[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: tack-1.06-10

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo's. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo database. tack was distributed as part of the ncurses package until (upstream) 5.7, whe

Re: [1.7] New: tack-1.06-10

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify Sorry. Wrong list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: tack-1.06-1

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo's. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo database. tack was distributed as part of the ncurses package until (upstream) 5.7, whe

[1.7] New: tack-1.06-10

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo's. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo database. tack was distributed as part of the ncurses package until (upstream) 5.7, whe

Re: wget, ssh, ... and cygwin 1.7 issues

2009-02-25 Thread Paul McFerrin
Corinnia: I finally got cygwin 1.7 swapped-in to try to reproduce my problem. Good news, after a few hours of pinging a website, ZERO ERRORS for now. Since it is an intermittent error, I'll let it run at 6 seconds interval until tomorrow. Now some issues raised with 1.7 . $

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test. How stable is the

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) >> wrote: >>> >>> Greg Freemyer wrote: >>> >>> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test.  How s

[Fwd: Re: Reproducing the cygwin X problems; MinTTY, too]

2009-02-25 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
--- Begin Message --- Lee D.Rothstein wrote: FWIW, I'm having a similar proble with MinTTY. If I select text in a MinTTY window, then copy text withing a GUI app, like TextPad (http://textpad.com), clipboard stops working for all apps. If I ten return to the original, MinTTY window, and rese

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: file-5.00-1

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-07/msg00372.html > > So I believe now this is a symptom of a buggy ld already fixed upstream. > I'll try the testcase again against one of my CVS builds of binutils and > report back, but I expect it will fix the problem and rebase will n

Re: Need info on removing corrupted parrot 7.1

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mr Webber wrote: I get an error with setup trying to access memory loc #0 when attempting to remove or update parrot 7.1. I tried editing setup files and removing manually, with negative results. Anyone have any ideas? Please don't usurp someone else's thread for your own purposes. If you ha

Need info on removing corrupted parrot 7.1

2009-02-25 Thread Mr Webber
I get an error with setup trying to access memory loc #0 when attempting to remove or update parrot 7.1. I tried editing setup files and removing manually, with negative results. Anyone have any ideas? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test. How stable is the actual dll(s). Especially as relates to this type of functionality. Difficult to s

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > >> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 >> >> I know the whole package is still considered test.  How stable is the >> actual dll(s).  Especially as relates to this type of functionality. > > Difficult to say sin

A personal "getting started" document

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Klein
I am not certain if this is an appropriate email for this list, but I think it probably is. (If not, I am certain someone will let me know ) I recently installed and started (trying to) use Cygwin. I did this, NOT because I am someone who is used to or even knows UNIX or Linux, but rather because

Another long pathname question

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
I just read the release email for 1.7.0 In part it says: - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs since they don't

Re: gcc: problem with scanf/printf with 64 bit integers on cygwin with -mno-cygwin

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/25/2009, Helmut Brandl wrote: I use the type "unsigned long long" and "long long" to get 64 bit integers on gcc. For reading and writing I use the formatting e.g. unsigned long long u64; u64 = ...; printf("a 64 bit integer %llu\n", u64); This has worked up to now on all systems u

Re: lynx seems broken

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Morten Kjærulff wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Morten Kjærulff wrote: Hi, On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without telling anything. Then I went to my machine#1 where lynx was already installed, and it worked fine. I then ran setup.e

gcc: problem with scanf/printf with 64 bit integers on cygwin with -mno-cygwin

2009-02-25 Thread Helmut Brandl
I use the type "unsigned long long" and "long long" to get 64 bit integers on gcc. For reading and writing I use the formatting e.g. unsigned long long u64; u64 = ...; printf("a 64 bit integer %llu\n", u64); This has worked up to now on all systems using gcc except on cygwin compiling wi

Re: lynx seems broken

2009-02-25 Thread Morten Kjærulff
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Morten Kjærulff wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without >> telling anything. Then I went to my machine#1 where lynx was already >> installed, and it worked fine. I then ran setup.exe and i

Re: lynx seems broken

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Morten Kjærulff wrote: Hi, On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without telling anything. Then I went to my machine#1 where lynx was already installed, and it worked fine. I then ran setup.exe and it installed a little. After that, lynx just exit without telling anything. Wh

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Greg Freemyer wrote: Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test. How stable is the actual dll(s). Especially as relates to this type of functionality. Difficult to say since this functionality isn't on a typical use path and no specific efforts hav

Re: question about fonts

2009-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
kurin wrote: Hi, each time I launch the bash shell first then /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh to start the X-term then ssh to the server in my department.. but there're two questions, one is I want to change the fonts but don't know how. and then I couldn't start the windows copy/paste facility in an

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: file-5.00-1

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > The purpose of playing these games is in order not to drag in the whole > exception handling machinery into a statically-linked application unless we > actually need it. We're relying on detecting an unlinked weak symbol by it > having a value of zero at runtime. That usuall

Looking for Linux cross-compiler for cygwin

2009-02-25 Thread videoguy
Hi I am trying to build android sdk components for windows on Linux. I read there are cygwin cross compiler that can run on Linux and generate Cygwin compatible binaries. I came across http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cross/ that has mingw cross compiler that runs on Linux. I am looking for c

Re: 1.5.25: pthread/ofstream problem

2009-02-25 Thread Filipek, Stefan R.
> Which version is this? Is it the full version with antispyware and all sorts of extra tricks built in? What anti-virus do you have? It's using Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.2000.1567 - all the bells and whistles. I blamed AVS at first, but the problem also persists on machines that do

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Christian Franke wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> ... >> My personal desire is make a full dd copy of a snapshot onto a external >> drive. >> >> ie. dd if=/dev/sd-shadowcopy4 of= >> >> > > With new Cygwin 1.7, the VSS volume image can be retrieved as follows: >

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Christian Franke
Greg Freemyer wrote: ... My personal desire is make a full dd copy of a snapshot onto a external drive. ie. dd if=/dev/sd-shadowcopy4 of= With new Cygwin 1.7, the VSS volume image can be retrieved as follows: dd if='//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4' of=... But this does no

Re: 1.5.25: pthread/ofstream problem

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
Filipek, Stefan R. wrote: > Note that this problem seems to be accelerated by having the target > directory open in explorer and/or having the files highlighted. I've come > across situations where even ofstream.open() will throw an exception when > doing the above. The exception has been seen in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-25 Thread Frank Fesevur
2009/2/25 Corinna Vinschen: > I've just updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of OpenSSH to 5.2p1-1. > > This is a new major upstream release.  It fixes a security related issue > and introdues a lot of new features.  The Cygwin release is created > from the vanilla sources with just a minor installation

1.5.25: pthread/ofstream problem

2009-02-25 Thread Filipek, Stefan R.
Hello, I've been trying to track down a segmentation fault that a rather large application I'm working on has been experiencing. I have seemed to narrow it down to two threads that are opening, appending, and closing files quite often. I've created a very simple example program that suffers fro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of OpenSSH to 5.2p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. It fixes a security related issue and introdues a lot of new features. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources with just a minor installation tweak. The official release message

Re: setup.exe crashing without its error message

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
t...@panix.spam wrote: > Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path There's yer problem. cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

question about fonts

2009-02-25 Thread kurin
Hi, each time I launch the bash shell first then /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh to start the X-term then ssh to the server in my department.. but there're two questions, one is I want to change the fonts but don't know how. and then I couldn't start the windows copy/paste facility in an X-term (the b

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 15:42, Greg Freemyer wrote: > All, > > I'm familiar with http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html > > But it only shows the \device\hardisk mappings. > > Are there also mapppings for the shadow devices. > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy) > > ie. > \Device\

Re: graphics programming - beginner

2009-02-25 Thread Chris January
Hello, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:39 AM, H Le wrote: > Hi, > > The previous message I asked was "the path to graphics.h library" but it > seems to get more confusion. > After searching for awhile, it seems that the graphics.h library is obsoleted. > > I try to compile some simple graphics program