I used cygwin for the first time since three years ago when it seemed quite
different from now. It could have been longer.
I find the intention of the interface commendable but its implementation
confusing.
Normally, I choose FTP over HTTP for downloading. That's a mistake here,
because the
Yuk, top-posting. Reformatted.
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
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Sent: Tue, June 14, 2005 11:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. You may
Greetings,
It seems that package has been proposed couple of years ago. And
was rejected due to licence problems.
Here is the link :
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00348.html
However several things happend since then. First the ATT labs at
cambrige is no
Vlad wrote:
Greetings,
It seems that package has been proposed couple of years ago. And
was rejected due to licence problems.
Here is the link :
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00348.html
However several things happend since then. First the ATT labs at
cambrige
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Vlad wrote:
Greetings,
I appologize for the previous email with the wrong subject.
It seems that package has been proposed couple of years ago, and was
rejected due to licence problems.
Here is the link :
Hi,
our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on
Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a
result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and
not cygfreetype.dll ?
This is an old library from the
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote:
our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but
not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down
and as a result: What is the reason for naming
/usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygfreetype.dll ?
This
Hello!
I am using the latest version of Cygwin/X. I'm connecting to remote X
client under FreeBSD with command X -query IP.ADRESS. When it connects,
I must press functional keys twice to have any result. How can I get rid
of this?
Best regards,
Alexey.
I want to complete the story which has some point of interest.
Obviously, you are not obliged to replay, not to take care of
problems.
As you can see from this mailing list, after installing the
cygwin package 1.5.17-1 (26-27 May) I had a problem with Emacs:
it took all CPU (100%) and its
Ive recently realised the potential for my use of XDMX and id like to
be able to use Cygwin for it natively rather than adding more mess by
running a colinux X server and using Cygwin to display it.
After reviewing the Xorg archives ive discovered that the DMX
extentions have been apart of the
Hi,
I need dtterm for Cygwin to run test cases. Can I know is it available? If
available please let me know the location for downloading the dtterm setup.
Thanks and Regards,
Thontesh
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-14 12:22:15
Modified files:
winsup/cygserver: ChangeLog sysv_sem.cc
Log message:
* sysv_sem.cc (semu_list): Define static to avoid gcc 4.x compiler
warning.
Patches:
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-14 12:42:58
Modified files:
winsup/utils : ChangeLog parse_pe.cc
Log message:
* parse_pe.c (exclusion::sort_and_check): Remove crude cast.
Patches:
On Jun 13 15:36, Ross Boulet wrote:
When building dig on Cygwin, its configury should find
that libresolv
already exists and link against it. It's the minires and
minires-devel
packages you need for that.
Corinna
I did not have minires-devel installed. I have installed it
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave wrote:
chere adds a bash here context menu just fine. However:
Thanks for the report. Now how did that go unnoticed? More explicit instructions
No problem :) Also, as a feature request, and since you're touching it
anyway: Can you also add it to a folder's
I think I didn't mention this before: The installation program does not
remember the port of the proxy, it always defaults to 80. No biggie.
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Nils Jeppe wrote:
I think I didn't mention this before: The installation program does not
remember the port of the proxy, it always defaults to 80. No biggie.
This is fixed in recent versions of setup. Unfortunately there has not
yet been a new release, so unless you follow the cygwin-apps
Original Message
From: Brian Dessent
Sent: 14 June 2005 03:23
Procexp's virtual size column seems to be a meaningless number that
procexp somehow arrives at.
It's the amount of reserved-but-not-yert-committed memory.
It's not just cygwin processes that it
seems to come up with
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
This is fixed in recent versions of setup. Unfortunately there has not
yet been a new release, so unless you follow the cygwin-apps mailing
Okay, cool, thanks :-)
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Hi Peeps,
How do I downgrade Cygwin to an earlier version? I managed to compile
and successfully run htdig on cygwin last december. But now with the
same version of htdig it is giving nasty errors which is related to
cygwin. I want to revert to an older version .. how can I do it?
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:54:10AM +0200, Oliver Geisen wrote:
how can i read the version-number of an windows *.EXE file out of a
bash-script ?
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00882.html
Seems to be excactly what i want.
We have Cygwin 1.5.16 and is installed on Windows 2000 server.
When I run command
mkpasswd -l -d /etc/passwd
Or
mkgroup -l -d /etc/group,
I get the following error message
mkpasswd (249) : [5] Access denied
Please help me resolving this issue.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Jayant
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From: Dave d_inabox !at! yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:09:27 -0700 (PDT)
::chere adds a bash here context menu just fine. However:
::
::1) You have to click on a folder icon, clicking in a folder
:: that's open does not work
::2) It opens the shell not in the folder you clicked
Firstly I apologize for emailing you directly, I am not familiar with
posting to cygwin and couldn't see any other way to get in touch.
No problem, but the approved method is to send your query to cygwin a
cygwin d com, with screen in the subject. I should normally see that,
and then other
Original Message
From: Moghe, Jayant
Sent: 14 June 2005 12:25
We have Cygwin 1.5.16 and is installed on Windows 2000 server.
When I run command
mkpasswd -l -d /etc/passwd
Or
mkgroup -l -d /etc/group,
I get the following error message
mkpasswd (249) : [5] Access denied
How to check the permissions and change them?
Thanks.
Regards,
Jayant
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Of Dave Korn
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:38 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.5.16 (0.128/4/2): - mkpasswd (249) : [5]
Hello,
I have installed the latest version of cygwin on XP and it works fine.
I'm trying to write a small C application that reads data from a
Microphone. Another application is attempting to write data to the sound
card to be played.
Does anyone know how to open a connection (file descriptor)
yeah, I guess I should have clarified. every journal has their own
specific requirements for citation /method/, so that will depend on
which publication I decide to submit my article. I was more interested
in the content, i.e. author, title, publisher, year, etc. as some
projects such as the
Peter Waltman wrote:
since I used cygwin to implement my masters project (which I'm not
getting into publishable form),
Arturus Magi wrote:
Also, as a note: submitting a masters project may still be considered
distribution. You may want to solicit advice from a legal authority,
if
Original Message
From: Moghe, Jayant
Sent: 14 June 2005 13:11
How to [SNIP]
NUMBER ONE: Please read this entry in the cygwin acronym list and do what
it asks.
http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR
Every single time you reply to someone on this list, you cause them to
receive more
Original Message
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 June 2005 13:29
Hello,
I have installed the latest version of cygwin on XP and it works fine.
I'm trying to write a small C application that reads data from a
Microphone. Another application is attempting to write data to the sound
it shows bash-2.05b$ when i double click on cygwin.
in general, it should show something like this
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the 1st case, i cannot use ls.exe command while it lies under the folder
C:\cygwin\bin
how to make the cygwin work properly?
thank you in advance.
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:32:52AM +0100, Prash wrote:
How do I downgrade Cygwin to an earlier version? I managed to compile
and successfully run htdig on cygwin last december. But now with the
same version of htdig it is giving nasty errors which is related to
cygwin. I want to revert to an older
* wen (2005-06-14 14:55 +0100)
it shows bash-2.05b$ when i double click on cygwin.
in general, it should show something like this
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the 1st case, i cannot use ls.exe command while it lies under the folder
C:\cygwin\bin
The sense of this sentence is rather mysterious.
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jason Tishler wrote:
Oliver,
Please post instead of sending private email.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:54:10AM +0200, Oliver Geisen wrote:
how can i read the version-number of an windows *.EXE file out of a
bash-script ?
??
All I'm asking is where can I get an earlier version of cygwin
If you need more info then here's the post from htdig
-
htdig.exe refuses to run on Cygwin
htdig.exe crashes with DB2 error. Permissions are fine
and the script is being run as administrator. Both
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Still cannot reproduce (my Process Explorer shows the same numbers as the
TaskManager). Which version of Process Explorer are you using?
I can. I've just downloaded v9.11 for Win2K/XP/NT 32-bit.
Anyway, it shows these wildly inflated Virtual Sizes for a lot of
Original Message
From: Shankar Unni
Sent: 14 June 2005 18:10
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Still cannot reproduce (my Process Explorer shows the same numbers as the
TaskManager). Which version of Process Explorer are you using?
I can. I've just downloaded v9.11 for Win2K/XP/NT 32-bit.
Shaffer, Kenneth wrote:
After changing to a directory on another computer, I get bad file
descriptor from an ls command:
shaffekcd //explr_drivers5/reboot_results2
reboot_results2
shaffekls
ls: reading directory .: Bad file descriptor
I don't see this on my WinXP SP2 box running 1.5.17.
On Jun 13 20:12, Volker Quetschke wrote:
tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given. whoami is
only an example, this also happens to other programs.
[...]
And all lower case, (cygwin only). Try something like this:
Well, it seemed like a good idea way back when. But I
I'm trying to do a chroot-ed make which uses the content of the ${MAKE}
variable. What I'm finding is the value of ${MAKE} has two slashes '//'
at the beginning, so any attempt to use it failes (looks like a network
share).
I've created a directory, expanded cygwin-1.5.17-1.tar.bz2 into it,
I couldn't find it on Google and I feel it's a different thing than
running Linux X applications (like xterm etc.), which is done by Cygwin/X.
Is it possible to display Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?
What I mean, normally we do something like that:
windows_cygwin$ ssh -l user linuxbox
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:03:42PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
I couldn't find it on Google and I feel it's a different thing than
running Linux X applications (like xterm etc.), which is done by Cygwin/X.
Is it possible to display Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?
What I mean,
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
I want to do something in an opposite direction: start Windows apps on
Linux display:
linuxbox$ ssh -l user windows_cygwin -X
windows_cygwin$ notepad
or
windows_cygwin$ iexplore.exe
And these Windows applications would be displayed on my Linux.
Is it possible
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
I couldn't find it on Google and I feel it's a different thing than
running Linux X applications (like xterm etc.), which is done by
Cygwin/X.
Is it possible to display Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?
What I mean, normally we do something like that:
Hello,
I would recommend looking at VNC server.. If you run VNC server on your
windows box, you can log into it from your Linux VNC client and view
your Windows desktop... This works in both directions {you can run VNC
server on Linux and log into it from Windows}
Hope this can help...
On 14/06/05, Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* wen (2005-06-14 14:55 +0100)
it shows bash-2.05b$ when i double click on cygwin.
in general, it should show something like this
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the 1st case, i cannot use ls.exe command while it lies under the folder
PS:
If you are concerned about security {who isn't} You can tunnel VNC
through a SSH tunnel...
Michael Uman
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:02, Michael Uman wrote:
Hello,
I would recommend looking at VNC server.. If you run VNC server on your
windows box, you can log into it from your Linux
Perhaps there's some problem/issue with the permissions on the root of
your share that's confusing bash? Does this also happen in a
subdirectory of the share?
bash hasn't changed, only cygwin1.dll.
It also happens in a subdirectory of the share. I had posted an strace
output which I hope
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
(...)
And all lower case, (cygwin only). Try something like this:
Well, it seemed like a good idea way back when. But I agree that it's
probably not quite contemporary anymore.
Try the below patch. It removes the 'all lowercase' and it allows to enter
all tools with
Rolf Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to do a chroot-ed make which uses the content of the ${MAKE}
variable. What I'm finding is the value of ${MAKE} has two slashes '//'
at the beginning, so any attempt to use it failes (looks like a network
share).
I've created a directory, expanded
At 12:25 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote:
??
All I'm asking is where can I get an earlier version of cygwin
An earlier version (1) is available via 'setup.exe'. This is generally true
for all Cygwin packages. I doubt you'll find a version of Cygwin package
from December by downgrading via
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:14:41PM -0400, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:17:09AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
Perhaps there's some problem/issue with the permissions on the root of
your share that's confusing bash? Does this also happen in a
subdirectory of the share?
bash
Folks,
No matter what mirror I go to I get an error (incomplete
download) of groff. Specifically
groff-1.18.1-2.tar.bz2.
Any ideas why?
KW
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Can you also add it to a folder's context menu? Say, I have a
folder open, and I click on the folder window itself, instead of a folder
icon for a sub-folder. That'd be sweet.
If I understand what you mean, then I don't think it's possible. However, if you
can find
At 05:02 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote:
Folks,
No matter what mirror I go to I get an error (incomplete
download) of groff. Specifically
groff-1.18.1-2.tar.bz2.
Any ideas why?
Nope. No problems here using http://mirrors.rcn.net.
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Please don't. Try doing this instead:
c:\strace -ostrace.out bash
shaffekcd //explr_drivers5/reboot_results2
reboot_results2
shaffekls
Attached.
Try turning off strict case checking.
Pierre
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Michael Uman schrieb:
Hello,
I would recommend looking at VNC server.. If you run VNC server on your
windows box, you can log into it from your Linux VNC client and view
your Windows desktop... This works in both directions {you can run VNC
server on Linux and log into it from Windows}
I just tried that one and had the same issue.
But guess what!! It's our safe gateway software.
I downloaded all of cygwin, all of TeX, and Xemacs and only this file
was blocked.
I found out by going to the rcn.net site and my browser popped up a
Safe Gateway message.
Thanks all for all of your
You are making an assumption that MS Windows was designed as a networked
windowing system. It's not. It's not Cygwin's fault nor X windows fault
rather it is MS' fault in that their concept of GUI windowed apps is not
cleanly divided into the client/server paradigm.
No, I don't make any
Try turning off strict case checking.
That works, but now I'm not unix-like.
I put the strict case back and then tried the case that Windows shows in
the explorer, Explr_drivers5\Reboot_results2, and ls still failed.
In any event, looks like we're closer to solving the problem.
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I want to complete the story which has some point of interest.
Obviously, you are not obliged to replay, not to take care of
problems.
As you can see from this mailing list, after installing the
cygwin package 1.5.17-1 (26-27 May) I had a problem with Emacs:
it took all CPU (100%) and its
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:24:59PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
Please don't. Try doing this instead:
c:\strace -ostrace.out bash
shaffekcd //explr_drivers5/reboot_results2
reboot_results2
shaffekls
Attached.
Try turning off strict case checking.
Wow. I'm glad you noticed this.
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Michael Uman schrieb:
Hello,
I would recommend looking at VNC server.. If you run VNC server on
your windows box, you can log into it from your Linux VNC client and
view your Windows desktop... This works in both directions {you can
run VNC server on Linux and
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
You are making an assumption that MS Windows was designed as a
networked windowing system. It's not. It's not Cygwin's fault nor X
windows fault rather it is MS' fault in that their concept of GUI
windowed apps is not cleanly divided into the client/server paradigm.
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
Please don't. Try doing this instead:
c:\strace -ostrace.out bash
shaffekcd //explr_drivers5/reboot_results2
reboot_results2
shaffekls
Attached.
Try turning off strict case checking.
Pierre, would you mind elaborating on exactly
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:49:42PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
Please don't. Try doing this instead:
c:\strace -ostrace.out bash
shaffekcd //explr_drivers5/reboot_results2
reboot_results2
shaffekls
Attached.
Try turning off
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:52:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:49:42PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
Please don't. Try doing this instead:
c:\strace -ostrace.out bash
shaffekcd
Jason Tishler wrote:
Oliver,
Please post instead of sending private email.
By the way, FYI this is already in the OLOCA.
http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE :)
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Hi,
Thank you very much for your advise. I tried reinstalling cygwin and now
works nicely.
Thanks!
FBM
At 12:47 AM 6/13/2005, you wrote:
Hello,
I'm having problems understanding how cygwin handles the loading of
/etc/profile:
- My cygwin.bat says the following:
@echo off
At 09:12 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote:
Hi,
Thank you very much for your advise. I tried reinstalling cygwin and now works
nicely.
Glad to hear it. Something must have gone awry during your first install
somehow. Just another one of life's little mysteries. ;-)
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Andrew.Schulman wrote
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OK. I later changed the version number from 1 to 0test1, so the URLs for
download are now
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/screen/screen-4.0.2-0test1.tar.bz2
(binary)
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