RE: cadaver does nothing

2006-07-17 Thread Raye Raskin
Actually, it turned out to be a missing cygexpat-0.dll -- part of the expat package. Apparently the proper dependency is not in the Cygwin installer config file for cadaver. Score one point for Microsoft. I would not have fixed this problem if I hadn't tried to run the program in a dos windo

cadaver does nothing

2006-07-16 Thread Raye Raskin
Hi. I just downloaded cadaver to my cygwin setup. The man page is there, but cadaver itself does nothing. I won't give me help if I use -h or --help. It won't tell me its version number if I use -V or --version. And it won't connect to a site that I know is operational and reachable. The v

Re: bulk command line renamer

2005-01-18 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:52 AM Subject: Re: bulk command line renamer On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:53:14AM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote: Ah, I remember now. From my SuSE Linux -- krename. I see

Re: bulk command line renamer

2005-01-18 Thread Raye Raskin
Ah, I remember now. From my SuSE Linux -- krename. I seem to remember an enhanced "mv" command but I can't find it. mmv. Look on freshmeat. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygw

bulk command line renamer

2005-01-17 Thread Raye Raskin
I seem to remember an enhanced "mv" command but I can't find it. I want to say "rename". Help please. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions.

2005-01-11 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "anamtharon" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 7:24 PM Subject: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions. Good morning. Since i've updated cygwin i only had time to try out vim again, and there seems to be a

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing > the profa

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Rodrigo de Salvo Braz" To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" Cc: Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the pro

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Raye Raskin
Expletive deleted. Well, thanks! That is in perfect keeping with the rest of this thread. Just imagine the consequences if you hadn't deleted that expletive. We'd have another long thread about whether the cygwin mailing list should be censored. And then, of course, there's the children. ;-) Hey,

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-06 Thread Raye Raskin
Huh? The name "fortune" is close to what it does. It sort of displays fortune cookie like stuff. Labelling a program like grep with a English word that has no bearing on its functionality is not a correct analogy. Sorry my remarks went over your head. I don't think a filthy limerick is in any w

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-06 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:21 PM Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file. On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:12:57PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote: - Original Message - From: "Chr

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-06 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file. On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:13:40PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote: The problem seems simple to me. A filthy Limerick

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-06 Thread Raye Raskin
The problem seems simple to me. A filthy Limerick is not a Fortune. The program is misnamed. Call it something else or just put fortunes in it. "Confucius say: Man who have sex on ground have Peace on Earth." Can it be that simple? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Re: cygwin subversion package

2005-01-02 Thread Raye Raskin
That's very, um, interesting. - Original Message - From: "Mohit Aron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 11:59 AM Subject: cygwin subversion package -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

Re: bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Raye Raskin
Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an executable, I get "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" when I try to run the copied file. The copied file also now differs from the original. $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam Users 26624 Dec 21 02:32 /bin/sum.exe $ cp

Re: bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Raye Raskin
Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an executable, I get "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" when I try to run the copied file. The copied file also now differs from the original. $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam Users 26624 Dec 21 02:32 /bin/sum.exe $ cp

Re: How to make `mv the hard way' fail

2004-12-12 Thread Raye Raskin
When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the entire directory and then delete the original. I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my specifically requesting it, and I'd lik

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raye Raskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:50:57PM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote: Thanks for the pointer, and

speaking of man pages, anyone know how to remove this stuff?

2004-11-21 Thread Raye Raskin
When I type "man ANYTHING" I get the following before the man page comes up: Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkorean -mandoc Unrecognized line in c

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-21 Thread Raye Raskin
Hi! I've just been installing Cygwin on a new machine and getting everything into the shape I like it, but there's something I can't seem to figure out how to fix. I'm running XWin all the time so I can use xterms, but manual pages seem to get formatted to 80 columns wide no matter how wide my

Re: cygwin using wrong sh.exe

2004-11-19 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Brown, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:20 PM Subject: cygwin using wrong sh.exe After installing Cygwin/X, I can launch a cygwin bash shell, and I can launch the xwin server using the startxwin.bat file -

Re: /cygdrive command line completion?

2004-11-11 Thread Raye Raskin
>> Is this a FAQ? Can't find it. >> >> How do I get /cygdrive to auto-complete on the command line? > > >mkdir /cygdrive > >WFM, anyway. WFM, too. Thanks. If you type ls /cygdrive/ it should just work without creating the directory. Ha! The whole point was to avoid having to type /cygdrive !

/cygdrive command line completion?

2004-11-11 Thread Raye Raskin
Is this a FAQ? Can't find it. How do I get /cygdrive to auto-complete on the command line? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygw

subversion 1.1.1-1 installed in /lib/subversion/bin ?

2004-10-29 Thread Raye Raskin
Is this normal? All the Subversion .exe's are installed in /lib/subversion/bin . This requires me to add the above path to my $PATH. This seems very odd. Why isn't is just in /bin ? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com