X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4BB953BB.3090403@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:06:35 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: want to continue using Cygwin 1.5 References: <423468.42180.qm@web94504.mail.in2.yahoo.com> In-reply-to: <423468.42180.qm@web94504.mail.in2.yahoo.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 On 4/4/2010 12:50 AM, prakash babu wrote: > Since MS-DOS style path is not supported by chmod in Cygwin 1.7, I want > to continue using Cygwin 1.5 on my new Windows box. Seems like a long way to go to keep support for a minor feature, which was buggy to start with. While it's certainly your choice, 1.5 is, as mentioned already, unsupported. You might want to consider generating a little script that you invoke as "chmod" which calls "attrib" with the appropriate setting for the "r" flag when it spots a MS-DOS style path and the real chmod in all other cases. While I'm sure it would be a little work to do this well, I expect you'll find the effort pays off unless 1.5 does everything you ever wanted or need and will fulfill that promise for you in the future. -- 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? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple