Re: cygwin bash and DOS cmd extremely sluggish.

2009-10-02 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Frank Kim wrote: I then noticed that the DOS cmd window is also very sluggish. How could Cygwin be to blame for the DOS cmd window being sluggish? Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: setup for 1.7 fails with Japanese characters in download

2009-10-02 Thread wynfield
My base os is Japanese OEM Windows XP. I've only used the standard c:\cygwin-packages directory, so have not had any problems. But, to confirm Gernot's report, I created a C:\japanese_dirname日本語名 directory and tried to download a package into it. It fails. setup reports the following type of

Re: reinstallation problems

2009-10-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/02/2009 10:14 AM, Frank Kim wrote: Because of problems mentioned previously I uninstalled cygwin following all the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all. However when I installed again and started up the bash shell I did not get my usual prompt, i.

Re: ZIP64 support?

2009-10-02 Thread Charles Wilson
paul wrote: > What is the status of ZIP64 support in Info-ZIP? Will this be in 6.0? > > I received a ZIP64 file and had to use WinRAR to extract. Please direct questions regarding cygwin packages to the cygwin list, thx. Info-ZIP zip-3.0 (available for both cygwin-1.5 and cygwin-1.7) supports c

Re: cygwin bash and DOS cmd extremely sluggish.

2009-10-02 Thread Frank Kim
Thanks for the pointer. However it seems strange that I'm having this problem now since I didn't have it before when I first installed Cygwin and I was using it for awhile. I only noticed the problem when I switched drive letters though I'm not sure if that's the reason. -- Thanks, Frank On Fri,

Re: cygwin bash and DOS cmd extremely sluggish.

2009-10-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Frank Kim (Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:11:00 -0700) > > For some reason my Cygwin bash is very sluggish. Whenever I type it > takes awhile for it to respond. There is no load on the system and > when I type in Word or another program it seems fine. > > I reinstalled Cygwin but this didn't seem to fix

[ANNOUNCEMENT] new: unison2.32; updated: unison2.27; removed: unison2.13, unison2.17, unison2.31

2009-10-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
There are several updates to the Unison packages for Cygwin: * unison2.32 is a new package, now available in the archive. Upstream considers this version to be the current stable release of Unison. * unison2.27 has been updated. This is an upstream release with several bug fixes. Unison 2.27 i

reinstallation problems

2009-10-02 Thread Frank Kim
Because of problems mentioned previously I uninstalled cygwin following all the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all. However when I installed again and started up the bash shell I did not get my usual prompt, i.e. the typical Cygwin prompt. Instead I go

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 2 09:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 01:19:55PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Oct 2 11:38, Julio Costa wrote: > >> In last cygwin beta: > >> > >> $ uname -a > >> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin > >> > >> If I do (ob

cygwin bash and DOS cmd extremely sluggish.

2009-10-02 Thread Frank Kim
For some reason my Cygwin bash is very sluggish. Whenever I type it takes awhile for it to respond. There is no load on the system and when I type in Word or another program it seems fine. I reinstalled Cygwin but this didn't seem to fix the problem. I then noticed that the DOS cmd window is al

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 01:19:55PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Oct 2 11:38, Julio Costa wrote: >> In last cygwin beta: >> >> $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin >> >> If I do (obviously found by mistake): >> >> $ mkpasswd -n 0 >> mkpass

RE: top - uknown terminal type

2009-10-02 Thread Egerton, Jim
Works fine after running /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh. thanks Chuck/Christopher, jim > -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cyg...@cwilson.fastmail.fm] > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:54 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: top - uknown terminal type > > Egerton,

nttcp does not work

2009-10-02 Thread Eduardo J. Ortega U.
Hi: I am trying to use an utility called nttcp from the network series, in order to measure network throughput. Sadly, it always fails: $ nttcp server8 nttcp-l: connect: No such file or directory, errno=2 nttcp-l: Could not connecto to remote host : No such file or directory, errno=2 $ server8

Re: forget how to setup the 3-button emulating

2009-10-02 Thread Steven Woody
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 02/10/2009 11:29, Steven Woody wrote: >> >> I reinstalled my whole system, now when I launch up a X program and >> find my middle mouse button emulation does not work any more (by press >> in the same time both the left and right buttons).  Wh

Re: forget how to setup the 3-button emulating

2009-10-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/10/2009 11:29, Steven Woody wrote: I reinstalled my whole system, now when I launch up a X program and find my middle mouse button emulation does not work any more (by press in the same time both the left and right buttons). Who can remind me how to do it? Thanks. If only there was a ma

Re: snapshot 20091002 and xterm crash

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Wolff
When starting xterm with no locale environment variable set, it fails to start. If you're quick enough, you can read a message along the lines of "Cannot allocate pty: No such file ..." Just a hint for debugging start problems with xterm: it has an option -hold in which case it doesn't term

Re: Assistance sought grepping log files

2009-10-02 Thread Larry W. Virden
--- On Thu, 10/1/09, Ken Jackson wrote: > Try: > >   strings -el logfile | grep ... Thanks - that works for me (as long as I remember that -el flag... -- Tcl - It's the real thing. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/ http://www.xanga.com/lvirden/ Anything in this posting

Re: snapshot 20091002 and xterm crash

2009-10-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 2 12:12, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/2 Corinna Vinschen: > > > > [Ping Yaakov] > > > > > > On Oct  2 09:04, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> xterm abort when run in snapshot 20091002 > >> reverting to 20090924 sol

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 2 11:38, Julio Costa wrote: > Hi, > > In last cygwin beta: > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin > > If I do (obviously found by mistake): > > $ mkpasswd -n 0 > mkpasswd: unknown option -- n > Try '̨ a --help' for more information. >

Re: snapshot 20091002 and xterm crash

2009-10-02 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/2 Corinna Vinschen: > > [Ping Yaakov] > > > On Oct  2 09:04, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> Hi, >> >> xterm abort when run in snapshot 20091002 >> reverting to 20090924 solve the issue. >> >> Run as: >> DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm  -ls

Re: snapshot 20091002 and xterm crash

2009-10-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
[Ping Yaakov] On Oct 2 09:04, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi, > > xterm abort when run in snapshot 20091002 > reverting to 20090924 solve the issue. > > Run as: > DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm -ls /usr/bin/bash.exe I can reproduce that. I found the problem and it's

mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Julio Costa
Hi, In last cygwin beta: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin If I do (obviously found by mistake): $ mkpasswd -n 0 mkpasswd: unknown option -- n Try '̨ a --help' for more information. Note the rubish after "Try". Or, if I do: $ mkgroup -S-- <ª

forget how to setup the 3-button emulating

2009-10-02 Thread Steven Woody
Hi, I reinstalled my whole system, now when I launch up a X program and find my middle mouse button emulation does not work any more (by press in the same time both the left and right buttons). Who can remind me how to do it? Thanks. -- Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexisten

setup for 1.7 fails with Japanese characters in download directory name

2009-10-02 Thread Gernot Hassenpflug
Hi all, First post, decided to file bug after installing testing Cygwin 1.7 on my Japanese WinXP on a Dell Core2Duo 64-bit x86-64 machine. The net installer failed to write to the download directory, by default the one in "My Documents" but written in Japanese characters. When I created a paralle

RE: gcc4 and -mno-cygwin

2009-10-02 Thread Phil Betts
Jerry DeLisle wrote: > You could try this: > > http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?call=fortran Am I going blind, or is there no source available from there? Phil -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe Ltd using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- Problem reports: http://cy