A vexing installation problem

2004-11-28 Thread David Hinds
A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1). After the update, all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently. I've tried scrubbing the Windows registry of anything with a "Cyg" in it, deleting the Cygwin tree, and reins

Re: gcc-g77 4.4.1-1 stack memory error

2004-11-28 Thread Ata Bilgili
Thanks for the clue Tim. It was a stupid oversight on my part. The makefile version that I was using had the ordering of linker options wrong so these were never in effect. Moving these options forward took care of the problem. Best regards. Ata Bilgili ---Tim Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

uw-imap & Cygwin secrets revealed, at least a bit!

2004-11-28 Thread Christian Weinberger
The initial problem was: - uw-imap on cygwin ran well with Outlook Express - but hung upon connection when using Outlook 2003 In the end I made it to get it work with the following workaround: In inetd.conf, I donÂt start the daemon directly, but use the following wrapper script. #!/bin/sh tee

Re: gcc-g77 4.4.1-1 stack memory error

2004-11-28 Thread Tim Prince
At 09:17 PM 11/28/2004, Ata Bilgili wrote: G'day; An internet search yields -Wl --stack= options for gcc. Is there any workaround for g77? In what way is a linker option supposed to be specific to gcc? Did it fail because of the omitted comma? Seriously, many of the options detailed under '

Re: Help needed for using SPIN

2004-11-28 Thread bobby mcnulty junior
Patrick Fulgence wrote: Hi, I need to learn how to use the tool SPIN based on promela language. What do I need to get on my computer for that ? I've very embarassed because I don't arrive to do antything for understanding how it works. I've read a lot of stuff about that nut I still being not

Re: Help needed for using SPIN

2004-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:42:41AM +, Patrick Fulgence wrote: >I need to learn how to use the tool SPIN based on promela language. >What do I need to get on my computer for that ? I've very embarassed >because I don't arrive to do antything for understanding how it works. >I've read a lot of s

Help needed for using SPIN

2004-11-28 Thread Patrick Fulgence
Hi, I need to learn how to use the tool SPIN based on promela language. What do I need to get on my computer for that ? I've very embarassed because I don't arrive to do antything for understanding how it works. I've read a lot of stuff about that nut I still being not on the way for using it.

gcc-g77 4.4.1-1 stack memory error

2004-11-28 Thread Ata Bilgili
G'day; I have a Fortran 77 code involving the finite element solution of rather large matrices using a conjugate gradient method. The code trustfully runs with g77 on Linux and Unix with no problems. When I tried running it this morning using the Cygwin gcc-g77 3.3.3-3, it complied nicely but I

RE: sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:38 PM 11/28/2004, you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: >> Uninstall and reinstall the 'openssh' package and then follow the >> configuration instructions in '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README'. > > >Same result. OK, so now you want to run your server in debug mode, try to connect, and check th

RE: sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread David Christensen
Larry Hall wrote: > Uninstall and reinstall the 'openssh' package and then follow the > configuration instructions in '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README'. Same result. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:09:02AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> >>>Jim McCarthy wrote: >>> Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid

How to let a process know when a stream file is modifed

2004-11-28 Thread news.gosonic.com
Hi All, I need to find a way to let a program know when a stream if modified. Please help. Ge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: htt

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jim McCarthy wrote: Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h 2) In comd.c, add #include be

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Jim McCarthy wrote: >>Sorry, no patchfile, but ... >> >>1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid >> conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h >> >>2) In comd.c, add #include before line

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jim McCarthy wrote: Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h 2) In comd.c, add #include before line #include "proto.h" With these changes, build should result in a functional sedt

RE: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Jim McCarthy
Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h 2) In comd.c, add #include before line #include "proto.h" With these changes, build should result in a functional sedt.exe file.

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jim McCarthy wrote: Hello -- SEDT is a VMS-EDT-like editor freely available as C source code for multiple platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux, etc) at http://www.ankersoft.com/Sedt.html I have successfully build "sedt.exe" (following the Linux example) under Cygwin/X ... but running it either in the

Re: what's the difference between File Handle and File Descriptor?

2004-11-28 Thread Jason Curl
news.gosonic.com wrote: Thanks One is high level (streams, file handles) the other is low level (file descriptors). Have a look at the difference between fopen() and open(). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

FDISK support

2004-11-28 Thread 林 麥克
According to this post: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01300.html , you can now use fdisk. Can someone please tell me how to get fdisk onto cygwin? I couldn't find the package with the cygwin setup file. Thanks everyone. Mike -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

[Fwd: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?]

2004-11-28 Thread bobby mcnulty junior
I'm sending this here. It was on talk amongst yourselfs. Original Message Subject: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:07:16 + (UTC) From: Jim McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:57 AM 11/28/2004, you wrote: >Cygwin: > >My O/S is WinXP Pro SP2 and my Cygwin is current as of last night. I >would like to start using sshd. I located and read: > >http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html > > >I installed sshd per steps 3-6. sshd works fine when I start it >m

Piping problems with bk and ssh under Win XP SP2

2004-11-28 Thread Stefan Hinz
With my current installation (Win XP SP2, Cygwin 1.5.12) it looks like I cannot use BitKeeper via ssh since there is a piping problem with SP2 and Cygwin. I have two questions: 1) Is this considered a Win XP (SP2) problem, or will this issue be fixed? 2) Is there a workaround? If the workaround

sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: My O/S is WinXP Pro SP2 and my Cygwin is current as of last night. I would like to start using sshd. I located and read: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html I installed sshd per steps 3-6. sshd works fine when I start it manually, but is broken on reboot: [E

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: hexedit-1.2.10-1

2004-11-28 Thread Marcel Telka
hexedit-1.2.10-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Hexedit is a utility which allows you to view and edit hexadecimal or ASCII files and/or view binary files. http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/hexedit.html To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on th