Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:01:26PM +0800, jashy wrote: >From: Christopher Faylor >Subject: Re: can't open file for writing >Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:29:58 -0400 > >> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:33:34PM -0700, C Schreiner wrote: >> >Bingo, this fixed it. Than

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-08 Thread jashy
From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: can't open file for writing Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:29:58 -0400 > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:33:34PM -0700, C Schreiner wrote: > >Bingo, this fixed it. Thanks to all who helped. > > Wow. Upgrading to the newe

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:33:34PM -0700, C Schreiner wrote: >Bingo, this fixed it. Thanks to all who helped. Wow. Upgrading to the newest version fixed something? Who'd have thought it? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-08 Thread C Schreiner
Bingo, this fixed it. Thanks to all who helped. -- Christian --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 8 07:34, C Schreiner wrote: > > Yes, I meant "echo": > > > > prompt> echo "hello" > foo.txt > > bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory > > > > Going through my records

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-08 Thread C Schreiner
Bingo, this fixed it. Thanks to all who helped. --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 8 07:34, C Schreiner wrote: > > Yes, I meant "echo": > > > > prompt> echo "hello" > foo.txt > > bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory > > > > Going through my records, I did not ha

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 8 07:34, C Schreiner wrote: > Yes, I meant "echo": > > prompt> echo "hello" > foo.txt > bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory > > Going through my records, I did not have this problem > when using the current Cygwin release as of last > February (2004). The problem started when I

RE: can't open file for writing

2004-09-08 Thread C Schreiner
Yes, I meant "echo": prompt> echo "hello" > foo.txt bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory Going through my records, I did not have this problem when using the current Cygwin release as of last February (2004). The problem started when I upgraded to Cygwin NT 5.1 (cygwin dll 1.5.10) in A

RE: can't open file for writing

2004-09-08 Thread C Schreiner
Yes, I meant "echo": prompt> echo "hello" > foo.txt bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory Also, checking my records, I did not have this problem with the current cygwin release as of last February (2004); the problem only began happening when I upgraded in August to Cygwin 5.1 NT with cygwin 

RE: can't open file for writing

2004-09-05 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
C Schreiner, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can not save to a nonexistant file name under > Cygwin, but I can under Windows. > > When I type: > >cat "hello" > foo.txt I suppose you MEANT "echo" here... otherwise: $ cat "hello" >foo.txt cat: hello: No such file or directory $ echo "hello" >foo

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, C Schreiner wrote: > I can not save to a nonexistant file name under > Cygwin, but I can under Windows. [snip] > I have not seen anything about this in the Cygwin FAQ > or in two mailing list archive searches. If there is > already documentation about this, please point me to

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-03 Thread Peter Rehley
On Sep 3, 2004, at 2:33 PM, C Schreiner wrote: I can not save to a nonexistant file name under Cygwin, but I can under Windows. When I type: cat "hello" > foo.txt Does the file "hello" exist? Try echo "hello" > foo.txt under Cygwin I get this error message: bash: foo.txt: No such file or dir