Bing!!! Give that man a cigar! Nope, better than that, I'm going to register my copy of Cygwin, dammit!
Thanks Harold. J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XWinClip Make sure that you have the latest cygwin1.dll from yesterday's release (run setup.exe again). Several issues related to the now default ``ntsec'' option were corrected, and one of these fixes may resolve your problems. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: >Hi Bradey, > > > Thanks for helping. > > Nope, it's not that. > For one thing, this IS happening on a local drive. >The NTFS security and permissions and ownership are set properly. > As for the Cygwin ownership and rights, I am the file's owner and have all >rights to it. > >As an aside, I went though the whole user/password procedure a while ago >when I couldn't start X anymore because the user I was logged on as did not >exist as a local user (domain user), and Cygwin's policy concerning such a >situation had changed. > >Maybe this is another manifestation of the problem that that policy change >caused. > >Um, could someone send me the XWinClip Test 06 source code in a zip file and >I'll build it... > >Anyhow, I'm not sure what version of XWinClip I'm currently running, but >after a paste or two, it starts taking a lot of CPU and doesn't work >anymore. > >If that is still going on in the Test 06 source, I might perform an analysis >and figure what is going wrong with it. > >J > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@;cygwin.com]On >Behalf Of Bradey Honsinger >Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:13 PM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: XWinClip > >I saw that just the other day--I didn't have the appropriate permissions to >a directory on a network share, so bunzip2 couldn't create the new file >without the .bz2 extension. The "Permission denied" message is a hint, I >think :) > >Try copying the file to a local directory that you know you have permissions >on--Cygwin's /tmp is a good candidate. Double-check the permissions in >Explorer, and make sure you're the owner of the directory. You may also want >to double-check that you've run mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd if you're in a >domain. > > - Bradey > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jean-Claude Gervais [mailto:jc.gervais@;videotron.ca] >Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:56 AM >To: Cygwin-XFree >Subject: XWinClip > > >Hi, > > I've followed the posted instructions for downloading and >installing XWinClip, but for some odd reason, I get the following error when >trying to extract the .EXE: > > > > >>bunzip2 xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2 >> >> > >bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. >bunzip2: Permission denied > Input file = xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2, output file = >xwinclip-Test06.exe >bunzip2: Deleting output file xwinclip-Test06.exe, if it exists. >/home/jc > > > > >I've also tried this on a totally different computer and gotten the same >result. >Anyone have a clue as to what the problem is? > > > >
