Does i686-w64-mingw32-gcc now use -mno-cygwin by default?

2023-01-17 Thread Don Kuenz via Cygwin
Danke, -- Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. -- Don Kuenz 307 266 3327 x1 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.htm

NTFS permissons bug?

2017-03-10 Thread Don Beusee
nSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017 Version of cygwin: dbeusee2@lan ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 lan 2.7.0(0.306/5/3) 2017-02-12 13:18 x86_64 Cygwin Please advise. -Don -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwi

Bash unable to print epoch timestamp

2015-10-21 Thread Don Harrop
gwin 2.2.1-1OK util-linux 2.25.2-2 OK Cheers! - Don -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-30 Thread Don MacDougall
and am able to do routine bash commands, so I presume that all is working. So, why the postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for me. Thanks again for the help. Don MacDougall -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Setup-2-774-t

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-28 Thread Don MacDougall
s a way without starting over from scratch I'd be interested in a pointer to any documentation on it. And your English seems near perfect to me. I wouldn't have known your weren't a native speaker if you hadn't let on. Thanks for your help and others who have helped also

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-24 Thread Don MacDougall
log files would be of any value to you, I've put them here: http://www.macdougalls.net/cygwinlogs/ Thanks for your help, Don -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Setup-2-774-texlive-postinstall-takes-10-hours-resending-due-to-cygwin-bounce-tp92260p

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
y complete. Most of the other postinstall scripts and the whole rest of the install process ran in no more than a few hours. Don -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Setup-2-774-texlive-postinstall-takes-10-hours-resending-due-to-cygwin-bounce-tp92260p112047.

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
irst time in at least 10 years to try to install cygwin since I usually use linux, not Windows. Don -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Setup-2-774-texlive-postinstall-takes-10-hours-resending-due-to-cygwin-bounce-tp92260p112046.html Sent from the Cygwin

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
nd it said "default" and I didn't change it. If it was accidentally changed the first time, would it then say "all" when I restart the installation? If so, then I know it says "default" when I restarted it. Don -- View this message in context: http://cyg

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
ve it included can I take it out without breaking something that is too important to do without? When I restarted the install everything said "default" and I didn't change anything. Since it doesn't ever finish I don't see any log file, or indeed, ever a log directory.

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-10 Thread Don Hatch
un an output-bound command and I hit ctrl-c, it takes a really long time to get back to the prompt. Don -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-10 Thread Don Hatch
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 10:51:58PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > OK, I'm going to assume that 'sshd' was actually started when > you tried the latest rounds of tests. If this wasn't the case, you have > another (probably non-Cygwin) SSH server running which is causing the > problem. You'll

Re: ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:58:52PM -0400, Don Hatch wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:38:10PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > WJFFM. Maybe looking at your cygcheck output will provide a clue? > > Hmm, wasn't expecting that it actually works fine for other people

ssh takes forever to interrupt-- known problem?

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
l difficulties that would make it hard to fix? Note there is a post about this behavior on serverfault: http://serverfault.com/questions/32159/what-do-you-do-when-a-command-floods-your-terminal-with-too-much-output although it doesn't mention it being specific to cygwin ssh. D

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 07:37:26AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/9/2013 01:05, Don Hatch wrote: > > > >if I forget to set the variable, or set it wrong, > >or someone else doesn't know about the variable and runs into the bug, > >then corruption happen

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-09 Thread Don Hatch
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/8/2013 18:30, Don Hatch wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > >>On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote: > >>> > >>>Checking in a text file

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-08 Thread Don Hatch
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote: > > > >Checking in a text file of size >= 256k > >corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the contents > > It's documented in the rcs NEWS fil

baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Don Hatch
and error prone, and I knew I was going to be doing all this several times, and who knows whether I'd run into other problems on the way. So instead, I elected to upgrade my entire system to "Curr", even though that's not really what I wanted. If anyone ca

login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2011-09-13 Thread Larson, Donald (Don)
cannot login. I run login sshd type in the password and then I get the message. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Don -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Don Ward
. Your efforts are appreciated. Best regards, -- Don W. [snip...] Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: gcc4: throwing exception from signal handler

2010-07-08 Thread Don Ward
Dave Korn wrote: On 08/07/2010 14:01, Don Ward wrote: I would like to be able to catch certain signals (SIGSEGV and SIGSYS) and throw a C++ exception (to be caught in a try/catch construct). As a simple example: Am I misunderstanding how this should work or doing something wrong? Or is

Re: gcc4: throwing exception from signal handler

2010-07-08 Thread Don Ward
Václav Haismam wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:01:41 -0400, "Don Ward" wrote: I would like to be able to catch certain signals (SIGSEGV and SIGSYS) and throw a C++ exception (to be caught in a try/catch construct). As a simple example: [...] Am I misunderstanding how this should wor

gcc4: throwing exception from signal handler

2010-07-08 Thread Don Ward
7; what(): throw_signal Aborted (core dumped) Am I misunderstanding how this should work or doing something wrong? Or is this a problem with Cygwin or gcc? Thanks, -- Don W. cygcheck.out Description: Binary data throw_segv.cc Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

RE: Cygwin problem make Linux c++ app in windows

2010-03-24 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of crmpteltd Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:28 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Cygwin problem make Linux c++ app in windows Hi all, I am a new user of Cygwin, seeking advice on a make prob

RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Nahor Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 1:54 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT? On 2010-03-15 10:23, Bernd Prager wrote: > Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with

RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Don Porges Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 1:37 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT? -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow

RE: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT?

2010-03-15 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Bernd Prager Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 1:23 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cygwin1.7 and Eclipse CDT? Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.? My Eclipse does not reco

RE: Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-22 Thread Don Beusee
at least allow us to change the default behavior on our systems that does not involve changing scripts or typing habits? Please? -Don -Original Message- From: Marco Atzeri [mailto:marco_atz...@yahoo.it] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:03 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com; d...@beusee.com Subject: R

RE: Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-22 Thread Don Beusee
a new option via the CYGWIN environment variable, something like [no]allprocs which kill and ps can look at instead of -f and -W options (although you can keep those for compatibility with existing cygwin releases)? Of course, I think the default behavior should be allprocs, since I believe

Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-21 Thread Don Beusee
k the same on Cygwin.  What is the point to not showing all other processes on the system like Linux/Unix does?  This is a silly design and causes headaches and frustration for people trying to write scripts that work on cygwin and Linux/Unix. Can this be changed please? -Don -- Problem re

RE: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-26 Thread Don Porges
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 2:49 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Kenneth Chiu Subject: RE: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7? Kenneth Chiu

RE: Source distribution problem with core library

2008-07-28 Thread Don Porges
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:34 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Source distribution problem with core library > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008

Source distribution problem with core library

2008-07-28 Thread Don Porges
I think that the installable source tar.gz file of cygwin-1.5.25-15 is not what it's supposed to be. I installed the latest (non-cvs) source using setup.exe, which got me cygwin-1.5.25-15-src.tar.bz2. The specific source file that I care about right now is winsup/cygwin/path.cc. By comparing i

Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only

2007-03-31 Thread Don
Can I register for the Genuine Cygwin Advantage (GCA) program? Don Christopher Faylor wrote: After some intense discussion with Corinna, we've decided that we will soon be removing all support for any version of Windows other than Windows Vista 64. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: fontconfig 2.4.1-4 fc-list "No such file or directory"

2007-03-28 Thread Don Pellegrino
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This should be fixed in 2.4.1-5, available any time now. Excellent. Thank you for the quick reply. I am looking forward to the fix. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

fontconfig 2.4.1-4 fc-list "No such file or directory"

2007-03-27 Thread Don Pellegrino
When I run fc-list I get the following output: % fc-list /bin/bash: /usr/bin/fc-list: No such file or directory This command used to work for me, outputting a list of fonts known to fontconfig. Unfortunately I do not know what variables have changed since it last worked. The failure may have

missing shm_open and shm_unlink

2007-03-12 Thread Don Marquardt
e on my header files and perhaps the dll. Is this update available now and if not, when will it be? How do I acquire these changes? Thanks Don Marquardt 604 273 5131 X 810

Re: Can't run baseall

2006-05-12 Thread Don Edvalson
Dave Korn wrote: On 12 May 2006 13:52, Don Edvalson wrote: I tried the solution mentioned above, but it didn't help. However it did put me on the right track. I started carefully killing Windows processes. After I had killed enough of them, Cygwin started working perfectly again and I

Re: Can't run baseall

2006-05-12 Thread Don Edvalson
ion were running lots of processes all the time, even when that hardware was not installed or running. I believe the culprit is one of these. When I figure out exactly what process was causing this, I will let you know. Thanks for the help. Don -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: Can't run baseall

2006-05-11 Thread Don Edvalson
someone has any ideas on the original question?? :) Thanks, Don -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Can't run baseall

2006-05-11 Thread Don Edvalson
ed it twice. I did not intend to. Sorry, Don -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Can't run baseall

2006-05-11 Thread Don Edvalson
My apologies on the duplicate. I posted through email first, then read that I had to post through the newsgroup to get the autoresponse method. Once I replied to the auto response, both messages posted. Sorry Don -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Can't run baseall

2006-05-11 Thread Don Edvalson
kages, but that made no difference. I don't know why this suddenly started failing. Can anyone advise me? THanks, Don -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Can't run rebaseall

2006-05-11 Thread Don Edvalson
kages, but that made no difference. I don't know why this suddenly started failing. Can anyone advise me? THanks, Don -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Fw: Installed cygwin fails to start.

2006-04-13 Thread Don Rowland
and then from Texas Univ. with the same results. A. Should I have a startxwin.bat file and where should it be? B. Where does startxwin.bat look for cygwin1.dll ? I install this on two Windows NT laptops with no problems. On my laptop, startxwin is a bat file, on the desktop, run is an exe

Execute bit getting set on created files when it shouldn't

2005-12-21 Thread Don Peterson
be sure to add the -X option to restore access control lists. This cuts down on the problem. I use the alias 'alias unzip="unzip -X"'. Here's an example of the problem on my machine (I took out some unrelated cruft): --> ls -l total 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 Don None 19482 Jul

RE: ps -p

2005-07-27 Thread Don Beusee
w on large Unix systems with 1000's of processes running. ps -p is immediate, reliable, and portable (it's SYSV/SVR4 standard). -Don > -Original Message- > From: Carlo Florendo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 5:22 PM > To: Don Beusee &

ps -p

2005-07-27 Thread Don Beusee
Can you add the -p option? All flavors of Unix these days allows you to specify which PID to ps. -Don __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http

PS -W option - why?

2005-07-27 Thread Don Beusee
k the same on Cygwin. Can this be fixed? -Don __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

which command returns incomplete paths that don't work with all commands

2005-07-27 Thread Don Beusee
left intact. In my case, that would be: f:/cygwin/bin/ps.exe This would work inside cygwin or outside - then I can do "strings -a `which ps`" from sh or cmd/command. Is there is a really good reason why the which command should return a path that only cygwin programs can r

Re: cygcrypt-0.dll infected

2005-01-11 Thread Don Hayward
off OfficeScan. Hope this helps, Don -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: sundry & using rootfs as cygwin-root

2004-09-12 Thread Don Sharp
I have found that giving cygwin its own partition and setting / to the root of the volume gives the best of all worlds for me. I have also used systems with a LETTER:/cygwin and experienced no unexpected or inconvenient behaviour. Cheers Don Sharp Max Bowsher wrote: linda w wrote: Since some

RE: FW: 1.5.10: msgsnd between threads hangs, between processes ok..

2004-08-26 Thread Don Post
Larry, Thank you very much, I did miss the response.. My apologies for the resend... -Don -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:22 PM To: Don Post; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: 1.5.10: msgsnd between threads hangs, between

FW: 1.5.10: msgsnd between threads hangs, between processes ok..

2004-08-26 Thread Don Post
Hi All, I thought I would try one more time for any ideas... One more data point is that same code compiles and runs on Redhat 7.3 and SUSE 9.1... Does anyone else use IPC to communicate between threads successfully? Thanks, -Don -Original Message- From: Don Post Sent: Monday, August

1.5.10: msgsnd between threads hangs, between processes ok..

2004-08-23 Thread Don Post
fork is used, all works find. When pthread_create is used, the send hangs. Any ideas/workarounds? I have included the appropriate versions and I have verified that the cygserver is running. Also after the code I have included the output from cygcheck -s Thanks, -Don #include #include

tar reports octal value 63747150716 is out of time_t range

2004-08-19 Thread Don Sharp
is out of time_t range;\ assuming two's complement I have attached my cygcheck.out Cheers Don Sharp Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Aug 19 11:25:57 2004 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Path: G:\usr\local\bin G:\\bin

Re: setup shows categories not packages in partial view

2004-08-13 Thread Don Sharp
Silly me! That will teach me to run setup at full screen in future. The default edge cuts off the package column. Sorry for the noise Cheers Don Sharp Don Sharp wrote: > > Hi Everyone > > Have I missed something? I am running setup and when I look at the Full > or Partial vi

setup shows categories not packages in partial view

2004-08-13 Thread Don Sharp
nyone else seeing this effect? Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

How do I delete crashed cygwin/x directories on W2K?

2004-07-30 Thread Don V Black
-21-1844 ... ", which was most likely created by the installation procedure, is the owner of the 'Shortcuts' files in the directories. Since I cannot delete these shortcut files, I cannot delete the directories. How do I delete these directories installed by the cygwin/x installation proc

Re: Problem on Cygwin with gdb: segy input can't be tty

2004-06-05 Thread Don McCarley
Larry, Yes, I can type cat and enter text and it is returned to me. How can I try cat with suresamp? You lost me there. Thanks for looking at this. Don Larry Hall wrote: At 12:59 PM 6/5/2004, you wrote: In trying to debug code with gdb, any program taking stdin on the command line

Problem on Cygwin with gdb: segy input can't be tty

2004-06-05 Thread Don McCarley
esamp (and other programs that use stdin) works fine when not in debug (gdb) mode (because gdb isn't using tty). This may be a cygwin only issue, as it works on a linux sun box. Any help or ideas are appreciated, Don McCarley -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: stty under cygwin

2004-04-21 Thread Don Sharp
ot;. You're telling stty to take any > standard input it requires from the serial port. That's not going to work. > > #4: Haven't you ever heard of the "--help" option, or the "man" or "info" > utilities? Repeat after me: > > stty -

Advice needed: Scheduled rsync via SSH with ssh-agent...

2004-03-10 Thread Don Littlefield II
Hi there folks, I need some advice on how to do what I initially thought would be a simply thing. Basically, on a scheduled basis, I need to rsync some files between hostA to hostB. I have to make use of SSH for the connection which is where my troubles are coming in. As this process needs to b

Re: Keypress anomaly: maybe locality specific

2004-01-26 Thread Don Sharp
I can confirm Fergus' results with bash and show below that sh is free from the fault. G:\>\bin\sh $ echo £ £ $ 789£ 789£: not found $ I attach my cygcheck.out Cheers Don Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Windows XP. The anomaly happens in Cygwin 1.5.6 and 1.5.5 and maybe e

Re: Really big files?

2003-12-16 Thread Don Koch
the samba list.) -- Don Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not speaking for Cognex Corporation. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://c

Re: EOF error

2003-12-04 Thread Don Koch
certainly is incorrect), is it also not > an error to be trying to compile a FORTRAN program with gcc? Should he not be > using g77 instead? "gcc" will figure out what to do based on the suffix. The reason it produces incorrect output is becasue "9 / 5" => 1 (intege

Re: cygcheck -c gives an Application Error

2003-11-12 Thread Don Sharp
kage Information Package VersionStatus texinfo 4.2-4 OK No crash. It's definitely our friend textutils. Examining the output from the zcat piped through less shows that second and subsequent lines begin "^@", which is the likely cause of the problem. Removing the nulls allows "cygcheck -cv" to succeed. Thank you very much for your help in locating the source of the problem. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: cygcheck -c gives an Application Error

2003-11-12 Thread Don Sharp
See inline comments below Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Don Sharp wrote: > > > I ran cygcheck -c this morning and the result, copied from the screen, > > is attached in cygfail.out. It resulted in an Application Error popup > > reporting >

cygcheck -c gives an Application Error

2003-11-12 Thread Don Sharp
reported by cygcheck -s -r -v whose output is attached in cygcheck.out. Cheers Don Sharp$ cygcheck -c Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus _update-info-dir00223-1OK ash 20031007-1 OK astyle 1.15.3-3

Re: Info versus Man

2003-11-09 Thread Don Sharp
Try pinfo. If it doesn't find an info page it'll look for a man page. HTH Don Sharp Brian Dessent wrote: > > zzapper wrote: > > > > Hi Ya All > > > > Is INFO just a viewer for Man Pages, or does it have it's own > > database? > > > &

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-08 Thread Don Koch
20:15:05 /usr/bin/cygpath >Hannu2404 332 0 20:15:30 /usr/bin/gdb >Hannu21162416 2 20:17:44 /usr/bin/ps > > $ Just out of curiosity, does it hang if no other cygwin programs are running at the time you run setup? -- Don Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not speak

NT-Emacs, bash and ^C still not working?

2003-09-25 Thread Don Koch
21.2, this still doesn't work (at least, for us). If there's a magic setting I'm missing, I can't find it documented anywhere. Thanks, -- Don Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not speaking for Cognex Corporation. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

2003-09-25 Thread Don Sharp
Thanks to everyone that replied pointing out that it was /dev/null that I needed NOT /dev/zero. Thanks again Don Sharp "Peter J. Acklam" wrote: > > Don Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I carried out the following sequence of commands > > > >

cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

2003-09-25 Thread Don Sharp
Hi I carried out the following sequence of commands $ for i in `cat /tmp/d`; do if [ -f $i.idx ]; then ls -l ${i}*; fi; done -rw-r--r--1 don None0 Jun 17 1998 dtaq -rw-r--r--1 don None 3072 Jun 17 1998 dtaq.idx $ cp /dev/zero dtaq.idx The cp appeared to

Re: need help

2003-08-08 Thread Don Sharp
is your cygwin / then mkdir /tmp may be an easier choice. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe

2003-08-02 Thread Don Sharp
Hi Alan Bear in mind that some of the mount points might include Cygwin packages. For instance my /usr/X11R6 is mounted from a separate partition for space reasons. So it couldn't be unmounted and still be updated. Cheers Don Sharp Alan Miles wrote: > > Rob, > > Sorry it

Re: Ideas re problem reporting

2003-07-16 Thread Don Sharp
ve to > keep reeling off the spiel about attaching them? > As one of those that have inadvertently inlined their cygcheck.out I would appreciate finding out how to dissuade Netscape 4.78 from inlining text attachments. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

ls -l gets the dates wrong on CD

2003-07-15 Thread Don Sharp
Hello Cygwinners I noticed that when I did an ls -l in a directory on a CD I got dates in the future. DOSish command dir gets the dates right. Latest Cygwin installed. cygcheck.out attached $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 don 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin $ ls -l total

Re: make from cvs file

2003-07-10 Thread Don Sharp
ou are already in ~/src/minion. If you do ls do you see the makefile? Try just typing make HTH Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?

2003-07-08 Thread Don Sharp
Hi Steve It is almost certain that you have MS Windows paths prior to cygwin/bin in your PATH and so you are picking up MS' find rather than the Cygwin find. Try which find HTH Don Sharp Steve wrote: > > Hi; > > I am on windows 2000 with cygwin. > > My apologies

Re: Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump

2003-06-27 Thread Don Sharp
> connect to address 128.57.32.9: Connection refused > > I probably need some Cygwin service to run to service the request, but which > one? > "inetd" is the service you need. Remember to read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README HTH Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Updated: Perl 5.8.0-3 breaks binmode()

2003-06-25 Thread Don Slutz
PerlIOStdio); s->stdio = stdio; PerlIOUnix_refcnt_inc(fileno(s->stdio)); Which causes stdio to open ALL files/pipes/etc in binary mode. (Which is the same thing that perlio/unix does...) -Don Slutz Don Slutz wrote: > Nope, I no longer have the perl 5.6.0 patch I was working

Re: non network install

2003-06-10 Thread Don Sharp
My Documents\temp\Cygwin\release. The path should be to the directory containing release. In your case "My Documents\temp\Cygwin" HTH Don Sharp > Even this gave the same errors as I originally posted. It was then we > decided to make t

Re: non network install

2003-06-10 Thread Don Sharp
the nominated local package directory is :\ HTH Don Sharp B Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > Thank you for responding. > > But it doesn't seem like I have some thing missing , here is the listing > of my top level CD-ROM directory : > > directory - > total 11

Updated: Perl 5.8.0-3 breaks binmode()

2003-06-09 Thread Don Slutz
t;<$ARGV[0]"); binmode(I); open(O,">$ARGV[1]"); binmode(O); while() { $line++; print O; } close (I); close (O); # print "Lines: $line\n"; -Don Slutz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: sshd, ftpd telnetd starts, but says incorrect passwd

2003-02-20 Thread Don Sharp
Are you running the inetd daemon to start ftpd and telnetd? If you aren't make sure you look at /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README. I run ftpd and telnetd all the time via inetd. Ensure your /etc/passwd and /etc/group are up to date. HTH Don Sharp "Malghan, Ravi" wrote: >

Re: testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

2003-02-10 Thread Don Sharp
Dear Cygwinners Thanks to David, Elfyn and Chris for replying. The correspondence has led me to finding the rule in my firewall which was blocking the ICMP echo reply request from sources.redhat.com. Access has been restored. Thanks again Don Sharp Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri,

Re: testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

2003-02-08 Thread Don Sharp
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:44:47PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote: > > > > > >Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> > >> > This is a somewhat off topic item. > >> > I have been trying for the last three weeks to update my c

Re: testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

2003-02-07 Thread Don Sharp
rs of blueyonder.co.uk), > > had any trouble reaching sources.redhat.com? Until recently I have had no > > difficulties updating. > > Well I use blueyonder broadband, BT ADSL and B... Freeserve dial-up. > I have no problems connecting from either service to s.r

testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

2003-02-07 Thread Don Sharp
n the USA and then falls down a black hole. MY ISP says it's not his problem because he's passed the packets onward. Has anyone else, (particularly customers of blueyonder.co.uk), had any trouble reaching sources.redhat.com? Until recently I have had no difficulties updating.

Re: how to be "superuser" on W98 ?

2002-11-28 Thread Don Sharp
e existence of /usr/bin and /usr/lib but the mount points don't have to be real directories. HTH Don Sharp > Even though I know that W98 has problem with security. > > the result of "ls /" is : > > bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib sbin tmp usr var > >

Re: GCC 2.96 for new cygwin?

2002-11-21 Thread Don Sharp
are that the upgrade will have left 2.95 available as gcc-2. I can't say for sure because I explicitly acquired both versions some while ago. > 2.) Or how could I reinstall my old version from cygwin (installed about > 8 months ago) where the gcc was 2.95 ?? > HTH Don Sharp --

Re: No /dev Files for Tape Backup to Use?

2002-11-21 Thread Don Sharp
now because I use it quite frequently, albeit to refer to a DAT drive rather than a DLT. Try mt -f /dev/st0 status If you get a reasonable status report you are in business. See the Cygwin User Guide which should have a section on special device names. HTH Don Sharp -- Unsubscrib

Re: rxvt, stty and login

2002-11-13 Thread Don Sharp
section of login code that's responsible. It's not clear why you are using login when you already have an rxvt window. I believe it isn't intended as a way of doing an "su username" but for use by telnetd etc. If I don't type login in an rxvt window I don't run i

Re: pico and nano: number of lines displayed

2002-11-13 Thread Don Sharp
cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop echoctl echoke $ una

Re: pico and nano: number of lines displayed

2002-11-13 Thread Don Sharp
cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop echoctl echoke $ una

Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?

2002-10-23 Thread Don Dwiggins
ERPROFILE/My Documents" > % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to do something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then you can say things like "mv furniture /myd

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-02 Thread Don Sharp
Is it possible that cmd.exe (and command.com) redirections and pipes are not acceptable whereas bash.exe uses Cygwin implemented redirections? Cheers Don Sharp Barry Buchbinder wrote: > > It's definitly cygwin's gawk doing it. > > C:\> c:\cygwin\bin\gawk -f t <

Updated rxvt-2.7.2-13 disturbs vim's colours

2002-09-24 Thread Don Sharp
soon happened again while editing with vim. Normal command line behaviour is OK. Reverting to the previous 2.7.2-12 lets me edit in peace. Just thought I better mention it! Cheers Don Sharp Steve O wrote: > > Hi, > > rxvt is a replacement for the Windows command window. >

Re: 2.5.5-1 rsync hangs

2002-09-23 Thread Don Dwiggins
t I think it worked fine for a while, then I started to get the same kinds of hangup. If someone can offer advice on how to set debugging options, I can also produce some evidence. (BTW, I'm running "version 2.5.5 protocol version 26".) Thanks in advance for any good words, --

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