Running powershell inside urxvt or mintty

I can successfully run powershell from cygwin if I start it from 'cygwin.bat' (running in the normal DOS console), but the powershell command simply hangs when I try to run it from urxvt or mintty. All I see is this: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Re: winProductName for Windows 2012 - CSIH

> What does your System Information report it as? The System Information (systeminfo) reports: OS Name: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Evaluation OS Version:6.2.9200 N/A Build 9200 Regards. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: winProductName for Windows 2012 - CSIH

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:38 AM, BGINFO4X wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using winProductName.exe(from the csih packgae) in a Windows 2012 Server. > > I'm using the last version 0.9.6, and the output information is "not > managed correctly": > > The output obtained is: Microsoft Windows Server 8 , 64-bit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.5.11-1

A new release of findutils, 4.5.11-1, is available as the current version, leaving 4.5.9-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is an upstream release. Upstream has declared the 4.5.x series to be alpha releases because they have a corner case regression in performance when compared to stable 4.4.x, but

Re: Is the lastest release of Cygwin officialy supported on Windows server 2012

On 3/27/2013 4:40 AM, Maxime LAMBERT wrote: I saw this information on the main official web page of Cygwin but, in the FAQ, Windows Server 2012 is not mentioned in the list of the Operating systems supported. Right. It says: Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern 32 bit versions of Windo

Re: Repeated errors message when starting lyx

On 3/27/2013 4:33 AM, Fergus wrote: On first use of lyx there is a stream of first use related activity. As far as I know I have all dependencies in place, but on 2nd and all subsequent uses I get the repeated error messages QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_

winProductName for Windows 2012 - CSIH

Hello, I'm using winProductName.exe(from the csih packgae) in a Windows 2012 Server. I'm using the last version 0.9.6, and the output information is "not managed correctly": The output obtained is: Microsoft Windows Server 8 , 64-bit (build 9200). I know that this is the codename version as sta

RE: Wrong drive when chere opens cmd

> Greetings, Jonathan Reeve! Greetings, Andrey Repin >> cmd.exe /k cd %L > CD /D . > It's even in CMD help... how did you missed it? Agreed, that's another way to fix this problem, but what I missed is how to make chere use pushd or cd /d - is that possible? If not, I think it's a bug. >

bash-completion load times

Having bash-completion installed significantly slows down starting a new Cygwin Bash login shell. It's a problem I've noticed, and I've seen other users report it on this list and elsewhere, too. I've done a bit of digging into what the problem is, and what can be done about it-suggestions are at

Re: Is the lastest release of Cygwin officialy supported on Windows server 2012

I saw this information on the main official web page of Cygwin but, in the FAQ, Windows Server 2012 is not mentioned in the list of the Operating systems supported. I think that the subsystem WoW64 of Windows didn't changed since Windows Server 2008 R2 and that Cygwin still works. I just want to k

Repeated errors message when starting lyx

On first use of lyx there is a stream of first use related activity. As far as I know I have all dependencies in place, but on 2nd and all subsequent uses I get the repeated error messages QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed QIconvCodec::convert