Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Eliot Moss  wrote:
> On 2/23/2017 6:01 PM, Tony Kelman wrote:
>>>
>>> The big question remains, where this speed boost coming from?
>>> Is this a startup time? Or some internal slowness?
>>> Because in latter case, given your STC, this is a bash issue and should
>>> be
>>> reported upstream.
>>
>>
>> Dunno what you meant by STC,
>
>
> Indeed, this gives around 20 possibilities, none of which seem to fit:
>
> http://www.acronymfinder.com/Slang/STC.html
>
> Cheers!  Eliot Moss

Small Test Case.

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.6.0-1

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Vince Rice  wrote:
>> As the 84 year old guy who helps my 70 year old dad …
>
> H. Is one of you Benjamin Button? :)

That's what I thought when I first read this, but I re-read it a
couple of times, it makes sense :-)

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Re: libpng 1.6.24-1

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:56 PM, John W. T. Eaton
 wrote:
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: [Updated] Perl distributions

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Achim Gratz  wrote:
>
> Due to a problem during upload, these packages have been re-released as
> *-2 and the previous *-1 release has been removed:
>
> perl-Business-ISBN-2.011-2
> perl-Mojolicious-6.64-2
> perl-Regexp-Common-2016060801-2
> perl-XML-LibXML-2.0125-2

There appears to be a damaged version of perl-Mail-Box in
/blah/Downloads/http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f/noarch/release/perl-Mail-Box/perl-Mail-Box-2.118-1.tar.xz

Can't open 
/blah/Downloads/http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f/noarch/release/perl-Mail-Box/perl-Mail-Box-2.118-1.tar.xz
for reading:
unrecognizable file format

This has happened with three randomly chosen mirrors this today.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Linda Walsh <cyg...@tlinx.org> wrote:
> Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>
>> Hi;
>>
>>   cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied
>>
>>   I have several mounted partitions on my Windows machine (64bit Windows
>> 7).
>>
>>   Copying a file using cygwin cp , via mintty, from a mounted drive to
>> a local path, I frequently get the aforementioned message.
>>
>>   Is the partition not properly understood by Cygwin?
>>
>>   I really dislike having to use Windows in the first place, at least
>> Cygwin, when it works, makes it more bearable.
>>
>> The actual command was (line broken by backslash by me to make it more
>> readable):
>>
>>  cp /cygdrive/p/Engineering/Ken_Wolcott/new_Mobility_Audit_script/try1.pl
>> \
>> /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/kwolcott/Desktop/files4trombone/.
>>
> ---
> Does your 'cp' have any aliases or functions that get run?
>
> For example if you have a "cp -a" or "cp -au" as an alias, this
> can cause icky problems copying to or from a samba network drive
> from or to a local drive.
>
> I don't know if it is fixed in the latest tree, but I have
> a feeling it is not, because it's dang hard to fix.  But it has to
> do with maintaining files that are *linked* where it updates one of
> the linked files, then tries to copy the other, and finds it gone or
> finds some different answer for the link's updating due to it already
> having been copied over via the earlier linked-file.
>
> This can also happen due to having 2 differently-cased versions of the
> same file (as windows sees them as 1 file and tries to get rid of the copy).
> It can be reproduced on linux with any fs that allows
> case-insensitivity (but may also be case preserving).  Besides xfs
> having that for ascii since before xfs was on linux, I think some other
> FS's, zfs, maybe, and some planned future extensions
> to existing file systems.   Again, don't know the status of this
> bug either, but it might be related to how the case-insensitivity is
> done in the file system implementing it.
>
> Why do you have 'documents and settings' on your PC?  That went away
> with XP and was replaced by 'Users'.  Is the local file system
> NTFS?

1. I do think that the problem could be caused by have mixed-case
files in a case-insensitive partition..

2. I most often use the full path for cp, mv, rm, etc to avoid
customized behavior, so I don't think that's it.

3. I see that the "Documents and Settings" is a symlink, so I removed
it; thanks for mentioning that.

Thanks,
Ken

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Re: cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Kenneth Wolcott
> <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
>> <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>> On 05/11/2016 08:14 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi;
>>>>
>>>>cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied
>>>>
>>>>I have several mounted partitions on my Windows machine (64bit Windows
>>>> 7).
>>>>
>>>>Copying a file using cygwin cp , via mintty, from a mounted drive to
>>>> a local path, I frequently get the aforementioned message.
>>>>
>>>>Is the partition not properly understood by Cygwin?
>>>>
>>>>I really dislike having to use Windows in the first place, at least
>>>> Cygwin, when it works, makes it more bearable.
>>>>
>>>> The actual command was (line broken by backslash by me to make it more
>>>> readable):
>>>>
>>>>   cp /cygdrive/p/Engineering/Ken_Wolcott/new_Mobility_Audit_script/try1.pl
>>>> \
>>>> /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/kwolcott/Desktop/files4trombone/.
>>>
>>>
>>> Let me guess.  The mounted volume is a NetApp drive, no?  These are
>>> notorious for their bad behaviour.  Of course, they aren't the only ones.
>>> Still, it's hard to be too specific with sweeping statements without
>>> details from your side. ;-)  Please read and follow the problem reporting
>>> guidelines found at the link below:
>>>
>>>> Problem reports:   http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>>
>>>
>>> In addition, you can run '/usr/share/csih/getVolInfo' on the offending
>>> drive and send that information along as well.  If you've found a new
>>> kind (or version) of poorly-behaved drive, this information will help
>>> Cygwin special-case it.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Larry
>>
>> Hi Larry;
>>
>>   Thanks for the specific reminder on providing more information.
>>
>> cygcheck.out is attached (id block info redacted]
>>
>>  /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/p/Engineering/
>> Device Type: 7
>> Characteristics: 10
>> Volume Name: 
>> Serial Number  : 2684354572
>> Max Filenamelength : 255
>> Filesystemname : 
>> Flags  : 4004e
>>   FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : FALSE
>>   FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
>>   FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE
>>   FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE
>>   FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION   : FALSE
>>   FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS  : FALSE
>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : TRUE
>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
>>   FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: FALSE
>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: FALSE
>>   FILE_NAMED_STREAMS  : TRUE
>>   FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME   : FALSE
>>   FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
>>   FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wolcott
>
> Update:
>
> Well, the attachment is too big and was therefore rejected.  I have a
> *full* 64bit Cygwin installation :-)
>
> Ken

Attaching compressed cygcheck.out (might be rejected).

Ken


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Re: cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> On 05/11/2016 08:14 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi;
>>>
>>>cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied
>>>
>>>I have several mounted partitions on my Windows machine (64bit Windows
>>> 7).
>>>
>>>Copying a file using cygwin cp , via mintty, from a mounted drive to
>>> a local path, I frequently get the aforementioned message.
>>>
>>>Is the partition not properly understood by Cygwin?
>>>
>>>I really dislike having to use Windows in the first place, at least
>>> Cygwin, when it works, makes it more bearable.
>>>
>>> The actual command was (line broken by backslash by me to make it more
>>> readable):
>>>
>>>   cp /cygdrive/p/Engineering/Ken_Wolcott/new_Mobility_Audit_script/try1.pl
>>> \
>>> /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/kwolcott/Desktop/files4trombone/.
>>
>>
>> Let me guess.  The mounted volume is a NetApp drive, no?  These are
>> notorious for their bad behaviour.  Of course, they aren't the only ones.
>> Still, it's hard to be too specific with sweeping statements without
>> details from your side. ;-)  Please read and follow the problem reporting
>> guidelines found at the link below:
>>
>>> Problem reports:   http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
>>
>> In addition, you can run '/usr/share/csih/getVolInfo' on the offending
>> drive and send that information along as well.  If you've found a new
>> kind (or version) of poorly-behaved drive, this information will help
>> Cygwin special-case it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Larry
>
> Hi Larry;
>
>   Thanks for the specific reminder on providing more information.
>
> cygcheck.out is attached (id block info redacted]
>
>  /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/p/Engineering/
> Device Type: 7
> Characteristics: 10
> Volume Name: 
> Serial Number  : 2684354572
> Max Filenamelength : 255
> Filesystemname : 
> Flags  : 4004e
>   FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : FALSE
>   FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
>   FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE
>   FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE
>   FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION   : FALSE
>   FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS  : FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : TRUE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
>   FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: FALSE
>   FILE_NAMED_STREAMS  : TRUE
>   FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME   : FALSE
>   FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott

Update:

Well, the attachment is too big and was therefore rejected.  I have a
*full* 64bit Cygwin installation :-)

Ken

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cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  cp: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

  I have several mounted partitions on my Windows machine (64bit Windows 7).

  Copying a file using cygwin cp , via mintty, from a mounted drive to
a local path, I frequently get the aforementioned message.

  Is the partition not properly understood by Cygwin?

  I really dislike having to use Windows in the first place, at least
Cygwin, when it works, makes it more bearable.

The actual command was (line broken by backslash by me to make it more
readable):

 cp /cygdrive/p/Engineering/Ken_Wolcott/new_Mobility_Audit_script/try1.pl \
/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/kwolcott/Desktop/files4trombone/.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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a recent 32-bit Cygwin install completed with these Unknown package messages

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

a recent (last night into this morning) 32-bit Cygwin initial install
completed with these Unknown package messages

Package: _/Unknown package
mingw64-x86_64-glib2.0-networking.sh exit code 126
mingw64-x86_64-librsvg2.sh exit code 126
mingw64-x86_64-libwmf.sh exit code 126
x3270.sh exit code 1

Is it important/valuable to report these anomalies when they happen?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 20/04/2016 19:38, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Marco Atzeri  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 20/04/2016 04:01, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> check error on
>>>   /var/log/setup.log.full
>>
>>
>> Mi Marco;
>>
>>   Here is an excerpt from /var/logs/setup.log.full that might be
>> pertinent:
>>
>> 2016/04/19 18:47:35 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc
>> --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh"
>> Fontconfig error:
>> "/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-google-noto-nastaliq-urdu.conf", line 35:
>> mismatched tag
>> /usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
>> /usr/share/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
>> 2016/04/19 18:47:41 abnormal exit: exit code=2
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wolcott
>
>
>
> The 2nd may be a side effect of font-tektronix-misc upgrade.
>
> The Tektronix fonts were moved from /usr/share/fonts/misc to
> /usr/share/fonts/tektronix
>
> What is the content of /usr/share/fonts/misc ?
>
> Can you check if fonts.dir and fonts.scale content
> fit with the current directory status ?

Hi Marco;

 ls /usr/share/fonts/misc
3270.pcf.gz 3270-12b.pcf.gz  3270-20b.pcf.gz  3270gr.pcf.gz
3270gt12b.pcf.gz  3270gt16b.pcf.gz  3270gt24b.pcf.gz  3270gt32b.pcf.gz
 3270h.pcf.gz
3270-12.pcf.gz  3270-20.pcf.gz   3270b.pcf.gz 3270gt12.pcf.gz
3270gt16.pcf.gz   3270gt24.pcf.gz   3270gt32.pcf.gz   3270gt8.pcf.gz
 fonts.scale

BTW, I have updated 64-bit Cygwin this morning without any errors.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/04/2016 04:01, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>
>> Hi;
>>
>> Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit
>> code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh
>>
>> Package: z/Perpetual
>> zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 2
>>
>> Ken Wolcott
>>
>
> check error on
>   /var/log/setup.log.full

Mi Marco;

  Here is an excerpt from /var/logs/setup.log.full that might be pertinent:

2016/04/19 18:47:35 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc
--noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh"
Fontconfig error:
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-google-noto-nastaliq-urdu.conf", line 35:
mismatched tag
/usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
/usr/share/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
2016/04/19 18:47:41 abnormal exit: exit code=2

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

Just finished updating my 64-bit Cygwin; at the end I have an exit
code of 2 from zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

Package: z/Perpetual
zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 2

Ken Wolcott

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Cygwin certificate is not trusted? Unknown issuer?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

wget fails

 https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
Resolving cygwin.com (cygwin.com)... 209.132.180.131
Connecting to cygwin.com (cygwin.com)|209.132.180.131|:443... connected.
ERROR: The certificate of ‘cygwin.com’ is not trusted.
ERROR: The certificate of ‘cygwin.com’ hasn't got a known issuer.

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Re: Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 12:13 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>>   Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced
>> while being copied
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 KWOLCOTT-9010 2.5.0(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-11 09:58 x86_64 Cygwin
>>
>> $ mv new_Perforce_account_request.txt ~/.
>> mv: skipping file 'new_Perforce_account_request.txt', as it was
>> replaced while being copied
>>
>> $ pwd
>> /cygdrive/p/Engineering/EOSS_Tableau/SFDC
>
> That's often the case of a drive that has unstable inode numbers.  What
> does /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/p/Engineering/EOSS_Tableau/SFDC
> say about your drive? It may be some buggy file system that cygwin needs
> to learn how to work around.
>

$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/p/Engineering/EOSS_Tableau/SFDC
Device Type: 7
Characteristics: 10
Volume Name: 
Serial Number  : 2684354572
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname : 
Flags  : 4004e
  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : FALSE
  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE
  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE
  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION   : FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: FALSE
  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS  : TRUE
  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME   : FALSE
  FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE

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Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced while being copied

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  Cygwin mv and cp fail: skipping file 'file', as it was replaced
while being copied

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 KWOLCOTT-9010 2.5.0(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-11 09:58 x86_64 Cygwin

$ mv new_Perforce_account_request.txt ~/.
mv: skipping file 'new_Perforce_account_request.txt', as it was
replaced while being copied

$ pwd
/cygdrive/p/Engineering/EOSS_Tableau/SFDC

$ cp new_Perforce_account_request.txt ~/.
cp: skipping file 'new_Perforce_account_request.txt', as it was
replaced while being copied

What's up with this?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Near the end of the Cygwin (64bit) update process today, an error regarding zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  FYI:

  Near the end of the Cygwin (64bit) update process today, an error
regarding zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

Package: z/Perpetual
zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 1

  I thought that it might be good to report this.

Ken Wolcott

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Every time I update 64bit Cygwin refresh the following happens: 'Package: _/Unknown package' 'x3270.sh exit code 1'

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi All;

Every time I update 64bit Cygwin refresh the following happens:

Package: _/Unknown package
x3270.sh exit code 1

Just curious, is this an obsolete/orphaned package?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: fts_read failed error during Cygwin find, du, etc operations

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mar 21 10:22, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Wolcott
>> <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen
>> >> Netapp drives are a bit tricky.  They already get some special handling
>> >> in Cygwin, but that may be outdated.  For a start, can you make sure you
>> >> have the csih package installed and run
>> >>
>> >>   $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/y
>> >>
>> >> Also, it would be interesting to see an strace of a failing command like
>> >> above, e.g.
>> >>
>> >>   $ strace -o du.strace du -sh /cygdrive/y/Some_Large_Directory
>> >>
>> >> If that works fine it's worthless, but if it fails as you mention
>> >> above, please send the du.strace file as attachment to this list.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Corinna
>> >
>> > Hi Corinna;
>> >
>> >   1. Many files, not necessarily a long directory name.
>> >
>> >   2.  Output requested:
>> > $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/y
>> > Device Type: 7
>> > Characteristics: 10
>> > Volume Name: 
>> > Serial Number  : 2684354580
>> > Max Filenamelength : 255
>> > Filesystemname : 
>> > Flags  : 4000e
>> >   FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : FALSE
>   ^^^
>   This means the drive won't be recognized as a Netapp drive.  A
>   Netapp is expected to have this flag set to TRUE.  I can change
>   that, but it won't probably help at all in your case.
>
>> >   FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
>> >   FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE
>> >   FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE
>> >   FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION   : FALSE
>> >   FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS  : FALSE
>> >   FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : FALSE
>> >   FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
>> >   FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
>> >   FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
>> >   FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: FALSE
>> >   FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: FALSE
>> >   FILE_NAMED_STREAMS  : TRUE
>> >   FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME   : FALSE
>> >   FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
>> >   FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE
>> >
>> >   3. Attached strace output.
>
> The strace does not contain any error which isn't expected.  Are you
> sure the problem occured when you created this trace?
>
>
> Corinna

  Hi Corinna;

  Thank you for your analysis.

  Yes, many/most (not all) of the people here like Windows (SIGH), so
they dumb everything down to fit Windows, so yes, the NetApp is
mounted with case insensitively.

  Yes, I'm quite sure that this "fts_read failed" error occurred
during the trace call.

  I ran your suggested command again:

strace -o du.strace du -sh /cygdrive/y/Mobility/
du: fts_read failed:
/cygdrive/y/Mobility/Darkeyes/Dailybuilds/client/iphone/6.1.30.121/RadSipIPhone/appl:
No such file or directory

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: fts_read failed error during Cygwin find, du, etc operations

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen
> <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 18 14:50, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>> Hi;
>>>
>>>   I am using a daily refreshed Cygwin64 on WIndows 7 Enterprise.
>>>
>>>   When I mount fairly large NetApp volumes and perform a
>>>
>>> du -sh path
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> find path etc
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> rm -rf path
>>>
>>> where path is involved in the mount. like /cygdrive/y/ as mentioned below;
>>>
>>> (those are the three that I remember, all apps recursive descend a
>>> directory tree);
>>>
>>> I'll frequently get the following error.
>>>
>>> du -sh /cygdrive/y/Some_Large_Directory
>>> du: fts_read failed:
>>> /cygdrive/y/Some_Large_Directory/dir/dir/dir/file: No such file or
>>> directory
>>
>> By "Some_Large_Directory", do you mean a directory with a long name, or
>> a directory with lots of files in it?  If the latter, is there a chance
>> that you get very long pathnames while descending into the dir, like,
>> say, longer than 260 chars?  (Just a hunch...)
>>
>>> So, what is the cause of this and what is the remedy or workaround?
>>>
>>> So far I have no choice but to fall back to the dos window and dos
>>> commands or the windows file explorer where I would much rather be
>>> using Cygwin.
>>
>> Netapp drives are a bit tricky.  They already get some special handling
>> in Cygwin, but that may be outdated.  For a start, can you make sure you
>> have the csih package installed and run
>>
>>   $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/y
>>
>> Also, it would be interesting to see an strace of a failing command like
>> above, e.g.
>>
>>   $ strace -o du.strace du -sh /cygdrive/y/Some_Large_Directory
>>
>> If that works fine it's worthless, but if it fails as you mention
>> above, please send the du.strace file as attachment to this list.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Corinna
>
> Hi Corinna;
>
>   1. Many files, not necessarily a long directory name.
>
>   2.  Output requested:
> $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/y
> Device Type: 7
> Characteristics: 10
> Volume Name: 
> Serial Number  : 2684354580
> Max Filenamelength : 255
> Filesystemname : 
> Flags  : 4000e
>   FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : FALSE
>   FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
>   FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE
>   FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE
>   FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION   : FALSE
>   FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS  : FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
>   FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: FALSE
>   FILE_NAMED_STREAMS  : TRUE
>   FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME   : FALSE
>   FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
>   FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE
>
>   3. Attached strace output.

I will try to send the attachment again, this time compressed, as the
email I sent was rejected as the attachment was too large.

> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott


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fts_read failed error during Cygwin find, du, etc operations

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I am using a daily refreshed Cygwin64 on WIndows 7 Enterprise.

  When I mount fairly large NetApp volumes and perform a

du -sh path

or

find path etc

or

rm -rf path

where path is involved in the mount. like /cygdrive/y/ as mentioned below;

(those are the three that I remember, all apps recursive descend a
directory tree);

I'll frequently get the following error.

du -sh /cygdrive/y/Some_Large_Directory
du: fts_read failed:
/cygdrive/y/Some_Large_Directory/dir/dir/dir/file: No such file or
directory

So, what is the cause of this and what is the remedy or workaround?

So far I have no choice but to fall back to the dos window and dos
commands or the windows file explorer where I would much rather be
using Cygwin.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: Can the Perl module Date::Calc be added to Cygwin please?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Kenneth Wolcott writes:
>>   Please add Date::Calc Perl module to Cygwin.
>
> I'd consider that, but: What does it do that the available modules from
> Date-Simple and DateTime don't?
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.

 I'll look into those Perl Modules, thanks for the tip.

Ken

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Can the Perl module Date::Calc be added to Cygwin please?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  Please add Date::Calc Perl module to Cygwin.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Using Perl on Cygwin; how to prevent display of unwanted usage/error message?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I'm using a qx call to "net user username /DOMAIN" (probably should
use system instead) to determine whether a person having an active
account in an application is still an employee.

  I get two messages back (error and/or usage) when a username is not found.

"The user name could not be found."

and

"More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2221."

I'd like to hide (not display, not print) these two messages.

Coming from a UNIX/Linux background, I'd do a "2>&1 > /dev/null"
operation to dispose of STDOUT and STDERR, but "1<&2 > NUL" (suggested
by

"https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/redirection.mspx?mfr=true;

does not seem to work.

  I tried file descriptor 3, but that resulted in an error regarding
unsupported file handle,. or something like that.

  I was considering using IPC::Run3, but I don't think that will help
with suppressing error message and usage message.

Perhaps there is a Perl module that is native to Cygwin that will
perform this kind of lookup for me?  Maybe a Perl module that is NOT
native to Cygwin?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: Using Perl on Cygwin; how to prevent display of unwanted usage/error message?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Kenneth Wolcott
> <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>>   I'm using a qx call to "net user username /DOMAIN" (probably should
>> use system instead) to determine whether a person having an active
>> account in an application is still an employee.
>>
>>   I get two messages back (error and/or usage) when a username is not found.
>>
>> "The user name could not be found."
>>
>> and
>>
>> "More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2221."
>>
>> I'd like to hide (not display, not print) these two messages.
>>
>> Coming from a UNIX/Linux background, I'd do a "2>&1 > /dev/null"
>> operation to dispose of STDOUT and STDERR, but "1<&2 > NUL" (suggested
>> by
>>
>> "https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/redirection.mspx?mfr=true;
>>
>> does not seem to work.
>>
>>   I tried file descriptor 3, but that resulted in an error regarding
>> unsupported file handle,. or something like that.
>>
>>   I was considering using IPC::Run3, but I don't think that will help
>> with suppressing error message and usage message.
>>
>> Perhaps there is a Perl module that is native to Cygwin that will
>> perform this kind of lookup for me?  Maybe a Perl module that is NOT
>> native to Cygwin?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wolcott
>>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Erik Soderquist
<eriksoderqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In cygwin, I use >/dev/null 2>&1 quite frequently and it works as expected.
>
> In windows cmd.exe, I don't know why they would recommend the < part
> for dealing with output, but I have used >NUL 2>&1 for the same effect
> in Windows command shells.
>
> -- Erik

Hi Erik;

  Thank you!  ">/dev/null 2>&1" solved the problem of hiding the
information I did not want displayed.

Thanks,
Ken

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Re: Taking a very long time to run /etc/postinstall/texlive-dollection-context.sh

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 1/18/2016 4:06 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>
>> Hi;
>>
>> Taking a very long time to run
>> /etc/postinstall/texlive-dollection-context.sh
>>
>> How long should it take?  I've had to terminate it prior to completion
>> a couple of times because I had to logout of the machine (Windows 2008
>> Standard server).  The longest I had it run  was about 18 hours.
>
>
> It should take less than a minute.  Here's what the script does:
>
> /usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --enablefmt cont-en/pdftex
> /usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --enablefmt cont-en/xetex
> /usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en
>
> Can you run those commands manually and see what the problem is?
>
> Ken

Thank you!

/usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --enablefmt cont-en/pdftex
  2 [main] perl 25628 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap
IO.dll to same address as parent (0x2C) - try running rebaseall
Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/fmtutil line 75.
  1 [main] perl 25368 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed
by 'IO.dll' (0x2C) is already occupied
Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/fmtutil line 75.
  2 [main] perl 26468 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed
by 'Glob.dll' (0x2D) is already occupied
Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/fmtutil line 75.
  2 [main] perl 24024 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap
Encode.dll to same address as parent (0x26) - try running
rebaseall
Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/fmtutil line 75.
[I killed it at this point]

Ken Wolcott

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Taking a very long time to run /etc/postinstall/texlive-dollection-context.sh

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

Taking a very long time to run /etc/postinstall/texlive-dollection-context.sh

How long should it take?  I've had to terminate it prior to completion
a couple of times because I had to logout of the machine (Windows 2008
Standard server).  The longest I had it run  was about 18 hours.

  Sometimes I wish that TexLive could be its own group in Cygwin as
there are times that I'd like to pick most of what is in the Text
Cygwin group without TexLive and sometimes I'd like to just pick
TexLive..  Other times I'd just skip the Text Cygwin group completely.

  In this case I really don't need TexLive but I like to have several
other of the packages that are in the Text Cygwin group.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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has anyone used Cygwin as a build system for android?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I'm considering using Cygwin as a build system for android.  I'm
totally new at this.  What would I need that Cygwin itself does not
provide?  I know I need an Android SDK and an Android NDK (I have to
build/link C/C++ with Java too).  I assume that I will need Oracle
Java.

  Is this doable?  I'm trying to build android on Mac and Linux as
preferable alternates.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: mksnt sh is invoked when executing cygwin icon;

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> wrote:
> On 26.11.2015 09:26, EXT David Macek wrote:
>>
>> On 26. 11. 2015 2:27, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi;
>>>
>>>It seems that a 32bit Windows server with a pre-existing MKS Toolkit
>>> installation prevents an interactive Cygwin window (mintty) from
>>> starting properly.
>>>
>>>If the c:\mksnt directory (where MKS Tookkit is installed) is
>>> renamed to c:\NOTmksnt, then double-clicking the Cygwin icon results
>>> in:
>>>
>>> "Failed to run C:/mksnt/sh.exe: No such file or directory"
>>>
>>> But if the c:\NOTmksnt directory is renamed back to what it was, then
>>> the window opens up with sh.exe from mksnt instead of bash and seems
>>> to hang for a very long time.
>>>
>>> Why is this?  Part of me thinks that Cygwin and MKS Toolkit should
>>> just coexist just fine, each not knowing about the other (c:\cygwin
>>> and c:\mksnt).  Part of me thinks that I'd like to have Cygwin come
>>> first in the path rather than having c:\mksnt first in the path.  Is
>>> there a way to force the Cygwin install process (or fix it afterward)
>>> to put Cygwin first?
>>>
>>>I tried to change /etc/profile so that the PATH variable was set to
>>> exclusively Cygwin stuff, but that had no effect.
>>>
>>>How to fix this outside Cygwin? (The Windows side)
>>>
>>>How to fix this inside Cygwin?
>>
>> Sounds to me like your login shell is hard-coded to C:/mksnt/sh.exe.
>>
>> What does `getent passwd $(whoami) | cut -d: -f7` say (run
>> `C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i` directly to get a working shell)?

/bin/bash

> And what does `readshortcut -a "$Desktop/Cygwin Terminal.lnk"` say?

readshortcut: Load failed on C:\cygwin\Cygwin Terminal.lnk

What does that imply?

Thanks!
Ken

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mksnt sh is invoked when executing cygwin icon;

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  It seems that a 32bit Windows server with a pre-existing MKS Toolkit
installation prevents an interactive Cygwin window (mintty) from
starting properly.

  If the c:\mksnt directory (where MKS Tookkit is installed) is
renamed to c:\NOTmksnt, then double-clicking the Cygwin icon results
in:

"Failed to run C:/mksnt/sh.exe: No such file or directory"

But if the c:\NOTmksnt directory is renamed back to what it was, then
the window opens up with sh.exe from mksnt instead of bash and seems
to hang for a very long time.

   Why is this?  Part of me thinks that Cygwin and MKS Toolkit should
just coexist just fine, each not knowing about the other (c:\cygwin
and c:\mksnt).  Part of me thinks that I'd like to have Cygwin come
first in the path rather than having c:\mksnt first in the path.  Is
there a way to force the Cygwin install process (or fix it afterward)
to put Cygwin first?

  I tried to change /etc/profile so that the PATH variable was set to
exclusively Cygwin stuff, but that had no effect.

  How to fix this outside Cygwin? (The Windows side)

  How to fix this inside Cygwin?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Install Cygwin on mounted drive for multiple concurrent users on multiple machines?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I didn't see this in the Cygwin FAQ (perhaps I didn't look carefully
enough or perhaps it is too obvious a question).

  Instead of installing Cygwin on each Windows machine, is it
advisable to install it once on a public mounted drive?  Then not only
multiple users (concurrent or not) could use Cygwin on multiple
machines (concurrently or not) from one place.  Since many of the
machines I want to install Cygwin are short of disk space on the local
drive, but there seems to be sufficient space for a slightly larger
than minimal Cygwin installation on a public drive, is this advisable?
 I guess I'd see a performance hit if Cygwin were not installed on a
local drive.  Are there any other concerns?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Can MKS Toolkit and Cygwin safely co-exist on Windows servers?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I now work in a Windows-centric build and release environment.

  The MKS Toolkit currently exists on most (if not all) of the Windows servers.

  If I were to install Cygwin, would it conflict with MKS Toolkit?

  Secondly, I'm really confused about 32bit versus 64bit servers;
should I just use 32bit Cygwin to be sure?

  I'd like to eventually replace MKS Toolkit with Cygwin if everything
works out.

  I have the feeling that I'm wading into the deep part of the pool
and I don't know how to swim :-)

  Thanks in advance for advice and pointers.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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FYI: Unknown package error during post-installation of 32-bit cywgin

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

FYI: Unknown package error during post-installation of 32-bit cywgin:

Package: Unknown package
mate-session-manager.sh exit code 127
openbox.sh exit code 127
WindowMaker.sh exit code 127
xfce4-session.sh exit code 127
xinit.sh exit code 127

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Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or
not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@yandex.ru wrote:
 Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott!

   Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or
 not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin?

 If you clarify, what exactly you are trying to achieve, it would be immensely
 easier to answer your question, and the answer will be much more useful.

 That aside, I see a very short list of commands that have no equivalents in
 Cygwin environment, and very few of them are actually sensible.

 Soo... which of the.. what? two commands? you plan to use?

 My list is as follows:

 1. Internal commands affecting the system, but have no counterpart in Cygwin:
 ASSOC
 ERASE
 FTYPE
 VERIFY
 VOL (?)

 2. Internal commands with no meaning outside interpreter, or even restricted
 to use in batch files, which may or may not have equivalents in Cygwin:
 BREAK
 CALL
 CLS
 CMD
 COLOR
 DIR
 ECHO
 ENDLOCAL
 EXIT
 FOR
 GOTO
 HELP
 IF
 PAUSE
 PROMPT
 REM
 SETLOCAL
 SHIFT
 TITLE
 VER

 3. Internal commands, that have appropriate counterparts in Cygwin:
 CD
 CHDIR
 COPY
 DATE
 DEL
 DOSKEY
 MD
 MKDIR
 MOVE
 PATH
 POPD
 PUSHD
 RD
 REN
 RENAME
 REPLACE
 RMDIR
 SET
 START (y/n)
 TIME
 TYPE

 External utilities disguised as internal commands, which may or may not have
 counterparts in Cygwin:
 AT
 ATTRIB
 CACLS
 CHCP
 CHKDSK
 CHKNTFS
 COMP
 COMPACT
 CONVERT
 DISKCOMP
 DISKCOPY
 FC
 FIND
 FINDSTR
 FORMAT
 GRAFTABL
 LABEL
 MORE
 PRINT
 RECOVER
 SORT
 SUBST
 TREE
 XCOPY

Hi Audrey;

  I was going to execute a MS-VC++ compiler command, not a DOS/Windows command.

  I want to do as much as I could for capturing the stdout/stderr
output and for capturing the exit status like I would as if I were on
a Linux system, or the best that I can under these circumstances.

Thanks,
Ken

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pristine-tar fails on postinstall for x86: unknown package

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

FYI.

pristine-tar fails on postinstall for x86: unknown package

uname -r reports 1.7.25(0.270/5/3)

obtained fresh setup-86.exe prior to updating.

Thanks,
Ken

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brltty postinstall error during setup-x86.exe Cygwin install

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

Here's the error during the install:

Package: Unknown package
brltty.sh exit code 1

Here's the pertinent line in the /var/log/setup.log.full:

2013/07/30 20:56:03 running: C:\cygwin32\bin\bash.exe --norc
--noprofile /etc/postinstall/brltty.sh
cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: OpenService:  Win32 error 1073:
The specified service already exists.^M

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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please update the supported Cygwin package list to be distinct for 32-bit, 64-bit or both; and help on how install both in a merged fashion

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

please update the supported Cygwin package list to be distinct for
32-bit, 64-bit or both; and help on how install both in a merged
fashion

I noticed cgf's mirrored cgwin installation for 64-bit and 32-bit
Cygwin: very nice.

Now, you guys might think I'm 100% nuts, but I download *everything*
and install *everything* from Cygwin, although there is very little
that I configure (I use the applications out-of-the-box).  [for
example, I never have configured an ssh server on Cygwin].

So, not all of the Cygwin packages are 64-bit yet (looking forward to that day).

So, what I would like to do is:

1. download all 64-bit packages;
2. download all 32-bit packages that aren't already represented in 64-bit form;
3. somehow install so that I have everything from both #1 and #2;

I could do the following:

1. Download all of the 64-bit Cygwin packages;
2. Download all of the 32-bit packages (inefficient, but the command
line install is hard to program);
3. Delete all 32-bit packages that are represented in the 64-bit download;
4. modify the text file (?) installed_db?
5. Install from the download directory the 64-bit products;
6. install from the download directory the 32-bit products;

Now, is there a better way to do this?

Another thought that I had was that I would have two distinct Cygwin
installations, one fully 64-bit and the other one would be fully
32-bit.

I guess what I'd like to have is a hybrid of cgf's method and the
combination of two distinct Cygwin installations, one 32-bit and the
other 64-bit.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list to be distinct for 32-bit, 64-bit or both; and help on how install both in a merged fashion

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:42 PM, marco atzeri marco.atz...@gmail.com wrote:
 Il 7/27/2013 5:18 AM, Kenneth Wolcott ha scritto:

 Hi;

 please update the supported Cygwin package list to be distinct for
 32-bit, 64-bit or both; and help on how install both in a merged
 fashion


 there is no merged way.
 The 32bit and the 64bit could be installed in different directory
 but NOT in the same one.

Hi Marco;

  Thanks for your reply.

  I guess I will somehow modify my PATH so that I have
/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/usr/bin and /cygdrive/c/cygwin32/usr/bin
(although I don't think that will work exactly like that).  Some fstab
magic?  Some symlink magic?

  I will continue experimenting.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: setup-x86_64: postinstall errors: Package bash 1, Package a2ps 2 and xinit 134

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi All;

  Again, first of all, thanks for Cygwin!  And thanks for Cygwin 64!

  Since almost all pertinent context in this email thread is now
scattered (at least for me), I have removed all prior content in this
reply.

  I just ran an update using the same mirror (kernel.org) I usually use.

  I was warned that my setup.ini was newer than my setup*.exe so I
terminated the update.

  I downloaded a fresh setup-x86_64.exe from cygwin.com and then ran
the update again.

  Now I get only this postinstall error:

  Package: xinit
xinit.sh exit code 134

  The a2ps and bash postinstall errors have vanished.

  The output of uname -a is: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 User-PC 1.7.22(0.268/5/3)
2013-07-22 17:06 x86_64 Cygwin

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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setup-x86_64: postinstall errors: Package bash 1, Package a2ps 2 and xinit 134

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

I think 64bit Cygwin is awesome :-)

FYI: trivial postinstall errors:

Downloaded setup-x86_64.exe from cygwin.com
Selected c:\cygwin64 as install point
Selected c:\cygwin64\download as download location
Requested Install from Internet

Postinstall errors:

Package: bash
bash.sh exit code 1
Package: a2ps
a2ps.sh exit code 2
Package: xinit
xinit.sh exit code 134

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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During postinstall, warning: Package: Unknown package; a2ps.sh exit code 2

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

Package: Unknown package
a2ps.sh exit code 2

Is there a missing dependency?

This is what happens when I run sh /etc/postinstall/a2ps.sh manually
from mintty:

$ sh -xv /etc/postinstall/a2ps.sh
if [ ! -f /etc/a2ps-site.cfg ]
then
/usr/bin/mkdir -p /etc
/usr/bin/cp /etc/defaults/etc/a2ps-site.cfg /etc/a2ps-site.cfg
fi
+ '[' '!' -f /etc/a2ps-site.cfg ']'

if [ ! -f /etc/a2ps.cfg ]
then
/usr/bin/mkdir -p /etc
/usr/bin/cp /etc/defaults/etc/a2ps.cfg /etc/a2ps.cfg
fi
+ '[' '!' -f /etc/a2ps.cfg ']'

cd /usr/share/a2ps/afm
+ cd /usr/share/a2ps/afm
./make_fonts_map.sh  /bin/mv -f fonts.map.new fonts.map
+ ./make_fonts_map.sh
Looking for the afm files read by a2ps...
a2ps: unknown medium `libpaper'
Extracting font names...
Sorting entries...
sort: open failed: fonts.map.new: No such file or directory

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: [OT] Directory separator symbol

[Kenneth Wolcott]

VMS.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@freemail.ru wrote:
 Greetings, All!

 I'm sorry for this off-topic question, but knowing that this list is full of
 people with different experience, I though I might ask.
 Anyone know a filesystem or operating system, which is using directory
 separator symbols other than / ?
 (Microsoft Windows doesn't count - it does not make a difference between /
 and \ on the very low level. I can't think of a filesystem call, which would
 fail, if you supply forward slash instead of backslash.)

 If you wish to reply to this message, please use reply to author function of
 your mailer, and make sure that your reply destination address does not
 include Cygwin mailing list. The question is not intended for discussion and
 is obviously off-topic, for which I apologize.


 --
 WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 05.12.2012, 23:30

 Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by make make.out

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 19:05, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolc...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 18:52, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu
 wrote:

 Cygwin:

 I've already run an earlier version of this through the list to see if I
 was dealing with pilot error. Its gotten to the point that it was suggested
 I consult http://cygwin.com/problems.html and submit.

 The issue came up when I did a Windows cut-and-paste of a directory in my
 cygwin home, cd-ed to it, and got a basename error when I ran make. Was able
 to figure out that make didn't like Copy\ of\ myStuff and all I had to do
 was remove the spaces and everything was happy.

 But while trying to debug, I found another issue. The first is that I
 wanted to trap all output to a file so I could run make -d to see where
 basename was getting called. So, I used make -d  make.out per #3.6 in
 http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-3.html. Everything except the
 basename error went to the file ... basename still printed to the screen.
 Tried other variations with no success. That's when it was suggested I do
 the report.html.

 I went through the archives and the closest I found was a 2005 post with
 a basename error, but it seemed to not cover what I was seeing.

 To show the problem:

 Create a directory called myStuff in one's cygwin home directory. Do a
 cd myStuff and run make. It will say no targets or makefile found. Now,
 open the cygwin home directory with a Windows right click Open. Do a Copy
 and then a Paste of myStuff to get Copy\ of\ myStuff. Do a cd into that
 directory and run make. I am getting:
 +++
 $make
 basename: extra operand 'myStuff'
 Try 'basename --help' for more information.
 make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
 +++

 That's the original problem and this test proves that it is nothing in my
 makefile as there is no makefile, its happening in the execution of make.
 With make -d, it still is the first thing called before one gets the opening
 stuff about which version, no warranty, etc..

 If I type make  make.out, the basename error still goes to the screen
 and the no target/makefile goes to make.out.

 The issue I am reporting is the lack of capturing the basename error to
 make.out, though I do think basename not being able to understand
 directories with space(s) is a nuisance worth noting.

 Please let me know if there is any other info I can provide (cygcheck
 attached)
 Thanks,
 Paul

Is it possible that scripts and executables write to file descripter 3 or
4 or 5?  File descriptor 0 is STDIN (normally), and file descriptor 1 is
STDOUT (normally) and file descripter 2 is SDTERR (normally).

So, perhaps you might want to try to capture/merge the output of file
descriptor 3, or 4 or 5?

The syntax for merging is quite similar to the 21 for bash which means
please merge the STDERR with the STDOUT.

HTH,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:12, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolc...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
 On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
 Hi;

 mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The
 RPC server is unavailable

 The User's Guide may help:

 http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup
 http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd

 Try `mkpasswd -l  /etc/passwd'.  Otherwise /etc/passwd is treated as
 argument to the -l option.

 Is this a result of Cygwin not being formally supported for 64-bit WIndows?

 Who on earth told you that?  See http://cygwin.com/


 Corinna


  Oh my!  :-)

  My vision is really getting bad!  I did not see that I missed the 
 redirection.

  Thank you for the gentle correction; it works fine now.

  Sorry for the noise.

 Ken

Update:

Starting the mintty shelll again I get the same message suggesting
running the mkpasswd and mkgroup.

I do the command without the -d and everything seems to work.

mkpasswd -l  /.etc/passwd; mkgroup -l  /etc/group

I exit the shell and start mintty again and the warning appears again
suggesting the running of mkpasswd and mkgroup.

Why doesn't the change persist?

Is cygcheck output needed now?

At another time I tried adding the -d option because I was vpn'd in to
work, but I killed it because there was no change to the /etc/group
file after several hours.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

[Kenneth Wolcott]

 Update:

 Starting the mintty shelll again I get the same message suggesting
 running the mkpasswd and mkgroup.

 I do the command without the -d and everything seems to work.

 mkpasswd -l  /.etc/passwd; mkgroup -l  /etc/group
                ^^'
              dotetc?

 I exit the shell and start mintty again and the warning appears again
 suggesting the running of mkpasswd and mkgroup.

 Why doesn't the change persist?

 Did you check /etc/passwd and /etc/group if they contain your user and
 your primary group account?  Are you sure you are using a local account?
 Compare the information with the output of

  /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/whoami /user /groups

 Important are not the account names, but the account SIDs!  You can change
 the user and group names in /etc/passwd and /etc/group whatever you like
 (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html).

 If you're using a domain account on the machine, you either have to use
 the mkpasswd/mkgroup -d option to get the domain and group accounts, or
 you can just restrict the files to your user by using the -c option and
 append the output to the files, like this:

  $ mkpasswd -c  /etc/passwd; mkgroup -c  /etc/group

 or, in one go:

  $ mkpasswd -l -c  /etc/passwd; mkgroup -l -c  /etc/group


 Corinna

The extra dot was a typo as I am unable to copy_and_paste at this time :-(

Ah! The -c option for both seemed to persist.  I'll read that doc again.

Thanks,
Ken

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Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
 On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
 Hi;

 mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The
 RPC server is unavailable

 The User's Guide may help:

 http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup
 http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd

 Try `mkpasswd -l  /etc/passwd'.  Otherwise /etc/passwd is treated as
 argument to the -l option.

 Is this a result of Cygwin not being formally supported for 64-bit WIndows?

 Who on earth told you that?  See http://cygwin.com/


 Corinna


  Oh my!  :-)

  My vision is really getting bad!  I did not see that I missed the redirection.

  Thank you for the gentle correction; it works fine now.

  Sorry for the noise.

Ken

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mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The
RPC server is unavailable

fresh install, first time, of ALL (non-source) packages of cygwin on
64-bit Windows 7

Got the usual: Your group is mkgroup...

I'm not currently in a domain and do not wish to be in a domain so I
did not run with the -d option.

Is this a result of Cygwin not being formally supported for 64-bit WIndows?

If cygckeck output as an attachment is needed, i'll gladly supply it.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: mk_all

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 13:09, kathy3826 lovrreko...@yahoo.com wrote:

 No, my guess is that you used mk_all when you should have used ./mk_all
 and that shows the real problem.


 That wasn't the problem.

Wow, this has been a very interesting detective puzzle game, a bit
more difficult than Twenty Questions. :-)

Yet we still don't know enough to assist you.

Ken Wolcott

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Re: cygwin 1.78 errors when invoking terminator (*** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6. Terminating.)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 02:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
 On Mar  2 18:01, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
 Hi;

   I get the following error output when opening a terminator (enclosed
 at bottom of the email).

   This is the jessies.org terminator, not the gnome terminator.

   Now I don't get the following when I open a cygwin prompt.

   So I thought it might be a terminator thing.

   I had just updated to 1.78 of Cygwin.

   So updated to the most current version of terminator.

   Same problem.

   So I posted to the terminator email list 
 (terminator-us...@googlegroups.com).

   The terminator developer/maintainer was able to reproduce the
 problem and thinks that the error is within cygwin and suggests this
 patch (between the splat-asterisk lines).

 Thanks,
 Ken Wolcott

 **

 I wouldn't like to claim this is the right fix but it lets that
 trivial example link:

 $ gcc strerror.c

 $ diff -u /usr/include/string.h.orig /usr/include/string.h
 --- /usr/include/string.h.orig  2011-03-02 10:49:29.510836800 -0800
 +++ /usr/include/string.h   2011-03-02 10:50:04.324450800 -0800
 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
  char    *_EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t));
  #else
  # ifdef __GNUC__
 -int  _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__ 
 (__xpg_strerror_r);
 +int  _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__
 (___xpg_strerror_r);
  # else
  int  _EXFUN(__xpg_strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t));
  #  define strerror_r __xpg_strerror_r
 $

 Thanks for the report.  I just fixed that in CVS.  The problem here
 is that we have to take several targets into account, some of them
 using a labe lprefix, some of them not.  I applied a patch which
 does that:

  int  _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__ (__ASMNAME 
 (__xpg_strerror_r));

 The __ASMNAME macro is now defined in cdefs.h.  I tested to build
 a testcase which calls the POSIX version of strerror_r and it now
 works fine.  Well, there was a small bug in __xpg_strerror_r, too,
 but that should be fixed in CVS as well.  I'll create a new developer
 snapshot later today.


 Thanks again,
 Corinna


Hi Corinna;

The problem seems to be fixed now (after a recent update).

uname.exe -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 KWOLCOTT-T61 1.7.8(0.236/5/3) 2011-03-01 09:36 i686 Cygwin

Thank you.

Ken Wolcott

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Re: cygwin 1.78 errors when invoking terminator (*** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6. Terminating.)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

 Hi Corinna;

 The problem seems to be fixed now (after a recent update).

 uname.exe -a
 CYGWIN_NT-5.1 KWOLCOTT-T61 1.7.8(0.236/5/3) 2011-03-01 09:36 i686 Cygwin

 Since Corinna replied on 3/3 and your Cygwin DLL version was built on 3/1,
 I think it's fair to assume that you don't have the change she was talking
 about.  But you can get an updated Cygwin DLL with the change by visiting
 http://cygwin.com/snapshots/.

 --
 Larry

Hi Larry;

I applied the most recent snapshot cygwin1.dll and I do not see the
errors when invoking the jessies.org terminator application as I did
previously.

uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 KWOLCOTT-T61 1.7.9s(0.236/5/3) 20110323 17:35:08 i686 Cygwin

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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cygwin 1.78 errors when invoking terminator (*** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6. Terminating.)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I get the following error output when opening a terminator (enclosed
at bottom of the email).

  This is the jessies.org terminator, not the gnome terminator.

  Now I don't get the following when I open a cygwin prompt.

  So I thought it might be a terminator thing.

  I had just updated to 1.78 of Cygwin.

  So updated to the most current version of terminator.

  Same problem.

  So I posted to the terminator email list (terminator-us...@googlegroups.com).

  The terminator developer/maintainer was able to reproduce the
problem and thinks that the error is within cygwin and suggests this
patch (between the splat-asterisk lines).

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

**

I wouldn't like to claim this is the right fix but it lets that
trivial example link:

$ gcc strerror.c

$ diff -u /usr/include/string.h.orig /usr/include/string.h
--- /usr/include/string.h.orig  2011-03-02 10:49:29.510836800 -0800
+++ /usr/include/string.h   2011-03-02 10:50:04.324450800 -0800
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 char    *_EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t));
 #else
 # ifdef __GNUC__
-int  _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__ (__xpg_strerror_r);
+int  _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__
(___xpg_strerror_r);
 # else
 int  _EXFUN(__xpg_strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t));
 #  define strerror_r __xpg_strerror_r
$

**

Errors:

 14 [main] sed (5300) C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 0002095C, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 13 [main] sed (3288) C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 0002095C, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 13 [main] sed (5244) C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 0002095C, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 13 [main] sed (5912) C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 0002095C, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 14 [main] sed (5520) C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 0002095C, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 13 [main] sed (4880) C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 0002095C, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 25 [main] find (1600) C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 000209C0, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 13 [main] find (2648) C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 6117F977)
0022F1D0  61004F3B  (611C2E60, , 0708, )
0022F880  610C044A  (0708, 000209C0, 0022F8C0, 6109CFA5)
 22 [main] find (2632) C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error -
MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6.  Terminating.
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022DEB0  6102792B  (0022DEB0, , , )
0022E1A0  6102792B  (6117DC60, 8000, , 

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 13:46, Bengt Larsson lists.cygw...@bengtl.net wrote:
 Bengt Larsson wrote:
Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
sigh, no ^X d (aka dired mode) by default !

 True. I never use it. I kind of philosophically disagree with it.

  Strange, as dired is one of the most important pieces of emacs and
when one says emacs and then says but this version doesn't have
'dired', the emacs person will go, What?!  It's kInd of like having
a kitchen sink with no running water :-)

Mmm. Could you tell me which commands you use, and what they do, in
order of decreasing priority?

I'm thinking one could do a simple dired, generating the list
internally. Delete, Visit file, Rename, how does that sound?

 I have implemented dired.

 But I suppose this is getting off topic. There is some support for
 creating a mailing list at my domain so I'll see if I can do that. If I
 do, I'll announce it here. I'll keep updating the website. there will be
 a Changelog.

  What most people who used Emacs would use Dired for is to avoid
having to go to a terminal shell to do:
ls
ls -l
ls -lrt
ls -d
rm some_file
rm glob_expression
mv file1 file2
chmod
chown
many, many other things as well

Ken Wolcott

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Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

[Kenneth Wolcott]

One comment in-line...

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 22:47, Bengt Larsson lists.cygw...@bengtl.net wrote:
 Cyrille Lefevre wrote:

 Thanks for your informed criticism. But I haven't suggested it should be
 delivered with Cygwin.

make install should copy mg to /bin instead of /docs/Command,

 Yup

copy
documentation files in /usr/share/doc/mg3a and samples (dot files)
in /us/share/doc/mg3a/examples

 Yes. Thanks.


v2$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

v2$ mg
M-x emacs-version
Mg 2a (formerly MicroGnuEmacs)

 Ah. Thanks.


s/2/3/ no ?

v2$ mg
^H a RET
apropos: Segmentation fault
uh!

 Old bug. Menitioned in the old documentation. Incredibly hairy code.


sigh, no ^X d (aka dired mode) by default !

 True. I never use it. I kind of philosophically disagree with it.

  Strange, as dired is one of the most important pieces of emacs and
when one says emacs and then says but this version doesn't have
'dired', the emacs person will go, What?!  It's kInd of like having
a kitchen sink with no running water :-)

well, I've tried w/o NO_DIRED and d_makename() needs to be rewritten
a lot to handle dynamic comlumns sizing of gnu ls :-(

 It was good that it worked at all :-)

 There is also a NO_BACKUP #define. I don't guarantee what happens if you
 remove it.

to compile w/o NO_DIRED, in function fbackupfile in file fileio.c, replace :
char *malloc();
by
#define rename renamefile

 Helpful. Thanks.


^Z doesn't suspend !

 I know. The very old code did this for a BSD system. But I have never
 figured out how to do this portably on a more modern system. Mentioned
 in the documentation.


^X ^F doesn't complete :-(

 That would be a nice feature.


no M-T (transpose-words)

 Hmm. Could be added I guess.

M-x something say [Ambiguous] w/o listing possible solutions

 OK. It never did, actually. Of course we don't have to do everything
 Emacs did.


about defines :
-DNO_BACKUP may be replaced by -DMAKEBACKUP=0, so, it is disabled by
default and may be enable using (make-backup-files) if needed.
as suggested, -DLF_DEFAULT should be defined

 If it were distributed with Cygwin I would certainly define LF_DEFAULT.
 I wouldn't do it all on my own, but certainly if it's a condition.

-DNOTAB seems to work fine but no-tab-mode and nobom must be switched in
keymap.c

 OH! Thanks. Fixed.

-DPREFIXREGION seems to work fine
-DREGEX seems to work fine

 I haven't touched those.

-DSCROLLBYONE seems to work fine

 OK. That was more thorough than I asked for ;-) But very helpful.
 Thanks.

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Re: 1.7.7: Windows 2003 R2 WOW64: Cygwin installation fails

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 18:53, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote:
 On 02/10/2011 09:00 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
 On 02/10/2011 08:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:

 After having so much difficulty post-upgrade Cygwin 1.5 to 1.7 on my
 Windows 2003 R2 WOW64 machine:

     I prepared a fresh installation of Windows 2003 R2 WOW64 and
 installed Cygwin 1.7.7 using setup.exe from the cygwin.com site.

     Conclusion: A fresh install of Cygwin 1.7.7 FAILS on Windows 2003 R2
 WOW64.


 There are numerous postinstall failures:

     Package: base-cygwin
             000-cygwin-post-install.sh exit code 128
     Package: coreutils
             coreutils.sh exit code 1
     Package: terminfo
             terminfo.sh exit code 35584
     Package: bash
             bash.sh exit code 128
     Package: terminfo0
             terminfo0.sh exit code 128
     Package: base-files
             base-files-profile.sh exit code 128
             base-files-mketc.sh exit code 128
     Package: man
             man.sh exit code 128



 The bash login shell fails:

     bash-4.1# echo $PATH
     
 /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wb
     em:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/90/Tools/binn/
     bash-4.1#


 No PATH is set.

     bash-4.1# /usr/bin/cat /etc/profile
     /usr/bin/cat: /etc/profile: No such file or directory


 No system-wide profile.


 I've attached a cygcheck.out.

 Please let me know if you would like anymore information.  I'll keep
 this machine around as is for a few days if it will help.


 Regards,
 Gerry



 I went and cleared out everything and started over but first moving the
 DEP setting from All to Windows-only.

 This time the Cygwin installation completed without postinstall errors
 and the bash login shell is working.

     What I think would be good is for Cygwin setup to detect and warn
     about the DEP setting on Windows 2003 / Windows 2008.


 What happened in my case was that I originally had a good installation
 of Cygwin 1.5 on Windows 2003 that apparently worked fine with DEP in
 the restrictive setting.  It was only after I upgraded it to Cygwin 1.7
 that problems appeared.

 I'm now going to try a Cygwin reinstall on my original machine after
 changing the DEP setting to see if the 1.7 upgrade installation can be
 fixed.




 I changed the DEP setting but in trying to reinstall the original
 upgraded installation, it gets into a vicious loop of:

    Package file libgcc1 has a corrupt local copy, please remove and retry.
        And
    Package file libssp0 has a corrupt local copy, please remove and retry.
        And
    Package file libstc++6 has a corrupt local copy, please remove and
    retry.


 I seem to be able to fix one at a time but not all.  Still trying.

 ...

 Ok, I finally got it all to reinstall but the installation is still
 broken.  Same problems.  Failed postinstalls, Bad address errors and
 no bash login shell.

 Anyone have any thoughts as to how to fix this installation?  The
 fallback of course is to wipe Cygwin off and do a complete new
 installation but I'm trying to avoid that if possible with all the
 configs I've made.


 Regards,
 Gerry

  Wipe Windoze off the disk and use Linux or *BSD or even Solaris :-)

  That would definitely solve the problem :-)

  No, I don't have an answer to help, but I thought I would try add some levity.

Good luck,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: 'cygcheck -p' timeout on WinXP (Winsock error 12002)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 17:43, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,

 Windows XP, fully patched. Cygwin, latest download from website
 (installed today).

 It appears cygcheck times out on Windows XP. The timeout occurs with
 the Windows firewall up and down. Other downloads are function fine.

 Attached is a Wireshark trace for your enjoyment.

 Jeff

 jeff...@descartes ~
 $ cygwin --version
 bash: cygwin: command not found

  I think uname -r will get what you are after here.  This is what I have:

$ uname -r
1.7.7(0.230/5/3)

 jeff...@descartes ~
 $ cygcheck -p 'make'
 cygcheck: unable to contact cygwin.com site, InternetOpenUrl() failed: The 
 opera
 tion timed out
  (win32 error 12002)

I get this as well.

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Re: Problem installing packages

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 20:26, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,

 According to http://www.cygwin.com/, Run setup.exe any time you want
 to update or install a Cygwin package. :

 jeff...@descartes ~
 $ setup.exe

 Result is a message box that states Please go to the Control Panel to
 install and configure system components.

 Navigate to Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs. Cygwin is *not* listed.

 I'm obviously doing something wrong. Any ideas where my ability (or
 lack of) to follow instructions failed?

 Thanks,

 Jeff

  You need to make certain that you are in deed executing the
setup.exe from cygwin.com, not a Microslop setup.exe :-)

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Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

[Kenneth Wolcott]

2010/10/7 SZABÓ Gergely s...@subogero.com:
 Hello,

 The mailing list does not accept html email, that's fair enough.

 The real problem is, it also bounces every email with a company
 disclaimer about intentions and original addressees.

 Well, the original addressee is cygwin at cygwin dot com, which is a public
 mailing list, readable even from Alpha Centauri (with 4 years delay).

 This policy is OK for most FOSS projects, but Cygwin should be an
 exception. I think Cygwin is used most by 3PPs within big companies
 where everybody _must_ use Windows and those disclaimers are always attached 
 to
 outgoing mail. If you are a free and sane person, attracted to unixy stuff,
 you'd probably use Linux.

 Yes, I've read the posting instructions, and I know I should convince my
 employer to remove the disclaimers. What chance do you think I have to
 convince a 2-employee company, where central IT is not even in my
 country? They also restrict access to private email from the office.

 I know, I should leave them and/or buy a smartphone for emailing. :-)

 But my point is: the mailing list is cut off from its most important
 audience.

 Best regards
 Gergely

IMNSHO:  Solution: Subscribe to the list and post to the list using a
non-company email address.

  The only downside I can think of is where the management does not
allow you to use non-company email or application to access a
non-company email address.

Ken Wolcott

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Re: Cygwin setup not saving Create icon on Desktop setting?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:37, Andrey Repin anrdae...@freemail.ru wrote:
 Greetings, Jim Reisert AD1C!

 see setup --help

 -n --no-shortcuts     Disable creation of desktop and start
                              menu shortcuts

 This is only a band-aid.  It does not change the fact that the program
 doesn't save the status of that checkbox from run to run.

 Why would you want to create shortcuts more than once? . I don't get it.

Perhaps If I selected no shortcut once, I might want it to remember
that the next time I run that I still don't want a shortcut created.

Ken Wolcott

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Re: USER/GDI Objects leak with (XWin.exe) Cygwin/X X Server Verion 1.7.6, Build Date 2010-03-18

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:01, Christopher Faylor
cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:34:01PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
If you are using the current version of Xming, that is the case.
If you are using the free version of Xming, that's about 3 years old.  There
have been a few changes in the source since then :-)

 There's a non-free version of Xming?  That seems like it belies the name.

 cgf

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/terms.php ? GPL vs Public Domain?

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Re: Setup Error: setup.bz2 line 5232: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting NL

[Kenneth Wolcott]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 13:37, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolc...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 13:20, Christopher Faylor 
 cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:27:01PM -0700, Dragos Toader wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I get the following parse error
   setup.bz2 line 5232: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting NL
 during the Cygwin setup process.
 This error stops the Cygwin setup process.
 
 I've tried the following mirrors:
 http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu
 http://mirrors.kernel.org
 
 Here's how to replicate the error:

 Step 0:
     Use a newer version of setup.exe.  You are out-of-date.

   Run
     C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe

 ...

 cgf

 Not true in my case.  I have a wrapper now that downloads the
setup.exe every time prior to executing it.  I get this same error.
Ken Wolcott

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Re: How do I start WM?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

I'm aware of this, but thank you.  They are not able to port konsole :-(

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 02:17, Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com wrote:
 KDE, since version 4, is being developed for windows independently of
 cygwin. Look here: http://windows.kde.org/

 On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com wrote:
 On 2/26/2010 6:40 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

 Hi;

   Now, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to use KDE as my Window
 Manager and I'd like some KDE-based utilities, like konsole and karm
 (? the task/time manager).

   I don't see a great deal of visible difference between twm and
 openbox, but I'll look on openbox.org and find more details.

   The Windoze start shortcut did help, and the ~/.xinitrc did help --
 thank you.

 Thanks,
 Ken Wolcott

 i've not checked to see if KDE or any of it's components is/are available as
 part of the cygwin X stuff (when I use a heavyweight desktop environment i
 use gnome).  a quick search on KDE at the package search page of cygwin
 lists nothing, while a search on gnome lists quite a few.  someone with more
 knowledge will have to advise you

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Re: How do I start WM?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:44, Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com wrote:
 Try this:
 Copy the shortcut as mentioned earlier in the email trail.
 set the Target to be:
  C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx --
 /usr/bin/Xwin.exe
 Note the double quotes around the last argument.  Without them, Xwin.exe
 doesn't start on my box.  startx also would not invoke Xwin.exe on my box
 unless I explicitly called it ala above
 Commmand line invocation- $ startx -- /usr/bin/Xwin.exe
 perhaps it's not reading the symlink properly (the default server is set as
 /usr/bin/X, which is symlinked to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe) -- nope, explicitly
 setting default server to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe doesn't start it either via a
 plain startx on the command line.  setting startx to echo the eval of the
 invocation yields

   xinit /home/rthompso/.xinitrc  -- /home/rthompso/.xserverrc :0  -auth
 '/home/rthompso/.serverauth.5912'
 aha -- my .xserverrc has:
  #exec X -screen 0 1024x768x16 -engine 4 -ac -nowinkill -noreset
 -emulate3buttons 100
 uncomment it and try again from command line a plain startx... xserver
 starts up in it's own window with my .xinitrc programs running.
 shut it down, and try my copy of the shortcut again, starts again.

 Now that we've established that mine wasn't starting due to the invalid
 .xserverrc, reset the shortcut target to
 C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx
 and try it - starts again

  I changed my shortcut to what you have here (except I have
c:\cygwin_1.7) and I copied and pasted what you have below into my new
~/.xinitrc and it works **GREAT** :-)  Thanks!

 Pasted below is my .xinitrc (you said you don't have one in $HOME), you can
 try this one in your $HOME if you want.  It will open a couple of rxvt terms
 and and xterm.  It is configured to startup the openbox window manager.  You
 MAY prefer to copy the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to your $HOME/.xinitrc to use
 as your base.

 cat .xinitrc
 #!/bin/sh
 # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

 userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
 usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
 sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
 sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

 # merge in defaults and keymaps

 if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
 fi

 if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
 fi

 if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
 fi

 if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
 fi


 /usr/bin/openbox  
 #twm 
 #wmaker 
 #/opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session 

 # start some nice programs
 rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x35+494+51 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg
 darkolivegreen 
 rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x20+294-0 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg
 darkolivegreen 
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Re: How do I start WM?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  Now, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to use KDE as my Window
Manager and I'd like some KDE-based utilities, like konsole and karm
(? the task/time manager).

  I don't see a great deal of visible difference between twm and
openbox, but I'll look on openbox.org and find more details.

  The Windoze start shortcut did help, and the ~/.xinitrc did help -- thank you.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 15:35, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi;

 On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:44, Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com wrote:
 Try this:
 Copy the shortcut as mentioned earlier in the email trail.
 set the Target to be:
  C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx --
 /usr/bin/Xwin.exe
 Note the double quotes around the last argument.  Without them, Xwin.exe
 doesn't start on my box.  startx also would not invoke Xwin.exe on my box
 unless I explicitly called it ala above
 Commmand line invocation- $ startx -- /usr/bin/Xwin.exe
 perhaps it's not reading the symlink properly (the default server is set as
 /usr/bin/X, which is symlinked to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe) -- nope, explicitly
 setting default server to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe doesn't start it either via a
 plain startx on the command line.  setting startx to echo the eval of the
 invocation yields

   xinit /home/rthompso/.xinitrc  -- /home/rthompso/.xserverrc :0  -auth
 '/home/rthompso/.serverauth.5912'
 aha -- my .xserverrc has:
  #exec X -screen 0 1024x768x16 -engine 4 -ac -nowinkill -noreset
 -emulate3buttons 100
 uncomment it and try again from command line a plain startx... xserver
 starts up in it's own window with my .xinitrc programs running.
 shut it down, and try my copy of the shortcut again, starts again.

 Now that we've established that mine wasn't starting due to the invalid
 .xserverrc, reset the shortcut target to
 C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx
 and try it - starts again

  I changed my shortcut to what you have here (except I have
 c:\cygwin_1.7) and I copied and pasted what you have below into my new
 ~/.xinitrc and it works **GREAT** :-)  Thanks!

 Pasted below is my .xinitrc (you said you don't have one in $HOME), you can
 try this one in your $HOME if you want.  It will open a couple of rxvt terms
 and and xterm.  It is configured to startup the openbox window manager.  You
 MAY prefer to copy the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to your $HOME/.xinitrc to use
 as your base.

 cat .xinitrc
 #!/bin/sh
 # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

 userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
 usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
 sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
 sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

 # merge in defaults and keymaps

 if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
 fi

 if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
 fi

 if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
 fi

 if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
 fi


 /usr/bin/openbox  
 #twm 
 #wmaker 
 #/opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session 

 # start some nice programs
 rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x35+494+51 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg
 darkolivegreen 
 rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x20+294-0 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg
 darkolivegreen 
 exec xterm -geometry 80x6+0+0 -name login


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Re: How do I start WM?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

 To achive this, create a icon that points to
 C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx

 Edit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and change
 twm 
 to
 openbox 

 That changes the behavior for all users.

  I tried this last advice.

  I get a quick flash and then gone (Windoze XP SP3, Cygwin 1.7).

  What did I do wrong or what I do too much of or what did I do not enough of?

  I'm really looking forward to a having a nice KDE screen initiated
by cygwin rather than twm.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: How do I start WM?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Holger;

 1. Do you have a .xinitrc in your home directory? (try ls -la )
 If so, delete it.

  I do not have a ~/.xinitrc in either /home/kwolcott

 2. Will it start if you manually enter startx in a cygwin shell?

  I was able to start twm using startx without any problem, but I
would like have KDE (yes I know it is much more heavy than twm)
  I would like to use some KDE-based utilites (konsole and that time
manager I keep forgetting the name of);

 2. If you don't change /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, can you start the X Server
 with startx using twm?

Yes.

I thought I had *everything* that comes with Cygwin 1.7 -- how do I prove that?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: How do I start WM?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Holger;

 In your first mail you said you wanted to start openbox as a window manager,
 now you talk about kde. That are two different things.

 What happens if you start openbox in a bash shell without starting a
 X-Server first?

If I don't set the DISPLAY environment variable then it complains
about it not being set.

If I do set the DISPLAY environment variable then it complains about
not being able to use it.

Apparently I'm missing some components...

$ openbox-session
which: no hsetroot in [PATH content deleted]
which: no esetroot in [PATH content deleted]
xsetroot:  unable to open display 'KWOLCOTT-T61:0.0'
which: no gnome-settings-daemon in [PATH content deleted]
which: no xfce-mcs-manager in [PATH content deleted]
which: no start_kdeinit in [PATH content deleted]
Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY
environment variable.

Normally I use the Xming X Window manager if I'm not running the twm
Window Manager executed from Cygwin.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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Re: xls to text conversion ?

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Maarten;

  There are Perl CPAN modules to create/write Excel and parse Excel
(one of many examples
http://search.cpan.org/~havi/Spreadsheet-Excel2Text-0.03/lib/Spreadsheet/Excel2Text.pm)
which should work (I've not recently tried them) on cygwin.  Search
for these at http://search.cpan.org...

Hope this helps,
Ken Wolcott

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where is my /usr/dict/words or /usr/share/dict/words on cygwin? (1.7)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I update frequently.

  I always get everything from the standard cygwin mirrors.

  I have not seen /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words for quite
some time now.

  I really like this package and it is not installed on any of our
proprietary systems at work and it is not installed on any of our Linux
machines at work, but it is on a FreeBSD machine at work that I cannot
always get access to.

  Why isn't it on my cygwin installation (1.7) when I ask for EVERYTHING to
be installed?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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