Thumbs up for xwinwm!

2006-11-24 Thread Mikael Johansson
Hello All! Just wanted to share my appreciation for the xwinwm-package, and perhaps this note is useful for other's with similar problems. Xwinwm in connection with Cygwin/X was the only Windows X-server I could get to work with MOE, the Molecular Operation Environment, after help from

No Keyboard with TrustedX11

2006-11-24 Thread Joachim Käßer
If I log on to remote linux-box via ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED], after startkde I get a fully functional KDE-Desktop in fullscreen-Mode, but without Keyboard-Support. Every keystroke goes to the cygwin shell-window. This Problem doesn't exist in multiwindow-Mode, if I log in without TrustedX11

Re: readlink behavior change?

2006-11-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 23 21:29, Eric Blake wrote: Currently, in cygwin 1.5.22, readlink(/bin/exim.lnk,0,0) returns -1, even though readlink(/bin/exim,0,0) returns 0. But my recollection is that it used to return 0, since /bin/exim.lnk is an alternate spelling for /bin/exim. This change in behavior affects

Re: OpenSSH and Microsoft ADS

2006-11-24 Thread Rui Covelo
No. I'd recommend looking at other general network issues. Or perhaps the autossh package will help? autossh won't help because the problem is with ADS. ssh runs fine. I think I'll just ignore her. She is also accusing ssh for excessive connections do an MS SQL Server used by the ADS which

RE: OpenSSH and Microsoft ADS

2006-11-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 November 2006 10:17, Rui Covelo wrote: No. I'd recommend looking at other general network issues. Or perhaps the autossh package will help? autossh won't help because the problem is with ADS. ssh runs fine. I think I'll just ignore her. She is also accusing ssh for excessive

Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Deluigi Marcus
Hi This may be a little OT. I start the cygwin terminal with the cygwin.bat and I would like to change the background color of each session with a script (e.g. a random background color). I am developing some software and I have a long compilation process (8') and different colors help me to

Re: OpenSSH and Microsoft ADS

2006-11-24 Thread Rui Covelo
I suggest a really cruel and cunning trick. Get her to demonstrate the problem and how ssh is causing it. Don't mention until afterward that you disabled the service before she began. (Alternatively, run netstat and ask her to point out all the alleged connections between ssh and the

Re: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Deluigi Marcus escribe: I am developing some software and I have a long compilation process (8') and different colors help me to distinguish for which window is logged on on which machine. Different colors on the bash prompt would help? It's what I use... Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:43:45 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 23 22:07, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes. It's called cat. Do you think to be fun? or that a sequence of HEX characters are human-readable? There's nothing funny

Re: Perl Device::SerialPort problem

2006-11-24 Thread aliko
René Berber ?: [snip] To repeat that configuration enter cpan as a shell and then use o conf init. Thank you very much, o conf init was the thing I needed:-) Also thanks to all the responders. Your posts were very useful as well. Now the installation process of Device: SerialPort

Re: readlink behavior change?

2006-11-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 11/24/2006 1:56 AM: Was this change intentional, in which case I need to find an alternative workaround to my .exe magic in coreutils, or accidental? Actually, isn't exim an old-style symlink? $ cd /bin $

Compiling with gcc + UNICODE

2006-11-24 Thread German C. Basisty
Hi! I use to develop in C or C++ for both Windows and Linux platforms. My native language is spanish, so my strings usually incluyes ñ, á, etc. Ander Linux there is no problem with that, but under Windows (compiling with cygwin) spanish characters like ó are replaced with strage things. Is there

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.6-2

2006-11-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 6.6-2, has been uploaded, replacing 6.6-1 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. A cygwin-specific flaw was detected in how 6.6-1 was handling old-style symlinks (ie. those created with

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ugh - top-posting reformatted: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU You neglected to give any information regarding your setup, see: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html but I might hazard a guess that you're seeing this problem:

findutils regression between versions 4.2.27-1 and 4.3.1-3

2006-11-24 Thread William Blunn
I have a DVD-R disk on to which I have recorded a hierarchy of directories and files. I then put the DVD-R into a DVD drive, and change directory to the top level of the DVD drive. If I run find -noleaf -type d over this DVD-R using findutils 4.3.1-3, it does NOT find all the files. If I

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: XmGrace does not work References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I seem to have two different paths for the problem. One is to download an old xorg, then the question is: WHERE DO I GET THAT? The second is use a newer Imagemagick. Again, the question is : WHERE

Re: findutils regression between versions 4.2.27-1 and 4.3.1-3

2006-11-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to William Blunn on 11/24/2006 8:05 AM: If I run find -noleaf -type d over this DVD-R using findutils 4.3.1-3, it does NOT find all the files. With findutils 4.3.1-3, what does oldfind -noleaf -type d do? I suspect that the problem is

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: moka at hol blub gr wrote: Oops, sorry :( for quoting your email. Looking at your cygcheck one sees that you are hiding a lot of cygwin programs with MinGW and other stuff. Reorganize your PATH to solve this. You also never told us if xmgrace works. Oh, sorry, you

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ugh - write to the list, not me: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE Ugh - top-posting reformatted: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Double ugh - even after I told you not to, you top-posted. You aren't winning very many friends that way.

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi all, On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 Eli Zaretskii wrote: Subject: Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions On Nov 23 22:07, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes. It's called cat. Do you think to be fun? or that a sequence of HEX characters are

Re: Perl Device::SerialPort problem

2006-11-24 Thread Löwis , Johannes
aliko wrote: Running make test ... hangs Have you tried forcing to install anyway? For me 'make test' hangs too, but Device::SerialPort appears to work. Regards Johannes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-24 Thread moka
Ok, thanks and sorry for including raw emails. Now 1) I removed all mingw from the path, rebooted, ran ash, /bin/rebaseall and rebooted cat still works grace and gracebat do not(no complaints, but they produce nothing) 2) Do other x-programs work? I tried xterm and got back cygX11-6.dll not found

RE: Perl Device::SerialPort problem

2006-11-24 Thread David Christensen
aliko wrote: Now the installation process of Device: SerialPort advances further but hangs at the testing steps... Is Win32::SerialPort still viable? http://search.cpan.org/~bbirth/Win32-SerialPort-0.19/lib/Win32/SerialPor t.pm STFW, I didn't find any SerialPort in Cygwin packages:

RE: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread David Christensen
Deluigi Marcus wrote: ... which window is logged on on which machine. I include the hostname in my Bash prompt: 2006-11-24 08:06:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep PS1 .bash_profile export PS1='\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} [EMAIL PROTECTED] \w\n\$ ' HTH, David -- Unsubscribe

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Charles D. Russell
* /From/: Angelo Graziosi Angelo dot Graziosi at roma1 dot infn dot it * /Subject/: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions I would ask if there is an utility that transforme an .exe.stackdump

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:25:08PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:43:45 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 23 22:07, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes. It's called cat. Do you think to be fun? or that a sequence of HEX

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:22:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you look at a output of a stackdump file, it is obviously human readable. It is an ascii file which has English words in it. It was NOT clear to me that the OP had actually looked at it. Others obviously

Building Lua with dynamic linking on cygwin platform

2006-11-24 Thread Mike Beddo
I tried building Lua from source by issuing make linux. All the tests passed. But from the Lua interpreter when I require a shared library it appears to load the library, by Lua scripts work fine, but when I exit Lua I get a segmentation fault. Any experiences trying to build Lua on cygwin with

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Christopher Faylor wrote: If you look at a output of a stackdump file, it is obviously human readable. It is an ascii file which has English words in it. It was NOT clear to me that the OP had actually looked at it Why are you 'walking on the mirrors'? They are years that we frequent

RE: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: Eli Zaretskii Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:36 PM Subject: Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:22:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you look at a output of a stackdump file, it is obviously human readable. It

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Mike Marchywka
( I'm only responding because of past issues with GUI versus command line interfaces ) That's ok, to many people, human readable only means pictures. Words may be considered American readable but not human readable. Some words may be ok if you make good use of colors and figures and fonts.

RE: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
David Christensen wrote on Friday, November 24, 2006 11:47 AM: Deluigi Marcus wrote: ... which window is logged on on which machine. I include the hostname in my Bash prompt: 2006-11-24 08:06:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep PS1 .bash_profile export PS1='\D{%Y-%m-%d

Re: llrint() into math.h

2006-11-24 Thread Víctor Paesa
Hi, I will ask in newlib list, as you have kindly suggested. I have interest in llrint too. What did the newlib-guys answer? Victor never asked, from the looks of it. Right, I changed mind and never wrote, I decided to add it into my sources via this: #ifndef llrint inline long long int

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:29:26PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: If you look at a output of a stackdump file, it is obviously human readable. It is an ascii file which has English words in it. It was NOT clear to me that the OP had actually looked at it Why are you

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:36:00PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:22:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow. Nice way to escalate the issue. http://www.google.com/search?q=define:human+readablesa=Xoi=glossary_definition If you look at a output of a

Re: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Deluigi Marcus wrote: This may be a little OT. I start the cygwin terminal with the cygwin.bat and I would like to change the background color of each session with a script (e.g. a random background color). I am developing some software and I have a long compilation

Re: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Peshansky wrote: Alternatively, use rxvt, which, like xterm, understands special sequences to dynamically change the background color of the window, among other things). Rxvt also has the additional advantage that you can specify the background color programmatically on the command

Updated: coreutils-6.6-2

2006-11-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 6.6-2, has been uploaded, replacing 6.6-1 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. A cygwin-specific flaw was detected in how 6.6-1 was handling old-style symlinks (ie. those created with