Re: tetex-beta-20001218 available for testing

2002-01-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Jérôme, I have just put a new rebuilt of tetex-beta-20001218 for test. A more mature version will be made out in accordance with a texmf package. Last night, I've rebuild the texmf packages, but I found that you removed some texmf

Re: tetex-beta-20001218 available for testing

2002-01-10 Thread Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT
Last night, I've rebuild the texmf packages, but I found that you removed some texmf files, fontname and web2c directories from tetex-bin/beta. This a big bug: I have to fix it: I have to reinclude them in the next rebuilt because the web2c directory contains binaries stuff (as the POOL file):

Re: tetex-beta-20001218 available for testing

2002-01-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last night, I've rebuild the texmf packages, but I found that you removed some texmf files, fontname and web2c directories from tetex-bin/beta. This a big bug: I have to fix it: I have to reinclude them in the next rebuilt because

Re: tetex-beta-20001218 available for testing

2002-01-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jan, 2002-01-10 12:44:17, du schriebst: When you upload, is there a place I can download them from? Last night I waited until the first japanese mirror carried them %-/ ftp://mirrors.rcn.net is always the first which finishes mirroring sources.redhat. -- begin signature: =^..^= end

Re: rsync-2.5.1-1

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:18:52AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: I prepared the package for the newest release of rsync. It fails some tests, but (without need for special patches) is already better than last version IMHO: last version didn't complain just because didn't have a testsuite. I'll

FW: whois package

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Bradshaw
Robert, I think I'm all ready. I've made the changes you and Gerrit suggested. Small correction to the Makefile in the source to correct the prefix. Slightly expanded readme to explain the patch and how to apply it. Patch and readme moved to a CYGWIN-PATCHES directory. whew I'm ready when

RE: whois package

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Bradshaw
Actually, hold that thought. There's been an update, and it's decently important... :o( -Original Message- From: Mark Bradshaw Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FW: whois package Robert, I think I'm all ready. I've made the changes you

RE: whois package

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Bradshaw
I'm sorry to keep putting you guys through this, but could someone check over the new packages. I've updated from 4.5.15 to 4.5.17, which included an update to the .edu name servers. http://www.networksimplicity.com/whois Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Bradshaw Sent:

startx.bat missing

2002-01-10 Thread dave hmm
I just installed xfree, and i'm missing startx.bat. I don't have startx.sh either. How do I make a startx.bat file? Thanks regards __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

RE: Kde 2.2.1's setup.ini file

2002-01-10 Thread Suhaib Siddiqi
-Original Message- From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:32 AM To: Cygwin-Xfree Subject: RE: Kde 2.2.1's setup.ini file - Original Message - From: Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some basic libs like qt,

Wanted: MS-Windows Icon file with X icon...

2002-01-10 Thread James Tetazoo
Anyone know where I can get an MS-Windows icon file with the X icon? I have a shortcut on my Win2k desktop that I use to launch XWin, and I want to set the icon to something appropriate. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer

Newbie question: trying to get remote netscape window...

2002-01-10 Thread Raber Chris
First, thanks for Xfree/cygwin. Just what I needed to do some remote Linux work from my PC... I have cygwin/xfree and can start remote xterms from a linux server just fine. I'd like to be able to run a netscape or other browser from my remote linux machine, but trying to run netscape doesn't

Child process assigned to wrong parent in xinit

2002-01-10 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hello, There is a bug in the control of processes of Cygwin. As I found it while installing XFree86 I am sending this report to both mail lists. My system is a Window 95-B with DirectX, CYGWIN_95-4.0, XFree86-4.1.0 I have put in ~/ a shell script .xinitrc for running xninit. The file is a

problem with using xsetroot without window manager

2002-01-10 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, I'm using the latest Xserver Test Release and have recognized a problem, when starting some apps without any window manager. For starting kde/kde2 I'm using setxroot to choose another background at the start of the launching process, which needs some time. At this time no window manager

Problem with winsup/cinstall compilation

2002-01-10 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, I've tried to compile a recent setup.exe from the cvs and got an error while compiling mklink2.c about function declaration isn't a prototype I've found that in cinstall/Makefile.in the -Werror option is set, so warnings causes compiling failures. What about this ? As I see there are two

Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB

2002-01-10 Thread soren_andersen
On 10 Jan 2002 at 10:06, Robert Collins wrote: Ah, magic word.. firewall. I've had problems like this before that I got around by D/L'ing to a faster site (my ISP on the backbone) and then D/L'ing from there to my dialup PC. The amount of data that I need to do this with this time

Re: Scrolling Console?

2002-01-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
1) Try using rxvt. 2) Don't forget to check the mailing list arcvhive Rob wrote: Hi all! Is there a console app out there that will allow for scrolling with an unlimited buffer? Win 2k's DOS prompt has this and I want it very badly on my WinME machine running cygwin.. -- Unsubscribe

Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: $Bill Luebkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:10 PM Subject: Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB On 10 Jan 2002 at 10:06, Robert Collins wrote: I am not

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:42 PM To: CU List Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:11:16 +0100 From: J. Henning

building dll's under cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jean le Roux
Hi all Seems I've been on the receiving end of all the advice so far.. hope this will change in the future :) Until then.. here is the next piece of pain ;) I use the autotools(all of them) to build my project. I've read the whole of chapter 25 of the Autobook-1.3, and all I could find on dll's

telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread Tiffany Chan
I mapped network drive (h:) in network neighboornood in w2k SP2 advanced server. The network drive (h:) can be accessed in both w2k My computer , w2k command line cd and also in shortcut of Cygwin in w2k desktop. But when I telnet to the w2k server using Cygwin , type mount. I cannot see h: or

RE: [Q]Windows PATH is not working..

2002-01-10 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: S.B.(SangBum) LEE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:04 AM To: Pavel Tsekov Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Q]Windows PATH is not working.. Is there anybody doing OK with Windows path? Cygwin documentation says:

Re: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Keith Starsmeare
- Original Message - From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:49 AM Subject: RE: Copy and Paste into Console I am sure that I remember right-click being paste when I was using RedHat Linux.. anyway.. If you were using Linux then that

Re: building dll's under cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jean, 2002-01-10 11:15:36, du schriebst: Hi all Seems I've been on the receiving end of all the advice so far.. hope this will change in the future :) Until then.. here is the next piece of pain ;) I use the autotools(all of them) to build my project. I've read the whole of chapter 25

Re: [Q]Windows PATH is not working..

2002-01-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Heyho :) Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: Well, I felt the same way - I thought I should investigate this but not until the weekend. I hoped that someone will shed some light in the meantime :) I must say I'm a bit puzzled; I never look at it, but WIN32 path work very well for arguments to

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-10 Thread Igor Bujna
Charles Wilson wrote: Please keep replies on the list. Igor Bujna wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Try installing this font: Lucida ConsoleP from http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/ It is Lucida Console, reencoded to put the linedraw chars where

RE: RXVT Font Question

2002-01-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been using Lucida Console since that's the closest that I could get to terminal, but I really would like to get the actual terminal font working. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've already checked the mail archives, the FAQ, and done a Google search, all to no avail. -Alex

libpng problems with png_info_init, png_read_destroy

2002-01-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Cygwinners, I'm getting these undefined references when linking against libjpeg import lib: /stuff/test/mMosaic-src-3.7.2/src/readPNG.c:79: undefined reference to `png_read_destroy' /stuff/test/mMosaic-src-3.7.2/src/readPNG.c:94: undefined reference to `png_info_init'

Re: libpng problems with png_info_init, png_read_destroy

2002-01-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit, 2002-01-10 13:10:29, du schriebst: Hallo Cygwinners, I'm getting these undefined references when linking against libjpeg import lib: Waddaza want? Wanted to say libpng import lib /stuff/test/mMosaic-src-3.7.2/src/readPNG.c:79: undefined reference to `png_read_destroy'

Re: Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions)

2002-01-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
Neither rxvt tips nor instructions for installing everything with setup.exe are in the FAQ yet. I'm really sorry. Hopefully tonight? Meanwhile you'll have to search the email archives. (I think the FAQ tells you to do that anyway, before writing to the mailing list.) The problem with my FAQ

Re: URGENT: Cygwin Installation Problem

2002-01-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
indu britto wrote: Hello Earnie I went through your tutorial on 'Installing (Cygwin'http://gw32.freeyellow.com/InstallingCygwin.html) , and followed these steps, to install Cywin on my Windows 2000 machine: I'm only responding to you because you mention this out of date website.

Re: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:29:50PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: OK, yes all your mounts are system. Looking back over your original comments, what doesn't work again? You seem to indicate that cron is running. The output you show indicates it did

Re: building dll's under cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jean le Roux
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:11AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jean, 2002-01-10 11:15:36, du schriebst: ... Now, from what I understand, the --no-undefined switch should It is `-no-undefined' and also just `-version-info', `-export-symbols' and so on, not `--xxx-xxx'. That

Cygwin 1.3.6 on NT 4.0: init_cygheap error

2002-01-10 Thread Markus Brenner
(1) I saw only a few references to this in past postings, but actually did not find a resolution (most recent posting is http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11.t/msg00299.html ) I tried to install Cygwin 1.3.6 on our PC with NT 4.0, service pack 4. When invoking the bash shell (either

Re: GCC 2.95.3-5 Internal Compiler Error for template, friend

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:20:41PM +0900, Humitaka Tamura wrote: Hello. GCC 2.95.3-5 reports internal compiler error for the following source code. Maybe it's only the cygwin special version's case, since other versions of gcc (2.96, egcs-2.91.66) for Linux can compile it well. You should

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:59:16AM +, Tiffany Chan wrote: I mapped network drive (h:) in network neighboornood in w2k SP2 advanced server. The network drive (h:) can be accessed in both w2k My computer , w2k command line cd and also in shortcut of Cygwin in w2k desktop. But when I

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 10 Jan 02, Corinna Vinschen writes: Workaround: Create a new drive mapping *inside* your telnet session using another drive letter: net use J: But *DON'T FORGET* to release the drive mapping before logging out that very telnet session. Otherwise this drive letter

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
I know about that. Ok. Then that's the way to go. Just follow the procedures in http://cygwin.com/contrib.html . If your fix is big you'll need to fill out an assignment form as that web page mentions. It's a whole bunch of small fixes. I think I need to fill out the assignment form.

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 10 Jan 02, Corinna Vinschen writes: Did you see my previous mail related to using network drives in ssh sessions, David? That's the crucial stuff. Probably, but I may have to dig around my archives. I'll let you know if I can't find it. David -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:59:12AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: It's a whole bunch of small fixes. I think I need to fill out the assignment form. Yeah, please send it as soon as possible since you'll have to send it by snail mail. Sometimes it takes two to three weeks for some

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:07:35PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Thursday 10 Jan 02, Corinna Vinschen writes: Did you see my previous mail related to using network drives in ssh sessions, David? That's the crucial stuff. Probably, but I may have to dig around my archives. I'll

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - getpagesize() should return a value compatible with mmap(), that is dwAllocGranularity (65536) instead of dwPageSize (1024). We discussed that months ago. I think we're not going to change that (it's 4096, not 1024,

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:54:06AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - getpagesize() should return a value compatible with mmap(), that is dwAllocGranularity (65536) instead of dwPageSize (1024). We discussed that months

Re: Cygwin 1.3.6 on NT 4.0: init_cygheap error

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:01:12PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Markus Brenner wrote: For compatibility and historical reasons the B20 release is also installed on the same machine (I am not sure whether this has any influence on the above described problem). This is not good. I'm not 100

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
It's a whole bunch of small fixes. I think I need to fill out the assignment form. Yeah, please send it as soon as possible since you'll have to send it by snail mail. Sometimes it takes two to three weeks for some reason. OK, I'll fill it out later today. Is it OK to send patches

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:13:01AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: It's a whole bunch of small fixes. I think I need to fill out the assignment form. Yeah, please send it as soon as possible since you'll have to send it by snail mail. Sometimes it takes two to three weeks for

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
Glenn found some test cases where mmap() failed and has also written a nice test program. I will get this to you later. He also states that the value returned by getpagesize() must conform to mmap() alignment by definition in the SUSv2. I'm not quite sure about that, though. See my

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:09:59AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: But, uhm, what exactly is a `superuser' from your point of view? We don't have that concept except for SYSTEM as _the_ user which is able to change user context w/o changing security policies. And on 9x/Me... Does

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:28:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html It's rather old and a bit badly maintained but it's basically still correct. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain any word about the ability to change user context w/o password

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
The problem is that by default the Everyone group has the uid and gid 0. The user can change that in the passwd and group files. OK, I'll take that out again then. You just should stick with uid/gid 18 for the user SYSTEM. Are you familar with the NT security concept? If you want to have

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:59:54PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I was going back over this thread before checking in a change to see if I'd missed something. I just realized that I didn't address this concern. Don't know if it matters but... The difference between the SIG_IGN way and the

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:50:46AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html It's rather old and a bit badly maintained but it's basically still correct. I've read it a long time ago... I'm feeling flattered. :-) One general question,

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is it OK to send patches to 1.3.3-2 or should I move them to 1.3.6 first? I would suggest to move them to the latest from CVS. If you're always working against the latest from CVS you don't get hit too much by changes from other

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 10 Jan 02, Corinna Vinschen writes: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:07:35PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Thursday 10 Jan 02, Corinna Vinschen writes: Did you see my previous mail related to using network drives in ssh sessions, David? That's the crucial stuff.

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That means that we can't use your patches. Sorry. I've never had the chance to look at the UWIN sources. It's proprietary. As I said before, the UWIN

How to return NaN?

2002-01-10 Thread Underwood, Jonathan
Hi Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but i was wondering how best to have a function of type double return NaN in C. I'm using the cygwin environment for developement (so gcc), but am looking for the most portable solution. Thanks Jonathan. -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: How to return NaN?

2002-01-10 Thread Robinow, David
It's a bit more than slightly off topic. Try http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=safe=offgroup=comp.lang.c -Original Message- From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: How to return NaN? Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but i was wondering how best to

1.3.6 ssh Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

2002-01-10 Thread Daryl Spartz
The subject line problem, reported back in November, 2001 was stated to be fixed in message archive post http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00694.html by Jeff Mincy. I am running 1.3.6 and STILL have the problem (running on win2k) $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 POOLSIDE 1.3.6(0.47/3/2)

RE: RXVT Font Question

2002-01-10 Thread fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
Try c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn Fixedsys -tn cygwin -e /bin/bash --login -i which gives a nice squarecut font and is (I think) the default for Windows telnet and loads of other MS stuff. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

resize command hangs from ssh session

2002-01-10 Thread James Garrison
I've searched the archive and can't seem to find anything applicable. My problem: Win2000SP2 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.6(0.47/3/2) 2001-12-08 17:02 i686 unknown OpenSSH_3.0.2p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f Open a Cygwin command shell (my default is configured to 80x45) ssh to a RH Linux

Re: resize command hangs from ssh session

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:08 PM 1/10/2002, James Garrison wrote: I've searched the archive and can't seem to find anything applicable. My problem: Win2000SP2 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.6(0.47/3/2) 2001-12-08 17:02 i686 unknown OpenSSH_3.0.2p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f Open a Cygwin command shell (my

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That means that we can't use your patches. Sorry. I've never had the chance to look at

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:37:41PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:13:01AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: Glenn found some test cases where mmap() failed and has also written a nice test program. I will get this to you later. He also states that the value

Re: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Anyway, cron has no access to them. It's running under SYSTEM account which has only access to publicly available net drives, that is, drives which are available w/o any form of authentication required. The forked cron jobs are running in the same logon session even if they

Re: resize command hangs from ssh session

2002-01-10 Thread James Garrison
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 01:08 PM 1/10/2002, James Garrison wrote: I've searched the archive and can't seem to find anything applicable. My problem: [snip] Did you see this? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00212.html Is it applicable? I'm not sure. If the

RE: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to set 25 lines on a DOS box using Win98. I was hoping that Cygwin itself had such a mechanism, or that there was a third party tool in use. Best Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: Dylan Cuthbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:45 PM 1/10/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Anyway, cron has no access to them. It's running under SYSTEM account which has only access to publicly available net drives, that is, drives which are available w/o any form of authentication required. snip No credentials, no

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:40:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That means that we

CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
So, Is it very difficult to give just a short answer? Help, please! -- I'm trying to get the solution and sent this questions to cygwin list and to cvs list already twice -- but the result is poor -- i got no concrete answer! But, I CAN NOT USE ONE OF THE MAIN DEVELOPMENT TOOLS -- CVS, because

Re: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Paul Johnson wrote: To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to set 25 lines on a DOS box using Win98. I was hoping that Cygwin itself had such a mechanism, or that there was a third party tool in use. consize, and win95cmd or ReactOS-cmd. See here:

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Himsley
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:28:32 +0300 you wrote: But, I CAN NOT USE ONE OF THE MAIN DEVELOPMENT TOOLS -- CVS, because cvs co -r tag is not working under Cygwin!!! I tried a cvs co -r mytag myproj and receive the following: cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open directory .../CVS/mypoj/Attic: Not a

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Alexei, Beyond the uncalled-for shouting and the demanding tone, there's a paucity of information in your cry for help. Please give is more details about your configuration: Cygcheck, the contents of any .cvsrc files. Likewise, please say more about what specifically you're attempting. Show

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Matthew Smith
So, Is it very difficult to give just a short answer? Help, please! -- I'm trying to get the solution and sent this questions to cygwin list and to cvs list already twice -- but the result is poor -- i got no concrete answer! Berating volunteers is probably not going to help your cause.

RE: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-10 Thread Polley Christopher W
You wrote: At 01:45 PM 1/10/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Anyway, cron has no access to them. It's running under SYSTEM account which has only access to publicly available net drives, that is, drives which are available w/o any form of

vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Horne
Hi All how do I set up syntax color coding with vim under cygwin? I use gvim in the Windows environmnt, and that seesm to be working okay. I've looked at the cygwin doco I could find, and it discusses windows and Unix - I'm not sure where cygwin fits into the scheme of thngs. For instance, I

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dan, Most likely all you need to know is where to put your color scheme files. If you're doing it all from Vim's rc file, then you need to use the right one: ~/.vimrc / $HOME/.vimrc. The Cygwin-hosted Vim is a non-GUI, Unix-style Vim (just vim or vi), _not_ a GUI, stand-alone one (gvim).

RE: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Horne
Thanks Randall upon further investigation (and putting .vimrc in my home directory on not gvimrc doh) I've discovered that color-coding is working if I use the command window. However, if I use rxvt, I lose color and instead get text emphasis in bolds and underlines. Obviously, I'm missing

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Dan Horne wrote: Thanks Randall upon further investigation (and putting .vimrc in my home directory on not gvimrc doh) I've discovered that color-coding is working if I use the command window. However, if I use rxvt, I lose color and instead get text emphasis in bolds and underlines.

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Dan Horne wrote: Hi term is set to xterm. If I do ls -l --color (or set the ls alias to do so), the listing is indeed in colour. Because 'ls.exe' is less careful about emitting color codes than vim is. You can even try this: within vim, type :se term=rxvt and the :r a file in. It

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Earnie Boyd wrote: Your wrapper script is a good idea but has the wrong name as has been pointed out already. It needs to be named i386-pc-mingw32-gcc and a copy as mingw32-gcc so that when specifying the --host=mingw32 or --host=i386-pc-mingw32 the configure script will find it

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread John Marshall
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:44:28PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote: I'm trying to get the solution and sent this questions to cygwin list and to cvs list already twice -- but the result is poor -- i got no concrete answer! Berating volunteers is probably not going to help your cause. Indeed.

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Hmmm...perhaps ESR's Smart Questions document should also state: Do not assume that respondents to your question on a mailing list will send the replies directly to you. Be sure to check the mailing list itself -- or the archives if you are not subscribed to it -- for replies to your

RE: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Horne
Thanks that worked Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Randall R Schulz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vim and color Dan Horne wrote: Hi term is set

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Gary, I was happy to learn about this: # Make insert actually useful \e[2~: paste-from-clipboard ...since it is not documented via man readline, man bash nor in my rather dated hard-copy BASH manual. However, I now have two questions: 1) Where does one find complete and definitive

No stderr output

2002-01-10 Thread William S Fulton
Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order it appears on the console using something like runme 12 filename I tried all sorts of

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin Autoconf 2.13 supports these options - so the

Re: No stderr output

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:07 PM 1/10/2002, William S Fulton wrote: Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order it appears on the console using something

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Jon Leichter [EMAIL PROTECTED] No. Specify --host. The meaning is clearly documented in the autoconf documentation. For clarity: build - what OS the compilation is running on.. host - what OS the binaries created should run on. target - what OS the

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jon Leichter wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: Your wrapper script is a good idea but has the wrong name as has been pointed out already. It needs to be named i386-pc-mingw32-gcc and a copy as mingw32-gcc so that when specifying the --host=mingw32 or --host=i386-pc-mingw32 the configure

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] My statements are based on the standard. For those packages conforming to AC_CAN0NICAL_SYSTEM my statements will make a difference. I'm saying you should just get used to always doing it that way so that you never have a

RE: Problem with winsup/cinstall compilation

2002-01-10 Thread Ralf Habacker
- Original Message - From: Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:45 PM Subject: Problem with winsup/cinstall compilation Hi, I've tried to compile a recent setup.exe from the cvs and got an error while compiling

gcc under windows xp

2002-01-10 Thread aon . 912166165 . 1
hi there! i previously used cygwin under a windows 2000 environment, and it worked really fine. (i more or less only use the gcc compiler and tools) but i got myself a new machine, and - bad luck - it only really runs fine under windows xp. So there i am on my win xp system, and, yes the cygwin

Re: gcc under windows xp

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:49 PM 1/10/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there! i previously used cygwin under a windows 2000 environment, and it worked really fine. (i more or less only use the gcc compiler and tools) but i got myself a new machine, and - bad luck - it only really runs fine under windows xp. So

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:31 PM To: Jon Leichter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin Using `gcc -mno-cygwin' is switching the build environment to

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Jon Leichter [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still don't understand why I'd want to symlink the binutils binaries. I WANT the Cygwin binutils. They don't generate object code; they operate on it. The Cygwin binutils do a fine job (as Cygwin binaries) operating on

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon Leichter wrote: It's true that I don't usually patch the script myself and send it back. In some cases, there isn't any organization to send the patches back to, e.g. GDBM. This is not an unsubstaniated statement. I sent patches to GDBM years ago, and nothing ever came of it. What

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably an issue, too. I don't know if something like If the first four bytes of a file are

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
OK, more detailed. I allow only absolute pathes in $SHELL and don't allow any *csh. If superuser then only shells from [/usr][/local]/bin are considered trusted shells. If not superuser shells from other directories are allowed, but if uid != euid or gid != egid the shell and the

rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined

2002-01-10 Thread RMDUVY
I want to rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined so wcstombs works when NULL is passed in as the first arg - wcstombs( NULL, wcstr, 0 ). Currently, this function always returns 0 because MB_CAPABLE is not defined when cygwin is initially installed. How do I rebuild libc.a? There are a lot of

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Ok. I need to return to asking some questions with my new understanding of --build, --host, and --target (which I'm incredibly grateful for and happy about). I have returned to working with OpenLDAP. The configure script is generated with autconf-2.13.1. It uses AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, which you

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