Re: [Gnu-arch-users] further tla/win32 progress

[Alejandro Mery]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 05:32, Alejandro Mery wrote:
>
> > i did my first tries with tla/win32 (prebuilt) with a couple of problems:
> > - how to write the location of an archive ( '/' instead of '\' )
>
>
> I don't quite understand this? You can always use forward slashes, but
> if you use backslash then depending on your shell you might need to
> quote it.

cmd.exe, quotes fixed it.

> > - my-revision-library was not honored
>
>
> Thats strange. Was it greedy?

it's odd... at home it was ignored, here (at work) it worked.

> > - pristine directory was not deleteable
>
>
> Thats because the tree is so deep. You could try ROS Explorer and see
> what happens with that.

it couldn't :(
i moved the tree to a junk folder and forget about it.
it screams 'file not found' when i try to enter or delete some 
directories inside ++pristine.
just because i'm curious, is it using some weird ntfs internals which 
can make unsafe to delete stuff?

> > btw, i mailed putty-staff about -V/--version too
>
>
> Ah, oh well. I provided a patch, I hope they'll integrate it. And then I
> hope Tom takes my sftp-versions patch so we can work from there :)

have your tried compiling it with watcomc or some other non-nix-related 
win32 c compiler? e.g. visual c or visual c .net :p

Alejandro Mery