Re: Cygwin a bit slow

2024-04-13 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
the last - IT managers are often petty empire builders who don't like taking advice even when it's good & saves money. I know - I have been one in past times!) -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin a bit slow

2024-04-10 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
scanning does not fill me with confidence! Wherever possible, I remove third-party AV from Windows machines and install group policy to enforce Windows Defender and malware detection in the browser and/or a proxy & the email server instead. Saves a lot of CPU cycles. :-) -- Sam Edge -- Pro

Re: /usr/bin/fallocate missing in Cygwin 3.5's "util-linux" ...

2024-01-24 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
On 24/01/2024 06:33, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > Does /usr/bin/cp in Cygwin copy holes correctly Yesterday, within the 'ware, I saw some bytes that weren't there! They weren't there again today, They'd better not just go away. -- Sam Edge (with apologies to Willian Hughes Mea

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-25 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
On 25/08/2023 08:18, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 10:54 PM Gary Johnson via Cygwin > wrote: >> >> On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote:

Re: exe in path directory, "command not found"

2023-03-15 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
fore returning. The second script ('npp') provides a wrapper around the first for POSIX programs looking for an executable e.g. git commit message editor etc. I've done the same for kdiff3 if anyone wants them. -- Sam Edge #!/bin/bash # # Script to add an "npp" function to invoke Notepad

Re: newlib-cygwin.git repository: Switching "master" to "main"

2023-01-13 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
hip anyway. See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master, for example:- * "In Casablanca, I am the master of my own fate." * "She is a master carpenter." * "He is a master of the violin." * "The professor is the master of the college." * "T

Re: substitute for xclip?

2022-10-20 Thread Sam Edge
by scripts etc. It appears that Windows Explorer doesn't also place a textual representation onto the clipboard (the Windows clipboard allows multiple representations to exist simultaneously) which is what would be required for Cygwin to use it at present. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https

Re: substitute for xclip?

2022-10-19 Thread Sam Edge
e clipboard: > 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip' > 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard > Eek. I knew that. I use them all the time. Apologies for the bad steer ... and for top-posting! -- Sam Edge OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Problem reports:

Re: substitute for xclip?

2022-10-19 Thread Sam Edge
H again. Or you can use:- #!/bin/bash shopt -s lastpipe powershell -command Get-Clipboard | mapfile array_variable for multiline. -- Sam Edge On 19/10/2022 08:44, Sam Edge wrote: Hi there. In the absence of a Cygwin-native utility, how about? x="$(powershell -command Get-Clipboard)&

Re: substitute for xclip?

2022-10-19 Thread Sam Edge
Hi there. In the absence of a Cygwin-native utility, how about? x="$(powershell -command Get-Clipboard)" You can pipe to the Windows 'clip' utility to go the other way or use 'powershell -command Set-Clipboard'. But I agree, a Cygwin utility would be nice, unless there already is on

Re: Wish list: Cygwin `mv` to move OneDrive files without downloading them

2022-06-14 Thread Sam Edge
ot in a way that carries the new 'O' attribute. Presumably PowerShell's Move-Item does use the right flags to the Win32 API call. One of the problems the Cygwin maintainers have is that Microsoft introduces 'enhancements' to NTFS & the Win32 API arbitrarily in Windows updates witho

Re: Unable to execute Cygwin application within UDF format

2022-05-27 Thread Sam Edge
to identify the Cygwin root directory as one higher than its own location so that it can locate /etc/fstab etc. If it's in the root of a drive maybe it's getting confused. Create an x:\bin\ directory (where x is the drive letter of the UDF device) into which to place cygwin1.dll and the executable. -- Sam

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-24 Thread Sam Edge
On 24/05/2022 16:03, David Christensen wrote: On 5/24/22 01:47, Sam Edge wrote: On 24/05/2022 09:25, Csaba Raduly wrote:  > On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 20:47, Lee  wrote:  >>  >> On 5/22/22, David Christensen wrote:  >>> On 5/21/22 10:55, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:  >

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-24 Thread Sam Edge
s it does  "now". > In  which case the increase in the run time could be attributed to Cygwin. Indeed. But perhaps what the Cygwin core and/or Cygwin Perl maintainers need is a simple test case Perl script that can be shown to be much slower on the current release

Re: A notion about saving and restoring Windows file security info

2022-01-06 Thread Sam Edge
values that only affect how they're written and not how they're read. Just a thought. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml

Re: possible snprintf() regression in 3.3.2

2021-11-18 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
On 18/11/2021 14:27, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Nov 18 16:11, Noel Grandin via Cygwin wrote: On 2021/11/18 3:19 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: My patch raised NDEC from 43 to 1023 to allow aproximately the same number of digits as glibc. Newlib strives to support embedded

Re: mmap failure [was: cygrunsrv + sshd + rsync = 20 times too slow -- throttled?]

2021-09-08 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
On 07/09/2021 23:44, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > MS can't add a new named field to a documented struct without breaking a lot of code.  I think it's extremely unlikely that they would do that.  On the other hand, I think it's very likely that a reader of the Cygwin code would be confused by

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-08-24 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
On 23/08/2021 20:31, L A Walsh wrote: > > On 2021/07/15 01:23, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: >> (By the way, the permission workaround is another good reason for not installing in system root if advice from the authors of Cygwin - Corinna et al - isn't enough for you.) > --- >

Re: META: Fix the signup procedure?

2021-08-12 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
a pretty small moderation team. Sounds like an offer to me. Thanks Russell. ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-07-15 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
it for recovery. PEBCAK -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygpath and star character

2021-07-15 Thread Sam Edge via Cygwin
l naturally consider it to be a character in a pathname and give you the equivalent Windows path that Cygwin would construct using the open() syscall. This is cygpath's purpose, after all! -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: rename a user using setfacl -- possible? how?

2019-07-06 Thread Sam Edge
I'd be inclined to look at native tools, probably using a Powershell script if you need to automate it. If you use setfacl on paths outside your 'Cygwin domain' it's going to mess up the more normal Windows/NTFS ACL usage especially the inheritance and ordering. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports

Re: cygwin can not be compiled with gcc 8.3.0

2019-07-05 Thread Sam Edge
On 05/07/2019 21:46, Biswapriyo Nath wrote: > Now I'm sure that the issue in cygwin source code. I've installed all the > components. Also find same issue[1] provided a year ago. Cygwin needs some > papering[2] for gcc 8.3.0. > Hi again. I don't want to sound mean

Re: cygwin can not be compiled with gcc 8.3.0

2019-07-05 Thread Sam Edge
On 05/07/2019 18:03, Biswapriyo Nath wrote: > > If it is deprecated then why the FAQ is not fixed yet? > As is normal, I'll think you'll find https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Cygserver functionality in UG

2019-02-15 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
with the web site source tree. I'll try to take a look next week if one of you stout fellows hasn't done it. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Windows to Cygwin username mapping: Domain before local account when duplicate name?

2019-02-15 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
t, you'd > have to specify an authority (e.g. domain\username). > > It seems like Cygwin looks up the domain account first. > > Is this correct, or am I missing something? Is this by design? > > Thanks, > > Bill https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

2019-01-28 Thread Sam Edge
On 27/01/2019 22:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 27 17:49, Sam Edge (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 25/01/2019 18:03, Bill Stewart wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:48 AM Stephen Paul Carrier >>> wrote: >>> >>>> There are different paths to acces

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

2019-01-27 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
y auditing. On the other hand, I am baffled as to why Windows itself allows a token to be created for an account that is disabled or locked out. If Cygwin can do it, other programs could too so you're still vulnerable. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Sam Edge
On 30/09/2017 12:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Indeed. However, while off label usage of Cygwin is anathema to me but >> sometimes I wish 'base' wasn't quite so big and have to pare things down >> a little once installed, e.g. as part of a makefile- and/or >> Eclipse-based build tree in source code

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Sam Edge
Hi Andrey. Nice to be back in a thread with such esteemed folk. ;-) On 30/09/2017 10:00, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Sam Edge (Cygwin)! > >> I've been developing a Python package that can interrogate and >> manipulate local package caches (the directories where setupXX

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
On 29/09/2017 23:39, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote: >> For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in >> setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves! > > It is

Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-29 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
depend upon themselves! And also we have some dependency omissions. For example, mintty doesn't depend upon anything - it has no requires field. Surely, every binary package should depend at least upon 'cygwin'? Is this a known issue or should I report in more detail? -- Sam Edge -- Problem

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Sam Edge
On 11/02/2017 00:05, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 2/10/2017 6:50 PM, Sam Edge wrote: > >> Sorry, did anyone actually read Andrey's post? > > Yes, but I was going through the emails in order and responded > to the earlier one before I got to the later one. Sorry to have >

Re: cygpath

2017-02-10 Thread Sam Edge
. Generally, all you need to do is accept the Copenhagen interpretation in your scripts and just calculate. ;-) The only thing you need to be careful of is that if you really mean to pass the glob to your Windows app, you leave it out of the string passed to cygpath e.g. cygstart some-exe "$(cygpa

Re: svn segfault when using svn+ssh schema

2017-01-16 Thread Sam Edge
On 16/01/2017 20:26, Jon Turney wrote: > On 16/01/2017 20:07, Sam Edge wrote: >> On 09/01/2017 19:07, Sam Edge wrote: >>> On 09/01/2017 02:04, Eliot Moss wrote: >>>> On 1/8/2017 3:45 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>>>> On 1/8/2017 6:12 AM, Sam Edge wrot

Re: svn segfault when using svn+ssh schema

2017-01-16 Thread Sam Edge
On 09/01/2017 19:07, Sam Edge wrote: > On 09/01/2017 02:04, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 1/8/2017 3:45 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> On 1/8/2017 6:12 AM, Sam Edge wrote: >>>> I've seen a number of 'svn segfault' threads on the mailing list >>>> a

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Sam Edge
On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > and (of all things!) contain blanks, * rant mode on * What's wrong with blanks? The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to cope. The biggest problem is

Re: SegFault running "ls -l" after Microsoft Patch Day

2015-12-20 Thread Sam Edge
On 20/12/2015 13:31, Houder wrote: > > Yes Corinna, I "heard" you the first time ... > > ... as I said, it must be my __old__ age. Let us stop at that. > > Regards, > Henri > > Should I be asking for subscriptions to the System V wrinklies' club at this point? :-; (Wasn't expecting my little

Re: Question about flock - potential memory corruption?

2015-09-07 Thread Sam Edge
. slight technical hitch? Your example flock.c doesn't call fork(), nor does it use your two macros MAX_ITER & CHILDREN. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscri

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Sam Edge
variables. This ensures deterministic behaviour. The compiler will optimise out the redundant ones. Rapid diagnosis once reported so I'll let you off this time, Eric. ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Sam Edge
). If you can afford the tech debt recovery time to change your compiler warnings to errors or sift through the build output - and prove to your QA/RA that you don't have to re-certify the product. But you're unlikely to save any bytes using a modern compiler. Anyway, we're off-topic so adieu. -- Sam

Re: mintty hangs after exit

2015-08-21 Thread Sam Edge
mouse click on the close button at the right end of the title bar, double mouse click on window icon at the left end of the title bar, Alt-F4 etc.) close the window and the mintty process exits cleanly. Not a massive problem but slightly annoying. Cygcheck attached. -- Sam Edge -- Sam Edge

Re: mintty hangs after exit

2015-08-21 Thread Sam Edge
On 22/08/2015 05:54, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 22.08.2015 um 06:31 schrieb Sam Edge: On 22/08/2015 05:05, John Hein wrote: Andrey Repin wrote at 02:05 +0300 on Aug 22, 2015: Just noticed a weird thing. Wonder if anyone can confirm or deny the issue. 1. Start mintty as `mintty.exe

Re: chgrp in Windows

2015-02-24 Thread Sam Edge
to see a tab on the Explorer security settings showing the primary group. Or just use Cygwin ls. :-) -- Sam Edge -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: units-2.11-1

2015-02-22 Thread Sam Edge
was on here.) -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only

2007-03-31 Thread Sam Edge
Finally I get to go for my MCSE certificate. I can't thank you enough. (Really, I CAN'T.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: error installing sshd on win2k3

2004-07-09 Thread Sam Edge
I am installing sshd on win2k3. Windows 2300?! Microsoft must be /really/ confident about this version of the OS. ;-) (Sorry.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: Clipboard configuration

2004-01-09 Thread Sam Edge
Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:59:55 -0500: [Sam Edge wrote:] Most (remote) display managers turn on X authentication and prevent the internal clipboard client from connecting to its own Cygwin/X server

Re: Clipboard configuration

2004-01-08 Thread Sam Edge
problem and the default can be changed to 'enabled' in all cases. Discuss? -- Sam Edge

Re: Is there a 'ping' in cygwin?

2003-10-20 Thread Sam Edge
to linux at home. Hence I would prefer to be as unix/linux like as possible - so I use check_case:strict. Seems like a simpler solution would be to: mv PING.EXE foo mv foo ping.exe Or, heaven forbid, just use Windows Explorer to rename (F2) PING.EXE to ping.exe. Regards, -- Sam Edge

Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.

2003-10-17 Thread Sam Edge
. DOS) line endings. (Probably because debugging using dumb terminals or printers was easier that way in days of yore.) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.

2003-10-17 Thread Sam Edge
-mode) LF is maybe done elsewhere? Does ssmtp explicitly set stdin to be text-mode? If it's coming from a UNIX background maybe not. Might be a simple fix then, to get it to do so before starting to read? Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

2003-10-17 Thread Sam Edge
love Fridays. -- Sam Edge -- 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: Win2k and cygwin memory leak

2003-08-14 Thread Sam Edge
deallocated once the last Cygwin process exits, irrespective of any bugs (memory leaks) in Cygwin. Again, /supposedly/. ;-) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

2003-08-08 Thread Sam Edge
. Try looking up the term feature bloat some time. ;-) Regards -- Sam Edge

Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

2003-08-06 Thread Sam Edge
, XFree86-start-menu-icons-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2. /Much/ better idea. :-D -- Sam Edge

Re: apache problems gone with 1.50

2003-07-30 Thread Sam Edge
found is the use of threads in the native Windows version against forking child processes in the *X versions which is a more expensive operation.) Regards -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Sam Edge
a command line. It's a built-in in NT, 2k and (I think) XP and works fine for me from CMD.EXE or bash. There's a freeware (or perhaps shareware) version available for 9x/Me as well. You'll have to Google for that. Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-29 Thread Sam Edge
been moved out of the kernel.) I learn something new every day. Thanks. :-) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-29 Thread Sam Edge
exist in /bin - but there are security concerns with this approach, of course. Anyway, the whole discussion is not Cygwin specific. If anyone wants to discuss it further then e-mail me direct. (You'll have to make my e-mail address less sleepy to do so.) Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-28 Thread Sam Edge
Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Tue, 27 May 2003 13:07:18 +0100: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote: Make sure that if your script uses Bash-specific features, it starts with #!/bin/bash and not with #!/bin/sh. That way

Re: Advocacy

2003-03-04 Thread Sam Edge
again. -- Sam Edge This e-mail is intended for you. By reading it you have agreed to give me all assets in your posession and the labour of yourself and your descendants in perpetuity. And a date with your sister. So there. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

ttmkfdir download location

2002-10-27 Thread Sam Edge
Just a note to say that the download location for my Cygwin binary of Joerg Pommnitz's ttmkfdir has changed from the one given on http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html due to a redesign to a frameset-less format. The correct URI is now http://fundin.f2g.net/download.html. Perhaps the

Re: Invoking rootless mode

2002-10-17 Thread Sam Edge
/downloads/powertoys.asp XMouse (95): http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wutoys/w95pwrtoysset/default.asp This might make working with X and Windows WMs at the same time slightly more consistent. -- Sam Edge

Re: Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

2002-05-17 Thread Sam Edge
is now available. Would it make sense to port this to Cygwin first before attempting a debug? -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: xterm title not shown

2002-05-15 Thread Sam Edge
. Sorry. That should have been ~/.bashrc, of course. -- Sam Edge

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Sam Edge
.) Thanks. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-15 Thread Sam Edge
Jorg Schaible wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Wed, 15 May 2002 11:44:51 +0200: If we have to be Win95-compatible still Please don't consider dropping 95 and NT4 support just yet! There are still plenty of us running these OSes for all sorts of reasons. -- Sam Edge

Re: xterm title not shown

2002-05-15 Thread Sam Edge
to put the username and current directory into the title. Either edit /etc/profile or override it in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http

Re: setup.exe problem

2002-05-14 Thread Sam Edge
appears to be perfectly fine. It extracts correctly using tar but not using setup.exe. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

Re: setup.exe problem

2002-05-14 Thread Sam Edge
Harold L Hunt wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 14 May 2002 16:12:51 EDT: The reason I chided you is that I happen to have inside knowledge that this is a change ('problem') with the openbox package, not with setup.exe. Búgger! My mistake. Apologies. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info

Re: Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

2002-05-10 Thread Sam Edge
it for is to be able to test PHP code before sending it to my - pretty basic - hosting server.) Thanks anyway. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

2002-05-09 Thread Sam Edge
native to /usr/local/lib/php.ini and the problem has gone away. No more segmentation faults. Perhaps the package should include a default php.ini file for idiots like me? Thanks anyway. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

2002-05-09 Thread Sam Edge
. Thanks anyway. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

2002-05-09 Thread Sam Edge
of using PHP in Apache but at least this /is/ working for me and allows me to check my code more easily before uploading to my service provider's Apache/PHP server.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

2002-05-03 Thread Sam Edge
it as the contracted expletive Jeez! ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Support for Windows 2000 Professional

2002-05-03 Thread Sam Edge
. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Color Output with Printf

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Edge
a look at WriteConsoleOutput and WriteConsoleOutputAttribute in the Win32 API for setting colours. If you don't have MSDN on CD, you should check out the on-line version, in this case http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/conchar_9ktw.asp -- Sam Edge

Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

2002-04-30 Thread Sam Edge
.) -- Sam Edge

Re: Using a real mirroring tool...

2002-04-30 Thread Sam Edge
populating a local package directory. They're very small but every little helps and it reduces the clutter and can save a few sectors on the local disc. Or am I missing something? (Again do I hear from the chorus? Kindly leave the auditorium, sir!) ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-29 Thread Sam Edge
. A reference for this is http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00271.html. Ah. Exactly. :-) So is it worth my while looking at the code with an eye to providing a patch for this (specifically the checkbox option) or is it work in progress elsewhere? -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info

Re: 'redownload' aka download again and setup.exe

2002-04-29 Thread Sam Edge
would leave the code too difficult to maintain than is worth while. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-29 Thread Sam Edge
down is /very/ annoying! ;-( Finally, I stand by my wish to retain a separate download and installation invocation option to allow them to occur while logged on to NT/2k/XP with different permissions, again out of paranoia. Thanks. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
of a headache and requires manual checking in the local package directory (now even more difficult because of its fragmented nature even when mitigated by clean_setup.pl - thanks Michael) and in the setup.exe list. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
of the code required to operate in the way we'd like, surely? If you tell me the module name(s) for setup.exe and any documentation about setup.ini and the local and FTP/HTTP server directory structures I'd certainly be interested to download them from the CVS server and take a look. -- Sam Edge

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
with potentially dangerous privileges for as short a time as possible. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Cygwin/XFree86 setup.exe package problem

2002-04-27 Thread Sam Edge
the XFree86-base tar archive contain them? -- Sam Edge

Re: Login as a different user?

2002-04-25 Thread Sam Edge
-- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Getting Cygwin into a corporation..

2002-04-24 Thread Sam Edge
in the context of the current user so they can't do anything that can't be done anyway. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

2002-04-21 Thread Sam Edge
for XP but this passage taken alone would suggest that you need an extra licence for a monitor. After all, it's a separate device that displays the software and the UI. ;-) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

2002-04-21 Thread Sam Edge
.) -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: will bash honor the suid bit or not?

2002-04-18 Thread Sam Edge
daemon as a Cygwin application that uses sockets and install it as an NT service using cygrunsrv but this isn't a secure solution. The Cygwin documentation tells us that all Cygwin processes have access to shared memory resources and can compromise each others integrity. -- Sam Edge

Re: True Static Linking

2002-04-16 Thread Sam Edge
Win32 system DLLs. The VC runtime are pretty much in this category. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: crypt command

2002-04-13 Thread Sam Edge
the crippled Enigma one that crypt used to use - although a passphrase better than a single X character is probably a good idea. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Bash shell extension ?

2002-04-12 Thread Sam Edge
certainly make the line in the registry simpler but results in an extra CMD.EXE (or COMMAND.COM) process loading into memory and waiting around until the bash prompt exits. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: Bash shell extension ?

2002-04-12 Thread Sam Edge
to think of a little utility that takes a Windows path as its first argument without converting any shell escapes in it, converts that to UNIX à la cygpath, chdirs to this and then execs its second argument with subsequent ones as the rest of the argv. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info

Re: Bash shell extension ?

2002-04-11 Thread Sam Edge
' ; exec /bin/bash\ -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Ttmkfdir TrueType font directory prep tool (binary for Cygwin)

2002-03-13 Thread Sam Edge
ipt less error prone. (The Uninstalled folder is created by a ZDNet Windows utility called FontViewer 2.0, by the way.) - -- Sam Edge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPJAJrTHHXnAhdFsfEQL2rwCg9MMjBCujLIIUu90khr+PXyJI7EkAoLGP RM0VC063pqe9K7za8r8LvUtu =wNvr -END PGP SIGNATURE-