Re: new cygwin window from script?

2004-02-21 Thread Reid Thompson
alternatively, add something along the line of this to your .bashrc ( remove or modify the parameters to suit/match your environment). Then, you can call newterm from your script. alias newterm="rxvt.exe -sr -sl 2500 -name $HOSTNAME:$PWD -fn \"Courier New-16\" -geometry 80x25 -sb -bg midnigh

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 14:06, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:46:06AM -0600, Chuck Irvine wrote: > > I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to see everything > > in the setup dialog. It would be very useful if this dialog were made > > resizable. > > I've been using

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

2004-02-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:46:06AM -0600, Chuck Irvine wrote: > I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to see everything > in the setup dialog. It would be very useful if this dialog were made > resizable. I've been using the version that is available from the KDE-Cygwin folks. It wo

[PATCH] rebase: Pick up more dlls when using rebaseall

2004-02-21 Thread Rafael Kitover
This modification to the rebaseall script will allow it to work on .dll extensions created by Perl modules downloaded from CPAN, ie using perl -MCPAN -e shell, site python dlls, and any dlls that can be found in /usr/local, /install, /home and /opt. find does not recurse into symlinked directorie

Re: new cygwin window from script?

2004-02-21 Thread Rafael Kitover
cygstart /cygwin.bat -- Rafael - Original Message - From: "linux dr." haughtmail.com> To: cygwin.com> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 5:29 PM Subject: new cygwin window from script? > Sorry if this is a repost... didn't seem to post through nntp. > > I'm trying to generate a new cy

new cygwin window from script?

2004-02-21 Thread linux dr .
Sorry if this is a repost... didn't seem to post through nntp. I'm trying to generate a new cygwin window in XP/2000, from within a tcsh script in a current cygwin window. How do I create a NEW window (as if I clicked the cygwin icon on the desktop) as opposed to a new shell within the same wi

Re: Zsh crashes on Ctrl-Z with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20 - solved with 20040221

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:23:50AM +0100, Stefan Dalibor wrote: >As the crashes are fixed by snapshot 20040221, should I investigate >further (in case another bug is lurking behind the scenes), or can >we consider this file closed? Thanks for confirming that this is fixed. I was wor

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Totte Karlsson
OK, you are correct, vim is vi! ...it's just spelled different I guess.. "Thorsten Kampe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:25 +0100) > > does not mean that vim is vi! Read my question! > > Read my answer: vim behaves like vi, it is

Re: Problem with suspending processes under bash, pdksh and zsh with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20 - solved with 20040221

2004-02-21 Thread Stefan Dalibor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:02:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Ok. The mutt problem I *could* reproduce. I've checked in a fix and am > generating a new snapshot. I'v installed cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040221, and the problems with suspending mutt, ncftp and vim are all

Re: Zsh crashes on Ctrl-Z with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20 - solved with 20040221

2004-02-21 Thread Stefan Dalibor
e on yours? Should I mail the complete output of `cygcheck -c' on my machine, the list of XP patches installed or something similar? Anyway, your patch for the crash of mutt when being suspended fixes the zsh problem, too - it's gone after upgrading to snapshot 20040221! > >Do you

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

2004-02-21 Thread linda w
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:53:28PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: I second this idea it is a pain to find things when you can see so little. I keep mentioning that it is resizeable. You just have to sit closer or further away from your screen to make it smaller or

Re: Managed mounts and .exe files (Was Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension)

2004-02-21 Thread Robert R Schneck
Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: >> Hey, it might be interesting for managed mounts *really* to identify the >> filenames "foo" and "foo.exe". (Maybe they already do?) > > Huh? What do you mean by "identify" here? If you mean "

Re: Problem with suspending processes under bash, pdksh and zsh with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:30:15PM +0100, Stefan Dalibor wrote: >I upgraded to cygwin1.dll snapshot version 20040218 and 2004020 (due to >problems with zsh and cygwin-1.5.7.1): > >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SINDBAD 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2) 20040218 17:35:06 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > >Now I find that I can suspend

Re: problem? with strace: what type of path is expected for --output=

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:24:19PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: >Perhaps the problem is whether strace likes cygwin paths, or wants >Windoze paths: Nope. The problem is a cockpit error. >506 $ touch ~/.xemacs/strace.out >507 $ strace --output=~/.xemacs/strace.out "xemacs -debug-init >-debug-pat

problem? with strace: what type of path is expected for --output=

2004-02-21 Thread David A. Cobb
Perhaps the problem is whether strace likes cygwin paths, or wants Windoze paths: 506 $ touch ~/.xemacs/strace.out 507 $ strace --output=~/.xemacs/strace.out "xemacs -debug-init -debug-paths 2>~/.xemacs/startup.log" strace.exe: can't open ~/.xemacs/strace.out: No such file or directory 508 $ str

BUG? with Find when traversing a link or mount alias

2004-02-21 Thread David A. Cobb
If I do $ find /usr -iname "something", after a bit of chewing on it I get " find: ./.. changed during execution of find" and the command terminates. My SWAG on this is that the find traverses one of several places where a mount point like ''mount -f -s -b "F:/Cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" "/us

Re: Shared Object (library) semantics

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:57:00PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: >A double-barreled question. >First, would someone please point me toward some general [U[?[Li]?nix >discussions. Answers to this may well take care of the second. >Given that the Cygwin pages are a likely focal point for Windows user

Shared Object (library) semantics

2004-02-21 Thread David A. Cobb
A double-barreled question. First, would someone please point me toward some general [U[?[Li]?nix discussions. Answers to this may well take care of the second. Given that the Cygwin pages are a likely focal point for Windows users just finding their way around *nix, a pointer from the web page

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xerces-c 2.5.0-1

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:31:18PM -0500, Abe Backus wrote: >I've updated the version of xerces-c to 2.5.0-1. This also includes the >xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc, and libxerces-c25 packages. Don't get too excited about this new release, yet. It is temporarily pulled from the distribution until

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:53:28PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: >I second this idea it is a pain to find things when you can see so little. I keep mentioning that it is resizeable. You just have to sit closer or further away from your screen to make it smaller or larger. We do this to help with

Re: Zsh crashes on Ctrl-Z with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:28:18PM +0100, Stefan Dalibor wrote: >Please retry with a function to start vim - on my installation > >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SINDBAD 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2) 20040218 17:35:06 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > >it's sufficient to define > >function v { vim $*; } Nope. Still works fine.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xerces-c 2.5.0-1

2004-02-21 Thread Abe Backus
I've updated the version of xerces-c to 2.5.0-1. This also includes the xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc, and libxerces-c25 packages. This is an official update release. The official release announcement text follows: The Xerces-C team is happy to announce that Xerces-C 2.5.0 is now available. Ther

RE: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski scribbled on Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:13 AM: > > Please don't CC me on mailing list traffic, ^^ Hey, I didn't say *that*! You did. :-) > Thanks and cheers > Alejo Actually, th

Managed mounts and .exe files (Was Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension)

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: > [snip] > Hey, it might be interesting for managed mounts *really* to identify the > filenames "foo" and "foo.exe". (Maybe they already do?) > > Robert Huh? What do you mean by "identify" here? If you mean "equate", this most likely won't

RE: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
Igor Pechtchanski scribbled on Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:13 AM: Please don't CC me on mailing list traffic, Thanks and cheers Alejo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension

2004-02-21 Thread Robert R Schneck-McConnell
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: [on changing the error message when cp can stat but not open a file due to .exe handling] > How about a patch instead of a request? ;-) Okay, attached. I've also attached a textutils patch to enact my earlier request that "cat > foo" create foo in the whate

RE: python and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Totte Karlsson
Thanks, I appreciate your reply very much! I needed to hear something like that in order to "stop", unfortunately.. /totte -Original Message- From: Larry Hall To: Totte Karlsson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/20/2004 6:58 PM Subject: Re: python and cygwin At 08:45 PM 2/20/2004, Totte Karl

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Chuck Irvine" everestkcnet> > To: "Cygwin" cygwincom> > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 4:46 PM > Subject: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable > > > I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

2004-02-21 Thread Steven Hartland
I second this idea it is a pain to find things when you can see so little. Steve - Original Message - From: "Chuck Irvine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable > I always f

Re: Problem with suspending processes under bash, pdksh and zsh with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20

2004-02-21 Thread Stefan Dalibor
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:38:18AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Stefan Dalibor wrote: > > > Hi, > > I upgraded to cygwin1.dll snapshot version 20040218 and 2004020 (due to > > problems with zsh and cygwin-1.5.7.1): > > > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SINDBAD 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2) 20040218

Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

2004-02-21 Thread Chuck Irvine
I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to see everything in the setup dialog. It would be very useful if this dialog were made resizable. Thanks Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Document

Re: Problem with suspending processes under bash, pdksh and zsh with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Stefan Dalibor wrote: > Hi, > I upgraded to cygwin1.dll snapshot version 20040218 and 2004020 (due to > problems with zsh and cygwin-1.5.7.1): > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SINDBAD 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2) 20040218 17:35:06 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > > Now I find that I can suspend a process

Problem with suspending processes under bash, pdksh and zsh with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20

2004-02-21 Thread Stefan Dalibor
Hi, I upgraded to cygwin1.dll snapshot version 20040218 and 2004020 (due to problems with zsh and cygwin-1.5.7.1): CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SINDBAD 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2) 20040218 17:35:06 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Now I find that I can suspend a process running vim only once by Ctrl-Z - after restarting the p

Re: Zsh crashes on Ctrl-Z with cygwin1.dll snapshot 20040218/20

2004-02-21 Thread Stefan Dalibor
Please retry with a function to start vim - on my installation CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SINDBAD 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2) 20040218 17:35:06 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin it's sufficient to define function v { vim $*; } calling this function and then hitting Ctrl-Z crashes zsh reproducibly, with an otherwise empty h

Re: cygwin & windows application..

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > Suppose that I have developed an application (app.exe) using cygwin. > > Is it mandatory to have cgywin installed on the client system to run that > application 'app.exe'? Is there any work around for this ? > > Is there any way of

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:20:00 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > > >Totte Karlsson wrote: > >> > >> my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about > >> it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a "pure" vi availab

Re: cygwin1.dll not found..

2004-02-21 Thread vemuri
Dear Igor, Thankyou for the suggestion. It worked fine once i gave the path. thank you. prasad > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 vemurihelixgenomicscom wrote: > >> Dear all, >> I downloaded cygwin and installed on XP professional. >> I wrote a small c program to print my name. >> >> when r

cygwin & windows application..

2004-02-21 Thread vemuri
Dear all, Suppose that I have developed an application (app.exe) using cygwin. Is it mandatory to have cgywin installed on the client system to run that application 'app.exe'? Is there any work around for this ? Is there any way of making app.exe which can work with out constraints? Pract

1.0 : Installing Apache as a new Service = Win32 error 1062 (Windows XP Pro)

2004-02-21 Thread Flo
Hello, Cygcheck.out / httpd.conf joined According to this doc : Installing Apache as a new Service Use the following statement to install httpd.exe as a new service: $ cygrunsrv -I service_name-p /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd.exe [-a arguments] \ [-e VAR=VALUE] [-t auto|manual] [-u user]

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:20:00 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Totte Karlsson wrote: >> >> my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about >> it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a "pure" vi available and >> it seems not to be... > >Then t