Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 14:26, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Sure, but in that case, no, there's nothing we can do about it, except > > to revert major functionality in Cygwin to the old implementation. > > However, since we're using an officially documented

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-12 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Sure, but in that case, no, there's nothing we can do about it, except > to revert major functionality in Cygwin to the old implementation. > However, since we're using an officially documented API, I don't see a > reason to do that. Just

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 08:05, Bill Lebow wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Mar 11 13:12, William Lebow wrote: > > > echo foo | tee -a test3.txt : terminal output is okay but test3.text > > > starts with 3 characters of garbage before the string foo > > > > > > echo foo | tee test4.txt : terminal output

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-12 Thread Bill Lebow
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 11 13:12, William Lebow wrote: > > echo foo | tee -a test3.txt : terminal output is okay but test3.text > > starts with 3 characters of garbage before the string foo > > > > echo foo | tee test4.txt : terminal output is okay and test4.txt is okay too > > > > So

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 11 13:12, William Lebow wrote: > echo foo | tee -a test3.txt : terminal output is okay but test3.text > starts with 3 characters of garbage before the string foo > > echo foo | tee test4.txt : terminal output is okay and test4.txt is okay too > > So "tee -a" has the same issue as ">>" when

RE: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-11 Thread William Lebow
1:00 PM To: William Lebow Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:46 PM, William Lebow wrote: > Hi Csaba, > > Thank you very much for the reply. I've downgraded my version of cygwin so I > need to wait and d

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-11 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:46 PM, William Lebow wrote: > Hi Csaba, > > Thank you very much for the reply. I've downgraded my version of cygwin so I > need to wait and do the test when I have a few minutes to reinstall the > newer one. Is the command you sent correct? I don't think tail has a "-a" >

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 11 10:09, Csaba Raduly wrote: > 2010/3/9 William Lebow > > I've diagnosed this problem further. It is an interaction between cygwin > > and a security package called "Credant Guardian Shield" that my company > > installs on all of its laptops. I can't say specifically that it is a > > cyg

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-11 Thread Csaba Raduly
2010/3/9 William Lebow > I've diagnosed this problem further. It is an interaction between cygwin and > a security package called "Credant Guardian Shield" that my company installs > on all of its laptops. I can't say specifically that it is a cygwin bug, but > this bad behavior is not present i

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
om: William Lebow [mailto:william.le...@phaseforward.com] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 2:58 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: ble...@alum.mit.edu Subject: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file I'm a long time cygwin user, but I am having the weirdest problem after installing on my new Dell laptop ru

RE: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-09 Thread William Lebow
y, March 07, 2010 2:58 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: ble...@alum.mit.edu Subject: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file I'm a long time cygwin user, but I am having the weirdest problem after installing on my new Dell laptop running Windows XP professional. I'd be grateful fo

redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-07 Thread William Lebow
I'm a long time cygwin user, but I am having the weirdest problem after installing on my new Dell laptop running Windows XP professional. I'd be grateful for any advice or hints from this group. I am doing a simple redirect-append (>>, that is) to create a new file. When I do this the new file