Re: BitDefender again

2009-09-10 Thread Michael Kairys
But can anyone say more about Dave Korn's comment that it could horribly frag your heap and bork your maximum allocatable memory limit? Can I test this somehow? Guess I'll just go with it then... :) In the interim I've tried out a few other leading AV products: Avria, Nod32, and Kaspersky,

Re: BitDefender again

2009-09-03 Thread Michael Kairys
Michael Kairys kai...@comcast.net wrote in message news:h7j7ha$47...@ger.gmane.org... Or you can go the easy route, and follow the instructions they have provided to rebase cygwin.dll. I shall try their instructions and report back. (There must be other BitDefender users similarily

Re: BitDefender again

2009-09-01 Thread Michael Kairys
Or you can go the easy route, and follow the instructions they have provided to rebase cygwin.dll. I shall try their instructions and report back. (There must be other BitDefender users similarily inconvenienced by version 2010 :) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Kairys
(3) http://www.f-prot.com Thanks for the suggestion... Seems some reviews give them low marks on detection rates: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug09.jpg http://www.virus-centre.com/ ... and some low marks on features (19 out of 20):

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Kairys
Thanks for the replies... the suggestion to use a base address in the 0x3500 area (or indeed any of the others they mentioned) is going to horribly frag your heap and bork your maximum allocatable memory limit, isn't it? I don't know. How would I tell? Wonder if it wouldn't work just

BitDefender again

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Kairys
BitDefender AntiVirus 2009 and Cygwin got along fine, but when I upgraded to 2010 all my Cygwin-based apps started crashing. If I turn off their Active Virus Control the problem goes away. They offer this advice: = There is an incompatibility between cygwin

git gui can't find /usr/share ??

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Kairys
Trying to learn more about git by installing it and poking around... If I try to run git gui I get: bitmap c:\cygwin\usr\share\git-gui\lib/git-gui.ico not defined while executing wm iconbitmap . -default $oguilib/git-gui.ico invoked from within if {[is_Windows]} { wm iconbitmap . -default

Re: cygwin1.dll replica's?

2008-04-12 Thread Michael Kairys
I have it happen to me that something puts a cygwin dll in my system dir and sets it hidden and/or system. Go to your windows dir in a command prompt and say attrib cygwin1.dll /s Affan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So here is the deal, I am trying to run

Re: A small suggestion to setup.exe of cygwin

2008-04-04 Thread Michael Kairys
Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 想 李 wrote: Michael wrote: I've wondered about this too... So if I have changed my Cygwin setup on one machine and I want to duplicate those changes on another machine, all I have to do is copy installed.db to the

Re: A small suggestion to setup.exe of cygwin

2008-04-04 Thread Michael Kairys
Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to replicate the packages, but not the versions, installing from the Internet is fine (again, change all versions to 0.0 if you want that, to make sure setup picks up the packages). Igor That is what I would

Re: A small suggestion to setup.exe of cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Kairys
I've wondered about this too... So if I have changed my Cygwin setup on one machine and I want to duplicate those changes on another machine, all I have to do is copy installed.db to the other machine and run setup.exe there? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Kairys
Scott Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... However, I'd rather find a solution where the batch script can remain unaware of its Cygwin context. Once I get things working, I plan on creating bash script wrappers for many Windows batch scripts, so I'd like to

Re: perl Tk for cygwin almost fixed

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Kairys
I blush to confess I don't know what you mean. Can you say a little more about how I would get the patch onto my system? Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/3/17, Michael Kairys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I really don't know when I will have enough time

Re: perl Tk for cygwin almost fixed

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Kairys
When you say yet, do you mean someday? :) The reason I ask (and keep asking :) is this: I have been working to port my Perl scripts from AS to Cygwin; and I have them all done except a few that rely on Perl/Tk. In the absense of a Win32-native version I had planned to rewrite them using

Re: perl Tk for cygwin almost fixed

2008-03-06 Thread Michael Kairys
At the risk of sounding impatient, have you been able to make any headway on this? I for one would love to get my hands on it... TIA! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Win32::API for Cygwin Perl?

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Kairys
Thanks for your reply, Reini. I tried installing your version and it ended up in vendor_perl/5.10, whereas everything else is in 5.8. I don't know hwat to do with/about that. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Win32::API for Cygwin Perl?

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Kairys
It works! (But I guess you knew that :) Thanks very much. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Win32::API for Cygwin Perl?

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Kairys
I can't figure out, after searching here and elsewhere, if there is a Win32::API module for Cygwin Perl. I am trying to port some ActiveState scripts that use it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: perl Tk for cygwin almost fixed

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Kairys
Thank you!!! (In advance :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Kairys
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So we have bad luck and have to wait for someone who can debug this on Vista. Perhaps not... I duplicated my Cygwin setup on my laptop, which runs XP, and I got the same behavior there. I've attached cygcheck output

Re: win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Kairys
Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I notice that one common factor between those two machines is they're both running Zone Alarm. How much grief would it cause you to try uninstalling it on one of those machines (and putting it back later if need be)?

Re: win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Kairys
Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sorry to ask you to go to that trouble without being able to really guarantee the likelihood of success... No trouble, but no help either. Still crashes. Attached cygcheck output from ZA-less system FWIW. I would in

Re: win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Kairys
Morgan Gangwere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] heres the cygcheck and perl stackdump Hello, are you having the same problem? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Kairys
morgan gangwere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] yes, i am... Oh, good! No ZoneAlarm and no Vista :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-03 Thread Michael Kairys
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This can be crashing for a lot of reasons. Please submit a full report (see http://cygwin.com/problems.html) and try rebaseall. Thanks for your reply. I have recently rebase'd all to fix another problem. I have attached

Re: win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-03 Thread Michael Kairys
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe there are any missing dependencies in /lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Win32/GUI/GUI.dll Can you send the output of $ cygcheck /lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Win32/GUI/GUI.dll

Re: wget gets, but wput doesn't put

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Kairys
No reply in wput's Sourceforge discussion group either :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

win32-gui-demos.pl dumps core

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Kairys
... or claims to :) If I run /bin/win32-gui-demos.pl from bash I a momentary window and the message Segmentation fault (core dumped). By sprinkling prints in the file I see it crashes at line 189: Win32::GUI::Dialog(); This is on Windows Vista BTW. I've tried reinstalling my Cygwin Perl

wget gets, but wput doesn't put

2007-12-20 Thread Michael Kairys
Connected via VPN to a Solaris server on which I have a shell account, I can ftp okay, and can wget using the URL syntax ftp://[username[:[EMAIL PROTECTED] However wput fails using the same syntax. wget 1.10.2, wput 0.6.1. 1 wget ftp://michael:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/foo.bar --08:43:12--

Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Kairys
Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod Thanks... I read with partial understanding but could not come up with any action items... My resolution was to verify that my temp is in fact writeable

Re: Intermittent perl crash (Attn: coreutils and bash maintainer)

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Kairys
Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm guessing one can reconstruct your permissions as follows: $ cd /tmp $ mkdir nw $ setfacl -m g:Users:rwx nw $ chmod a-rwx nw $ ls -ld nw d-+ 2 igor root 0 Dec 18 10:08 nw/ $ touch nw/foo $ ls -l nw/foo

Re: Intermittent perl crash (Attn: coreutils and bash maintainer)

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Kairys
Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Heh. I just looked, and it seems you've never posted the output of cygcheck -svr on your system ... Well, I didn't think I was reporting a problem except possibly with my own understanding... I bet ... the DOS

Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Kairys
I apologize in advance for the scanty information here; I'm hoping someone can suggest how to narrow this down. I've begun using Cygwin Perl regularly in the past few days (previously used only AS) and I'm finding fairly simple scripts crashing intermittently with this message: 3 [main]

Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Kairys
Michael Kairys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] By fairly simple I mean ones I'm working on that at this point are only reading arguments and doing string operations. Sorry, one more thing, and probably the thing: system(notepad ); So this is clearly fork-related

Re: Intermittent perl crash

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Kairys
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Known problem and easy to fix. Download the rebase package, read the readme, stop all cygwin services and run rebaseall in ash. Thank you for the timely reply! However I am stuck on what should be a simple step:

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Kairys
Michael Kairys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's all pretty disappointing, compared to ActiveState's implementation, which looks much better and requires no setup, no extraneous directories on my path, and no otherwise uneeded daemons. A little research

Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
There seems to be something broken in my Perl installation re. Tk, or perhaps I'm missing something, or just ignorant. If I run a script containing (only) use Tk I get: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' for module Tk: No such file or directory at

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
Sisyphus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes ... but note that the error message doesn't actually say that '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' could not be found. In fact, it says that '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' could

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Run cygcheck /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll There you will find the missing libraries. Thank you! I get Error: could not find cygX11-6.dll That's not entirely true. Tk works fine without X. Just

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll say it again, it would be wonderful if Perl/Tk would work with regular win32 graphical elements but nobody has bothered to develop that. Well, ActiveState has :) ... and thank you for the explanation. --

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin perl-Tk for native Win32 worked fine for several years, but stopped working some years ago. Since the maintainer is dead, the situation didn't improve. Wwll, I'm sorry to hear that, for our sakes. I have resolved

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-12 Thread Michael Kairys
Tim Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it correct that Cygwin Perl/Tk requires a running X server? That is one of the stranger assertions to pass by here in a while. More so than the (OT, as there is that other list) complaint that installing X from cygwin

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Kairys
Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well that tells you that your previous invocations of system and backquote constructs were not portable to start with. It would be far better to centralize such things to a subroutine to try to mitigate the portability

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Kairys
Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well that tells you that your previous invocations of system and backquote constructs were not portable to start with. It would be far better to centralize such things to a subroutine to try to mitigate the portability

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Kairys
Brian Mathis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think the biggest problem you're having is conceptual. It's easy to view a bash prompt as just a better DOS prompt that gives you unix commands in addition to windows command line commands. ... The solution is to start

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Kairys
Jevin Sweval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At work, we develop using both Cygwin's perl and AS's perl (we distribute our app to people without Cygwin but with ActivePerl). Thank you for these comments, Your environment is similar to my situation; my coworkers to

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Kairys
Michael Kairys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] As an aside, there seems to be something broken in my installation re. Tk (or perhaps I'm missing something). If I run a script containing (only) use Tk I get: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Kairys
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Win32::OLE COM objects, Registry access, Win32:GUI and all of libwin32 works fine on cygwin perl. With cygwin perl you have the best of both worlds. Is it correct that Cygwin Perl/Tk requires a running X server? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Kairys
Michael Kairys kairys at comcast.net writes: I would prefer to maintain only one Perl installation and would in fact be perfectly happy to dump AS in favor of Cygwin if I could do so without major pain. You have encouraged me to at least give it a try. Well, I gave it a try, and I can see

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Kairys
DePriest, Jason R. jrdepriest at gmail.com writes: I have ActiveState Perl installed and cygwin perl. ... I have no problems when I use each version in the appropriate environment. Simple scripts can be written that will run in both environments. ... Cygwin handles the pathing so I never

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Kairys
William Sutton william at trilug.org writes: Having done a bit of this myself, I'm interested into enquiring further into your difficulties. Except for win32-specific modules, perl code *should* *just work* for either cygwin perl of for ActiveState. Last I checked (and it's been about

Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Kairys
I've been using ActiveState Perl and Cygwin together for years and have only one complaint: Setup keeps hassling me about dependencies and I have to make sure always to uncheck Perl in the setu list (and again in the dependency check) or I end up with two Perl installations, which I don't want.

rcp, rsh don't work on Vista?

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Kairys
I'm setting up my usual environment on Vista (Ultimate) and I found that the Windows versions of rcp and rsh appear not to be distributed with Vista. So I turned to the Cygwin versions and found they don't seem to run - although all the other Cygwin ports I've used seem to work fine. I get:

Re: rcp, rsh don't work on Vista?

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Kairys
Thank you both, you were both right :) There *was* a cygwin1.dll in windows/system32, marked system and hidden... And I agree I should learn to live without rcp. (For now I'm using ftp via wget.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Fixed setup.exe -TYPO ALERT

2002-03-26 Thread Michael Kairys
-- www.ccygwin.com -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Collins Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fixed setup.exe - handles hardlinks A new setup.exe (version 2.194.2.21) has been