Re: problems starting xterm

2010-03-21 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Ken Brown writes: Does your CYGWIN environment variable contain tty? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-startxwin-no-windows administra...@pc51997 ~ $ echo $CYGWIN server Which, in fact, is a leftover of 1.5. But no, there is no tty here. regards, Markus -- Markus

Re: problems starting xterm

2010-03-21 Thread Andy Koppe
Markus Hoenicka: xterm: Could not exec 4.90.2.20040617: No such file or directory Jon TURNEY: Google suggests '4.90.2.20040617' is a novell netware client version. Good catch. I use a Windoze client on a Netware network at work, so this client is likely to be installed. But then, why would

X11 forwarding within LAN vs remote

2010-03-21 Thread pelle412
This is my first post in this forum. I have a problem with X11 forwarding that has plagued me for months now. I have a desktop PC acting as a server. It runs OpenSSH. At work I have a laptop running Windows XP, Exceed X Server, and PuTTy. I can SSH to my home LAN very easily and display X

Re: X11 forwarding within LAN vs remote

2010-03-21 Thread pelle412
I figured it out. My employer had installed McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention service and I can clearly see all the blocked TCP connections at port 6000 (Exceed). Disabling the service did the trick. Now I just have to figure out how to add an exception to it even though all means to edit it via

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

2010-03-21 Thread Andy Koppe
scott: According to the internets... the C3 purports to be a i686-class processor Without CMOV or out-of-order execution, that seems a bit of a scam. [snip] For gcc, i686 implies the presence of the CMOV instruction, because, well, CMOV was introduced with the Intel 686 (aka Pentium Pro).

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

2010-03-21 Thread Andy Koppe
scott: According to the internets... the C3 purports to be a i686-class processor, and has MMX/3DNow, but does not have the supposedly optional CMOV instruction that other processors of its class have.  Some people managed to get i686 kernels to run, some didn't, depending on the distro.

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

2010-03-21 Thread Scott Little
Where do you get that idea from that CMOV is optional? Yes, there's a CPUID feature bit representing CMOV, but that's always set on the i686, its descendants, and compatible processors. Pre-Nehemiah C3s are not fully 686-compatible, simple as that. Old flamewars, eg.

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

2010-03-21 Thread Andy Koppe
Scott Little: Where do you get that idea from that CMOV is optional? Yes, there's a CPUID feature bit representing CMOV, but that's always set on the i686, its descendants, and compatible processors. Pre-Nehemiah C3s are not fully 686-compatible, simple as that. Old flamewars, eg.

Re: cygwin.com website

2010-03-21 Thread Thomas Wolff
This guy just redid http://mingw-w64.sf.net/ and it looks GREAT! I highly recommend his work. There was another proposal and discussion about redesign in December and the idea to spend effort on this wasn't too well-received... :-\ Yet I dare to add my comments: * I would refrain from

Re: Cygwin Virus

2010-03-21 Thread Karthik Balaguru
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Karthik Balaguru karthikbalagur...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 3/13/2010 7:26 PM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, Since cygwin is a windows utility that provides linux

RE: Cygwin Virus

2010-03-21 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Karthik Balaguru Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:06 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Virus On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Karthik Balaguru karthikbalagur...@gmail.com

Re: cygwin.com website

2010-03-21 Thread Brent Kerr
Thank you for your feedback. Firstly, I'd just like to say that my proposal was inspired almost entirely by the current site. I'm happy to adapt any ideas/comments/feedback or even consider a different approach. There was another proposal and discussion about redesign in December and the idea

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21/03/2010 07:42, Scott Little wrote: True, but I can tell the noisier advocates claiming open source can save my old hardware to STFU ;) No, you can't actually. Every Linux distro comes in i386 as well as i686 flavours, which will run just fine on your old hardware - as you already know

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21/03/2010 07:16, Andy Koppe wrote: Perhaps it would work Cygwin 1.5 actually, which you can install using http://www.cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe. Someone else would need to confirm this, but I think that was still getting compiled for 586. To be precise, it was all i386 until the

Re: Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value

2010-03-21 Thread Brandon Chase
On 16/03/2010 17:08, Stephan Mueller wrote: Brandon Chase wrote: DaveK wrote: Brandon, Cygwin isn't compatible with Linux at the assembler-code level, So I cannot compile assembly language with Cygwin? Do I need a linux shell? No, that's not what anyone said. You can use the

Re: Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21/03/2010 15:44, Brandon Chase wrote: Thanks a lot! So I need to do all c-style syscalls for Cygwin? Yep, absolutely, should all be pretty much as simple as that. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.5.5-1

2010-03-21 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.5.5-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the changes since the previous release: o update to Python 2.5.5 o build against Cygwin 1.7 o build using cygport o split

1.7.1- Scheduled Tasks runs but lacks 'du -kh' output

2010-03-21 Thread computer tech
I have a .bat file, that is scheduled to run as NT Authority\System every morning. The schedule tasks calls the run.bat file. The script is running at the schedule time, but when I check the files in the morning the only output is from the 'echo' commands(see hello-fs2.sh script below). I don't

Very strange response when starting Cygwin

2010-03-21 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I brought up the Cygwin prompt with the intentions of checking on a program I had written, and I saw this stuff surface amongst the fortune program output: 2 [main] bash 2648 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x33D000 ..0x3414A4, done 0, windows pid 2648, Win32 error 487

Re: Very strange response when starting Cygwin

2010-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! I brought up the Cygwin prompt with the intentions of checking on a program I had written, and I saw this stuff surface amongst the fortune program output: 2 [main] bash 2648 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed,

cygwin builds and unicode support

2010-03-21 Thread mike marchywka
I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- it compiled right away on debian. I'm not entirely sure this is an issue with cygwin as much as this project and something stupid I'm missing but I'll see what kind of response I get here as

Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21/03/2010 18:06, mike marchywka wrote: I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- The most likely cause of the problem is that cygwin uses 16-bit wide chars, where linux has 32-bit ones. How you solve that is going to depend

Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

2010-03-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-03-21 13:06, mike marchywka wrote: I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- it compiled right away on debian. I'm not entirely sure this is an issue with cygwin as much as this project and something stupid I'm missing but

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

2010-03-21 Thread Andy Koppe
David Balažic: Hi! I have again LANG=SL  in  minTTY. I also see LANG=SL in cmd.exe. No idea where it came from. Info: Regional: standards and formats: Slovenian; Location: United States; Languages (kbd): English I'll post more as I discover things. Any luck with this? Andy --

Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

2010-03-21 Thread mike marchywka
On 3/21/10, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 2010-03-21 13:06, mike marchywka wrote: I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- it compiled right away on debian. I'm not entirely sure this is an issue

Re: Cygwin Virus

2010-03-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/21/2010 9:06 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com wrote: ^^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

Re: 1.7.1- Scheduled Tasks runs but lacks 'du -kh' output

2010-03-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/21/2010 1:10 PM, computer tech wrote: I have a .bat file, that is scheduled to run as NT Authority\System every morning. The schedule tasks calls the run.bat file. The script is running at the schedule time, but when I check the files in the morning the only output is from the 'echo'

Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

2010-03-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/21/2010 4:24 PM, mike marchywka wrote: cygwin 1.5.25-15 Yes, that's Cygwin 1.5. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508)

can't find online mainling list

2010-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
-- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Can't find mailist archives

2010-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
I can't find the mailing lists archive. Did they get moved but just didn't update the links?? I can't seem to Navigate around to find the pages entitled Mailing List Archive s. When ever I click upon it's link (discussion) , it taked me to the top of it's current page which is at:

Re: can't find online mainling list

2010-03-21 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-03-22 04:09Z, Paul McFerrin wrote: Is this http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ what you seek? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

can't find documentation on cron command

2010-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
I've delayed many months for installing the /usr/sbin/cron.exe command. Mainly due to lack of documentation. Bam, at my weakest moment, . I found the documentation embeeded in the cron command itself. Just by adding a -? or --help I got two pages of very helpfull output. Just about when I

Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)

2010-03-21 Thread Reini Urban
2010/3/18 jvsrvcs: I inherited some code at work that is dependent on a number of .pm that will only run with perl 5.8.  I can not upgrade the pm's so must use perl 5.8. I have cygwin installed but it will only let me install perl 5.10.1.  I want to roll back to perl 5.8.  I tried ActiveState

Re: can't find documentation on cron command

2010-03-21 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: I've delayed many months for installing the /usr/sbin/cron.exe command.  Mainly due to lack of documentation. Are you saying that 'man cron' and 'man crontab' don't do anything for you? Install cron and you get man 1 cron man 5 crontab

Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.5.5-1

2010-03-21 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.5.5-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the changes since the previous release: o update to Python 2.5.5 o build against Cygwin 1.7 o build using cygport o split