Hi,
Is there some more specific place in which to give suggestions or feedback
about the Cygwin pages?
Thanks,
Rodrigo
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FAQ
Hi,
I had a Windows XP user account whose name had spaces. The Cygwin web site
says that you should change your account's user name to something without
spaces and, if Cygwin is already installed, re-run mkpasswd. Even before I
installed Cygwin, I changed my user name, but this did not solve the
p
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 06:43 PM 12/3/2004, you wrote:
> >Is there some more specific place in which to give suggestions or feedback
> >about the Cygwin pages?
> Sure. Here. :-)
Ok, just making sure, thanks.
I would like to suggest that the words "Keep", "Prev", "Curr" and "E
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> This is strange. Could you send us the output of mkpasswd and indicate
> both the name you use to log in into Windows and the name returned by id -un
I didn't run mkpasswd manually because I have changed the account user
name before installing Cygwin
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote:
> > id -un, as it is the case with ssh. Did I miss something or renaming the
> > account really doesn't do anything to solve the problem?
>
> Did you rename the actual account using the Managemen
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> So you should do what the faq says.
Thanks for the clarifications, Pierre, they will solve my problem. But one
of the motivations of my original post was that I thought I had done what
the faq says. I suggest it gets clarified; it says: "You can rena
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:22:14 -0600 (CST), Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote:
> > I would like to suggest that the words "Keep", "Prev", "Curr" and "Exp" be
> > changed in the Cygwin Setup. I beli
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Opening up /etc/passwd in a text editor and doing a search and replace for
> "Nick
> Coghlan" -> "NickCoghlan" worked fine for me. It makes Cygwin happy, and
> Windows
> gets to continue on in blithe ignorance of what is going on.
Yes. I think that's
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
> Well, negative or positive, we cannot change how anyone responds to posts
> on this list nor can we change how people interpret those responses. As
> a result, I don't see much point in lots of "me too"s along this line,
The point would be to bring this to
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, R.Powers wrote:
> I don't think it has anything to do with Christianity or Atheism or PC
> or Free Speech..or being Hip or Coolor forcing anything on
> anybody..
>
> It's merely obscene crudity.
>
> If it's better suited to publication on the wall of a public toilet
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Brian Bruns wrote:
>
> > and leave it be. We shouldn't be forcing our views on other people.
>
> If you leave it be, then that is the view forced on other people.
If I am not mistaken, Brian had written something above that about wa
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > That already carries a judgment reflecting your values.
> > Certainly the people who included them in fortune thought otherwise.
>
> If they had thought otherwise, they wouldn't have included them in the first
> place. As a licensed nerd mind-read
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Cliff Hones wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
> >> A twit hit a free software mailing list.
> >> On censoring fortune he did insist.
> >> ``Can't have limericks about pussies and dicks!''
> >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist!
>
> I don't think this is a limerick, though, w
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the
> profanity at all?
A number of people like them.
Best,
Rodrigo
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > A number of people like them.
>
> A number of people like hard pore cornography too. Cygwin doesn't provide
> that, at least not in visual form, at least not that I'm aware of.
>
> The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide thi
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> For the silly reason that I happen to know that a lot of things related to
> Nazis or Hitler in Deutschland ungültig ist. Ferinstance, check out the
> German aircraft in MS's Combat Flight Simulator - no swastikas, 'cause if
> there were, they could
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