X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45A159BF.4080601@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:36:15 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: having problems with getting Up and Runnign References: <4e41f5c20701061126p4a1c3c64je8dedffa30794eef AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <45A05BCB DOT 4020707 AT cygwin DOT com> <4e41f5c20701071136y4aa4e8bcg42a0cc17cd70c582 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4e41f5c20701071136y4aa4e8bcg42a0cc17cd70c582@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Morgan Gangwere wrote: > Thanks! i deleted all registry entrys and the cygwin dir. i suspect that > how cygwin handles all the locations of things (such as where the > binaries live) and how all that runs > i also found that bash and such have an issue with mulit-word usernames > windows allows these but Pine and Mutt fail because they are made for > /home/username/mail/ but i used /home/user name/mail (username was Sys > Admin) > bash would show "[Sys Admin AT the-ookbox]" but GNUStep would try to > write to /home/sys/GNUStep/ not /home/Sys Admin/GNUStep/ > should we fix this in a future version? make the username all one word > (or use "_" in place - this makes it simpler)? Paths with spaces with them are annoying but are legal path names, even outside of Windows. There are, unfortunately, still a number of packages and scripts out in the wild that don't properly account for this though. If you see specific issues, it's best to report them and even provide patches to correct them. Translating them into something else is buggy at best though. Better to just make sure the paths are quoted properly so that the underlying code sees them properly. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/