Re: Problems with mintty jump list

On 13 May 18 22:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: Thanks, maybe jumplist-started instances should implicitly inherit AppID. Probably, yes.  In fact, not just jumplist-started instances, but any instance (also the default one) opened from the task bar icon. Are you sure --store-taskbar-properties is

Re: Problems with mintty jump list

On 13 May 18 11:45, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 12.05.2018 um 19:15 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2018-05-12 06:28, Michael Schaap wrote: I'm experimenting with the new mintty jump list feature, but I'm having trouble getting things working. I've added the following to my .minttyrc: TaskCommands

Problems with mintty jump list

I'm experimenting with the new mintty jump list feature, but I'm having trouble getting things working. I've added the following to my .minttyrc:     TaskCommands=default:-p 100,100;myserver:-p bottom -p right -o BackgroundColour=255,250,230 -e /usr/bin/ssh -C -Y -o ServerAliveInterval=60

Re: Request for update: zsh

On 25-Apr-18 20:20, Peter A. Castro wrote: The current version of zsh is 5.5.1, while Cywin is stuck on 5.3. If the maintainer of zsh is still around, could (s)he perhaps update it to the latest version? Yes, I was waiting for the inevitable update to the base 5.5 release (5.5.1 as you noted). 

Request for update: zsh

The current version of zsh is 5.5.1, while Cywin is stuck on 5.3. If the maintainer of zsh is still around, could (s)he perhaps update it to the latest version? Thanks in advance,  - Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X

On 16 January 2017 at 15:49, Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 11/01/2017 22:16, Michael Schaap wrote: >> >> On 11-Jan-17 9:51, Csaba Raduly wrote: >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Michael

Re: WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X

On 11-Jan-17 9:51, Csaba Raduly wrote: Hi Michael, On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Michael Schaap wrote: I recently discovered WinCompose <https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose>, a Windows port of XCompose, and fell in love with it. Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cy

WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X

I recently discovered WinCompose , a Windows port of XCompose, and fell in love with it. Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cygwin/X, it seems. WinCompose eats the key sequences, and neither the original keys nor the intended character(s) ever

Re: Updated: vim-7.3.353-1

Hi, With this new version, every time I run gvim, I get the following (unhelpful) error message:     $ gvim -u NONE     (gvim:3736): Pango-WARNING **: No such file or directory This never happened with the previous version of gvim. I do have libpango1.0 installed, and also installed

Re: New: rakudo-star-201007-1, Updated: rakudo-201007_47-1 (aka perl6)

On 6-Sep-2010 13:04, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/9/1 Michael Schaapcygwin.li...@mscha.org: However, with rakudo-star 201007-1, rakudo_47-1 and parrot 2.6.0-1 installed: $ perl6 -e 'say hello;' hello $ perl6 -e 'sub hello() { say hello; }' ===SORRY!=== No such file or directory Works for me, but

Re: New: rakudo-star-201007-1, Updated: rakudo-201007_47-1 (aka perl6)

Reini, Thanks for packaging this! However, with rakudo-star 201007-1, rakudo_47-1 and parrot 2.6.0-1 installed: $ perl6 -e 'say hello;' hello $ perl6 -e 'sub hello() { say hello; }' ===SORRY!=== No such file or directory – Michael -- Problem reports:

Re: PATCH: cygutils/cygstart - wait till task terminates (i.e. run in foreground)

On 11-Aug-2008 18:26, Barry Kelly wrote: I find cygstart useful generally, but ShellExecute/Ex has more options than cygstart exposes. In particular, I'd like to be able to write a script that starts an action and waits for it to complete, and then perform another action. This means that I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.6.4-2 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages

On 27-Jul-2008 17:28, Reini Urban wrote: The parrot packages with libparrot0 and libparrot-devel, plus parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages are updated to 0.6.4-2 for the Cygwin distribution. This release fixes the serious issue with running /usr/bin/perl6 and the other languages /usr/bin/parrot-*

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.6.4-1 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages

On 19-Jul-2008 21:42, Reini Urban wrote: Michael Schaap schrieb: Is perl6 supposed to (somewhat) work, yet? I get: % perl6 -e 'say Hello, World!' load_bytecode couldn't find file 'P6object.pbc' current instr.: 'onload' pc 0 (src/gen_builtins.pir:28) called from Sub 'parrot;Perl6::Compiler;main

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.6.4-1 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages

On 20-Jul-2008 17:36, Michael Schaap wrote: On 19-Jul-2008 21:42, Reini Urban wrote: Michael Schaap schrieb: Is perl6 supposed to (somewhat) work, yet? I get: % perl6 -e 'say Hello, World!' load_bytecode couldn't find file 'P6object.pbc' current instr.: 'onload' pc 0 (src/gen_builtins.pir:28

Ping Yaakov (Was: Re: Attn: Yaakov - gvim (Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.1-1))

On 16-Jun-2007 21:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 16 18:01, Michael Schaap wrote: Would you be perhaps interested in giving up gvim? If so, I'd be happy to take over. (Unless Corinna jumps in and thinks it's easier for her to take it, since she already takes care of vim.) I won't

Ping Yaakov (Was: Re: Attn: Yaakov - gvim (Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.1-1))

On 16-Jun-2007 21:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 16 18:01, Michael Schaap wrote: Would you be perhaps interested in giving up gvim? If so, I'd be happy to take over. (Unless Corinna jumps in and thinks it's easier for her to take it, since she already takes care of vim.) I won't

Re: Attn: Yaakov - gvim (Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.1-1)

On 16-May-2007 03:12, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Michael Schaap wrote: Yaakov, if possible, could you perhaps release a corresponding gvim as well? (Upgrading to vim-7.1 breaks gvim-7.0, so there is some amount of urgency...) Please understand that, unfortunately, I had no more

Re: Attn: Yaakov - gvim (Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.1-1)

On 16-May-2007 03:12, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Michael Schaap wrote: Yaakov, if possible, could you perhaps release a corresponding gvim as well? (Upgrading to vim-7.1 breaks gvim-7.0, so there is some amount of urgency...) Please understand that, unfortunately, I had no more

Attn: Yaakov - gvim (Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.1-1)

On 14-May-2007 17:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.1-1. Yaakov, if possible, could you perhaps release a corresponding gvim as well? (Upgrading to vim-7.1 breaks gvim-7.0, so there is some amount of urgency...) Thanks in advance, - Michael

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1

On 11-Apr-2007 12:49, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: If /usr/sbin/sendmail does not point to a mailer, the cron postinstall script links it to the (new) script /usr/bin/cronlog. Isn't this a bit aggressive? Cron isn't the only one who might be using sendmail, you know... Might it not be better

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1

On 11-Apr-2007 16:15, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Schaap To: cygwin Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1 | On 11-Apr-2007 12:49, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | If /usr/sbin/sendmail does not point

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1

On 11-Apr-2007 16:30, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ] is true when a symlink | /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe exists. Precisely if [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ] is true then || ln -sf /usr/bin/cronlog /usr/sbin/sendmail shouldn't run. Indeed it doesn't. But then: [ -e

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1

On 11-Apr-2007 16:30, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | If you have to do this by symlinking sendmail (which I still don't like, | but that's just me), can't you move the creation to cron-config, so you | can ask the user for permission before you do it? Yes, but there are always those that do it by

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1

On 11-Apr-2007 16:51, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Schaap To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:42 AM Subject: ***[Possible UCE]*** Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1 | On 11-Apr-2007 16:30, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | | [ -e /usr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1

On 11-Apr-2007 17:08, Michael Schaap wrote: On 11-Apr-2007 16:51, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Schaap To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:42 AM Subject: ***[Possible UCE]*** Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron 4.1-1 | On 11-Apr-2007 16

Re: Cygutils patch: fix cygstart under recent snapshots

Charles Wilson wrote: Michael Schaap wrote: Can you apply the patch and release a new Cygutils version, at your convenience? Done. I'll announce 1.3.1-1 after the mirrors have had a chance to get it. (FYI: your next 'cvs update' you'll need to explicitly get the newly added m4/ and build

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of fork/exec/getcwd? If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before using the native Windows functions. No, it uses ShellExecute (see cygstart --reference). It does indeed

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Michael Schaap wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of fork/exec/getcwd? If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before using the native Windows functions. No, it uses ShellExecute (see cygstart

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 12 14:23, Michael Schaap wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of fork/exec/getcwd? If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before using the native Windows functions

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Michael Schaap wrote: normalize_posix_path: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt = normalize_posix_path (hello.txt) (FWIW, the above strace output is now actually incorrect, prepending /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/, instead of the POSIX current directory, to the filename

Cygutils patch: fix cygstart under recent snapshots

1.5 +++ src/cygstart/cygstart.c 12 Dec 2006 16:24:51 - @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ #endif #include common.h +#include sys/cygwin.h + /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */ #define PROGRAM_NAME cygstart #define AUTHORS Michael Schaap @@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ #define MSDN_URL

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Hi Eric, ERIC HO wrote: The command and out are as follows: /cygdrive/c/user $cmd /c cd c:\user The latest snapshot (2006-12-11) has the same problem. I went back to 1.5.22-1 release and the problem is fixed. Not sure which change causes this. Thanks. The bug was found and fixed, and a

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Igor Peshansky wrote: I just looked at the ChangeLog between those two snapshots. The following looks like the culprit change: 2006-11-29 Corinna Vinschen (snip) * path.cc [snip] (cwdstuff::init): Initialize cygheap-cwd with current working directory. Change to

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

Corinna Vinschen wrote: When using cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV), Cygwin doesn't only copy the environment, it also changes into the actual cwd and keeps Cygwin cwd and native cwd in sync. This is also propagated to child processes. Naturally, this process and its children are blocking the

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

ERIC HO wrote: Hi there, I've been using cygstart to start chm and pdf files with no problems until a few days ago. Now I'm getting The specified file was not found when using cygstart on a file. I updated a few the cygwin packages last week. Not sure whether this has something to do with

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

ERIC HO wrote: I was able to use Windows Explorer to open the file by double clicking the file. I was able to use cygstart open the file with full path. The problem is with all file type. I can do a cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/ with no problem. The result from: strace cygstart hello.txt

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

ERIC HO wrote: /cygdrive/c/user $cmd /c pwd /cygdrive/c/user Hmm, I should have asked for $ cmd /c cd :-[ My cygcheck ouput are attached. Thanks Looks like you're running a pretty old Cygwin snapshot: Cygwin DLL version info: Build date: Thu Nov 30 10:51:28 EST 2006

Re: Please test the latest developer's snapshot

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, The latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains a couple of patches which are supposed to get Cygwin running better on the upcoming Windows Vista. The important change here is a slightly different memory allocation scheme. I'd like to hear

Re: mp3 player from cygwin

On 1-Sep-2006 17:45, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: umen wrote: Hello all , is there any thing like that ? mp3 player from cygwin? not graphic or graphic command line that working ? thanks No, not as a package in the distribution. I remember some talk about, I believe, mplayer a while back on

Re: GPL Alert: Super

On 18-Jun-2006 22:35, »Q« wrote: Michael Schaap wrote: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html It's a GUI around a bunch of command-line video file editing tools. Installs both cygwin1.dll and cygz.dll in the System32 folder. Can't find any mention of source code on the web site. I asked about

GPL Alert: Super

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html It's a GUI around a bunch of command-line video file editing tools. Installs both cygwin1.dll and cygz.dll in the System32 folder. Can't find any mention of source code on the web site. (I won't even mention that it distributes these open source

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: geoip-1.3.14 -- IP lookup command line tools that use the GeoIP library

Hi Jari, Thanks for packaging this. On 21-Feb-2006 8:20, Jari Aalto wrote: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geoip/ License : GPL GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP address or hostname originates from.

Patch for cygutils: let cygstart properly convert environment variables

Hi, Attached is a patch that fixes a bug in cygstart, triggered by changes in Cygwin 1.5.19, where certain path-based environment variables (like TMP) were not converted from POSIX to Win32. (See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00154.html.) It also contains the outstanding patch from Eric

Re: strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

On 8-Feb-2006 16:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:25:12PM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: I believe that Brian Ford is looking into modifying the new CW_SETUP_WINENV code to perform the proper conversion of POSIX style

Re: strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

On 8-Feb-2006 18:49, Michael Schaap wrote: On 8-Feb-2006 16:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:25:12PM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: I believe that Brian Ford is looking into modifying the new

Re: strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

On 8-Feb-2006 18:54, Michael Schaap wrote: winpathlist = (char *) malloc(cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list_buf_size(val)); To correct myself before anyone else does so: This needs a + 1, of course. :-[ - Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

On 7-Feb-2006 3:31, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:40:22PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote: What we basically need to do, is copy the Cygwin environment to the Windows environment, taking care of path conversion for all the appropriate variables. Maybe start

Re: 1.5.19-4 cygpath -f - broken?

On 21-Jan-2006 0:15, Brian Dessent wrote: Martin wrote: I have the following bash alias: alias explr='explorer.exe `pwd | cygpath -w -f -`' I'm not sure why that wouldn't work, but how about this instead: alias explr='cygstart $(cygpath -w $(pwd))' Or why not: alias

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

On 20-Oct-2005 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Christoph Jeksa wrote: there is a bug in this version: Supposed, you have a file X.sh ( exactly in this spelling ). If you enter: vim x.sh ( also exactly in this spelling ) and write it back

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

On 4-Nov-2005 1:49, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Michael Schaap wrote: On 20-Oct-2005 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Christoph Jeksa wrote: there is a bug in this version: Supposed, you have a file X.sh ( exactly

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

On 3-Oct-2005 18:56, Aaron Humphrey wrote: On 10/2/05, Michael Schaap wrote: To be able to check whether something has changed in the path handling, I've uploaded a version of cygstart that prints out the exact ShellExecute call it is making, at http://www.mscha.org/cygstart_dbg.zip

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

On 30-Sep-2005 18:07, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:17:06AM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: I just did some version testing on the cygstart .mdb problem I reported a few days ago(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00923.html), and it is indeed a

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

On 1-Oct-2005 5:28, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Charles Wilson on 9/30/2005 10:07 AM: cygstart was contributed by Michael Schapp, who is still around but doesn't post often. cygstart, aside from its option handling, is a very simple app.

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote: Sigurd Nes wrote: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in

Re: Patch for cygutils: make cygstart behave better under mount -X

On 16-May-2005 22:59, Charles Wilson wrote: Michael Schaap wrote: Chuck, can you, at your convenience, apply this patch and release a new version of cygutils? Look for 1.2.8 on a mirror near you. Thanks for the patch. Thanks! Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X

On 12-May-2005 1:49, David Rothenberger wrote: Revised patch attached. Can you try this out and see if it still works for you? If you confirm this, I'll resend the patch in a new, more obviously titled thread, to attract Chuck's attention. ;-) Works fine for me. Start attracting!

Patch for cygutils: make cygstart behave better under mount -X

Hi, Attached is a patch to fix cygstart behaviour when running under mount -X. Cygstart now ensures that the Windows environment is synchronized with the Cygwin one. (For more details, see the recent thread: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X) Chuck, can you, at your

Re: cygwin and gmail problems? Remote host said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

On 10-May-2005 19:04, Matt Wilkie wrote: Hi All, gmail doesn't seem to like messages from the cygwin mailing list today. Did anybody else get a notice like this? (...) --- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received. Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22555 invoked for bounce); 28

Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X

On 10-May-2005 17:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:19:14PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: On 9-May-2005 19:22, David Rothenberger wrote: Does cygstart also need to be fixed? I've found that it doesn't propagate the full Cygwin environment when /bin is mounted

Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X

On 11-May-2005 20:58, David Rothenberger wrote: On 5/11/2005 9:53 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:40:36AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: It sounds like you need to read MSDN on CreateProcess and see what it says about lpEnvironment:

Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X

On 9-May-2005 19:22, David Rothenberger wrote: On 5/8/2005 7:26 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:21:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Ultimately, I just have to make strace and cygcheck understand the cygwin arguments and environment variables. Then we won't need

Problem with symbolic links and cygpath in 1.5.14

$ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PHB 1.5.14(0.126/4/2) 2005-04-01 13:40 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin $ ln -s /bin /tmp $ cygpath -w /tmp/bin C:\cygwin\bin $ cygpath -w /tmp/bin/ls.exe C:\cygwin\tmp\bin\ls.exe - Worked fine in 1.5.13. Michael -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Problem with symbolic links and cygpath in 1.5.14

On 8-Apr-2005 16:24, Jörg Schaible wrote: Michael Schaap wrote on Friday, April 08, 2005 4:03 PM: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PHB 1.5.14(0.126/4/2) 2005-04-01 13:40 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin $ ln -s /bin /tmp $ cygpath -w /tmp/bin C:\cygwin\bin $ cygpath -w /tmp/bin/ls.exe C:\cygwin\tmp\bin

Re: Small clipboard bug triggered by gvim

On 29-Mar-2005 13:06, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Michael Schaap wrote: Hi, I recently started using Cygwin/X a bit more, and it works amazingly well! I did, however, stumble upon a small bug using the built-in -clipboard handling: when using a GTK2 gvim, consecutive

Small clipboard bug triggered by gvim

Hi, I recently started using Cygwin/X a bit more, and it works amazingly well! I did, however, stumble upon a small bug using the built-in -clipboard handling: when using a GTK2 gvim, consecutive selections are not copied to the Windows clipboard. Here's how to recreate this: Build a GTK2

Re: cygstart patch

On 8-Mar-2005 6:21, Charles Wilson wrote: Michael Schaap wrote: This time with patch. :-[ Applied. Thanks, Chuck! Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: cygstart patch

Hi Anthony, Chuck, all, On 4-Mar-2005 4:21, Charles Wilson wrote: Anthony -- I've applied this patch. Thanks! Sorry for jumping in so late... While I agree that the revised patch looks good and does the job, I'm not too happy with the constant reallocation that's going on. (I know, there won't

Re: cygstart patch

This time with patch. :-[ Michael On 8-Mar-2005 2:13, Michael Schaap wrote: Hi Anthony, Chuck, all, On 4-Mar-2005 4:21, Charles Wilson wrote: Anthony -- I've applied this patch. Thanks! Sorry for jumping in so late... While I agree that the revised patch looks good and does the job, I'm

Re: Updated: fortune-1.99.1-1

Hi Yitzckak, On 13-Jan-2005 21:27, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Achilles: Don't tell me you believe in fortune-telling! Tortoise: No...but they say it works even if you don't believe in it. -- GEB, Hofstadter I've made a new version of fortune available for installation. Thanks for

Re: Updated: fortune-1.99.1-1

On 21-Jan-2005 23:59, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:49:21PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote: Hi Yitzckak, On 13-Jan-2005 21:27, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Achilles: Don't tell me you believe in fortune-telling! Tortoise: No...but they say it works even if you

Re: Please update cvs

On 26-Jan-2004 19:30, Reini Urban wrote: Maintainer: Charles Wilson We have 1.13.6 1.11.6 See http://ccvs.cvshome.org/ = News Current stable is 1.11.11 Current feature (exp) version is 1.12.5 There exist multiple security problems with version 1.13.6 and 1.13.6 has zlib problems with the latest

Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have no idea what gvim is actually good for. The non-GUI version runs very nicely inside of xterm or rxvt, so what? For me, mostly force of habit, these days. Mouse support under rxvt is now pretty decent (hmm... looks like dragging the status bar between two split

Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:36:07PM -0400, Brett Serkez (cygwin) wrote: Corinna, Looks like this version of vim doesn't have GUI support compiled in. Are there any plans to build GUI support so that vim -g works on Cygwin? Nope. If anybody wants to contribute

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: For the future, please *attach* the cygcheck output to avoid generating false positives on message archive search. Random idea: would it be possible to instruct ezmlm-idx to bounce messages containing cygcheck output in the body? (Or enough text to identify cygcheck

Re: rxvt and mouse wheel

On 17-Mar-2003 10:39, Virginia Mann wrote: It appears that the version of rxvt installed by the Cygwin installer wasn't compiled with wheel mouse support. Of course I may be mistaken and am just doing something wrong. WFM. :-) You should have a look around your Control Panel - Mouse settings.

Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?

On 23-Feb-2003 19:07, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I tried everything now it may have something to do with starting it directly from a view command within mutt. If I save it and then start it either through windows or cygstart command it does not have any corruption. Wild guess: 1. Mutt saves the

Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?

On 23-Feb-2003 21:45, Andrew Markebo wrote: | Wild guess: | 1. Mutt saves the file to /tmp/something.doc | 2. Mutt runs cygstart /tmp/something.doc | 3. Cygstart starts Word (if necessary) and tells it to load the doc, | and exits immediately. | 4. Since Cygstart has exited, Mutt

Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word Excel From The Command Line

On 15-Feb-2003 06:14, Randall R Schulz wrote: Steve, Double damn! Or maybe... Third time's the charm. Yeah, that's it! -==- #!/bin/bash wwArgs=() for arg; do wwArgs[${#wwArgs[@]}]=$(cygpath -m $arg) done exec /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe ${wwArgs[@]}

Re: Updated Package: Whois 4.6.1

Hi, On 27-Dec-2002 20:07, Mark Bradshaw wrote: The most recent version of GNU Whois (4.6.1) has been uploaded to sourceware. This version no longer works with .org domains. Looks like 4.6.2 is out on http://www.linux.it/~md/software/ . Would it be possible to release this version, at your

Re: Updated Package: Whois 4.6.1

On 6-Feb-2003 16:19, Mark Bradshaw wrote: This version no longer works with .org domains. Looks like 4.6.2 is out on http://www.linux.it/~md/software/ . Would it be possible to release this version, at your convenience? Will do. Thanks! - Michael -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Explorer Shell shortcuts with a DOS shell

On 16-Jan-2003 01:13, Dave Hooper wrote: You know what I would do? I'd write a tiny .exe (for Win32) wrapper around cmd.exe and use that to execute your .bat which in turn spawns bash, etc. Why? Because as far as I know there's no way to instruct a shortcut to 'run hidden' (you can run

Re: How did I get it?

On 14-Dec-2002 10:11, Max Bowsher wrote: Jack Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could some tell me how the CYGWIN1.DLL ended up on my computer. It seems to have just appeared at 3:09am yesterday and I know I wasn't working at that time. Could this have been uploaded to my machine for malicious

Re: Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion

On 4-12-2002 7:09, James Shaw wrote: (...) What I want to do is define an environment variable so I can easily cd or ls. E.g. % PF=/cygdrive/c/Program Files % cd $PF % ls $PF/Games % ls $PF/Gtab completion! (...) So, I ask the list: Can you define $PF so that cd $PF; ls

Re: Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion

On 4-12-2002 17:17, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Michael Schaap wrote: On 4-12-2002 7:09, James Shaw wrote: (...) What I want to do is define an environment variable so I can easily cd or ls. E.g. % PF=/cygdrive/c/Program Files % cd $PF % ls $PF/Games % ls $PF/Gtab

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: rxvt-2.7.9-2

On 3-12-2002 21:53, Soren A wrote: Is there _anything_ that can be done about the cursor shape in rxvt? That _od-awful block cursor that obscures the character lying under it drives me nuts. Past messages on this List seemed to indicate in my reading, that this wasn't reconfigurable -- that

Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'

that implicates cygstart. Everything on the stack seems to be inside windows DLLs. Any comments, Michael? ( Michael Schaap cygwin_start AT mscha DOT org ) Oh, wait, that's me! ;-) I'm pretty sure that it's not cygstart related. Cygstart doesn't really do anything except tell Windows

Re: cygstart foo.pdf results in 'AcroRd32.exe has generated errors'

On 3-12-2002 0:28, Andre Srinivasan wrote: BB What happens using plain start (C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\start.exe)? I can't seem to find start.exe on my W2K box. No such thing on W2K. start is a cmd.exe builtin. You could try: $ cmd /c start - Michael -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

On 27-11-2002 13:04, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed terminal emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x user could possibly complain, and any NT+ user that

Re: .rhosts on W2K w/o ntsec

On 20-11-2002 19:51, Randall R Schulz wrote: I don't know how cygstart works internally, but I imagine it looks up the association and launches the appropriate application without regard for the execute bits on the document file being opened. Luckily, cygstart doesn't need to do such things.

Re: emacs lockup w/ TERM = linux

On 16-11-2002 0:25, Bill Priest wrote: --- David Starks-Browning wrote: But the default for rxvt is xterm. Why are you using linux? Have you tried using the default xterm? Yes, xterm works fine. But linux used to work. I used linux because a lot of the time I rlogin into my linux

Re: grep = * vs grep = * foo

On 9-10-2002 2:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: You'll see that delme is not listed. Cygnus wildcard expansion follows (snip) Cygnus? Who's that? ;-) - Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

On 10-10-2002 1:24, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sheryl McKeown wrote: Better titled, That dot thing again on Windows XP Pro... Ok, again I'm trying to search recursively through a directory structure looking for specific values. According to grep --help grep -R should walk

Re: run -nw in cygwin

On 20-9-2002 12:55, Francois de Campagnolle wrote: Hi, I know there's a link on cygwin site to some 'run.exe' that doesn't launch a new win (a la runemacs.exe), but I doesn't seem to work on my win98. Wouldn't it make sense to include sth similar in cygwin distro ? [or does it already

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

On 11-9-2002 2:14, Andre Srinivasan wrote: I'd like to invoke command foo and pass the -s switch to the command. When I try cygstart --hide foo -s cygstart complains that it does not understand the -s switch. Is there a way to do this? Yes, that's a bit unfortunate. I don't think

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

On 20-9-2002 18:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andre Srinivasan wrote: ... AS Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. IP It already IS a feature. The getopt function will stop processing IP switches when it encounters the '--' option. You know

Re: Cut and paste standard input and output

Quoting Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Raoul Gough wrote: I recently wrote a simple command-line tool that cuts or pastes plain text to/from standard input/output. I find it quite useful sometimes, when I've got a script that generates some output and I want to process the output

Re: Getting Cygwin into a corporation..

At 20:01 24-4-2002, Michael F. March wrote: In the company I work for they have outlawed all Unix variants (Linux, Solaris, OSX) from certain networks. I asked why Cygwin could not be installed and here is some of the response I got back: Cygwin, in itself, is typically a harmless application.

Re: mcrypt commnad

At 08:57 4-4-2002, Andrew Markebo wrote: / Gupta, Sanjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have read http://lists.hellug.gr/pipermail/mcrypt-dev/2001/87.html | note and I have tried every thing which was mentioned here but did not help. Any special reason for wanting crypt/mcrypt, maybe choose

Re: mcrypt commnad

At 20:32 4-4-2002, Gupta, Sanjay wrote: I have openssl installed, but I would really appreciate, if you can tell me how to use for my requirement. My requirement is, I have a simple text file which has some sensitive information, and I want encrypt this file this file using some password and

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