From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Some bugs in b18 16 May 1997 15:58:19 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC6265.8E3CF5F0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" , "'Curtis Galloway'" Encoding: 33 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Curtis Galloway wrote: > 2. Problems with user ids. If I don't have an /etc/passwd file, I get > very strange results. For example: > > bash> whoami > whoami: cannot find username for UID 500 > bash> touch foo > bash> ls -l foo > -rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 0 May 15 07:11 foo > > So am I userid 500 or 544? This ambiguity causes "test -w" to fail It's a strange NT's behavior. Your userid is 500 - "Administrator", but all files you created have owner id 544 (local group "Administrators"). The only solution I know for a now - do not work on NT box as a member of "Administrators" group :-( > 4. Terminal support. The ncurses library does work, but not if you > change the default console window settings. If you have a different > background and foreground color set, they are ignored, and if you have Ncurses uses standard ANSI color mapping (according to terminfo terminal description). > the scrollback buffer turned on, you get very strange behavior. The same. Ncurses takes number of screen lines from terminfo database. It's a Unix world :-) -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".