Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-13 Thread Ken Jackson
On 01/13/2010 11:50 AM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Maybe I missed your reasoning in an earlier message, but why not use Cygwin-based Telnet and FTP programs? You already have Cygwin installed, so adding two more packages should not be a problem. That way locale and terminal handling would just work

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-13 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/13/2010 10:32 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Another workaround would be from the mintty window to enter some > command that would bring up a Windows Command Prompt window so > that Windows FTP and Telnet would work. I tried the command "cmd", > but that executes within the mintty window. What c

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/13/2010 11:32 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Another workaround would be from the mintty window to enter some command that would bring up a Windows Command Prompt window so that Windows FTP and Telnet would work. I tried the command "cmd", but that executes within the mintty window. What comma

RE: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-13 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Outlook to cooperate and don't want to type all the ">" characters manually. Suggestions welcome.) --Ken -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 06:10 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: various pro

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 16:04, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Thank you, Jeremy. BTW, I deal with legacy machines that don't > know from SSH. :-( > > Well this gets more interesting, at least to me... > With LANG=UTF-8, That's a non-supported setting. set LANG to C.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8 or something. See http://cyg

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/13 Cyrille Lefevre: > give a try to puttycyg which support both ssh, telnet as well cygwin. The OP is insisting on running the Windows versions of telnet and ftp, and those won't work in puttycyg either. Same in any other terminal based on 'pseudo terminal' (pty) devices. Andy -- Problem

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Nellis, Kenneth a écrit : Thank you, Jeremy. BTW, I deal with legacy machines that don't know from SSH. :-( Hi, give a try to puttycyg which support both ssh, telnet as well cygwin. advantage over windows terminal, you may make it a full screen. you may also switch the font encoding to UTF-8

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/12 Nellis, Kenneth: > Thank you, Jeremy. BTW, I deal with legacy machines that don't > know from SSH. :-( > > Well this gets more interesting, at least to me... > With LANG=UTF-8, man uses the Unicode HYPHEN character (U+2010) > to break long words at the right margin, and uses the Unicode >

RE: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
ssage- From: Jeremy Bopp [mailto:jer...@bopp.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 14:49 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1 On 1/12/2010 12:08 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because > LANG=UTF-

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/12/2010 12:08 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because > LANG=UTF-8 causes man pages to be formatted with U+2010 hyphens, > which aren't supported by Windows, so I took another's advice and > installed mintty, which seemed to work just fine u

various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because LANG=UTF-8 causes man pages to be formatted with U+2010 hyphens, which aren't supported by Windows, so I took another's advice and installed mintty, which seemed to work just fine until I tried to use FTP or Telnet (the Windows version