From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 53769 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2019 14:46:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 53762 invoked by uid 89); 9 Feb 2019 14:46:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,GIT_PATCH_2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=linda, doctors, chat, RELEASE X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:46:46 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id x19EkgWb026721 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2019 06:46:44 -0800 Message-ID: <5C5EE7D2.2010404@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:46:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Getting error message when launching X-Window apps in Cygwin References: <1308285295.576965.1549657291745.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1308285295.576965.1549657291745@mail.yahoo.com> <387708835.666318.1549693636691@mail.yahoo.com> <744398867.20190209163623@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <744398867.20190209163623@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 Coud you reconsider that, otherwise someone posting a README would violate the rules, (for exampe) which has most recent changes at the top and you can read down as far as you want, going back in time. Also, like your sentence, below, you put the category of your "PS-no top posting" with the category first, then you respond to the category by putting in what you are talking about. If a list is a conversational list where people think everyone reads everything, then maybe chronological might be better, but even many forums will show you the newer messages first. If they show you the oldest ones 1st, they are usually least relevant. For me, when I look at my lilst of messages, the most recent ones are near the top. Otherwise to see recent messages, I would need to scroll over 700 messages "down" to get to the most current messages. But if you put the oldest stuff at the top I would see questions about the 2.11.2-0.1 Cygwin TEST RELEASE. and your post about "Stumbled upon relative name resolution across symlinks", --- of note, you are also using ".." in a path, which can be confusting. But each link in a path is resolved in its source directory as the symbolic links are relative to where they start from. Does that help or make sense, or should I have read through the next 700 messages to see if you found a solution to you situation. Another thing to realize is ln -s src dest acts like copy. The 1st path should be the one that already exists with the destination getting the new link that would point to the pre-existing copy. Of course I also see the 'how to get pulse audio to work' from Nov 02, where I asked: Does it work for anyone? On Win7SP1. attached is cygcheck.out thanks in-advance!... but never got an answer.... -linda But it could be very confusing if people always started at the beginning of their email and read downwards. I had a support call with NCSoft's generic support folks for Blade and Soul (they couldn't solve the problem as they only were hired to do generic support -- not specifically for the game). They always want your reply and the newest stuff at the top...but if you want to read the entire 90-page log of the support case (over ~3 weeks), you could, but only remembering that older stuff is below newer stuff. I think you'll find that true for many professionals (lawyers do it, as well as health professionals (like doctors)....etc. That's why it is very surprising to see computer people treat 'email' as a "log" instead of like a chat w/history... Anyway...I'm not so sure I see the benefit of starting to read sometime in the past -- especially in the case of a 90 page support interaction. Would you really want to read 90 pages before you started participating in a discussion? Technical lists are not fiction books that are read for fun, they are usually where people look to see if something applies by reading the first paragraph or two -- which wouldn't be the most recent stuff, by far. Cheers! On 2/9/2019 5:36 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > P.S. > No top posting in this list, please. > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple