Re: kinda apt-get ?

Hi Bob, and thanks to all for your answers. > I'm working on porting rpm to cygwin. With the ultimate goal of getting > apt4rpm ported, so you can use all the familiar apt-get operations. Well , dpkg is already ported and included in the main distrib. Why working on RPM ? While dreaming on a c

kinda apt-get ?

Hi all, is it possible to manage installation and cygwin update with command line tools ? Setup is a good tool but i can't use it throught my ssh session. If the tools doesn't exists. Is it possible to find a description of what does a clean install have to do ? all files are tar.bz2 and i can be

Re: perl/tk

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:36:18PM -0500, Mark Brehob wrote: > Is perl/tk for cygwin available and I'm just missing it? If so, > where can I find it? If not, is it just a lack of need, or is > there some reason porting it to cygwin is hard? perl/Tk exists both for cygwin and ac

Re: perl -i is dangerous !

Thanks for your answers and work. Regards, Marc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Fwd: gtk themes for windows

--- Begin Message --- hi again, I've configured my windows : almost all is blue ... but is there a way to use gtk themes under windows ? (i want gimp to be blue too :)) ) Regards, Marc --- End Message --- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

perl -i is very dangerous !

--- Begin Message --- mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# cat test.txt this is a test for cygwin mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# perl -i -ne 's/this/works/' test.txt Can't do inplace edit on test.txt: Permission denied. mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# ls any idea ? Regards, Marc --- End Me

Re: where is strace?

Hi Michael, >Please change the Subject when you change the topic. > yes .. sorry .. >http://cygwin.com/ "setup.exe Package Listing" > thanks for this good link Regards Marc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.h

Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k

is strace/ltrace available on cygwin ??? :) I've just run the setup.exe but i don't find it ! not more on the web :( Marc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: fetchmail still corrupts files ?

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:45:22PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > It's certainly possible that mutt is the guilty party, as it's rather > aggregiously Unix-text-files-only-please oriented. no , it's not ! i've already posted that *fetchmail* has a *known bug* when dealing with the W2K winsock

fetchmail still corrupts files ?

Hi all, I'm trying to use a fetchmail/procmail/rxvt/mutt/vim solution to read my messages. I have two problems : 1. fetchmail seems to corrupt my boxes. I've found lot of messages in the archive about a bug in W2K but it was for an old version of fetchmail. does someone knows if fetchmail-5.9.

Re: load user preferences ?

> > >>the only problem noticed is that the $HOME is not set ... if you see my lines, you >>you can see that it's done. >> > > >I can see what's done? That HOME is set? You mean to >"/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix"? I believe you're asking for >a leap of faith on my part that isn't

Re: load user preferences ?

> > >>mc@MILLENIUM:~# pwd >>/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix >>mc@MILLENIUM:~# ls -A >>.Xdefaults .bashrc .gimp-1.2 .lftp Mail _viminfo >>.bash_history .cpan.irssi .ssh Xdefaults >> >>but i was worked fine on an older install. Any idea to fix that ? >> > > >Yes.

load user preferences ?

Hi all, I've just came back to windows and reinstalled cygwin. when i open a new cygwin term, my user preference is not loaded. I guess it is because of my home directory location : mc@MILLENIUM:~# pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix mc@MILLENIUM:~# ls -A .Xdefaults .bashrc .gi