Re: Bug in dumper

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:50:00PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:10:25AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote: >>This means that either i'm wrong about my assumptions about >>bfd_set_arch_mach() and its return, or there's a bug in binutils. It >>should be quite easy to debug, tho

Re: how to run a process from DOS within a cygwin .bat file

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:22:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >As for the RTFM'ers -- it is better to help people, than to attack or >bully them. "Do unto others...". As long as we're dishing out advice, I find it is better not to admonish people who are helping you, in whatever capacity, if

Re: how to run a process from DOS within a cygwin .bat file

2003-02-28 Thread David Christensen
Tom Dager wrote: > does someone knows how to launch a cygwin shell and further commands > from DOS, e.g with a help of a .bat file. > I had a look of cygwin.bat file but I do not know the right syntax to > give the command to the bash shell Some thoughts: 1. Bash can be started either as a login

Re: [PATCH] libtool patch for direct-linking-to-dll

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:22:09AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >[BTW, Ralf, patches to libtool don't belong on cygwin-apps. It's not a >packaging issue, a packaging-policy issue, nor a setup issue. This >thread belongs on the main cygwin list.] For the record, I've had it with explaining this

Re: GPL Violation

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:36:04PM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote: >If you provide download links to where one can download the software >does that not satisfy the following license provision? The GPL doesn't say anything about your using someone else to satisfy your obligations. If *you* provide bi

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Re: [PATCH] libtool patch for direct-linking-to-dll

2003-02-28 Thread Charles Wilson
[BTW, Ralf, patches to libtool don't belong on cygwin-apps. It's not a packaging issue, a packaging-policy issue, nor a setup issue. This thread belongs on the main cygwin list.] Ralf Habacker wrote: >> >> Any hints or comments ? Haven't reviewed or tested the patch yet [that'll come later], b

Re: GPL Violation

2003-02-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: -rw-a-- 2.2 ntf10366 b- stor 20-Jun-01 18:14 cygintl.dl_ So please, don't tell me I'm violating GPL Licenses ... :(( Sorry, but IMO you are. In case you need verification from someone with a redhat.com email address, you certainly do seem to be violating the

Re: GPL Violation

2003-02-28 Thread Jon A. Lambert
If you provide download links to where one can download the software does that not satisfy the following license provision? "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the s

Re: Bug in dumper

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:10:25AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote: >This means that either i'm wrong about my assumptions about >bfd_set_arch_mach() and its return, or there's a bug in binutils. It >should be quite easy to debug, though, for those who have a cygwin >toolchain installed. Just build dumpe

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:14:48PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >The problem is being addressed and will be solved perfectly (time will tell !) >soon. Hmm. TPIBA. I like it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

2003-02-28 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Curtis Siemens wrote: > > By the way, given that I can actually run an executable that bash/type > can't find, does this suggest that possibly the builtin type command > is doing something wrong? Yes and no. Obviously it isn't working as it should. But in

Official List of Cygwin Acronyms

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Everyone, The OLOCA [Official List of Cygwin Acronyms] is available for the referral of newbies and your perusal from your friendly neighborhood CKOA [Cygwin Keeper of Acronyms] at . I'm sure I've omitted plenty, but this is a first raw try, so do be considerate. Per

Re: GPL Violation

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:26:06PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:01:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Responding to Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm sorry but I guess you did not read carefully what was written on >> my page http://spt.free.fr/fetchmail/. >

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

2003-02-28 Thread Curtis Siemens
Thanks for the responses. I managed to narrow down what's different in my situation. Basically the bash builtin type command does work fine with paths that contain spaces. The problem is a "side effect" of using NTFS and accidentally banging my head into NT's horrible over complicated/complex Sec

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Well, either that or keeling over. I think I'd better change it to a more truthful "April", though... Igor On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Igor, > So tell the truth. Are you really undergoing a thesis defense next month? > Randall > > At 13:16 2003-02-28, Igor Pechtchanski

Re: GPL Violation

2003-02-28 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:01:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Responding to Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm sorry but I guess you did not read carefully what was written on > my page http://spt.free.fr/fetchmail/. I did. > In fact, I don't provide cygwin*.dll, this is actually Red

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Igor, So tell the truth. Are you really undergoing a thesis defense next month? Randall At 13:16 2003-02-28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinsch

Re: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Patience, please... There is an LPRng package on the way. Igor On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ajay Simha wrote: > On Fri Feb 28 14:12:41 2003, Bakken, Luke wrote: > > Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin > > on a fresh win install. > > I did get this and did a mak

RE: how to run a process from DOS within a cygwin .bat file

2003-02-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Tom, In any Open Source project, the primary way to deal with a deficiency is to rectify it. Reasonable project principals will welcome any constructive feedback, but they should not be expected to share the priorities of any particular complainant. If you absolutely positively must have some

Re: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-28 Thread Ajay Simha
On Fri Feb 28 14:12:41 2003, Bakken, Luke wrote: > Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin > on a fresh win install. I did get this and did a make install but it does not come with lpd does it? Any place which lists details of how to get it working in cygwin env? Th

sed 4.0.5 regexp problem

2003-02-28 Thread Berger David-MGI2063
The following should be equivalent, they no longer are: echo 'T _atan2' | sed -e 's/^T\W*\(\w*\)/FuncSymbol(\1),/ echo 'T _atan2' | sed -e 's/^T[[:space:]]*\([[:alnum:]_]*\)/FuncSymbol(\1),/ The first one used to work, now only the second one does. This is not good. David -- U

setuidperl

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Running a perl script under Cygwin from Apache (for Windows) I would like to switch users to another user. I know that this is probably hard if not impossible to do however I have a need. I want to be able to update a file and AFAICT because Apache (started as a service) is running as SYSTEM (o

Re: Not (?) The Same Old g++ "installation problem, cannot exec"

2003-02-28 Thread Steven Vernon
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Steven Vernon wrote: > >I got the infamous "g++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No > >such file or directory" problem on cygwin. I have tried all sorts of > >solutions/investigations, but nothing has helped. > chmod -R a+r / > chmod -R a+x

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RE: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-28 Thread Bakken, Luke
Rick has good advice - I fall for that one every time I install Cygwin on a fresh win install. If your printer is lpr compatible you can get LPRng from www.lprng.com - I did the initial porting and as far as I know it still should compile "out of the box" with the following settings: ./configure

Re: Bug in dumper

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:10:25AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote: >Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >>>Does dumper.exe work? > >Well, i should have answered this, but unfortunately, i have no access >to windows machine right now to debug, or even verify this. > >>>Upon execution I see the following in the

Re: Donate a [aip]spell package? (was Re: English speller to spell plain files)

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:08:49PM -0500, Ajay Simha wrote: >On Fri Feb 28 12:03:38 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Is anyone interested in donating a ?spell package to cygwin? It is an >> obvious lack in the current package offering. > >What does "donating aspell package mean" ?? > >It is a av

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:16:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >TY [Thank you], CGF! THISU [This honor is surely undeserved], IMHO, but >IWTTLUTI [I will try to live up to it]. AAFS [As a first step], IWLTP [I >would like to propose] establishing the OLOCA [Official List of Cygwin >Acronyms].

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:34:04PM +, Steven O'Brien wrote: > >> > By the way, the current CVS has a proble

Re: Donate a [aip]spell package? (was Re: English speller to spell plain files)

2003-02-28 Thread Ajay Simha
On Fri Feb 28 12:03:38 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Is anyone interested in donating a ?spell package to cygwin? It is an > obvious lack in the current package offering. What does "donating aspell package mean" ?? It is a available for download, folks just have to download it and build righ

RE: Nessus on cygwin: Partially there

2003-02-28 Thread Hans Nohack
Hello, i know this is an older thread but maybe there are new thoughts.. At the moment i am at a similar point as Shawn. i was able to compile nessus 2.0 sucessfully, the daemon and the client start OK and i am able to log in. There are no BSOD's or other or fatal errors but unfortunately nessus d

Re: Vs: 1.30 gcc cannot exec cc1 update

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Keener
Michael Graff Andersen wrote: > >Here are lastest steps I have done trying to get gcc 3.2 to work under cygwin. > > > >Removed all cygwin > > > >installed via ftp from sunsite dot dk under c:\cygwin > > I am going to assume here that you used setup to install - if not I would suggest that you sin

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:34:04PM +, Steven O'Brien wrote: >Hi >I think I've found the problem with dlopen()/fork() on Win ME as >reported in >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02221.html >If I'm right, it also applies to win 95/98. > >in dll_init.cc: (dll_list::load_after_fork) a call is

Re: no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel B.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > ... > Daniel, > > Did I say your report was unwelcome? It seemed so at first. ("If you feel that documentation is lacking, write the appropriate sections..." sounded like "if you don't like it, fix it yourself.") Sorry for perceiving your meaning wrong. Daniel --

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libtool-devel-20030216, libltdl-20030216

2003-02-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
> It's up to you -- that's why I coded the libtool changes so that your > improvements could be a "drop in" fix. I think it'd be "nice" is file > could tell me that a given file was an import lib or a (regular) lib, > but it isn't necessary. > > There's certainly no rush. I will see. The problem i

Vs: 1.30 gcc cannot exec cc1 update

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Graff Andersen
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dato: 27. februar 2003 11:26 Emne: 1.30 gcc cannot exec cc1 update > >Hi > >Here are lastest steps I have done trying to get gcc 3.2 to work under cygwin. > >Removed all cygwin

Re: Not (?) The Same Old g++ "installation problem, cannot exec"

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Steven Vernon wrote: >I got the infamous "g++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No >such file or directory" problem on cygwin. I have tried all sorts of >solutions/investigations, but nothing has helped. chmod -R a+r / chmod -R a+x /bin lib/gc

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:15:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:34:04PM +, Steven O'Brien wrote: >> > By the way, the current CVS has a problem with unix sockets - they are >> > vey slow - like several m

AF_UNIX in current CVS

2003-02-28 Thread Steven O'Brien
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:03:48 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:34:04PM +, Steven O'Brien wrote: > > By the way, the current CVS has a problem with unix sockets - they > > are vey slow - like several minutes to get a simple message > > through in some cases. > >

RE: how to run a process from DOS within a cygwin .bat file

2003-02-28 Thread Tom Dager
Damn...and that is why I rarely post questions heresad. If the "manual" was a cohesive, comprehensive document that I could curl up with and read until my eyes bleed that would ALWAYS be the correct thing to do. Instead you have to read a FAQ, some documentation, archives, yada, yada, yada. B

[mingw-runtime bug] gcc2 -Wmissing-prototypes warning in mingw-runtime string.h

2003-02-28 Thread Max Bowsher
I've run into a problem, compiling some code with gcc-2 -Werror -Wmissing-prototypes. There are 3 warnings in mingw-runtime : /usr/include/mingw/string.h:166: warning: no previous prototype for `strcasecmp' /usr/include/mingw/string.h:172: warning: no previous prototype for `strncasecmp' /usr/inclu

Re: change bc to use readline

2003-02-28 Thread Francis Litterio
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:41:53PM -0800, Philip Nemec wrote: >>I recently installed another fresh copy of cygwin and was reminded of a >>complaint I have with bc... > > Perhaps you'd like to be the bc maintainer? I rarely use it and > have no burning desire to contin

Re: Weird stuff with 'man' and 'tset' programs

2003-02-28 Thread Roy H.
Igor, Thank you for the reply. That solved the problems nicely. I had done some searching in the archive mail lists, but obviously not with the correct criteria. Roy --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Roy H. wrote: > > > Something weird is going on with m

Not (?) The Same Old g++ "installation problem, cannot exec"

2003-02-28 Thread Steven Vernon
I got the infamous "g++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory" problem on cygwin. I have tried all sorts of solutions/investigations, but nothing has helped. The g++ under cygwin used to work, and I used it from the Windows command prompt and possibly from bash.

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:34:04PM +, Steven O'Brien wrote: > > By the way, the current CVS has a problem with unix sockets - they are > > vey slow - like several minutes to get a simple message through in > > some cases. > > Simple tes

Re: no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daniel B. wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daniel B. wrote: > > > > > On the documentation page at http://cygwin.com/docs.html, there no > > > mention of installation instructions. It's not obvious that they are > > > hidden in the FAQ list. > >

Re: How has rxvt-2.7.9-4 been packaged?

2003-02-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Alexander Skwar (03-02-28 18:47 +0100) > I'm now successfully running a self compiled XFree86 4.3.0 - however, > because of this, I need to recompile some packages, as they simply die > because library names have changed. One of these packages is rxvt. > > However, downloading rxvt-2.7.9-4-src r

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:34:04PM +, Steven O'Brien wrote: > By the way, the current CVS has a problem with unix sockets - they are > vey slow - like several minutes to get a simple message through in > some cases. Simple testcase[tm]? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Plea

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:32:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> I wonder if regtool will just compile OOB with -mno-cygwin. Apologies > >> if that was suggested, too. > > > >Nope,

Re: no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel B.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daniel B. wrote: > > > On the documentation page at http://cygwin.com/docs.html, there no > > mention of installation instructions. It's not obvious that they are > > hidden in the FAQ list. > > > > Which is the right mailing to use to suggest to

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > FWIW, I was able to reproduce your problem on the bash shell > > in a command window (on Win2k). > > [snip] > > When pasting into any Cygwin app run from that prompt, > > however, the accented

How has rxvt-2.7.9-4 been packaged?

2003-02-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. I'm now successfully running a self compiled XFree86 4.3.0 - however, because of this, I need to recompile some packages, as they simply die because library names have changed. One of these packages is rxvt. For example, with WindowMaker, I had good luck downloading the src package with t

Re: rxvt - unknown terminal type

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:41:17PM +0100, Francois de Campagnolle wrote: >I tried just that, without success. Another user seems to have a similar pb >with termcap/terminfo and latest cygwin DLL. Maybe this is related. >I also tried to re-install rxvt and all the X pkg - actually I re-installed >ev

Re: rxvt - unknown terminal type

2003-02-28 Thread Francois de Campagnolle
I tried just that, without success. Another user seems to have a similar pb with termcap/terminfo and latest cygwin DLL. Maybe this is related. I also tried to re-install rxvt and all the X pkg - actually I re-installed everything that seemed related to rxvt. Any clue? FRC - Original Message -

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:32:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I wonder if regtool will just compile OOB with -mno-cygwin. Apologies >> if that was suggested, too. > >Nope, it needs getopt... So does cygcheck. cygcheck isn't a cygwin progr

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I wonder if regtool will just compile OOB with -mno-cygwin. Apologies > if that was suggested, too. Nope, it needs getopt... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMA

Re: tetex 2.0.1-1 listed under 'previous' in setup.ini

2003-02-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just discussing this with Jan Nieuwenhuizen, and I believe > he's going to take care of it. Chris has added extra entries to the hint files; the issue should be resolved now. Thanks for your reports. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > FWIW, I was able to reproduce your problem on the bash shell > in a command window (on Win2k). > What's interesting, though, is that if the output were pasted > to a regular Command prompt window, it pastes the accented > characters sans the accents.

Re: no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daniel B. wrote: > On the documentation page at http://cygwin.com/docs.html, there no > mention of installation instructions. It's not obvious that they are > hidden in the FAQ list. > > Which is the right mailing to use to suggest to the documentation > developers that the i

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:15:27AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 09:05 2003-02-28, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:49:24AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>>At 06:47 2003-02-28, Fabrice Marchal wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: >No. It's a virtual directory. It's also

Re: English speller to spell plain files

2003-02-28 Thread Ajay Simha
On Fri Feb 28 07:45:15 2003, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:32:49AM -, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > not sure if there is an official package but do a google for ispell > > and cygwin and you should find something. > > You may want to Google for aspell too. I used to use ispell

Re: Weird stuff with 'man' and 'tset' programs

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Roy H. wrote: > Something weird is going on with my cygwin. I first > noticed it when I ran 'vim' and it said that it did > not recognize a terminal type of 'cygwin'. Ok, so I > set the TERM environment to "ansi". That seemed to > work, but I noticed that the arrow keys to

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 09:05 2003-02-28, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:49:24AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 06:47 2003-02-28, Fabrice Marchal wrote: >>Max Bowsher wrote: >>>No. It's a virtual directory. It's also read only. Use regtool. >> >>Is there any other way around without install

no installation instructions except in FAQ?

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel B.
On the documentation page at http://cygwin.com/docs.html, there no mention of installation instructions. It's not obvious that they are hidden in the FAQ list. Which is the right mailing to use to suggest to the documentation developers that the installation instructions be pulled into an insta

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:54:30PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >On Fri, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:43, Steve Miller wrote: > > > >> (Why, oh why, dear God, can't Red Hat just make a big archive file?) > > > >For the same reason you haven't read the

Weird stuff with 'man' and 'tset' programs

2003-02-28 Thread Roy H.
Something weird is going on with my cygwin. I first noticed it when I ran 'vim' and it said that it did not recognize a terminal type of 'cygwin'. Ok, so I set the TERM environment to "ansi". That seemed to work, but I noticed that the arrow keys to move around with did not work. So then I went

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:49:24AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 06:47 2003-02-28, Fabrice Marchal wrote: >>Max Bowsher wrote: >>>No. It's a virtual directory. It's also read only. Use regtool. >> >>Is there any other way around without installing cygwin (I mean just >>having cygwin1.dll of

Re: Algum brasileiro usa cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 08:55 2003-02-28, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:53:03AM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >Read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC29 >Read http://www.cygwin.com/bugs.html >Read `man term` > >and get back to us when you've done that. > >IOW: YOWTHYWT (how do you expec

Donate a [aip]spell package? (was Re: English speller to spell plain files)

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
Is anyone interested in donating a ?spell package to cygwin? It is an obvious lack in the current package offering. I believe that someone once was interested in providing an ispell but maybe I scared them off by suggesting that aspell would be better. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:54:30PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:43, Steve Miller wrote: > >> (Why, >> oh why, dear God, can't Red Hat just make a big >> archive file?) > >For the same reason you haven't read the FAQ >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC14. In Soviet Russia

Re: Algum brasileiro usa cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:53:03AM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >Read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC29 >Read http://www.cygwin.com/bugs.html >Read `man term` > >and get back to us when you've done that. > >IOW: YOWTHYWT (how do you expect anyone to answer you if you just say >boo-ho

Re: Algum brasileiro usa cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:22:17AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >> > > IOW: YOWTHYWT (how do you expect anyone to answer you if you just

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > Read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC29 > > Read http://www.cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Read `man term` > > and get back to us when you've done that. > I installed rxvt and it not only solv

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > Read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC29 > > Read http://www.cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Read `man term` > > > > and get back to us when you've done that. > > I installed rxvt and it not

Trouble getting shift keypad events

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
I'm not sure if this is a cygwin emacs problem or a cygwin XFree problem, but here goes. Using emacs under xfree started with: start XWin -screen 0 830 1124 -rootless -clipboard I am not getting shift-keypad events as expected. When I type C-h c I get the message " runs the command ..." i

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC29 > Read http://www.cygwin.com/bugs.html > Read `man term` > > and get back to us when you've done that. I installed rxvt and it not only solved this problem but another I reported about screen messing

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 06:47 2003-02-28, Fabrice Marchal wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: No. It's a virtual directory. It's also read only. Use regtool. Max. Is there any other way around without installing cygwin (I mean just having cygwin1.dll of course) and without using regedit to do the job? fabrice Fabrice, Write

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > Read `man term` > > FYI, "echo `man term`" returns something quite unreadable... Be careful > > to use the right quotes next time, for

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-02-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Sheridan, David wrote: > I'm using the cygwin version of rsync (2.5.5) and think I've found a > bug which is harmless under unix but fatal to cygwin. The bug is also > in the latest source version I could find (2.5.6). > > If I'm trying to take a file from (windows-style) > \\share\directory\filena

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > Read `man term` > FYI, "echo `man term`" returns something quite unreadable... Be careful > to use the right quotes next time, for newbies' sake. ;-) I usually use backquotes to signify that so

cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-02-28 Thread Sheridan, David
I'm using the cygwin version of rsync (2.5.5) and think I've found a bug which is harmless under unix but fatal to cygwin. The bug is also in the latest source version I could find (2.5.6). If I'm trying to take a file from (windows-style) \\share\directory\filename I would specify something like

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Fabrice Marchal
Max Bowsher wrote: Fabrice Marchal wrote: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: Fabrice Marchal wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Fabrice, It would seem that the answer is right there on the page you referenced. You can script a change to that registry entry via the Cygwi

Re: Algum brasileiro usa Cygwin ?

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ronald, On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Read `man term` FYI, "echo `man term`" returns something quite unreadable... Be careful to use the right quotes next time, for newbies' sake. ;-) > and get back to us when you've done that. > > IOW: YOWTHYWT (how do you expect anyo

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Fabrice Marchal wrote: > Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: > >> Fabrice Marchal wrote: >> >>> Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> Fabrice, It would seem that the answer is right there on the page you referenced. You can script a change to that registry entry via the Cygwin

Proposal!!

2003-02-28 Thread benen2
REQUEST I am MR REUBEN SAVIMBI one of the favorite sons of Mr.JONAS SAVIMBI (The Rebel leader) and also the head of the Unita Forces of Angola who was killed in the Struggle between Angolan arm forces and his unita rebels On Friday the 22nd of February 2002. I am from Angola but currently I am c

Proposal!!

2003-02-28 Thread benen2
REQUEST I am MR REUBEN SAVIMBI one of the favorite sons of Mr.JONAS SAVIMBI (The Rebel leader) and also the head of the Unita Forces of Angola who was killed in the Struggle between Angolan arm forces and his unita rebels On Friday the 22nd of February 2002. I am from Angola but currently I am c

Re: cpp0.exe- entry point not found

2003-02-28 Thread Max Bowsher
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, xiao chen wrote: > >> dear everyone, >> can anyone help me to handle this error? >> " the prodedure entry point _ctype_ could not be located in the >> dynamic link library cygwin1.dll" >> >> i guess the problem comes due to the mismatch of cygwin1.dll in my >> enviroment an

Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk

2003-02-28 Thread Fabrice Marchal
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: Fabrice Marchal wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Fabrice, It would seem that the answer is right there on the page you referenced. You can script a change to that registry entry via the Cygwin regtool script. You can do this in an install or post-install

Re: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-28 Thread Ajay Simha
On Fri Feb 28 09:21:15 2003, Charles Krug wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:52:14PM -0500, Ajay Simha wrote: > > On Thu Feb 27 15:53:59 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in > > > C:\WINNT\system32. > > > > Try /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr

Re: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-28 Thread Charles Krug
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:52:14PM -0500, Ajay Simha wrote: > On Thu Feb 27 15:53:59 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: > > Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in > > C:\WINNT\system32. > > Try /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr -S server -P printer filename > > it worked for me. That s

Re: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-28 Thread Charles Krug
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:03:56PM -0500, Charles Krug wrote: > I'm having trouble with cygwin lpr printing to my default Win2k printer. > A search of the archives revealed many mailings from people who > similarly could not print using the cygwin lpr, but I couldn't find any > stories of "success.

Re: bug report - DLL failure on win ME with gcc-3

2003-02-28 Thread Steven O'Brien
Hi I think I've found the problem with dlopen()/fork() on Win ME as reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02221.html If I'm right, it also applies to win 95/98. in dll_init.cc: (dll_list::load_after_fork) a call is made to LoadLibraryEx (d.name, NULL, DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES); A

RE: Problem compiling Perl Tk800.024

2003-02-28 Thread jon ewing
Hi Gerrit, Sorry for the delay in replying... > Hmmm, I tried Tk800.23 without X, there were only minor > problems, does it compile without X? No. Firstly I removed the duplicated methods from stubs.c. Then when 'make'ing, I first got: ... ... make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jon/src/perlM

Re: English speller to spell plain files

2003-02-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Alex Vinokur (03-02-28 06:26 +0100) > Is there any English speller in Cygwin to spell plain files from command line ? Aspell Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under t

Re: English speller to spell plain files

2003-02-28 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:32:49AM -, Vince Hoffman wrote: > not sure if there is an official package but do a google for ispell > and cygwin and you should find something. You may want to Google for aspell too. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fi

1.3.20: .rhosts is ignored by cygwin

2003-02-28 Thread Ramon Barres
I'm trying to do a rsh without password but cygwin replies "Permission Denied" message. So I've created a .rhosts file in the home directory of the user who I'm using to do the rsh containing a "+" symbol. CYGWIN creates a file with 777 rights permissions, but I've changed to 600 and 644 without s

Re: how to run a process from DOS within a cygwin .bat file

2003-02-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, gilles bourgeois wrote: > hello again > does someone knows how to launch a cygwin shell and further commands from > DOS, e.g with a help of a .bat file. > I had a look of cygwin.bat file but I do not know the right syntax to give > the command to the bash shell DOS as in "Disk

Re: Windows kbhit() function

2003-02-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Stickel, Uwe wrote: > I do have a Cygwin application (Windows 2000), which includes a kbhit() > function and the Windows ethernet socket for TCP/UDP communication. But > both doesn't work together. In this case I had to link the libmoldname.a > in order to use the kbhit() funct

RE: English speller to spell plain files

2003-02-28 Thread Vince Hoffman
not sure if there is an official package but do a google for ispell and cygwin and you should find something. > -Original Message- > From: Alex Vinokur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 February 2003 05:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: English speller to spell plain files > > > I

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