[ITP] since 0.5 -- Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information

2008-02-29 Thread Cygwin-bug#20080229T1159
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/since Jari sdesc: Tail work-alike that saves and uses state information ldesc: Program remembers how much of a file you have viewed and displays only what's new when you next view that file. Ideal for viewing log files. It'll only show

[ITP] o3read 0.0.4 -- Standalone converter for OpenOffice.org documents

2008-02-29 Thread Cygwin-bug#20080229T1107
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/o3read Jari sdesc: Standalone converter for OpenOffice.org documents ldesc: A collection of utilities that helps convertion of OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc documents to the one of the three output formats: o3read - displays a dump of

[ITP] rdtool 0.6.20 -- Ruby RD document formatter

2008-02-29 Thread Cygwin-bug#20080229T1216
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/rdtool Jari sdesc: RD document formatter ldesc: RD is multipurpose documentation format created for documentating Ruby and output of Ruby world. You can embed RD into Ruby script. And RD have neat syntax which help you to read document

[ITP] renattach 1.2.4 -- Filter to rename or delete dangerous e-mail attachments

2008-02-29 Thread Cygwin-bug#20080229T1506
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/renattach Jari sdesc: Filter to rename or delete dangerous e-mail attachments ldesc: A fast and efficient UNIX stream filter that can rename or delete potentially dangerous e-mail attachments. It's a highly effective way of protecting

Re: tar and lzma

2008-02-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: Although in this case, automake could (and probably should) add lzma as a dependency, since automake is not in Base either. Users who want automake already committed to more than the default. I added that dependency in 1.10.1-1 -- Chuck

ITA: gnupg

2008-02-29 Thread Gergely Budai
Current cygwin package seems pretty outdated (Upstream: 1.4.8, currently in cygwin distribution: 1.4.5). 1.4.8 compiles from the upstream source without any modifications. (Please excuse and correct me if I have missed something.)

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc

2008-02-29 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: cr-0x5f1 Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-02-29 16:38:02 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc Log message: * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::fchmod): Call close_fs

Re: chown with not existing user/group

2008-02-29 Thread Matthieu CASTET
Hi, Dave Korn dave.korn at artimi.com writes: Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs, which are owned, allocated and controlled by the system, and not under the arbitrary choice of the user, so the semantics wouldn't be the same even if we did create ACLs

Re: another minor cygcheck nit

2008-02-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 28 21:47, Linda Walsh wrote: cygcheck doesn't handle the max arg length as shown by xargs... I.e. - cygcheck -f /bin/* bash: /usr/bin/cygcheck: Argument list too long echo /bin/*|xargs cygcheck -f xargs: cygcheck: Argument list too long #Note: cygcheck /bin/[a-r]* # works (wc

Re: chown with not existing user/group

2008-02-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 29 09:16, Matthieu CASTET wrote: Hi, Dave Korn dave.korn at artimi.com writes: Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs, which are owned, allocated and controlled by the system, and not under the arbitrary choice of the user, so the semantics

Re: Terminal control

2008-02-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pham D. Loc, le Thu 28 Feb 2008 18:22:09 -0800, a écrit : I have C/C++ programs which printed the following characters via printf (which looks like terminal control): ^[[?1;2c In the xterm terminfo, that is User String #8 aka user8 aka u8. Maybe that's something else, see the output

Re: Serial port using USB adaptor

2008-02-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 29 12:43, hce wrote: Hi, I have a linux serial port problem compiled by Cygwin on window, it runs fine if it connects a 9-pin serial cable and the device name is /dev/ttyS0 (it does not work with com1, I have to translate it to /dev/ttyS0). The problem is when I run the program in a

EXPAT 1.95.8 build error undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

2008-02-29 Thread Anik Pal
Hello, I'm trying to build expat 1.95.8 source code downloaded from cygwin mirror site in cygwin. When run make after running ./configure it gives following error: $ make /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions

Attachment without nntp (was: Uuencoded cygcheck)

2008-02-29 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod marc.girod at gmail.com writes: Larry Hall (Cygwin reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin.com writes: Is this really a recommended way of transmitting this information? I note in addition: ... - that nobody replied anymore... Well, I tried now the alternative road, and installed

Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Nigel Hathaway
I have created a gzipped compressed tar archive on Linux of an embedded Linux file system. It was compressed under Linux using fakeroot (so that everything is owned as root and dev nodes work). When I untar it under cygwin (tar-1.19-1: 1.19.90-1 hasn't made it out to the mirrors yet), it crashes

Re: Serial port using USB adaptor

2008-02-29 Thread hce
On 2/29/08, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 29 12:43, hce wrote: Hi, I have a linux serial port problem compiled by Cygwin on window, it runs fine if it connects a 9-pin serial cable and the device name is /dev/ttyS0 (it does not work with com1, I have to

Re: Serial port using USB adaptor

2008-02-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 29 22:20, hce wrote: On 2/29/08, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/ttyUSB0 works?!? It's no device name recognized by Cygwin, so I assume you created a file on the disk called /dev/ttyUSB0 when using it. It was copied from Linux. Yeah, I assumed that much. As I

Rebase all sometimes solve the grace problem.

2008-02-29 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello This is just a record. The grace had not been executed on my cygwin. The suggestion from Goldschmidt, Yadin Y solved the problem. I summerised here. My problem could be seen at http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-02/msg00228.html The prescription is the following Close all cygwin

Re: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Nigel Hathaway on 2/29/2008 4:36 AM: | I have created a gzipped compressed tar archive on Linux of an embedded | Linux file system. It was compressed under Linux using fakeroot (so that | everything is owned as root and dev nodes work).

Re: Attachment without nntp

2008-02-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Marc Girod on 2/29/2008 4:05 AM: | Well, I tried now the alternative road, and installed TunderBird. | I guess I got what I expected: neither nntp nor snntp (563) ports are | drilled in my company's firewall. | | So, this road is blocked

Reference to absolute path seems broken.

2008-02-29 Thread Mathijs Romans
I have a very strange issue in Cygwin, it seems that referring to an absolute path is sometimes broken. These examples will probably illustrate the problem: (from root directory) (OK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ diff Cygwin.bat Thumbs.db Binary files Cygwin.bat and Thumbs.db differ (ERROR) [EMAIL

Re: Reference to absolute path seems broken.

2008-02-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Mathijs Romans on 2/29/2008 6:42 AM: | (ERROR) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | $ diff /Cygwin.bat Thumbs.db | /usr/bin/diff: /Cygwin.bat: No such file or directory | | Notice the slash before Cygwin.bat. Is this normal?? Other commands | such as

Re: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't top-post: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU | From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebb9 AT byu.net] ~ And please don't feed the spammers: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR | Dev nodes are OS specific.

Re: Reference to absolute path seems broken.

2008-02-29 Thread Mathijs Romans
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Mathijs Romans on 2/29/2008 6:42 AM: | (ERROR) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | $ diff /Cygwin.bat Thumbs.db | /usr/bin/diff: /Cygwin.bat: No such file or directory

RE: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Nigel Hathaway
After a bit of investigation I have narrowed down the problem. Firstly though, the presence of dev nodes is not for the benefit cygwin or Windows. They are exported over NFS so that an embedded ARM-Linux system can use the NFS export as its root file system (for development). This is a very

Re: Reference to absolute path seems broken.

2008-02-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mathijs Romans wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. According to Mathijs Romans on 2/29/2008 6:42 AM: | (ERROR) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | $ diff /Cygwin.bat Thumbs.db |

Re: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 29 13:50, Nigel Hathaway wrote: After a bit of investigation I have narrowed down the problem. Firstly though, the presence of dev nodes is not for the benefit cygwin or Windows. They are exported over NFS so that an embedded ARM-Linux system can use the NFS export as its root file

RE: Access to Network Drive under ssh

2008-02-29 Thread Dang, Robin
Thanks Larry for your help. I managed to get the posted solution partially working and it is exactly what I was looking for. I only cannot get the shell script to run as a service. The service will attempt to start then fail, but it is really running. Does exec fork a process? I have tried

Re: missing shm_open and shm_unlink

2008-02-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 29 13:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Don Marquardt's initial question, Corinna indicated the shm_open and shm_unlink would be supported in the next release. I am using the followign version using the uname -a command CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21 i686

Re: missing shm_open and shm_unlink

2008-02-29 Thread rnbhays
In reply to Don Marquardt's initial question, Corinna indicated the shm_open and shm_unlink would be supported in the next release. I am using the followign version using the uname -a command CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21 i686 Cygwin The two commands do not seem to be

Re: missing shm_open and shm_unlink

2008-02-29 Thread rnbhays
Thank you for your quick response. Rex Hays Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 29 13:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Don Marquardt's initial question, Corinna indicated the shm_open and shm_unlink would be supported in the next release. I am using the

Re: another minor cygcheck nit

2008-02-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:21:05AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 28 21:47, Linda Walsh wrote: cygcheck doesn't handle the max arg length as shown by xargs... I.e. - cygcheck -f /bin/* bash: /usr/bin/cygcheck: Argument list too long echo /bin/*|xargs cygcheck -f xargs: cygcheck:

Re: Attachment without nntp

2008-02-29 Thread Will Parsons
Eric Blake wrote: According to Marc Girod on 2/29/2008 4:05 AM: | Well, I tried now the alternative road, and installed TunderBird. | I guess I got what I expected: neither nntp nor snntp (563) ports are | drilled in my company's firewall. | | So, this road is blocked too, no? I've been

Re: Attachment without nntp

2008-02-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Will Parsons wrote: 4) If using the uuencode method for attachments is not (or no longer?) desired, is there a preferred alternative? (And please don't suggest using Thunderbird.) When posting your cygcheck output, you're asking for help from others and giving them some details that

Re: Attachment without nntp

2008-02-29 Thread Will Parsons
Brian Dessent wrote: Will Parsons wrote: 4) If using the uuencode method for attachments is not (or no longer?) desired, is there a preferred alternative? (And please don't suggest using Thunderbird.) When posting your cygcheck output, you're asking for help from others and

Re: Attachment without nntp

2008-02-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Will Parsons wrote: I certainly don't *want* to make it inconvenient for potential responders - I simply thought that uuencoding was the way one attached using the nntp interface. If doing so is an annoyance rather than a help, I certainly won't do it in the future. What then is the