Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.10.0-1 [EXPERIMENTAL]

2007-12-27 Thread Reini Urban
Reini Urban schrieb: Update recommendations: --- Since 5.10 is not installed in parallel to 5.8 (it is possible, but not with this package), all your old 5.8 modules will need to be reinstalled for 5.10. Your old 5.8 modules are not deleted, just not accessible to 5.10. Non-b

Re: Mac, cygwin, flash

2007-12-27 Thread Barbara Shirtcliff
Thanks, Jevin. Unfortunately, I don't have an Intel Mac. Jevin Sweval writes: | On Dec 27, 2007 12:53 AM, Barbara Shirtcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Is there a way for me to acquire a working cygwin dist from here, from | > my speedy old powerbook G4? | > | > Cheers, | > Bar | | I can ima

Re: Mac, cygwin, flash

2007-12-27 Thread Jevin Sweval
On Dec 27, 2007 12:53 AM, Barbara Shirtcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way for me to acquire a working cygwin dist from here, from > my speedy old powerbook G4? > > Cheers, > Bar I can imagine that Darwine could run the installer nicely. As to the feasibility of a portable Cygwin ins

'makewhatis' coughs on 'wput.1.gz' (on Vista)

2007-12-27 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
'makewhatis ('whereis' and 'apropos' database setup script) generates the following errors: $ makewhatis gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: invalid compressed data--length error Reinstall of 'man' and 'wput' does no

RE: SFTP error 128

2007-12-27 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> Very good for one with such a bad attitude! I did not mean to have a bad attitude. I was just trying to state that I thought -l switch already did what you wanted to do. > Now it is time to setup ssh to accept the connection you are > trying to make. > Anything you can do with ssh you can do

Failed to execute rsh on Windows Vista

2007-12-27 Thread vachan shetty
12 [main] rsh 268 C:\Program Files\Cygnus\bin\rsh.exe: *** fatal error - co uldn't dynamically determine load address for 'rcmd' (handle 0x7004), Win32 error 127 The above error occured when I was trying to execute the rsh from the Latest Cygwin Version 1.5.25-7 on a Windows Vista machine. I

RE: SFTP error 128

2007-12-27 Thread Mr Webber
Very good for one with such a bad attitude! Now it is time to setup ssh to accept the connection you are trying to make. Anything you can do with ssh you can do with sftp. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Aggarwal Sent: Thursday, De

Trouble with cygwin git

2007-12-27 Thread Ajax S
I'm having the problem cloning a git repository using Cygwin git 1.5.3.5: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git Initialized empty Git repository in /git/git/.git/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Counting objects: 4991 Done counting 67423 objects. remote: Deltifying 67423 objects.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.14-1

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've made a new version of the mingw-runtime available for download. For a list of changes see below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-3.11-1

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
've made a new version of the w32api available for download. A list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If

RE: SFTP error 128

2007-12-27 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Mr Webber: I thought mkpasswd -l -d would process all local and domain accounts already. But, I tried what you suggested anyway. I executed these commands: /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done mkpasswd -l -d >> /etc/passwd mkgroup -l -d >> /etc/group I still get SFTP error 128 when I try to con

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.10.0-1 [EXPERIMENTAL]

2007-12-27 Thread Reini Urban
Reini Urban schrieb: The cygwin perl packages perl and perl_manpages have been updated in the experimental branch to 5.10.0-1. Click on [Exp] Several libraries will follow soon. When all libraries have been updated we can switch from Experimental to Current. perl-5.10.0 cygwin notes: This

bash_completion for perl disabled

2007-12-27 Thread Reini Urban
bash_completion failing to complete files for perl annoyed me too much, so I recommend to disable it completely. files are more important than options. options do work, but files not. apply the patch and source /etc/bash_completion and perl bash_completion for files work. -- Reini Urban http:

Latest Cygwin DLL 1.5.25-7 not reported on www.cygwin.com

2007-12-27 Thread hhkrohn
Hello, a small thing missing: In the "Install or update" section of www.cygwin.com it is still stated that: "Latest Cygwin DLL release version is 1.5.24-2". Best regards, Hans Henrik Krohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: