I found this message in my hosted Gmail (Google Apps) account’s Spam
folder. I wonder why Gmail thought it was spam? Because it contained
the URL of a(n) (Windows) executable file?
Dave Korn wrote:
G.W. Haywood wrote:
BTW, if you run "setup.exe --help", it will (depending on OS
version) either display the usage instructions to the screen,
I assume you mean it will print the usage instructions to stdout or
stderr, which are not necessarily connected to a terminal?
or
dump them to a setup.log file in the directory where you run it.
That's not correct (*):
laptop:~$>>> ./setup.exe
-bash: ./setup.exe: cannot execute binary file
Well strictly it is, since I said what would happen if you ran it, and not
what would happen if you _didn't_ run it (for whatever reason that might
happen to be)!
Because G.W. Haywood is not running it on Windows (nor ReactOS) nor with
Wine?
Yes, one could just *try it*, if he had a Windows machine on which to
try it.
Not all Cygwin users are male. Please use “he or she” or, if you agree
with singular usage of traditionally plural pronouns, “they” instead of
“he”.
*koff*
Don’t you mean *COFF* (as opposed to ELF)? ;)
Prepare to be shocked, amazed, awed and astounded!
[da...@ubique ~]$ uname -a
bash? Shouldn’t you use *ksh? ;)
Linux ubique.localdomain 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23
23:37:54 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[da...@ubique ~]$ wget http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
--2010-01-18 13:20:58-- http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131
Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 624128 (610K) [application/octet-stream]
Is that a (bit)stream of eighth notes in the key of C? ;)
Saving to: `setup.exe'
100%[====================================================================================>]
624,128 28.6K/s in 16s
2010-01-18 13:21:15 (37.3 KB/s) - `setup.exe' saved [624128/624128]
[da...@ubique ~]$ chmod a+x setup.exe
[da...@ubique ~]$ wine ./setup.exe --help
Are you using Wine with the builtin xor native libraries? Note: the
xor operator is to prevent a “Yes” answer since this question requires a
string, not a boolean, as an answer. :)
fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT_setlocale :Codepage only locale not implemented
Starting cygwin install, version 2.677
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed 2 No such file or directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed 2 No such file or
directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed 2 No such file or
directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-method) failed 2 No such file or
directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-host) failed 2 No such file or
directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-port) failed 2 No such file or
directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-mirror) failed 2 No such file or
directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys) failed 2 No such file or
directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such
file or directory
Current Directory: Z:\home\davek
Command Line Options:
<snip>
Ending cygwin install
AddAccessAllowedAce(, owner) failed: 1337
AddAccessAllowedAce(, group) failed: 1337
AddAccessAllowedAce(, everyone) failed: 1337
AddAccessAllowedAce(, owner) failed: 1337
AddAccessAllowedAce(, group) failed: 1337
AddAccessAllowedAce(, everyone) failed: 1337
Does this mean you are too 1337 to be allowed access? ;)
[da...@ubique ~]$
:-)
cheers,
DaveK
Did you know old Apple keyboards, such as the Apple Extended Keyboard II
from 1989, have the bumps on D and K instead of F and J? :) I used to
have one of those keyboards in my 68k Mac collection. I wish I had kept
the keyboard because it would be cool if I could use it on a PC with an
ADB→USB converter. I liked that keyboard’s feel: it had mechanical key
switches instead of rubber membrane/dome switches. The Caps Lock key
stayed down when Caps Lock was on, like Shift Lock on a typewriter (and
a C64?). I forgot if it had the Lock LEDs on the keys themselves or in
a group elsewhere on the keyboard.
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