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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Will Parsons wrote:
>Paul Mead wrote:
>>"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> writes:
>>
>>>Not necessarily.
>>>
>>><http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids>
>>>
>>>You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd
>>>prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and
>>>Cygwin.
>>
>>I'd love to use whatever works, I've got no problem using Cygwin emacs
>>or Vim but for some reason, crontab -e insists on firing up a new
>>instance of NT Emacs.
>>
>>Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e?
>
>Sure.  I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used
>crontab -e.  What I do:
>
>crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst

I always just use the toggle switches on the front panel of my computer.

Much easier.

cgf

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