Re: [Gnu-arch-users] MSFU and tla with openssh vs. plink

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John -- I specifically started with your version.  I got the most
recent 1.3 bz2 you have.  Things go well until you try to commit back
to linux.  The sequence I've done is:

1.  Create a project on linux with two files, a and b, one word in each

2.  Get it on cygwin with your tla -- I call it tlam (and Lode's
dirnames is tlad, dos8.3 is tlaw, Johannes' is tlaj, and the regular
running but broken is tlau, for "unix").  Fine.

3.  Tag a local branch, change the word in a.

4.  star-merge is with a WC out of remote linux's archive.

5.  Commit changes over there.

6.  Get changes -- cannot find file, panic.  In patch-log, the endings
are corrupted and have spurious endings like base-0og, patch-log?,
etc, which shouldn't be there.

Bu "naturally" I mean paths length -- NTFS support long paths, and
MSFU uses them, and no .exe at that, and it's, um, natural as opposed
to what cygwin needs.

UWIN is supported in openssl package, and I guess it's worth trying as
well.  Now I hacked an MSFU unix over Windows to run our Lord Tla :-),
all of the MSFU bowing to it, it being the sole purpose of MSFU's
miserable existence -- although I can get X clients from MSFU to run
under Cygwin's X, so I could run more stuff there, and I compiled bash
myself -- that ksh and csh nighmare was like a vietcong flashback! 
Still I want to stay on cygwin and just run tla in MSFU.  The problem
is, I couldn't use Emacs with it, unless I run MSFU Emacs, which is
there, but I don't run Cygwin Emacs there either as too slow, I run
ntemacs (runemacs).  Dunno how to hook into MSFU tla.  Maybe via
psxrun.exe, but it's just another windowish labyrinthine setup.  Oh
well, windows-unix people are masochists, I guess...  I decided to
consciously resist the urge to install UWIN and spend two days just to
see tla run there and forget about it and return to (gasp) bitkeeper
and playing with darcs.  :-)

Cheers,
Alexy