cat /proc/version mainly broken

Hi Cygwin, there is an Issue wit "cat /proc/version" (tested on 2 different Windows 7, 64 bit PC, both had no issue some month ago). $ cat /proc/version CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW version vaÜð0aìð0aìð0a0Ç0aìð0a (corinna@calimero) (gcc version 7.4.0 20181206 (Fedora Cygwin 7.4.0-1) (GCC) ) Z update to

missing osmctools package (Osmfilter + Osmconvert)

Hi Cygwin Team, it would be nice to have 2 simple tools as a package in Cygwin. They are used for filtering or converting OSM data (OpenStreetMap.org). The source-code is freely available and the are also avail as ubunutu-package (>=15.04). Both are made from only one C-file each. ( of course I

missing read-only files uuid and boot_id

Hi Cygwin team, to be more compatible to Linux environment, cygwin should provide 2 more virtual files: The read-only files uuid and boot_id contain random strings like 6fd5a44b-35f4-4ad4-a9b9-6b9be13e1fe9. The former is generated afresh for each read, the latter was generated once. they c

Re: sox - package is broken

Hi thanks for all participants in this audio thread. (I hope this post is auto-connected to the thread with this name - I seldom use mailinglists. If not, sorry for that) This weekend, I was also woundering about the way the exit/stop/close is donw or if it can work. But I found another issue in

Bug in /dev/dsp = problems at short wav-files (<2sec)

/dev/dsp has problems playing short wav-files! # Cygwin 1.7.28 (32bit), Windows 7 (64 bit). # get 2 test files here ( 25 kB both ) wget http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~aleks/wave14sL.wav wget http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~aleks/wave16sL.wav # Test that fails: cp wave16sL.wav /dev/dsp ==> I hear

Re: sox - package is broken

Hi Dave, yes, /dev/dsp seems to be broken. short wav-files are silent, long ones (> 2sec) are ok (hearable). Alexander -- On 26/02/2014 22:38, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote: 1st sox problem: in Cygwin 1.7.28 sound is broken. (sox + play) I followed all hints

sox - package is broken

Hi Cygwin Team, 1st sox problem: in Cygwin 1.7.28 sound is broken. (sox + play) I followed all hints as reply to my first post last week. $ play blip.wav blip.wav: File Size: 1.33k Bit Rate: 94.4k Encoding: Unsigned PCM Channels: 1 @ 8-bit Samplerate: 11025Hz Replaygain: off Duration:

sox - package is broken

Hi Cygwin Team As reply for my Post: aplay (audio) support for cygwin - solution I got the hint to: " Install the Cygwin packages 'sox' and 'sox-fmt-*' " But installation of these sox packages is broken! I tried it on 3 computers and i have successfull installed Cygwin many times before. Error Me

aplay (audio) support for cygwin - solution

Hi Cygwin-Team I have a working suggestion to support basic aplay funcionallity for cygwin. (aplay plays audio from command line.) using this free 31 kB tool, download "sounder.exe" (sourcecode free avail., but VisualBasic) # http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/commandline-wav-player.php and cop