RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.18.1-1

Worked for me, too. I guess Dr Zell was right after all. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shaddy Baddah Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.18.1-1 Hi, Despite my best

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.18.1-1

Hi, Despite my best effort at sifting through the mailing list for the solution, the posting that solved my problem eluded me until I had already sent my original question. Apologies, but the I have found the fix. Please refer to the below from the RE: Problem about man-1.5m2 posting of Mon, 24 N

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.18.1-1

Hi, The suggestion fixed this for me in my terminal emulation sessions after I had updated my Cygwin to include this version of groff. However, I have a preferences for viewing man pages in XEmacs for cygwin (21.4p13) and now the output is all garbled. Not understanding the problem well enough, i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: links-0.99pre14-1

The link-0.99pre14-1 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. Changes: 1) Initial Cygwin release by new maintainer and update to upstream 0.99pre14 release. (Harold L Hunt II) 2) Patch to fix the File->OS Shell and File->New Window commands. (Frédéric L. W. Meunier) -- Harold Hunt

Re: man produces ESC

I've got the same problem after updating this evening. rxvt, bash shell. cygcheck attached. begin 666 dma.txt M#0I#>6=W:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@0V]N9FEG=7)A=&EO;B!$:6%G;F]S=&EC6=W:6Y<:&]M95QD;6%< M8FEN#0H)0SI<8WEG=VEN7'5S6=W:6Y<8FEN M#0H)0SI<8WEG=VEN7&)I;@T*"4,Z7&-Y9W=I;EQU7-T96TS,@T*"6,Z7%=)3D1/5U,-

RE: Problem about man-1.5m2

> Gary, dude. That straighten out my man(ual) problems too. Thanks. > Robert Wasn't me, but the good Dr. Zell! -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Gary R. Van Sickle > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:36 PM > To: [E

RE: Problem about man-1.5m2

Gary, dude. That straighten out my man(ual) problems too. Thanks. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problem about man-1.5m2 > > "Barry" ==

Re: 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5: bug with perl's system()- FALSE ALARM

Sorry, but this was a false alarm. After more experiments, I discovered that the problem was due to a missing back-slash before an at-sign. (My mistake.) ... Reed On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:06, you wrote: > Hello Reed, > > RW> Versions: crgwin dll 1.5.5 and perl 5.8.2-5 > > RW> When exec

RE: Problem about man-1.5m2

> > "Barry" == Barry Buchbinder writes: > > Barry> I found the same thing and 2 other problems > Barry> (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it > overrides the PAGER > Barry> setting in man.conf. > > Barry> (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold. > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: mutt-1.4.1-2

WARNING: THIS VERSION, LIKE ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS, WILL OVERWRITE /etc/Muttrc and /etc/mime.types. IF YOU'VE MADE CHANGES TO EITHER FILE, THEY WILL BE LOST. If you haven't made any changes to these files, never mind. In any case, your ~/Muttrc and ~/mime.types, if any, will not be touched. Mutt

Re: Installation problem with xfree86-prog

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: I know that problems with Xfree86-cygwin have a list of their own, but I think this may be a packaging problem or something super-weird about my Cygwin installation. Lately, XFree86-prog is showing up among the packages to be u

Re: Problem about man-1.5m2

> "Barry" == Barry Buchbinder writes: Barry> I found the same thing and 2 other problems Barry> (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it overrides the PAGER Barry> setting in man.conf. Barry> (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold. Barry> Not want

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: keychain-2.0.3-1

Steven Woody wrote: alreay have ssh-agent + ssh-add, why people need keychain? keychain is just a script around ssh-agent and ssh-add, you don't get any functionality you can achieve with some little scripting using ssh-agent and ssh-add directly. If all you ever do with ssh-agent is `eval $(ssh-ag

man produces ESC

I just upgraded my PC from Windows 2000 to XP. I've spent about a week trying to get everything back to the same state as before. Problem 1: When I run "man man", all the escape sequences show up in less (version 381): ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m man - format and display the on=line manual pages

cron_diagnose.sh version 1.2

cron_diagnose.sh will attempt to diagnose problems with cron. It will not modify any files on your computer. You might need to run the script several times. Each time that it finds a problem, it stops and displays a descriptive message. Please read the messages that the script generates, espec

Re: Chronic Cron - cyg.txt (0/1)

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:02:18 -0500, "Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The cron_diagnose.sh script does check for /etc/cron.d, >and does check to see that it is a directory with the >proper permissions (a minimum of 'rx' for the owner). > >You might have an earlier version of the script?

Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems with man & less)

I just did a full (100%) cygwin install on a fresh Win2K system. (Well, this is actually the third time: I had two HDs crash Friday.) On the fresh cygwin install, even before installing ~/.bashrc, when I did "man bash" all the ANSI escape sequences were visible. If I specify "MANPAGER=more", t

RE: Chronic Cron - cyg.txt (0/1)

> > I'd created /etc/cron.d at some stage manually as a FILE . > > Have now deleted it and created it as a DIRECTORY. > > BINGO everything works > > (I don't know where that is on a stupidity scale, but maybe Mark could > add a test for this to his cron_diagnose.sh) > Thank you for the feedbac

Re: Problem about man-1.5m2

> "Barry" == Barry Buchbinder writes: Barry> I found the same thing and 2 other problems Barry> (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it overrides the PAGER Barry> setting in man.conf. Barry> (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold. Barry> Not want

Regtool Recursive Option?

Is it possible to use the Cygwin regtool recursively? I would like to search for a term (i.e. "My Documents") throughout the registry or at least within a subkey. It looks like this can be done by doing a recursive grep on /proc/registry, but this generates a lot of errors such as "No such file o

cygwin mysql 4.0.16 compilation : undefined reference to `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)'

cygcheck -s -v -r is attached. Below is the transcript of my attempt to compile mysql under cygwin... it seems to be very close to working. g++ -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -fno-implicit-templates -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -o mysqld.exe sql_lex.o sql_handler.o item.o item_sum.o item_buff.o item_func.o item_c

Re[2]: Open bash in given directory

IP> Do you Google? Ok, shame on me... Thx for this kick in the ass. ;) -- bye, Tim-Oliver -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: Open bash in given directory

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Tim-Oliver Husser wrote: > Hi, > > is there any way to start the bash in a given directory? A context > menu "Open this directory in bash" or something like that in the > explorer would be nice. :) > Any ideas, how to do this? Do you Google?

Open bash in given directory

Hi, is there any way to start the bash in a given directory? A context menu "Open this directory in bash" or something like that in the explorer would be nice. :) Any ideas, how to do this? -- bye, Tim-Oliver -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Permissions problem on Win2K?

Larry wrote: >> OK, you've explained the problem but didn't include >> any concrete information about your environment and >> configuration, so it's not really worthwhile for someone >> to make suggestions of things to look for. Actually it's even worse than that. I asked a question that could ha

libmoldname.a with msvc

Hello, I created an executable with msvc, linked to libmoldname.a from mingw. I did it because my program is full of call to function underscored by Microsoft (_strdup, _putenv...). My executable is crashing each time I call a function from libmoldname. When debugging the assembly code I can se

Re: Installation problem with xfree86-prog

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: > I know that problems with Xfree86-cygwin have a list of their own, but I > think this may be a packaging problem or something super-weird about my > Cygwin installation. > > Lately, XFree86-prog is showing up among the packages to be updated. If > I all

Installation problem with xfree86-prog

I know that problems with Xfree86-cygwin have a list of their own, but I think this may be a packaging problem or something super-weird about my Cygwin installation. Lately, XFree86-prog is showing up among the packages to be updated. If I allow setup to attempt this, every attempt locks up tr

RE: Problem about man-1.5m2

I found the same thing and 2 other problems (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it overrides the PAGER setting in man.conf. (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold. Not wanting to have to choose between less working the way I want and man working properly, I I've rolled

Re: gcc problem in my installation of cygwin

At 11:26 PM 11/23/2003, Nikhil Bhargava you wrote: >hello Ms. Larry, That would be more properly phrased as 'Mr. Hall' but I don't require such formalism. 'Larry' is fine. >I am thankful for the help. I didnot tried google as i thought i wouldnot be able to >find this problem. I wil be care

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-1.5m2-1

DESCRIPTION: The 'man' page suite, including man, apropos, and whatis consists of programs that are used to read most of the documentation available on a Cygwin system. The whatis and apropos programs can be used to find documentation related to a particular subject. KNOWN ISSUES: This is the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: gd, libgd-devel, libgd2

The package 'gd' with corresponding devel and runtime support is now available with the Cygwin distribution. gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the

Re: Can't Read /cygdrive/c in snapshots from 1108 on (unknown windows error 122)

D. N. Knisely wrote: >> I unmounted those mounts: >> $ mount >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system >> (binmo >> de) >> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) >> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) >> C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode

Re: proftpd on cygwin

Steven, On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:16:09PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote: > Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:18:14PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote: > >> any ideal? > > > > Read the README? > > > > http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.9.READM

RE: Can't Read /cygdrive/c in snapshots from 1108 on (unknown windows error 122)

I unmounted those mounts: $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumo

latest cygwin+perl+Tk for non X11 env.

Hello, Does someone have working combo of Cygwin 1.5.5 + perl 5.8.2 + Tk for non X11 environment? Looks like previously posted recipe for Tk800.022 + 2 patches not working anymore - it fails during make. Thank you! V. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

perl v5.8.2-1 problems

Hi Gerrit, since I haven't read any statement of yours regarding the problems with perl v5.8.2-1 reported at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00733.html and at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00434.html I wasn't sure whether they had slipped your notice and in case wanted to bring

Problem about man-1.5m2

Just install man-1.5m2 from mirrors.kernel.org I think the PAGER setting in /usr/share/misc/man.conf should be changed to PAGER = less -irs In order to display the ESC sequence correctly. Yih-Ru Wang -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: h

RE: Possible bug with __attribute__((alias)) in gcc-3.3

Nicholas wrote: > Hi All, > > Gerrit and I were discussing this off-list, but I thought it appropriate > that I move it to the main list since he has confirmed the problem. > > Here's the problem, programs are segfaulting when the are linked to a > symbol which was aliased using __attribute__((a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: keychain-2.0.3-1

Hack Kampbjorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: alreay have ssh-agent + ssh-add, why people need keychain? > WARNING: *** > As of version 2.0 Keychain now stores keychain files in the ~/.keychain/ > directory for tidiness. New filenames too: ~/.