Re: how do i simulate a null character from the keyboard?

Ethan Mallove wrote: > > why is ctrl-d a logout command >instead of NULL? > Because that's what ctrl-d is supposed to be for! In the ASCII character code set, ctrl-d is defined as the EOT signal, short for "End Of Transmission". So Unix (and consequently Cygwin) were just following the publish

bash: '..' retained in cwd

When I cd with a relative path involving .., I find that sometimes the ../ does not get reduced in the current working directory string. This appears to be limited to bash, and to one particular mount: /home/zeil Example (my input occurs after each '>'): /home/zeil/AlgAE/java> cd ../c++ /home/zei

correction to Cygwin FAQ: uninstall all

Hello. A small correction to the Cygwin FAQ, discovered when I wanted to do a clean reinstall: In the answer to "How do I uninstall all of Cygwin?", the registry tree is given as `Software\Red Hat, Inc.', but it appears that the registry informaiton is now being stored under Software\Cygnus Solu