Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

2006-10-11 Thread mwoehlke
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Tim Beuman wrote: Hi Jason, The Ridiculous amount of stuff was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Um... Huh. Thunderbird shows it as attachment. The web archive does not. Anyone that knows the mailer

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

2006-10-11 Thread mwoehlke
Tim Beuman wrote: Matthew, There is a line Content-Disposition: inline which causes the attachments to be shown inline. Could be the file-type that causes Thunderbird to add this line to the section header. I will check if I can convince Thunderbird to not include this line when sending .txt

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

2006-10-11 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: ... although I can see problems arising when someone uses mount to rename the cygdrive mount. Maybe it would be worth providing a notation that means 'cygdrive, no matter how it may have been renamed. Hmm, how about /dev/fs/driveletter? ;-) -- Matthew Will your shell have

Re: Is there a way to install old version cygwin?

2006-10-10 Thread mwoehlke
Linda Walsh wrote: Eric Blake wrote: For example, it may just be a matter of figuring out which scripts have DOS line endings but reside on binary mounts. --- What was changed recently? Was it that the old, line-read functions quietly removed CR's so bash (et al.) wouldn't see them even on

Re: When ssh'd in, cannot run MS compiler /Zi debug option.

2006-10-10 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Mark Charney mark_charney at ieee.org writes: I suspect I'm missing some rights. This is an issue for me on multiple machines running Windows Server 2003 x64 or for 32b WinXP. When I try to compile using the debug-option (/Zi) to the Microsoft Visual Studio

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

2006-10-10 Thread mwoehlke
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/10/06, Tim Beuman wrote: I still have problems with ssh-agent/ssh-add when I install McAfee. Browsing over the internet didn't yield a working solution. Before I could stop McAfee and it would work but with the latest version of McAfee (version 10?) disabling

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

2006-10-10 Thread mwoehlke
Tim Beuman wrote: Hi Jason, The Ridiculous amount of stuff was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Um... Huh. Thunderbird shows it as attachment. The web archive does not. Anyone that knows the mailer software have a guess what went wrong? --

Re: API versus web interface for public document access

2006-10-09 Thread mwoehlke
Mike Marchywka wrote: Thanks, I've been on the list before and I do recall some related success stories. Any suggestions for a more appropriate audience? Since your question (which I read, after skimming through to find it at the bottom of your post) seems to relate generically to scripting,

Re: Fatal error with PGREP

2006-10-09 Thread mwoehlke
Sean McNamara wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to resolve this for over a week, and there hasn't been a peep from the list. That has me wondering if: 1. Nobody has the slightest idea about what could be happening. 2. The solution is so painfully obvious that folks don't feel it warrants a

Re: Fatal error with PGREP

2006-10-09 Thread mwoehlke
Sean McNamara wrote: Thanks for your response Matthew. I have attached my cygcheck output this time. Um... ok, we got it the first two times, you can stop posting it now. :-) Sorry for not doing that initially. Most mailing lists I subscribe to do not allow attachments, so I didn't think

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 05 October 2006 08:52, Tom Lee wrote: is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. I really like the feature of ls / to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib,

Re: spaces in .bash_profile lead to command not found

2006-10-05 Thread mwoehlke
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: There are 4 blank lines in my .bash_profile: [snip] Each blank line generates an error: $ source .bash_profile BEGIN ~/.bash_profile : command not found : command not found : command not found : command not found END ~/.bash_profile However, if I

Reverting to older Cygwin installation?

2006-10-05 Thread mwoehlke
I've been keeping up with the new make, bash, etc, on my own desktop, but I'd like to try updating our build machine's packages to see if we can get some speed out of the new bash release. However, this being a build machine, breaking it would be *bad*. I *want* to say I can downgrade (not

Re: bash scripts fail with bash3.1-8

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Thomas Porschberg wrote: Am Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:02:29 +0100 schrieb Dave Korn : On 03 October 2006 16:43, Turly O'Connor wrote: By way of an example as to what broke, note that in the following that cleartool is not a cygwin tool (it's a Windows executable), writing its CRLF-terminated output

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using the One True Text File Format (whatever that is). We're you the one who brought up Unicode

Re: 1.5.21: problem with source command in bash

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Ring, Patrick wrote: I am having a problem with the source command in bash (3.1-9). When I try to source a file with aliases in it, the aliases get garbled so that they don't work. When I type alias on the command line, I can see that it is incorrect. Other commands also do not work, usually

Re: updated bash to latest 3.1.17(8)-release; startup has errors now

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: This google search was pretty much worthless when I ran it before I sent my message in: bash command not found site:cygwin.com inurl:ml If you've STFLA'd, it is good to mention this when asking your question. :-) vi did not show any unusual line endings (CR/LF) in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: Second, this release adds a new shopt, igncr, which dynamically tells bash to ignore all \r in the input file when it is set; however, it defaults to unset. So, I keep wanting to know if you are thinking about submitting this upstream (or have you done so already?)... --

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:28:13PM +, Eric Blake wrote: mwoehlke writes: Eric Blake wrote: Second, this release adds a new shopt, igncr, which dynamically tells bash to ignore all \r in the input file when it is set; however, it defaults to unset. So, I keep

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Eager wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote: It looks like make is not recognizing VPATH correctly. I'm using make-3.80-1. This is unlikely. Gcc is known to build on cygwin. I do it all the time and it has no problem for me. Perhaps something else

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Eager wrote: [snip] Building gcc using the mozilla version of make-3.80 fails as previously described. I assumed that this version of make was the same as the one which I previously installed. Apparently, it isn't or there is some other incompatibility. Sounds like that might be a

Re: updated bash to latest 3.1.17(8)-release; startup has errors now

2006-10-02 Thread mwoehlke
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: As I often do after an absence, I ran setup.exe on my system and updated my cygwin installation. After doing this, I get some wacky errors when I try to run a bash shell (double-clicking the cygwin icon). I don't know why I'm wasting my breath; no one that needs to

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Eric Blake on 9/27/2006 7:02 PM: change the script to ignore whitespace (make the first non-comment line set IFS appropriately, as in this snippet: IFS=' '''' ' I retract this third suggestion. On investigation of the bash source, bash still treats \r

Re: sqlplus and end-of-line problem in shell script code

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Thomas Porschberg wrote: Hi, I want to use our shell script collection which includes sqlplus calls under Cygwin. I have the following problem with this code snippet: #!/bin/bash RESULT=`sqlplus -s myuser/[EMAIL PROTECTED] EOF SET FEEDBACK OFF; SET PAGESIZE 0; SELECT '42' FROM DUAL; EOF` if

Re: cygwin detection

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Kenneth Nellis wrote: Couldn't find anything relevant in the archives or the documentation... I have bash scripts that I want to run identically under Cygwin and Linux, which sometimes require the scripts to detect the environment and branch accordingly. There are numerous ways to do Cygwin

Re: New windows from cygwin in ssh

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Pavel Ivanoff wrote: The sshd service is running under my account. I go to Linux (via ssh). Then run ssh there, login onto my computer under my account, try to run any desktop program and it doesn't show any windows. My friend on another computer does all the same but with his account and his

Re: New windows from cygwin in ssh

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Pavel Ivanoff wrote: Pavel Ivanoff wrote: The sshd service is running under my account. I go to Linux (via ssh). Then run ssh there, login onto my computer under my account, try to run any desktop program and it doesn't show any windows. My friend on another computer does all the same but

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Wilks, Dan wrote: So we just got the short-end? A long(?) standing behavior of cygwin and DOS paths and a recent change to bash that eliminates support for \r's. I guess we were living on the edge of something that wasn't supposed to work at all and didn't even know it. :/ We'll try to

Re: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread mwoehlke
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: I've never had ls say it can't read ., but I do remember having path completion problems. I think that's why I use symbolic links instead of mount for drives; something like: cd / ln -s /cygdrive/c etc. Then I just cd /c and seldom have to use /cygdrive at all. I'm sure

Re: make 3.81-1 problems with DOS-paths

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Knut Schwichtenberg wrote: I've udated on 14.Sep.06 my Cygwin make to 3.81-1. The C-project I was compiling generated dependency files including system files. For system files the full path in DOS notation is entered into the dependency file. Make stops the execution of the makefile with the

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Malcolm Nixon wrote: I recently updated to Bash 3.1.17(8) and found my local build system failing due to the removal of CR/LF support: A script on a binary mount that uses \r\n line endings will probably encounter syntax errors or odd variable assignments, because the \r is treated literally.

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Jonathan Arnold wrote: Malcolm Nixon wrote: Unfortunately simply running d2u isn't a solution because: * Some revision control systems make the files read-only. I would venture to guess that *all* sccs make a file read-only. I know svn doesn't... rcs's that have a concept of edit usually

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 27 September 2006 20:42, Malcolm Nixon wrote: In my opinion a better solution would have been to err on the side of compatibility and only use the new fast readline code if manually enabled. Then according to your opinion, everyone else in the world has to suffer from

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Larry Breyer wrote: What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? Did you bother reading the ANNOUNCEMENT? I blindly performed a cygwin update, rebooted, and attempted startx. X came up OK but the terminals would not respond to keyboard input. Looking at the output of startx it became apparent

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Malcolm Nixon wrote: So why isn't using a textmode mount a solution? Packages generally contain the sources, build scripts, tools binaries, etc in a single directory tree. For example a ./configure script located in the package root directory along side other project files. As such placing just

Re: Bash problem - v3.1.17(8) - syntax error

2006-09-26 Thread mwoehlke
Arun Biyani wrote: I just upgraded to the current bash. Now I am getting an error. I reinstalled, rebooted the machine. Still get the same error. The variable $HOME is set correctly. bash: /c/home/abiyani/.bash_login: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
William Deegan wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're considering engaging codesourcery to do the work. Anyone out there interested/able to co-funding

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:26:31PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: William Deegan wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 18 September 2006 19:37, Francis Rossi wrote: As would mounting and/or deleting a separate Windows partition, no? No, because the virtual Cygwin partition would be one Windows file. One file is much easier to delete than the whole C: drive, isn't it? Two words: Quick

Re: bash-3.1-7 bug

2006-09-14 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:09:03PM -0700, Volker Quetschke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:28PM -0700, Volker Quetschke wrote: (snip) Do I have to make the observation again that whether this is the case or not, it is not a primary

Re: bash-3.1-7 BUG

2006-09-13 Thread mwoehlke
Shankar Unni wrote: Eric Blake wrote: But I intend that on binary files, \r\n line endings will treat the \r as part of the line, so at least binary mounts won't suffer from the speed impact of treating a file as unseekable the way bash 3.1-6 does. Would it be possible to do this dynamically

Re: Setup of cygwin unsuccessful

2006-09-13 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Pusch pasted cygcheck output... Dave Korn wrote: Give that a go and send your cygcheck results as an attachment. In the future, please remember to *attach*, not paste. :-) -- Matthew 80% of all statistics are made up on the spot. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: bash-3.1-7 BUG

2006-09-13 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: mwoehlke mwoehlke at tibco.com writes: Would it be possible to do this dynamically (instead of keying off of mounts, etc.): if the first line of the file read by bash has a \r\n, use text-mode (1-char-at-a-time) semantics, else use binary semantics (lseek)? I hate to say

Re: Mount does not show Samba files

2006-09-12 Thread mwoehlke
Arun Biyani wrote: [download$:575] ls //goddard/y ls: //goddard/y: No such file or directory [download$:576] ls //goddard/abiyani ls: //goddard/abiyani: No such file or directory [download$:577] Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: what does 'ls /cygdrive/y' say? You didn't answer this, and it may be

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

2006-09-11 Thread mwoehlke
I can gauge from mailing list traffic that it is safe to promote to current. When starting the experimental version with c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l. I get: mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/mwoehlke\r': No such file or directory Copying skeleton files. These files are for the user

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

2006-09-11 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:04:30PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Eric Blake wrote: NOTICE: === This version removes several outdated #defines that were once necessary in older versions of cygwin, but which made bash on cygwin different and slower than bash on Linux

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

2006-09-11 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: mwoehlke mwoehlke at tibco.com writes: So $HOME is being set wrong. echo $HOME | od -c gives / h o m e / m w o e h l k e \r \n. echo %HOME% from a fresh cmd.exe gives C:/Documents and Settings/mwoehlke. I ran d2u on /etc/profile, /etc/default/etc

Re: Color Schemes

2006-09-01 Thread mwoehlke
George wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:59:09PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: George wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [...] and I am not aware of any way to examine the terminal's palette, nor should you need to. If a user wants to fiddle

Re: nfs in client mode (winxp = linux)

2006-09-01 Thread mwoehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see lots of past messages here about setting up NFS in server mode, but very little in the other direction. Going far enough back there was quite a long thread about SFU (Services for unix) but I haven't been able to get that NFS client to work. In fact I can't even

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread mwoehlke
Brian Dessent wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: AFAIK, Cygwin's lseek should handle seeking on text streams. DJ implemented that years ago. Last I looked, which was admittedly also years ago, it was #if 0'ed out, with a comment to the effect of Nobody has any business seeking around in text

Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
CARTER Alan wrote: In any case, it's pretty weird that bash randomly fails to spawn child processes! It wreaks havoc on a number of my scripts. Thought: Silent failure to spawn used to happen on some UNIX boxen when the process table was full (or one slot remained and user != root). Might

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
(Still can't decide if I should TITTTL this...) Dave Korn wrote: AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwin's console-handling

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
George wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
Aha! Clicking on the icons and spinning the number wheels is NOT the same thing at all! :-( Right. The real issue I'm having as the naive user is the colors dialog GUI human interface. ...and for the record, I hate that UI. :-) It isn't very well designed IMO. [snip] As I understand it,

Re: 1.5.21: fork in find/ls failing, simple test case

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
John Hartman wrote: Okay, when I stopped the 'Logitech Process Monitor' service the problem goes away. Thanks for the quick diagnosis. [snip] Can you tell me what the root cause is? Logitech's drivers suck? :-) You might want to search the archives for 'logitech', just to see what other

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 16:25, mwoehlke wrote: Ok, because I've noticed that the 32-bit 'net.exe' on 64-bit systems seems to be Just Plain Broken. Sorry that wasn't it... :-) Really? It works for me, at least for the `net use' case... Honest. On my 64-bit computer (2003 R2 x64

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Korn Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPAM] RE: Color Schemes [snip] Eek! Please, PLEASE http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR, especially if it's dropping

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 30 August 2006 23:02, mwoehlke wrote: Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: Noobie cygwin alert! Hopefully this isn't too verbose... Well, I stopped reading about halfway through... Just a moment too soon, alas. I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread mwoehlke
Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got the same error (System error 85 has occurred). I also changed the

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread mwoehlke
Grant Miller wrote: On 8/29/06, mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got

Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong?

2006-08-28 Thread mwoehlke
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Oh, and... rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0 I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set wrong. Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets it unconditionally

Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong?

2006-08-28 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Oh, and... rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0 I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set wrong. Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets

Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing

2006-08-28 Thread mwoehlke
Shankar Unni wrote: Pierre Baillargeon wrote: Thanks for the information. I will not submit a patch because I suspect the current behavior is prefered by the majority: having a dialog pop-up in the middle of scripts is much more catastrophic is most case than having a return code, for

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-25 Thread mwoehlke
Schwarz, Konrad wrote: Hi, I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin file-system name space. The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps `//./C/'). The reasons for this

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: mwoehlke Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now and thank me later

Re: FW: Issue using regtool on a 64-bit Windows host

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Fay wrote: I am writing a PERL script to verify registry entries on a 64-bit Windows R2 system. It appears that when doing the regtool command regtool list /HKLM/SOFTWARE/... regtool is actually looking at /HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node/ I am unable to get the registry info for

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Hanchrow wrote: mwoehlke == mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please configure your e-mail program to omit this obnoxious header that includes the spam-invitation of quoting raw e-mail addresses (see also PCYMTNQREAIYR). All those ''s confuse Thunderbird (using some other character

Re: Usage Of Cron and AT commands

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
Ugh, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted (but the .sig looks better, thanks!) Also, PCYMTNQREAIYR (although the cruddy line wrapping just barely saved mine from being quoted raw). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mwoehlke wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (again): Hi CygWinners, I would

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
John Salerno wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command prompt, like in Linux? I figured the cygwin terminal would look and act more like the bash shell, but so far it doesn't for me. Does this mean I'm still using

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Hanchrow wrote: John == John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm John wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command John prompt, like in Linux? Sure. But it's a feature of cmd.exe, not of Cygwin. In

Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
Pierre Baillargeon wrote: Problem: when running a program from bash and the program requires a DLL that is missing (or lacks a particular function), I do not get any error message nor dialog box. Only a exit status of 128. Can I change this behavior? What I expected is a dialog would pop-up

Re: Looking for mkdirhier !

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 22 August 2006 07:50, Guillaume MARTIN wrote: How could I install mkdir in cygwin ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp alias mkdirhier='mkdir -p' ...but you would have to set that alias in whatever this script is... Better: $ cat /bin/mkdirhier : mkdir -p $@ ^D $ chmod +x

Re: Usage Of Cron and AT commands

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (again): Hi CygWinners, I would like to know the syntax of crontab, cron and at commands for its use in task scheduling. [snip] Please read the replies to your first post instead of posting again. And please lose the obnoxiously long signature and unenforceable

Re: Looking for mkdirhier !

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 22 August 2006 16:57, mwoehlke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 22 August 2006 07:50, Guillaume MARTIN wrote: How could I install mkdir in cygwin ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp alias mkdirhier='mkdir -p' ...but you would have to set that alias in whatever this script is... Better

Re: coreutils 5.97; mkdir -p; mkdir: cannot create directory `name': File exists

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
Rolf Campbell wrote: I believe there is a race-condition in mkdir -p. Specifically, if the directory does not exist *yet* when stat is called on line #98 of coreutils-5.97/lib/mkdir-p.c, but the directory *does* exist by the time line #190 of the same file calls mkdir(), then the program will

Re: groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

2006-08-18 Thread mwoehlke
Tom Rodman wrote: Yes I see the local group S-1-2-0, but when I ssh'd in, I typed the password in for this session and so I expect whoami /all to return the username that goes with the password - more importantly I need the credentials to write to the network shares, that I normally get when

Re: Send command and parameters into cygwin.bat

2006-08-18 Thread mwoehlke
mocs wrote: Ive would like to edit my cygwin.bat so a command into cygwin starts automatically with a document and some parameters, how should i write? 'man bash' -- Matthew KATE: Awesome Text Editor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Start up Script Question

2006-08-17 Thread mwoehlke
Rich Mayo wrote: What script (or scripts) adds Cygwin directories to the existing environment variables? I use xterm under the Cygwin X Server as my user environment and I'm not happy with the way my INCLUDE, LIB, and PATH variables are laid out. 'man bash' -- Matthew Websites such as ...

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-17 Thread mwoehlke
Olivier Langlois wrote: Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine to run DOS tools. That's a nice side-effect at best. It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise if offering a POSIX

Re: cygwin running from ext. USB HD

2006-08-17 Thread mwoehlke
Dirk Schleicher wrote: Hello there, it is possible to install cygwin on a external USB-hd? I think yes. I use W2k and want to store my mails from Sylpheed claws there. Or install cygwin normal and store the whole mails at the USB HD. To do this I have to mount the USB HD to cygwin. How to do

Re: groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

2006-08-16 Thread mwoehlke
Tom Rodman wrote: Hosts effected: several boxes running windows 2003 server w/cygwin (1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060403 13:33:45) Problem (or feature?): when you ssh to these boxes, and run: $WINDIR/system32/whoami /all |grep -q S-1-2-0 || echo OOPs # OOPS echos :- S-1-2-0 ==

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-16 Thread mwoehlke
Igor Peshansky wrote: Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. That way, the Cygwin make will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths that it (as a program linked to cygwin1.dll) already knows how

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-16 Thread mwoehlke
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. That way, the Cygwin make will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
William A. Hoffman wrote: At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: - The other option is to use mingw-make, and only use cygwin make for cygwin linked programs only. Incorrect. If you use Cygwin make, it's very easy to invoke Windows programs by converting their arguments with cygpath -w

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also,

Re: openmotif, .rdata, shared libs and runtime linking/loading problem

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: [snip] gdb reports the following: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [snip] The address it is trying to write to appears to be a read only address in the attempt to resolve some adresses and updating pointers it crashes. I've no idea why

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
John W. Eaton wrote: On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute and everybody else should therefore just shut up I never said everyone else should just shut up. My point was

Re: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls..

2006-08-14 Thread mwoehlke
Darryl Miles wrote: I do have questions, they may seem daft, but this issue is legal thing so the finer points are important: [snip] I'd be happy to put the bugfixes for this particular problem in the public domain, thus confirming my original legal entitlement to copyright and waivering that

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-14 Thread mwoehlke
William A. Hoffman wrote: At 04:16 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not 100% clear on what you're saying but if cmake distributed with Cygwin is producing makefiles with MS-DOS SYNTAX then, actually it should either be fixed to not do that or it should be pulled from the

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-10 Thread mwoehlke
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 8/9/06, mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-10 Thread mwoehlke
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 8/10/06, mwoehlke wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Yes, it's sort-of my fault. I just have a Perl script that chunks the newlib libc.info files into faux man pages. Ah, ok, makes sense. Too bad newlib doesn't have proper manpages, in that case. Although

Re: Fw: GCC - 64bit long long type, support in lib

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Note: not all of us like Asian food (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU). Also, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. fred wrote: The gcc supports 64bit int it seems, but the library as downloaded does not, for example try long long ldec = 0x110LL; printf(%s: 0x%Lx,%Ld;

Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more normal (man1 pages, for

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more normal (man1

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the winsup hierarchy. The first line of printf(3) says

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
infoterror wrote: Under windows, programs are installed by default in C:\Program Files. cygwin's preferred c:\cygwin is foolish and makes an unnecessary mess of installations. Cygwin's c:\cygwin contains AN ENTIRE (virtual) FILESYSTEM. I don't know about you, but *I* sure don't want that sort

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the winsup

Re: Ansi escape sequences showing in Man pages

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
No http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU please, and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR... thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, jbonnett wrote: I am having a problem where escape sequences, rather than colour highlighting, appear when I display man

Re: installer: select packages: text background color

2006-08-07 Thread mwoehlke
Daniel Convissor wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 06:46:52PM +, Eric Blake wrote: This bug was also reported about a year ago, and fixed about a year ago. Great, thanks. See http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/ for a snapshot with the fix incorporated, and then join the crusade to get the

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