Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Mark Yagnatinsky
That makes much more sense. Thanks! On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Andrey Repin! > >> Greetings, Mark Yagnatinsky! > >>> Sorry, no quoting this time. I don't have an ssh server either, I'm >>> using a weird telnet server described here: >>> http://www.chiark.g

Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrey Repin! > Greetings, Mark Yagnatinsky! >> Sorry, no quoting this time. I don't have an ssh server either, I'm >> using a weird telnet server described here: >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/cygwin-terminal-window.html > That's what mintty is. A PuTT

Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Mark Yagnatinsky
Oh, ok. -- 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

Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mark Yagnatinsky! > Sorry, no quoting this time. I don't have an ssh server either, I'm > using a weird telnet server described here: > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/cygwin-terminal-window.html That's what mintty is. A PuTTY-based telnet (pty) client for C

Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Mark Yagnatinsky
Sorry, no quoting this time. I don't have an ssh server either, I'm using a weird telnet server described here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/cygwin-terminal-window.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mark Yagnatinsky! >>> I've tried the following in mintty and in putty, and it happens in both: >> >>> First, launch cat or grep or similar. >>> Type a line with some tabs in it. >>> Try to backspace them away. >> >>> The tabs are erased one space at time, leading to ... You know what, >

Re: Problems with lftp exclude

2014-09-07 Thread V.99
Hi Dan. Think about /public_html/lftptest (local/lftptest) as a base and write -x relative to that base: mirror -v --only-newer -x "^dir1/" /public_html/lftptest local/lftptest I use exclude this way. -- .: Vlado :. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Mark Yagnatinsky
I see nothing wrong with your English, but ... I'm running the same version of PuTTY, and the problem persists. Could it be that I'm running it on the same computer, as described at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/cygwin-terminal-window.html? On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:1

Re: Odd interaction between tab and backspace

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mark Yagnatinsky! > I've tried the following in mintty and in putty, and it happens in both: > First, launch cat or grep or similar. > Type a line with some tabs in it. > Try to backspace them away. > The tabs are erased one space at time, leading to ... You know what, > why don't I j

Re: vim can't write /etc/hosts

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Fesevur! > On my Win81 machine I tried to edit /etc/hosts with vim. When I try to > write the file I get this error: > "/etc/hosts" E166: Can't open linked file for writing > Since /etc/hosts is a symlink to > /cygdrive/c/windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts so I tried to edit the

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gerry Reno! > On 09/06/2014 04:12 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: >> On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: >> >>> To clarify this request a bit: >>> >>> Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a >>> command. >>> The only recent package that actually worked was run-1.3.0-

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gary Johnson! >> To clarify this request a bit: >> >> Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a >> command. >> The only recent package that actually worked was run-1.3.0-1. > That has not been my experience. In my experience, run-1.2.0-1 > works fine but

Re: reran Setup: /etc/profile: line 136: /usr/bin/hostname: No such file or directory

2014-09-07 Thread Gerry Reno
On 09/07/2014 02:12 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Gerry Reno writes: >> Reran setup on a XP machine this afternoon (Base only) and when I bring up a >> cygwin term I see this: >> >> /etc/profile: line 136: /usr/bin/hostname: No such file or directory >> >> >> Previously: >> >> $ which hostname

The -X option to unzip-6.00 does not work.

2014-09-07 Thread Joe Smith
On Unix, support restoration of 32-bit UID/GID data using the new "ux" IZUNIX3 extra field introduced with Zip 3.0. The -X option does not work as advertised. Problem: Files extracted with unzip-6.00.12fc20 are owned by root:root even when -X is specified. Diagnosis: The code for -X dep