RE: du: slosh/slash problem in windows build (solved)

[da Silva, Joe]

Thanks for the tip, Eric.

5.3.0 was the latest stand-alone version I could find.
However, following your suggestion, I installed cygwin
and found this included version 6.10-2 and this doesn't
exhibit the slosh/slash bug.   :-)

BTW, sorry for the stupid disclaimer. Unfortunately,
our IT tyrants have this automatically appended by our
e-mail server and there's nothing we can do about it.

Regards,
Joe.


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Joe da Silva
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> From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 2:12 AM
> To: da Silva, Joe
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> Subject: Re: du: slosh/slash problem in windows build
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> According to da Silva, Joe on 10/1/2009 10:18 PM:
> > Slosh/slash problem in DU 5.3.0 Windows build :
> 
> 5.3.0 is quite old; the latest stable version is 6.7, and may have
> portability fixes that have improved the behavior of du on Windows.
> However, we don't maintain Windows ports here; you are better 
> off taking
> your complaints to the person who built your version of du.  
> You may also
> want to consider using cygwin, which has a more up-to-date port of the
> coreutils.
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> Please consider using a different email account.  Your company's
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> considered poor netiquette to include such trailers.  Some 
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> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
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