Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-7

On 2021-09-26 18:46, Westcoast Human via Cygwin wrote: This now wedges and is not interruptible with Ctrl-C, but closing the CMD window kills everything. Task Manager shows that putclip is apparently stuck in a loop waiting for something to happen as the counts in "I/O Other" and "I/O Other b

Re: cygwin setup version 2.909 not installing (silent mode) - bug or user error?

At 9/21/2021 at 12:28, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jason Pyeron's keyboard and said: If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup is used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D Adding -Y does not change the behavior either. Workaround was to l

Re: Package Requests: Update: bash-completion, coreutils - New: linux-manpages

At 8/13/2021 at 01:11, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Brian Inglis's keyboard and said: I suggested linux-manpages a while back, as it comes from the same source as posix-manpages, and I install it myself, but did not get voted to package, due to duplication with conflicting priorities and

Package Requests: Update:bash-completion, coreutils - New: linux-manpages

Findutils _was_ on this list but then I saw it come over the transom (yeay Brian! :-), which reminded me I never actually wrote about it. Procrastination eekes a minor victory... :) bash-completion and coreutils are both currently several releases/years behind. Also, I'll throw in an oddb

Re: search and install packages via bash?

At 07/08/2021 at 17:11, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Richard Beels via Cygwin's keyboard and said: 2, use fzf. i don't use it (yet?) but it should be something like: I decided to download fzf and play with this since the itch grabbed me... It took all of 5 seconds for me to remember a

Re: search and install packages via bash?

At 07/08/2021 at 10:19, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Ulli Horlacher's keyboard and said: This part was easy: W10dev:/usr/local/bin: cygsearch ksh Found 449 matches for ksh kshisen-debuginfo-17.04.3-1 - kshisen-debuginfo: Debug info for kshisen mksh-56c-1 - mksh: MirBSD Korn Shell 1.mayb

update request for whois

Could we get an update to whois? 5.4.0 was released a couple weeks ago, 5.3.2 back in July. ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois The current package of 5.2.10 was released > 3 years ago: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-09/msg00052.html There are a couple significant issue

Re: Challenge: a VERY strange problem with command substitution in bash

At 07/11/2017 at 15:12, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jürgen Wagner's keyboard and said: ... Using backquotes instead of the command substitution with $(...) does not change the results. I could swear this did work in an earlier version of Cygwin on my Windows 7 machine. I tried this to s