Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

the `date' program. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

Apparently you didn't actually read the whole thread here. Apparently I did. -- 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: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

using my homegrown format for date I think this works (and personally I rather like my invention... :-). -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Using Cygwin Emacs

click on emacs (setup says it's 23.3.2). 3. If that doesn't work, my guess would be to follow the reporting instructions at the end of every message. 4. And if all else fails, read the friendly manual. Castigation, denigration and mastication cheerfully accepted(tm), -- Lee Maschmey

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

/dev/tty but that's by-the-by and probably belongs in a different thread anyway. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

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

IN variable. I'll remove it and see what happens. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cyg

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

the Cygwin text, not all can. Narrator is a part of the Windows OS; it's on every Windows computer. It can't see the text in Cygwin at all. I've included the brltty developers on this message and will send them Corinna's original so you may hear from somebody who knows what

I think there's an error in the boxes postinstall script

Hi all, Attached is a typescript that I hope shows the error I keep getting from /etc/postinstall/boxes.sh. I'm running Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on Windows XP. Everything is, or certainly is intended to be, fully updated. HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woo

/etc/apache.new?

e and apache.new directories. diff -r shows that the contents are identical. Will cygcheck get mad if I rename apache.new to apache, or are both supposed to be there? Thanks, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports:

Probably dumb question about apropos

(1) - Awk to Perl translator alias [] (3) - declare symbolic aliases for perl data B [] (3) - The Perl Compiler ... What's that [] stuff? It doesn't happen on Ubuntu. Castigation, denigration and mastication cheerfully accepted. ~tm -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayn

Re: problem with find in newly Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

find --version works fine for me. Perhaps it's time for the -srv... -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document

Re: trojans in cygwin

Monika, Cygwin 1.7.5 is not the newest version. That's now 1.7.7. Are you sure you have the newest setup.exe and that it came from a reliable source? -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports:

Re: Is part of gcc3 missing?

- Original Message - From: Andy Koppe Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 16:56 Subject: Re: Is part of gcc3 missing? On 2 November 2010 19:57, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Gentlefolk, For the past couple years or more I've been building a program, brltty, from its subversion develo

Re: Is part of gcc3 missing?

chmod 755 /usr/bin/set-gcc-default-* Yes, I did that ages ago. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: sometimes ~ and $HOME contain different values

Hi Giorgos, My ~ and $HOME were never the same until I modified /etc/passwd to point to the directory I wanted to use. (I think there's something in the User's Guide to this effect, though I got it from the mailing list.) HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing C

Re: List configuration?

That was unfair to that other person. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

List configuration?

Hi folks, The user's guide requests that people reply to the list, but the default headers are set up to reply to the sender. This seems a bit strange. I know it's been this way for ages but I do get tired of realizing I forgot to change the recipient. -- Lee Maschmeyer W

Re: sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487

though. My neighbor recently told me they had discovered 167 viruses on his machine. He's now a bit wiser and not that much poorer. :-) -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Re: Setup: Could the list of items be in the tab order?

I obviously wrote this before reading Corinna's responses in a different thread. Please let this one die. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Setup: Could the list of items be in the tab order?

idering possibilities here's one to at least throw out. :-) Thanks, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Ctrl+R breaks `less' searches

something which requires regular expressions to be off, I'll never find it unless I first search for something that doesn't require Regex-off. I sent the cygcheck output with the original report last week. Do you need another one? Have fun, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State Univers

re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

No need to unset Windows variables, just set it in cygwin.bat. Something like: set HOME=c:\cygwin\home\myid gets turned into $HOME=/home/myid -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: changing cygwin's console window title

27;\007\033'"]1;$@"$'\007'; } export PROMPT_COMMAND='settitle "Cygwin Bash shell"' -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

ad of a terminal and the following works for me: alias man="LANG=c man" So far I haven't discovered any flaws. It even works (after a whole 1 tests! :-) in woman. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Computing Center 5925 Woodward, #281 Detroit MI 48202 USA -- Problem

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

ran cmd.exe from start menu And that gets the info into Cygwin - how? -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

ack C:\cygwin-1.7\home\lmaschm>exit exit 0/tty2W0(2)$ -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscrib

Segmentation faults?

st. Attached is tput.exe.stackdump from the most recent occurrence in case it might be of any use. This also happened in 1.7.0-62 but I think that's the first version where I noticed it. Thanks, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA tput.exe.stackdump Desc

Re: Where is the 1.7 download?

So, it was let slip sometime ago: www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: A path that's invalid on 1.7 but presumably valid on 1.5

it help if I change "some_fs" to ntfs? -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA fstab Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

Re: A path that's invalid on 1.7 but presumably valid on 1.5

From: "Corinna Vinschen" To: Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 16:37 Subject: Re: A path that's invalid on 1.7 but presumably valid on 1.5 On Jul 14 16:21, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: The invalid path in question: //?/e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl. This is the path as supplied by

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

Thanks Corinna. Commenting out the entry for a: fixed the problem. Of course, this means I can't access files on the floppy as /a/file like I can /c/file. But at least it works now. Have fun, -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne

A path that's invalid on 1.7 but presumably valid on 1.5

e:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl: No such file or directory $ ls //?/e:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl //?/e:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl Note: I've checked with the brltty people and they assure me brltty isn't involved in any way. HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

ng we didn't know. Cygwin, down under the hood, thinks Windows is on a: but all its variables show that it's on c:, as do Windows variables. Ain't computers grand? -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

So $PATH in bash references '/cygdrive/a'? No, $PATH references c:/windows: $ echo $PATH ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin:/usr/X11r6/bin:/e /Program Files/Executive Software/Diskeeper/:/usr/lib/lapack $ mount e:\

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

esides, if Windows was looking for Windows on a: then the problem would affect everything on the whole computer, not just Cygwin. Also, even in the cygcheck output, all the variables that should go into the construction of the path are correct (home drive and all that stuff). -- Lee Maschm

Re: Bug in ping? ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed

x27;t a Cygwin finger and it's actually executing the Windows version which it can't do properly. Cygwin does have "pinky" but it never works for me. Is pinky supposed to need a special server? Our site works for (Windows) finger but not Cygwin pinky and I don't know

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

Toggle the "View" button until you get to "Full". That shows packages in a single alphabetical list. It isn't there. The list goes from screen to scsh. -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State Universi

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

The thing that puzzles me, as a non-newbie but relatively ignorant user, is why cygcheck -c script returns nothing. -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: how to change dir

Or you can use the Cygwin mount command. It took me several years(!) to realize the power of this utility. You need do it only once because they're permanent until you change them: mount d:\ /d cd /d By the way, c:\cygwin is /. /home is c:\cygwin\home\ -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing C

re: reading directory .: No such file or directory

omebody will explain why this is a bad idea, which is one reason I'm responding here. But it does seem to muddle through... -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, For a skunk may be somebody's brother." --Fred Allen

Re: Tweaking Setup.exe's UI

Please ignore this item. It's apparently been discussed before. My bad, -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, For a skunk may be somebody's brother." --Fred Allen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: Tweaking Setup.exe's UI

Hi Igor, Many thanks. You obviously know much more than I (not hard, as you can tell). Sorry for rubbing what is apparently an open sore, and in no way did I intend to irritate anyone. I appreciate the information, -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be kind to your fur-bear

Tweaking Setup.exe's UI

items should be avoided; hence the display area on the bottom line should be as long as possible. Would this give everybody the information they need? Would the format be at least as convenient as the current one? Would anything be lost? HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be