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Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:54:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:33:02PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>>On 16 March 2007 17:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:50:36AM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>>Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>>Ctrl+D is a better way to close the file actually. If you mean EOF,
>>>>>why not *say* EOF? :-)
>>>>...because CTRL-D doesn't work on all platforms, and I was too lazy to
>>>>check if it did on Cygwin. :-)
>>>Wow, now *that's* lazy... :-)
>>
>>What confuses me is how you can be 'too lazy' to check if Ctrl-D works,
>>but apparently checking if Ctrl-C works is much much easier....
>
>I haven't run into a platform where CTRL-C doesn't work. Therefore
>saying "ctrl-C" required no effort on my part. "none" < "some". :-)
>
>>Well, that plus the "Ctrl-d doesn't work on all platforms" bit. Are we
>>still talking posix here or no?
>
>Well, now that you made me go look, I can't find the platform that
>doesn't like ctrl-D... but I know I've had problems in the past.
>Maybe it was NSK. ;-)
Please don't try to defend yourself. We've discovered a serious
infraction here and now have to decide on your punishment. You can't
retreat from it by quoting facts.
cgf