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From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on cygwin
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF1FFB9.C60BBEC2@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011114005714.GA1114@redhat.com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> Right.  gdb.ini was a bad choice for a name from the beginning.
> Apparently whomeever did the original cygwin port was a little confused
> about file names under Windows NT/95.

It was originally set up for DOS (Cygnus had a now-long-forgotten
DOS tools business...), and retained into Windows out of inertia and
some desire for continuity.  Not much reason to keep it any longer.

Stan


      reply	other threads:[~2001-11-14  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-01  8:47 gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on Cygwin Corinna Vinschen
2001-11-01  8:59 ` gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on cygwin Christopher Faylor
2001-11-01  9:08   ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-11-01 11:21 ` gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on Cygwin Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-01 15:35   ` Fernando Nasser
2001-11-01 15:47     ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-11-01 16:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-02  1:14         ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-11-01 16:50       ` Fernando Nasser
2001-11-02  1:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-01 15:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-11-02 10:45       ` gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on cygwin Christopher Faylor
2001-11-02 11:01         ` Stan Shebs [this message]

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