Re: disk format question

2013-01-08 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 01/08/2013 10:14 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/8/2013 06:59, bartels wrote: The windows format.com format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived versions of Windows, format is a built-in command in

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/02/2012 07:03 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 8/2/2012 4:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat 2. Run `ping -t google.com` 3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C Expected behaviur:

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/03/2012 08:48 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: -Original Message- From: Roger K. Wells snip Getting a PID using kill just takes too long. -END Original Message- pkill from the procps package might mitigate the pain. --Ken Nellis that too is a work around. The point here

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/03/2012 12:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:09PM +0200, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat 2. Run `ping -t google.com` 3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C Expected behaviur: The ping breaks execution and the command prompt

Re: CTRL+C is not working with java on latest cygwin 1.7.15

2012-08-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/11/2012 04:07 PM, saltnlight5 wrote: Thanks for the reply K Stahl, but it didn't work for me. I ran the same Test, then press CTRL+C. But the cygwin terminal did nothing. It did not stop the java process, and it did not print any thing further. I must manually terminate the process by

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/02/2012 04:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 8/2/2012 12:32 PM, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat 2. Run `ping -t google.com` 3. Try breaking it with Ctrl+C This problem arises from Cygwin's use of CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP. From MSDN: When a

Re: Ctrl+C not working with windows programs in Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/02/2012 05:21 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 8/2/2012 2:02 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 08/02/2012 04:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 8/2/2012 12:32 PM, Marcin Kielar wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Start cygwin using cygwin.bat 2. Run `ping -t google.com` 3. Try breaking

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/12/2012 11:10 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, James Johnston wrote: Wikipedia says that ... Wikipedia isn't the keeper of the information relevant to Cygwin. You can only find the truth at cygwin.com. Besides, companies do support open source projects by

Re: 'more' segment faults with latest cygwin1.dll (1.7.11)

2012-02-27 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 02/27/2012 12:14 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: 'more' is segment faulting with the latest Cygwin .DLL (1.7.11). I can reproduce this problem on both a Windows 7 64-bit machine and a Windows XP 32-bit machine. I've attached the stackdump and cygcheck output. Here's how to reproduce the

Re: Executing a basic program

2011-05-21 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 05/20/2011 10:10 PM, Agnelomaria wrote: Hi, I am just learning to program in C++ . I am following a book called Exploring C++ . The first task is to execute the code which I will paste below. I have compiled the code . I tried executing the code using ./a.exe command but the code does not

Re: Executing a basic program

2011-05-21 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 05/20/2011 10:10 PM, Agnelomaria wrote: Hi, I am just learning to program in C++ . I am following a book called Exploring C++ . The first task is to execute the code which I will paste below. I have compiled the code . I tried executing the code using ./a.exe command but the code does not

Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

2011-03-17 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/17/2011 03:56 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: Op 17-3-2011 17:57, Charles Wilson schreef: Final point: I realize nobody wants to maintain a non-upstreamable forked version of software. Everybody wants to be able to build software on cygwin out of the box. So...if the upstream people really

Re: dd to thumb drive, W7 permission problem

2011-03-14 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/14/2011 11:29 AM, Charles Russell wrote: The following works on Windows XP, but fails on Windows 7, apparently because of some permission setting (even in Administrator mode). # dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Permission denied 3+0 records in 2+0 records out 1024

Re: 1.7.8: Fortran I/O rounding inaccuracy

2011-03-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/07/2011 04:39 AM, Thomas Henlich wrote: Hi, I found the following bug in cygwin 1.7.8 on Windows XP: Fortran I/O rounding truncates the result after a certain number of digits. The following program: === write(*, '(f35.32)') 0.14285714285714285d0 end === gives this output:

Re: 1.7.8: Fortran I/O rounding inaccuracy

2011-03-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/07/2011 10:44 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 03/07/2011 04:39 AM, Thomas Henlich wrote: Hi, I found the following bug in cygwin 1.7.8 on Windows XP: Fortran I/O rounding truncates the result after a certain number of digits. The following program: === write(*, '(f35.32

Re: 1.7.8: Fortran I/O rounding inaccuracy

2011-03-07 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/07/2011 12:15 PM, Peter Brown wrote: Roger K. WellsROGER.K.WELLSat saic.com writes: On 03/07/2011 10:44 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 03/07/2011 04:39 AM, Thomas Henlich wrote: Hi, I found the following bug in cygwin 1.7.8 on Windows XP: Fortran I/O rounding truncates the result

Re: cygpath

2011-03-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/02/2011 09:05 AM, Jim P wrote: I just updated my cygwin install, so did I (an hour ago) and cygpath appears to be broken. Issuing the command cygpath, with any or no command-line options, returns nothing and a status of 127. cygpath works as expected roger wells -- Problem reports:

Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f

2010-01-22 Thread Roger K. Wells
Don Beusee wrote: ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”. This command doesn't do that under cygwin. Why should it be necessary to supply -W to see all processes running on the system? This makes it incompatible with Linux/Unix, and such scripts that rely on -e doing

Re: [Fwd: Blue screen when running installation *.sh]

2010-01-05 Thread Roger K. Wells
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/05/2010 09:29 AM, Paul Keusemann wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:03:13PM -, t...@lorien.demon.co.uk wrote: I have previously used Cygwin 1.5 successfully, but thought I should report a possible issue with the newer 1.7.1 version. My XP workstation blue

Re: Why does exiting bash window kill off Gvim? (Windows version, but X-would be same question)

2009-12-04 Thread Roger K. Wells
Linda Walsh wrote: In bash I start a copy of gvim.exe (64-bit windows version) in background. I disown the job in bash so bash no longer manages the job -- it should be a free and clear process (unaffected by bash exiting). Yet when I exit the bash window (bash running in a console window),

Re: [BUG] fopen(..., a) does not seek to end of file until some write operation

2009-11-13 Thread Roger K. Wells
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Salvador Fandino on 11/13/2009 1:36 PM: Hii Using ftell() after fopen(..., a) returns 0 even when the file open for appending is not empty. AFAIK, it should return the size of the file. Not a bug. POSIX

Re: Updated: tcsh-6.11.00-3

2001-12-26 Thread Roger K. Wells
FYI The inetutils (inetd, in.telnetd) that came with the last update that I fetched on Monday will not accept a telnet connection from a Windows 2K client. I don't think that this was not a problem several months ago. It does accept connections from linux, HPUX, and cygwin(w2k) clients.