Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

So as to add to the confusion... At one point, and maybe still, you could "Restart Windows" without rebooting your computer. If I recall correctly, it would drop to the subsystem (DOS?) and a message stating "Restarting Windows..." would display on your screen. So, restarting was not necessarily

Re: revisiting: windows .lnk working in cygwin; theoretical solution

On Thu, November 30, 2006 1:42 am, Linda Walsh said: > > Current problem, as I understand it is that current *nix apps wouldn't see the extra windows fields, so if tar were to dump/restore, the extra information would be lost. > This, of course, has been a pickle several times for Apple. On the App

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

On Thu, December 14, 2006 10:19 pm, Charles Wilson said: > You have GOT to be kidding me? "Security" based on the name of a file? > That's...that's... > > Oh heck. > > No more than I would expect from Bill "You'll never need more than 640K > RAM" Gates. > > -- > Chuck Yeah, a whole operating s