Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:12:47, Duncan Roe wrote: "we" being you and who else? /bin/sh has been bash for a long time and I would prefer it stays that way. “That’s the way it’s always been done” is not a good reason to keep doing something. /bin/sh has been defined for 20 years, and it is not Bash

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-27 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 09:08:55AM -0800, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:46:08, cyg Simple wrote: > > If *your* script has a dependency to run using *dash* instead of *sh* > > then you _must_ use #!/bin/dash anyway. > > I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Dash is.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] stunnel-5.40-1

2017-02-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
stunnel 5.40-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is a new upstream release, with minor updates and bug fixes. You can read the upstream changelog at https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html. stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer

Re: Question for running KDE apps.

2017-02-27 Thread Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος
2017-02-27 22:01 GMT+02:00 Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος : > 2017-02-27 21:35 GMT+02:00 David Stacey : >> On 27/02/17 13:29, Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος wrote: >>> >>> Is it possible to run a KDE app in cygwin? >>> I tried some of them, but I keep receiving the error message: >>> "QXcbConnection: Could not connect t

Re: Question for running KDE apps.

2017-02-27 Thread Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος
2017-02-27 21:35 GMT+02:00 David Stacey : > On 27/02/17 13:29, Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος wrote: >> >> Is it possible to run a KDE app in cygwin? >> I tried some of them, but I keep receiving the error message: >> "QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display. Aborted (core dumped)". > > > Try the followi

Re: Question for running KDE apps.

2017-02-27 Thread David Stacey
On 27/02/17 13:29, Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος wrote: Is it possible to run a KDE app in cygwin? I tried some of them, but I keep receiving the error message: "QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display. Aborted (core dumped)". Try the following commands from a Cygwin bash shell: XWin -multiwind

SSH/SSHD Slow response

2017-02-27 Thread Teunissen,Peter
I am experiencing slow response from SSH client to SSHD. A simple remote "ls -l /var" on the localhost takes more than 10 seconds. I can't seem to point the finger to where the time is spent. There seems to be no difference between user@localhost versus user@127.0.0.1 versus user@machinename. I

RE: cygpath (reprised)

2017-02-27 Thread Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
From: cyg Simple > On 2/21/2017 1:22 PM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > > I suppose one could argue that, by using -w, that cygpath might assume that > > it > > is converting *from* a POSIX path, and therefore the colon would not > > indicate > > a drive letter--wouldn't that make sense?--b

Question for running KDE apps.

2017-02-27 Thread Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος
Hi! :-) Is it possible to run a KDE app in cygwin? I tried some of them, but I keep receiving the error message: "QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display. Aborted (core dumped)". Seems like it's a common problem and googling for that reveals related and not informations. I tried many of the

Fw:statementx17ns99x85hx66d76v from Tellus Aenean Corp.

2017-02-27 Thread Kenyon Chambers
See the statement from Tellus Aenean Corp. attached. The access key is EUNrnT Kenyon Chambers Tellus Aenean Corp..docx Description: Attached file: Tellus Aenean Corp..docx -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:20:54, Csaba Raduly wrote: Nice strawman argument. You seem to assume that Dash implements nothing beyond POSIX (and hence anything that runs on dash must run on every other shell). This is not the case. Perhaps you should have read my full post. Here, let me quote myself

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-27 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:46:08, cyg Simple wrote: >> >> If *your* script has a dependency to run using *dash* instead of *sh* >> then you _must_ use #!/bin/dash anyway. > > > I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Dash is. Dash