From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: gnuwin32 mini FAQ and resource pointer 18 Jan 1999 02:07:00 -0800 Message-ID: <36b58547.20933020.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> References: <36840c09 DOT 3313364 AT mail DOT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Geoffrey Noer Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello Geoffrey, you wrote: >If you and/or other people could help do this, that would be much >appreciated. That way I can spend more time coding, making releases, >etc... The thing to do would be to start with the latest winsup >snapshot (from ftp.cygnus.com/pub/noer/winsup-snapshot) and then send >me patches as you would a code patch (change the files and then send >me the result of diff -u or diff -c). Please talk to me first so we >can coordinate this and prevent wasted effort. Okay, I think we brought it on the way, mainly because of Pierre Humblet's efforts of course. I negotiated with him that all the useful FAQ-parts of the mini-FAQ and resource pointer will be taken over to the User's Guide and taken out of the resource pointer. Thanks Pierre and Geoffrey! >On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 03:42:58PM +0000, Michael Weiser wrote: >[...] >> 1. Is Sergey's cygwin32 b19.3 coolview still available somewhere? >It should definitely be kept around for folks who are still using >b19. Maybe I can put up a copy in the cygwin-b19 directory with a >quick note to make it easier to get a hold of? I think it would be a good idea for those who need to continue working with B19. >> 6. Are the CYGWIN parameters ntea and mixed still patches by Sergey or >> in the official source tree? At least ntea seems to be official now >> but what about mixed? >The ntea parameter has been there since I added it in Apr 1998. >It is officially there although it would be better to figure out >whether to do this on a per-drive basis. > >We decided not to include the mixed support since it would only work >under certain circumstances (files, not directories?). If that's not >the case, we can reconsider it. Okay, I've changed the mini-FAQ accordingly and Pierre will surely take this over to the User's Guide. >> - Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package contains an updated Cygwin DLL >> that reflects the latest developments and fixes a lot of known >> problems. >Note that we are now providing a bzipped built cygwin1.dll with >development source snapshots. For those people who want to be playing >with the latest and greatest (but that might be unstable), this should >be useful. (Run strip on it if you don't intend to debug the DLL). Jep, I've added this one. >> 1.1.2. Long pauses occuring randomly in bash >> >> [ text goes here. any volunteers? ] >Should be fixed as of B20 and greater. Removed. >> 1.1.3. Windows 95 Freezing Up (and related problems) >> >> (It's unknown if and how this applies to Cygwin B20, too. Feedback >> is very welcome.) >I haven't seen problems on my Windows 98 machine but... I've made a last broadcast to see who responds to it, but there haven't been any freezing-reports yet. So this paragraph will be removed in the next version of the mini-FAQ, too. >> There has also been a bug in B20 on handling the CYGWIN parameters >> which made it neccessary to add two spaces before the first parameter >> like 'CYGWIN= tty binmode'. This has been fixed with Sergey >> Okhapkin's latest coolview. >This bug is fixed in B20.1. Corrected. >> 1.2. Cygwin resources >> >> If the above doesn't answer your question you should read the >> Cygwin FAQ at http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/faq.html >> before posting any question to the list. > >Please change the URL to: > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq_toc.html Done. >> 1.2.1. Web sites >> >> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ (project page) >> http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (comercial page) >> http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/faq.html (Cygwin faq) >Ditto. Done for Cygwin FAQ and project page. But the GNU Pro docs are still at www.cygnus.com AFAIK. >> to thank Christopher Faylor, Michael Hirmke, Pierre Humblet, Goeffrey >> Noer [...] >Geoffrey, actually. :-) Thanks a lot Geoffrey, I can imagine how short your time is. :) -- bye, Michael - 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".