Re: changed behaviour in date command

Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. I'll switch to %H. My mistake. br, Nicholas > Nicholas Volk wrote: > >> After I updated cygwin today (bash updated) this no longer works as >> such, >> because the behaviour of %k has changed: instead of the usual "07" I n

changed behaviour in date command

Hi all, I have used script to pach a group of files. The relevant command in the script has been tar -jcvf api-`date '+%Y%m%d%k%M'`.tbz files After I updated cygwin today (bash updated) this no longer works as such, because the behaviour of %k has changed: instead of the usual "07" I now get " 7

gcc, PlaySound(), Vista

Hi all, I notice that Window's PlaySound() function makes my program crash when using Cygwin's gcc with Vista. The problem does not exist in XP. Also the problem vanishes when using -mno-cygwin option with Vista. The attached C file contains a simple program (it just contains a char array of audio

Re: change in gawk from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6

Awk is not really my expertise (haven't used it in years) but shouldn't that be awk '{printf ("%6d", 0x22) }' test.txt I mean that "0x22" usually refers to strings, not hexes. Works fine without quotations. br, Nicholas > Hello Corinna, > > the change in gawk from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6 broke my scr

Re: Cron will not start jobs - cygwin/XP

> 0-59 * * * * cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/bruceb/datewrite.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 Isn't there a '/' missing before cygdrive... br, Nicholas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.