Relation Between Mount System and The Registry?

2008-07-09 Thread Sam Hanes
egistry is initially read in, or were it gets written out when a new entry is added. -- Sam Hanes elemecca AT gmail DOT com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygw

Re: Relation Between Mount System and The Registry?

2008-07-09 Thread Sam Hanes
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Sam Hanes wrote: >> >> Can someone explain to me when the registry keys in >> "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2" and the same in HKCU >> get read into the mount table? I can find the source for the mount >> t

Re: use 'insmod' inside cygwin

2008-07-09 Thread Sam Hanes
rike_lin wrote: > > I'm a new member for cygwin. As I known, the cygwin is a unix-like shell > environment for the windows platform. It might not include the function > 'insmod'. Is it correct? Or, is it possible to use 'insmod' inside cygwin > and how to do it? > `insmod` is the POSIX command to

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Sam Hanes
Cygwin installation. This is generally useful so we know how it's *supposed* to work. Lastly, please confirm or correct the following info: - Your base install directory is "C:\Cygwin" - The installer (setup.exe) finished without errors -- Sam Hanes Send list replies to ! -- Unsub

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Sam Hanes
I (Sam Hanes) wrote: > > I need some more information to help: > > First, the output of `/bin/mount`, which is a list of all the > mountpoints on your system. The most common reason that the shell > can't find commands in the PATH is that the mount table has gotten >

Re: un-indenting doesn't work with vim

2008-07-16 Thread Sam Hanes
dth` are set to different values, strange things happen if you use tab to indent. -- Sam Hanes elemecca AT gmail DOT com Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.

Re: Freeze with the letter "e"

2008-07-16 Thread Sam Hanes
he file is *NIX-style. The gist of it: If it expects LF and sees CR-LF you have problems, and vice-versa. You can convert between the two styles with `dos2unix` and `unix2dos`. -- Sam Hanes elemecca AT gmail DOT com Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake

Re: How to run a bash shell script from cygwin console

2008-07-17 Thread Sam Hanes
environment in the sub-shell do not propagate to the parent shell. To run a script in the current shell so it can change your environment, call it as `. yourscript` instead of just `yourscript`. AFAIK there's nothing that you can put in the script to make it do this all the time. -- Sam Hanes elem

Re: genisoimage and links. Problems?

2008-08-04 Thread Sam Hanes
However, implementing that would require making Cygwin considerably more aware of hardware than it is and thus probably won't happen. -- Sam Hanes elemecca AT gmail DOT com Yes. > Are you sure? >> Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Why is replying ab

Re: emacs open display problem

2008-08-12 Thread Sam Hanes
specifying the X display on the command line, even if they supposedly support it. Setting the DISPLAY environment variable usually works in these cases. I've never seen an app with this problem go phantom (they usually die saying 'couldn't connect to X server'), but you never kn