Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-11-02 Thread Brent
Doug Henderson wrote: "You need to add the -r option to recurse into directories:" You are 100% correct; my oversight. Actually, it was a copy and paste error: the real code that I want to test does use -r, but when I tried to adapt that code to a simpler format for my email, I accidental

Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-11-01 Thread Doug Henderson
On 31 October 2014 23:00, Brent wrote: > > > It seems that cygwin's zip can archive files whose name includes non-ascii > (unicode) chars just fine, but if you try to archive a directory whose name > includes such chars, it fails. > $ zip test.zip åØâéñ > adding: åØâéñ/ (stored 0%) Yo

Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-10-31 Thread Brent
Nuts, the non-ascii unicode file names that I was using displayed fine when I looked at them in my email program (even in plain text mode), but I see on the mailing list web page (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg1.html) that they display garbled there. To recreate my tests, the unic

bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

2014-10-31 Thread Brent
It seems that cygwin's zip can archive files whose name includes non-ascii (unicode) chars just fine, but if you try to archive a directory whose name includes such chars, it fails. First, I am using the very latest release of cygwin 64 bit: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 yhbrent 1.7.32(0.2

looking for informartion about directory names with trailing dots

2012-04-27 Thread rick ratta
I would like to understand how cygwin can manipulate directories with trailing dots. I looked at some of the source code and it looks like the windows api's "GetFullPathName" and "FindFirstFile" are being used. But when I try and use those api's directly I cannot read the contents of director

Re: [1.7] Problem with national characters in directory names when using UTF-8 charset

2009-05-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 14 17:35, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: > There is something strange going on with national characters in > directory names when using Cygwin 1.7 with UTF-8. Here's a sample > session: That's what we discuss in the thread starting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg003

[1.7] Problem with national characters in directory names when using UTF-8 charset

2009-05-14 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
There is something strange going on with national characters in directory names when using Cygwin 1.7 with UTF-8. Here's a sample session: # test.rb # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- filename = File.expand_path("test.txt") puts filename puts File.open(filename) { |f| f.read } # test.txt Th

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Enrico Forestieri on 10/8/2006 3:54 PM: > > As I explained in an another mail, in this case the culprit is qt3 > and not boost. I suspected boost because of the following comment > in boost/libs/filesystem/src/path_posix_windows.cpp: > >

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Larry Hall writes: Enrico Forestieri wrote: David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emit

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Larry Hall writes: > > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > David Arnstein writes: > >> I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my > >> home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This > >> is a network directory, obviously. > >> > >> When lyx starts up, it e

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Enrico Forestieri wrote: David Arnstein writes: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +, Eric Blake wrote: > > > It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It > > > does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//." > > > > This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined, > > so any path

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Eric Blake
> > It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It > > does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//." > > This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined, > so any path of the form //xxx/yyy is normalized to /xxx/yyy. > I understand that /

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
David Arnstein writes: > > I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my > home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This > is a network directory, obviously. > > When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint > QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/dar

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-05 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, David Arnstein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? > > Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and > do "cd P:/" before starting lyx, in order to

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread David Arnstein
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and do "cd P:/" before starting lyx, in order to get it to work correctly. In this case, P: is the dr

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Arnstein wrote: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt

lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread David Arnstein
I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt When I try to save a lyx

Re: Directory names

2005-02-22 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Shankar Unni wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > > First off, even on POSIX, * isn't a valid filename character > > [Clang!] > > % mkdir '*' > % ls > */ > % POSIX makes some recommendations about what constitutes portable filenames. The above is a nonportable name that your op

Re: Directory names

2005-02-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Dave Korn wrote: First off, even on POSIX, * isn't a valid filename character [Clang!] % mkdir '*' % ls */ % -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Directory names

2005-02-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Eric Blake > Sent: 19 February 2005 17:51 > To: Frank Juergen-r58616 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Frank Juergen-r58616 on 2/18/2005 7:30 AM: > > If my target is powerpc-*-eabin , the compilation w

Re: Directory names

2005-02-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Frank Juergen-r58616 on 2/18/2005 7:30 AM: > If my target is powerpc-*-eabin , the compilation works but the installation > is the problem. The make file want create an directory with the label of the > target (in this case powerpc-*-eab

Directory names

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Juergen-r58616
Hi !! I try to create a cross compiler suite. The problem is in general trivial but ... I start with the creation of the binutils !! If my target is powerpc-*-eabin , the compilation works but the installation is the problem. The make file want create an directory with the label of the target

RE: Directory names with spaces - No such - in script

2001-12-11 Thread Lamar Seifuddin
didn't quote the MUSIC_DIR! sorry. it works! thank you very much -Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:40 PM To: Lamar Seifuddin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Directory names with spaces

RE: Directory names with spaces - No such - in script

2001-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Good. >thanks anyway. > > > >-Original Message- >From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:24 PM >To: Lamar Seifuddin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Directory names with spaces - No such - in scr

RE: Directory names with spaces - No such - in script

2001-12-11 Thread Lamar Seifuddin
t: Re: Directory names with spaces - No such - in script At 05:14 PM 12/11/2001, Lamar Seifuddin wrote: >Hello All, > >I am creating some scripts, setting up the environment > within the script. > >e.g. > >$ MUSIC_DIR="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Audiogalaxy\ Satellite/M

Re: Directory names with spaces - No such - in script

2001-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:14 PM 12/11/2001, Lamar Seifuddin wrote: >Hello All, > >I am creating some scripts, setting up the environment > within the script. > >e.g. > >$ MUSIC_DIR="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Audiogalaxy\ Satellite/Music/"; > export MUSIC_DIR > >cd $MUSIC_DIR >=

Directory names with spaces - No such - in script

2001-12-11 Thread Lamar Seifuddin
Hello All, I am creating some scripts, setting up the environment within the script. e.g. $ MUSIC_DIR="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Audiogalaxy\ Satellite/Music/"; export MUSIC_DIR cd $MUSIC_DIR === I get an error: bash: cd