From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20113 invoked by alias); 15 Sep 2002 13:49:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20106 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2002 13:49:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21003.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.227.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Sep 2002 13:49:48 -0000 Message-ID: <20020915134948.18743.qmail@web21003.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [130.127.122.186] by web21003.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:49:48 PDT Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:44:00 -0000 From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Crontab problems To: Raphael , cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20020915110749.GA1804@TOOS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00753.txt.bz2 --- Raphael wrote: > Great but without any C knowledge I wouldn't even know where to > start. I'm > wondering, if Corinne is reading this, if the patch might not be > standarized > for Cygwin considering the interchangability between Cygwin and > Windows. > Ofcourse only if there is really no security issue. > > > Boy, I get to quote the source a lot these days... Not that I'm > > complaining or anything... :-D > I'm sure everyone is very greatfull for you sharing this > information. It's > considarably more informative than a blunt ´Use vi.exe´ some people > try > to kill a thread with. Thank you very much. Paul Vixie last released cron in freakin' 1994 (or thereabouts)! Not much has been done to modify it since then. I'm sure his design was quite appropriate at the time, when the thought of using a gui editor to edit cron jobs was unheard of. The point is: why make life difficult for yourself? If you want a lazy editor, use nano or pico for crying out loud! They're so easy my grandmother could use them. Trying to use Windows NotePad, which introduces the whole \r\n deal, is friggin' crazy! Why should Corinna, or anyone else for that matter, patch the *working* cron sources just for *you* when there are perfectly good tools already available? I'm sorry my friend, but this isn't Burger King, where you can have it your way right away. I applaud Igor for being generous and doing the research for you, but I don't think you should expect it every time. I think you read too much into "use vi". It was simply providing a sensible alternative to Windows NotePad which provides the same functionality without the need for modifing *working* sources. If that doesn't suit you, TextPad looks like a viable alternative... Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/