From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5518 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2001 05:23:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5492 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2001 05:23:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 05:23:11 -0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (A17-129-100-225.apple.com [17.129.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAE5NBX01953 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:23:10 -0800 Received: from apple.com (vpn-gh-1076.apple.com [17.254.140.51]) by scv2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAE5N9H04188; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:23:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3BF1FFB9.C60BBEC2@apple.com> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:01:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Faylor CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on cygwin References: <3BF14E50.7E55FC0C@redhat.com> <8361-Tue13Nov2001194155+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20011114005714.GA1114@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 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