access to event log of windows

2004-07-11 Thread Oliver Geisen
Hello, is there a way to read/write from/to the event log of windows ? I think it would be a great thing to have event-logs in a UNIX-style underneath /var/log/... Mayby one can make a interface-file where events are mapped into log-files, like Unix does with /etc/syslog.conf. Or is there alread

Re: Options for Source Code Control: RCS v. SCCS v. CVS

2004-07-11 Thread Elvin Peterson
--- Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 03:09, Richard Heintze wrote: > > I need some help understanding how RCS works. I > typed > > "info RCS" and felt confused. > > Not surprisingly. RCS doesn't model what any modern > revision control > system does. He should've used "man rcsintro",

Is there a /dev directory, or how to use /dev/stderr

2004-07-11 Thread Oliver Geisen
Hello, i'm missing the /dev directory. Espacially the stdin,stdout,stderr nodes to do shell-redirection. Is this implementation missing or am i to blind to find it ? Bye, Oliver Geisen --- Systemadministrator Kreisboten Verlag Mühlfellner KG Telefon: 0881/686-6

Cygwin: /proc and /cygdrive insvisible

2004-07-11 Thread Oliver Geisen
Hello, is there a reason (i bet there is :-) why the /proc and /cygdrive directory isn't visible when "ls -l /" ? Regards, Oliver Geisen --- Systemadministrator Kreisboten Verlag Mühlfellner KG Telefon: 0881/686-63 Telefax: 0881/686-74 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Building DLL

2004-07-11 Thread boekhold
Hi all, I've been trying the suggestions mentioned on this list: 1. Create an import library echo EXPORTS > foo.def nm foo.exe | grep ' T _' | sed 's/.* T _//' >> foo.def dlltool --def foo.def --dllname foo.exe --output-lib foo.a I couldn't get this to work. In the executable I am trying to load

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread Elvin Peterson
--- Larry Hall wrote: > Lots of email clients do this automatically. This should be done server side, by the mailing list manager. If you subscribe to any of the sourceforge lists, you will know that they do this automatically. Much better than requesting each person to do it everytime (somethi

How to run ddd in XWin?

2004-07-11 Thread Siegfried Heintze
OK, I apparently already have that installed. I typed "info XWin" and learned about the options. Nothing terribly relevant to ddd here -- did I miss something. OK, I type XWin& and "ddd test.exe" and same error. Any other ideas? Test.exe is compiled with the "-g" option in g77. I also tried ddd

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread Arturus Magi
LDR wrote: --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *PCYMTNQREAIYR* -- Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw > E-mail Addresses In Your Replies. . - What mailers (mail clients?) do support this auto-editing function? -

Re: Where is libxml2.dll?

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:04 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote: >What I meant to say was: > >What is the difference between /usr/local/bin and >/usr/bin? Why are there two directories? It probably >has something to do with unix compatibility. /usr/local is reserved for stuff local to a particular machine, while /usr is commo

Re: Where is libxml2.dll?

2004-07-11 Thread Richard Heintze
What I meant to say was: What is the difference between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin? Why are there two directories? It probably has something to do with unix compatibility. Thanks, Siegfried --- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:18 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote: > >Problem fixed! I

Re: processor at 100%

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:38 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote: >you are correct it is Cygrunsrv (woops shouldve looked while typing mail) I use the >task manager to end the processes. I dont restart the services and I can ssh from a >remote computer like if was running but does not show up in the task manager. I think >it

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:47 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >> >That was CGF himself, he volunteered to not to volunteer. He brought >> >this topic onto himself. >> >> This statement is disingenuous. For shame. >> > >Perhaps, perhaps not. I'm still wait

RE: Extending long threads

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
> GARY VANSICKLE wrote: >> There's three reasons people knee-jerk against HTML email: >> >> 1. It isn't ASCII (i.e. the "Back in my day a child would open up a >> gift and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb! >> That's the way it was and we liked it!"[1] Defense). >> 2a.

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
Lots of email clients do this automatically. Personally, I know that Thunderbird supports it. I believe Mozilla Mail does as well, though neither of these have this option configurable in the default GUI (get the "Preferential" extension). Eudora allows you to do this too. Though it will quot

RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
cygwin-ownerXXXYOU_KNOW_THE_REST wrote on Sunday, July 11, 2004 7:54 PM: >> On Sun, July 11, 2004 10:22 pm, LDR said: >>> --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> *PCYMTNQREAIYR* -- Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Ad

RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
> On Sun, July 11, 2004 10:22 pm, LDR said: > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> *PCYMTNQREAIYR* -- Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw > >> E-mail Addresses In Your Replies. > >> > > > >> . > >> > > > > - What

Re: Source Code for cygwin1.dll

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:04 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote >On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:10:59AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>At 10:58 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote: >>>Is it just the cygwin-1.5.10-3.tar.bz2 file or do I need anything else? I >>>remember hearing it is about 1.2MB in size so this sounds right. Thanks >> >>That's the

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Eduardo Chappa wrote: > >That was CGF himself, he volunteered to not to volunteer. He brought > >this topic onto himself. > > This statement is disingenuous. For shame. > Perhaps, perhaps not. I'm still waiting for somebody, other than you Chris[1],

RE: Problem while copying .EXE files

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:20 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Larry Hall >> Sent: 11 July 2004 20:29 >> To: Mike Lerwill; >> Subject: Re: Problem while copying .EXE files >> >> >> >> WFM. Did you need to reboot after the last update? Did you? > > > >Apologies for not mentioning this wi

Re: cygwin1.dll

2004-07-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:49:46PM -0500, Joshua Halls wrote: >Yes it is open source (not GPL but the source code is freely available for >no fee of any kind, it is DIKU derived). > >The whole point of releasing this is for people who would never download or >touch cygwin (or code for that matter

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

2004-07-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Eduardo Chappa wrote: >That was CGF himself, he volunteered to not to volunteer. He brought this >topic onto himself. This statement is disingenuous. For shame. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

Re: Where is libxml2.dll?

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:18 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote: >Problem fixed! I had to put c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin in >my system path. OK. >I did not realize that c:\cygwin\bin >(which was already in my path) was different than >c:\cygwin\usr\bin. It's not really. Cygwin mounts /bin as /usr/bin. See the output of 'mo

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread Robert Pendell
I don't think that Mozilla Thunderbird supports this. Gmail doesn't either as someone mentioned this but I am trying to get them to add this kind of functionality. On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:11:11 +0100 (BST), Chris Taylor wrote: > > On Sun, July 11, 2004 10:22 pm, LDR said: > > --- Igor Pechtchansk

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread Chris Taylor
On Sun, July 11, 2004 10:22 pm, LDR said: > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> *PCYMTNQREAIYR* -- Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw >> E-mail Addresses In Your Replies. >> > >> . >> > > - What mailers (mail clients?)

RE: Problem while copying .EXE files

2004-07-11 Thread Mike Lerwill
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall > Sent: 11 July 2004 20:29 > To: Mike Lerwill; > Subject: Re: Problem while copying .EXE files > > > > WFM. Did you need to reboot after the last update? Did you? Apologies for not mentioning this with the original post, but this is not something

Re: How to run debugger?

2004-07-11 Thread Chris Taylor
On Sun, July 11, 2004 6:36 pm, Richard Heintze said: > Ah hah! Write a short program called test.c and gcc -g > test.c -o test.exe and ddd test.exe and then I see > > Error: can't open display: This one's easy. It's almost certainly looking for a running X server, of which there almost certain

Re: Problem while copying .EXE files

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:42 PM 7/10/2004, you wrote: >When copying an EXE file there is no problem when the target does not exist >but it fails for me when the target is present leaving a directory in place >of the desired file. > >Below is the sequence of commands to reproduce this. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >$ mkdir e

Re: Thanks !

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:32 AM 7/10/2004, you wrote: >I wanted to thank you for cygwin. In particular I've updagraded setup.exe > today and you can now change its size, which makes it even better. Thanks > once again, I'll second that. Though the change has been in a while, it's one I've come to appreciate

RE: Source Code for cygwin1.dll

2004-07-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:26 AM 7/10/2004, you wrote: >Larry, these messages are being repeated twice on the list. Actually, no they aren't. I haven't seen the repeats and the email archives show one message only. >Josh, from now on, use reply to all. And take out your email address. I can't see any harm in

Re: processor at 100%

2004-07-11 Thread Shawn Henderson
you are correct it is Cygrunsrv (woops shouldve looked while typing mail) I use the task manager to end the processes. I dont restart the services and I can ssh from a remote computer like if was running but does not show up in the task manager. I think it might be related to me installing ever

Re: Where is the gnu/cygwin GUI Source code debugger?

2004-07-11 Thread Richard Heintze
What is the command to run the GUI GNU debugger? when I type gdb test.exe I get the old command line interface. How do I get the GUI? I have done a (nearly) complete installation of cygwin. I only omitted emacs, and perl and xemacs. I explicitly downloaded insight seperately and had troubles with

Re: Where is libxml2.dll?

2004-07-11 Thread Richard Heintze
Problem fixed! I had to put c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin in my system path. I did not realize that c:\cygwin\bin (which was already in my path) was different than c:\cygwin\usr\bin. Why are there two bin directories? Siegfried --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004

How to run debugger?

2004-07-11 Thread Richard Heintze
Ah hah! Write a short program called test.c and gcc -g test.c -o test.exe and ddd test.exe and then I see Error: can't open display: Why does this not work? So I download the insight debugger and tried /cygdrive/c/dev/insight/bin/gdb.exe test.exe This gives the error stat "/cygdrive/c/tmp/tes

Re: processor at 100%

2004-07-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Shawn Henderson wrote: > when I reboot my pc my processor is at 100% the task manager reveals > that cygserv and the sshd is the culprit. There is no such program as "cygserv". I presume you mean "cygrunsrv". Also, which of the two processes consumes 100% of the CPU? Or do

processor at 100%

2004-07-11 Thread Shawn Henderson
when I reboot my pc my processor is at 100% the task manager reveals that cygserv and the sshd is the culprit. After ending the processes this drops the processor back to its normal levels. What is strange is that I can still use these processes afterwords like normal but it does not max out th

Re: Where is the gnu/cygwin GUI Source code debugger?

2004-07-11 Thread James Merritt
Another GUI debugger is DDD, also part of Cygwin. Can't say how it compares to insight, though. Have a great day!! James E. Merritt --- Arturus Magi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Heintze wrote: > > I remember running a GUI based source code > debugger > > for gcc. I was very impressed. C

Re: Options for Source Code Control: RCS v. SCCS v. CVS

2004-07-11 Thread Reini Urban
Robert Collins schrieb: On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 03:09, Richard Heintze wrote: I need some help understanding how RCS works. I typed "info RCS" and felt confused. Not surprisingly. RCS doesn't model what any modern revision control system does. ?? For single developers (and esp. single file versioning

Re: Start up Help

2004-07-11 Thread Holger Krull
gcc hello.c On my version, "gcc" was an unknown command, so I did: bash hello.c 1. Maybe you didn't install gcc? -> install it 2. Maybe you installed it but, you try to start it from cmd.exe? -> open a bash shell first -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: neon 0.24.7-1

2004-07-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Neon, a WebDAV client library, used by subversion, has been updated to 0.24.7-1 This is a new upstream bugfix release. Upstream release announcement: Changes in release 0.24.7: * Compression interface fixes: - fix issues handling content decoding and request retries from authentication challeng

Re: Building DLL

2004-07-11 Thread Jani tiainen
Maarten Boekhold wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: You don't need .def files on Cygwin. Just add -no-undefined to libxyz_LDFLAGS. OK, I'm making progress with getting XFCE to compile under cygwin (with help of one of the XFCE developers), but now we're running into the following: XFCE has a plugi