Re: can't paste from Windows to X clients

2004-11-28 Thread Jay Smith
We were having a similar problem with Cygwin/xfree on Windows 95 with Linux running in Xwindows supplied via xfree/cygwin. The problem had several aspects. - When we up graded Cygwin at one point (can't remember which) things stopped working so we fell back. - When we up graded our Red Hat 8

Update of fhandler-tut.txt

2004-11-28 Thread Gerd Spalink
When trying to add an experimental /dev/mixer, I found that the fhandler tutorial was obsolete. This patch brings it up-to-date. ChangeLog Entry: 2004-11-28 Gerd Spalink [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler-tut.txt: Update description to cygwin 1.5.13 Patch: Index: fhandler-tut.txt

Re: Update of fhandler-tut.txt

2004-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:40:19PM +0100, Gerd Spalink wrote: +However, I had to type +make /cygdrive/c/sw/cygwin_dev/src/winsup/cygwin/devices.cc +in the directory /cygdrive/c/sw/cygwin_dev/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin +to achieve this. Lets not document problems with the makefile or user

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: hexedit-1.2.10-1

2004-11-28 Thread Marcel Telka
hexedit-1.2.10-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Hexedit is a utility which allows you to view and edit hexadecimal or ASCII files and/or view binary files. http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/hexedit.html To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the

sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: My O/S is WinXP Pro SP2 and my Cygwin is current as of last night. I would like to start using sshd. I located and read: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html I installed sshd per steps 3-6. sshd works fine when I start it manually, but is broken on reboot:

Piping problems with bk and ssh under Win XP SP2

2004-11-28 Thread Stefan Hinz
With my current installation (Win XP SP2, Cygwin 1.5.12) it looks like I cannot use BitKeeper via ssh since there is a piping problem with SP2 and Cygwin. I have two questions: 1) Is this considered a Win XP (SP2) problem, or will this issue be fixed? 2) Is there a workaround? If the workaround

Re: sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:57 AM 11/28/2004, you wrote: Cygwin: My O/S is WinXP Pro SP2 and my Cygwin is current as of last night. I would like to start using sshd. I located and read: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html I installed sshd per steps 3-6. sshd works fine when I start it manually,

[Fwd: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?]

2004-11-28 Thread bobby mcnulty junior
I'm sending this here. It was on talk amongst yourselfs. Original Message Subject: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:07:16 + (UTC) From: Jim McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Talk Amongst Yourselves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FDISK support

2004-11-28 Thread
According to this post: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01300.html , you can now use fdisk. Can someone please tell me how to get fdisk onto cygwin? I couldn't find the package with the cygwin setup file. Thanks everyone. Mike -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: what's the difference between File Handle and File Descriptor?

2004-11-28 Thread Jason Curl
news.gosonic.com wrote: Thanks One is high level (streams, file handles) the other is low level (file descriptors). Have a look at the difference between fopen() and open(). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jim McCarthy wrote: Hello -- SEDT is a VMS-EDT-like editor freely available as C source code for multiple platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux, etc) at http://www.ankersoft.com/Sedt.html I have successfully build sedt.exe (following the Linux example) under Cygwin/X ... but running it either in the

RE: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Jim McCarthy
Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h 2) In comd.c, add #include errno.h before line #include proto.h With these changes, build should result in a functional sedt.exe file.

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jim McCarthy wrote: Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h 2) In comd.c, add #include errno.h before line #include proto.h With these changes, build should result in a

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jim McCarthy wrote: Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h 2) In comd.c, add #include errno.h before line

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jim McCarthy wrote: Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with 'stricmp' declaration in /usr/include/string.h 2) In comd.c, add #include

How to let a process know when a stream file is modifed

2004-11-28 Thread news.gosonic.com
Hi All, I need to find a way to let a program know when a stream if modified. Please help. Ge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: SEDT (VMS EDT-like editor) under Cygwin ?

2004-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:09:02AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jim McCarthy wrote: Sorry, no patchfile, but ... 1) Edit sedt.c and change all 'stricmp' to 'sedt_stricmp' to avoid conflict with

RE: sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread David Christensen
Larry Hall wrote: Uninstall and reinstall the 'openssh' package and then follow the configuration instructions in '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README'. Same result. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: sshd broken on reboot

2004-11-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:38 PM 11/28/2004, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Uninstall and reinstall the 'openssh' package and then follow the configuration instructions in '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README'. Same result. OK, so now you want to run your server in debug mode, try to connect, and check the

gcc-g77 4.4.1-1 stack memory error

2004-11-28 Thread Ata Bilgili
G'day; I have a Fortran 77 code involving the finite element solution of rather large matrices using a conjugate gradient method. The code trustfully runs with g77 on Linux and Unix with no problems. When I tried running it this morning using the Cygwin gcc-g77 3.3.3-3, it complied nicely but I

Help needed for using SPIN

2004-11-28 Thread Patrick Fulgence
Hi, I need to learn how to use the tool SPIN based on promela language. What do I need to get on my computer for that ? I've very embarassed because I don't arrive to do antything for understanding how it works. I've read a lot of stuff about that nut I still being not on the way for using

Re: Help needed for using SPIN

2004-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:42:41AM +, Patrick Fulgence wrote: I need to learn how to use the tool SPIN based on promela language. What do I need to get on my computer for that ? I've very embarassed because I don't arrive to do antything for understanding how it works. I've read a lot of

Re: Help needed for using SPIN

2004-11-28 Thread bobby mcnulty junior
Patrick Fulgence wrote: Hi, I need to learn how to use the tool SPIN based on promela language. What do I need to get on my computer for that ? I've very embarassed because I don't arrive to do antything for understanding how it works. I've read a lot of stuff about that nut I still being not

Re: gcc-g77 4.4.1-1 stack memory error

2004-11-28 Thread Tim Prince
At 09:17 PM 11/28/2004, Ata Bilgili wrote: G'day; An internet search yields -Wl --stack= options for gcc. Is there any workaround for g77? In what way is a linker option supposed to be specific to gcc? Did it fail because of the omitted comma? Seriously, many of the options detailed under

uw-imap Cygwin secrets revealed, at least a bit!

2004-11-28 Thread Christian Weinberger
The initial problem was: - uw-imap on cygwin ran well with Outlook Express - but hung upon connection when using Outlook 2003 In the end I made it to get it work with the following workaround: In inetd.conf, I dont start the daemon directly, but use the following wrapper script. #!/bin/sh tee

Re: gcc-g77 4.4.1-1 stack memory error

2004-11-28 Thread Ata Bilgili
Thanks for the clue Tim. It was a stupid oversight on my part. The makefile version that I was using had the ordering of linker options wrong so these were never in effect. Moving these options forward took care of the problem. Best regards. Ata Bilgili ---Tim Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A vexing installation problem

2004-11-28 Thread David Hinds
A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1). After the update, all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently. I've tried scrubbing the Windows registry of anything with a Cyg in it, deleting the Cygwin tree, and

New Package: hexedit-1.2.10-1

2004-11-28 Thread Marcel Telka
hexedit-1.2.10-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Hexedit is a utility which allows you to view and edit hexadecimal or ASCII files and/or view binary files. http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/hexedit.html To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the