X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44458B8F.1070305@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:59:59 +0700 From: "Alexander J. Herrmann" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup References: <006c01c66337$63d348a0$b6922080 AT Tasha> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com René Berber wrote: >Igor Peshansky wrote: >[snip] > > >>>>Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it >>>>for a reason. Both Dave and I read the list regularly -- it was not >>>>necessary to Cc: us. >>>> >>>> > >Practice what you preach. You are also sending cc (to me at least), and you do >it all the time. > > But when anybody who replies to a message of you automaticly has your name in the To: Field and has to add cygwin AT cygwin DOT com additionally. So everybody expects *you* would like to have the answer and as an option it can be also send to the list. While replying to Igor it goes directly to the list without causing additional work. >[snip] > > >>>Thanks for the note on not cc'ing you. I don't know how to reply to a >>>message if it doesn't come into my inbox. The messages I got from Dave and >>>from Rene earlier today only went to the list, and I can only see them by >>>looking at the archives. >>> >>> >>You can subscribe to the list, and all messages sent to the list will >>arrive in your inbox. >> >> > >Or you can read the messages from a newsgroup reader, no need to subscribe. I >use my regular email reader Thunderbird for this, connected to gmane.news; you >can reply directly from that setting. > > No wounder everybody is so confused. gmane.news dosn't exist. I guess you meant news.gmane.org ? >[snip] > > >>So perl was not installed on your laptop. When you attached the output of >>"cygcheck -svr", was that from the laptop or from the desktop?\ >> >> > >The output didn't show perl installed (in >http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/77022). > >[snip] > > >>WinNT means NT-based Windows systems (which includes Win2k and WinXP). At >>the top left of the console window frame there should be an icon. >>Clicking that icon brings up a menu (you can also get that menu by >>right-clicking on the console title bar). The last item in that menu is >>"Properties" -- that's what the FAQ entry refers to. >> >> > >But it's not there if you are using rxvt, only if you use the regular cmd window >(a.k.a. Command prompt). > >Keep it simple people. > > Alex -- And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer. Alexander J. Herrmann Analyst/Programmer http://www.aiengine.org Email: Ping2Weltall AT Gmail DOT com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/