Hmmm, that name sounds familiar... (googles "doug mcilroy unix") Yep. Just think of the karma for answering Prof. McIlroy's question... I wish I could :) Regards, John Ruckstuhl
Douglas McIlroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy Wikipedia Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2007 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally developed Unix pipelines, ... Malcolm Douglas McIlroy - Hotel Genius - Cat-v.org genius.cat-v.org/doug-mcilroy/ Malcolm Douglas McIlroy. “The unsung hero of ... and other wonders. Unix user name: doug(?) Unix commands created: spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > On a Microsoft Surface running CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3) > I cannot start Cygwin from the desktop shortcut. It fails to find > mintty. On failure, it proffers a browsing window focused on /bin. > Clicking on mintty in that window does not work. I can start > Cygwin via a Windows "run" request, however. > > On a Dell desktop machine running CYGWIN_NT-6.3 version 1.7.34(0.285/5/3) > where the shortcut works, I see that the pathname in the shortcut > ends in mintty.exe. The .exe extension is missing in the 2.4.1 > shortcut. Could this be the cause? If so, is there a convenient > way to edit a shortcut? > > Doug McIlroy > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
