Re: Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-17 Thread Karl Crary via Cygwin
ed by how those lines created the problem. Those lines worked verbatim on my last Cygwin installation; what changed? Karl Crary On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 8:45 AM Karl Crary wrote: > Thank you, but I guess I posted a bad example then. > > > latex --version > > This is pdfTeX

Re: Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-17 Thread Karl Crary via Cygwin
latex with no arguments. The same thing happens if I call latex with a filename. Or, to fix my previous example: $ cmd '/?' Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2861] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\crary> Any other thoughts? Karl Crary On 12/17/2023 7

Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

2023-12-16 Thread Karl Crary via Cygwin
a little, not exhaustively) to no effect. Any theory as to what could be going on would be most appreciated. My cygcheck output (lightly redacted) follows. Karl Crary Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sun Dec 17 03:32:54 2023 Windows 11 Enterprise Ver 10.0 Build 226

cloc error - doubled perl in shebang line

2022-08-01 Thread Karl Brown
ckage--cloc/blob/master/cygwin-announce.mail ) There is still an extra 'perl' in the header in v1.92+20220620+git6777048-1 It can be fixed by manually removing the extra 'perl' in the shebang line. thanks! Karl Brown -- Problem reports: https://cyg

Re: How to check cygwin version?

2020-07-02 Thread KARL BOTTS via Cygwin
Hack the attached at will... --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net cygver Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml

Is this a valid synopsis of Cygwin Permission Handling?

2020-06-18 Thread KARL BOTTS via Cygwin
lly correct. Thanks. ##### Karl Botts, [18.06.20 09:17] On that dialog box: I must confess, you should know: I may have caused that, by running in root of I: drive, aka in I:/ : chmod -R 777 . I did that _after_ screwing around with WinExplorer security dialogs. Was not getting anyw

Is Cygwin 3.1.X Stable Enough to Use?

2020-02-20 Thread KARL BOTTS
there for the rest of the year if necessary. That is not the issue. Would it make sense for Disable_pcon (spelling?) to be the default, until the new pty code settles down? --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?

2020-01-31 Thread KARL BOTTS
upgrade several others. I untar into an empty dir, then use native cmd.exe 'move' to swap the dirs. Be sure to use 64-bit cygwin. The 32-bit used to work, but now and then I would have to fuss with "rebase". I have never had that problem with the 64-bit. --- Karl Botts,

Cygwin vs. Native Symlinks

2019-04-01 Thread KARL BOTTS
ually want to: I just want to know if I can, and to test behavior of a Cygwin symlink.) Is there a tool which will tell me whether a given symlink is Cygwin or native? (The output of both readlink and symlinks looks the same, regardless.) --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem report

Re: Cygwin-3 and the Bleeding Edge

2019-03-05 Thread KARL BOTTS
pendencies of the package to be installed are older than the package > itself. While setup now supports versioned dependencies in principle, > this is not currently used, so you'll have to do this via other means. Fine. Makes sense. I can do that. And again, thank you all for decad

Cygwin-3 and the Bleeding Edge

2019-03-04 Thread KARL BOTTS
, has been built against cygwin-3 base. Am I reasonably safe to assume it will still work with cygwin-2.11.2? Does this generalize to all, or at least most, other packages? Thank you all for your advice. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-26 Thread KARL BOTTS
hen rename it on the dest with a DOS command, with cygwin shut down.) I do that about once a year. I have about 6 active machines -- home, work, Acure -- and this keeps them all in sync. Compared to Visual Studio and ilk, maintaining cygwin is a breeze this way. --- Karl Botts, kdbo.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.4

2018-11-12 Thread KARL BOTTS
soever. Good grief, me too! Please, plain text by default, anything else explicit opt in, if at all! Mintty is an ANSI terminal emulator: it needs to do that well, and that is all. When I want VSCode, I will use that. --- Karl Botts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

XTerm(330) fails to open window in latest cygwin-x64 under Windows 10

2018-04-18 Thread Karl Peterson
rite xterm options: "-fg white -bg black -sl 5000" No other output is printed, and xterm exits with RC=0. Other locally run X programs work fine, such as xeyes and emacs. What can I do to debug this? -- Regards, Karl -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

GitForWindows vs. Cygwin

2018-03-20 Thread KARL BOTTS
_still_ a stale fork of Cygwin, or a fork at all? Is it descended from MSysGit? I have been googling all over, but not finding good answers. I just want to watch out for the damn thing, and try to keep it away... --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

RE: cannot start myV5 on m4046732

2018-03-16 Thread Cooper, Karl T (US)
We need a bit more information. 'If you are experiencing problems with a package which is not part of the Cygwin distribution first see if there is a better forum available for discussing it. Don't expect that just because you are having problems with a package on Cygwin that there is a problem

// is Very Useful

2018-03-16 Thread KARL BOTTS
true-Linux world about adopting or adapting the syntax for similar purposes. Which I find a cheerful thought: the ardent ancient warriors on both sides are becoming more pragmatic in their old age. As am I... --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: Cygwin alongside WSL

2017-10-24 Thread KARL BOTTS
I (karl Botts) wrote: > Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux... Thank you, arri, Brian Inglis, Frank Fesevur, Michael Enright, Thomas Wolf, and anybody else I missed. Your overviews are exactly what I was hoping for. Not to go into details now, bu

Cygwin alongside WSL

2017-10-23 Thread KARL BOTTS
Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux (hence WSL) on the same machine, alongside Cygwin? --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

RE: cygcheck outputs CRLF

2017-02-23 Thread Cooper, Karl T (US)
to behave >Unix-like. Given an opportunity, >I would vote for it to use Unix line endings. The question was asked about a month ago, and answered here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00223.html Karl >--Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html F

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

2016-07-05 Thread KARL BOTTS
Karl Botts>> I use Cygwin32 on Windows-64. Warren Young> Then you’re artificially making rebase’s job harder. > The list of 32-bit-only Cygwin packages is tiny these days, and you’ve just > rebuilt your Cygwin environment. With my new find-cyg-roots script, you could > rebui

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

2016-07-01 Thread KARL BOTTS
ou think he's in charge? Ha-ha, I bet so did he, when he took the job. But he is trying to change a corporate culture, without breaking too many eggs. Good luck to him. Heroin might help. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

2016-06-29 Thread KARL BOTTS
you get this all working, it is pretty reliable: I have to fuss with this stuff maybe a couple times a year. Cygwin is worth it. I still don't understand why MS did not just help cygwin get a better installation/maintenance procedure, and fix the damn fork problems, instead of going down the

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-14 Thread KARL BOTTS
s think we have identified a defect in UoW. Do we notify the MS people? Whom and how? I guess I think we should, though I'm not happy about it. (If they are wise, they will be lurking here, for exactly this reason...) Really, I am just curious, no dog in any fight... --- Karl Botts,

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-13 Thread KARL BOTTS
How about the perms on the dir containing the file? --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- 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: native Linux userland in Windows 10

2016-04-13 Thread KARL BOTTS
will make it useless to me. I could be wrong. I'll give it a year or two to settle, and then give it a try. I just hope it does not interfere too much with my Cygwin setup, which I expect to keep for the foreseeable future. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports:

Re: Mintty font problem

2016-04-11 Thread KARL BOTTS
to me. I set it to 800, looks fine now. No problem, just tinkering required. Might be other changes involving fonts in new mintty. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

2016-02-02 Thread KARL BOTTS
was a red herring. Thanks for everyone's help and patience. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- 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: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

2016-01-22 Thread KARL BOTTS
> --- > > please reply on the list > > and Bottom post please. > > > > On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote: > > >> How largish ? > > > > > > Any size larger than a few meg. That is, any s

less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

2016-01-20 Thread KARL BOTTS
rom either bash or cmd.exe. Two files are attached: Karl2.cygcheck.out, which is the 'cygcheck -s -v -r' output, and LessBugMoreInfo.txt, which contains background info and some speculation. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net Karl2.cygcheck.out Description: Binary data I am almust sure

RE: proc_retry question

2014-12-12 Thread Cooper, Karl (US SSA)
>From: Warren Young >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 2:49 PM >To: cygwin >Subject: Re: proc_retry question > >On Dec 11, 2014, at 6:05 AM, xmoon wrote: > > > I can't do a SCSE because it relies on files and a whole data structure > > here. > >Specialised Cleanup Service Europe? >Symantec Certified

RE: Missing Dependency

2014-08-12 Thread Karl M
; To: cygwin >> Subject: Re: Missing Dependency >> >> On Aug 11 13:56, Karl M wrote: >>> Hi All... >>> >>> >>> I just did two 32 bit Cygwin + OpenSSH installs on brand new machines >>> (Win 64), and received an error message that cyggmp3.dll

RE: Missing Dependency

2014-08-12 Thread Karl M
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:08:48 +0200 > From: corinna-cygwin > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: Missing Dependency > > On Aug 11 13:56, Karl M wrote: >> Hi All... >> >> >> I just did two 32 bit Cygwin + OpenSSH insta

Missing Dependency

2014-08-11 Thread Karl M
Hi All... I just did two 32 bit Cygwin + OpenSSH installs on brand new machines (Win 64), and received an error message that cyggmp3.dll could not be found. I installed libgmp3 and that resolved the issue. Thanks, ...Karl -- Problem reports

RE: OpenSSH port forwarding bug

2014-02-19 Thread Karl M
le localized >> it to just one layer. You can see that it connects to an ssh server and >> then drops when I fail to complete the handshake. That is expected. >> >> The example shows that ssd -W gives an error, but doing the same thing >> with ssh nc works fine.

RE: OpenSSH port forwarding bug

2014-02-14 Thread Karl M
n I fail to complete the handshake. That is expected. > > The example shows that ssd -W gives an error, but doing the same thing > with ssh nc works fine. > > Thanks, > > ...Karl > >> Subject: Re: OpenSSH port forwarding bug >> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014

OpenSSH port forwarding bug

2014-02-12 Thread Karl M
-64 pro machine. Thanks, ...Karl -- 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

VI problem with latest update

2013-06-08 Thread Karl M
flord" Press ENTER or type command to continue Thanks, ...Karl -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

RE: cygwin port forwarding

2012-06-23 Thread Karl M
indows admin > > privileges. > > netstat -aon > > Curious, what "tests" you did instead of getting the data straight from OS? > And what exactly you've tried to do? If you're looking for proxy through SSH > tunnel, you'd be be

New Cygwin release

2012-05-25 Thread Karl M
Hi All... With all of the recent bug fixes, could we have a new release once all the dust settles. Thanks, ...Karl -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

RE: ACLs restore mismatch, especially with Rsync

2012-05-21 Thread Karl M
; > Ben > Take a look at SetACL. ...Karl -- 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: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory?

2012-05-05 Thread Karl M
> print the value of $HOME, and the generated passwd entry keeps empty. > > I fixed that in CVS for now, but I'm wondering if that doesn't qualify > for a new Cygwin release... > Given the other recent fixes by Chris (and others?) I would l

RE: chmod problem

2012-04-05 Thread Karl M
On Apr 5 14:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 5 05:19, Karl M wrote: > > > > + ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > > > > -rw-rw 1 Administrators root 1675 Apr 4 11:30 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > > > > > > > > This test was on a fresh (1.7.12) f

RE: chmod problem

2012-04-05 Thread Karl M
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:46:07 +0200 > From: corinna > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: chmod problem > > On Apr 4 13:16, Karl M wrote: > > > > > > Hi All... > > > > > > On a recent Cygwin install on a new win7-64 machine, I ran into a pro

chmod problem

2012-04-04 Thread Karl M
be a csih issue, but I was just making a workaround for now...but my workaroung failed to workaround. Thanks, ...Karl -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-27 Thread Karl M
On Mar 27 09:35, Karl M wrote: > > > > > Can it at least complain about in-use files? > > It does in the setup.log output. Other than that, it can't since it > has no window to do output to. > > > But setup will still alert the user about running cy

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-27 Thread Karl M
> Can it at least complain about in-use files? It does in the setup.log output. Other than that, it can't since it has no window to do output to. But setup will still alert the user about running cygwin processes, true? Thanks,

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-27 Thread Karl M
keep going? Can it at least complain about in-use files? Attached are scripts that may help some deal with running cygwin processes. They need to be run with admin rights. Thanks, ...Karl cygwin-shutdown Description: Binary data cygwin-s

RE: All clear (was Re: 2012-03-19 snapshot problematic (was Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use))

2012-03-22 Thread Karl M
>P.S. What to do next? cgf has already received so many gold stars... I don't need a gold star. Just doing my job Ma'am...He tips his hat and walkes off into the sunset and the music starts to play. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

RE: All clear (was Re: 2012-03-19 snapshot problematic (was Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use))

2012-03-22 Thread Karl M
>P.S. What to do next? cgf has already received so many gold stars... I don't need a gold star. Just doing my job... ^ Ma'am cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygw

RE: ssh-add hangs with latest snapshot

2012-03-04 Thread Karl M
On Mar 4 21:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 10:00, Karl M wrote: > > Here is an strace in case that helps. I used setup to reinstall > > everything (selected reinstall for each item) and I still have the > > problem. > > Does the agent run? From the strace it

ssh-add hangs with latest snapshot

2012-03-02 Thread Karl M
, ...Karl Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Mar 02 17:31:33 2012 Windows 7 Professional N Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Running in Terminal Service session Path: C:\Windows\System32 C:\Windows C:\Windows\System32

FW: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?

2011-09-11 Thread Karl M
c-for-your-trusted-vista-applications/635 2) Use a program that can handle the elevation for you, such as hstart ot this one... UAC Trust Shortcut http://www.itknowledge24.com/downloads.html# For the issue of priv level for the user logged in from ssh, Corinna announced multiple options ava

RE: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?

2011-05-09 Thread Karl M
ck in the dark ages, I recall that there were reasons that I chose it...control character handling or formatting? It made something I cared about work properly and four M$ operating systems later... I did try rxvt and didn't like the way it looked, so I stayed with a console window and C

RE: NT4?

2011-03-31 Thread Karl M
> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:58:10 -0400 > From: cgf > Subject: Re: NT4? > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:47:43PM -0700, Karl M wrote: > > > >At some point, would there be any (significant) performance advantage to > >moving (some of the) platform differences to com

RE: NT4?

2011-03-31 Thread Karl M
Cygwin DLL and perhaps cygserver? Thanks, ...Karl -- 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

FW: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Karl M
ompiler versions onstream unless we > start to get a lot of problem reports. > What if you just put the functions back in until the next gfortran dll version bump? ...Karl -- 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: snapshots revisited

2011-03-11 Thread Karl M
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:25:12 -0500 > From: cgf > Subject: Re: snapshots revisited > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:20:12AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 10 18:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:24:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >On Thu, Mar 10,

RE: New Cygwin release

2011-03-08 Thread Karl M
> From: BBuchbinder > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:49:29 -0500 > Subject: RE: New Cygwin release > > Karl M sent the following at Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:57 PM > >Is another Cygwin release planned for after the current round of bug > >fixes settles down and before signifi

New Cygwin release

2011-03-08 Thread Karl M
Hi All... Is another Cygwin release planned for after the current round of bug fixes settles down and before significant new development starts again? Thanks, ...Karl -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

RE: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-24 Thread Karl M
elease 1.7.8 on the > weekend or early next week. > Also great here Vista 32...lots of ssh, sftp, ssh port forwarding. Thanks for making it happen... ...Karl -- 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: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

2011-02-15 Thread Karl M
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:19:20 -0700 > From: eblake > Subject: Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe > > Hmm. Does your $PATH include '.' somewhere near the beginning? That > may be the culprit; I _never_ run with '.' at the beginning (too much > risk of a trojan horse executable taki

RE: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0

2011-02-14 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:20:08 +0100 > From: Thomas > Subject: Re: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0 > > Am 13.02.2011 23:25, schrieb Karl M: > > > > > > > >> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:18:18 +0100 > >> From: Thomas > >> Subject: Re:

RE: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0

2011-02-13 Thread Karl M
don't have W7 > myself for testing - any advice by someone? Just some other key name > perhaps? Why is mined by default messing with this? Isn't this something that the user should run if he/she wants to alter file associations/context menu stuff? Thanks, ...Karl

Cygwin 1.7.7 Entry point problems

2010-12-31 Thread Karl Stone Seigler
I keep getting an error message when I try to run bash.exe. The error message is saying "The procedure entry point cygwin_create_path could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll." Why? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

assertion

2010-09-28 Thread Karl
I'm seeing the following error running the iozone bench mark program with the -a option from a network drive ( z/OS running the SMB server).The iozone executable is located in the root of the filesystem. If I execute one directory into the filesystem, I do not encounter the assert. Z:\>iozone -a a

RE: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why?

2010-09-09 Thread Karl M
ng because of a conflict with an important posixy thing, then it is likely gone. If it just stops working because of an update to some package, then if someone (the package maintainer or some motivated user) wants it fixed, it can be fixed. But clearly SHTDI. I think t

RE: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why?

2010-09-08 Thread Karl M
usage > like a MS-DOS path doesn't work in a Cygwin program. > To be fair (as opposed to just mean) Cygwin does provide other tools to aid in interoperability, such as, cygpath and run (and run2). Being Unixy (Linuxy) is just more important than supporting Windowsisms. If the priorities wer

RE: How/Where do I get an older version of Cygwin?

2010-08-27 Thread Karl M
ion: would anyone miss the "Prev" button if it were to disappear? > I agree with eliminating it. ...Karl -- 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: Pipe creation failure (win32 error 1) again -- not BLODA

2010-08-06 Thread Karl M
a writeable directory, so I might have > stack traces soon. In the meantime, I can definitely say that my system > doesn't have any BLODA -- it's a fully updated Windows 7 64-bit installation > with Defender disabled. Besides -- it's a pi

RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR Re: Setup.exe update confusion

2010-08-05 Thread Karl M
;> wrote: > > > > >> In Gmail, I do it manually. It only takes a few seconds. > >> I do the same thing for hotmail. You just have to remember to do it (YJHTRTDI). :-) ...Karl -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: cygport cross-compiling beta1

2010-07-22 Thread Karl M
gt; particularly given our limited resources? > Couldn't this be handled by the Cygwin time machine? Thanks, ...Karl _ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple ca

FW: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-11 Thread Karl M
ere are any loose ends. You could have whatever mechanism you want to enable it from the gui. You could have a switch for it too. Thanks, ...Karl _ Hotmail has tools for t

RE: cygintl-8.dll was not found

2010-04-05 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:01:47 -0400 > From: cgf > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: cygintl-8.dll was not found > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:43:06PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >>If you wish to propose design changes to setup, then please identify >>particular behaviors tha

RE: cygintl-8.dll was not found

2010-04-05 Thread Karl M
is clearly the wrong list. At the minimum, then this thread should move to the cygwin talk list. This list is read by many people and you are consuming many man-hours with this thread. If none of these options m

RE: ssh + patch + $TMP

2010-02-21 Thread Karl M
s set them themselves. > Although, we do inherit the windows environment when launching a Cygwin bash shell, so I wouldn't carry this argument to an extreme. I think this list will cover almost anything ever us

RE: "mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading: Unrecognisable file format" errors whilst executing setup.exe

2010-01-28 Thread Karl M
d have guessed 11 1/2... I only mentioned it in case the exe file was not stripped or something. :-) ...Karl _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://cl

RE: "mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading: Unrecognisable file format" errors whilst executing setup.exe

2010-01-28 Thread Karl M
win.com > now. Please let me know if this fixes the problem you noted. > The new version is about 4.2 MByte the previous setup.exe was about 6.2 kByte. ...Karl _ Hotmail: Fre

RE: 1.7.1 "Bad Address" when running cmd.exe on 64 bit windows server 2008

2010-01-22 Thread Cooper, Karl (US SSA)
> Hi - I found that this error occurs on a 32 bit windows system, so > its not 64 bit related as I initially thought. The problem is only > occurring in Cygwin 1.7.1, not 1.5.24 so I will use the older version > of cygwin until there is a fix for this. > > Thanks > > jennifer...@nc.rr.com

RE: Differentiate workgroup system from domain member under Cygwin

2010-01-22 Thread Cooper, Karl (US SSA)
> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 22 10:34, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >> >>> So question is more if there is any place on a windows system, a >>> file or a directory or an entry in a file that exists only if that >>> machine is a domain member? >>> >> >> There are certainly multiple methods to

RE: Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-21 Thread Karl M
headaches > and frustration for people trying to write scripts that work on cygwin and > Linux/Unix. Can this be changed please? > Hi Don... Actually, the parameters to ps vary significantly from unix flavor to unix flavor. For an example of a script that attempts to use ps on a ra

RE: Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2

2010-01-12 Thread Karl M
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:48:34 +0100 > From: corinna > Subject: Re: Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2 > > On Jan 11 22:39, Karl M wrote: >> >> >> Hi All... >> >> I just tried out the latest snapshot and had two problems on a Vista >> Bus

Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
l error - cmalloc would have returned NULL 1 [main] find 2336 C:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL Hangup I am not attaching a cygcheck ouptut because I have reverted to 1.7.1. Thanks, ...Karl _

RE: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:28 + > From: gchicares > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix > > On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: >> >> I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 >

RE: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:15:29 +0100 > From: corinna > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix > > On Dec 30 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Dec 29 16:27, Karl M wrote: >>>> From: corinna-cygwin >>>> The cygdr

RE: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2009-12-29 Thread Karl M
> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:10:47 +0100 > From: corinna-cygwin > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix > > On Dec 23 08:32, Karl M wrote: >> Hi All... >> >> With the last 1.7.0 version and with a clean 1.7.1 install on an XP Pr

"mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2009-12-23 Thread Karl M
refix, not with other mounts. How soon should we start the "Way back in the Cygwin 1.7.0 days, things were much..." musings? Thanks to all that made 1.7.1 with its new gcc, X11 and more POSIXy world possible. What a great Christmas present...great new free software.

RE: Suggestion: Have setup.exe warn before upgrading 'cgywin' package itself

2009-11-12 Thread Karl M
d download. > > Today I was left in an even odder state since I ran 'setup.exe' from a bash > prompt -- leaving me in a catch-22 since if I kill the bash processes then I > kill setup but I can't continue until I

RE: Shall dlopen("foo") succeeed if only "foo.dll" exists?

2009-11-02 Thread Karl M
oo.so.dll for > Cygwin. OK=2C I expect this isn't going to be the average case by any > stretch of the imagination but it still seems like it's a nice "feature" = that > someone might want to leverage. The only advantage I can see to leaving > the current chec

RE: Many Cygwin (mintty) windows - How to close all?

2009-10-10 Thread Karl M
erms of getting rid of all my > mintty windows at once. I'm not sure if it will kill services and > exit the X server as well. > Hi All... =20 I tried "kill -9 -1" and it worked (bash builtin)=2C but "/bin/kill -9 -1" segfaulted. In both cases=2C I was r

RE: Many Cygwin (mintty) windows - How to close all?

2009-10-08 Thread Karl M
rid of all Cygwin processes so I can update & restart > without having to do all this myself. > I use the attached script (run it elevated on Vista and above) before updating with setup

RE: completely uninstall cygwin

2009-09-29 Thread Karl M
einstall of your flavor of Windows may be a bit extreem. ...Karl _ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=T

RE: minor mount issue in 1.7

2009-09-25 Thread Karl M
butes that differ from the default. =20 Thanks=2C =20 ...Karl =20 > Date: Fri=2C 25 Sep 2009 19:19:09 +0200 > From: corinna > Subject: Re: minor mount issue in 1.7 > > On Sep 25 08:27=2C Karl M wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi All... >> >> Typing "mount -m

minor mount issue in 1.7

2009-09-25 Thread Karl M
Hi All... Typing "mount -m" displays $ mount -m none / cygdrive text,exec,noacl,posix=0 0 0 even though posix=0 is the default, derived from fstab $ cat /etc/fstab none / cygdrive text,exec,noacl 0 0 Thanks,

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-09-06 Thread Karl M
> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 19:40:41 -0400 > From: cgf > Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:18:16PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >> >>> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:14:01 -0400 >>> From: cgf >>> Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 ssh an

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-09-06 Thread Karl M
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:14:01 -0400 > From: cgf > Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:05:58PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >>My first email had a cygcheck and the following steps to reproduce the >>symptoms. >> >>I just not

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-09-04 Thread Karl M
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:14:01 -0400 > From: cgf > Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:05:58PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >>My first email had a cygcheck and the following steps to reproduce the >>symptoms. >> >>I just not

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-08-31 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:08:57 -0400 > From: cgf > Subject: Re: FW: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:07:29PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi All... >>> >>> >>> >>> I just verified,

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-08-30 Thread Karl M
> From: thorsten > Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:40:12 +0200 > > * Karl M (Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:14:59 -0700) >>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:07:29PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >>>>> I just verified, this does no happen wi

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-08-30 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:08:57 -0400 > From: cgf > Subject: Re: FW: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:07:29PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi All... >>> >>> >>> >>> I just verified, this d

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