Re: TMP and TEMP get redefined, but I need the original values

On 6/12/2011 7:55 PM, Roland Bluethgen wrote: Looking for the cause I found out that the Cygwin maintainers chose to redefine the TEMP and TMP environment variables in /etc/profile However, now I'm unable to find out the original TEMP setting from a script. Windows stores the environment varia

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor MinEd 2011.17

MinEd 2011.17 (June 2011) Major enhancements in this release: Character encoding support enhancements: * Updated to Unicode 5.2 and Unicode 6.0: * Supporting Arabic ligature joining in all terminals. Interactive: * Sub-menu (in Options me

Re: G++ 4.3.4 (with Cygwin 1.7) vs.G++ 4.5.2 (with MinGW) ???

On 6/13/2011 2:46 AM, Jan Chludzinski wrote: Just finished compiling some numerical code (developed using the Borland C++ compiler) using G++ 4.3.4 (that came with Cygwin 1.7). The answers are different from what I get using the Borland compiler (circa 2002). I have known correct answers from so

Re: GNU screen won't run; "chown tty: no such file or directory"

On 6/13/2011 1:28 AM, Jeff Schenck wrote: Hello, When trying to run screen, I get the following errors: "chown tty: No such file or directory" in the status bar, followed by "Sorry, could not find a PTY". Then it exits. I get the same error in all terminal types I've tried -- rxvt-native, xter

Re: GNU screen not redrawing properly

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 07:23:34PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > On 13 June 2011 17:53, Eric Pruitt wrote: > > When switching windows on GNU screen, the background on any unoccupied text > > cells fails to be redrawn for curses applications; see > > . I am using scre

Re: GNU screen not redrawing properly

On 13 June 2011 17:53, Eric Pruitt wrote: > When switching windows on GNU screen, the background on any unoccupied text > cells fails to be redrawn for curses applications; see > . I am using screen version 4.00.03, mutt > version 1.5.20, Vim 7.3, and mintty 0.9.9-1 on

GNU screen not redrawing properly

When switching windows on GNU screen, the background on any unoccupied text cells fails to be redrawn for curses applications; see . I am using screen version 4.00.03, mutt version 1.5.20, Vim 7.3, and mintty 0.9.9-1 on a 32-bit Windows Vista installation. Any idea

Re: perl 5.14

2011/6/13 Philip Kime: > Greetings - is there any rough idea when perl 5.14 will be a standard > package? I > remember it was being worked on at some point. It's still in my testing queue as my rebase improvements I added are actually getting worse than better. -- Reini Urban -- Problem reports

Re: problems running gcc after installation

thanks for the update. I decided to remove cygwin again and reinstall with the same package that I downloaded for my laptop. This worked. The difference being that it was downloaded from a different source. The source that I had the problems with came from 'cygwin.osuosl.org'. I don't know

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:06:46AM -0500, Edward McGuire wrote: >> On 2011-06-10 16:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> we still have no idea [...] why you find it so crucial for >>> cygcheck to report the date with pinpoint accuracy > >On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:44, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Wrong b

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

> On 2011-06-10 16:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> we still have no idea [...] why you find it so crucial for >> cygcheck to report the date with pinpoint accuracy On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:44, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Wrong by 1h is not pinpoint accuracy (i think). I realize I don't have a vot

perl 5.14

Greetings - is there any rough idea when perl 5.14 will be a standard package? I remember it was being worked on at some point. PK -- Dr Philip Kime -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: smartmontools-5.41-1

Version 5.41-1 of smartmontools has been uploaded. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Changes include: - Experimental support for Intel ICHxR RAID (/dev/csmiX,N) - DEVICESCAN includes USB devices. - Faster USB ID detection. - Failed self-tests outdated by a newer successful extended self-te

Re: TMP and TEMP get redefined, but I need the original values

Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Roland Bluethgen (Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:01:12 +0200) TMP in Cygwin is "user-crafted"? TMP in Windows? TMP in your script? TMP in Windows. Also, this approach would defeat the intended purpose of the redefinition of TMP (avoiding permissions screwup). Or am I missing s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mksh-40-1

Version 40-1 of "mksh" has been uploaded. MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is an actively developed free implementation of the Korn Shell programming language and a successor to the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh). *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

Re: We have a "cygstart" -- why not a "cygstop"?

On 13 June 2011 09:49, SJ Wright wrote: > Or does such an idea go too much against the grain of "let's keep Cygwin as > much of a Unix as possible?" > > At the very least, it would cut through all the rigamorole of "kill"-ing > pids that were likely to return errors. > > Comments? Here you go: al

We have a "cygstart" -- why not a "cygstop"?

Or does such an idea go too much against the grain of "let's keep Cygwin as much of a Unix as possible?" At the very least, it would cut through all the rigamorole of "kill"-ing pids that were likely to return errors. Comments? SJ Wright -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

screen terminating with latest snapshot

[screen is terminating] message from screen trying to run screen with snapshot from June, 12th. Fine with snapshots up to the previous one (June, 8th). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.c