Re: [Improvement] Cache user auth and converted paths for child-processes

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2016-September/229699.html, for a little more information. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https:

Re: A/B install?

ection window. You have to run setup.exe directly at least once to cache the folders for the root and download cache, and your preferred mirror. %USERPROFILE%\Down_Loads\cygwin\setup-x86_64.exe -n -N -d -M This has worked for me for several years. YMMV. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Al

Re: See repeated /usr/bin in my path

ich, inside the cgywin environment, is /bin because on my system C:/cygwin64/ is the root e.g. / HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:ht

Re: installed 3.5.1-1 but uname shows 3.4.9-1.x86_64

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2024-03-03 15:29, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > > A recent run of setup showed it installed 3.5.1-1 but uname -a reports > > 3.4.9-1.x86_64 > ... logs in /var/log ... see /proc/version >

installed 3.5.1-1 but uname shows 3.4.9-1.x86_64

p saves its log files, and is there a way to get extra debugging info to help diagnose this issue. TIA Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:htt

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

in the configuration section to your requirements. You can also edit the generated script, which is created in the same folder as the cygwin setup executable. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com #!/usr/bin/bash -e # djh-reinstall.sh # created by Doug Henderson

Re: Cygwin tool to differ junctions from soft links?

ir command can list links and junctions. The mklink command documentation at https://ss64.com/nt/mklink.html has more information than the "mklink/?" help text about links. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.c

Re: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin terminal|script?

t;; fi } I imagine any other Windows app that needs admin permissions would work. I use this to change the color of the prompt ($PS1) for the admin user to red. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cygpath 3.3.4 : incorrect windows to unix path conversions

he bash prompt so PS is embedded in the cygwin environment. Then all the mounts expected by cygwin programs are established, so when you run cygwin programs from PS, they run in the env they expect. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports:

Re: scons v4.3.0-1 outputs nothing on cygwin v2. 3.1

e paste actual commands and outputs from terminal. > >> > >> Might be more useful running: > >> > >> $ ls -glo /usr/bin/python > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 24 Feb 17 2021 /usr/bin/python -> > >> /etc/alternatives/python > >>

Re: alternatives-1.3.30c-10 has download errors - tried many Mirror sites

n installed. Doug alternatives maintainer -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.911)

etup-x86_64.exe is not correctly checking for the "SeCreateSymbolicLink" and/or "Create symbolic links" permission. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Cygwin packages with unnecessary __pycache__ directories

x27; folder is not required, but not really a problem. When the '__pychache__' folder or the cached files are not present after installing the package, I believe the user may need to build them in an elevated shell. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Pr

Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6

ip3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 85 Jun 5 08:46 pydoc3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 110 Jun 16 07:34 python -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 89 Jun 5 08:46 python3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 59 Jul 16 11:25 python3-config -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports:

Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6

tput from "uname -a". Also please post the bug number or a link to the bug on bugzilla.redhat.com. Note that alternatives must be run from an elevated cygwin window to add or change the alternatives.configuration. Doug - current cygwin alternatives maintainer -- Doug Henderson, Calga

Re: Ctrl+C is sometimes ignored on Windows Terminal

schema is imported at the top of the settings file, so ... IIRC, there is also a system wide settings file that is read before your personal settings file, but I forget where it is. Or maybe there are some builtin settings, eg Ctrl+Shift+C HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-7

e the round trip completes, you will paste the previous clipboard contents instead of the expected new content. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Docum

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

cess running when you run setup may interfere with the rebase. Likewise when you run the rebase all the process. I saw some duplicate folders in your windows path. You don't need both c:\WINDOWS\... and c:\Windows\... for example. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.4.1-1

parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers. -- Doug

expat 2.4.1-1

parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers. -- Doug

Re: Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

"On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 05:59, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 7/14/2021 9:20 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:33, Ken Brown via Cygwin > > wrote: > >> > >> On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote:

Re: Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:33, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> > >> Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes: > >>> The first error message occu

Re: Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes: > > The first error message occurred when I installed all pending packages > > this morning. I hoped to heal the problem by reinstalling the > > installed gnuplot packages. Now I get b

Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

heal the problem by reinstalling the installed gnuplot packages. Now I get both the messages. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mars 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin > ver Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1110] Win 10 Pro Any assistance is appreciated. TIA Doug -- Doug Hender

Re: Cygwin, Unicode and "long" path names

However this does not even touch on emojis where a one character emoji can expand to as much as 35 or so bytes! That basically means the end of static allocation for file and directory names and name component buffers. That may be a major job in the cygwin kernel, not to mention all the ava

Re: Type of symlink file and readshortcut

allows the added user(s) to set CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict and create native windows symbolic links in cygwin. This process grants 1 permission which is surely frantin fewer than Developer Mode. I have CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mars 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin on Microsoft Windows [Versi

Uninstall python 2.7 fails - alternative dependencies

. Thanks for your consideration, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml

Re: CRITICAL ls MEMORY LEAK

er in the path to those files where it is safe to disable scanning for that folder and all folders and files within that folder. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin

Re: tee: 'standard output': Permission denied

y important! Also note there is no quoting required - a big win. First command in the bash script is usually an "export PATH=..." command. Of course, if there is an actual permissions error, this will not fix it, but it will allow you to more easily diagnose the problem. HTH Doug -- Doug Hen

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

ve-paths unless you educate > operators/users to enter paths with /cygdrive/... I use CYGWIN to work around a stupid design decision made by a small time OS developer more than 40 years ago, and inherited by an OS that did not even have directories in its first release. Doug -- Doug

Re: Unconsistent command-line parsing in case of UTF-8 quoted arguments

compiled for cygwon with gcc, for windows with mingw64 or windows with a native tool chain. Also are you running it from a bash prompt or a cmd.exe prompt? -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: TMP/TEMP environment variable and /tmp

/tmp/d187.2' # start cmd.exe $ /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.1082] (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >set TMP= >set TEMP= > show_tmp $TMP is '(null)' $TMPDIR is '(null)' $T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] xxhash 0.8.0-1

and randomness qualities of hash functions. Code is highly portable, and hashes are identical on all platforms (little / big endian). -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft

o using Internet Explorer and/or Edge. This re-enforces my choice to use Firefox. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs

Re: Cygwin convert environment paths

s variable, must perform its own conversions, either manually or using cygpath. As I understand it, the cygpath program is a thin wrapper over a library call, so a CFFI (C Foreign Function Interface) might work. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Proble

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated to /tmp weirdness* cpp/gcc

::rwx,g::rwx,g:Administrators:rwx,m::rwx,o::---/u::rwx,g::rwx,g:SYSTEM:rwx,g:Administrators:rwx,m::rwx,o::---] /cygdrive/c/Users/Doug/AppData/Local/Temp I suggest you change your temporary directory to ./tmp, or align the permissions. HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - fr

Building libusb1.0 from source fails (Attn maintainer)

Any guidance to resolve this is appreciated. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: Getting Python on Windows points USER_HOME

ing? These are not necessary, and may have damaged your python 3.8.1 for windows install. I suggest you undo these changes, or better yet reinstall python 3.8.1 for windows. HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: Update to "Reporting Guidelines" on the cygwin site

tantly, proof read (before you hit send), so you can fix typos and thinkos. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal

e timing being dependant on WiFi, internet and cloud speeds and latency. I did not observe any difference in "Drag and Drop" behaviour with this setting, but I almost exclusively use keyboard Copy and Paste instead of mouse Drop and Drag. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -

Re: How to install gcc and g++ 6 on cygwin which are not on the setup.exe

e the info command: info gcc and enter the info search command: (CR=press enter) /-std=CR to find the relavent section. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: gforth package

like to volunteer? Otherwise, an existing or new maintainer might be interested. Or you could build it yourself for your own use. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Request for an example x68 assembler portable Hello World script

NU path, though, things can get more chaotic where platforms must be considered on a case by case basis. Have you looked at VM based implementations? These use an intermediate assembler-like language which is executed on a virtual machine. The VM is specific to each platforms, but attempts to all

Re: cat.exe failing silently with exit status 3

-a cat ) Also attach the text file created by "cygcheck -svr > cygcheck-svr.txt" to your reply as a text file. (Note, this can take a while to run.) HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

s except those I select). I'm not sure how Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) is managed on Windows 7, but I think cygwin exes and dlls get special handling. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 15:10, Jerry Baker via cygwin <> wrote: > > On 2/26/2019 1:56 PM, Doug Henderson wrote: > > Two things. > > 1. You can execute cygcheck by navigating to C:\cygwin or C:\cygwin64 > > in Explorer and opening a command or powershell window from exp

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

t up aliases or functions to run a few specific Windows exes, such as Explorer, icacls, cmd, etc. If you want all the directories from your windows path, they are available in the ORIGINAL_PATH variable, so you can add all of them at the end of the PATH variable, so they do not shadow same-named cygwi

Re: bash window start recurses

method. Try running cygwin setup again, but do not add any new packages (or just a small one) and click on through until it completes (shows the Finish button). HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: problem with mmap and fork()

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 17:01, Glyn Gowing <> wrote: > I have a program (attached) that works correctly on my mac but does > not work with Cygwin on Windows 10. I'm running the latest version of > What happens in the buggy execution is that the child obtains a lock > before the parent releases it.

Re: problem with mmap and fork()

ommendations to use semaphores for creating critical sections between processes vs using mutexes between pthreads. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

make cygwin binaries work in isolation. In my option, the cygwin and Windows home directories should always be different locations. However, the MINGW64 and the Windows directories can be the same location. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.2.6-1

of changes included in this release is documented in https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_6/expat/Changes -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Mutt and gpg 1.4

y or made ~/.gpg a symlink to the windows config and database files. The choice may have depended on the EOL characters used in the files. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

Re: Why does -std=c++11 hide certain function calls

On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 14:41, Brian Inglis wrote: > _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 1 || _XOPEN_SOURCE || _POSIX_SOURCE" Relavent xkcd - https://xkcd.com/927/ -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

IUM SHADE. Here it indicates an invalid UTF-8 character, and the font does not have a glyph for REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. The MEDIUM SHADE is also used in place of an ordinary character without a glyph in the font. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem

Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

cement Character is displayed. The Characters app shows that the default font contains the Replacement Character, and that is what is displayed in the terminal. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Error in PS2 Classic GUI

On 8 July 2018 at 07:24, Qaiser Farooq wrote: > When i tried to encrypt WWE smack down here comes the pain ps2 game 4.4gb > it showed me this error "invalid number of arguments for encryption" > > Please help You may need to quote any file name that contains spaces.. H

Re: cygwin stopped working

ctories are not in your cygwin path. A Google (or similar) search for "CYGWIN_NOWINPATH" will find many pages on cygwin.com and stackoverflow.com. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Ejecting a USB drive using Cygwin (sync)?

ight claim in the original source. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- 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: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

riables set to en_CA.UTF-8, and in the windows console, to en_US.UTF-8. I am running Win 10 and cygwin setup was last updated a couple or three days ago. Check the output of the "locale" command. All variables should have the same value. Is your cygwin installation up to date, or fai

Re: sort utility goes berzerk (x86_64)

windows folders. Q1. What is output of "which -a sort"? Is there only one sort in the path? Q2. What is output of "sort --version"? Confirm if it is "sort (GNU coreutils) 8.26". Q3. What happens when you run "sort --check FILE" on a problem file? Q4.

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

the mingw32 tools chains. Such programs have no execution dependencies on cygwin packages, but they may have build dependencies. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.2.3-1

://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/master/expat/Changes for changes. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3

>On 28 July 2017 at 12:31, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:13:49, Doug Henderson wrote: >> In any case, this problem has nothing to do with libreadline of any >> version, nor the current version of cygwin1.dll. It is possible that >> this lies in t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3

at's the Microsoft supplied CRT, I believe. In any case, this problem has nothing to do with libreadline of any version, nor the current version of cygwin1.dll. It is possible that this lies in the domain of mingw32, which suggests that it may be off-topic here or at least needs a new subject l

Re: chere: Add cygwin icon to context menu

hat the path to the icon file is the windows path to the icon file installed in the cygwin root directory, i.e. $ cygpath -w /Cygwin-Terminal.ico D:\cygwin64\Cygwin-Terminal.ico HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.2.2-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * expat-2.2.2-1 * libexpat1-2.2.2-1 * libexpat-devel-2.2.2-1 This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, originally written by James Clark, and now maintained by a loose group of developers. Expat is a stream-oriented XML parse

Re: Request new nasm package

of days, the nasm package will > be in need of a new maintainer... I am interested in maintaining the nasm package. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expat-2.2.1-0

://libexpat.github.io/ for more info. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Bash seg faulting?

ne endings, and preserves unix line endings. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- 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: CygWin Relink Issue ERP oracle

it step by step. If you must do it yourself, start with this google search: https://www.google.ca/search?q=Oracle+ERP+R12.2.6+on+Windows+2012R2 and continue to the first link that shows up, probably this one: https://community.oracle.com/thread/4010301 HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calg

Re: Latest Git-2.12.2 cannot install python packages for pip

ou need to use: which -a python which -a pip which -a git /usr/bin/python --version /usr/bin/pip --version /usr/bin/git --version Also, note that Python 3.6 on cygwin is named python3 and it uses pip3 for installing packages. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmai

Re: Problem with zombie processes

n7, with the delays, I see consistent behavior for both cases. Test 1 always succeeds. Test 2 always fails with "IOError or OSError [Errno 22] invalid argument" for python or python3 (respectively). While not a explanation of the different results for test1 and test2, I HTH. Doug --

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

terminal emulator, you must fallback to "safe" defaults. You can't always trust the TERM variable. If you're lucky, you will get a standard answer-back, which, in the case of a terminal emulator, may be faithfully emulated. Programs like screen and tmux throw themselves

Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign

4-i686-gcc-g++-5.4.0-3 - mingw64-i686-gcc-g++: GCC for Win32 (i686-w64-mingw32) toolchain (C++) (installed binaries and support files) mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++-5.4.0-2 - mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++: GCC for Win64 toolchain (C++) (installed binaries and support files) mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++-5.4.0-3 - mingw6

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.1-1, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-1, bash-4.4.5-1

On 17 January 2017 at 20:55, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:08:17, Eric Blake wrote: >> [again, your email client likes to break threading, so I nearly missed >> this one] > > Sorry about that, I wrote my own client so that I could reply without > subscribing: I find it despicable t

Re: "Copy until full" tool

This is not specifically a cygwin solution, but I am using it with my cygwin installation as well as interesting parts of my windows installation. Restic is a program that does backups right. home page: https://restic.github.io/ documentation: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ source:

Re: open IE from command line

On 21 December 2016 at 18:04, Doug Henderson wrote: > On 21 December 2016 at 10:01, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Attached is a bash script, renamed as openurl.sh.txt, which will open > a url with either the default browser or Internet Explorer. It takes Last minute fix: before using t

Re: open IE from command line

CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1, and where COMSPEC does not exist in the environment or does not point to an executable program or when /cygdrive/c/ does not point to the C: disk. Before using, strip CRs (just in case) using d2u (or dos2unix), rename to openurl or openurl.sh or ..., place in your path, eg.

Re: CYGWIN_NOWINPATH (was Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH)

On 5 September 2016 at 10:04, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Doug Henderson wrote: > >> Note that CYGWIN_NOWINPATH is still undocumented, except in the email >> archives. See, e.g. >> >> https://www.google.ca/search?q=CY

Re: Problem with Python programs with binary components, who to blame?

the setup.py to support that kind of hybrid situation. An example of this is cx_Oracle, which must use windows DLL(s) supplied by Oracle. This is often easier t do with the cooperation of the extension developer. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports:

Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH

ATH is still undocumented, except in the email archives. See, e.g. https://www.google.ca/search?q=CYGWIN_NOWINPATH+site:cygwin.com CYGWIN_USEWINPATH is also undocumented, except in a non-cygwin.com email archive. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Pro

Re: pick or semilar

select for example: select fname in *.txt ; do echo you picked No. ${REPLY}: ${fname} ; break ; done HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: cygpath -w and .exe magic

stem, rather than current operations which return path format transformations or static information. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

ol panel so I can't accidentally run a windows program when I meant to run a cygwin one. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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: obsolete package libpopt0 dependencies

On 11 July 2016 at 14:56, Mark Geisert wrote: > Mark Geisert writes: >> Doug Henderson writes: >> > To the maintainer of cygutils and cygutils-extra,. >> > >> > Please rebuild these packages to not use the obsolete package > libpopt0. >> > >

obsolete package libpopt0 dependencies

To the maintainer of cygutils and cygutils-extra,. Please rebuild these packages to not use the obsolete package libpopt0. I found two other packages, libbonoboui2_0 and libgnome2_0 which also depended on libpopt0, but I was able to uninstall them with no difficult. Thanks, Doug -- Doug

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python3-3.4.3-1

tion is also missing the pip command, and can also be repaired after install by running ensurepip. I also noticed the "py" command is not present. This command honors the #! line to execute the requested version of python, or a configurable default. Thanks for your assistance. Doug -- Do

Re: Stack Dump Message

On 16 January 2015 at 06:30, Ameen Sayegh wrote: > hello there, > Here is the issue: > abort function produces the output > "Aborted (core dumped)" > when I run the program on cygwin terminal while it produce > " 0 [main] test 1904 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping > stack trac

Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies) -- this may help

pends on (within the context of a specific installation > of Cygwin). The cygcheck-dep package contains a script which can find the leaves of the dependency graph, along with several other operations. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: Problem with accents

variable in your .bash_profile or .bashrc in your home directory using "export LANG=en_FR.UTF-8", as well as configure that console program. As a test, you create a small text file with Notepad with some accented characters, they should display correctly when you "cat" the

Re: gcc packaging bug?

On 3 November 2014 14:46, Ken Brown wrote: > The setup.hint files for gcc and its subpackages now say > > curr: 4.8.3-2 > prev: 4.8.3-3 > test: 4.9.2-1 Setup-x86_64.exe is reporting that cygwin-devel is a dependency of gcc-core now. Is this an intentional change? Doug --

Mailing link notes

the list address only. The email addresses of the original poster, well known personalities, and other list members should not be included in the recipient lists. E.g. "* Please edit the recipient list to only reference the list address in posts and replies." Thanks, Doug -- Doug Henderso

Re: bug/deficiency in zip: non-ascii chars in file names work, but fail in directory names

g None 28 Nov 1 01:00 㐀丁龦豈侮.txt So, it appears to me that zip/unzip do not fail when you use the -r option. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

Re: migrate a cygwin installation

ess to semi-automatically generate a batch file to quickly recreate a cygwin installation on new virtual machines. As always, YMMV. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.3

https://www.google.com/search?q=Solaris+ACL+API I would guess that there was a specific version of the Solaris ACL API man page used in designing the Cygwin implementation. Perhaps a link to that or a very similar page on https://archive.org/web/ - the Wayback Machine, would be of value. Doug

List server allows email addresses in message body

a deliberate policy change, or if there is a new way to bypass the email address detection that previously rejected such posts. Thanks Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

:\cygwin\bin\env.exe -i PATH=/bin mintty bash --norc" with equivalent result. Or even "D:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe ./env.exe -i PATH=/bin bash --norc", now you set "Run:" to "Normal window". BTW, this search may help to discover how to create a shortcut

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

things work. But I may be wrong. It may give you some ideas on where to look for more correct and/or detailed answers. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

use it to open the window minimized? I vaguely remember doing something like that with the cygwin.bat clone I used to start a (non-X windows) rxvt window. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

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