Re: test -f //dot

2012-07-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eric Blake! >>> test -f //dot >> >> Use empty base prefix to specify filesystem root. > Sorry; the empty base prefix in $PATH I didn't said anything about $PATH. > means the current directory, not the root. >>> (I *had* introduced / to the PATH by adding cygwin's install dir to my

Re: test -f //dot

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/13/2012 07:50 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> test -f //dot > > Use empty base prefix to specify filesystem root. Sorry; the empty base prefix in $PATH means the current directory, not the root. >> (I *had* introduced / to the PATH by adding cygwin's install dir to my >> Windows PATH; to e

Re: compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 13 16:03, Eric Blake wrote: > > unfortunately, since I don't have access to anything newer than XP, I > > can't really test that. I'll be relying on you (or anyone else really > > bothered by this) to provide patches. > > http://msdn.microsoft.com

Re: compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 13 16:03, Eric Blake wrote: > unfortunately, since I don't have access to anything newer than XP, I > can't really test that. I'll be relying on you (or anyone else really > bothered by this) to provide patches. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee175713.aspx Allows you to run 20

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-14 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Alex, On 13 July 2012 21:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 13/07/2012 9:19 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> Cygstart does not actually parse general URIs. For a long time it had a >> special case that tested explicitly for `http:', and recently added >> `mailto:' after a similar issue arose [1]. Ironical