User talk:Alphax/20050429-01

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[edit] MSYS fstab trouble

Just in case you'd given up hope for some reason, I thought I'd let you know that I've found a solution to your problem - I've posted it on WP:RD. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 00:26, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! AFAIK, you're the first person to start a thread on my talk page. Alphax ^τεχ 00:29, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Good ideas deserve to be put to use. ^_~ --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 00:34, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - I got the idea from WP:VFD. Unfortunately the idea is liable to meta:Instruction creep, but it's well worth it if followed. Also makes things easier to archive. Thanks again, Alphax ^τεχ 01:05, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just thought of something in regards to your symlink problem - are you absolutely certain that the files were copied? I haven't tried linking in MSYS, but in Cygwin, the file will appear to have been copied - but in reality, it hasn't; the created file works just like a symlink should and there's no difference in available space (according to df). --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 22:45, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

I opened it up in Windows Explorer and the files/folders had been copied. Anyway, now that I can get fstab to work, it's not too bad. If only I could get Vim 6.3 to work natively in MSYS (currently it runs in a DOS window, called from a shell script in /bin/). Actually, quite a few Windows command line programs don't work properly in MSYS. Oh well. Thanks anyway, Alphax ^τεχ 05:10, 4 May 2005 (UTC)