RE: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-21 Thread Wagemans, Peter
Brian Wilson wrote: > From what I've read in this discussion, I think the issue is that > the '^M' characters may not be seen by RCS as an EOL. The problem occurs in a loop that copies one character at a time to move the entire content of the work file into the new RCS file as the latest version

Re: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-21 Thread Brian Wilson
> I suspect this happens because sometimes I edit the files on my Linux box and sometimes on my Windows box. If I remember correctly, RCS (and the earlier SCCS systems) were designed to work with source code (i.e. text files). They determined file changes based on lines added or deletes and ha

Re: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gribble
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Richard Gribble! > > > One thing I may have failed to mention is that (anecdotaly - I didn't > > take copious notes) the problem usually appeared when I had lines with > > two "^M"s at the end.  I suspect this happens because some

Re: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Richard Gribble! > One thing I may have failed to mention is that (anecdotaly - I didn't > take copious notes) the problem usually appeared when I had lines with > two "^M"s at the end.  I suspect this happens because sometimes I edit > the files on my Linux box and sometimes on my Wind

Re: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏

2012-06-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/06/2012 1:49 PM, James Johnston wrote: -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 15:55 Subject: Re: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏ On 21/06/2012 11:34 AM, Gerard H. Pille wrote: I checked the BLODA, but with only the following programs left running, Cygwin is st

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 6/21/2012 9:09 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than >> those caused by the non-default setting. > > I think this is the way to go... >> >> If you're only interacting with cygwi

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 6/21/2012 9:09 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than those caused by the non-default setting. I think this is the way to go... If you're only interacting with cygwin and linux at this point, you should be safe. Solaris and the other Uni

RE: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏

2012-06-21 Thread Thrall, Bryan
James Johnston wrote on 2012-06-21: > It would be nice if there was a list of ways for checking for BLODA. While > there is a long list of BLODA already there, it's possible there could be a > new > dodgy app not on the list. In that case, some things to check for would be > helpful. There is

RE: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏

2012-06-21 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 15:55 > Subject: Re: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏ > > On 21/06/2012 11:34 AM, Gerard H. Pille wrote: > > I checked the BLODA, but with only the following programs left > > running, Cygwin is still getting killed: > > > > $

Built perl 5.6.2 on Cygwin 1.7.11, but get SIGABRT from resulting perl.exe

2012-06-21 Thread Nicholas DiPiazza
From: Nicholas DiPiazza [mailto:nicholas.dipia...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:41 PM To: cy...@cygwin.com Subject: Built perl 5.6.2 on Cygwin 1.7.11, but get SIGABRT from resulting perl.exe Dear Cygwin Users, I'm getting a SIGABRT when running a perl 5.6.2 that i built on cygwin

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/06/2012 11:58 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 06/21/2012 02:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish by enforcing ^H. The Cygwin console as well as mintty, the Linux console or any X terminal emulation I'm aware of default to ^? to be generated by t

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/21/2012 02:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish by enforcing ^H. The Cygwin console as well as mintty, the Linux console or any X terminal emulation I'm aware of default to ^? to be generated by the backspace key, and stty erase is by default se

Re: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏

2012-06-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/06/2012 11:34 AM, Gerard H. Pille wrote: I checked the BLODA, but with only the following programs left running, Cygwin is still getting killed: $ ps -efW A task list isn't terribly useful: - It doesn't include system tasks (winlogon.exe and a pile of svchost.exe being prominently abs

Re: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏

2012-06-21 Thread Gerard H. Pille
I checked the BLODA, but with only the following programs left running, Cygwin is still getting killed: $ ps -efW UID PIDPPID TTYSTIME COMMAND gpille55085540 cons017:31:22 /usr/bin/ps gpille5540 1 cons017:31:18 /usr/local/bin/ksh 039

Re: Windows 8 Release Preview. fork problems with rsync

2012-06-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/21/2012 9:30 AM, Assaf wrote: Hi, I'm also experiencing the following error on a Windows 2012 I can't get my Python paramiko SSHClient to connect and execute remote commands Sometimes its ok, sometimes it requires me to restart the connection From ssh log: 10349 [main] sshd 732 ope

Re: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gribble
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Wagemans, Peter wrote: > > > Richard Gribble wrote: > > > I have experienced this problem several times.  In my case it seemed > > to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files.  In each case, I > > have been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and >

Re: Windows 8 Release Preview. fork problems with rsync

2012-06-21 Thread Assaf
Hi, I'm also experiencing the following error on a Windows 2012 I can't get my Python paramiko SSHClient to connect and execute remote commands Sometimes its ok, sometimes it requires me to restart the connection From ssh log:   10349 [main] sshd 732 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to

[Packaging error] autobuild-5.3-1: Included emacs lisp files shadow newer ones from the emacs distribution

2012-06-21 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Charles The following outdated files from autobuild-5.3-1 shadow newer ones from the emacs distribution: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/htmlfontify hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/htmlfontify /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/hfy-cmap hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/hfy-cmap Please repackage. Thanks

Re: piping input to executable reading from /dev/tty?

2012-06-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/20/2012 03:20 PM, Dan B. wrote: >> Eric Blake wrote: >>> On 06/20/2012 10:33 AM, Dan B. wrote: Is there any way to redirect /dev/tty similarly to how stdin can be redirected (e.g., like "echo ... | someexecutable")? >>> >>> Yes; u

Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Tian You wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Tian You wrote: >>> Here is the front part of the output, but I do not understand it very well. >>> Could you find any clue from it? >>> >>> $ cygcheck.exe -v

Re: ssh logon failure

2012-06-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 21 10:07, marco atzeri wrote: > On 6/6/2012 10:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 6 09:04, marco atzeri wrote: > >>I am probably missing something obvious > >> > >>- > >>ssh marco@127.0.0.1 > >>marco@127.0.0.1's password: > >>Last login: Wed Jun 6

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 22:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 06/20/2012 07:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards > >>one space and to erase the previous character, like, for > >>example, the less man page says it's supposed to. > >Now methinks you're ju

RE: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-21 Thread Wagemans, Peter
Richard Gribble wrote: > I have experienced this problem several times. In my case it seemed > to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files. In each case, I > have been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and > deleting all the extraneous carriage returns RCS should be able to h

Re: ssh logon failure

2012-06-21 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/6/2012 10:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 6 09:04, marco atzeri wrote: I am probably missing something obvious - ssh marco@127.0.0.1 marco@127.0.0.1's password: Last login: Wed Jun 6 06:19:27 2012 from 127.0.0.1 The Hippo says: Welcome to Cygwi