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

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. After I found the correct files and modified the .bash_profile everything was fine

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

Well let me work at it tomorrow. I know how to do this on other unix systems, just that Cygwin is not acting as I am used too. I have done things like this on some versions of RHEL, UnixWare, Xenix, MKS Tookit. I guess I have to keep reading the Documentation and trying things. ( and no m

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 trying to put an alias in a .bashrc > >a

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

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

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

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 of them. I want to make everything u

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 P

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. That said, I don

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 w

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

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:57:42PM +, Greg Chicares wrote: >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-Sen

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

> I cannot chmod files I untarred into a folder and I cannot > chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. > > I understood that you could do this if the file system was NTFS. > The bottom line is I have an executable that is not executable. In > addition to solving that though it might be nice to

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

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 of `Simulation' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-) Andrew H

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

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

RE: newbie to setting up ssh needs help

I've had issues with the file permissions in .ssh in the past, mine are all 600. I use the following when I need to add ssh access to a new account: cd $HOME chmod 0700 .ssh ssh-keygen -t dsa -f $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa -P '' cd $HOME/.ssh cp id_dsa.pub authorized

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you had read the list of available lists at http://cygwin.com/lists.html, you would have found the correct list. I did read that page (amongst my other research), but I guess I'm missing s

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If you had read the list of available lists at >> http://cygwin.com/lists.html, you would have found the correct list. > > I did read that page (amongst my other research), but I guess I'm > missing something obvious - what list is

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

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E] wrote: > on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > but is there away to double click on a file in Windows and have it > > invoke the bash console and execute my script? > Set up a windows shortcut tha

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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. (I couldn't see a "beginner" mailin

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

FYI, this question should have been sent to cygwin-xfree (at) cygwin.com, not here. All X11 topics belong there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, the "Package List Search" on cygwin.com says that rman is > included in (amongst others) xorg-x11-man-pages which Setup has a > "keep" next to meanin

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E] wrote: > on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got Cygwin set up on Windows XP but have run in to a problem. As > > I understand it things, "rman" is present in the default install of > > Cygwin

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got Cygwin set up on Windows XP but have run in to a problem. As > I understand it things, "rman" is present in the default install of > Cygwin and Setup says it's present, so shouldn't typing "rman" > produce someth

Re: Newbie: Setting environment variables from a .bat file

Neil Kolban wrote: > I have some windows BAT files that set some windows CMD environment > variables. I am hoping to run a shell under cygwin but when I run the BAT > files from a shell prompt, the BAT file set variables are not exported to > the parent shell. Is there a way that I can have BA

Re: Newbie: Setting environment variables from a .bat file

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:10:20PM -0500, Neil Kolban wrote: >Folks, >I have some windows BAT files that set some windows CMD environment >variables. I am hoping to run a shell under cygwin but when I run the BAT >files from a shell prompt, the BAT file set variables are not exported to >the p

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

If you need perfect PDFs, you could purchase the server version of Adobe Distiller. You could then set up an e-mail address so that people could send Word Documents as attachments and the server would see the e-mail and run distiller and send the pdf back to the sender. Or use the web to interfac

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

I can't keep all my mailing lists rules straight. Some don't like top quoting, some do. So, I am sorry if I messed up. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

I tried OpenOffice running a macro, but this didn't faithfully reproduce formatting in a complex document. I need to run an automated job to print out Job Applications, so the postscript file needs to be perfect. Regards, Paul Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: P.P.Hughes wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin)

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

P.P.Hughes wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: P.P.Hughes wrote: Hello, This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and run a vbs script that opens Wo

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

Ugh - topposting reformatted: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Jim Drash gmail.com> writes: > > On 3/3/06, P.P.Hughes bangor.ac.uk> wrote: ^^ Ugh - raw email address munged: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > When I look at the Log On settings for

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

By the way, there are much easier ways to convert MS Word Docs to pdfs. On 3/3/06, P.P.Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Larry, > > Thanks for taking the time to look at this. > > When I look at the Log On settings for this service, it's set to log in > as .\sshd_server user, not the Local Sy

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

Hi Larry, Thanks for taking the time to look at this. When I look at the Log On settings for this service, it's set to log in as .\sshd_server user, not the Local System Account, therefore the "Allow Service to Interact with desktop" option is not available. I'm told that this was recommende

RE: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Friday, March 03, 2006 2:08 AM: > P.P.Hughes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: >> >> I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server >> 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

P.P.Hughes wrote: Hello, This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and run a vbs script that opens Word to convert documents from Word to PostScript

Re: [Newbie] Installer Question

On Mar 1 20:34, Michael Banks wrote: > We have developed a product for the medical industry, which makes use of a > few of the open-source cygwin tools (like, grep, find, etc.). The problem is > that, believe it or not, many doctors' offices do not have an Internet > connection, so installing c

Re: [Newbie] Installer Question

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 20:34 -0500, Michael Banks wrote: > We have developed a product for the medical industry, Why don't you set up a mirror on a portable and just plug it into the target computer, install Cygwin, via LAN connection, then install your product? -- John Skaller Async PL, Realti

Re: [Newbie] What is the Equivalent of the 'Strings' Command?

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:19:52PM -0500, Michael Banks wrote: >Thanks, Brian. A while ago I searched for just 'strings' instead of >'strings.exe' ...which would have displayed strings.exe as one of the matches... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

Re: [Newbie] Opening Files in a Folder

* Michael Banks (2006-02-25 03:41 +0100) > Suppose I have a folder on the desktop that contains a number of files. I > would like to select only the .jpg files and then open them in a) a > particular app if possible, or b) whatever app is associated with the .jpg > extension. Wrap your lines.

Re: [Newbie] Opening Files in a Folder

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Michael Banks wrote: > Hello, Hi. . Thanks. > Suppose I have a folder on the desktop that contains a number of files. > I would like to select only the .jpg files and then open them in a) a > particular app if possible, or b) whatever

Re: [Newbie] What is the Equivalent of the 'Strings' Command?

Thanks, Brian. A while ago I searched for just 'strings' instead of 'strings.exe' On Friday, February 24, 2006, at 08:08PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael Banks wrote: > >> Is it possible to run the equivalent of the 'strings' command from the >> Windows shell? I recentlly i

Re: [Newbie] What is the Equivalent of the 'Strings' Command?

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Michael Banks wrote: > Is it possible to run the equivalent of the 'strings' command from the > Windows shell? I recentlly installed the default packages, but the > 'strings' command isn't available, so do I need to install an additional > package(s)?

Re: [Newbie] What is the Equivalent of the 'Strings' Command?

Michael Banks wrote: > Is it possible to run the equivalent of the 'strings' command from the > Windows shell? I recentlly installed the default packages, but the 'strings' > command isn't available, so do I need to install an additional package(s)? Use the package search page to find out for y

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