RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

2001-12-04 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Hi Ed, I was actually referring to this: "I assume that the xemacs crash had something to do with /cygcheck, which should be fixed in cygwin-1.3.6-2." Chris has since announced that 1.3.6-2 will fix this problem in a specific message to the list. I expect you've seen that so you're answer and

RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

2001-12-04 Thread Eduardo R Larranaga
Larry, I appreciate your taking the time to work with a dummy. However, I read the message you provided the link for and am still at a loss. In this message (Subject: Re: bugreport cygwin 1.3.6 + bash 2.05a-2 + command completion) "cgf" says he cannot duplicate the problem even with th

RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

2001-12-04 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
OK, I'll take the time to look it up myself and point you right to it (not something I usually do mind you)... http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00125.html OK, so it's "hidden" under a little different topic, so maybe it's easy to miss. Just shows you that you it's worthwhile to

RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

2001-12-04 Thread Eduardo R Larranaga
Hi, I *have* been reading the archives and I do not see an answer to this issue, only complaints. Ed On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 12:14 PM 12/4/2001, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote: > >In the Cygwin User's guide is a suggestion (and an example) to change the >

RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

2001-12-04 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:14 PM 12/4/2001, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote: >In the Cygwin User's guide is a suggestion (and an example) to change the >default prefix with the mount command: > > mount -change-cygdrive-prefix / > >It seems that many of us have chosen to go with changing the prefix to /, but >with the late

RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

2001-12-04 Thread Eduardo R Larranaga
In the Cygwin User's guide is a suggestion (and an example) to change the default prefix with the mount command: mount -change-cygdrive-prefix / It seems that many of us have chosen to go with changing the prefix to /, but with the latest version of cygwin 1.3.6-1 this leads to / being unusabl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1

2001-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
I forgot to mention that Mark Bradshaw has added a nice new feature to mkpasswd '-u' for this release. 'mkpasswd -u bob' will just output a passwd line for 'bob'. Other notable changes in the utils area include strace improvements by Gary R. Van Sickle (allow symbolic info and long options for s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1

2001-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run s

Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1

2001-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run s