Re: Ghostview Page Repositioning Error

2007-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:28:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I am currently running Cygwin on a Dell Latitude D810. I am currently >>> working on a large document that requires ghostview, which I invoke >>> using 'gv'. Being somewhat anal I like to keep the page I am viewing >>> cente

Re: Ghostview Page Repositioning Error

2007-12-22 Thread hughgs
>> I am currently running Cygwin on a Dell Latitude D810. I am currently >> working on a large document that requires ghostview, which I invoke >> using 'gv'. Being somewhat anal I like to keep the page I am viewing >> centered. I noticed recently that if gv is the current window and I >> pres

Re: 1.5.25-7: problem about bash completion

2007-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:02:23PM +0800, kou yu wrote: >o, maybe you are right. It's a good bet that she is. >But I am a little confused. "//server/share" is the POSIX syntax for >SMB share paths, but on windows the syntax is "\\server\share". POSIX *allows* '//something' to have a special mean

Re: 1.5.25-7: problem about bash completion

2007-12-22 Thread kou yu
o, maybe you are right. But I am a little confused. "//server/share" is the POSIX syntax for SMB share paths, but on windows the syntax is "\\server\share". And why on linux I input "cd //usr/", the completion would not become slow, i.e. why on linux, the syntax "//xxx/xxx" would not be considered

Re: Cut & Paste doesn't work in Cygwin on WinXP Pro

2007-12-22 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-12-23 01:55Z, Jack Ripper wrote: > I have Cygwin set up on Windows 2000 and the mouse > works perfectly to select text to do cut & paste. I > have another Cygwin setup on Windows XP Pro, but the > mouse does not select text, and can't cut & paste. http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.ht

Re: Ghostview Page Repositioning Error

2007-12-22 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-12-23 00:15Z, [...] wrote: > I am currently running Cygwin on a Dell Latitude D810. I am currently > working on a large document that requires ghostview, which I invoke using > 'gv'. Being somewhat anal I like to keep the page I am viewing centered. > I noticed recently that if gv is the

Cut & Paste doesn't work in Cygwin on WinXP Pro

2007-12-22 Thread Jack Ripper
I have Cygwin set up on Windows 2000 and the mouse works perfectly to select text to do cut & paste. I have another Cygwin setup on Windows XP Pro, but the mouse does not select text, and can't cut & paste. I have no idea what might be wrong. I don't think it has anything to do with .vimrc since

Cygwin install hanging on post-texmf.sh on Vista

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Gray
Cygwin install is hanging on /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh on installing on Vista 32. Aaron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http:

Re: Cygwin/Windows/DOS integration: Tips and Tricks

2007-12-22 Thread jace42
On 12/21/07, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are an assortment of command lines, shortcuts, and such things > that I use to launch Cygwin tools from Windows Explorer, and from > console-mode programs, both native Win32 msvcrt-based and DOS. I was looking for a tip sheet like this just the

Re: sshd - inconsistent app behavior vs console

2007-12-22 Thread Derek Lei Liu
This problem has dragged me for a long time. ( i was trying to make devenv.exe work through sshd on cygwin). My conclusion is that you can use password authentication, otherwise it won't work. (if you use password authentication, it should work, otherwise you have different problem). My underst

Re: missing 'which' documentation

2007-12-22 Thread phil curb
--- "Lee D. Rothstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- > '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on > Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and > there > is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin > install. > If anybody wants this,

Problems with 'man', 'apropos', & 'info'

2007-12-22 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Problem --- This is a new config on Vista (Vastly Invasive Security Tormenting All? ;-) ) After having done a 'makewhatis': $ apropos sort yields: sort: nothing appropriate Also, while the man page says the complete manual can be found with: $ info sort It actually only finds the

Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug

2007-12-22 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Mike Boone wrote: > I came up with a simple Ruby snippet that reproduces the problem. I'd > appreciate it if other Cygwin users would try it. You can change the > "cause_failure = true" line to say false and it will run. > > --urandom_test.rb-- > # Test failure of reading

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:52:08 -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >> Brian Dessent wrote: >> >>> since DOS hasn't existed in Windows in the last approx. 7 years. > >I should rephrase for him. TRUE dos support is non-existant anymore. >This started with Windows XP. ntvdm as you described is a virtual

Re: sshd - inconsistent app behavior vs console

2007-12-22 Thread barboles
Hello, I've got the same problem. Does Anybody know the solution? how Can I resolve this problem? please help me? Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Larkin Lowrey wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> You've left allot for us to infer from your description, including your >>> Cygwin configuratio

Re: child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed

2007-12-22 Thread cwcarlson
I'd like to know how you determined that a DLL was loaded with every process. I'm having the same problem, but I don't know how to debug it. I had some time to debug this, and found that it was the "Logitech Process Monitor" service, which I had recently installed (and forgotten about). It ap

Cygwin/Windows/DOS integration: Tips and Tricks

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff
These are an assortment of command lines, shortcuts, and such things that I use to launch Cygwin tools from Windows Explorer, and from console-mode programs, both native Win32 msvcrt-based and DOS. I offer them to you all for whatever they are worth (if anything). I run these under Windows XP Pro;

Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug

2007-12-22 Thread Mike Boone
Over on the comp.ruby.lang group, I got a reply from Matz, the lead Ruby developer: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/284495 He states: "The bug must lie between Cygwin and Ruby. We don't call lseek explicitly. You can clearly see this by doing strace on Linux (or other

Workaround for "shared" folders in Vista

2007-12-22 Thread joekrahn
Vista has some strange differences with shared file attributes. Files that are accessible to other people on the same computer are marked as shared, but only for files in the /Users directory. Vista sees all files created by Cygwin in /Users, as "locally shared", and manipulating these files from

Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug

2007-12-22 Thread Mike Boone
On Dec 22, 2007 7:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like a bug in ruby. First of all, this works fine under Cygwin: Thanks for analyzing this. I'll take it up at comp.lang.ruby and see what happens. http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/284492 Mike

Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug

2007-12-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 21 22:13, Mike Boone wrote: > I came up with a simple Ruby snippet that reproduces the problem. I'd > appreciate it if other Cygwin users would try it. You can change the > "cause_failure = true" line to say false and it will run. > > --urandom_test.rb-- > # Test failure of reading /dev

Re: Installation problem with Windows Server 2008

2007-12-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 15:07, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote: > I did some more testing. > > It seems that the hang problem is specific to python only. It's defintely not Python only on RC1. > Windows Server 2008 with Hyper V RC1 version which is a later build > than the enterprise RC1 version. The python hang per

Re: 1.5.25-7: problem about bash completion

2007-12-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 22 17:43, kou yu wrote: > If I input: > cmdname /dirname/ > then I get the normal completion output immediately. > > But if I input: > cmdname //dirname/ > then I must wait for a long time for those completion output. And the > terminal seems to be frozen, have not a single response

1.5.25-7: problem about bash completion

2007-12-22 Thread kou yu
If I input: cmdname /dirname/ then I get the normal completion output immediately. But if I input: cmdname //dirname/ then I must wait for a long time for those completion output. And the terminal seems to be frozen, have not a single response. So, is this a bug of cygwin or bash on cygwi