > cd ~; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0700 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" sample; > > rm -rf sample; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0755 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" > > sample > > > > the output is

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eliot Moss! > (Sent first version to Andre only ... sorry, Andre!) This is why I set "reply-to" address back to list... If you WANT to send me a private message, you can do it. But with default setup, your replies transparently sent to the list. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yande

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jonathan Martin! > I suspected I would not get my point across, but the questions were more > important. If I understand your complaints right, you have to go to the very home page of the project and carefully read the very first few paragraphs there, carefully named "What [cygwin] i

Re: chmod Not Working

2013-12-30 Thread Max Polk
On 12/30/2013 2:23 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: bartels On 12/30/2013 06:16 AM, Nithin Kurien wrote: When I type the following sequence of commands: cd ~; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0700 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" sample; rm -rf sample; mkdir sample; chmod -R 0755 sample; stat -c "%a %u %g" sa

getting windows ntfs file info

2013-12-30 Thread Jon Retting
Hello,     Typed up this one liner function for getting a files actual windows details/properties information.  I needed a tertiary way to compare executable/drivers, so a version number from windows seemed like a viable option. Hopefully someone will find this handy, seeing as i feel so guilty

Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.

2013-12-30 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Hi, maybe I have found a bug in the Cygwin. I have been using Cygwin on the 64bit Windows 7 for a long time and I never experienced this problem. But I bought a new laptop and on the fresh new system (also 64bit Windows 7) the same Cygwin with the same configuration cleared the screen buffer when

Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.

2013-12-30 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Dawid Ferenczy volny.cz> writes: > Hi, > > maybe I have found a bug in the Cygwin. Hi again, I forgot to mention some essential data :) I'm using the 64bit version of Cygwin on the 64bit Windows 7 Home Premium, cygwin1.dll version is 1.7.27, setup.exe version is 2.831. The issue appears u