Re: Setup Parse Errors

2010-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 03:27:39PM -0500, Mahir Morshed wrote: >I'm trying to download Cygwin Ports packages to my computer using the >method mandated on Sourceware, but when I get past the download site >list (e.g. while parsing setup.ini), I get twenty-two errors in a >large dialog box that look

Re: 1.7.5 cannot bg mintty

2010-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:32:23PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >(There's also another issue with the ^Z not taking effect immediately >due to signal handling being disabled while mintty waits for Windows >events, but that would require some fairly major restructuring to fix, >so leaving that for later

Re: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char

2010-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:15:15AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >>> >> > $ cat >a.dat >>> >> > /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Syst >>> >> > emBootDevice >>> >>> > This trailing NUL character was always there, already with Cygwin 1.5

Re: Setup Parse Errors

2010-05-29 Thread Thierry
Mahir Morshed live.com> writes: > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to download Cygwin Ports packages to my computer using the method mandated on Sourceware, but > when I get past the download site list (e.g. while parsing setup.ini), I get twenty-two errors in a large > dialog box that look something

Re: 1.7.5 cannot bg mintty

2010-05-29 Thread Andy Koppe
Paul wrote: > I sometimes forget to append a & when opening a new mintty from an existing > mintty. With rxvt this was never a problem, just ^Z and bg in the parent > terminal (my shell is bash  3.2.49-23). This doesn't seem to work for mintty > (0.6.2-1) though - although it seems that the job has

Re: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char

2010-05-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/05/2010 21:15, Andrey Repin wrote: > Yep. And I certainly not expect the NULL in text files. It's not a text file. It's a binary one. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Setup Parse Errors

2010-05-29 Thread Mahir Morshed
Hello, I'm trying to download Cygwin Ports packages to my computer using the method mandated on Sourceware, but when I get past the download site list (e.g. while parsing setup.ini), I get twenty-two errors in a large dialog box that look something like this: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwin

Re: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char

2010-05-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> > $ cat >a.dat >> >> > /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Syst >> >> > emBootDevice >> >> > This trailing NUL character was always there, already with Cygwin 1.5. >> > It's part of the file content. If strings are stored with a t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rcs-5.7-11: The Revision Control System

2010-05-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
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2010-05-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnubg-0.90.0-1: A backgammon player and analysis tool.

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Re: cygpath behaviour when input is not a path

2010-05-29 Thread Andy Koppe
On 29 May 2010 16:20, Gary wrote: > I wrote: >> How should cygcheck > > cygpath, not cygcheck > > /me smacks head > >> behave when given a "PATH list" (e.g., >> '/bin:/usr/bin'), *without* the -p option? >> >> For example: >> $ cygpath -a -p -C ANSI -w /bin:/usr/bin >> C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\bin >

Re: cygpath behaviour when input is not a path

2010-05-29 Thread Gary
I wrote: > How should cygcheck cygpath, not cygcheck /me smacks head > behave when given a "PATH list" (e.g., > '/bin:/usr/bin'), *without* the -p option? > > For example: > $ cygpath -a -p -C ANSI -w /bin:/usr/bin > C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\bin > > = okay. What I expect from RTFMP. > > $ cygpath

cygcheck behaviour when input is not a path

2010-05-29 Thread Gary
How should cygcheck behave when given a "PATH list" (e.g., '/bin:/usr/bin'), *without* the -p option? For example: $ cygpath -a -p -C ANSI -w /bin:/usr/bin C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\bin = okay. What I expect from RTFMP. $ cygpath -a -C ANSI -w /bin:/usr/bin C:\cygwin\bin?\usr\bin Urk! I would hav