Re: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
No -- but these flying pigs sure make some good sausage. Anybody for baby back ribs? They're not too bad if you pick out the feathers. --Chuck Jonathan Simms wrote: > Okay, *NOW* i've seen everything... :-\ > > ...Has hell frozen over too? > > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL P

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DLL and Visual Basic

2002-01-18 Thread Tim Bynum
Greets! Could someone provide me an example(s) of creating a DLL under Cygwin that can be used by Visual Basic (an example of this would be nice to). For the second time now (could'nt let it get the best of me) I'm trying to create a DLL and then use it in a VB app. I've successfully created th

RE: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
>You could write a script. That's even more fun than setting >all user/group/permission info by hand. Treat it as challenge. > >Corinna Actually, this almost sounds fun... :) Correct me if I'm wrong here, but if Perl read the attributes of a file, they'd be reported in the same way as they woul

Re: a touch question

2002-01-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jonathan, [ To my knowledge, this is not Cygwin-specific. ] Here's one simple way: rtouch() { touch $(find "$@"); } Rather slower, but unlimited by maximum argument list length limit: rtouch() { find "$@" -exec touch '{}' ';' ; } If you want to be able to include touch opti

a touch question

2002-01-18 Thread Jonathan Simms
Is there any way of touch-ing recursively? -- Jonathan Simms "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

RE: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-18 Thread Jonathan Simms
Okay, *NOW* i've seen everything... :-\ ...Has hell frozen over too? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Bradshaw > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:23 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: OFF-TOPIC, but... > > > My c

RE: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-18 Thread Mark Bradshaw
My condolences. ;o) > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OFF-TOPIC, but... > > > I thought I might as well be the first person to post this: > > http://www.washtech.com

OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
I thought I might as well be the first person to post this: http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html This was, of course, news to me. One would wonder what this means for Cygwin. I think the definitive answer would be "Cygwin? Huh? What's that?" cgf -- Please do not send me personal

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/18/2002 6:54 PM, Jeff Hu wrote: > Kent, > > Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.38.7.README. It explains you how you can > coerce mutt into using it for sending mail. Then read > /usr/doc/ssmtp-2.38.7/README about the limitations of ssmtp. Ok. This helps a little. Unfortunately, I would like a

Re: Package Lint

2002-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:25:09AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>I have been away for a while and would be interested in working on a >>package lint as a way of getting back in the loop. What would you like >>it to ch

RE: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Jeff Hu
Kent, Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.38.7.README. It explains you how you can coerce mutt into using it for sending mail. Then read /usr/doc/ssmtp-2.38.7/README about the limitations of ssmtp. Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kent P

Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion

2002-01-18 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 06:38 PM 12/30/01 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:26:15AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> At 11:15 PM 12/29/01 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> While I am at it, here is another weird observation: >> base case above: prog reads some registry key. Succeeds. >> cas

Re: Package Lint

2002-01-18 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have been away for a while and would be interested in working on a package > lint as a way of getting back in the loop. What would you like it to check > first? > > My first thought would be to make it a Perl script.

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/18/2002 5:56 PM, Kent Perrier wrote: > To the best of my ability, I have. It looks to me that the MUA has to > call ssmtp to send an email. It cannot run as a daemon, on port 25, to > accept connections from MUAs. The man page says the -bd option is > unsupported and my experience from

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/18/2002 5:46 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:26:39PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote: > >>On 1/18/2002 3:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote: >>> From my reading of the man page it appears that ssmtp does n

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:26:39PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote: > On 1/18/2002 3:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote: > > >>From my reading of the man page it appears that ssmtp does not run as a > >>daemon, it needs to be called by MUA to

Re: cygipc-1.11 SHM-patch: fork, handling in ipc-daemon

2002-01-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Michael Haubenwallner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - It is not clear what happens in following circumstance: > 1) the first process creates a shm > 2) a second one attaches to it > 3) now the second process dies without detaching > 4) the first process re

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/18/2002 3:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote: >>From my reading of the man page it appears that ssmtp does not run as a >>daemon, it needs to be called by MUA to send that mail. Is this correct? >> > > Ever tried `man ssmtp'? Wh

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-18 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The solution is basically what any twelve year old would provide with if > you described problem to them. And the twelve year old's solution would > be the correct one -- setup.exe should produce /usr/info/dir. And we

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:32:08PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > > +--- > | ntea just uses the HPFS like extended attributes to simulate > | file permissions. ntsec uses the NTFS ACLs to set real > | permissions. > +--- > > Because I have had CYGWIN='ntea' in ~/.pro

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Alex BATKO
+--- | ntea just uses the HPFS like extended attributes to simulate | file permissions. ntsec uses the NTFS ACLs to set real | permissions. +--- Because I have had CYGWIN='ntea' in ~/.profile since the first day of installing cygwin, if I now switch over to 'ntse

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote: > I have been playing with ssmtp, trying to set it up as my local mail > relay. I would like to have it run as a daemon. Is there a way to do that? > > I tried postfix, but it doesn't compile out of the box (it doesn't know > what

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Kent Perrier
I have been playing with ssmtp, trying to set it up as my local mail relay. I would like to have it run as a daemon. Is there a way to do that? I tried postfix, but it doesn't compile out of the box (it doesn't know what OS "CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.6(0.47/3/2)" is) and it this is more of a "lets s

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:46:05PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > > +--- > | "ntea" makes you have less usable disk space- it creates a big file > | IIRC. I don't know if it just creates the file on FAT, or if the file is > | only undeletable on FAT. "ntsec" works on NT and NTFS. >

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Alex BATKO
+--- | "ntea" makes you have less usable disk space- it creates a big file | IIRC. I don't know if it just creates the file on FAT, or if the file is | only undeletable on FAT. "ntsec" works on NT and NTFS. +--- But on the CYGWIN User's Guide, the warning under

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Peter Buckley
"ntea" makes you have less usable disk space- it creates a big file IIRC. I don't know if it just creates the file on FAT, or if the file is only undeletable on FAT. "ntsec" works on NT and NTFS. HTH, Peter Alex BATKO wrote: > +--- > | At 12:59 PM 1/18/2002, Alex BATKO wrote:

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Alex BATKO
+--- | At 12:59 PM 1/18/2002, Alex BATKO wrote: | >Is that OK ? I need 'ntea' to effectively use chmod. | | Not if you're working on NTFS partitions you don't. You're *much* better | off using 'ntsec'. You can see the user guide if you're curious about | this setting. Of co

Re: private rsync 'mirror'

2002-01-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, If you do not require unattended, scripted operation, Setup.exe performs fine for local Cygwin mirroring as well as installing (use the "Download from Internet" option to locally mirror your favorite Cygwin mirror site). Otherwise, you can use any date-dependent / incremental, recursi

Re: named colour list

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
I believe rxvt dynamically loads either libWll.dll or libX11.dll (using dlopen()). It does this depending on the setting of the environment variable DISPLAY. This was done so that the same executable works: 1) in native windows mode on systems without X11 installed 2) in X11 or native wi

private rsync 'mirror'

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Adler
I'd like to keep a local copy of the latest cygwin packages. I'm sure I could just ftp everything from mirrors.rcn.net each night, but I'd much rather use rsync (or something comparable) and spare everyone the waste. My link is so modest so it would be pointless to mirror the content to others.

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:39:35PM -0500, twidlar wrote: >Soren Andersen: >> I am really, really convinced that if someone finds the constructive >> proposal I sent in "infuriating", it is entirely their own (fairly >> important) personal problem, as in: a problem of a spiritual nature (in >> that

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Jason Tishler
Pat, Please keep your replies on the list. On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:39:31AM -0800, Patrick Lightbody wrote: > Jason, actually I got the procmail binary, and I compiled mutt and > fetchmail myself. I was mostly having trouble getting procmail to work on > port 25, Most likely because you don

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-18 Thread twidlar
Soren Andersen: > I am really, really convinced that if someone finds the constructive > proposal I sent in "infuriating", it is entirely their own (fairly > important) personal problem, as in: a problem of a spiritual nature (in > that it pertains to internal states of being, predispositions, and

RE: Can I build a windows dll and lib from cygwin

2002-01-18 Thread McLeod, John
There is a living and breathing example of building a C DLL on the Cygwin site under "DLL STUFF" at http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/dll-stuff/ I was able to kludge the example makefile in the "c" directory (see below) with RSI's IDL C external calling example to give an i

Re: Not compatible between cygwin-B20 and cygwin-2.125.2.10

2002-01-18 Thread Michael A Chase
The version number you've given (2.125.2.10) is the current version of setup.exe. To find the cygwin version, run 'cygcheck -s' and look at the version information for cygwin1.dll. There may be a problem with character set translation. In some views, I see two backslashes as the first part of th

Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Jason Tishler
Pat, On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:08:00AM -0800, Patrick Lightbody wrote: > So... any thoughts? I need good POP support, good filtering support, and a > good mailer (aka: I need fetchmail, procmail, and mutt). Has anyone else > done this? Yes, I use this exact combination. > I've exhausted my s

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Alex BATKO
woo, hoo !!! +--- | You can set this as a windows system environment variable by right | clicking on my computer -> properties -> environment (or advanced if you | on win2k?). This needs to be set at a system level so the system manager | sees that it is set and passes it on

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:59 PM 1/18/2002, Alex BATKO wrote: >Is that OK ? I need 'ntea' to effectively use chmod. Not if you're working on NTFS partitions you don't. You're *much* better off using 'ntsec'. You can see the user guide if you're curious about this setting. Of course, if you're running on a FAT p

Re: named colour list

2002-01-18 Thread Don Sharp
Charles Wilson wrote: > > Schaible, Jörg wrote: > > > So I can use the named colors, "lighsalmon" works fine on my box. OTOH I am > > not really sure *why* it works, since the only rbx.txt I've found was in the > > vim package. I've detected that the DLLs cygtk80.dll and libW11.dll seem to > >

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Peter Buckley
Alex BATKO wrote: > woo, hoo !!! > > > +--- > | You can set this as a windows system environment variable by right > | clicking on my computer -> properties -> environment (or advanced if you > | on win2k?). This needs to be set at a system level so the system manager > | s

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Alex BATKO
+--- | Have you tried use tee? For example: | | $ net group /domain | tee group.txt | This didn't help because I wasn't getting anything on stdout to begin with, and tee copies stdout to a file. So all i got was: nothing on the screen, and a file of size 0, called group.txt.

Can I build a windows dll and lib from cygwin

2002-01-18 Thread MPP96SMW
As I am only just getting into cygwin, I would like to know if it is possible to build a block of unix code (just console applications) and produce a dll which can be called by windows applications. I have done this following the advice on the cygwin sites and produce the 2 files which i though

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:23:35AM -0500, Peter Buckley wrote: >>| Are you sure your sshd server is starting with CYGWIN=tty? >>| >>No. I don't know how to set sshd to start with an environment variable >>preset. So far, I've just always set the variables from ~/.profile: >>export CYGWIN='tty'

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Peter Buckley
Alex BATKO wrote: > | Make sure that your term is set to cygwin. > | > Is it enough to put the following in ~/.profile ? > export TERM='cygwin' > > > | Make sure that your window (buffer size) is set to 80x25. > | > I am executing the ssh command (to get into the Windows machine) > from an xt

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread Alex BATKO
| Make sure that your term is set to cygwin. | Is it enough to put the following in ~/.profile ? export TERM='cygwin' | Make sure that your window (buffer size) is set to 80x25. | I am executing the ssh command (to get into the Windows machine) from an xterm (on my linux box) that has size 80x2

RE: SSH uses HOME or HOMESHARE?

2002-01-18 Thread Paul Stodghill
Nevermind. I figured it out. I should have read the README. Newer versions of SSH don't use $HOME, instead the use the home directory listed in /etc/passwd. And my home directory in /etc/passwd was incorrect. After fixing that, everything works. -Original Message- From: Paul Stodghill

Re: sshd and fstat

2002-01-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:31:16PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > Guy Harrison wrote: > > >On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:49:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Harrison) > >wrote: > > > > > > > [snip] > > > >Could someone enlighten me about 'allow_ntsec'. How does CygWin turn > >this on? > > > > W

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-18 Thread rotaiv
Just as an FYI, I am unable to duplicate this problem. I used my Windows 2000 laptop to ssh to my NT 4 SP6a server and I was able to execute the following command from a bash prompt just fine: $ net group /domain > group.txt I used ssh from the cmd.exe prompt and I used puTTY - each time the

Re: named colour list

2002-01-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:48:17 +0900 ah yes, I've always liked lightsalmon myself.. I wonder if anyone knows where it comes from as I'd like a few more choices? There's always DarkSalmon... The colors are probably coming from rgb

Re: libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with AC_PROG_CXX

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: > At last I like to write about some additional topic I recognized with the libtool >stuff: > > 1. providing -Wl,--enable-auto-import for linking executables (ltmain.in) > I have prepared a patch for this, but I recognized that there must be a general >strategy for > handl

Re: named colour list

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Schaible, Jörg wrote: > So I can use the named colors, "lighsalmon" works fine on my box. OTOH I am > not really sure *why* it works, since the only rbx.txt I've found was in the > vim package. I've detected that the DLLs cygtk80.dll and libW11.dll seem to > have included this symbolic names, but

cygipc-1.11 SHM-patch: fork, handling in ipc-daemon

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hello Chuck! Yes, it's me again! Sorry for let you that long time without answer, but now i have some improvements on cygipc 1.11, because the cygwin-daemon looks not like appearing in next few weeks: *) 2 fixes in semctl() with cmd SETALL: SUSv2 (thank you for specifying to use it from opengro

Re: sshd and fstat

2002-01-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Guy Harrison wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:49:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Harrison) > wrote: > > [snip] > Could someone enlighten me about 'allow_ntsec'. How does CygWin turn > this on? When you add "ntsec" to the environment variable CYGWIN. Check FAQ and documentation for more

Re: sshd and fstat

2002-01-18 Thread Guy Harrison
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:49:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Harrison) wrote: I'm pleased to be able to report some progress! I've located where the key difference lies between sshd running as an NT service and sshd running in just about any other fashion. 1236int 1237get_fi

The infamous missing or screwed up info dir file.

2002-01-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
I'm for just abolishing this file. Get rid of it altogether. Just `rm -f /usr/info/dir'. The reason is obvious. Having it causes many members of this list problems. The answer to all questions concerning info and no dir file is `info --file=/usr/info/info'. With this I never have a problem w

1.3.6: bug in fork(): kill(pid,0) does not always find child

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hello! There is a problem in fork(), in combination with kill(pid, 0) to check if the child is alive: When a fork() returned the pid to the parent, and the parent does a kill(pid, 0) to check if the child is alive, the kill sometimes return -1 and errno=ESRCH (No such process). First i thought

RE: libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with AC_PROG_CXX

2002-01-18 Thread Ralf Habacker
> > Ralf Habacker wrote: > > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > > >>Quoting from the fink site (it was handy): > >>"The current development branch: This is the development version that > >>will some day be released as libtool 1.5. It has resulted from the merge > >>of 1.4 and the MLB. It supports C,

Re: Stop ftp cygwin

2002-01-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Try connecting to port 21 and see if there is someone listening on the port. Another way is to have a known set of windows ftp servers and see if anyone of these is running - but this is not so easy task because you cant know each and every ftp server available for windows. just my .02 euro cents

Re:Stop ftp cygwin

2002-01-18 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
hi, I wanted to stop ftp cygwin if there is already a ftp server running but if not i wnat to start ftp cygwin . How can I know by code if there is already a ftp server running? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/b

Re: System API problem

2002-01-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
And another thing - by posting erronous information you're not helping anyone to find the solution to your problem. You're just fooling the people. What I mean is that if the system() call returns 127 (0x7f) the error meaning is exec*() call failed not ERROR_PROC_NOT_FOUND as you state below. Note

Re: System API problem

2002-01-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Well, you post this again. Do you think that if you post numerous times you'll force someone on the list to answer your question ? Better launch a debugger and find the source of your problem. FYI - this was reported a while back (2 times i think). As far as I remember no one else on the list was

Re: libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with AC_PROG_CXX

2002-01-18 Thread Robert Collins
Ralf, of more use would be an interdiff between the (rc5-cvs of same date) and (your updated code - cvs it's based against), that would me and Chuck how close the two versions are, with respect to the rc5 changes. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug report

Re: named colour list

2002-01-18 Thread Dylan Cuthbert
ah yes, I've always liked lightsalmon myself.. I wonder if anyone knows where it comes from as I'd like a few more choices? Regards - Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. http://www.q-games.com - Original Message - From: "Schaible, Jörg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EM

RE: named colour list

2002-01-18 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Hi Dylan, for historical reasons I start my rxvt with: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -g 120x50+732+0 -bg lightsalmon -fg black -fn "Lucida Console-11" -sr -sl 5000 -e /bin/bash --login -i So I can use the named colors, "lighsalmon" works fine on my box. OTOH I am not really sure *why* it works, since t

Re: cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work

2002-01-18 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Friday 18 Jan 02, Christopher Faylor writes: > /dev/clipboard is a cygwin construction. cygcheck.exe is not a cygwin program, > so it can't really output anything to it. I think this has come up before. I may add it to the FAQ. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-18 Thread Patrick Lightbody
OK, I _really_ can't stand any of the mail clients for windows these days, so I want to go back to my tried-n-true mutt/fetchmail/procmail trio, which is the best mail setup I've ever had. But, as we all are on this list, I'm stuck in windows for one reason or another (the JVM support in window

System API problem

2002-01-18 Thread Bandla Srinivas
Hi, I am using cygwin 1.3.6 to compile the unix sources, and use those executables on Win NT. I am getting Strange error when running my application. I am using system API inside my application to execute commands. This is Sample Test program test.cpp: main() { int status=system("diff t1.

Re: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "read" function -- Options not recognised

2002-01-18 Thread Michael A Chase
>From 'man bash': -c string If the -c option is present, then commands are read from string. If there are arguments after the string, they are assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0. . . . ARGUMENTS If argumen

Package Lint

2002-01-18 Thread Michael A Chase
I have been away for a while and would be interested in working on a package lint as a way of getting back in the loop. What would you like it to check first? My first thought would be to make it a Perl script. Likely features: 1. No /usr/info/dir allowed. 2. Syntax check setup.hints. -- Mac :