Re: how to bring job to foreground?

2005-02-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
ng to control > > > > thanks in advance for your time, > $ fg I am not sure how "fg" would work. Matt doesn't not have a shell prompt (as mentioned above) on the same terminal. Does ps tell you it is in a suspended state (stopped process with state flag &qu

Re: Command-Line Mail Client?

2005-02-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
ail boxes. Also, maybe http://nail.sourceforge.net/ will build and work under cygwin. (It is an enhanced mail(1).) Jeremy C. Reed technical support & remote administration http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-06 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Brian Bruns wrote: > and leave it be. We shouldn't be forcing our views on other people. If you leave it be, then that is the view forced on other people. Jeremy C. Reed technical support & remote administration

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
es over many platforms, stable branch updated quarterly (and security fixes updated as frequently as needed) to make it easier for "stable" upgrades, package vulnerability database, ... Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
e I get the cygwin support committed, it will be an easy way to add, remove and manage thousands of software packages. (Pkgsrc has over 5000 packages). If anyone is interested in helping me, please let me know. (I am a Pkgsrc developer and use it under a few different

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > By the way, where do I download the files like shown at > > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=gcc-core%2Fgcc-core-3.4.1-1-src&grep=gcc-core > > ?) > > I'm sure you

Re: cp and "are the same file"

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
sers too -- it will add an easy way to (hopefully) install over 5000 software suites on cygwin. The Pkgsrc team has a goal of making it be portable -- and we officially support several Unixes. I do want to support older Windows 9x also, but I can't test and I am not sure what to easily do abou

Re: cp and "are the same file"

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
ment variable maybe? If so, unfortunately one does not exist. gcc was coded or configured to add the .exe extension automatically even though the -o output filename doesn't have it. I am just asking: where was gcc patched/coded or configured to add this .exe extension? Jeremy C. Reed

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
trailing period to every use of gcc. This is a work-around. I do already have a gcc wrapper, so maybe I could make this happen, but I'd prefer not too. Where is gcc configured or patched to add the ".exe" in the first place? Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tu

Re: cp and "are the same file"

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
setup wrappers and other patches to add a period hack after the output filename. Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > - cp(1), install(1), ln(1) and mv(1) contain patches to deal with .exe > > suffixes more or less transparently. > > How does the cygwin project choose which tools are patched

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
n the first place. How do I disable this not-needed feature in gcc? (I will not use old Windows that needs it.) Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

Re: coreutils link

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Isaac Foraker wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the coreutils `link' program is? It is for creating a hard link. Jeremy C. Reed technical support & remote administration http://www.pugetsoundte

cp and "are the same file"

2004-12-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
ars I don't need ".exe" for my executables to work. Any ideas on how to get gcc to not automatically append an ".exe". I looked in FAQ and didn't see either of these issues covered. Thank you, Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD