Re: Control-c of a bat file does not kill commands run by bat file in some cases

2008-07-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Hugh Sasse wrote: > to see what these things are. I think stty -a should suffice > to tell you what "intr" is. Or, in other words, you may have > to hit something other than to kill things, unless you > reset it with stty. That logic is faulty because stty is a Cygwin program. When connected

Re: packages

2008-07-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2008-07-18, r wrote: > I'm new about cygwin, but I use from a lot SuSE and OpenSuSE > can I install packages rpm from linux distributions on cygwin ? No. First off, Cygwin doesn't use Red Hat's package manager, it uses its own package manager, setup.exe. Secondly, binaries built for Linux w

packages

2008-07-18 Thread r
I'm new about cygwin, but I use from a lot SuSE and OpenSuSE can I install packages rpm from linux distributions on cygwin ? And tar.gz ( compiling ) ? r -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: bash load

2008-07-18 Thread r
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > You edited the file with an editor that adds CRLF line endings. > > Use d2u to remove the "\r"s. > > cgf ok I'll try on monday in office -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/p

Re: colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

2008-07-18 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-07-18 18:08Z, Rob Walker wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> You can just as well use the POSIX equivalent. If you have to >> convert between paths, there's the cygpath tool. > > [RGW] Yes, such a beast would be possible to construct, but it would be > horribly inefficient. I'd be

Re: Control-c of a bat file does not kill commands run by bat file in some cases

2008-07-18 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Mark Charney wrote: Is this a bug or a feature? When I run a program loop.exe whose entire source is "int main() { while(1); return 0;}", compiled with MS VS8 or cygwin's gcc, from a bat file whose contents are just "loop.exe" and hit control-c while it is running, som

Re: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:06:51AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Thank you Mark. I think you have put your finger on the basic problem >>which started this tedious discussion. >> >>This thread veered away from anything to do wit

Re: colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

2008-07-18 Thread Rob Walker
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:54, Rob Walker wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Colons in filenames are fine and will be supported with cygwin-1.7. But c:/ it will not map to the root of some c drive, it will map to the subdir "c:" For now we had to use managed mounts for such names, soon

Re: un-indenting doesn't work with vim

2008-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:49:20AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >If anybody should be inconvenienced here it should be much more the few >using antiquated equipment than the masses using the equipment of th e >day - don't you agree? Last warning: please take your discussion some place other than t

Re: Control-c of a bat file does not kill commands run by bat file in some cases

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 09:45, Mark Charney wrote: > Is this a bug or a feature? > > When I run a program loop.exe whose entire source is "int main() { > while(1); return 0;}", compiled with MS VS8 or cygwin's gcc, from a bat file > whose contents are just "loop.exe" and hit control-c while it is running

RE: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Karl M
> From: Andrew > Subject: Re: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work > with vim) > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:06:51 -0700 > > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Thank you Mark. I think you have put your finger on the basic problem >> which started this tedious discussion. > You a

Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount)

2008-07-18 Thread phil long
>As a follow-up and clarification to my previous post, what I would >like to be able to do is to pipe output to a printer, e.g. >ls -l | lpr >This doesn't work for me as I explained previously. Using notepad /P I'll bet it doesn't! From the lpr manpage: No formatting is done -- data is sent "raw

Control-c of a bat file does not kill commands run by bat file in some cases

2008-07-18 Thread Mark Charney
Is this a bug or a feature? When I run a program loop.exe whose entire source is "int main() { while(1); return 0;}", compiled with MS VS8 or cygwin's gcc, from a bat file whose contents are just "loop.exe" and hit control-c while it is running, sometimes cygwin kills the loop.exe and some

Re: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: Thank you Mark. I think you have put your finger on the basic problem which started this tedious discussion. You are entitled to your opinion. Surely you allow others to hold differing opinions than yours. But I must ask, if you find this discussion tedious then what s

Re: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While Andrew's tone is a bit strong/rude, I do agree. The keyboard should just work. And it does. Andrew had a misconfigured vim setup that was getting in the way. Don't speak for me! I will speak for myself. I

Re: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Jay wrote: While Andrew's tone is a bit strong/rude, I do agree. Thanks. BTW I don't see the point is striving to be weak! To me strong is good. Rude? Well that's your interpretation and I've long since given up trying to control others. The keyboard should just work. PC keyboards have been for

Re: un-indenting doesn't work with vim

2008-07-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mark J. Reed wrote: I think you're missing the point. Out of the box, on a Linux system, the backspace key works as intended. Period. You had bogus configuration stuff in your .vimrc, which is not Linux's fault. No you're missing the larger point. This is Cygwin - not Linux, though I know tha

Re: bash load

2008-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:56:05PM +, r wrote: > >> But the short answer is that bash reads either .bashrc (non-login >> shell) or .bash_profile (login shell), but not both. If you want the >> stuff in your .bashrc to be loaded in a login shell, you need to >> source it explicitly inside your

Re: bash load

2008-07-18 Thread r
> But the short answer is that bash reads either .bashrc (non-login > shell) or .bash_profile (login shell), but not both. If you want the > stuff in your .bashrc to be loaded in a login shell, you need to > source it explicitly inside your .bash_profile via something like > this: > > . "${HOME}

Re: bash load

2008-07-18 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-07-18 14:01Z, r wrote: > I'm trying to set variables and aliases to /home/.bashrc > but bash doesn't read it. I tried to change > /etc/skel/.bashrc and /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc > but bash doesn't read thats too. > How can I do to make bash

Re: bash load

2008-07-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
That's a general bash question, not Cygwin-specific; I recommend looking here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/ But the short answer is that bash reads either .bashrc (non-login shell) or .bash_profile (login shell), but not both. If you want the stuff in your .bashrc to be loaded i

bash load

2008-07-18 Thread r
I'm trying to set variables and aliases to /home/.bashrc but bash doesn't read it. I tried to change /etc/skel/.bashrc and /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc but bash doesn't read thats too. How can I do to make bash read my configuration file ? -- Unsu

Re: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:16:40AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: >On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>While Andrew's tone is a bit strong/rude, I do agree. The keyboard >>should just work. > >And it does. Andrew had a misconfigured vim setup that was getting in >the way

Re: configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While Andrew's tone is a bit strong/rude, I do agree. > The keyboard should just work. And it does. Andrew had a misconfigured vim setup that was getting in the way. > PC keyboards have been for a very long time now. Yes. But, a

Re: un-indenting doesn't work with vim

2008-07-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
I think you're missing the point. Out of the box, on a Linux system, the backspace key works as intended. Period. You had bogus configuration stuff in your .vimrc, which is not Linux's fault. So it sounds like you're complaining about the fact that it's possible to screw up something so fundamen

configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

2008-07-18 Thread Jay
While Andrew's tone is a bit strong/rude, I do agree. The keyboard should just work. PC keyboards have been for a very long time now. One of the "obvious problems" though is that there is never any instant switch over from "old days" to "modern times". It is a continuum. It is gradual. Looking

Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount)

2008-07-18 Thread Jay
> [J] jay > [C] corinna > Subject: Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount) > [J] configure:10596: > /obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin/build-i686-pc-cygwin/flex/flex > conftest.l > [J] strace: error creating process > D:\\obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin/build-i

Re: lpr works? FAQ in error?

2008-07-18 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Lou Umscheid wrote >As a follow-up and clarification to my previous post, what I would like >to be able to do is to pipe output to a printer, e.g. > ls -l | lpr >This doesn't work for me as I explained previously. Using notepad /P >instead of lpr doesn't work either. Is there a simple way to do

Re: colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 16:54, Rob Walker wrote: > Reini Urban wrote: >> Colons in filenames are fine and will be supported with cygwin-1.7. >> But c:/ it will not map to the root of some c drive, it will map to the >> subdir "c:" >> For now we had to use managed mounts for such names, soon we will be >> able to

Re: colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 22:47, Reini Urban wrote: > Rob Walker schrieb: >> I didn't mean for anyone (especially the package maintainer) to infer >> that make wasn't being actively supported. My apologies for any >> misunderstanding. >> I'm very interested in your opinions on colons in paths. I'd prefer to >> h

Re: BLODA: Spybot S&D TeaTimer

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Dave? Master of the BLODAs? Ping? On Jul 16 16:11, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > I would like to propose an addition to BLODA: > > * Spybot S&D TeaTimer > > Running the TeaTimer often causes file access problems (open handles). > Simply not

Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount)

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 19:33, Jay wrote: > > configure:10596: > /obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin/build-i686-pc-cygwin/flex/flex > conftest.l > strace: error creating process > D:\\obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin/build-i686-pc-cygwin/flex/flex, > (error 3) > > which indicates the problem is