Re: Problem with mksetupini

2017-02-15 Thread Jon Turney
On 15/02/2017 07:51, Sunny Lin wrote: Hi all, I encountered a problem and hope someone here can help me through. I need to build a 32-bit Cygwin distribution with customized packages. I have calm package installed. I am learning to use mksetupini to create a setup.ini file. I use commands sim

RE: cygpath

2017-02-15 Thread Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
From: Corinna Vinschen > On Feb 13 17:29, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > > From: Andrey Repin > > > See > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars > > > > This reference says: > > ... > > I propose the following: > > ... > > Patched. Thanx for that,

Re: Problem with mksetupini

2017-02-15 Thread Jon Turney
symlinks, as those instructions expect. I've pushed out an updated calm 20170215-1 package with a fix for that. Thanks for reporting this problem. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.

Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink /d' which point to a volume UUID

2017-02-15 Thread Matt D.
On Windows you can create symbolic links which point to volume UUIDs as a way of mounting and unmounting them without having to use the administrative disk management tools. For example, in cmd: mountvol ... \\?\Volume{079b79c9----1000}\ C:\ ... mklink /d test \

Re: cygpath

2017-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 15 14:41, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen > > On Feb 13 17:29, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > > > From: Andrey Repin > > > > See > > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars > > > > > > This reference says: > > > ...

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.8-3

2017-02-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 14.02.2017 um 21:35 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 14.02.2017 um 21:29 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 14.02.2017 um 20:56 schrieb Eric Blake: On 02/14/2017 01:40 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: No. We're talking about a function in the master side of the tty, while the applications started in the terminal ar

Re: Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink /d' which point to a volume UUID

2017-02-15 Thread L. A. Walsh
Matt D. wrote: On Windows you can create symbolic links which point to volume UUIDs as a way of mounting and unmounting them without having to use the administrative disk management tools. For example, in cmd: mountvol ... \\?\Volume{079b79c9----1000}\ C:\ ...

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: gawk-4.1.4-3

2017-02-15 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:23:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > this TEST release removes all enforcing of text mode on input. > Input from pipes is now treated binary-only, input from files > follows the mount mode setting text/binary. Works great, thanks. $ printf 'hello world\r\n' | awk 1 | od -tc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: grep-3.0-2

2017-02-15 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:17:25, "Eric Blake (cygwin)" wrote: > This build modifies the behavior of grep to no longer force text mode on > binary-mounted file descriptors. Works, thanks: $ printf 'hello world\r\n' | grep . | od -tcx1 000 h e l l o w o r l d \r \

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: sed-4.4-1

2017-02-15 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:15:18, Eric Blake wrote: > Yes, it means that any existing users that were lazily relying on the > forced text mode to automatically strip CRs will now have to fix their > scripts to add a d2u invocation, but I already hit some of that fallout > when I changed bash to quit fo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: grep-3.0-2

2017-02-15 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-02-15 21:25, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:17:25, "Eric Blake (cygwin)" wrote: >> This build modifies the behavior of grep to no longer force text >> mode on binary-mounted file descriptors. > Works, thanks: > $ printf 'hello world\r\n' | grep . | od -tcx1 > 000