Re: Cygwin/X newbie here - about xfce4

Since the FAQ tells me not to expect ("In your dreams, fella, in your DREAMS!") replies on this list, I thought I'd provide one myself, and, to make it even more um attractive, I am using the email address that I subscribed with. On Sun, 27 Feb 2022, Bob Bernstein wrote: 1. Is there what in s

Cygwin/X newbie here - about xfce4

1. Is there what in some other OS's is known as a "meta-package" for something like xfce4" 2. Alternate version of question above: is there a base xfce4 package whose install will corral in the collection of xfce4 packages needed to get a first approximation to a working desktop up and runnin

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

On 02/10/2014 08:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='printf "\033c"' Sometimes 'clear' is installed and sometimes it's not, so I put this line in my ~/.bashrc file on all Linux, BSD and Cygwin systems: test -z "$(type -t clear)" && alias clear='e

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

* Mike Rushton (Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:15:28 -0500) > I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc > > alias clear='printf "\033c"' clear is part of the ncurses package, so I would simply install this. > But what .bashrc do I put this in ? in /ect/skel or the one my user > directory. I put this cod

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

Greetings, Mike Rushton! Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU > OK, I got it working ... I have my home in an directory other that what > Cygwin defaults because other software run needs > I thought my files were being overwritten ... but no - I was modifying > the wrong files. > Af

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

, MKS Tookit. I guess I have to keep reading the Documentation and trying things. ( and no more use of the term Newbie :-) ) On 2/10/2014 8:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/10/2014 8:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: Can some one give me some hints about this ? I read the documentation and

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

more use of the term Newbie :-) ) On 2/10/2014 8:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/10/2014 8:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: Can some one give me some hints about this ? I read the documentation and can't figure this out. I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='pri

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

Can we have a moratorium on the term "newbie" please? Please just ask your questions. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:15:28PM -0500, Mike Rushton wrote: >Can some one give me some hints about this ? > >I read the documentation and can't figure this out. > >I am tryin

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

On 2/10/2014 8:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: Can some one give me some hints about this ? I read the documentation and can't figure this out. I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='printf "\033c"' But what .bashrc do I put this in ? in /ect/skel or the one my user directory. I

Newbie Alias and Profile questions

Can some one give me some hints about this ? I read the documentation and can't figure this out. I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='printf "\033c"' But what .bashrc do I put this in ? in /ect/skel or the one my user directory. I put this code in and it seems to get overw

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

Greetings, Mike Rushton! > What about a Secure Shell client to transfer files and to get a secure > session going, does Cygwin have that ? I see other people's emails > about ssh but am not sure if this is what I am looking for. It is. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 07.02.2014, <1

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

Greetings, Mike Rushton! Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU > What would you say to this ? > I have to use an EDI translator - it runs under windows/dos and had unix > versions If it have UNIX version, perhaps, a Cygwin package for it exists, or it can be compiled. > I was trying t

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

Good ... I will have to work with that Cygpath and see what kind of results that I get. I am unsure how this program is going to respond. I may have to just do the shell escape and execute the invocation of gentran if the program can not figure out where the location of its configuration files

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

On 2/6/2014 8:05 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: I see. What would you say to this ? I have to use an EDI translator - it runs under windows/dos and had unix versions I was trying this ... but the program needed to see the path of a config file ... after the -cp switch. /cygdrive/c/gentran61SA/lftra

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

I see. What would you say to this ? I have to use an EDI translator - it runs under windows/dos and had unix versions I was trying this ... but the program needed to see the path of a config file ... after the -cp switch. /cygdrive/c/gentran61SA/lftran /cygdrive/c/gentran61sa/data/EDN -id

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

Greetings, mrushton! > Ok ... I am converting my scripts and making progress. > But I have a question. > My old shell software would let me have a path as : > X:/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh > To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this : > /cygdrive/X/INBOUND

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

That is good to know about that utility Cygpath. Maybe I will try it. What I was doing was going thru some scripts ... changing the paths ... clean in up stuff ... over the years I ended up with a lot of commented out sections of code ... and testing them. And this is a different approach

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

It may be useful to know, if you do not already, that the cygpath utility can be used to convert between Windows and Unix paths. cygpath -u X:/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh will give you /cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh, and cygpath -w /cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh will giv

Re: Newbie Questions

On 2/6/2014 01:13, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Warren Young! [C:\home\Daemon]$ bash -c ./foo.sh That's not the same command I gave you. -c changes how bash.exe interprets the following parameter. According to `man bash', that's the correct command to execute scripts with bash. Are yo

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, mrushton wrote: To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this : /cygdrive/X/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh Is this correct ? Is there a better way ? And C: seems to be /cygdrive/C/ A BETTER way? This has nothing per se to do with Cygwin, but,

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

On 2/6/2014 1:53 PM, mrushton wrote: Ok ... I am converting my scripts and making progress. But I have a question. My old shell software would let me have a path as : X:/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this : /cygdrive/X/INBOUND

Newbie Cygdrive questions

Ok ... I am converting my scripts and making progress. But I have a question. My old shell software would let me have a path as : X:/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this : /cygdrive/X/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh Is this c

Re: Newbie Questions

Greetings, Warren Young! >> [C:\home\Daemon]$ bash -c ./foo.sh > That's not the same command I gave you. -c changes how bash.exe > interprets the following parameter. According to `man bash', that's the correct command to execute scripts with bash. > It matters, because when you right-click a

Re: Newbie Questions

On 2/5/2014 18:00, Andrey Repin wrote: [C:\home\Daemon]$ bash -c ./foo.sh That's not the same command I gave you. -c changes how bash.exe interprets the following parameter. It matters, because when you right-click a *.sh file in Windows Explorer, say Open With, then tell Explorer to use

Re: Newbie Questions

Greetings, Warren Young! > On 2/5/2014 15:07, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >>> But if you associate .sh with bash.exe, then double-click that script >>> from Windows Explorer, it won't work right, since bash.exe will try to >>> run it as a shell script. >> >> Have you actually tried that? > Yep. >> Tr

Re: Newbie Questions

On 2/5/2014 15:07, Andrey Repin wrote: But if you associate .sh with bash.exe, then double-click that script from Windows Explorer, it won't work right, since bash.exe will try to run it as a shell script. Have you actually tried that? Yep. Try it, you'll be surprised. I did try it, bef

Re: Newbie Questions

Greetings, Andrey Repin! >>> I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no >>> extension at all than .sh. >> That said, if you're wanting to be able to double-click on a shell >> script icon in Windows and associate that with Cygwin's bash.exe, you >> *will* need to pick

Re: Newbie Questions

Greetings, Warren Young! > On 2/5/2014 14:17, Warren Young wrote: >> >> I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no >> extension at all than .sh. > That said, if you're wanting to be able to double-click on a shell > script icon in Windows and associate that with Cygwin'

Re: Newbie Questions

Greetings, Mike Rushton! > Right ... the extension is a windows thing. Not really. It's a human thing, that let you tell the intended meaning of the file at a glance. > Most of the bourne shell scripts i have come across have no extension. > Some have the Shebang line ... while others don't have

Re: Newbie Questions

Greetings, Warren Young! >>> does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? >> >> No, the extension can be whatever you like. By convention, bash/sh scripts >> with extensions use ".sh". > I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no > extension at all than .sh. If yo

Re: Newbie Questions

Right ... the extension is a windows thing. Most of the bourne shell scripts i have come across have no extension. Some have the Shebang line ... while others don't have it. I am still in the planing stages ... I am not sure if I am going to use an extension or not. It might be a good idea to

Re: Newbie Questions

On 2/5/2014 14:17, Warren Young wrote: I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no extension at all than .sh. That said, if you're wanting to be able to double-click on a shell script icon in Windows and associate that with Cygwin's bash.exe, you *will* need to pick

Re: Newbie Questions

On 2/5/2014 11:30, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/5/2014 1:25 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? No, the extension can be whatever you like. By convention, bash/sh scripts with extensions use ".sh". I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in th

Re: Newbie Questions

On 2/5/2014 1:25 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: Thanks for all the help. What I am trying to do is convert some Korn Shell scripts to bash to run under Cygwin. I am wondering, does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? It probably does not matter. Some of the scripts had .ksh on the end o

Re: Newbie Questions

uniform now that I am moving to Cygwin. On 2/4/2014 3:55 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 04/02/2014 20:19, mrushton wrote: I am loving Cygwin. I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some newbie questions. 1) When I go to execute a script, do I just type the name of it

Re: Newbie Questions

On 04/02/2014 20:19, mrushton wrote: I am loving Cygwin. I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some newbie questions. 1) When I go to execute a script, do I just type the name of it or do i have to do a ./NameOfScript ? just the name if it is located in one of the

Re: Newbie Questions

On 2014-02-04, mrushton wrote: > I am loving Cygwin. > > I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some > newbie questions. These are all general Unix/Linux questions, not specific to Cygwin, and are therefor not appropriate for discussion on the cygwin list.

Newbie Questions

I am loving Cygwin. I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some newbie questions. 1) When I go to execute a script, do I just type the name of it or do i have to do a ./NameOfScript ? 2) I am trying to do an Alias of the Clear Command ... in my bashrc I has an

Re: newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

On Feb 10 18:51, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, jss pop! > > > I installed cygwin( CYGWIN_NT-5.1)without any problems at all. Clicked > > the Win desktop icon and the up came the Window and bash prompt. > > However I then tried:- > > > find / -name “*.c” –print (and again later with –type f

Re: newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

On 2/10/2012 3:12 PM, jss pop wrote: cygwin newbie. This is going to seem very low-key compared with the level of posts I see here but would really appreciate some help with a few things just to get started pls. I have checked the FAQ and lists but they are too advanced for where I am right now

Re: newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

Greetings, jss pop! > I installed cygwin( CYGWIN_NT-5.1)without any problems at all. Clicked > the Win desktop icon and the up came the Window and bash prompt. > However I then tried:- > find / -name “*.c” –print (and again later with –type f argument) > This ran, found a few .c files but cont

newbie: cygwin initial usage crashes machine

cygwin newbie. This is going to seem very low-key compared with the level of posts I see here but would really appreciate some help with a few things just to get started pls. I have checked the FAQ and lists but they are too advanced for where I am right now with cygwin. I installed cygwin

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

ce Actually, we should stop trying to guess and insist on the information requested here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html In particular, cygcheck output would probably be very instructive since I suspect either a FAT32 filesystem or CYGWIN=nontsec setting. This page also suggests that a subject

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

On 02/15/2011 09:52 AM, hardya wrote: > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ ls -l Simulation > -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ chmod -v 666 Simulation > mode

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

h it might be nice to get a better > understanding. > > (snip) > > Any help or advice greatly appreciated for this newbie. > Just to get rid of the obvious possibilities, check to see who owns the directory you are in, and what permissions the directory has. If you do not own

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

On 2011-02-15 16:52Z, hardya wrote: [...] > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ chmod -v 777 Simulation > mode of `Simulation' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ ls -l Simulation > -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

drew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples $ ls -l Simulation -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples $ -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Newbie-confused-a

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

* hardya (Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:48:58 -0800 (PST)) > I am running cgwin (for omnet++, but that's a BTW) on Windows 7 > (NTFS). I cannot chmode files I untarred into a folder and I cannot > chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. "I cannot [whatever]" is a bit weak. Can you be a bit more specific? Wh

Newbie confused about chmod

win for not what was intended and I should go ahead and do a full linux install? Any help or advice greatly appreciated for this newbie. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Newbie-confused-about-chmod-tp30931008p30931008.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive

Re: newbie bash variable problem

On 2010-01-17 23:44Z, brian wrote: > > $JAVA_HOME is the env variable which I can echo from the script as > /cygdrive/c/jdk1.6.0_16 > > but the script sets > > JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java/ My guess is that the script contains carriage returns. To look for them, use 'od'. To remove them, use 'd2

newbie bash variable problem

Hi, This obviously isn't specific to cygwin, I don't think. I am trying to run some bash scripts in cygwin $JAVA_HOME is the env variable which I can echo from the script as /cygdrive/c/jdk1.6.0_16 but the script sets JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java/ I want to see if this is set right so I set

RE: newbie to setting up ssh needs help

cp id_dsa.pub authorized_keys2 chmod 0600 authorized_keys2 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ken Marshall > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 3:49 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: newbie to setting up ssh need

newbie to setting up ssh needs help

Hello, I'm requesting help getting ssh properly configured on a Win 2003 Server SP2. I've installed sshd and gotten it running using priv sep and the default sshd account. Here are the hosts.* and directory listings with the output of a login attempt to localhost. Any help would be greatl

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

Thanks for the links Yaakov. I haven't had a chance to download anything yet but they seem to be just what I was looking for. John - Original Message - From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" Sent: 28 August 2008 17:22 Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: > Usually, if something is not provided, it is because no one has > volunteered to port it yet. You are welcome to try building it yourself, ...or check if it's in Cygwin Ports already :-) http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/

RE: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

John Emmas wrote on 28 August 2008 15:48: > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, one tradition we have on this list is please don't quote people's email addresses in the body of your email. See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR. >> [Please don't co

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

- Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries. [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] Oops, sorry! Most mailing lists start a new topic automatically as long as y

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] According to John Emmas on 8/28/2008 5:50 AM: > 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compiled binaries > with associated header files? Yes (although often, the heade

A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

Hi guys, I noticed that the setup package for Cygwin includes (optionally) lots of 3rd party libraries. For example, in the audio section, there are libraries for flac, libogg. libesound etc. This raises a few obvious questions:- 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compile

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Cheers everyone for all you help and comments, it's really appreciated. All the best Mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cyg

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Mark wrote: I had thought that by modifying my etc/profile to pick up mingw istead of the GCC bundled in cygwin If that's the limit of your goal, then yes, it can be done, but it's a bit more involved than just changing the PATH. Here's the Bourne shell script I use, which I call 'mingw':

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Bob Rossi wrote: > I've been wondering about this. Why is it necessary to "cross-compile" > from cygwin to mingw when the cygwin environment has the native mingw > compiler? To me, it seems like if the mingw compiler is capable of > running in the build environment, it should just be called and wo

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:49:06PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > If you really want to use Cygwin as a host to build MinGW (native > windows) programs you need to treat it like cross compiling and specify > "--host=i686-pc-mingw32". But this is most likely NOT what you intended > to accomplish at

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Mark wrote: > At the moment I'm out of my depth with the whole cygwin mingw stuff. > > I had thought that by modifying my etc/profile to pick up mingw istead of the > GCC bundled in cygwin I would still be able to use the cygwin environment but > just have mingw do the compiling (doing GCC --vers

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Thanks Christopher, Sorry I did take it a wee bit personally, cheers for clarifying :) At the moment I'm out of my depth with the whole cygwin mingw stuff. I had thought that by modifying my etc/profile to pick up mingw istead of the GCC bundled in cygwin I would still be able to use the cygwin

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:29:48PM +, Mark wrote: >Lovely, thanks for that, nice to feel included. Sorry if you took that overly personally. Let me clarify. You are missing a number of things in this particular case. flex and guile are not libraries, they are programs. When someone talks a

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Lovely, thanks for that, nice to feel included. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:55:58PM +, Mark Hanlon wrote: >Hello, > >Thanks to both of you for replying. > >I had always just thought that mingw was a compiler that I could use in >cygwin environment, and that there would be some wee config trick that >I could get it to pick up flex and guile li

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Hello, Thanks to both of you for replying. I had always just thought that mingw was a compiler that I could use in cygwin environment, and that there would be some wee config trick that I could get it to pick up flex and guile libraries. Am I being super thick? Cheers Mark _

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 06:37:35PM -0700, Tim Prince wrote: > Mark Hanlon wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to building Lilypond from source using cygwin (Some parts of >> the lilypond source have to be changed so that is why I can't download the >> binary :( >> >> I am using the configure scrip

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Mark Hanlon wrote: Hello, I am trying to building Lilypond from source using cygwin (Some parts of the lilypond source have to be changed so that is why I can't download the binary :( I am using the configure script supplied with Lilypond. Unfortunately, Lilypond requires GCC 4.0 and above, s

Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Hello, I am trying to building Lilypond from source using cygwin (Some parts of the lilypond source have to be changed so that is why I can't download the binary :( I am using the configure script supplied with Lilypond. Unfortunately, Lilypond requires GCC 4.0 and above, so I have downloaded

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

Thanks to everyone for your help. On 10/3/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexey Illarionov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing > > about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my > > cygwin session just

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

Alexey Illarionov wrote: Hello, I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my cygwin session just by starting the unchanged 'cygwin.bat' file. I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh'

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

* Alexey Illarionov (Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:53:13 -0700) > I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh' > > #!/bin/sh > cd /cygdrive/c > > Unfortunately, it does not work. The command './run.sh' does nothing. Actually it does. You can see that by putting "pwd" at the bottom of your s

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

Alexey Illarionov wrote: > I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh' > > #!/bin/sh > cd /cygdrive/c > > Unfortunately, it does not work. The command './run.sh' does nothing. Let's back up a moment. What do you expect the above script to actually do? Nothing is the proper and

newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

Hello, I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my cygwin session just by starting the unchanged 'cygwin.bat' file. I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh' #!/bin/sh cd /cygdrive/c

RE: newbie question

On 03 July 2007 12:57, Murali Vemuri wrote: > Hello there, > > I was trying to compile Cscope for Cygwin. > My cygcheck output is attached here. > Also, when I try to ./configure for cscope, the output appears to be normal. > Please find the configure output below. > > And when I try to compile,

Re: newbie question

Murali Vemuri wrote: Hi Murali, It would be best if you first read > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and note the part that talks about cygcheck. Otherwise, we will just end up guessing what's wrong with your system. -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lgcc

newbie question

Hi I am a newbie using Cygwin and I have 2 problems: Problem 1: I am trying to compile CSCOPE for Cygwin (essentially for windows) and when I try "./configure", I am getting this error: "checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot cre

Re: Newbie question on current version running established perl program

* Jennifer Young (Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT)) > Very new user installing cygwin for the first time on > new pc. Trying to run perl program that has been used > a number of times (probably not the problem) > > Followed all the instructions on install and all > instructions in faq and us

Re: Newbie question on current version running established perl program

Jennifer Young wrote: > to run my program, I was instructed to use command: > > $ perl preprocesstest.pl -o buffer -n 2 -t 00:00:000 > -l 300 > > (-o = output, -n = number in test, -t = start time, -l > = length of time of test) > > system returns: > > bash perl: command not found This would

Newbie question on current version running established perl program

Thank you very much for your help. Very new user installing cygwin for the first time on new pc. Trying to run perl program that has been used a number of times (probably not the problem) Followed all the instructions on install and all instructions in faq and user docs that could assist. Insta

Re: NEWBIE

he wrong person. So if you can help me I would appreciate it. Can I add users WITHOUT them being in the admin group? Thanks Curt - Original Message - From: "Igor Peshansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, March

Re: Fw: NEWBIE

On 03/15/2007, Curt wrote: One more e-mail. I found out that my users by default do not have the ability to log in interactively. Also looking in my local policy editor I see that the SSHD_Server user had been added to the "Deny logon through terminal Services" policy. These sounds like the s

Fw: NEWBIE

that most people have had with 2003. Thanks. Curt - Original Message - From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:08 PM Subject: Fw: NEWBIE Here is another user that has posted the same problem I am having with SBS 2003. http://sourceware.org/

Re: NEWBIE

Curt wrote: Did you happen to notice that this "workaround" is 3.5 years old? The ssh-host-config script has since been augmented to work OOTB on 2003. Please describe precisely the steps you took, the results you got, and what exactly doesn't work in your setup. You might also want to review

Fw: NEWBIE

t: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:51 PM Subject: Re: NEWBIE Did you happen to notice that this "workaround" is 3.5 years old? The ssh-host-config script has since been augmented to work OOTB on 2003. Please describe precisely the steps you took, the results you got, and what exactly doesn&#

Re: NEWBIE

Did you happen to notice that this "workaround" is 3.5 years old? The ssh-host-config script has since been augmented to work OOTB on 2003. Please describe precisely the steps you took, the results you got, and what exactly doesn't work in your setup. You might also want to review Problem rep

Re: NEWBIE

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Curt wrote: > Sorry to bother you with this. > > I think the cygwin stuff is great, and I used to run it on a 2000 server > build without issue. Now that I have 2003 SBS running I am running into > an issue were I can only log on remotely with the admin accnt that was > ceate

NEWBIE

Sorry to bother you with this. I think the cygwin stuff is great, and I used to run it on a 2000 server build without issue. Now that I have 2003 SBS running I am running into an issue were I can only log on remotely with the admin accnt that was ceated from start up. If I add users to the a

RE: Newbie question - bad terminal configuration

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:41 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Newbie question - bad terminal configuration > > Steven Buroff wrote: >

Re: Newbie question - bad terminal configuration

Steven Buroff wrote: > $ echo $TERM > nutc That's your problem. Or more precisely, it's Rational Rose's problem which became your problem. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Newbie question - bad terminal configuration

I've just installed cygwin on Windows XP with SP 2. There is something wrong with the way the terminal is configured. When I run man, I get the message: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional When I run vim, it is clearly confused about the terminal too. When I type a ":", it doesn't

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

ssing something obvious - what list is aimed at cygwin "newbies"? Adam -- Adam Richardson Carpe Diem This brings up something that I've thought about for a while. Many newbie questions are really not about cygwin, but are really about using a package (in this thread, how doe

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

ing obvious - what list is aimed at cygwin "newbies"? > > Adam > > -- > Adam Richardson > Carpe Diem This brings up something that I've thought about for a while. Many newbie questions are really not about cygwin, but are really about using a package

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

On 10/31/2006, cygwin wrote: >> Brian Dessent wrote: >>> > >> FYI, this question should have been sent to cygwin-xfree (at) >>> > >> cygwin.com, not here. All X11 topics belong there. >> > > >> > > Sorry, I'm at the stage where I don't know enough to know where to >> > > direct my questions. (

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Leaving 'name' set to your e-mail address is an invitation to be > spammed, ala http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR, since those of > us whose mailers are configured correctly don't always bother to > o

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leaving 'name' set to your e-mail address is an invitation to be spammed, ala http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR, since those of us whose mailers are configured correctly don't always bother to obfuscate addresses that senders leave in 'name'. Brian Dessent w

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

et up a windows shortcut that calls bash program with options: > > c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /usr/local/bin/script.sh > > If the script takes options you may need to include quotes. > > c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c '/usr/local/bin/script.sh opt1 opt2' Thanks.

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