Fwd: Cygwin 1.7-58 with windows 2008

2016-03-23 Thread Rashi Singhal
I downloaded Cygwin 1.7.0-58 source from path: http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/pc/prog/cygwin/release-2/cygwin/ Also downloaded all the packages of cygwin version 1.7.0.58 ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa-2/index.html"; And followed instructions to compile from below document: https://cygw

Cygwin 2.24 with Windows 2000

2016-03-23 Thread Rashi Singhal
Hi , I am trying to bring up cygwin version 2.24 in windows 2000 system Its giving error as: "Attach console could not found in kernal32.dll" Is this version not supported with Win2k ? Please help -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-03-23 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions of octave-database 2.4.1-1 octave-io2.4.1-1 octave-ltfat 2.1.2-1 octave-netcdf1.0.9-1 are available in the Cygwin distribution: ADVISE On cygwin none of the forge packages is autoloaded, as some package could change substantially the normal octave b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.1-1

2016-03-23 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions 4.0.1-1 of octave, octave-devel, octave-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Upstream bugfix release http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/bug-fixes-4-0-1.html Full changes: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.0.html CYGWIN CHANGES Additional patch ba

Re: Change PS1 when run as administrator

2016-03-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 23 18:01, Brian Inglis wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > On Mar 23 12:35, Brian Inglis wrote: > >> Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: > >>> Confirmed, at least on Win10 64-bit without any AD mucking things up. > >>> That is, I get both 114 and 544 here, so I don’t need the 1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.9

2016-03-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a new Cygwin TEST version 2.5.0-0.9. If things are not going very wrong, this is basically what you'll get as 2.5.0-1 release. Please, please test and report regressions. Refresh with the following changes: - Forgotten item in the 2.5.0-0.8 release text

[ANNOUNCEMENT] ddrescue 1.21-1

2016-03-23 Thread Christian Franke
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ddrescue-1.21-1 GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Ddrescue does not truncate the output

Re: Change PS1 when run as administrator

2016-03-23 Thread Brian Inglis
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > On Mar 23 12:35, Brian Inglis wrote: >> Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: >>> Confirmed, at least on Win10 64-bit without any AD mucking things up. >>> That is, I get both 114 and 544 here, so I don’t need the 114 rule at all. >> Opposite for me on Win7 x64

Re: Package choosing algorithm ...

2016-03-23 Thread Houder
On 2016-03-22 10:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 21 13:40, Houder wrote: [snip] Apparently specifying the -m option makes a difference ... It shouldn't but apparently it does, oh well. https://cygwin.com/acronyms#PGA anybody? Hi Corinna, More experimenting ... including building and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: XtoW 20160323-1 (experimental)

2016-03-23 Thread Jon Turney
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** XtoW-20160323-1 xtow is a window manager using the libxcwm library, which is: * native: it integrates with native window management by putting each top-level X window in it's own Windows window (similar to

Re: fts_read failed error during Cygwin find, du, etc operations

2016-03-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 22 10:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > The strace does not contain any error which isn't expected. Are you > > sure the problem occured when you created this trace? > > Hi Corinna; > > Thank you for your analysis. > > Yes,

Re: Change PS1 when run as administrator

2016-03-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 23 12:35, Brian Inglis wrote: > Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: > > On Mar 15, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Achim Gratz nexgo.de> wrote: > >> Andrey Repin writes: > >>>test $group -eq 114 && { x="#"; break; } > >> Nope, that group membership isn't associated with real administrative > >> powers

Re: Change PS1 when run as administrator

2016-03-23 Thread Brian Inglis
Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: > On Mar 15, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Achim Gratz nexgo.de> wrote: >> Andrey Repin writes: >>>test $group -eq 114 && { x="#"; break; } >> Nope, that group membership isn't associated with real administrative >> powers. > Confirmed, at least on Win10 64-bit without a