Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-30 Thread Michael Ludwig
Christopher Faylor schrieb am 29.06.2010 um 10:44 (-0400): > Actually, the point I was trying to make was that you should never > have to use regedit to make Cygwin work correctly. There is no reason > to add anything if your installation is working correctly. It would > have worked correctly if

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:39:07PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: >Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 29.06.2010 um 10:25 (+0200): >>On Jun 28 22:57, Michael Ludwig wrote: > >>Actually, while it's not necessary, it makes sense to keep the entries >>under the "installations" key intact. They are generated t

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 29 13:39, Michael Ludwig wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 29.06.2010 um 10:25 (+0200): > > On Jun 28 22:57, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > > my list: Explorer failed to copy some files (SSH keys), which > > > belonged to the user NT-AUTORITÄT\SYSTEM and could not be read by > > > my admin use

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Ludwig
Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 29.06.2010 um 10:25 (+0200): > On Jun 28 22:57, Michael Ludwig wrote: > Actually, while it's not necessary, it makes sense to keep the entries > under the "installations" key intact. They are generated the first > time a Cygwin DLL is used. They are useful to find out

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 28 22:57, Michael Ludwig wrote: > Christopher Faylor schrieb am 27.06.2010 um 15:01 (-0400): > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > > >I copied C:\cygwin to T: instead of reinstalling. Here's a list of > > >things I had to fix (or fixed preemptively): > > >

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Ludwig! > To be complete on this issue and include one detail I omitted from my > list: Explorer failed to copy some files (SSH keys), which belonged to > the user NT-AUTORITÄT\SYSTEM and could not be read by my admin user, so > I had to do the following: > subinacl /file C:\

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-28 Thread Michael Ludwig
Christopher Faylor schrieb am 27.06.2010 um 15:01 (-0400): > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: > >I copied C:\cygwin to T: instead of reinstalling. Here's a list of > >things I had to fix (or fixed preemptively): > > > >* fixed the above registry settings > > ...whic

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: >Michael Ludwig schrieb am 27.06.2010 um 11:55 (+0200): > >> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations] >> "c5e39b7a9d22bafb"="\\??\\C:\\cygwin" >> >> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Program Options] >> >> [HKEY_LOCAL_MAC

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-27 Thread Michael Ludwig
Steven Monai schrieb am 27.06.2010 um 09:55 (-0700): > On 2010/06/27 6:37 AM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > The root directory in setup.exe is displayed correctly. Seems to > > depend on the registry setting. The "Local Package Directory" path, > > however, which I copied from G:\CygVar to T:\CygVar, n

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-27 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/06/27 6:37 AM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > The root directory in setup.exe is displayed correctly. Seems to depend > on the registry setting. The "Local Package Directory" path, however, > which I copied from G:\CygVar to T:\CygVar, needs fixing. Maybe another > registry setting someplace else.

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-27 Thread Michael Ludwig
Michael Ludwig schrieb am 27.06.2010 um 11:55 (+0200): > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations] > "c5e39b7a9d22bafb"="\\??\\C:\\cygwin" > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Program Options] > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup] > "rootdir"="C:\\cygwin" > -

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-27 Thread Michael Ludwig
Andrey Repin schrieb am 27.06.2010 um 05:10 (+0400): > Greetings, Michael Ludwig! > > > My Cygwin resides under C:\cygwin (plus G:\cygvar for packages), > > but as both C: and G: are nearly full, I'd like to move the Cygwin > > folders to partition T: which has plenty of space left. > > > Is this

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 06:18:58AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Christopher Faylor! > >>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin > >> No, this directory hasn't been used since Cygwin 1.7.x. > >This registry key was created by Cygwin 1.7 installation. Sorry. You're right. It doesn't have to

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Christopher Faylor! >>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin > No, this directory hasn't been used since Cygwin 1.7.x. This registry key was created by Cygwin 1.7 installation. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 27.06.2010, <6:18> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Proble

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 05:10:50AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Michael Ludwig! > >> My Cygwin resides under C:\cygwin (plus G:\cygvar for packages), but as >> both C: and G: are nearly full, I'd like to move the Cygwin folders to >> partition T: which has plenty of space left. > >> Is th

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Ludwig! > My Cygwin resides under C:\cygwin (plus G:\cygvar for packages), but as > both C: and G: are nearly full, I'd like to move the Cygwin folders to > partition T: which has plenty of space left. > Is this safe or are there things such as registry entries that will > prev

RE: Moving Cygwin

2009-05-01 Thread Phil Betts
Tim Visher wrote: > Maybe the context for my question would help. I'm attempting to > follow advice from [Steve Yegge's My .emacs File > article](http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/my-dot-emacs-file) in > order to get useful cygwin bash interaction from within NT Emacs. He > seems to be of the op

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Backus
Tim Visher writes: > > On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: > >> > >> I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. > >> I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do > >> this? > > Maybe the context for my question would help. I'm attempting to >

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Andy Koppe
> This means either installing Cygwin in the root directory of the drive > that you'll commonly be working in with both Windows and Cygwin tools Speaking of which, it would be nice if setup.exe warned about doing this only once when you first decide to install in the root directory. Currently it w

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tim Visher wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Greg Chicares wrote: On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do this? Please consider advice to the contrar

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Tim Visher
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Greg Chicares wrote: > On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: >> >> I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. >> I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do >> this? > > Please consider advice to the contrary, e.

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: > > I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. > I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do > this? Please consider advice to the contrary, e.g.: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.c ht

Re: moving cygwin to another disk

2003-09-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Steve, I had Reply-To: set for a reason -- there was no need to Cc: me. On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Steve Kelem wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >>I had to move C:\cygwin to D:\cygwin. > >> > >>In addition to moving the files, I changed the registry entries under > >>HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions

Re: moving cygwin to another disk

2003-09-10 Thread Steve Kelem
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I had to move C:\cygwin to D:\cygwin. In addition to moving the files, I changed the registry entries under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 so that they reflected the new location. "man mount" "give thanks" // The mount page didn't have anything

Re: moving cygwin to another disk

2003-09-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Steve Kelem wrote: > I had to move C:\cygwin to D:\cygwin. > > In addition to moving the files, I changed the registry entries under > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > so that they reflected the new location. "man mount" > I also updated D:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-14 Thread Nicholas Wourms
[SNIP] > > Please provide the URL of such a reply. Stating that a thing is > so > > without proof is not useful. > > Glad you ask. Examine thread "Crontab problems" > MID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > it shows my point. > > > I see many people patiently answering "newbie" questions here. > Surely >

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-03 Thread Nicholas Wourms
> Well there you name a group, the biggest lusers (Herr von Wourms) > are > to be found right here. They will spam, underquote, forget to > snip etc. If you want to use email use an email client or be quit. I'm afraid to say I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion. I don't use usenet,

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-02 Thread raphael
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:59:12AM +, Soren A wrote: > raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Oct 2002 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Is just arogance nothing more. At least it shows a complete > > unawareness of reality. You will never ever change a MS-Word user in

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Is just arogance nothing more. At least it shows a complete > unawareness of reality. You will never ever change a MS-Word user into > a VIM or EMAC user. And why would you? I have to say that I r

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [I don't seem to I've replied to Chris off-list. Please, don't anyone follow-up to this message. Please. There's no need for it and nothing of value would be accomplished. Thanks,

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
[I don't seem to be able to stick to my vows about not responding lately, but I couldn't let this one go. Just hit delete now. There's nothing useful here.] On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:58:58PM +, Soren A wrote: >So, the existence or non-existence of Gmane doesn't have much to do with >wheth

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 30 Sep 2002 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. edu: I have finally decided that it would seem a little _strange_ if i _didn't_ get my 2c in here since some (with overall historical memory of past posts) will recall some rather strident messages authored by me

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Robinow, David wrote: >> From: raphael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., >> alt.os.cygwin) >> >> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >&

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Robinow, David
> From: raphael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., > alt.os.cygwin) > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Please provide the URL of such a reply. Stating that a thing is so > >

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:25:00AM -0500, Lane, Frank L wrote: >As a newbie to cygwin I'd like to put a comment in on this one. > >Even if people are brusque, without being a downright rude, newbie's, >like moi, learn and more importantly are helped to learn what questions >are apropos on what lis

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > a mail server [No Reverse DNS] with no reverse DNS entry. > X-RBL-Warning: This E-mail was routed in a poor manner consistent with spam >[2103]. > X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for s

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Lane, Frank L
hristopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.co

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Lisi wrote: > > > > >Yes, your question made me wonder if it wouldn't be nice to have a > >cygwin-unix-questions mailing list, but then it occurred to me that then > >we'd have endless and indignant discussions of whether something is cygwin > >or unix

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:30:53AM +0100, raphael wrote: >On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:22:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>However, this really side steps the issue. Five hundred "How do I get >>to the previous command in bash?" questions are not going to lead to >>new insight about cygwin.

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:22:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > However, this really side steps the issue. Five hundred "How do I get > to the previous command in bash?" questions are not going to lead to new > insight about cygwin. Yes they will. These questions are asked by starting use

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:16:53PM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >*** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: >It's basically a situation in which you don't want to be involved, and >that's fine, but why complain about it, if it's not going to affect you >in any way. I don't see the po

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- "Michael B. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding the thread "Moving to Usenet?" > (www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-07/msg00275.html) (which I found by > via > www.google.com/search?q=site:cygwin.com+usenet to see who else also > wanted > discussions on Usenet): [SNIP] I don't know wh

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) [some comments deleted] :) :) However, this really side steps the issue. Five hundred "How do I get :) to the previous command in bash?" questions are not going to lead to new :) insight about cygwin. That's what we're talking about. I

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:28:00PM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >Let me tell you how I see this. When I've supported Pine, I haven't >looked at the content of the question as much as I've looked at the >value of the answer. Just to give you an example, someone once asked >me if Pine supported ju

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Jeremy Hetzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) A group that does all the work to answer anyone's question, no matter :) how obvious the answer or easy to find it is elsewhere, no matter that :) it is the hundredth time it has been asked that week? Yes, that sounds :) like a wonderful thin

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
At 10:48 AM 9/30/2002 -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >Finally, one of the advantages about a separate newsgroup is that people >would feel more confortable asking a question. The cygwin mailing list >tries very hard to have people not to ask questions (search the FAQs >first, look for a better mail

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread raphael
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: > >*** Michael A Chase ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: > > > >:) On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa > >:) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >:) > >

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) >*** Michael A Chase ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) > :) >:) On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa :) >:) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :) >:) :) >:) >

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >>*** Michael A Chase ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: >> >>:) On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa >>:) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>:) >>:) > Fo

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >*** Michael A Chase ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: > >:) On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa >:) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >:) >:) > For these reasons, I completely support the idea of creating an >:) > indepen

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Michael A Chase ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa :) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :) :) > For these reasons, I completely support the idea of creating an :) > independent newsgroup. :) :) So file the proposal. Sure, I can do that, but w

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For these reasons, I completely support the idea of creating an > independent newsgroup. So file the proposal. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter:

Re: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Lisi
> >Yes, your question made me wonder if it wouldn't be nice to have a >cygwin-unix-questions mailing list, but then it occurred to me that then >we'd have endless and indignant discussions of whether something is cygwin >or unix-specific. That's the point of a cygwin-unix list, questions can

Re: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Philippe Bastiani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) > Either actually read the mailing list via email as intended or read :) > it via news. :) :) We can read/write messages via news.gmane.org server... :) :) But, IMHO, a group of discussion would be very useful: for the :) beginners, for 'r

Re: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Philippe Bastiani
Hi, > Either actually read the mailing list via email as intended or read it > via news. We can read/write messages via news.gmane.org server... But, IMHO, a group of discussion would be very useful: for the beginners, for 'repeat' questions and problems, ..., for any debat concerning Cygwin!

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Zieg, Mark
> OK, let me clarify - I guess what I would really like is a Cygwin-specific > *Unix* beginner's list. My desire is not to get rid of stupid questions, > since I think all my questions are probably stupid, but rather the > questions that are just over my head and make me feel like I will never

Re: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Thomas Mellman wrote: >The only thing I'm missing is a nice way to directly reference an entry >that I read on the maillist server so that I get merged into the >thread. As it is, I'm switching to "raw-text", grabbing the >Referenced-Mail (or whatever it'

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:31:35PM +0200, Lisi wrote: >Maybe I should just join a Unix newbie list, any suggestions are >appreciated. The standard suggestion, use google: http://www.google.com/search?q=unix+newbie cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repo

Re: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Thomas Mellman
Lisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 30.09.02 13:30:49: > OK, let me clarify - I guess what I would really like is a Cygwin-specific > *Unix* beginner's list. My desire is not to get rid of stupid questions, > since I think all my questions are probably stupid, but rather the > questions that ar

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Lisi
OK, let me clarify - I guess what I would really like is a Cygwin-specific *Unix* beginner's list. My desire is not to get rid of stupid questions, since I think all my questions are probably stupid, but rather the questions that are just over my head and make me feel like I will never be at t

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Thomas Mellman
<20020926063518 dot GA1292 at raphael dot oninet dot pt> >>The Cygwin list seems to do fine, though a beginners list would be nice. > I would definitely appreciate a beginner's list, one where we could ask questions >like "Hey, I'm not even sure if > this is a Cygwin question or a applicat

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-27 Thread Thomas Mellman
RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin) > From: "Chris January" > > > The internal URLs don't seem to be set up right; but there's some > > interesting things on there, thanks. > > Oops - I broke that yesterday when tryi

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-27 Thread Chris January
> > Tried the Cygwin TWiki? > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin > > > > It's maintained by NanFudd aka Charles Howes. Just make a page for > > beginner's questions there. Hopefully some helpful souls will check back > > every so often ;) > > > > > The internal URLs don't seem

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-27 Thread Chris Game
In an earlier post, Chris January said... > Tried the Cygwin TWiki? > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin > > It's maintained by NanFudd aka Charles Howes. Just make a page for > beginner's questions there. Hopefully some helpful souls will check back > every so often ;) > > T

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-26 Thread Chris January
> >The Cygwin list seems to do fine, though a beginners list would be nice. > > I would definitely appreciate a beginner's list, one where we could ask > questions like "Hey, I'm not even sure if this is a Cygwin question or a > question but could anyone help..." > > The amount of traffic on this

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-26 Thread Lisi
> >The Cygwin list seems to do fine, though a beginners list would be nice. I would definitely appreciate a beginner's list, one where we could ask questions like "Hey, I'm not even sure if this is a Cygwin question or a question but could anyone help..." The amount of traffic on this list i

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-26 Thread raphael
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:24:19PM -0700, Michael B. Parker wrote: > Regarding the thread "Moving to Usenet?" > (www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-07/msg00275.html) (which I found by via > www.google.com/search?q=site:cygwin.com+usenet to see who else also wanted > discussions on Usenet): > > I WILL

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-26 Thread Vince Hoffman
Assuming this one will get past the spam filter.. have a look at www.gmane.org they already provide the list as a newsgroup. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-25 Thread Michael B. Parker
Regarding the thread "Moving to Usenet?" (www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-07/msg00275.html) (which I found by via www.google.com/search?q=site:cygwin.com+usenet to see who else also wanted discussions on Usenet): I WILL FIRMLY 2ND Jonas Jensen's good suggestion (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000