X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4714EAE5.3030207@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:46:29 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with -i ignore-file option in version 6.9 ptx in cygwin environment References: <382254 DOT 17835 DOT qm AT web81609 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <382254.17835.qm@web81609.mail.mud.yahoo.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 Graig wrote: > Eric - > > In that original email your were replying to John Cowan, so I thought you > were talking about coding approaches. From your message posted to the Cygwin > list, I take it you were offering me, the end user, a way to solve the problem. > > I know about d2u and could use that now that I know what the problem is, > but I'm not familiar with binary vs text mounts on a Windows system. I'm > referencing the ignore file with the command line option of > "--ignore-file=ptx_ignore.txt". How do I involve a text mount with that? text/binary modes are controlled through the Cygwin mount points. See the Users Guide sections below to get more detail: > Another aspect of this problem from the end user point of view is the > different behavior in the handling of the ignore file vs the main data input > file. I constructed both files in the same way (using vim on Windows). ptx > reads and processes the standard input just fine, but from the user's point > of view, just ignores the content of the ignore file. :-) If you're using Cygwin's vim, then this won't write text format files by default. So see your ~/.vimrc or global vimrc file for settings that make it use text mode. If you're talking about the Windows port of vim, then that's likely your problem. Set "fileformat=unix" in your ~/.vimrc file to avoid this pitfall. > If nothing else, it would help if the man page for ptx had something > about this issue. This is a general Windows issue, not a ptx problem. If you feel this needs to be done, you can champion the cause but it's better if you take it upstream. -- 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/