Installing network users

2003-01-30 Thread Alan Westhagen
hings up? I don't mean just cygwin versions of useradd, etc. I mean scripts that know how to interact with the windows operating system as well as cygwin. Any hints would be very welcome. -- Alan Westhagen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Cut and Paste

2002-10-21 Thread Alan Westhagen
I have recently installed cygwin into a M$ Windows 2000 desktop. I do not seem to be able to cut and paste from other windows into the cygwin bash shell window, nor can I highlight text in the cygwin window. Is this a feature? or is it a misconfiguration on my part? -- Alan -- Unsubscribe in

Re: Cut and Paste

2002-10-21 Thread Alan Westhagen
through this ritual each time you open a new Cygwin window, choose the appropriate long-term option. Now you'll be able to use the mouse to select text blocks and use the right button to copy those selections to the Windows clipboard. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 10:45 2002-10-

Perl can't find my files

2002-10-10 Thread Alan Westhagen
I wrote a perl program which uses the construct while (<>) { } If I run this script from the directory in which it resides, and the files whose names are passed as arguments reside in a subdirectory, everything works fine. Otherwise I get the following error message: Can't open : No suc

Re: I have no name

2002-10-03 Thread Alan Westhagen
any documentation on how the user shell stuff is initialized? Is there another profile that I should be using, such as .bash_profile? I have tried to find this sort of file using the find command, but have not be successful. On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, A

I have no name

2002-10-03 Thread Alan Westhagen
I have just installed cygwin. When I run the window, the $ prompt is always preceded by the line I have no name!@ What is causing this? and how do I get rid of it? I have defined USER in /etc/profile, but that doesn't seem to have any effect. -- Alan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg