Re: singular-icons: possible packaging error?

2010-01-07 Thread Frank Seelisch
Hello Barry, thanks for the email. This packaging error dates back to my predecessor who put the file there on purpose, to allow for the creation of a Windows start menu entry cygwin setup (with the setup.exe behind it). It also has to do with another distribution that we used to offer to

[RFU] lftp

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
Please upload, removing 3.7.15-1 and leaving 4.0.3-1 as previous. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/lftp-4.0.5-1.tar.bz2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/lftp-4.0.5-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: [RFU] lftp

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
Please also upload setup.hint, which has changed. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/setup.hint

[RFU] orpie

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
Please upload, including setup.hint which has changed. Please also remove the previous version 1.5.1-1, leaving just 1.5.1-2 as the only available version. The previous version depended on libncurses8, which is obsolete, so we don't want to leave it in the archive. Thanks, Andrew. wget \

Re: [RFU] lftp

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 12:11, Andrew Schulman wrote: Please also upload setup.hint, which has changed. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/setup.hint I get an error 404 when trying to download setup.hint. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send

Re: [RFU] orpie

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 12:12, Andrew Schulman wrote: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/orpie/setup.hint \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/orpie/orpie-1.5.1-2.tar.bz2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/orpie/orpie-1.5.1-2-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded and 1.5.1-1 removed. Thanks, Corinna

Re: [RFU] lftp

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
On Jan 7 12:11, Andrew Schulman wrote: Please also upload setup.hint, which has changed. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/setup.hint I get an error 404 when trying to download setup.hint. Erf, sorry. Please try now.

Re: [RFU] lftp

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 12:53, Andrew Schulman wrote: On Jan 7 12:11, Andrew Schulman wrote: Please also upload setup.hint, which has changed. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/setup.hint I get an error 404 when trying to download setup.hint. Erf,

join

2010-01-07 Thread Lowetz, Jerry R.
-- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Zhezherun
Hi All, I have a weird problem with the latest Cygwin 1.7. It happens with both a fresh install on a Windows 7 machine and with an upgraded install of Cygwin on a Windows XP machine. When I execute various commands from Midnight Commander when it is running under Cygwin/X xterm, e.g. cat, the

RE: Cannot start xterm

2010-01-07 Thread Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe)
My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch.  I then installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch.  My first issue was I could not find startxwin.bat.  I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat, but its not there.  I built my own shortcut to start xwin

Re: xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Zhezherun
Hi All, Somehow Cygwin mailing list shows #xC2; characters in my previous message; it should have been all spaces instead. Best Regards, Andrew -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

backspace key mapping problem

2010-01-07 Thread Chuck
Seems like the character mapped to the backspace key changed from ^H to ^? with the upgrade to 1.7. Is there a way to get the old mapping back? It's creating problems for me, especially when I ssh to remove systems where I can't arbitrarily change the stty erase setting. TIA. -- Unsubscribe

Re: backspace key mapping problem

2010-01-07 Thread Chuck
Chuck wrote: Seems like the character mapped to the backspace key changed from ^H to ^? with the upgrade to 1.7. Is there a way to get the old mapping back? It's creating problems for me, especially when I ssh to remove systems where I can't arbitrarily change the stty erase setting. TIA.

Re: backspace key mapping problem

2010-01-07 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/7 Chuck: Seems like the character mapped to the backspace key changed from ^H to ^? with the upgrade to 1.7. Is there a way to get the old mapping back? What terminal do you use? (The cygwin-xfree list is meant for X issues.) Andy -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/7 Andrew Zhezherun: I have a weird problem with the latest Cygwin 1.7. It happens with both a fresh install on a Windows 7 machine and with an upgraded install of Cygwin on a Windows XP machine. When I execute various commands from Midnight Commander when it is running under Cygwin/X

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog cygpath.cc

2010-01-07 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-01-07 12:08:11 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog cygpath.cc Log message: * cygpath.cc (main): Remove enforcing en_US.UTF-8 locale. Revert usage of argz functions when

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog overview.sgml

2010-01-07 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-01-07 12:18:01 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog overview.sgml Log message: * overview.sgml: Fix Red Hat brand name. Patches:

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog cygpath.cc

2010-01-07 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-01-07 17:19:12 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog cygpath.cc Log message: * cygpath.cc: Throughout, free obsolete path buffers. Patches:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygport-0.9.80-1

2010-01-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** cygport: 0.9.80-1 cygport is a tool for building Cygwin packages. The major improvement in this release is DOCUMENTATION. (Finally!) The cygport public API has been documented so far (HTML, ~160p); I intend that future releases

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1-1: problem with pipe to windows programs

2010-01-07 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/6 RH: echo select * from mytable | unix2dos | sqlcmd -S server -U sa -P mypassword -d myDatabase As you can see I'm trying to force the data hitting sqlcmd to be in dos mode but somehow I suspect it is getting put into linux-mode line endings before hitting sqlcmd.  The error

[ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: stunnel 4.29-1

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 4.29-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with assorted minor bug fixes since the previous Cygwin release, 4.26-2. You can read the upstream changelog at http://www.stunnel.org/news/. stunnel is a program that allows you to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GraphicsMagick-1.3.7-2

2010-01-07 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 1.3.7-2 of GraphicsMagick libGraphicsMagick-devel libGraphicsMagick3 perl-Graphics-Magick have been uploaded DESCRIPTION GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. It provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which support reading,

Re: 2nd Try: nwfs problem

2010-01-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Avi Schwartz (Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:01:03 -0600) I upgraded to the latest cygwin version yesterday and since then I have a problem I never encountered before. It may have to do with the Netware file system. Here is what mount shows: C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1

2010-01-07 Thread David Billinghurst
cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1 has been released. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.cloog.org/ Download: ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/. License: GPL version 2 or later CLooG - the Chunky Loop Generator - is free software and library to generate code for scanning

Re: Revamp cygwin.com project page?

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 3 20:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:36:06AM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: I've set up a sample at ... You're putting me in the situation of practically begging me to be mean. As much as everyone thinks I may enjoy that, I really don't. But, since you asked.

Re: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 30 16:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:18:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 29 17:11, Jon Beniston wrote: cygpath can read a list of paths to convert from a file, when started with

Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 30 17:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:30:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:36:05PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: I seem to have a problem with wildcards from the Windows command line when there are high-bit characters in a filename.

Re: find utils (updatedb) crashes on invalid win symlink

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 1 15:56, Linda Walsh wrote: Some time ago, my daily updatedb stopped working and I just got around to figuring out why -- it was dying with (I wish I had the message, but I lost it) an internal error in 'find' which would then exit and updatedb would overwrite the old file with a new

Re: cygwin_create_path

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 3 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/3 Andy Koppe: I'm having a spot of trouble changing mkshortcut to use the wchar_t-enabled cygwin_create_path instead of the deprecated cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path co. When converting to a Windows path using CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W, the result is a

OpenSSL package install

2010-01-07 Thread Tabea De Wille
Hello, I must say in advance that I am pretty inexperienced with Cygwin so please bear that in mind when reading my question :) I am trying to install the OpenSSL package 0.9.8b which I need for a specific task - however, no matter what I try, it doesn't seem to work. What I try is this: I

Re: setup*exe for legacy and current versions

2010-01-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:00:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: It checks its own name using argv[0] and acts accordingly. Ooh.  Prograi... SCIENCE! -- Mark J. Reed

chmod in cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Linda Armelle Nzumotcha Tchoumkam
Operator error. If ab.exe is in C:/Program Files/Flow then the POSIX path for that is /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Flow/ab.exe. So when you were told No such file or directory, that was the truth. That's right Larry, But the message No such file or directory was for ls -d /C/Program/flow or ls

Re: Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. Was Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 5 13:22, Yaakov S wrote: On 04/01/2010 23:05, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Wouldn't hurt in my opinion. IIRC, the biggest issue in the past has been to get DocBook working under Cygwin, so Linux has been a requirement to get the documentation generated, as a result. But things may have

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygport-0.9.80-1

2010-01-07 Thread JonY
On 1/7/2010 16:42, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** cygport: 0.9.80-1 Hi, The Cygwin setup lists 0.9.9-1 as latest, 0.9.80-1 as another available version, so any idea whats wrong? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: 1.7.1: problem with public key authentication on domain accounts

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 5 11:39, Bob Burger wrote: | Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component | Detected: Named process. I uninstalled this component, but the problem remains. Nevertheless, the problem must be some other BLODA. I have sshd running on every OS since NT4 and I have no

The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Karthik Balaguru
Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages provided by cygwin ? What are the advantages provided by

Re: Bug printing string where the 128th char is multibyte

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 4 21:05, Eduardo D'Avila wrote: Using the %s didn't solve the problem: erdav...@antares ~/perl/feedbacks $ cat BUG.c #include stdio.h int main() { const char * str = 0123456789// 0 - 9 0123456789// 10 - 19

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread GMANE
I also see this behavior. It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo LANG=en_US; export LANG ~/.bashrc), but this didn't work the next time I ran rxvt. Hopefully somebody will see us and help out. tim richardson t...@tim-richardson.net wrote in message

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages provided by cygwin ? Simple: Cygwin provides

Re: cygpath: out of memory

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 5 10:03, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Upgrading from 1.5 to 1.7 I started getting an error message from cygpath where I hadn't previously. This can be exemplified by the following. $ cmd /c dir /s /b o:\\ | cygpath -u -f - | wc cygpath: out of memory 20029 20029

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2010-01-07 Thread Thomas Berger
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: Nevertheless, the problem must be some other BLODA. I have sshd running on every OS since NT4 and I have no trouble running it. and logging in to any admin or non-admin account. If it's really a Cygwin bug, it's quite non-deterministic since logging in via the

Re: Strange cygdrive problem

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 5 11:17, Avi Schwartz wrote: I upgraded to the latest cygwin version yesterday and since then I have a problem I never encountered before and it may have to do with the Netware file system. Here is what mount shows: C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread Wayne Erfling
Turns out the solution for me was to put the commands into .bash_profile instead of .bashrc LANG=en_US; export LANG GMANE werfl...@visionamics.com wrote in message news:hi52s7$f1...@ger.gmane.org... I also see this behavior. It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo LANG=en_US; export

Re: Strange cygdrive problem

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 18:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo X: Make that /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo X:/ The slash is necessary. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat

Re: 1.7.1 ssh-agent hangs with 100% cpu

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 6 14:19, E wrote: Hi. Having trouble with ssh-agent since upgrading cygwin to 1.7.x. I start the ssh-agent, which is fine, but then if I try and to a ssh-add or ssh, that process hangs and ssh-agent starts using 100% of a cpu. Sounds like YA BLODA problem. ssh-agent works fine

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Wayne Erfling wrote: Turns out the solution for me was to put the commands into .bash_profile instead of .bashrc Bash reads .bashrc in non-login shells and .bash_profile in login shells. What I do is put the stuff I want done in both cases in .bashrc and have

Re: 2nd Try: nwfs problem

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 11:13, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Avi Schwartz (Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:01:03 -0600) I upgraded to the latest cygwin version yesterday and since then I have a problem I never encountered before. It may have to do with the Netware file system. Here is what mount shows:

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 00:39, Raman Gupta wrote: Well... yes -- at least in this case. As per the documentation (http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table): Cygwin ignores filesystem ACLs and only fakes a subset of permission bits based on the DOS readonly attribute On the server:

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 09:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages provided by

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-07 Thread Raman Gupta
On 01/07/2010 01:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 00:39, Raman Gupta wrote: Well... yes -- at least in this case. As per the documentation (http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table): Cygwin ignores filesystem ACLs and only fakes a subset of permission bits based on

Re: 'screen' does not completely startup

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
Sorry for the resend, forgot to attach the file. I now have Cygwin installed successfully on an Alienware laptop running Windows 7. Its a new install. To get Cygwin installed I had to uninstall Bitdefender 2010. I have left it uninstalled. I can start rxvt using both the installed short

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread rmpbklyn
i have been using it since 2006,and have found it useful I have also used dual boot with linux, but after a while got bored, since after tinkering with the codes and themes, etc, always went back to windows for work or school. the installing is so easy and saves so much time. tired of getting

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Bash reads .bashrc in non-login shells and .bash_profile in login shells. What I do is put the stuff I want done in both cases in .bashrc and have .bash_profile source .bashrc. That's the way the default scripts work if I remember right. My solution was an alias. I use the console instead of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygport-0.9.80-1

2010-01-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 07/01/2010 10:05, JonY wrote: The Cygwin setup lists 0.9.9-1 as latest, 0.9.80-1 as another available version, so any idea whats wrong? I checked setup.ini, and it shows 0.9.80-1 as latest and 0.9.9-1 as previous. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages

Re: Can't use key authentication on x64 Server 2003 R2

2010-01-07 Thread Greg Fury
I've got a very similar issue on a 32-bit win 2003 32-bit machine. Cygwin 1.5 works fine. I was hoping to deploy 1.7 for some ssh integration with my unix hosts, rather than install 1.5 which is now considered a legacy package. Fresh install of Cygwin 1.7 Only additional packages installed are

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 13:42, Raman Gupta wrote: On 01/07/2010 01:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 00:39, Raman Gupta wrote: Cygwin ignores filesystem ACLs and only fakes a subset of permission bits based on the DOS readonly attribute No, it's a bit more tricky. FAT filesystems, which are the

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-07 Thread Raman Gupta
On 01/07/2010 02:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 13:42, Raman Gupta wrote: On 01/07/2010 01:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 00:39, Raman Gupta wrote: Cygwin ignores filesystem ACLs and only fakes a subset of permission bits based on the DOS readonly attribute No, it's a

Re: 1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not found

2010-01-07 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Dave Trollope I too have seen this behaviour on both my work and home systems. Whats interesting is I ran cygcheck -c on each when exhibiting this problem and it said OK for the cygwin package. Just had this same behaviour so setup is still broken as is

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 15:00, Raman Gupta wrote: On 01/07/2010 02:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 13:42, Raman Gupta wrote: In any case, note that the KB article says that attrib *can* be used to see and modify the value -- as I demonstrated in my previous email. Sure. That has nothing to do

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-07 Thread Raman Gupta
On 01/07/2010 03:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 15:00, Raman Gupta wrote: On 01/07/2010 02:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 7 13:42, Raman Gupta wrote: In any case, note that the KB article says that attrib *can* be used to see and modify the value -- as I demonstrated in my

Oddity when working with webdrive mounted network drives

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Pendell
When opening a webdrive mounted network drive it shows all the user and groups with question marks (?) and full rw.  Looks like it is emulating FAT/FAT32 here but I wanted to be sure.  The uid and gid are obviously wrong here but that is the numeric uid and gid that it gives.  Beyond that there

cygwin, perl or DBI seriously broken in 1.7.1?

2010-01-07 Thread Steven Hartland
Unless I'm going mad it seems either cygwin itself, perl, DBI or DBD::mysql have been broken in 1.7.1 or the update to perl 5.10. I'm running a script which has been working here for years but is now broken and from what I can tell the issue is fairly fundamental so I'm currently suspecting an

changing cygwin's console window title

2010-01-07 Thread Collin Monahan
I noticed Lynx kept changing my window title. According to the source code it was a call to SetConsoleTitle, part of the Windows API. Rather than modifying the Lynx source code I wrote a short console program in Visual C++ which I can use after exiting Lynx. It compiled under Visual Studio 2010

Re: changing cygwin's console window title

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/07/2010 04:37 PM, Collin Monahan wrote: I noticed Lynx kept changing my window title. According to the source code it was a call to SetConsoleTitle, part of the Windows API. Rather than modifying the Lynx source code I wrote a short console program in Visual C++ which I can use after

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? Huh. Fancy that. You're right. There's no need for Cygwin anymore.

Re: Cygwin and raw sockets - Windows XP with SP2 , Vista and later

2010-01-07 Thread Warren Young
On 1/6/2010 3:04 PM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: - For pure Windows applications(Windows Native approach) that require raw sockets, we can use winpcap. WinPCap is not raw sockets. The term sockets refers to the BSD Sockets programming API, or related ones like Winsock. WinPCap is a completely

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:43:52PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ?

Re: changing cygwin's console window title

2010-01-07 Thread Collin Monahan
On 01/07/2010 04:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Does title in the CYGWIN environment variable no longer work? I'm not familiar with that setting. I tried export title=1 export title export TITLE=1 export TITLE Following each of those commands I tried running other ones (ls, grep), and the

Re: cygwin, perl or DBI seriously broken in 1.7.1?

2010-01-07 Thread Steven Hartland
Been trying a few things and going back from perl 5.10.1-2 to perl 5.10.1-1 fixes the issue, or at least I can now no longer reproduce the problem readily. Looking at the differences seem to be the change in flags from -Dmad=y - -Doptimize=-O3 so we could be looking at a compiler bug? One thing

Re: changing cygwin's console window title

2010-01-07 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Using the console window, I keep the Cygwin window title the same as much as I can. It works pretty well (for the commands I happen to use) by setting notitle in the CYGWIN variable and putting these lines in .bashrc: settitle() { printf %s $'\033']2;$@$'\007\033']1;$@$'\007'; } export

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread mike marchywka
On 1/7/10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 01/07/2010 11:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ?

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Warren Young
On 1/7/2010 3:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote: It isn't so much the work-with-windoze aspect as much as why do you need a command line thing when you have a gui? You really should just have a one-link answer that explains that. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html -- Problem reports:

Re: changing cygwin's console window title

2010-01-07 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-01-07 21:52Z, Collin Monahan wrote: On 01/07/2010 04:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Does title in the CYGWIN environment variable no longer work? It still works in 1.7.1 . I'm not familiar with that setting. I tried export title=1 If you do: export CYGWIN=$CYGWIN title ;

obsolete Windows registry keys

2010-01-07 Thread David Arnstein
I have finished upgrading from 1.5.x to 1.7.x and I don't intend to go back. Now I would like to delete the entries some entries from my Windows registry. What are the keys that were used in 1.5.x, but are no longer used in 1.7.x? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: The need for cygwin/ should take to talk at this point I guess...

2010-01-07 Thread mike marchywka
On 1/7/10, Warren Young wrote: On 1/7/2010 3:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote: It isn't so much the work-with-windoze aspect as much as why do you need a command line thing when you have a gui? You really should just have a one-link answer that explains that.

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote: As one who asks rhetorical questions myself, the point doesn't seem to have hit a lot of people does it? It isn't so much the work-with-windoze aspect as much as why do you need a command line thing when you have a gui? You really should just have

Re: obsolete Windows registry keys

2010-01-07 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/7 David Arnstein: I have finished upgrading from  1.5.x to 1.7.x and I don't intend to go back. Now I would like to delete the entries some entries from my Windows registry. What are the keys that were used in 1.5.x, but are no longer used in 1.7.x? HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions --

How do I disable old SSH protocol

2010-01-07 Thread raytheman
My cygwin supports all the old SSH protocol, I need to disable them in order to meeting the security requirement, please help. - 1.33 - 1.5 - 1.99 - 2.0 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-do-I-disable-old-SSH-protocol-tp27068847p27068847.html Sent from the Cygwin list

Re: How do I disable old SSH protocol

2010-01-07 Thread Warren Young
On 1/7/2010 4:19 PM, raytheman wrote: My cygwin supports all the old SSH protocol, I need to disable them in order to meeting the security requirement, please help. Same way you do this on any other OS with OpenSSH. I don't have sshd here, but I imagine it's /etc/sshd_config or

Re: How do I disable old SSH protocol

2010-01-07 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/7 raytheman: My cygwin supports all the old SSH protocol, I need to disable them in order to meeting the security requirement, please help. - 1.33 - 1.5 - 1.99 - 2.0 RTFM: man ssh -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: obsolete Windows registry keys

2010-01-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andy Koppe (Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:11:51 +) 2010/1/7 David Arnstein: I have finished upgrading from  1.5.x to 1.7.x and I don't intend to go back. Now I would like to delete the entries some entries from my Windows registry. What are the keys that were used in 1.5.x, but are no longer

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread brian
For me, Cygwin provides a nice easy linux emulation complimenting my large set of laptop windows applications, which for me is the point. For Linux, I log into a massive linux server where my production systems reside and get unlimited storage and free maintanance. I haven't even explored

RE: Cygwin 1.7.1-1: problem with pipe to windows programs

2010-01-07 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
KJ kjathome at gmx.net writes: within a cygwin shell I used to pipe some data into a windows program (sqlcmd.exe) which used to work pretty well. Since upgrading to version 1.7 I get the following error: $ echo select @@version | sqlcmd Sqlcmd: Error: Internal error at ReadTextLine (Reason:

Re: 'screen' does not completely startup

2010-01-07 Thread Durwin
Have you tried to reproduce this problem in a different terminal? Have you tried removing your .screenrc? It does not make a difference using other terminals. I have learned one very mystical proceedure. If I launch the bash shortcut which just runs bash --login -i, then I launch my rxvt

Re: Bug printing string where the 128th char is multibyte

2010-01-07 Thread Eduardo D'Avila
Perhaps there's a BLODA issue? Though I didn't see anything in cygcheck.out. I have Google Desktop on one of the machine where the bad behavior happens, but the other machine has none of the softwares in the BLODA list. Are the characters are not printing at all, or are they perhaps being

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygport-0.9.80-1

2010-01-07 Thread JonY
On 1/8/2010 03:05, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 07/01/2010 10:05, JonY wrote: The Cygwin setup lists 0.9.9-1 as latest, 0.9.80-1 as another available version, so any idea whats wrong? I checked setup.ini, and it shows 0.9.80-1 as latest and 0.9.9-1 as previous. Yaakov Hi, Strangely, I

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 04:56 PM, brian wrote: For me, Cygwin provides a nice easy linux emulation complimenting my large set of laptop windows applications, which for me is the point. For Linux, I log into a massive linux server where my production systems reside and get unlimited storage and free

Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Schwartz. They do episodes about various open source projects from Ardour to ZFS. I think that it would be great for Cygwin to be featured on FLOSS Weekly and I've emailed Randall

FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Schwartz. They do episodes about various open source projects from Ardour to ZFS. I think that it would be great for Cygwin to be featured on FLOSS Weekly and I've emailed Randall

Update problems

2010-01-07 Thread David Gast
There are two problems with updating cygwin. 1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated because the file is in use. If the libraries have been updated and bash expects old libraries, for example, you can't do anything in cygwin. In the update instructions, you

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Karthik Balaguru
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 07:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Schwartz. They do episodes about various open source projects from Ardour to ZFS. I think that it would be great for Cygwin to be

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread Karthik Balaguru
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:47 AM, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ?

Re: Update problems

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote: There are two problems with updating cygwin. 1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated because the file is in use. Sure. This is the reason 'setup.exe' exists. It's a Windows feature that keeps you from replacing a file that's in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {attr/libattr-devel/libattr1}-2.4.43-1

2010-01-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 28/12/2009 04:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: libattr-devel contains the libraries and header files needed to develop programs which make use of extended attributes. This package provides the libs and headers required to develop using the SGI IRIX compatibility interface. Corinna, Would you

Cygwin on Win-7

2010-01-07 Thread Ahsan ansari
Hello, Seeking for help regarding cygwin on Win-7 I installed Cygwin on WinXP Operating system where I am using Administrator account and everything seems to work just fine. However, with the same installation procedure on Win7 its prompting me the below message. can you please help me out.

Re: Cygwin on Win-7

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/07/2010 11:30 PM, Ahsan ansari wrote: can you please help me out. First, let me point you to: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Without anything else to go on, my WAG is http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA. FWIW, I and others are using Cygwin on Win7 so there's

gcc4: OpenMP vs. math.h

2010-01-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
POSIX allows for math.h functions to also be defined as macros. Currently, only log2 and log2f are so defined. These macros pose problems with a few projects which define their own static/inline/template log2() (off the top of my head, I can think of 2: the CRAN rgl module, and OpenCV; both

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