Remote mounts unavailable via rsh/rlogin/telnet

2002-10-05 Thread Kirk Erickson
Hello, I've read all your postings related to rsh/rlogin, but I've been unable login with write access to my home. My home directory is shared by my Windows boxes, and lives on the Linux machine I'm attempting to come in from. My Windows HOME is k:, which I've mounted by way of Windows:

ghostscript 7 & textmounts

2002-10-05 Thread Sven Köhler
i reported this bug some time ago: ghostscript 7.05 does not work properly if cygwin is configured to enable textmode-conversations chris faylor already suggested to link against binmode.o (i don't know if this is an easy step, but it sounds easy) the ghostscript-maintainer should take care of

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:53 PM 10/5/2002, Yu Wang wrote: >Hi, > >We are running into a problem using the GNU utilities, >(specifically TAIL.EXE) on Windows XP when we run them >against names that are not in the 8.3 format. > >For example: >The command: tail paratestdatalog.out > produces a 'No file or directory' e

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:22:21AM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: >> >>... >> >>We're still having some problems with the DLL, though, so I don't have >> >>an ETA for the official release. >> > >> >you must ofcourse realise that its the version number which is causing >> >all the problems .. skip to 1

Re: copying installed CYGWIN

2002-10-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:41 PM 10/5/2002, David =?ISO-8859-2?B?qWlyb2v9?= wrote: >Hi! > >I have installed CYGWIN on one computer in c:\cygwin. I transfered this >directory to another computer, but when i run cygwin.bat, it doesn't >work. Are there some items in Registry or something based on PATH which >must be tran

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-05 Thread Cliff Hones
> >>... > >>We're still having some problems with the DLL, though, so I don't have > >>an ETA for the official release. > > > >you must ofcourse realise that its the version number which is causing > >all the problems .. skip to 1.3.14... > > > >Gareth - who just watched Amelie and is in rather t

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:28:54AM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote: >>I'm not sure how or why this was fixed, but it seems like this is fixed >>in the current cygwin snapshots and so will be fixed in the 1.3.13 >>release. >> >>We're still having some problems with the DLL, though, so I don't have >>an

Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-05 Thread Yu Wang
Hi, We are running into a problem using the GNU utilities, (specifically TAIL.EXE) on Windows XP when we run them against names that are not in the 8.3 format. For example: The command: tail paratestdatalog.out produces a 'No file or directory' error The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold

Re: Tk?

2002-10-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Soren, Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 19:32 schriebst du: > "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 05 Oct 2002 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> This version is linked against perl-5.6.1, Soren Anderson has managed >> to build later versions of TK and has also

FYI: sed-3.95

2002-10-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo, just built sed-3.95, "All tests pass", though I did not test how it behaves on textmounts. Now I wonder if the sed included with the Cygwin net release has/had issues with CR/LF thingies and if 3.02 is linked against automode.o. No patches needed: ftp://alpha.gnu.

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-05 Thread Gareth Pearce
> I'm not sure how or why this was fixed, but it seems like this > is fixed in the current cygwin snapshots and so will be fixed in > the 1.3.13 release. > > We're still having some problems with the DLL, though, so I don't > have an ETA for the official release. you must ofcourse realise that it

copying installed CYGWIN

2002-10-05 Thread David Široký
Hi! I have installed CYGWIN on one computer in c:\cygwin. I transfered this directory to another computer, but when i run cygwin.bat, it doesn't work. Are there some items in Registry or something based on PATH which must be transfered too? Thank you. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:14:26AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote: >It's definitly cygwin's gawk doing it. > > C:\> c:\cygwin\bin\gawk -f t < autoexec.bat > GAWK: t:3: fatal: file `-' is a directory I'm not sure how or why this was fixed, but it seems like this is fixed in the current cygwin sna

Re: Tk?

2002-10-05 Thread Soren A
"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 05 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > This version is linked against perl-5.6.1, Soren Anderson has managed > to build later versions of TK and has also logs at his site, > unfortunately I couldn't reproduce it for perl-5.8 :

RE: Porting software from Red Hat Linux to Cygwin

2002-10-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
I believe someone is working on rpm (search the list archives.) for telnetd and rshd etc just install the inetutils package in the net category. -Original Message- From: Gregg C Levine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 October 2002 01:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Porting software

crontab: no changes made

2002-10-05 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hi, When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set export EDITOR=emacs Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e. /tmp/cron.

RE: General Question - support for Windows DDKs, specifically SPTI

2002-10-05 Thread Chris January
> Hi folks - hope I'm not wasting anybody's bandwith here, but > I've spent quite some time trapsing through docs and archives and > source code and haven't come up with a lot of answers and just > a little insight. (If yer busy, you may want to skip to the > end - between here and there simply li

Re: md5sum : strange error message : "invalid option"

2002-10-05 Thread fergus
> Does it have a file name with an embedded hyphen, maybe? Something > like: > > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Desktop/Data -Modified.lnk Absolutely right. Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentat

Re: md5sum : strange error message : "invalid option"

2002-10-05 Thread Cliff Hones
> I'm getting a strange error message from md5sum: the command has worked fine > in the past. It looks like this: > > ~> md5sum `find /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Desktop` > md5sum: invalid option -- M > Try `md5sum --help' for more information. > ~> > > There's no problem with md5sum `find .` for examp

md5sum : strange error message : "invalid option"

2002-10-05 Thread fergus
I'm getting a strange error message from md5sum: the command has worked fine in the past. It looks like this: ~> md5sum `find /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Desktop` md5sum: invalid option -- M Try `md5sum --help' for more information. ~> There's no problem with md5sum `find .` for example. I can't see any

invalid user?

2002-10-05 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hallo, I installed sshd as 'cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a "-D -d"' - which worked. The server starts (cygrunsrv -S sshd) properly. Then I tried to connect: ssh localhost -l "Uwe Mayer" Where "Uwe Mayer" is my regular W2k login. The following is what was printed to the /var/log/sshd.log

Re: executing perl from command line (cygwin)

2002-10-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Smithesh, Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 um 01:34 schriebst du: > Hi Peter, > Like Mark said cygwin perl is a much better option. I use it quite often. > I think you still can execute active perl or any windows executable on > Cygwin. > Make sure you are escaping '\' by '/' on the direct

Re: Tk?

2002-10-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jason, Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 um 21:02 schriebst du: > Hi, Steve, :) > Wow, I get to post to the Cygwin list! Rare! :) >> From: Steve Landry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> If I want to run or write Perl/Tk apps that run as Windows >> apps (not in >> the X environment), can I do t

Re: Patch to get bc 1.06 to compile under Cygwin with readline library.

2002-10-05 Thread Soren A
Francis Litterio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 03 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I downloaded and installed the Cygwin source code to bc 1.06, but it > would not build under Cygwin 1.3.12-2 when {...} Thanks for your posting. 'bc' is a useful tool and sometimes shell

RE: Tk?

2002-10-05 Thread Soren A
"Tiller, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 04 Oct 2002 ADBFFED9CB40D5118C5A0008C7864BA10185AE2C@USSVML03:">news:ADBFFED9CB40D5118C5A0008C7864BA10185AE2C@USSVML03: > Enjoy, and thanks to everyone who made this possible! You're welcome ;-) And yes, just to clarify, to the O.P.; this Perl T

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-05 Thread Peter S Tillier
- Original Message - From: "Barry Buchbinder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:55 PM Subject: RE: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com > I get the same problems under under win95cmd.exe. It > fails with redirection but n