Permalinks for versioned Cygwin setup.exe files

2013-10-14 Thread Thomas Deinhamer
Hi there, are there official permalinks for the setup.exe file to download a specific version of Cygwin? For example http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64-1.7.25.exe Thanks! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Wrong permissions when cloning a Git repository using Cygwin

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Deinhamer
Hi folks, when I run "git clone URL" on the mintty terminal in the Cygwin environment on a Windows Server 2008 network share some directories have wrong permissions set (i.e. groups are missing). Most of the directories have the correct groups and permissions assigned, but some of them (it seems

Re: $USER is not resolved in paths sometimes

2013-02-23 Thread Thomas Deinhamer
name to unix like do: fname=$(cygpath -w ${windows-type-ifname}) a hardcoded filename would be fname=$(cygpath -w ${C:\miscrosoft\windows-type-ifname.abc}) * you may need to quote the flename to escape : or \ Thomas Deinhamer wrote: I'm new to Cygwin,

$USER is not resolved in paths sometimes

2013-02-22 Thread Thomas Deinhamer
Hello folks, I'm new to Cygwin, new to this newsgroup too. ;) I'm running Cygwin and using the zsh shell. In the .zshrc file I got these lines: alias vboxmanage=VBoxManage vboxmanage setproperty machinefolder "C:\Users\$USER\VirtualBox VMs\" When I try to boot a VM using vagrant (which uses vb