[a tangent but hopefully not OT question] Re: Malwarebytes flags qdbusviewer-qt5.exe as Adware.Elex malware

2017-03-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 03/19/2017 01:23 PM, René Berber wrote: On 3/19/2017 12:18 PM, Ed Koerber via cygwin wrote: It bears asking to be thorough... are we sure that the cygwin package has not been compromised somehow? You are correct in not taking unsubstantiated remarks as useful. We usually run the program

Re: Telnet in latest Cygwin

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Allen
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 8/8/2013 05:08, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> >> Though, I fail to see, how Cygwin telnet is different from, say PuTTY. Or >> native Windows telnet. > > > Windows 8 doesn't come with telnet.exe installed by default, and when you > install it fr

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-03 Thread Paul Allen
Hi On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Rats. I just had another crash, the "Fatal error 6" variety. Windows > Defender has not turned itself back on (it's been known to do that), and a > scan of the BLODA list didn't match anything else on my system. > > So I don't think it's BL

Re: docbook2pdf errors

2013-04-12 Thread Paul Allen
> "1D6C2" is not a character number in the document character set I'd put money on that being unicode character "mathematical bold small alpha". What windoze code page are you using? One that can handle utf-8 or not. -- Paul -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

intermittent ssh port 22 connection refused problem

2012-08-12 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Hello: I have a WinXP with cygwin and a couple Fedora 16 boxes on my LAN. Every once in a awhile, I am unable to ssh/scp/telnet from the Fedora boxes to the cygwin box (port 22 connection refused). I've never been able to get a reproducible case and it usually corrects itself the next time I p

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/2/2012 4:21 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: I'm abit lost in your loops. In case of redirecting your output to tee... man tee. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 02.03.2012,<16:19> Sorry for my terrible english... Andrey: I was confused too ... once DaveK pointed me to my alias in

Re: [SOLVED:] Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out"

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/2/2012 3:28 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: . Generally, getting " quotes around it will do the trick. Over the years I have managed to make many of my scripts safe for file and directory names that have spaces. It's a pain, but generally possible ... Eliot Moss Eliot: Thanks. I am usually very

Re: [SOLVED:] Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out"

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
[sent to wrong email address, apologies] On 3/2/2012 12:43 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 3/1/2012 11:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote: On 02/03/2012 07:06, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I'll go and figure out some way to filter $(PWD) to be acceptable to basename. It just needs quotes around

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/2/2012 1:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 1 17:50, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Given that the problem is identified (basename doesn't like spaces), This is not correct. It's not that basename doesn't like spaces, the problem is incorrect quoting. Example: $ basen

Re: [SOLVED:] Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out"

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 10:50 PM, Dave Korn wrote: I think it's because aliases are just simple text substitutions. So if you have 'make' being transformed to 'settitle Making $(basename $PWD)&& make "$@"' then you would get 'make>& make.out' becoming 'settitle Making $(basename $PWD)&& make "$@">&

[NEARLY SOLVED:] Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out"

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 10:07 PM, Dave Korn wrote: On 02/03/2012 02:52, Paul Allen Newell wrote: [ weird problem symptoms ] You probably have a script or shell alias getting in between you and the real make. Please run "type make ; which -a make" in a bash shell and show us the results.

Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out"

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 7:10 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 19:05, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Is it possible that scripts and executables write to file descripter 3 or 4 or 5? File descriptor 0 is STDIN (normally), and file descriptor 1 is STDOUT (normally) and file descripter 2 is SDTERR

make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out"

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Cygwin: I've already run an earlier version of this through the list to see if I was dealing with pilot error. Its gotten to the point that it was suggested I consult http://cygwin.com/problems.html and submit. The issue came up when I did a Windows cut-and-paste of a directory in my cygwin

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 5:54 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Using Macro's suggestion of 2>&1 doesn't capture the basename error/warning message. I tried "make> make.out 2>&1" and the message still isn't bein

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 9:35 AM, LMH wrote: Some folks call make from a bash file to take advantage of things that bash can do and make can't, or at least easily. Using a "config.sh" to run make could let you test anything you want, print warnings, or exit, if anything is spotted. If everything looks good,

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 12:27 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I've got a C++ tree that is running under Fedora 14, Fedora 16, and Cygwin. Everything works. Tonight, I needed to test something and was on my Windows box, so I did a cut-and-paste oper

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 2/29/2012 11:55 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:23 AM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: (snip) I also noticed that if I run "make>& make.out" that the mess

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 2:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Paul Allen Newell! have a script to get rid of everything being an executable. Does chmod -x,+X -R /path/... warrant a script? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 02.03.2012,<02:58> Sorry for my terrible english...

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 2/29/2012 11:55 PM, marco atzeri wrote: Paul, looks on http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-3.html http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/advanced_bash_scripting_guide/io-redirection.html for further info. Marco Marco: Thanks for the links. And thanks to Csaba and you for confirmi

Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-02-29 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Marco: Thanks for reply, my comments inline On 2/29/2012 11:23 PM, marco atzeri wrote: names with spaces are always a problem for a lot of unix/cygwin program, so my suggestion is to rename the directory. Please also note that copy&paste will likely mess your file permission Yes, I solved th

question on Cygwin's version of make

2012-02-29 Thread Paul Allen Newell
I've got a C++ tree that is running under Fedora 14, Fedora 16, and Cygwin. Everything works. Tonight, I needed to test something and was on my Windows box, so I did a cut-and-paste operation which gave me a directory of "Copy of myStuff". I did a make and it worked, but I am seeing a message

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/11/2012 10:38 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 1/11/2012 10:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: Are you using Cygwin vim or a native win32 vim? Win32 console programs generally aren't happy in mintty, and you should use their Cygwin equivalents. Daniel: Thanks for the prompt reply. I

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/11/2012 10:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 1/11/12 10:22 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 1/11/2012 7:37 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: mintty -e tail -f foo& The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent with those I write for other terminals. HTH, Gary

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/11/2012 7:37 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: mintty -e tail -f foo& The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent with those I write for other terminals. HTH, Gary I am using cygwin 1.7.9-1 per cygcheck. I tried using mintty and it looks better than the default wind

question on where to direct a query

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Cygwin: I am running code on a Fedora box and a WinXP box under cygwin. When I run a make with g++, I am seeing message of "recipe for target 'whatever' failed". I do not see these under Fedora. Though it may seem like a minor point, it is a bit of a pain when trying to filter any "make.out".

Re: question(s) regarding startxwin

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/22/2011 8:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Not to worry. You don't need flame-resistant gear until the _second_ transgression. ;-) And that make two for me! Hum past transgressions catching up with me or a double-hit on this one? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: question(s) regarding startxwin

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/22/2011 8:17 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Not to worry. You don't need flame-resistant gear until the _second_ transgression. ;-) I wear the flame-resistant gear all the time as one never knows what someone will consider a transgression (smile) Paul ps: fyi --- I got this message

Re: question(s) regarding startxwin

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/22/2011 7:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/22/2011 10:16 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Greetings. I have a question or two regarding startxwin. When I fire it off using "startxwin", I get two warnings which I have been ignoring but finally decided I really ought to che

question(s) regarding startxwin

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Greetings. I have a question or two regarding startxwin. When I fire it off using "startxwin", I get two warnings which I have been ignoring but finally decided I really ought to check to make sure I am not seeing something I shouldn't. They are: +++ startxwin: XFree86_VT property unexpected

[SOLVED:] Re: best way to prevent a cygwin build?

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/2/2011 10:49 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Well, in this particular case: ifeq (Cygwin, $(shell uname -o)) $(error This project does not build in Cygwin) endif Can be placed anywhere in the makefile, no need to modify the build rules. cheers, DaveK Csaba, Warren, and Dave:

best way to prevent a cygwin build?

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Dear Cygwin: I have a network of Fedora machines and WinXP running Cygwin. Most of the projects I work on can be compiled/linked/run under both, but there are exceptions. As in Maya ... I am not happy with having to run two separate source trees and would like a way (as in "best standard") t

Re: question on backup

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/27/2011 7:18 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 07:30:04AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Ken Brown sent the following at Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:26 AM On 10/27/2011 3:24 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: My question is how do I get an archive of

question on backup

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Hello to all: My question is how do I get an archive of what cygwin packages I have installed. I have googled and only find info on how to do a full backup of the tree. I did a bit of a hunt through the cygwin email archives but only found one tidbit about "something used to work but doesn't n