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
prev parent 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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