Re: edit Aux.pm under GNU emacs hangs

[Christopher Faylor-8]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:06:59PM +0200, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

>Hello,
>
>* On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:20:26PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr  6 18:12, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
>> > * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:21PM +0100 Phil Betts wrote:
>> > > Marc Girod wrote:
>[...]
>> > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames
>
>> > Is this still true for Cygwin 1.7? I mean, Win 9x support has been
>> > dropped, there is no reason not to use the \\.\... path specifiers,
>> > which would make this problem vanish.
>>
>> Apart from the fact that you should use slashes instead of backslashes,
>> there isn't any need to use //./ in Cygwin 1.7.  Just open Aux.pm.
>
>I was asking if 1.7 supports the access to such files. As I was assuming
>that you would use the Win32 API, I asked why *Cygwin* does not use the
>\\.\... paths.
>
>
>> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
>
>Ok, so this is not an issue for 1.7 anymore. Good to know.

So, to summarize:

Message 1: "I can't create Aux.pm"
Message 2: "Windows limitation"
Message 3: "What about 1.7?"
Message 4: "Fixed in 1.7"
Message 5: "You didn't answer the question"
Message 6: "Yes I did"
Message 7: minor correction to 6
Message 8: "Oh.  I misinterpreted the question"
Message 9: "No problem"
Message 10: Pedantic responses/questions to nits in Message 3
Message 11: Polite response to pedantry
Message 12: "Thanks for message #3"

Seems like we were seven or eight messages over the limit.

cgf

[Dave Korn-6]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>
> Seems like we were seven or eight messages over the limit.


  At least he was using recycled electrons.

    cheers,
      DaveK

[Christopher Faylor-8]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:24:30AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Seems like we were seven or eight messages over the limit.
>
>
>At least he was using recycled electrons.

Maybe we can sell some green points to other mailing lists.

cgf

[Warren Young]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:24:30AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> Seems like we were seven or eight messages over the limit.
>>
>> At least he was using recycled electrons.
>
> Maybe we can sell some green points to other mailing lists.


Oh, hey, the solution to the energy crisis!  See, all these people,
typing on keyboards, they're creating electrical pulses over long
distance Internet lines.  So what we do is, we harness that, hooking up
appliances to our home routers, siphoning off the power created by all
that typing.  We're saved, hooray!

[Corinna Vinschen-2]

On Apr  8 11:03, Warren Young wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:24:30AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> Seems like we were seven or eight messages over the limit.
>>>
>>> At least he was using recycled electrons.
>>
>> Maybe we can sell some green points to other mailing lists.
>
>
> Oh, hey, the solution to the energy crisis!  See, all these people,  
> typing on keyboards, they're creating electrical pulses over long  
> distance Internet lines.  So what we do is, we harness that, hooking up  
> appliances to our home routers, siphoning off the power created by all  
> that typing.  We're saved, hooray!

I'm not so sure.  All this typing is mechanical work.  All these
keyboards will slighly heat up under all that typing and that's very
likely just the right thing to help global warming to get worse.


Corinna