Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:27:59PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: >> >When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: >> > >> >E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo >

Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:11:39PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On 5/6/05, J?rgen Havsberg Seland wrote: >> This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the >> windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the >> executable using the -X switch. For ins

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Trevor Osatchuk
On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: > >When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: > > > >E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo > >'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: > >builtin_ansi

Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument

2005-05-07 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 5/6/05, Jørgen Havsberg Seland wrote: > This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the > windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the > executable using the -X switch. For instance, use I don't mind adding an FAQ, it looks like it's been asked few ti

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:59 AM 5/7/2005, you wrote: >When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: > >E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo >'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: >builtin_ansi >builtin_xterm >builtin_iris-ansi >builtin_dumb >defaulting to ansi > >Help does not work for vim

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:25:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:08:05AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM: Which Bash bug is that? >>> >>> Bash is the most importan

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have not understand what I should to do. In any case, I am conforted that there is someone who oberve the some symptoms! I think that the problems arise from recent upgrades that now I cannot single out. It is as if something has changed in the configuration. The problems are not specific t

Re: copy paste, windows clipboard

2005-05-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:51:00PM +0100, zzapper wrote: > >Your access to the Windows/cygwin clipboard > > My access? Are you snooping on me? > > >cat fred | putclip # copy/paste > > How did you know about fred? Get off of my computer! > > >getc

Re: Rebase dlls not from cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Jason Tishler
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:00:59AM -0700, Selin 428 wrote: > i have a problem with rebasing dlls not from cygwin. I like the switch > for setting offset so i don't want to use M$ rebase which works for me > but cygwins rebase always writes: > .dll: skipped because not rebaseable > i call it out

Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

2005-05-07 Thread Steve Ward
Jason - Looks like just the right fix. Thanks for all the good work. - Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF

2005-05-07 Thread Sebastian Schuberth
>>>2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> * NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text". >>> * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it. >>> * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it. > > That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying m

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:08:05AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM: >>>Which Bash bug is that? >> >> Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir("//") is >> currently no different from chdi

Re: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]

2005-05-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird > (I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty > settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions > the cursor on screen, so that the actual

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM: >>Which Bash bug is that? > > Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir("//") is > currently no different from chdir("/")'. Is that a bug in bash or in cygwin, though? The comments

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Bohlman
You can us stty erase "^H" (or what ever might be appropriate for the terminal) to get this to work. I was able to observe the exact symptoms you reported and correct do the above. -- Mark Angelo Graziosi wrote: Not only in xterm but also in standard bash shell. I have always used xterm and unt

[Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird (I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions the cursor on screen, so that the actua

Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

2005-05-07 Thread Jason Tishler
Steve, On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:48:16AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > You can workaround the problem by defining PYTHONCASEOK: > > $ PYTHONCASEOK= python -c 'import bar' > $ > > I will work with the Python developers to try to come up with a better > long term solution. I have found t

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Not only in xterm but also in standard bash shell. I have always used xterm and until today I never have discovered those problems. What about the fact that when "rm" command (or cp or mv) ask to confirm something, I can move the (box) cursor along the window as in a Editor? Thanks angelo. O

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:52:10PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >I discovered the following strange behaviour in bash and xterm (startxwin) >shells: > >BACKSPACE does not delete "y" as aspected but it only shifts the cursor on >"y" and when I type "n" and then RETURN the file foo.txt is REMOVED!

Re: problem with using tetex 3.0.0-2

2005-05-07 Thread TC
Sorry. It still doesn't work. I have ran updmap by hand, somehow get it runs successfully. But it does not create the directory "/var/lib/texmf". What else can I do? I think I have to switch back to the earlier version of tetex such that I can get my work done for now. -- TC writes: > Whe

Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
After upgrading some packages (tetex-3.0.0-3.tar.bz2, man-1.5p-1.tar.bz, doxygen-1.4.2_20050421-1.tar.bz2, yesterday 06 May 2005 and subversion-1.1.4-1.tar.bz2, subversion-devel-1.1.4-1.tar.bz2, _update-info-dir-00232-1.tar.bz2, tzcode-2005h-1.tar.bz2, xemacs-21.4.17-1.tar.bz2, xemacs-tags, xem

Re: copy paste, windows clipboard

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:51:00PM +0100, zzapper wrote: >Your access to the Windows/cygwin clipboard My access? Are you snooping on me? >cat fred | putclip # copy/paste How did you know about fred? Get off of my computer! >getclip # copy/paste >cat /dev/clipboard >echo hello > /dev/clipb

Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:14:17AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM: >> That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on "open" >> and "fcntl" to do the work? If they don't work, they should. >> >> I installed this into coreutils: >> >> 2005-05-

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:34:56PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Except that it can't be made to work correctly due to a bash bug. > >Which Bash bug is that? Eric Blake alluded to it here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00254.html Bas

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: >When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: > >E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo >'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: >builtin_ansi >builtin_xterm >builtin_iris-ansi >builtin_dumb >defaulting to ansi

Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM: > That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on "open" > and "fcntl" to do the work? If they don't work, they should. > > I installed this into coreutils: > > 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <[E

copy paste, windows clipboard

2005-05-07 Thread zzapper
Hi, Your access to the Windows/cygwin clipboard cat fred | putclip # copy/paste getclip # copy/paste cat /dev/clipboard echo hello > /dev/clipboard Have I missed anythinh? Are putclip & getclip Cygwin specific? -- zzapper vim -c ":%s%s*%Cyrnfr)fcbafbe[Oenz(Zbbyranne%|:%s)[[()])-)Ig|norm V

i18n: readdir API implementation

2005-05-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've known for sometime that there are limitations to the the internationalization support provided by the cygwin dll. Specifically, the POSIX readdir implementation returns dirent names where non US-ASCII characters default to ASCII '?' character. I am sympathetic to the difficulties involved