Re: Setup can't install from local drive?

2002-10-03 Thread fergus
Your description makes it sound very much as though one or both of the following has occurred: 1. You put the file setup.exe and the directory release/ directly under d:/. For reasons described at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00689.html this usually fails. or 2. You missed the file se

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-03 Thread egor duda
Hi! Friday, 04 October, 2002 Allen Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AL> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:59:06PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> Cygwin currently does not support SA_SIGINFO signal handling. It's on the >> TODO list ( http://cygwin.com//cgi-bin/cygwin-todo.cgi?20020722.130725 ), >> b

Re: Setup can't install from local drive?

2002-10-03 Thread Iain McCracken
I'm confused. Did you read the *body* of the post, or just the subject line? In my post, I indicate that I downloaded the files, put them on a CD, and it does not work. BTW, I tried this on a W2k machine, and the setup program functioned perfectly. Problem is, I don't want it on that machine, I

Re: Setup can't install from local drive?

2002-10-03 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine First off, how do you mean, "local drive"? And in what context? I normally use setup to download to a local disk, my C drive, and save it to a Zip disk, then when I'm ready, install from it. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phr

Setup can't install from local drive?

2002-10-03 Thread Iain McCracken
Setup (2.249.2.5) crashes (invalid page fault in module "unknown" at 0084:) when I try to install from a local directory. What I had hoped to do was to simply download all the current packages from a mirror, burn everything to a CD, and run the installer from the CD. The idea was that the

Path Parsing Bug.

2002-10-03 Thread Joseph Elwell
First off, I'm not subscribed to this list, so if you'd like me to hear any follow ups please cc me. I ran across a bug recently. I build Mozilla regularly using cygwin tools on windows XP. Recently I installed Norton Ghost. It added to my System variables path "C:\Program Files\Norton SystemW

Re: X11 forwarding

2002-10-03 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Thomas Schweikle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thema: Re: X11 forwarding On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > X11 forwarding is only initiated if the DISPLAY variable > is set. Try setting DISPLAY to "localhost:0.0"

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2002-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
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Two ssh connections slow

2002-10-03 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hello, I'm using TightVNC1.2.2 to connect to Solaris8 from WinMe. I'm using OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090607f to open the connection. This ssh came with cygwin-1.3.12-4, which I just upgraded to. Prior to this, I was running OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0. I

Re: X11 forwarding

2002-10-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Hi! > > Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED] > An: Thomas Schweikle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thema: Re: X11 forwarding > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> connecting cygwin ssh to a linux b

file permissions for /cygdrive/c

2002-10-03 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hi, I've got some questions regarding file permissions with cygwin under w2k (ntsec turned on). I want to use 2k together with cygwin while allowing other people to login via ssh onto my computer and would like to get the obvious loopholes closed. As a member of the administrators group all file

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Allen Leung wrote: > > > Dear List, > > > >In a system I'm writing I need to catch page faults and find out > > the fault address and the fault type (read or write). On most unices > > I can get this information inside a siga

Re: I have no name

2002-10-03 Thread Alan Westhagen
Thank you. That helps a bit. After running mkpasswd -l, the $ prompt is now preceded by Administrator@ I suppose if I edit the /etc/passwd file to replace Administrator with my user name, I will be close to the expected result. Apparently my /etc/profile is being ignored. Is there any

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-03 Thread Allen Leung
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:59:06PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Hey, Allen! (Of all places to meet here :-D) > > Cygwin currently does not support SA_SIGINFO signal handling. It's on the > TODO list ( http://cygwin.com//cgi-bin/cygwin-todo.cgi?20020722.130725 ), > but I didn't have the t

Re: X11 forwarding

2002-10-03 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Thomas Schweikle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thema: Re: X11 forwarding > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > >> Hi! >> connecting cygwin ssh to a linux box with >>ssh -X -l user host >> doesn't do X11 forwarding

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Re: I have no name

2002-10-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Alan Westhagen wrote: > I have just installed cygwin. When I > run the window, the $ prompt is always > preceded by the line > > I have no name!@ > > What is causing this? and how do I > get rid of it? > > I have defined USER in /etc/profile, but > that doesn't seem to ha

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Allen Leung wrote: > Dear List, > >In a system I'm writing I need to catch page faults and find out > the fault address and the fault type (read or write). On most unices > I can get this information inside a sigaction handler. > E.g. on Linux, something like this works:

I have no name

2002-10-03 Thread Alan Westhagen
I have just installed cygwin. When I run the window, the $ prompt is always preceded by the line I have no name!@ What is causing this? and how do I get rid of it? I have defined USER in /etc/profile, but that doesn't seem to have any effect. -- Alan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Cannot export etext:symbol not find

2002-10-03 Thread Yingping Zhang
Hello all, Could someone help me? When I used Gcc to compile programs on cygwin, I encountered some problems. To simplify the question, I just use a "hello.c" to replace all programs and I get the same error report. What I did and got is : 1. I used follow command to compile "hello.c" and get a

Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-03 Thread Allen Leung
Dear List, In a system I'm writing I need to catch page faults and find out the fault address and the fault type (read or write). On most unices I can get this information inside a sigaction handler. E.g. on Linux, something like this works: ==

Mopac

2002-10-03 Thread Ken, Kai-hsin Liao
I tried to install MOPAC7 for Cygwin from mopac7.tar.z. However, the makefile contains "f2c" command. How can I install "f2c" in Cygwin? Or how can I get around with it? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Docum

Re: unintended logout with bash shell

2002-10-03 Thread Kris Warkentin
Well, the earlier suggestion of putting parentheses around the command did the trick for me. Hasn't happened to me since. It's a strange one even still. I could see if it happened every time but it really comes and goes. cheers, Kris - Original Message - From: "mx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: unintended logout with bash shell

2002-10-03 Thread mx
I saw something like this yesterday, but couldn't reliably reproduce it either. It happened twice - both times during a tab-completion shortly before or after using vim or gvim. Regards, -- Bruce Alderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bu

Re: Incorrect DOS line ending conversion for cygwin build of perl

2002-10-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Bertie, > Here is a transcript demonstrating correct line ending conversion, it uses > a version of perl I built with USE_STDIO_PTR undefined. > > - > bash-2.05a$ echo fred >fred.txt && cat -vet fred.txt &

Re: cygwin on removable media ...

2002-10-03 Thread Doru Carastan
Max, You should stay out of editing the registry and use some Cygwin programs which know where to look and what to change there. I am using a batch script to switch between various cygwin versions installed on my computer. It essentially does the following: @Echo off Rem Edit cygwinRoot to mat

Re: X11 forwarding

2002-10-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Hi! > connecting cygwin ssh to a linux box with >ssh -X -l user host > doesn't do X11 forwarding. I am shure it is enabled by sshd on the server > side. Any clues where I have to look to make it work? Works for me. Every day, in fact. You're go

X11 forwarding

2002-10-03 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! connecting cygwin ssh to a linux box with ssh -X -l user host doesn't do X11 forwarding. I am shure it is enabled by sshd on the server side. Any clues where I have to look to make it work? -- Thomas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-03 Thread Nicholas Wourms
> Well there you name a group, the biggest lusers (Herr von Wourms) > are > to be found right here. They will spam, underquote, forget to > snip etc. If you want to use email use an email client or be quit. I'm afraid to say I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion. I don't use usenet,

Re: unintended logout with bash shell

2002-10-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Kris Warkentin wrote: > > Kris, > > I don't see this behavior on Win2k SP2, bash 2.05b-5... Try putting the > > whole gvim invocation line (including the '&') in parentheses (it'll > > force the invocation into a subshell), and see if this helps... > > > > Otherwise, please p

Re: unintended logout with bash shell

2002-10-03 Thread Kris Warkentin
> Kris, > I don't see this behavior on Win2k SP2, bash 2.05b-5... Try putting the > whole gvim invocation line (including the '&') in parentheses (it'll > force the invocation into a subshell), and see if this helps... > > Otherwise, please post the version of Cygwin and bash you have, and which

Re: unintended logout with bash shell

2002-10-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Kris Warkentin wrote: > This has been bugging me for a while and I think I've finally got it to a > repeatable case. > > Suppose I have a function in my .profile like so: > > vi(){ > /cygdrive/d/vim/vim60/gvim.exe `for file in $* ; do cygpath -w $file ; done` & > } > > If

Patch to get bc 1.06 to compile under Cygwin with readline library.

2002-10-03 Thread Francis Litterio
I downloaded and installed the Cygwin source code to bc 1.06, but it would not build under Cygwin 1.3.12-2 when configured with --enable-readline unless I made a small change to bc/scan.l (which may or may not be the right way to fix the compiler error about symbol "readline" having conf

unintended logout with bash shell

2002-10-03 Thread Kris Warkentin
This has been bugging me for a while and I think I've finally got it to a repeatable case. Suppose I have a function in my .profile like so: vi(){ /cygdrive/d/vim/vim60/gvim.exe `for file in $* ; do cygpath -w $file ; done` & } If I do something like 'vi /usr/include/std' ( for command comp

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xterm Xt error: Can't open display

2002-10-03 Thread Alex Vinokur
= Windows 2000 Professional CYGWIN_NT-5.0 Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0 = Administrator@5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI / $ which xterm /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm ## Attempt-1 ## Administrator@5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI ~ $ set | grep DISPLAY Administrator@5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI / $ xterm xte

Re: [PATCH] Bug in readline-4.3 and bash-2.05b (fwd)

2002-10-03 Thread Chet Ramey
> This is a bug report and a patch for a readline bug that manifested itself > in bash-2.05b on Cygwin. The bug resulted in an infinite recursion when > attempting to follow the rl_do_lowercase_version links in keymaps when > backtracking from a failed long pattern match. There have been patches

Re: textmode.o, automode.o, etc.

2002-10-03 Thread Kris Warkentin
Well happy day! I just linked GNU cpp with textmode.o and it works fine. I think that I'm going to take the easy way out and just do that. Now if I can only figure out how to get the configure script to do that for me rather than doing it manually. ;-) Thank you very much. Kris - Origina

Re: Bash Here - Start Cygwin from a folders context menu

2002-10-03 Thread glen.coakley
>> Also: >> 1) Tries to leverage any existing cygwin.bat to create cygwin_indir.bat, if >> thats what you want. >> 2) Stops repeated additions to ~/.bashrc for repeated installs >> 3) handles missing ~/.bashrc >> 4) Uses bare bones rxvt startup line so the users .Xdefaults are used >> >> Gerrit, w

Unicode compatibility of Postgres over cygwin, W2000 server and odbc driver

2002-10-03 Thread WebOPAC Pune
HI. I am using a W2000 Advanced server. Have installed cygwin and postgres version 7.2 The initdb has been done with -E UNICODE option so that the encoding is in unicode. Also the databse is created using the same option. I am accessing the database using DSN (ODBC : Postgres & Unicode (Beta

RE: [Mingw-users] Re: cygwin & MinGW

2002-10-03 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello Christopher, You mentioned getting BSODs; I have gotten those a few times with Cygwin, usually when searching in Cygwin's file system while Cygwin's X was active. Running a disk repair fixed the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

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Re: Incorrect DOS line ending conversion for cygwin build of perl

2002-10-03 Thread Bertie
At 09:37 PM 10/2/02 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Hallo Bertie, > >Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 um 15:33 schriebst du: > >> I note that the cygwin build of perl does not correctly translate DOS \r\n >> line endings into \n when opening files in text mode, this causes all sorts >> of grief in perl

Re: where is my ñ and Ñ?

2002-10-03 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Cliff Hones wrote: > > Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote: > > > > > > > I cannot have ñ and Ñ