Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 17 09:03, GrahamC wrote: > On Oct 16 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 15 23:55, GrahamC wrote: > > > Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 > > > etc.) is the access control. > > >   > > > While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when r

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-17 Thread GrahamC
On Oct 16 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 15 23:55, GrahamC wrote: > > Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 > > etc.) is the access control. > >   > > While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running > > as administrator, the > > indivi

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 23:55, GrahamC wrote: > Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) > is the access control. >   > While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running as > administrator, the > individual partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 21:04, GrahamC wrote: > On 10/15/2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 15 20:24, GrahamC wrote: > > >  > > > On 10/15/2012 Steve John wrote: > > > > I am looking for cygwin tool in Windows 8 platform.  When i execute > > > > the setup.exe (for installing cygwin in Windows 8 OS), i could

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-15 Thread GrahamC
Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) is the access control.   While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running as administrator, the individual partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) can be both read and written without nee

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-15 Thread GrahamC
On 10/15/2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 15 20:24, GrahamC wrote: > >  > > On 10/15/2012 Steve John wrote: > > > I am looking for cygwin tool in Windows 8 platform.  When i execute > > > the setup.exe (for installing cygwin in Windows 8 OS), i couldn't see > > > any mirror sites for downloadi

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 20:24, GrahamC wrote: > > On 10/15/2012 Steve John wrote: > > I am looking for cygwin tool in Windows 8 platform.  When i execute > > the setup.exe (for installing cygwin in Windows 8 OS), i couldn't see > > any mirror sites for downloading cygwin tool in Windows 8 OS. Just > > wondering

Re: Cygwin for Windows 8

2012-10-15 Thread GrahamC
On 10/15/2012 Steve John wrote: > I am looking for cygwin tool in Windows 8 platform.  When i execute > the setup.exe (for installing cygwin in Windows 8 OS), i couldn't see > any mirror sites for downloading cygwin tool in Windows 8 OS. Just > wondering if the tool is supported for Windows 8, if