[ITP] OpenSP-1.5.1-1

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, I want to contribute/maintain OpenSP, version 1.5.1. Canonical homepage: http://openjade.sf.net/ Prerequisite for OpenJade. Monolithic tarball because it is a stable production release. In case the API/ABI changes I'll provide a library/runtime package with the DLL. setup.hint: sdesc:

setup / postinastall script question

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, will it work with setup.exe to set the PATH in a postinstall script? I.e.: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH * do something * Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: setup / postinastall script question

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, will it work with setup.exe to set the PATH in a postinstall script? A postinstall script is just like any other shell script. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't. I.e.: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH * do something * Gerrit Well,

Yaakov: libbonobo builds ok. (was: Re: Gerrit: plans for Gnome 2.6)

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov, libIDL (Yaakov) ORBit2 (Yaakov) intltool intltool (Gerrit) libbonobo So this is the next on the list... I'll start now to build libbonobo. libbonobo builds fine with your libIDL and ORBit2 packages. Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: setup / postinastall script question

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 09:46, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH Well, postinstall scripts are usually run with /bin/sh, which means that you'd have to use the following syntax: PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH export PATH Erm... `export

Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Render ? Harold, is .pc file missing here? Hm, Harold is gone... Who takes over all his packages? Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: setup / postinastall script question

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 9 09:46, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH Well, postinstall scripts are usually run with /bin/sh, which means that you'd have to use the following syntax:

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hm, Harold is gone... Who takes over all his packages? Dunno if Harold is gone as in shall never darken our door again. He just relinquished primary control over the cygwin-xfree project. He didn't say anything about giving up any of his other packages, nor that he

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chuck hit the nail on the head. I handed over control of Cygwin/X because I am no longer interested in it. On the other hand, I still use Cygwin proper to get things done, so I can't exactly just sit there if package foo is not yet available for Cygwin and I need it for something I am

Re: [ITP] OpenSP-1.5.1-1

2004-07-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
+1 from me. I've been dying to get OpenJade on Cygwin for years. However, I can't remember if it was OpenSP or OpenJade itself that gave compilation problems. In other words, have you finished the tough part yet, or was OpenSP easy? Harold Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, I want to

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Harold schrieb: Chuck hit the nail on the head. I handed over control of Cygwin/X because I am no longer interested in it. On the other hand, I still use Cygwin proper to get things done, so I can't exactly just sit there if package foo is not yet available for Cygwin and I need it for

Re: Yaakov: libbonobo builds ok. (was: Re: Gerrit: plans for Gnome 2.6)

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit schrieb: Yaakov, libIDL (Yaakov) ORBit2 (Yaakov) intltool intltool (Gerrit) libbonobo So this is the next on the list... I'll start now to build libbonobo. libbonobo builds fine with your libIDL and ORBit2 packages. Here we have the first candidate for --enable-gtk-doc, the

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:42:57AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hm, Harold is gone... Who takes over all his packages? Dunno if Harold is gone as in shall never darken our door again. He just relinquished primary control over the cygwin-xfree project. He didn't say

Re: setup / postinastall script question

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 9 09:46, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH Well, postinstall scripts are usually run with /bin/sh,

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:11:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:42:57AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hm, Harold is gone... Who takes over all his packages? Dunno if Harold is gone as in shall never darken our door again. He just

Re: [ITP] OpenSP-1.5.1-1

2004-07-09 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:12:56 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I want to contribute/maintain OpenSP, version 1.5.1. +1 from me, too.

Re: Project leadership change

2004-07-09 Thread David Fraser
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:31:31PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: I have to make a sad announce: Harold Hunt, leader of the Cygwin/X project for some years will quit being the project leader because of his new job and family. With Harold quitting I'll take over

Re: Project leadership change

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:31:31PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: I have to make a sad announce: Harold Hunt, leader of the Cygwin/X project for some years will quit being the project leader because of his new job and family.

Re: Problem with display

2004-07-09 Thread Ken Dibble
Does the remote machine have X forwarding turned on? Wey Leong wrote: Hi, I used ssh -Y -l username remote_IP to connect to a remote machine. After login to remote machine, I tried to run xterm and fluent. But both gave me an error saying that Can't open display (please see attached JPEG and LOG

Using xterm via cygwin

2004-07-09 Thread S Wade
Hello, I'm attempted to start X windows on a WinXP machine with cygwin installed. My goal is to use xterm and telnet to a remote AIX machine. I'm attempting this because I need a more robust terminal then the standard 25x80 text-based emulations. However, the command xterm and xterm -display

Re: Using xterm via cygwin

2004-07-09 Thread Arturus Magi
S Wade wrote: Fatal server error: Cannot open log file /tmp/XWin.log Try checking the permissions on /tmp and /tmp/XWin.log. /tmp should be world-writable, and XWin.log probably should be as well.

Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines)

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: [snip] I'm trying, however, to catch up on my cygwin updating. Trying to figure out why GTK is telling me cygX11-6.dll (or something like that) is missing. I hope we get a new X11 mainatainer soon. We do have an X11 maintainer. However, he's

RE: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines)

2004-07-09 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Thank, Igor. I trust your wisdom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll (Was Re: Wrapping long lines) On Fri, 9

OpenSSH disconnects when Windows user logging out

2004-07-09 Thread Systemtechnik
Hello, when using an secureshell on an Windows-Box, running cygwin and openssh, i receive an disconnect when the Windows user just loggs off (no shutdown nor restart !). The sshd service will never get stopped. I can reconncet without a noticeable delay. Any ideas? Regards, Oliver Geisen

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Eduardo Chappa wrote: I happened to look at this message in Lynx and did not see anything bad about it, then it ocurred to me that you were referring to a GUI browser. This is the case when you are complaining about how it looks in your browser (probably most people browser), but it's not a

regtool 1.8 on cygwin 1.5.10: Recursively remove registry keys

2004-07-09 Thread Systemtechnik
Hello, it seems that regtool cannot remove keys in registry if it's not empty. I have to remove all subkeys/values first, otherwise i get an Error (5) access denied. Is this true, or is there a way to remove whole trees from the registry ? Oliver Geisen ---

correction to openssh-3.8p1-1 openssh.README

2004-07-09 Thread Brian D. Carlstrom
I was trying to build openssh-3.8p1-1 to debug an authorized_keys problem. I followed the instructions from: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README regarding the configure options. I also made sure I followed this requirement: You must have installed the zlib and openssl-devel packages

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:

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 8 18:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:56:49PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've already explained why I don't think format=flowed is appropriate for this list (in particular, long command lines will also be wrapped if it ever were to be accepted). In any

Re: OpenSSH disconnects when Windows user logging out

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 08:17, Systemtechnik wrote: Hello, when using an secureshell on an Windows-Box, running cygwin and openssh, i receive an disconnect when the Windows user just loggs off (no shutdown nor restart !). The sshd service will never get stopped. I can reconncet without a noticeable

Re: regtool 1.8 on cygwin 1.5.10: Recursively remove registry keys

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 09:32, Systemtechnik wrote: Hello, it seems that regtool cannot remove keys in registry if it's not empty. I have to remove all subkeys/values first, otherwise i get an Error (5) access denied. Is this true, or is there a way to remove whole trees from the registry ? AFAICS,

Re: negative error status: gcc vs. cl

2004-07-09 Thread Daniel Lungu
-wrong-nil(!)-exit-status- % nerr-cl.exe; echo $? 0 $? cannot distinguish exit(0) from exit(-2) ... this is logical anarchy! :) Ah, but those aren't just two different values passed to exit, they are :) in fact two entirely different versions of the exit function: gcc links in

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
Brian Dessent wrote: RFC2822 (which obsoletes the old RFC822) states in section 2.2.1: There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
My mail reader is no modern mail reader and I'm not interested to use one since I'm old-fashioned enough to dislike the mouse. So my mail reader is running in an 80 column window. Unwrapped mails and weird line breaks drop my attention span to read the whole posting to a minimum. How can

Re: correction to openssh-3.8p1-1 openssh.README

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 07:46, Brian D. Carlstrom wrote: I was trying to build openssh-3.8p1-1 to debug an authorized_keys problem. I followed the instructions from: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README regarding the configure options. I also made sure I followed this requirement: You must

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 10:36, William Blunn wrote: My mail reader is no modern mail reader and I'm not interested to use one since I'm old-fashioned enough to dislike the mouse. So my mail reader is running in an 80 column window. Unwrapped mails and weird line breaks drop my attention span to read

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
Christopher Faylor quoted Igor Pechtchanski: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:56:49PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've already explained why I don't think format=flowed is appropriate for this list (in particular, long command lines will also be wrapped if it ever were to be accepted). Long

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
On Jul 9 10:36, William Blunn wrote: My mail reader is no modern mail reader and I'm not interested to use one since I'm old-fashioned enough to dislike the mouse. So my mail reader is running in an 80 column window. Unwrapped mails and weird line breaks drop my attention span to

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 11:03, William Blunn wrote: I think not. I think the counter argument would be Yes we know it makes the occasional command-line appear line-wrapped, but that is a nano-issue compared to the downside which is that it will mess up the display for all the flowed messages, which is a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libtool-devel-1.5.6-3

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles wrote: The libtool-devel package contains the 1.5.6 version of libtool, a cross-platform tool for building libraries (shared and otherwise). It enables relatively trouble-free builds of DLLs on cygwin and mingw. Changes from 1.5-3: o routine update to latest release version o

Re: error installing sshd on win2k3

2004-07-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Sam Edge (2004-07-09 10:18 +0200) I am installing sshd on win2k3. Windows 2300?! Microsoft must be /really/ confident about this version of the OS. ;-) No, win2k3 is win20003. But I admire people like PJ that are not afraid that people will laugh at them - just for the sake of saving one

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
This seems like a reasonable discussion that can hopefully resolve this issue once and for all, and so, IMO, belongs on the list rather than in private e-mail. There is a phrase that goes: Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send Now this is just a phrase, and by

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Dessent
William Blunn wrote: I believe that at this point they are talking about the byte stream that represents the encoded form of the message. If you are using quoted-printable encoding, then all encoded lines will be 78 characters or less, and so will be fitting in with the SHOULD

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
On Jul 9 11:03, William Blunn wrote: I think not. I think the counter argument would be Yes we know it makes the occasional command-line appear line-wrapped, but that is a nano-issue compared to the downside which is that it will mess up the display for all the flowed messages, which is

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of William Blunn Sent: 09 July 2004 11:28 This seems like a reasonable discussion that can hopefully resolve this issue once and for all, LOL, you haven't been on the internet long have you? There is a phrase that goes:

RE: error installing sshd on win2k3

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe Sent: 09 July 2004 11:27 * Sam Edge (2004-07-09 10:18 +0200) I am installing sshd on win2k3. Windows 2300?! Microsoft must be /really/ confident about this version of the OS. ;-) No, win2k3 is win20003.

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Dessent
William Blunn wrote: I only wish that I could go back in time and show the inventor of PRE the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping by default. I'm pretty sure you were joking here but if not... That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. It's for text that's

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent Sent: 09 July 2004 12:02 William Blunn wrote: I only wish that I could go back in time and show the inventor of PRE the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping by default. I'm pretty sure you

Re: regtool 1.8 on cygwin 1.5.10: Recursively remove registry keys

2004-07-09 Thread Systemtechnik
it seems that regtool cannot remove keys in registry if it's not empty. I have to remove all subkeys/values first, otherwise i get an Error (5) access denied. Is this true, or is there a way to remove whole trees from the registry ? AFAICS, regtool has no recursive option. Patches welcome. See

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim* and not tamper with, edit, reformat, or otherwise alter them. I wasn't suggesting tampering with them. Information should be preserved where possible. My contention

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 11:46, William Blunn wrote: It does appear though that these rules are arbitrary, without benefit, yet have identifiable problems, and their current sole purpose appears to be to identify members of a club. If you want to see it that way, fine with me. Fact is, I dislike when people

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: What really needs to be improved is mhonarc or whatever app is used to make the web archives. It should detect when the message contains no linebreaks and not use PRE but rather let the browser render it as normal text, so that it will be wrapped to the width of the

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:34:01AM +0100, William Blunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: RFC2822 (which obsoletes the old RFC822) states in section 2.2.1: There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
I only wish that I could go back in time and show the inventor of PRE the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping by default. I'm pretty sure you were joking here but if not... Actually I was serious. That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. I don't think

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Jon A. Lambert
William Blunn wrote: There is a phrase that goes: Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send Now this is just a phrase, and by itself does not have significance. Yeah it appears in RFC1885 as Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive., just a

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: Yeah it appears in RFC1885 Sorry that's RFC 1855 -- 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: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
What really needs to be improved is mhonarc or whatever app is used to make the web archives. It should detect when the message contains no linebreaks and not use PRE but rather let the browser render it as normal text, so that it will be wrapped to the width of the screen as intended.

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Dessent
William Blunn wrote: That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. I don't think that is the whole point of PRE. I think the whole point of PRE is that newlines and other whitespace in the HTML source are interpreted literally. It appears that the design committee took it a

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread William Blunn
Yeah it appears in ... [RFC1855] as Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive., just a few paragraphs above where it recommends: Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line with a carriage return. Limiting line length to fewer than 65 characters

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of William Blunn Sent: 09 July 2004 12:30 That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. I don't think that is the whole point of PRE. I think the whole point of PRE is that newlines and other whitespace in the HTML

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, William Blunn wrote: Christopher Faylor quoted Igor Pechtchanski: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:56:49PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've already explained why I don't think format=flowed is appropriate for this list (in particular, long command lines will also be

Re: error installing sshd on win2k3

2004-07-09 Thread Mark Bohlman
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe Sent: 09 July 2004 11:27 * Sam Edge (2004-07-09 10:18 +0200) I am installing sshd on win2k3. Windows 2300?! Microsoft must be /really/ confident about this version of the OS. ;-) No, win2k3 is win20003.

Re: OpenSSH disconnects when Windows user logging out

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Systemtechnik wrote: Hello when using an secureshell on an Windows-Box, running cygwin and openssh, i receive an disconnect when the Windows user just loggs off (no shutdown nor restart !). I just tried the same. My remote session didn't disconnect when the

Re: regtool 1.8 on cygwin 1.5.10: Recursively remove registry keys

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Systemtechnik wrote: it seems that regtool cannot remove keys in registry if it's not empty. I have to remove all subkeys/values first, otherwise i get an Error (5) access denied. Is this true, or is there a way to remove whole trees from the registry ? AFAICS,

Re: OpenSSH disconnects when Windows user logging out

2004-07-09 Thread Systemtechnik
Hello. when using an secureshell on an Windows-Box, running cygwin and openssh, i receive an disconnect when the Windows user just loggs off (no shutdown nor restart !). I just tried the same. My remote session didn't disconnect when the local user logged off. That's strange. I see an

Re: Building DLL

2004-07-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: You don't need .def files on Cygwin. Just add -no-undefined to libxyz_LDFLAGS. OK, I'm making progress with getting XFCE to compile under cygwin (with help of one of the XFCE developers), but now we're running into the following: XFCE has a plugin mechanism, based on

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: My main problem with it is that it breaks quoting. When I reply to a message with no line breaks, my mail program has to either A) pick an arbitrary margin and reflow the entire message to that margin, adding to the first column of each line, or B) Insert a at the

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: There's another phrase that goes: If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim* and not tamper with, edit, reformat, or otherwise alter them. Never heard that one. Got a reference? -- Jack Kevorkian for

Re: Building DLL

2004-07-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Maarten wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: You don't need .def files on Cygwin. Just add -no-undefined to libxyz_LDFLAGS. OK, I'm making progress with getting XFCE to compile under cygwin (with help of one of the XFCE developers), but now we're running into the following: XFCE has a

Re: negative error status: gcc vs. cl

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Daniel Lungu wrote: -wrong-nil(!)-exit-status- % nerr-cl.exe; echo $? 0 $? cannot distinguish exit(0) from exit(-2) ... this is logical anarchy! :) Ah, but those aren't just two different values passed to exit, they are :) in fact two

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Fact is, I dislike when people don't give a damn for existing common rules which have turned out to work fine for all other people. You are ascribing malintent where either ignorance or disagreement may be present. You are assuming they don't give a damn instead of the

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: 09 July 2004 16:03 Dave Korn wrote: There's another phrase that goes: If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim* and not

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: William Blunn wrote: I only wish that I could go back in time and show the inventor of PRE the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping by default. I'm pretty sure you were joking here but if not... That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. It's

Re: Building DLL

2004-07-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Put all the functions into a library. Link the application and the modules against this library (building only the appA's main() into the executable). Hmmm, not sure if I can convinve the XFCE developers of such a change, as it's fairly major. It was also reported that creating an import

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: 09 July 2004 16:03 Dave Korn wrote: There's another phrase that goes: If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim* and not

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote: I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't hard. On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Finally, you (Igor) are right that we are not going to change the sourceware.org software

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:03:00AM +0100, William Blunn wrote: Think of it this way: If we had already accepted that the web archive system wrapped flowed text, and someone came up arguing that it should not because it breaks long command lines, would they be given the time of day? Let's see.

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Eduardo Chappa
This is a top post, sorry about that, I normally do not do this, but in order to show my point I will have to do it. Corinna, I agree with you 99.%, however, there's a consequence to your words that you are not seeing, which is this. Imagine that I were to read your post on a PDA, the

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Friday, July 09, 2004 10:39 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote: I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't hard. On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Finally, you (Igor) are

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:18:30AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: *** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...: :) On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote: :) I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't :) hard. :) :) On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:38:11AM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Friday, July 09, 2004 10:39 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote: I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't hard. On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at

can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-09 Thread a1111111
Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know, that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger then 1.4MB -- it can not write data to diskettes as multivolume. Did anybody

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...: :) On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:18:30AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) *** Christopher Faylor :) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...: :) :) :) On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote: :) :) I have set up several web-based systems which do

/usr/lib and /lib mount question

2004-07-09 Thread Alan Jaynes
hi all- after installing gcc with the latest setup.exe i receive this error message when running gcc: $ gcc gcc: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs: No such file or directory as such, make becomes completely unusable as do most configure scripts. i discovered /lib is mounted on /usr/lib

Re: /usr/lib and /lib mount question

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Alan Jaynes wrote: hi all- after installing gcc with the latest setup.exe i receive this error message when running gcc: $ gcc gcc: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs: No such file or directory as such, make becomes completely unusable as do most configure scripts. i

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: *** Christopher Faylor ...: Maybe you're being purposely obtuse. I don't know. My point was that if I send specially formatted text in my messages to a technical mailing list I don't want the archiving software to unformat it for

Re: /usr/lib and /lib mount question

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:56:39PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Alan Jaynes wrote: after installing gcc with the latest setup.exe i receive this error message when running gcc: $ gcc gcc: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs: No such file or directory as such, make

Re: Building DLL

2004-07-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:24 AM 7/9/2004, you wrote: Put all the functions into a library. Link the application and the modules against this library (building only the appA's main() into the executable). Hmmm, not sure if I can convinve the XFCE developers of such a change, as it's fairly major. It was also

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...: :) On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) *** Christopher Faylor ...: :) Maybe you're being purposely obtuse. I don't know. My point was :) that if I send specially formatted text in my messages to a technical :)

RE: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-09 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: a111 Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:56 PM Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know, that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger then 1.4MB -- it can not

FYI: negative error status: gcc vs. cl

2004-07-09 Thread Daniel Lungu
Igor could be right about (status = 0x), just in case is not masked by _exit() as for msvcrt exit() % cat err.c #include stdlib.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc == 1) return (0); exit(strtol(argv[1], NULL, 16)); } - b31 = b16 = 0 - % err-cl 0x7ffeff5a ;

Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 20:55, a111 wrote: Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know, that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger then 1.4MB -- it can not write data to

HOw to install emacs?

2004-07-09 Thread Richard Heintze
I've been downloading emacs from the gnu site and running addpm.exe to install it on Windows 2003. I notice there is an emacs in the cygwin distribution but I cannot figure out how to run it. Do not I need to run addpm.exe like I do in the GNU distribution? I cannot find this program in the

Password Problem - Cygwin

2004-07-09 Thread No-one! Here!
Hi there Great job youre doing.I encountered this problem running cygwin under Windows XP. When changing my password with passwd.exe the program exited but to my horror the password which i had entered in did not work at my cygwin login or the windows login. What could be the problem? Thank you

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:37:10AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: *** Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...: If I make this research, you do the change in the way the archives are generated, so that all people in this thread be happy. Do we have a deal? Here's how it works: You do the

Re: Password Problem - Cygwin

2004-07-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:54 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote: Hi there Great job youre doing.I encountered this problem running cygwin under Windows XP. When changing my password with passwd.exe the program exited but to my horror the password which i had entered in did not work at my cygwin login or the windows login. What

Re: Where is libxml2.dll?

2004-07-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Richard Heintze wrote: I am running Windows 2003 server with on which I have installed cygwin within the last month. I found a terrific little utility (webdav client) at http://www.gohome.org/nd/ which I downloaded and compiled (with gcc) with cygwin. At the bash command

Source Code for cygwin1.dll

2004-07-09 Thread Joshua Halls
Hello, I am wishing to release a version of a Mud codebase I created and have it packaged ready to run in windows. I am looking for the specific files I need to have packaged up to meet the requirements for the source of the cygwin1.dll. Are there specific files required for the dll and do I

Re: Source Code for cygwin1.dll

2004-07-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:34 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote: Hello, I am wishing to release a version of a Mud codebase I created and have it packaged ready to run in windows. I am looking for the specific files I need to have packaged up to meet the requirements for the source of the cygwin1.dll. Are there specific files

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Responding before I read the whole thread, as I'm sure this gets a whole lot uglier: On Jul 9 11:03, William Blunn wrote: I think not. I think the counter argument would be Yes we know it makes the occasional command-line appear line-wrapped, but that is a nano-issue compared to

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