xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Zhezherun
indented. If I exit mc, however, and run cat from bash, it operates normally. If I run mc under the Cygwin shell (non-X), everything also works as expected. Also note that when I ssh from Cygwin xterm onto a linux host and then run mc remotely in this session, cat-ing from it also works normally. So

Re: xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Zhezherun
Hi All, Somehow Cygwin mailing list shows #xC2; characters in my previous message; it should have been all spaces instead. Best Regards, Andrew -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andy Koppe
and control            ! characters to which they reply to the host with othe r escape sequences,                    ! to provide information.  The resize progra m uses this feature. [...] I find that mc immediately switches back to the folder view. How do you keep it on the screen? If I add a 'sleep

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 06:56:06PM +0800, Adrian May wrote: The cygwin folks will have to use their imaginations because their box doesn't want pictures. Not my problem. FWIW, this reminds me of a similar symptom, but didn't pay attention to where it was

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:41:50PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 06:56:06PM +0800, Adrian May wrote: The cygwin folks will have to use their imaginations because their box doesn't want pictures. Not my problem. I had nothing to do with the above

Need a new MC maintainer?

2009-11-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
We haven't had a Midnight Commander update in quite some time. I don't think Pavel Tsekov is active in the Cygwin community anymore. Anyone want to take over maintainership? cgf

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-24 Thread Slava Zanko
a different opinion - huge thanks for bugreport and good bye :) P.S. guys from cygwin devel-team: mc-4.6.1 too old for supporting, mc-4.7.0-pre2 and newest don't compile on current cygwin (because cyrrent cygwin don't have ipv6 support :( ). Is you have any ideas about? WBR, Slavaz. -BEGIN PGP

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 24 18:19, Slava Zanko wrote: P.S. guys from cygwin devel-team: mc-4.6.1 too old for supporting, mc-4.7.0-pre2 and newest don't compile on current cygwin (because cyrrent cygwin don't have ipv6 support :( ). Is you have any ideas about? Cygwin 1.7 with IPv6 support exists quite some time

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 24 18:19, Slava Zanko wrote: P.S. guys from cygwin devel-team: mc-4.6.1 too old for supporting, mc-4.7.0-pre2 and newest don't compile on current cygwin (because cyrrent cygwin don't have ipv6 support :( ). Is you have any ideas about? Cygwin 1.7 with IPv6 support exists quite some time

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-24 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 17:59 +0800, Adrian May wrote: 6. I did actually give you all the information you need and I don't care why your mail server spat it back. Which version of cygwin? If you want US to look into this, you need at least to supply the versions of libraries mc is linked

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-24 Thread Slava Zanko
24.11.2009 18:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Cygwin 1.7 with IPv6 support exists quite some time and the official release is due very soon now. See http://cygwin.com/#beta-test There's no reason anymore to build against Cygwin 1.5.25. Ok, thanks for info. I'll try to compile mc with new version

Fwd: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Adrian May
The cygwin folks will have to use their imaginations because their box doesn't want pictures. Not my problem. -- Forwarded message -- From: Adrian May adrian.alexander@gmail.com Date: 2009/11/20 Subject: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
are asking me -- as cygwin/ncurses maintainer -- or someone else, as cygwin/mc maintainer -- to take time away our family or loved ones, or away from doing some other enjoyable activity, and instead fix a problem FOR YOU, a stranger I do not know. I don't see this problem. You do. So, it doesn't really

Re: Fwd: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
. Read on. -- Forwarded message -- From: Adrian May adrian.alexander@gmail.com Date: 2009/11/20 Subject: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up To: mc-devel, cygwin, bug-ncurses Hi folks, The attachment shows what mc version 4.6.1

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
Hi! Actually it's a pretty old version of mc which is no longer supported, but if it's reproducible on latest master, then we might want to have a look at it. Mind you, however, that no one is using cygwin over here, so you'll have to have quite a bit of involvement in the process for us to fix

Re: MC/ncurses on cygwin: Borders turn into chinese characters and layout screws up

2009-11-20 Thread /dev/rob0
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:57:57AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Adrian May wrote: Please don't involve me in your triage process or ask me to send [snip drivel] Go to hell, you rude jerk. This is a VOLUNTEER project. You are [snip rant] I created an acronym, SWEET, and a Web page, for

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-24 Thread Bernd Roesch
Hello Larry On 23.09.08, you wrote: Bernd Roesch wrote: Hello Larry On 23.09.08, you wrote: '.' as a directory in a path signifies the current directory. You don't want to specify this for any path in your '/etc/passwd' file. As for the slowdown you experienced, I explained earlier in

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-23 Thread Bernd Roesch
Hello Larry On 22.09.08, you wrote: So i think its illegal to change the homedir on the bat file ? No, it's not. I don't have an explanation for the behavior you're seeing. Your solution will work, though it has the disadvantage of setting HOME for all Cygwin users and it won't work

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bernd Roesch wrote: Hello Larry On 22.09.08, you wrote: So i think its illegal to change the homedir on the bat file ? No, it's not. I don't have an explanation for the behavior you're seeing. Your solution will work, though it has the disadvantage of setting HOME for all Cygwin users and

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-23 Thread Bernd Roesch
Hello Larry On 23.09.08, you wrote: '.' as a directory in a path signifies the current directory. You don't want to specify this for any path in your '/etc/passwd' file. As for the slowdown you experienced, I explained earlier in this thread why that happened. It has nothing to do with

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bernd Roesch wrote: Hello Larry On 23.09.08, you wrote: '.' as a directory in a path signifies the current directory. You don't want to specify this for any path in your '/etc/passwd' file. As for the slowdown you experienced, I explained earlier in this thread why that happened. It has

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
the passwd is create on correct place. After bash restart, bash, mc etc all work fast now. So i think its illegal to change the homedir on the bat file ? No, it's not. I don't have an explanation for the behavior you're seeing. Your solution will work, though it has the disadvantage of setting

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-21 Thread Bernd Roesch
on correct place. After bash restart, bash, mc etc all work fast now. So i think its illegal to change the homedir on the bat file ? in the etc/profile file i add the lines here. .. PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH export PATH MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-20 Thread Bernd Roesch
Hello Larry On 19.09.08, you wrote: i find now out(test over 10 times), the hang on this command is much shorter, when i deactivate wlan 'id -ng' shouldn't need to access the Internet. However, I did a quick Google search and unearthed this:

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bernd Roesch wrote: i do a strace now and get this exception and delay when wlan run in WNetGetResourceInformation. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00345.html here stand what problem can be, maybe me too. I install winxp a second time but dont delete the files for user bernd.

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-19 Thread Bernd Roesch
Hello Larry On 18.09.08, you wrote: I test always 4-5 times, so all that can go to cache should be in. Is there a way of logging to see what bash do this long time ? Putting set -x in '/etc/profile' will make it spit out everything bash does. You might spot something that way. If you

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bernd Roesch wrote: Hello Larry On 18.09.08, you wrote: I test always 4-5 times, so all that can go to cache should be in. Is there a way of logging to see what bash do this long time ? Putting set -x in '/etc/profile' will make it spit out everything bash does. You might spot something

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-18 Thread Bernd Roesch
notice, when i use windows more days with suspend to disk, cygwin get more slower. then when i type ls, i notice 0.3 -0.5 sec delay. a fresh boot speed it up so ls give no delay. maybe cygwin is very sensible on mem fragmentation ? but with mc commander and gc this dont help to get always same speed

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
. Another thing i notice, when i use windows more days with suspend to disk, cygwin get more slower. then when i type ls, i notice 0.3 -0.5 sec delay. a fresh boot speed it up so ls give no delay. maybe cygwin is very sensible on mem fragmentation ? but with mc commander and gc this dont help to get

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-18 Thread Bernd Roesch
Hello Larry On 18.09.08, you wrote: i try now latest cygwin1.dll from 15.9.2008 normaly when i start bash, it take 5 sec. now with this lib the message soon come huh no etc/fstab file in \??\E:\amiga\amidevcpp\etc\fstab.d\bernd? using default root and cygdrive prefix. You've

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bernd Roesch wrote: Hello Larry On 18.09.08, you wrote: i try now latest cygwin1.dll from 15.9.2008 normaly when i start bash, it take 5 sec. now with this lib the message soon come huh no etc/fstab file in \??\E:\amiga\amidevcpp\etc\fstab.d\bernd? using default root and cygdrive prefix.

slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-17 Thread Bernd Roesch
a wlan connection to my router for DSL. I use cygwin on FAT32 partition on Amd64 3000+ 32bit windows Xp SP3 1 GBram , partition e: (win is on c) long times(about 2 years) and it work fast. now i upgrade it, install much more packages (gcc) and it run slow. when i type mc(midnight commander

Re: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/17/2008, Bernd Roesch wrote: My cygwin have very slow fileaccsess. We ask that 'cygcheck' output be *attached* rather than appended. See http://cygwin.com/problems.html Given your description of the problem so far and particularly the fact that you get slow results from 'cygcheck',

RE: slow filesystem access mc start take sometimes 1 sec sometimes upto 7 sec or sometimes more

2008-09-17 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 17 September 2008 17:34: On 09/17/2008, Bernd Roesch wrote: My cygwin have very slow fileaccsess. We ask that 'cygcheck' output be *attached* rather than appended. See http://cygwin.com/problems.html Given your description of the problem so far and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vfu 4.06-1 -- A mc-like versatile text-based filemanager

2008-03-17 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu License : GPL A nice filemanager using the ncurses library. It has many nice features: Fast one-key commands; Filename completion and wildcard expansion; Directory tree with sizes; File-type colorization; Archives

New package: vfu 4.06-1 -- A mc-like versatile text-based filemanager

2008-03-17 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu License : GPL A nice filemanager using the ncurses library. It has many nice features: Fast one-key commands; Filename completion and wildcard expansion; Directory tree with sizes; File-type colorization; Archives

[GTG] Re: [ITP] vfu 4.06 -- A mc-like versatile text-based filemanager

2008-03-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: In Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/vfu Builds fine from source, packaging and setup.hint look good. GTG Volker

Re: [ITP] vfu 4.06 -- A mc-like versatile text-based filemanager

2008-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 13 19:41, Jari Aalto wrote: http://cygwin.cante.net/vfu/vfu-4.06-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cygwin.cante.net/vfu/vfu-4.06-1.tar.bz2 \ http://cygwin.cante.net/vfu/setup.hint Uploaded. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to

[ITP] vfu 4.06 -- A mc-like versatile text-based filemanager

2008-03-13 Thread Cygwin-bug#20080312T1048
In Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/vfu Jari sdesc: A mc-like versatile text-based filemanager ldesc: A nice filemanager using the ncurses library. It has many nice features like: Fast one-key commands; Filename completion and wildcard expansion; Directory tree with sizes

mc problems

2008-02-26 Thread Mikolaj Machowski
Hello, I am trying use mc on my installation of cygwin. But I have problem with Polish diacritics in file names. mc doesn't display them correctly at all and I cannot input several of them into command line. The same problem exists under Linux but after downloading latest version from CVS

mc-wrapper.sh error if username contains spaces

2006-03-22 Thread Dominique Brazziel
mc will not exit in the last directory browsed if the username contains spaces. The following error messages occur: /tmp/mc-User Name/mc.pwd.2572 cat: /tmp/mc-User: No such file or directory cat: Name/mc.pwd.2572: No such file or directory ls on the /tmp directory under Xterm shows

Re: problem with displaying graphical chars in mc under rxvt (CYGWIN=codepage:oem didnt fix it)

2005-10-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Andy Kosela wrote: I got a problem with displaying graphical characters in mc 4.6.1-2 under rxvt 2.7.10-6. The lines are screwed up. I tried setting CYGWIN=codepage:oem but the problem persists. When I launch bash under cmd.com everything is ok with mc. It only happens

Re: problem with displaying graphical chars in mc under rxvt (CYGWIN=codepage:oem didnt fix it)

2005-10-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Pavel Tsekov wrote: You can get a font with line drawing characters here: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/bashprompt/luconP.zip This is a 404, I think Charles shut down his site in 2004. For the sake of the archives, you can get this at

Re: problem with displaying graphical chars in mc under rxvt (CYGWIN=codepage:oem didnt fix it)

2005-10-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
of X11. Anyway the point of my last email was that the information is available in the MC readme file. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

problem with displaying graphical chars in mc under rxvt (CYGWIN=codepage:oem didnt fix it)

2005-10-29 Thread Andy Kosela
I got a problem with displaying graphical characters in mc 4.6.1-2 under rxvt 2.7.10-6. The lines are screwed up. I tried setting CYGWIN=codepage:oem but the problem persists. When I launch bash under cmd.com everything is ok with mc. It only happens in rxvt. I'm using courier fonts set

Re: problem with displaying graphical chars in mc under rxvt (CYGWIN=codepage:oem didnt fix it)

2005-10-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Andy Kosela wrote: I got a problem with displaying graphical characters in mc 4.6.1-2 under rxvt 2.7.10-6. The lines are screwed up. I tried setting CYGWIN=codepage:oem but the problem persists. When I launch bash under cmd.com everything is ok with mc. It only happens in rxvt. I'm using

Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working

2005-08-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
this problem I get nowhere due to lack of time. I didn't notice this problem. Are you sure it's still there? Yes. I've just verified it - MC from ssh session to Cygwin machine and MC from withing rxvt (non-X) both leave stale shells. Yesterday I've submitted a patch to the Cygwin dll which

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.1-2

2005-08-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version 4.6.1-2. The updated packages is based on the official release of MC 4.6.1. Please, take a look at the NEWS file included in the package for a list of changes and bugfixes. Pavel Tsekov Midnight Commander maintainer

Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: In the latest release of mc, subshell isn't working. Ctrl-O just shows the background. However, if I build mc myself from the sources, subshell works fine. [...] Why is background disabled? And why ncurses instead of S-Lang? Because

Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working

2005-07-27 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
there? The problem is pretty complex. Hopefully I'll find the time to find a solution for it. And btw you are wrong - the MC package has subshell support but it is disabled by default. Try `mc --help' . Really? My mc configured with --prefix=/usr doesn't agree with that and subshell works. $ mc --version

Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
notice this problem. Are you sure it's still there? Yes. I've just verified it - MC from ssh session to Cygwin machine and MC from withing rxvt (non-X) both leave stale shells. The problem is pretty complex. Hopefully I'll find the time to find a solution for it. And btw you are wrong - the MC

Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working

2005-07-27 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Pavel Tsekov wrote: And btw you are wrong - the MC package has subshell support but it is disabled by default. Try `mc --help' . Really? My mc configured with --prefix=/usr doesn't agree with that and subshell works. I don't understand what you are trying to tell me. I was speaking about

mc 4.6.1 - background not working

2005-07-26 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Hi In the latest release of mc, subshell isn't working. Ctrl-O just shows the background. However, if I build mc myself from the sources, subshell works fine. mc-4.6.1-2.sh build script uses the following configure options: ${srcdir}/configure \ --srcdir=${srcdir} --prefix=${prefix

Upload: mc-4.6.1-2

2005-07-24 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Yesterday, the MC developers (finally) released MC 4.6.1. I've prepared a new Cygwin package based on the official tarball. Please, upload. http://ptsekov.fixity.net/cygwin/mc-4.6.1-2-src.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.fixity.net/cygwin/mc-4.6.1-2.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.fixity.net/cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.1-1

2004-12-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version 4.6.1-1. This is major upgrade and the result of more than one and a half year of bugfixing and code cleanup. NOTE: There is no official MC 4.6.1 yet. The Cygwin package is based on MC 4.6.1-pre2 from CVS, which

Updated: mc-4.6.1-1

2004-12-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version 4.6.1-1. This is major upgrade and the result of more than one and a half year of bugfixing and code cleanup. NOTE: There is no official MC 4.6.1 yet. The Cygwin package is based on MC 4.6.1-pre2 from CVS, which

Strange problem with MC

2004-08-27 Thread landocalrissian
Hello from Gregg C Levine Here's a funny thing that's been happening ever since I installed Cygwin here, and subscribed to this list: cat: /tmp/mc-Gregg: No such file or directory cat: C: No such file or directory cat: Levine/mc.pwd.1992: No such file or directory As all of you can see

Re: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer)

2004-08-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, landocalrissian wrote: Hello from Gregg C Levine Here's a funny thing that's been happening ever since I installed Cygwin here, and subscribed to this list: cat: /tmp/mc-Gregg: No such file or directory cat: C: No such file or directory cat: Levine/mc.pwd.1992

Re: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer)

2004-08-27 Thread Brian Ford
While we have their attention... $ /bin/sh -c . /etc/profile alias: not found $ cat /etc/profile.d/mc.sh alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' Since our /bin/sh is ash, could this be a shell function (or something else that is ash compatible) instead? mc() . /usr/share/mc/bin/mc

RE: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer)

2004-08-27 Thread landocalrissian
Hello from Gregg C Levine I did what you suggested Igor. Now I'm getting: bash: command substitution: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ` ' bash: command substitution: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file It also says that: /tmp/mc-Gregg: Can't open /tmp/mc-Gregg

RE: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer)

2004-08-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
that: /tmp/mc-Gregg: Can't open /tmp/mc-Gregg: No such file or directory That from trying to browse a BZIP2 compressed tar file. This is also part of my original complain. Did I cause that, by changing something? What can I do to prevent it? Are you sure you copied the change I suggested verbatim

MC - big pause

2003-10-08 Thread John King
It's version 4.6.0 (sorry about reduncant postings, if any) jk -- 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: MC - big pause

2003-10-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I forgot to mention that after MC is loaded, programs invoked at the MC command prompt also take a LONG time. These same programs run normally outside of MC. Which version of MC are you using ? Can you supply the output of 'mc -V' ? Are you runnig MC from a Cygwin console window

MC - big pause

2003-10-03 Thread John King
(newbie) On one installation of Cygwin, MC takes a long time (45 seconds) to comes up. Other Cygwin programs (like Info, Man, e.g.) have 'normal' performance. I don't *think* it's my path, I checked and fiddled with that and nothing changed. I tried -u -d with MC. The machine is a single

MC - big pause

2003-10-03 Thread John King
I forgot to mention that after MC is loaded, programs invoked at the MC command prompt also take a LONG time. These same programs run normally outside of MC. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

TEST: mc-4.6.0a-20030721-1

2003-07-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
in the announcement about that. Please, upload: http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0a-20030721-1-src.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0a-20030721-1.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/setup.hint Thanks! Pavel -- +++ GMX

Re: TEST: mc-4.6.0a-20030721-1

2003-07-21 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Please, upload: http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0a-20030721-1-src.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0a-20030721-1.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/setup.hint Done

mc: Segmentation fault

2003-07-01 Thread Matthias.Kopp
Hi, when I try to start the midnight commander (mc) I always get the following message: - I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ mc ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped

Re: mc: Segmentation fault

2003-07-01 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, when I try to start the midnight commander (mc) I always get the following message: - I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ mc ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd

Re: mc: Segmentation fault

2003-07-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ mc ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00258.html. Almost the same subjest, too

[Updated package] mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, An updated Midnight Commander package is available. It addresses this problem: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg02119.html As I've already indicated on the main list this is a bug introduced by me and it is specific to the Cygwin version of MC. This version does

Re: [Updated package] mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Here are the links: http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0-4.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0-4-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded. Please send an annoucement in a couple of hours Thanks, Elfyn PS- Shall I remove

Re: [Updated package] mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: PS- Shall I remove 4.6.0-3 ? Ooops! Kill everything except 4.6.0-4. 4.5.xx is too old to be useful. All 4.6.0-x up to -4 have this ftpfs bug.

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Hello, As far I as I can

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
wrapped (and did). You can change your UID to any unique number smaller than 65535 (56297 should do as well as any other). I don't know that that's the cause of your mc problem, but it's something to fix nonetheless. If it turns out to fix your problem, it's a bug in 'mc', IMO. See

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread FischRon . external
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Okay, Ronald, you're suffering

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
number smaller than 65535 (56297 should do as well as any other). I don't know that that's the cause of your mc problem, but it's something to fix nonetheless. If it turns out to fix your problem, it's a bug in 'mc', IMO. See this code: current_user_uid = getuid (); pwd

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
would be to simply remove the assert and conditionalize the following code on (pwd != NULL) (possibly with #ifdef __CYGWIN__ around it, although I don't think it'll affect the other Unix systems all that much). I'm not all that familiar with mc, so the usual disclaimers apply to the above. Ok

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
solution would be to simply remove the assert and conditionalize the following code on (pwd != NULL) (possibly with #ifdef __CYGWIN__ around it, although I don't think it'll affect the other Unix systems all that much). I'm not all that familiar with mc, so the usual disclaimers apply to the above

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'mc' from the 'Utils' category. Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth

Updated: mc-4.6.0-4

2003-06-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'mc' from the 'Utils' category. Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth

mc segfaults

2003-06-05 Thread FischRon . external
Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Ronald Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-89-234-81643 -- Unsubscribe info

RE: mc segfaults

2003-06-05 Thread FischRon . external
Starting mc or mcedit causes the following assertion violation: ** CRITICAL **: file /tmp/build/mc-4.6.0/src/utilunix.c: line 81 (init_groups): assertion `pwd != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Hello, As far I as I can tell this error message suggests that something

[Updated package] mc-4.6.0-3

2003-06-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I've rebuild MC against the new ncurses library. Please, upload. http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0-3.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.6.0-3-src.tar.bz2 http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/setup.hint

Re: [Updated package] mc-4.6.0-3

2003-06-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I've rebuild MC against the new ncurses library. Please, upload. Done. You know the drill. ;-) Elfyn _ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-3

2003-06-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
() references __mempcpy() which is glibc specific. The patch replaces the __mempcpy() call with a call to mempcpy() which is exported by the Cygwin dll. This issue did not surface so far since Cygwin was missing mempcpy() until recently. The issue was brought to the attention of the MC developers. Pavel

Re: zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Peter A. Castro wrote: 2. If you start mc under zsh in a *console* window with the command prompt option, no prompt is shown - just the cursor: _ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ I found the reason. Now I should think

Re: zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:58:02PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Sorry, I meant this to go to the main list, but mistyped the address :( I must be slipping. I didn't even notice. Another chance to be mean. Wasted. cgf

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-2

2003-03-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
in the subshell support, which causes the subshell to stay in memory when MC terminates. It is recommended that users uprgade to mc-4.6.0-2 until the matter is resolved. NOTE: Subshell support is still compiled in, but to use it one has to pass the -U option to mc. Obviosly this will trigger

zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Thanks. Midnight Commander has become better and the old bugs are gone. Unfortunately there are now some new ones: [snip] 2. If you start mc under zsh in a *console* window with the command prompt option, no prompt is shown - just the cursor

Re: zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
mc under zsh in a *console* window with the command prompt option, no prompt is shown - just the cursor: _ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Can you tell me just what options/key sequences you are using to start mc? I've just started mc in a console and I get a '$ ' for a prompt in mc. I

Re: zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Peter A. Castro wrote: 2. If you start mc under zsh in a *console* window with the command prompt option, no prompt is shown - just the cursor: _ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ I found the reason. Now I should think about a fix :) I have something in mind

Re: zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Peter A. Castro wrote: 2. If you start mc under zsh in a *console* window with the command prompt option, no prompt is shown - just the cursor: _ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ I found the reason. Now I should think

Re: zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Peter A. Castro wrote: I get a prompt running 'mc -U' but only if I don't set RPROMPT. This is probably due to how zsh does some special line handling to get the rear prompt displayed first before the front prompt is displayed and that might be what's causing mc

Re: zsh and MC was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-21 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Peter A. Castro wrote: I get a prompt running 'mc -U' but only if I don't set RPROMPT. This is probably due to how zsh does some special line handling to get the rear prompt displayed first before the front prompt

mc-4.6.0-1 slow startup in rxvt was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Pavel Tsekov (03-03-09 15:34 +0100) On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Unfortunately there are now some new ones: 1. It takes more than 5 seconds to start mc in a rxvt window - in a normal console window mc starts immediately

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
:) I don't remember the name exactly, but some time ago (4.5.55 time) I was contacted by a Cygwin user who requested the -a option. I forwarded his request to the MC developers list and it was implemented also for ncurses. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-10 Thread S . L .
[...] No, thanks! :) But a have a surprise for you - the -a switch works now with both ncurses and slang :) I don't remember the name exactly, but some time ago (4.5.55 time) I was contacted by a Cygwin user who requested the -a option. I forwarded his request to the MC developers list

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
. Unfortunately there are now some new ones: 1. It takes more than 5 seconds to start mc in a rxvt window - in a normal console window mc starts immediately. Removing my rxvt customizations in .Xdefaults has no effect. 2. If you start mc under zsh in a *console* window with the command prompt option

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Unfortunately there are now some new ones: 1. It takes more than 5 seconds to start mc in a rxvt window - in a normal console window mc starts immediately. Removing my rxvt customizations in .Xdefaults has no effect. 2. If you start mc under

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