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Shaddy Baddah | 1 Aug 2006 11:56

Re: Not directly Cygwin: Windows special filenames

Hi,

First, I would like to apologise for all the errors (grammatical, 
mistype, and dropped wording) in the original email.

On 7/31/2006 8:26 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> These are not valid paths in the DOS namespace.  It's an NT native
> device name which is mapped to \\.\physicaldrive0 in DOS.  See

Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

> If you want cygpath to create the correct Windows equivalents,
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

I would love to contribute, unfortunately cannot presently. I will 
however try to forward a suggestion for the Special Filenames section of 
the user manual, that flags the names as not being in the same 
"namespace" as most cygpath -w outputs, if that's ok?

> Corinna
> [who has that feeling this is an off-topic discussion for cygwin-talk]

As in it has become on-topic for cygwin ml, right? I should have 
re-adjusted when the second part of my email touched on cygpath. Sorry 
about that.

Regards,
Shaddy
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Charles D. Russell | 2 Aug 2006 16:05

life expectancy of gcc 3.x

Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and 
hence g77) will be supported by cygwin?  gfortran does not seem to offer 
as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).
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Christopher Faylor | 2 Aug 2006 16:15
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Re: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:05:03AM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and 
>hence g77) will be supported by cygwin?  gfortran does not seem to offer 
>as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).

Just as a rough seat-of-the pants guesstimate, I'd say that it would be
supported for at least another 5.99321719 months.

cgf
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Dave Korn | 2 Aug 2006 16:24
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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

On 02 August 2006 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:05:03AM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>> Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and
>> hence g77) will be supported by cygwin?  gfortran does not seem to offer
>> as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).
> 
> Just as a rough seat-of-the pants guesstimate, I'd say that it would be
> supported for at least another 5.99321719 months.
> 
> cgf

  I'm in no immediate hurry to retire 3.x, as I still don't feel the 4.x
series has stabilised enough to really count as production-ready yet, so you
can reasonably expect 3.x to remain available for a good time yet, and when I
do feel ready to release a 4.x version I'll keep a 3.x version as the 'prev'
version for a fair while after that too.

  OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
happen then.

    cheers,
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Igor Peshansky | 2 Aug 2006 21:08
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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
> happen then.

You'll get g__ ?
	Igor
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Dave Korn | 2 Aug 2006 21:20
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FW: 1.5.21: bash-completion 20060301-1 failure

On 31 July 2006 16:12, Hans wrote:

> I am including below the output after '$ set -xv'.  I have
> 'demons.hell.com,666.666.666.666' in ~/.ssh/known_hosts ,

  Ah, your problem is that you need the version of cygwin compiled for
nine-and-a-half-bit octets.

>  and I then type '$ ssh demons' 

  And do they all shut up?

> By the way, I seem even to have trouble simply autocompleting the
> filename '/home/David Hasselhoff/.ssh/known_hosts'.

  That's deliberate.  We don't permit David Hasselhoff under cygwin.  The
CYGWIN environment variable has the 'nomullet' option set by default.

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Dave Korn | 2 Aug 2006 21:20
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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
>> happen then.
> 
> You'll get g__ ?
> 	Igor

  Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ?

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Igor Peshansky | 2 Aug 2006 21:25
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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
> >> happen then.
> >
> > You'll get g__ ?
> > 	Igor
>
>   Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ?

You know, the moment I sent that message, I thought: "yeah, g-flat-flat".
Except that it would be Gbb, of course (a.k.a. F).
	Igor
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mwoehlke | 2 Aug 2006 21:38
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Re: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
>>> happen then.
>> You'll get g__ ?
>> 	Igor
> 
>   Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ?

Hear, hear, I nominate that for a real product! Maybe the GNU version of 
a .NET compiler? (Or is it "Here, here"? I can't remember...)

Wow, that's the best I've seen on here recently :-D.

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Dave Korn | 4 Aug 2006 17:40
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Re: General Inquiry

On 04 August 2006 16:31, Steve Doherty wrote:
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  Generic response.

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