octave/gnuplot fails with new cygwin dll.

2015-03-04 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.03.05.00:53:06 UT Hey Cygwin folks, I just downloaded and installed the new Cygwin-1.7.35-1 and found this minor difficulty with my favorite software, GNU Octave. Prior to installation of the new cygwin dll, I had no trouble, and the new dll is the o

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-21 Thread George Barrick
Re: X windows problems 2012.12.21.17:22:36 UT Hi Ryan, The UAC basically just irritates the snot out of me. When I run a cmd-line line program, I just hate having to go through a three-click process to confirm that I _am_ the authorized user of the computer. I r

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-20 Thread George Barrick
Re: X windows problems 2012.12.20.17:45:35 UT Hi Art, I installed Cygwin earlier this year on the laptop computer of one of my students. I typically use a rather barebones configuration where I have XWin running in the multiwindow mode. I use Cygwin in order to get t

Req: cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4.

2010-04-29 Thread George Barrick
Req: cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4. 2010.04.29.12:10:21 UT Hello Cygwin folks, My interest in gnuplot is as a plotting engine for octave. I had noticed that the gnuplot graphing package released its version 4.4 in March 2010. I realize that it is probably easy t

CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe.

2010-04-06 Thread George Barrick
CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe. 2010.04.06.11:47:29 UT Hello CygWin folks, I use cygwin to serve as a Win32 platform for GNU Octave, a freeware mathematics program that mimics the functionality of Matlab. The octave program produces graphical output by e

Re: cygwin Digest 16 Mar 2010 19:15:45 -0000 Issue 6926

2010-03-18 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.18.16:13:51 UT Hi Gregg and CygWin folks, I found the PGP/GPG key, and confirmed the validity of the setup.exe. As for the blocking, my college hires Cymphonix to do this for them, and then the college Information Svces. guys stay com- pletely away fro

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.18.16:13:51 UT Hi Gregg and CygWin folks, I found the PGP/GPG key, and confirmed the validity of the setup.exe. As for the blocking, my college hires Cymphonix to do this for them, and then the college Information Svces. guys stay com- pletely away fr

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-14 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.14.12:14:09 EST Hello Cygwin, The output from 'wget -S' was: $ wget -S http://cygwin.com/setup.exe --2010-03-14 12:08:43-- http://cygwin.com/setup.exe Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131 Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:80... connected. HTTP r

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-14 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.14.12:05:51 EST Hi Jason, The notification said: Blocked Reason: Spyware URL: Executable I believe that my university is using a filter supplied by a server-farm group called Cymphonix. George gbarr...@walsh.edu -- Problem reports: http://cy

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-14 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.14.11:50:56 EST Hey Cygwin folks, You all have been very patient with me. I guess that I _am_ an idiot, because it turns out that it is my own university network that is blocking that URL. The problem had me at a loss because of the sudden change in behavior

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-12 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.12.18:53:51 UT Hi Larry, O.K. So that would be a 'backbone' server in my region that caches the file, but gets a corrupted version of it? In that circumstance, it is nothing "insidious". I just have to wait until the offending file gets flushed from the serve

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-12 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.12.18:32:08 UT Hi Jason, I tried all three of the URL's that you provided. Both http://mirrors.pdinc.us/setup.exe.gz http://mirrors.pdinc.us/cygwin-htdocs/setup.exe gave me a 'wget' process that seemed to hang. I had to kill it after a few minutes. They both

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-12 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.12.14:58:07 UT Hi Jason, My md5sum for the bad version of the file is: ab9fd4fa13f38ed6e9086cfe4d6c7064 *setup.exe The url was http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. George gbarr...@walsh.exe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-12 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.12.13:43:11 UT Hi Corinna, I've tried a couple of different browsers as well as 'wget' to pull the setup.exe file. I swear that I'm not being an idiot. I also went to a sub-network here at our organization that implements a different router, and wound up with the

incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-12 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.12.12:18:07 UT Hey Cygwin folks, It looks like the newest version of the setup.exe has been transmitted incompletely to the server. Its size is only 10.9 kBt, but the typical setup.exe is 610 kBt. When I try to run the downloaded program, it crashes immedia

Re: pre-compiled octave-3.2.4 for cygwin.

2010-01-26 Thread George Barrick
2009.01.26.13:28:02 UT Hey cygwin-octave folks (and Marco), I ran the command "$ cygcheck cygwin-3.2.4.exe" as Marco Atzeri suggested, and got the output: cyg_octave20100125.txt > Found: D:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe Found: D:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe Found

Re: pre-compiled octave-3.2.4 for cygwin.

2010-01-25 Thread George Barrick
2010.01.25.12:54:56 UT Hey cygwin-octave folks, I upgraded my octave from 3.2.3 to 3.2.4 this morning. It first appeared in the CygWin repositories over the past week- end. I'm running a fully-updated CygWin 1.7.1-1 on WinXP Pro., and started octave from an xterm.