Re: Cygwin/Xfree86 is not working

2003-07-01 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:36:12 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: CIVEX09-030630143518Z-47235*/PRMD=USDOJ/ADMD= /C=US/@MHS Hi everyone. I have installed xfree86 in a windows nt sp6. I open a cygwin session. I type $ sh startxwin.sh ssh-agent: not

Re: xinit: No such file or directory

2003-06-30 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
From: Tomasz Rojek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xinit: No such file or directory Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:39:19 +0200 I only run into this problem as nonadministrator. I don't know if this will help in your case, but maybe during instalation process you have selected Install for:

Re: ~^Z hangs ssh

2003-06-30 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Larry Hall wrote: Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I'm finding that ~^Z hangs the cygwin session rather than suspending my connection. I'm using cygwin to ssh into a solaris box. I've confirmed that suspension works properly when using ssh from sun box to sun box. Can't find

~^Z hangs ssh

2003-06-29 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hello, I'm finding that ~^Z hangs the cygwin session rather than suspending my connection. I'm using cygwin to ssh into a solaris box. I've confirmed that suspension works properly when using ssh from sun box to sun box. Can't find any mention of this problem in the mailing list or Google.

Re: xinit: No such file or directory

2003-06-28 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Andrew Markebo wrote: |+ rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix |rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/.X11-unix': | Permission denied [...] |drwxr-xr-x 2 Name None 0 Jan 29 04:57 /tmp/.X11-unix |srwxr-xr-x 1 Name None 0 Jun 27 16:11 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 Yeah, think it is around here

Re: Question re. export environment variable

2003-02-20 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I'm using cygwin bash 2.05b-8 (it's actually gnu). I thought that $HOSTNAME was an environment variable. When I run gnu make (I'm pretty sure this is not a make problem), $(HOSTNAME) is empty. It gets fixed if I

Re: Question re. export environment variable

2003-02-20 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Thanks, Bob. That's the way I expected it to work. I was just unsure of whether there was something cygwin-specific, as it seems strange that something like HOSTNAME is not marked for export at the time that it is set. I'll stick it into ~/.bashrc. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton

Re: tee is coredumping

2003-02-20 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I've got the latest cygwin 1.3.20-1, cygutils 1.1.3-1. The tee command is core dumping on me, but only with a particular set of circumstances. I use it as follows: make -f client.mak 21 | tee client.out

Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 5 Feb 2003 11:06:42 -0000 Issue 998

2003-02-05 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Subject: Re[2]: Beginners questions. Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:04:16 -0600 From: Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Fred, Thanks for the reply, it eased my mind a _lot_. I think I have a fairly workable

Re: Beginners questions.

2003-02-05 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Sorry for the 2nd mailing. I forgot to change the subject line, as often happens. Subject: Re[2]: Beginners questions. Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:04:16 -0600 From: Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Fred

Re: Beginners questions.

2003-02-03 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Subject: Beginners questions. Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:07:05 -0600 From: Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-XFree Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I think I've got Cygwin and XFree installed correctly on my Win98 SE box. I type

Re: less 378 still not anchoring to \word\

2003-02-02 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Max Bowsher wrote: f wrote: I just reinstalled less from the cygwin site. It still doesn't seem to anchor to word boundaries using regex(3) rules i.e. \SomeWord\ doesn't match anything, as does SomeWord. I read a posting suggesing a solution by using perl syntax (apparently):

Re: xterm Page-Up -- does it work?

2003-02-01 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
No. And also, page up seems to work on xterms running on remote sun boxes. I access the remote twm desktop from the same laptop, using VNC. Same PageUp keys. Exact same Xresources and .twmrc . Go figure. Fred P.S. I gather that it works for you? Yes, though I hit

Re: startx: Malformed file inquiry

2003-01-30 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Thomas Chadwick wrote: What happens if you run xinit directly (instead of via startx)? For quite some time now I have been launching Cygwin/XFree86 via xinit without a hitch (no need to use startx IMHO). More info in the ML archives...

xterm Page-Up -- does it work?

2003-01-29 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hello, I just fired up Xfree86 after using cygwin for a while. Nice. The xterms don't page up, though. Is this just a missing functionality, or is it me? Couldn't find anything about it in the archives. Thanks Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics

gnu tar opens tgz's with file times in the future

2002-12-31 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hello, I'm gnu-tarring files with tar version 1.13.25 on solaris, then untarring with the same version on cygwin. The files are dated 2002-12-31 18:09:xx in the tgz on solaris. When I sftp them to cygwin, the tar programs shows the files to be dated 2003-01-01 03:09.xx. But typing date at the

SOLVED: gnu tar opens tgz's with file times in the future

2002-12-31 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I'm gnu-tarring files with tar version 1.13.25 on solaris, then untarring with the same version on cygwin. The files are dated 2002-12-31 18:09:xx in the tgz on solaris. When I sftp them to cygwin, the tar programs shows the files to be dated 2003-01-01 03:09

Re: dos2unix/d2u does nothing

2002-11-25 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Subject: RE: dos2unix/d2u does nothing From: David Kilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:33:42 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have seen similar behaviour to what Fred sees, but I can't remember if that was u2d or d2u. In that case the files had mixed use of \n and \r\n line

No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hi, I'm using cygwin 1.3.15 in WinME: Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.15 DLL epoch: 19 When I try to ls a file I know to be there, I'm told it isn't: $ which ftp telnet /usr/bin/ftp /usr/bin/telnet $ cd /usr/bin $ ls -l ftp telnet

No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Well the files are, of course, ftp.exe and telnet.exe. Cygwin's automagical .exe workarounds seems to not be working when going through a mount where there is no underlying directory. Max. Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix .exe for its binary executable

gvimdiff fails on network drive

2002-10-25 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hello, I'm using cygwin-1.3.12-4 on WinME. I'm using gvim 6.0 to diff a pair of files residing on a mounted network drive i.e. /SomeUser is a mount pointing to \\RemoteSunBox\SomeUser. Read/write access to /SomeUser is no problem. Using gvim -d on localfiles is no problem. But using gvim -d on

Re: gvimdiff fails on network drive

2002-10-25 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
] === -Original Message- From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [mailto:fma;doe.carleton.ca] Sent: 25 October 2002 19:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: gvimdiff fails on network drive Hello, I'm using cygwin-1.3.12-4 on WinME. I'm using gvim 6.0 to diff a pair of files residing