Re: R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Marco Atzeri! > run setup and choose the directory you want > the default proposal is c:\cygwin To add: Strongly advised against paths with spaces or national letters. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 28.11.2010, <1:06> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem rep

Re: scp just spews usage

2010-11-27 Thread Ken Jackson
On 11/27/2010 09:28 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I had a similar issue. It seems that some updates do not complete successfully under the circumstances you describe. I suspect there is an issue with shells failing to run successfully as I often have to try several times before I can get Cygwin to

R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Sab 27/11/10, Vincent Richomme ha scritto: > Hi, > > First I am sorry to ask this question but I would like to > know if some cygwin developers > could give me some advice about the way of installing a > software at the root drive > (ex c:\mysoftware) on Windows Vista/7 operating systems. > I

Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

2010-11-27 Thread Vincent Richomme
Hi, First I am sorry to ask this question but I would like to know if some cygwin developers could give me some advice about the way of installing a software at the root drive (ex c:\mysoftware) on Windows Vista/7 operating systems. Indeed normally on those systems application are installed in

Re: Perl-5.10.README: outdated information

2010-11-27 Thread Reini Urban
2010/11/27 Gerrit P. Haase: > the Perl README states: > === > - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path >  mounted in binmode: > >    mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan >    mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan > >

Perl-5.10.README: outdated information

2010-11-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Reini, the Perl README states: === - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan where username is your ho

Re: scp just spews usage

2010-11-27 Thread Brian Wilson
> > Hi, > > I've been using ssh with cygwin for years w/ no issues.? After my last > > upgrade, I am not able to use scp (ssh still works). > > > > $ scp myfile myusern...@myserver:~ > > usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] > >[-l limit] [-o ssh_optio

Re: How to debug mintty or screen freeze

2010-11-27 Thread Henry S. Thompson
[I don't understand why my previous message lost its substance, and consistend only of the attachment -- in any case, here is the text that I thought I included in it???] Andy Koppe writes: > On 15 November 2010 10:25, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> [screen + mintty freezing] > . . . > Another thi

Re: How to debug mintty or screen freeze

2010-11-27 Thread Henry S. Thompson
mintty_hangs.tar.gz Description: logs from mintty before freeze -- 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