Re: emacs trouble

2006-12-14 Thread Jonathan Arnold
ere's a page showing how to make it play even nicer with Cygwin: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NTEmacsWithCygwin But, of course, don't ask for support on it here, as it isn't a Cygwin package. -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.buddydog.org When crypto

Re: strange problems with bash after cygwin update

2006-12-13 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Either run it through d2u (DOS 2 unix) or edit it using an editor that doesn't add DOS line endings. Or any other of a myriad solutions. See much discussion and, most importantly, the release notes for the latest Base. -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.buddydog.org When cryp

Re: Why does CYGWIN remap my keys

2006-11-14 Thread Jonathan Arnold
e you using that has the keys incorrect? Do you mean system-wide all these keys are changed? Sounds like some kind of international keyboard setup problem. -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.buddydog.org When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. -- Unsubsc

Re: start graphical program from ssh-shell

2006-11-07 Thread Jonathan Arnold
ect to have the window show up on your local machine? That's not going to work. You'll either need to use Remote Desktop or an X Window program. -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.buddydog.org When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: Updated: lilypond-2.8.7-2

2006-10-26 Thread Jonathan Arnold
http://sourceware.org/lilypond/ . Actually, this page doesn't exist. Should it be this one: http://www.lilypond.org/web/ -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.buddydog.org When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Acronym definition bad link

2006-10-19 Thread Jonathan Arnold
. I'm going to look for another good TANSTAAFL essay -- in the meantime, I've redirected the link to the Internet Archive snapshot of the essay. Here is the article's current home: http://heinleinblog.blogpeoria.com/2002/01/15/tanstaafl-and-bread-and-circuses/ --

Re: spaces in .bash_profile lead to "command not found"

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan Arnold
BEGIN ~/.bash_profile : command not found : command not found : command not found : command not found END ~/.bash_profile However, if I comment all the blank lines out, I get no errors. Each blank line in this file seems to be causing a "command not found" error.

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Jonathan Arnold
info. -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.buddydog.org When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Jonathan Arnold
her GNU emacs, so I'm not sure what the problem might be. 3] As Cygwin/X is sort of an orphan package, you might look into the Xming package, as found at http://www.straightrunning.com -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.buddydog.org When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf

Re: Xalan and path problem

2006-09-29 Thread Jonathan Arnold
her way to solve the problem ? Yeah - get Xalan to understand unix paths. No Windows app will understand full cygwin paths, although most do understand the / as a path separator. Maybe you can create a cygwin version Xalan (whatever that is). -- Jonathan Arnold http://www.bu

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Malcolm Nixon wrote: Jonathan Arnold wrote: * Some translate files to a "Local" format (CR/LF on Windows). Perforce will do this if you let it. Or you can set the LineEnd option for the client to be Unix or Share. This was in fact my original patch attempt, however it had the

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread Jonathan Arnold
It ought to, if you made the change. Check it out, make the change to fix the broken code and check it back in. * Some translate files to a "Local" format (CR/LF on Windows). Perforce will do this if you let it. Or you can set the LineEnd option for the client to be Unix or S

Re: 1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh

2006-08-23 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Jens Wilken wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Arnold wrote: I'm trying to build YAZ: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ The ./configure works just fine, but when I try to make I get the following error: *** 07:18 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** make Making a

Re: 1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh

2006-08-23 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Dave Korn wrote: On 23 August 2006 13:26, Jonathan Arnold wrote: I'm trying to build YAZ: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ The ./configure works just fine, but when I try to make I get the following error: *** 07:18 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** make Making all in src /bin/sh: li

Re: 1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh

2006-08-23 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jonathan Arnold on 8/23/2006 6:26 AM: And it isn't kidding. If I type "sh", then "cd src" I get the same error: *** 08:22 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** sh Sounds like a permission

1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh

2006-08-23 Thread Jonathan Arnold
.17(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *** 08:22 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** which sh /usr/bin/sh It's a very strange thing. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Jiggle The Handle, a personal bloghttp://jiggle.anaze

Re: bash "Couldn't Allocate Heap" error - info.

2006-03-06 Thread Jonathan Arnold
to run, as it wasn't in any of my startup folder. But if you rename /program files/common/logitech/LVMVFM/LVPrcSrv.exe to something else (I called it LVPrcSrv.exe.old), Cygwin/X starts working again, and there is no loss of functionality that I can tell. -- Jonathan Arnold

Re: Command to move groups of files

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Somone a month or so ago posted a list of little known Cygwin commands, and in that list was a cool command that allowed you to rename a list of files, like thus: cmd First*.* Second*.* which would rename all files starting with

Command to move groups of files

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathan Arnold
t, and then promptly forgot about it until I really needed to use it yesterday. Could someone remind me of the name of that command? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be live

Re: Python 2.3.5

2005-04-11 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Godefroid Chapelle wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: How big is the work to produce a 2.3.5 release Not much, Cygwin Python builds OOTB. What does OOTB mean ? Out of the box ? Yes: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#OOTB -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Jonathan Arnold wrote: Hans Horn wrote: Oops - didn't see this one! Just posted offer as bash voluteer myself! Was looking for bash 3.0 in the archives. If Jonathan still wants to maintain bash 3.0, of course, I will withdraw my offer. Yeah, sorry, I just haven't been able to get to i

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Jonathan Arnold
work. If you want to give it a whirl, feel free, Hans. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: setup keeps installing gcc 3.3.3-3

2005-04-06 Thread Jonathan Arnold
gcc. It is currently at 3.4.2 anyway: http://www.mingw.org -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Jonathan Arnold
TX wrote: Sorry, I forgot to include the error message in my previous post: Aspell.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x6109f478" referenced memory at "0x0010". The memory could not be "read". Please help. Please read: Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: cygwin-1.5.14 crashes with memory fault?

2005-04-04 Thread Jonathan Arnold
eed a window. Run cmd.exe, then run cygcheck, assuming you've put the cygwin directory in your PATH. Don't run bash, nor rxvt. Those are just other utilities that run using cygwin. But cygwin will work from CMD.EXE as well. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Deve

Re: Spaces in Paths

2005-03-28 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Either remove the \s or remove the 's. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

Re: Compiling purely native (mingw) win32 apps under cygwin...

2005-03-28 Thread Jonathan Arnold
work with both. Just make sure the MinGW /bin is before the Cygwin /bin. See the FAQ entry: http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-usingwithcygwin -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -

Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice

2005-03-25 Thread Jonathan Arnold
BLACK DGRAY RED LRED GREEN LGREEN BROWN YELLOW BLUE export LBLUE PURPLE LPURPLE CYAN LCYAN LGRAY WHITE NEUTRAL which is kinda nice. So that means my PS1 is: export PS1="*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** $YELLOW\w$NEUTRAL ***\n\r$NEUTRAL" There's a bunch of nice .bashrc examples,

Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice

2005-03-24 Thread Jonathan Arnold
eatures.) How silly of me, to imagine there was something that couldn't be done in Emacs:-) Duly noted and entered into my .emacs. Thanks! -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -

Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice

2005-03-24 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Mikael wrote: "Jonathan Arnold" wrote: Mikael wrote: It looks similar, if not the same, as the result when I tried to set bash as the default shell for a native Windows Emacs cvs version. I guess the \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] should display the cwd

Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice

2005-03-24 Thread Jonathan Arnold
work "inside" emacs, because it isn't an ANSI terminal. As for rxvt, those should work just fine. See this FAQ for a little bit more info and a pointer to the rxvt docs: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC65 -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments ht

maintaining bash

2005-03-18 Thread Jonathan Arnold
help. I don't see any mention in any of the files found in the bash src folder on how to apply patches. BTW, the source package downloaded for the current Bash-2.05 does not, in fact, build "out of the box". Not sure if that matters or not. I get a complaint about redfined getho

Re: up2date

2005-03-14 Thread Jonathan Arnold
he "New" column to the version in the "Current" column to see which is which. When you cycle a not-yet-installed package the first version you get is "curr". Under "Choosing Packages", the above-mentioned website only says rather unhelpful things like, "

Re: gcc/ ld/ Mixing C++ objects from gcc and msvc : possible link ?

2005-03-11 Thread Jonathan Arnold
ny kind of hope of linking together multi-compiler object files. And it won't work in a DLL either. The way to do it is to write a C wrapper for your C++ code and export that in your DLL. And then to use that for your interface. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developm

Re: req: using cygwin's gcc for creating static libs in msvc binary format (.a => .lib) # Re: static MSVC library?

2005-03-09 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:25:46PM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: It looks like changing a lib.a into a lib.lib might require only a rename! (But I remember reading that debug

Re: req: using cygwin's gcc for creating static libs in msvc binary format (.a => .lib) # Re: static MSVC library?

2005-03-09 Thread Jonathan Arnold
ate VC++ compatible object information" or some such. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Re: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-09 Thread Jonathan Arnold
[ !! Please do not email me directly !! ] acidblue wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> acidblue wrote: acidblue wrote on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:18 AM: I'm using the following syntax: cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settin

Re: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread Jonathan Arnold
(Please reply to the mailing list, not me directly). acidblue wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "acidblue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:26 AM Subject: Re: Can't cd into director

Re: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread Jonathan Arnold
binmode [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ You should probably double check the pages found here: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames in the Using Cygwin document. Probably you have a problem with the mount table. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments

Linux Journal Cygwin article

2005-02-06 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Interesting article in Linux Journal on Cygwin: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8078 -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Jonathan Arnold
#x27; but that also requires lots of research and changing of security parameters and the like. I couldn't really get RunAs to work for me. It wouldn't let me type in a password. I like the shortcut because now I can get a real bash shell for any of my "users" at the click of a

su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Jonathan Arnold
ly, createuser a piece of cake. Assuming, of course, you have the paths correct. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running

2005-01-24 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 23 January 2005 02:33 On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: 1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine. 2] Start rxvt. Try "DoD" again. It gets about halfway

Re: Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running

2005-01-22 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: 1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine. 2] Start rxvt. Try &

Re: Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running

2005-01-21 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: 1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine. 2] Start rxvt. Try "DoD" again. It gets about halfway through its startup process,

Re: Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running

2005-01-21 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: 1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine. 2] Start rxvt. Try "DoD" again. It gets about halfway through its startup process, then hangs. 3] Quit rxvt and try again. "DoD" works fine. I

Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running

2005-01-21 Thread Jonathan Arnold
for those of you familiar with the game. Any ideas on what it could be? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: Couple of scripts to remove duplicate packages

2005-01-20 Thread Jonathan Arnold
improved but they have been useful to me as is. That's a nice attempt. However, I can see that you're not aware of Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl (which does that and much, much more). Google for it. It is here if you are interested: http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ --

Re: Another web page bug report

2005-01-18 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Norman Vine wrote: Jonathan Arnold writes: I tried to go to Chuck Wilson's web page, as pointed to in the rxvt README: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/ hmm 4th link returned for google( "wilson cygwin cygutils" ) Better man than I, Gunga Din. I tried 'cyguti

Re: Another web page bug report

2005-01-18 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Jim Drash wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:54:01 -0500, Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried to go to Chuck Wilson's web page, as pointed to in the rxvt README: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/ And I just noticed it is also mentioned on this Cygwin web

Another web page bug report

2005-01-18 Thread Jonathan Arnold
g couldn't find it for me. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

rxvt doc problem

2005-01-18 Thread Jonathan Arnold
.YODLTAGEND. rxvt (ouR XVT) - a VT102 emulator for the X window system.YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .PP .YODLTAGEND. OS : Win2k Setup version 2.457.2.1 Rxvt: v2.7.10 Cygwin DLL version: 1.5.12 -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel