Re: cygwin 1.5.24-2 gcc 3.4.4 stdio.h

2007-11-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Robert Kiesling on 11/11/2007 1:50 AM: > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] >> I just downloaded cygwin 1.5.24-2 (just a couple of hours ago) and >> compiled the following program with "gcc -ansi fred.c" >> (NOTE the "-ansi"

RE: Why do file permissions change after editing a file with vim?

2007-11-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
From: Ross Jordan; Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:00 AM > When I modify files with cygwin's vim, they become inaccessible. It > seems the permissions are getting changed when I save the file. Any > idea why this is happening? This does not happen from a bash shell, > only when I directly la

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-11 Thread René Berber
Thomas Baker wrote: [snip] > I have searched FAQs and mailing lists for problems with > "timeout" and the like but find nothing obviously relevant. [snip] I have seen that problem and it has nothing to do with Cygwin. The problem is with SATA drives and Window's asynchronous unbuffered disk I/O,

Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas Baker
Dear all, I have been using a Korn shell script twenty times per day for more than ten years -- I published an earlier version in UnixWorld in 1994 and the latest version last year in lifehacker.com [1]. When I now run the script on brand-new Cygwin installations, it loses data. I have tested th

Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas Baker
Dear all, I have been using a Korn shell script twenty times per day for more than ten years -- I published an earlier version in UnixWorld in 1994 and the latest version last year in lifehacker.com [1]. When I now run the script on brand-new Cygwin installations, it loses data. I have tested th

Re: cygwin 1.5.24-2 gcc 3.4.4 stdio.h

2007-11-11 Thread Robert Kiesling
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > I just downloaded cygwin 1.5.24-2 (just a couple of hours ago) and > compiled the following program with "gcc -ansi fred.c" > (NOTE the "-ansi" keyword): I have only the C99 standard in front of me, but its syntax should be the same as ANSI, whic