Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths

2002-10-07 Thread Pierre Habraken
Thanks Jerry for your advice. I suspected something like that (though I don't know what is mingw). I presume that the only thing I can do is to re-build Gnat from source using ACT binaries and gcc 2.8.1 sources. Has anyone already done this sort of thing ? Pierre Jerry van Dijk wrote: > > Pier

Re: patch for termcap

2002-10-07 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:58:12PM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) >I maintain the Pine package and I've found that the cygwin terminal :) >does not support the "scrollregion" capability. However, this is :) >listed as one of the capabil

Re: patch for termcap

2002-10-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:58:12PM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >I maintain the Pine package and I've found that the cygwin terminal >does not support the "scrollregion" capability. However, this is >listed as one of the capabilities of this terminal, under the linux >terminal. The reason it is

patch for termcap

2002-10-07 Thread Eduardo Chappa
Hello, I maintain the Pine package and I've found that the cygwin terminal does not support the "scrollregion" capability. However, this is listed as one of the capabilities of this terminal, under the linux terminal. Below you can find a program that shows you that this is true and a patch

problem building cross compiler for arm-linux under cygwin

2002-10-07 Thread jxiong
Hi everybody I have a question about building cross compilers. Here are the sources I used: binutils-2.12.90.0.3 gcc-2.95.3 gcc-2.95.3.diff glibc-2.2.4 glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.4 host: cygwin run

Re: 2.5.5-1 rsync hangs

2002-10-07 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Anthony Heading wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:06:22PM -0700, Sudheer Tumuluru wrote: > > > > I am having the same problem with rsync 2.5.5-1. I am > > trying to rsync a couple of short text files between a linux server and > > Win2k Professional boxes with cygwin.

Re[2]: crontab: no changes made

2002-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Uwe Mayer wrote: > Hallo, > > I found the solution to the emacs problem discussed below: > > Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:44:41 AM, you wrote: > > IP> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Uwe Mayer wrote: > > >> When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi > >> installed. I remem

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Yu, First off, is the file a shortcut, by any chance? If so, check that the target of the shortcut exists. Also, do other utilities similar to tail (e.g., head, more, cat) work with that file, or is the problem particular to tail? Try using tab-completion in bash as well - it should produce th

Re[2]: crontab: no changes made

2002-10-07 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hallo, I found the solution to the emacs problem discussed below: Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:44:41 AM, you wrote: IP> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Uwe Mayer wrote: >> When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi >> installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE >>

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
Yu, Are you viewing the file name(s) from Windows Explorer, or via Cygwin "ls"? If it's the former, do you have file name suffix suppression turned on. (To check, using Windows Explorer activate the "Folder Options" dialog via the "Tools -> Folder Options ..." menu command and switch to the "V

RE: [patch] postgresql 'rc' like start script

2002-10-07 Thread Ralf Habacker
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:35:02PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: > > this patch add a unix like 'rc'-start script for the postgresql server. Original I had send this to cygwin-patches, which was of course a very bad idea. Sorry all for this mistake. Ralf -- Unsubscribe info: http://

RE: [patch] postgresql 'rc' like start script

2002-10-07 Thread Ralf Habacker
> > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:35:02PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: > > > this patch add a unix like 'rc'-start script for the postgresql server. > > > > > > 2002-10-17 Ralf Habacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > rcpostgresql: new file > > > > > > > > > --- /dev/null 2002-10-07 12:30:54

Re: Re: date/time preserving in file transfer

2002-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Teodoro, The Reply-To: field is intended to direct the replies at that address instead of the From: address. In my email it was (and is now) set to the cygwin list. Please kindly keep your replies there. If your mailer ignores the Reply-To: field, then maybe it's time to switch to a new mailer

Problem with Station/Desktop permissions

2002-10-07 Thread Marius Seritan
/description of the problem/ I am writing a win32 service for Windows NT4sp6a. On the same machine I am running sshd in a cygwin environment, with ntsec turned on. My win32 service does not use any of the cygwin services/code. Unfortunately after I log in to an ssh window my service can no lon

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
Hi Gerrit and Felix, Even I use full path C:\cygwin\bin\tail.exe C:\cygwin\bin\ ParaTestDatalogStripped.gold (I copy a file ParaTestDatalogStripped.gold to C:\cygwin\bin folder) it still does not work. I also add C:\cygwin\bin as first in path, still does not work. Another interesting thing is:

RE: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Yu Wang writes: > Did you met any problem when you use tail.exe on a > file with long filename. > The command: tail paratestdatalog.out Works. > The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold Works. > The command: tail parate~1.gold Does not work. If part of the filename is using the "short notation

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:42:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:26AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote: >>C:\> gawk '{print $0 "yz" }' < autoexec.bat >>showed that what was happening was that the "yz" was *overwriting* the >>beginning of the line. > >So, to summarize

Re: Porting software from Red Hat Linux to Cygwin

2002-10-07 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Agreed. No arguement there, or here. But for what I'm doing, and for the work, that I installed Cygwin for, its, ah, necessary I'll probably end up with going to ssh for one. I don't need to install an ftp client on the target. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh my!" Th

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
Hi Shankar, Did you met any problem when you use tail.exe on a file with long filename. For example: The command: tail paratestdatalog.out produces a 'No file or directory' error The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold produces a 'No file or directory' error The command: tail parate~1.gold

Re[2]: crontab: no changes made

2002-10-07 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hallo Igor, Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:44:41 AM, you wrote: IP> The correct name for the variable is VISUAL, although EDITOR also works. I found it again. "man 1 crontab" >> export EDITOR=emacs >> >> Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e. >> /tmp/cron.1900) >> However, w

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/7/2002 8:45 AM, Yu Wang wrote: > Thank you so much for kind reply. I ran the tail.exe > directly from \cygwin\bin directory and got the > problem, I thought I was using correct tail.exe, any > thought? And more, have you ever run tail.exe > successfully on XP? Yes, for several months now (

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

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/5/2002 12:52 AM, Soren A wrote: > I cannot verify the need for or methodology of your patch, yet, but > thanks for posting. The need for it is obvious, if you look at the declaration he patched out: readline() is actually declared (in readline.h) as taking a _const_ char * parameter, w

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-07 Thread Barry Buchbinder
According to cygcheck, I'm running gawk-3.1.1-3 -Original Message- From: Peter S Tillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:19 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com - Original Message - From: "Christopher

RE: port of "watch"?

2002-10-07 Thread Scott Prive
Thanks -- good work Igor! I've made a sticky note to add procps to my next round of lab updates, and this script will hold me over until I do.. Cheers, Scott > -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:08 PM > To: Scott

RE: Porting software from Red Hat Linux to Cygwin

2002-10-07 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Consider using ssh and sftp instead of rsh and ftp. > -Original Message- > From: Gregg C Levine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Porting software from Red Hat Linux to Cygwin > > > Hello from Gregg C Levine > Obviousl

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Yu, Am Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 um 17:48 schriebst du: > Hi Gerrit, > Thank you so much for kind reply. I ran the tail.exe > directly from \cygwin\bin directory and got the > problem, I thought I was using correct tail.exe, any > thought? And more, have you ever run tail.exe > successfully

Re: executing perl from command line (cygwin)

2002-10-07 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
Cool.. Thanks, Smithesh. "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > Hallo Smithesh, > > Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 01:34 schriebst du: > > > Hi Peter, > > Like Mark said cygwin perl is a much better option. I use it quite often. > > > I think you still can execute active perl or any windows executable on >

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-07 Thread Peter S Tillier
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:42 PM Subject: Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:26AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote: > > C:\> gawk '{print "x

Re: [patch] postgresql 'rc' like start script

2002-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Hmm, at a guess, 'cd / && patch -p0 < ralphs_patch'... ;-) Ralf, Apologies for the misspelled name... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-

Re: [patch] postgresql 'rc' like start script

2002-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jason Tishler wrote: > Ralf, > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:35:02PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: > > this patch add a unix like 'rc'-start script for the postgresql server. > > > > 2002-10-17 Ralf Habacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > rcpostgresql: new file > > > > > > ---

Re: port of "watch"?

2002-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote: > Is anyone aware of a port of "watch" to Cygwin? > > For the curious, watch is a standard (?) tool on Linux which re-executes > a command at 2 second intervals (configurable). > ex: watch "ls -l" > This is more convenient than looping code on the shell. > >

Re: [patch] postgresql 'rc' like start script

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Tishler
Ralf, On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:35:02PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: > this patch add a unix like 'rc'-start script for the postgresql server. > > 2002-10-17 Ralf Habacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > rcpostgresql: new file > > > --- /dev/null 2002-10-07 12:30:54.0 +0200 > +++ /u

Re: executing perl from command line (cygwin)

2002-10-07 Thread Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG
When you run Cygwin setup, you will find Perl in the Interpreter folder, the same place that has Python and other fun stuff. Its not like the old days when you had to get Perl seperately, its cool! Wayne -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
Hi Gerrit, Thank you so much for kind reply. I ran the tail.exe directly from \cygwin\bin directory and got the problem, I thought I was using correct tail.exe, any thought? And more, have you ever run tail.exe successfully on XP? Thanks, Yu --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Yu Wang
Hi Larry, Thank you so much for kind reply. I ran the tail.exe directly from \cygwin\bin directory and got the problem, I thought I was using correct tail.exe, any thought? And more, have you ever run tail.exe successfully on XP? Thanks, Yu --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

port of "watch"?

2002-10-07 Thread Scott Prive
Is anyone aware of a port of "watch" to Cygwin? For the curious, watch is a standard (?) tool on Linux which re-executes a command at 2 second intervals (configurable). ex: watch "ls -l" This is more convenient than looping code on the shell. On Linux, this is part of procps: [root@redhat roo

Re: crontab: no changes made

2002-10-07 Thread George Lefter
Uwe Mayer wrote: > Hi, > > When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi > installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE > environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set > > export EDITOR=emacs > > Then crontabs starts up emacs, editin

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:26AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote: > C:\> gawk '{print "x" $0 "y"}' < autoexec.bat >gave no "x" but "y" was at the *beginning* of the line! Calm down. >C:\> gawk '{print $0 "yz" }' < autoexec.bat >showed that what was happening was that the "yz" was *overwriting*

Re: ntea dilemma

2002-10-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Actually, your statement about nt* options are a bit too general. ntsec affects file permissions of NTFS partitions NT/W2K/XP (although it has another important feature of enabling services to switch user contexts as well on NT/W2K/XP - but this has no bearing on file permissions per se). ntea

RE: crontab: no changes made

2002-10-07 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Also, be careful not to change the ownership of the file /var/cron/tab/. SYSTEM needs to be the group owner, otherwise the cron daemon will not accept it. > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: crontab: no changes made

2002-10-07 Thread Harig, Mark A.
I am guessing that you are running Windows NT. This problem appears on Windows NT, but not on Windows 2000. It has been a problem for a long time (over a year?). I don't know what the solution to the problem is, but a quick way to get around it is to edit your /var/cron/tabs/ file directly. >

Re: ntea dilemma

2002-10-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:29:42AM +0100, Elfyn wrote: >>The problem: I couldn't set 'ntea' to work properly in this >>configuration. 'ntsec' is ok, on XP's NTFS, but no chown & co. on >>FAT32. > >The nt* cygwin environment variable options only work on ntfs >partitions because of their extensiv

installing su with cygwin

2002-10-07 Thread Vara Prashanth
Hello everyone: I am a newbie to cygwin and am trying to set it up on a win2k machine. I downloaded a number of packages and installed some of them on the machine. What I am trying to figure out is how I should get the su command going with cygwin? Do I need to install any specific package? Also,

RE: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-07 Thread Barry Buchbinder
cygwin1-20021007.dll fixes it, but a new bug is revealed. To remind you, this is on command.com on win98se with all mounts binmode. As before, C:\> gawk '{ print "!" $0 "!" }' autoexec.bat works as expected placing a "!" at the beginning of each line

Re: executing perl from command line (cygwin)

2002-10-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Peter schrieb: > Thanks for your help. I can't find a working link to the cygwin perl package. > Do you know where I can get it? Get setup.exe -> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and install/update all Cygwin packages you want. There is also a list of mirror sites at the Cygwin website http://cygwi

RE: executing perl from command line (cygwin)

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Desjardins
Thanks for your help. I can't find a working link to the cygwin perl package. Do you know where I can get it? Again, thank you very much for your time. Peter Desjardins The Oak Group (781) 943-2259 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cygwin Perl is linked against cygwin1.dll and all > this translation is do

Re: Remote mounts unavailable via rsh/rlogin/telnet

2002-10-07 Thread Kirk Erickson
Vince Hoffman wrote: > > This is a morning post before coffee so i'm probably missing something > but have you tried using password authentication rather than hosts.equiv > or .rhosts ? Yes. I see the same behavior when I move these aside, and rlogin supplying the password interactively. I

RE: Remote mounts unavailable via rsh/rlogin/telnet

2002-10-07 Thread Vince Hoffman
This is a morning post before coffee so i'm probably missing something but have you tried using password authentication rather than hosts.equiv or .rhosts ? -Original Message- From: Kirk Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 October 2002 03:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: ntea dilemma

2002-10-07 Thread Elfyn
Hi, > The problem: I couldn't set 'ntea' to work properly in this configuration. > 'ntsec' is ok, on XP's NTFS, but no chown & co. on FAT32. The nt* cygwin environment variable options only work on ntfs partitions because of their extensive permissions structure, so it would not work on fat32...

1.3.12-4: system crash under XP during setup.

2002-10-07 Thread Serguei Kalachev
I really don't know what causes the problem, but very often, after exiting cygwin "ipc-daemon.exe" process stays in memory. Running cygwin setup program (2.249.2.5) after exiting cygwin every time causes blue screen of death on Windows XP Professional with different errors. If I kill "ipc-daemon.e

ntea dilemma

2002-10-07 Thread S . L .
I have cygwin (DLL version: 1.3.11, DLL epoch: 19, Snapshot date: 20020504-18:26:37) installed on a FAT32 (win98) partition, originally installed under win98. I also installed XP Pro on another partition (NTFS). To avoid installing cygwin on XP, I created HKLM entries, so I can use cygwin tools f