Re: I have a new acronym for the list

2011-06-20 Thread Edward McGuire
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:56:23AM -0700, david wilson wrote: Y've Got 2 B F*%ing Kidding Me = YG2BFKM On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 19:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: Sorry but no. The acronym list is intended to explain acronyms that are used in the Cygwin mailing lists. YG2BFKM. -- Problem

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-14 Thread Edward McGuire
On 6/14/2011 12:30 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Apparently you didn't actually read the whole thread here. Apparently I did. Then you apparently know the TZ names you posted are not known to cygcheck(1) because they are not in the UNIX standard and that's the only standard it supports. So I

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-14 Thread Edward McGuire
On 6/14/2011 1:33 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Are you saying that /usr/share/zoneinfo isn't the standard location for all time zone data? And that paths within that directory aren't standard values for TZ? If not, what is? There are two standards in play. The UNIX standard recognizes CET-1CEST.

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-13 Thread Edward McGuire
On 2011-06-10 16:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: we still have no idea [...] why you find it so crucial for cygcheck to report the date with pinpoint accuracy On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:44, Denis Excoffier wrote: Wrong by 1h is not pinpoint accuracy (i think). I realize I don't have a vote,

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-10 Thread Edward McGuire
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:24, Denis Excoffier wrote: I (OP) need to use TZ=Europe/Monaco (or similar, or with an absolute name) to make my applications work, including date(1). TZ=CET-1CEST would be understood by both GNU and MS. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-09 Thread Edward McGuire
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 02:46, EXCOFFIER Denis denis.excoff...@c-s.fr wrote: It seems that /usr/bin/cygcheck does not interpret TZ the same way as /usr/bin/date does, in the case TZ is set to a file name [snip] jupiter% (setenv TZ /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Monaco; date; cygdate) There are two

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-09 Thread Edward McGuire
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 13:08, Charles Wilson wrote: cygcheck.exe is not a cygwin program.  It is a native windows program, and thus either (a) uses Windows support for time zone data, not cygwin, or (b) has some special code to mimic cygwin's tz handling, which may not be up-to-par.  You'll

Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

2011-06-09 Thread Edward McGuire
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 16:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: We're not changing anything. Having the date there is useful. Again: you shouldn't use cygcheck -s as a method to find the system date. While strictly true, I doubt that continuing to repeat this caution will be worthwhile. You pointed

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Edward McGuire
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:38, Thorsten Kampe thors...@thorstenkampe.de wrote: This has nothing to do with Cygwin. You are (still[1]) confusing Cygwin and your shell. You would hugely benefit from gaining some basic knowledge about the tools you've been using since 1979. Your transcript was

Re: GNU screen on Cygwin: Cannot seem to reattach, no matter what I try

2011-05-11 Thread Edward McGuire
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And you know, what have the romans ever done for us? ... apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... -- Problem reports:

Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong

2011-04-29 Thread Edward McGuire
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 13:35, John Dong jd...@apple.com wrote: I've tried using a different shell (like dash), but it doesn't make a difference, leading me to suspect this to be a lower-level issue within the Cygwin DLL. Have you tried it with the stock Windows command processor? Something like

Re: 1.7.9-1: typeahead queue not flushed when Ctrl+C pressed

2011-04-21 Thread Edward McGuire
Thank you. I installed the 2011-04-17 snapshot, following FAQ 2.20 How do I install snapshots?. After installing, I could not reproduce the problem. Cheers, MetaEd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: 1.7.9-1: typeahead queue not flushed when Ctrl+C pressed

2011-04-14 Thread Edward McGuire
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 13:21, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, looks like the NOFLSH bit is ignored. There's no mention of it in the Cygwin sources except in sys/termios.h. Have you confirmed that it behaves as expected on Linux? This is an ancient part of the line discipline. It

Re: 1.7.9-1: typeahead queue not flushed when Ctrl+C pressed

2011-04-12 Thread Edward McGuire
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 13:39, Edward McGuire cygwin@metaed.com wrote: The trouble I am having is that my keyboard input is preserved when I press Ctrl+C. As there was no response of any kind, I am just checking whether I committed some error in posting this. Could someone most kindly reply

1.7.9-1: typeahead queue not flushed when Ctrl+C pressed

2011-04-04 Thread Edward McGuire
When I type ahead in an uncustomized terminal window, I expect my keyboard input to be queued until it is called for. When I press Ctrl+C, I expect the queue to be flushed. Any keyboard input still in the queue should be lost. The trouble I am having is that my keyboard input is preserved when I

Re: highlight keywords

2010-01-20 Thread Edward McGuire
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:56, indrek ho...@hot.ee wrote: I'm using make/gcc for compiling applications. It generates a lot of output. I need to highlight some keywords (show red text), in example error. Is it possible with Cygwin. My OS is Windows XP. Use grep(1). It has the color option you

setup.exe 2.674: Permission denied writing temp files to mirror directory structure

2009-12-31 Thread Edward McGuire
Looking for advice on how to get setup.exe to complete successfully when I try to add a new package (file 5.00-3) to my existing Cygwin installation. After upgrading setup.exe to 2.674, and during the setup.exe run, I am getting an error message popup. The text of the popup is: Can't open