From: DKhosla AT Compaq DOT com (Khosla, Deepak) Subject: RE: "Name mangling", was: pathname conversion 25 Sep 1997 13:04:42 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" I see a couple of flames flying around today - it's been a while :-). I enjoyed Charles' satire on words and IMHO if you are using cygwin, you are probably working in both NT and UNIX environments and if you get so bent out of shape that a) you can't see humor from fact and b) you can't recognize that most popular systems became popular because they had some good features, then I hate to look and see how many ulcers you have from having to work on the system you despise so much! After that long run-on, here's my side on two hot issues: - I have been asked to port a lot of scripts to NT and it would have been nice if I could just take them over and they would work. Reality is, I am having to use MKS ksh instead of cygwin bash because MKS allowed for drive letter (DOS style). They don't handle the '\' but that is only an issue if I am reading in DOS type filenames (from stdin or another file etc.). That is very isolated and I can handle it in a couple of routines. Would have loved to use bash and I understand all the purists arguments, but there is no way I could have ported all the scripts so easily. This was for a client and on a few machines, so price at that point was not an issue. The only adjustment the users have to make is that they see '/' in paths in the output logs etc. but the drive letters and the input stays the same. - Regarding people not doing their own research: when I first started looking at cygwin, I tried to find everything I could about a subject through the FAQs and the mailing list. I think it would help tremendously if a) cygnus had a search engine in front of the archives and b) often took a look at the complaints and provide those utilities - I bet 40% of the complaints the last few days (and based on the archives - the last few months!) have to do with man, less and more; put them out there! Ready to accept flames! Regards Deepak Khosla 281-514-9234 DKhosla AT compaq DOT com -----Original Message----- From: Hauke Fath [SMTP:hf AT Melog DOT DE] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 1997 2:26 AM To: Alex Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: "Name mangling", was: pathname conversion At 19:09 24.09.97 -0700, Alex wrote: > >On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Charles Curley wrote: > >> to Wimpdows, and thereby make Wimpdows at least bearable to those who have >> seen the power and flexibility of Unix. The idea was to impose a thin >> veneer of civilization on a barbaric entitity. So they came up with a >> Unix-style pathology to keep Unix programs and tools (and those who port >> them) happy. > >It's MS Windows NT or 95. Slurring Windows is just kinda stupid, as >Windows could also refer to X . Unless you can write an os better than >that useable en masse, could you at least spell it right? First: The X people insist on "X Window" -- get your own technical terms right before you correct others'. Second: Am I the only one who clearly sees the winking between Charles' lines, even without smileys? Too many humor-impaired people around? >> I have worked with Linux and HP-UX, and I find risable all the hoopla that >> the small, flaccid company is making over NT 5.0. Symlinks? Mount points? >> Excuse me? But then again, I *wrote* a 32 bit OS before Microsoft did, so I >> have never been impressed with their products. > >Then don't use them if you don't like them. Nobody's holding a gun to >your head to make you use them. I for one think that while the MS >products could use a lot of improvment, they do have their place, as does >the Macintosh. Yah, sure. As if there were OSes to pick from. Does "market share" ring a bell for you? There's this gun called "income". I'm somewhat strangely moved by Charles' words; it's about the same situation for me wrt cygwin and NT4. hauke -- Hauke Fath Melog Software GmbH D-69115 Heidelberg hf AT Melog DOT DE Ruf +49-6221-1333-0, Fax -33 - 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". - 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".