X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45A159BF.4080601@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:36:15 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: having problems with getting Up and Runnign References: <4e41f5c20701061126p4a1c3c64je8dedffa30794eef@mail.gmail.com> <45A05BCB.4020707@cygwin.com> <4e41f5c20701071136y4aa4e8bcg42a0cc17cd70c582@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e41f5c20701071136y4aa4e8bcg42a0cc17cd70c582@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Morgan Gangwere wrote: > Thanks! i deleted all registry entrys and the cygwin dir. i suspect that > how cygwin handles all the locations of things (such as where the > binaries live) and how all that runs > i also found that bash and such have an issue with mulit-word usernames > windows allows these but Pine and Mutt fail because they are made for > /home/username/mail/ but i used /home/user name/mail (username was Sys > Admin) > bash would show "[Sys Admin@the-ookbox]" but GNUStep would try to > write to /home/sys/GNUStep/ not /home/Sys Admin/GNUStep/ > should we fix this in a future version? make the username all one word > (or use "_" in place - this makes it simpler)? Paths with spaces with them are annoying but are legal path names, even outside of Windows. There are, unfortunately, still a number of packages and scripts out in the wild that don't properly account for this though. If you see specific issues, it's best to report them and even provide patches to correct them. Translating them into something else is buggy at best though. Better to just make sure the paths are quoted properly so that the underlying code sees them properly. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/