From: alex!@bigfoot.com ("Hmmmz") Subject: Re: Beta 18 quirks 18 May 1997 21:11:24 -0700 Sender: mail AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199705182256.PAA25706.cygnus.gnu-win32@mom.hooked.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Well I finally cleared up a 160mb partition on my hard drive for beta 18. I downloaded cdk.exe and installed fine. However if i type uname -a i get results like the following: C:\home\alex\Desktop>uname -a CYGWIN32/95 MEGA.HOOKED.NET 4.0 17.5 i6364486 Is that normal? I haven't found any b17.1 dlls around either. *shrug* BTW, what's an i6364486? I then compiled ncurses1.9.9e (From ftp.probe.net) and it installed, however unlike advertised install.exe did _not_ find the clear.exe tic.exe, etc, etc. Again is this a bug? Disregarding that I renamed the exes, and manually ran make install in each of the subdirs, which then proceded to install without a hitch. After setting my paths correctly and renaming the executables, I ran clear.exe. However this program doesn't seem to work correctly in b18, whereas in b17.1 it cleared the sreen if my TERM variable was set to pcansi, mono, etc, etc. Any ideas? Ls, and almost everything else seem _very_ slow compared to b17.1. Oh well. A few suggestions I've noticed that if i have a directory say "/" (C:\unix) and then mount C:\blah as "/local" /local won't show up at all under ls's and tab key stuff. I think it'd be really nice if that could be fixed. However another idea might be to add a /dev/* directory, so that /dev/lpt0 or /dev/sio[0,1] could be accessed. And perhaps /dev/tty* could be mapped to the standard console. Also what about using the method that is used for case sensitive filenames for reserved filenames? so that if perl creates a file called aux its written to the partition as _aux or similar? P.S. yes I'm using binary mounts, and non-posix paths crashed tar (i.e. tar -xzkvf c:\cdk-src.tar.gz). WinNT and *nix rule, so learn from the past: Hiroshima '45, Vietnam '64, Tjernobyl '86, MacOS '96 - 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".