[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated chere-0.8-1

2007-06-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
The chere package has been updated to 0.8-1 chere is a tool to manage context menu items for starting shells from Windows Explorer. See the man page for detailed instructions. Bug fixes --- * xterm invoked with /usr/X11R6/bin in the path. This allows it to find various DLLs it requires. *

Re: Windows batch program to open shell at directory specified as argument

2010-08-27 Thread Dave Kilroy
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Reckoner recko...@gmail.com wrote: I use chere to right-click and open a shell at a given directory, and I was wondering if it is possible to setup a windows batch script that would accomplish the same thing from the Windows command line. In other words

Re: chere on Win2008 Server - strange behavior

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 08/09/2011 15:51, Jim Garrison wrote: I ran chere as follows: chere -i -t mintty -s bash -a -n -ebash Shell Here -o -s140,50 However, the Windows Explorer context menu reads: cygwin_bash not bash Shell Here, and when clicking on it I get an error dialog: [directory in

Re: chere, mksh and pdksh

2011-11-21 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 21/11/2011 09:24, Ronald Fischer wrote: I would like to use chere to create a context menu for a terminal running ksh. I have installed mksh, since pdksh is marked as obsolete. However, the chere man-page says that it expects pdksh, if I want a Korn Shell. What is the best way to proceed? -

Re: chere, mksh and pdksh

2011-11-23 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 23/11/2011 08:12, Ronald Fischer wrote: It's been a while since I last refreshed the package, so I'll have a look and see if I can get something done ASAP. Is there a technical reason, why chere needs to know a predefined set of keys for the shell to install? If I recall, this was to make

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: chere-1.2-1

2011-12-06 Thread Dave Kilroy
Version 1.2-1 of chere has been uploaded. chere is a script allowing you to add context menus to Explorer to start cygwin in the selected directory. Changes: - Support 64 bit Windows registry - Add support for dash - Add support for mksh - Add support for urxvt ***

Fork failure from git

2012-03-01 Thread Dave Kilroy
Originally seen with 1.7.11. I've run rebaseall, and the 20120227 snapshot, and still get this error. Originally the error was during a git pull. I separated things out and managed to do the git fetch first, but repeating the pull still results in a fork failure. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64

Re: sed 4.1.5 adds extra CR with input file path in Windows format

2006-06-27 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 6/27/06, David Mastronarde wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Dave wrote: David Mastronarde wrote: After upgrading sed from 4.1.4 to 4.1.5, I found that line endings were being converted from CRLF to CRCRLF when the input file was specified with a windows file path: % sed -e 's/g5a/setname/g'

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-29 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 29/11/2013 17:29, Charles Butterfield wrote: I've noticed that if I install a right-click shell entry via chere and use minty as the terminal that I cannot start a shell on a network share. This is true regardless of which of the following two installation commands I execute: chere -I -t

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-30 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 29/11/2013 22:11, Charles Butterfield wrote: Dave wrote: Can you clarify which isn't working: a) a network share mapped to a drive letter, e.g N:\my\network\location This is my situation. I have my Y: drive mapped to a Linux Samba server. See more details below b) network share

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 01/12/2013 21:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 1 15:48, Charles Butterfield wrote: -Original Message- From: David Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] Can you run the following commands from mintty running bash vs cmd running bash: cygpath -u y:\apps test -d /cygdrive/y/apps

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-03 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 03/12/2013 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote: Any suggestions on how to have a shortcut (or something similar) that runs mintty as admin, but has no global effect on other mintty launches? You seem to have gotten something else wrong here. If the

Re: Are there any plans to add chere in the x64 version?

2013-12-12 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 12/12/2013 17:01, klonos wrote: Is there a feature request filed and any link to it so I can follow? Thanx in advance. There's no feature request or link. I suspect the 32 bit package will work with x64 but haven't had time to check. Dave. -- Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: chere-1.3-1 (x86 and x86_64)

2013-12-17 Thread Dave Kilroy
Version 1.3-1 of chere has been uploaded and should be available from mirrors shortly. chere is a script allowing you to add Explorer context menus to start cygwin in the selected directory. This version of the script supports x86 and x86_64. If you have 32 and 64 bit cygwin installed on

Re: Are there any plans to add chere in the x64 version?

2013-12-17 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 12/12/2013 17:01, klonos wrote: Is there a feature request filed and any link to it so I can follow? Thanx in advance. In case you missed it, I've just released an initial version of chere for x86_64 Dave. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-14 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 13/02/2014 21:48, David Stacey wrote: On 13/02/2014 19:36, m0viefreak wrote: Grepping through /bin I found at least one other package that makes use of /etc/passwd as a file directly (cvsbug), but since I don't have everything installed I can only assume there are more cygwin-packages and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: chere-1.4-1 (x86 and x86_64)

2014-02-20 Thread Dave Kilroy
Version 1.4-1 of chere has been uploaded and should be available from mirrors shortly. chere is a script allowing you to add Explorer context menus to start cygwin in the selected directory. This script supports x86 and x86_64 simultaneously. If you have 32 and 64 bit cygwin installed on

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 07/04/2014 13:02, Ronald Fischer wrote: I have installed fish 2.1.0. Works fine, when invoking a new fish shell manually. However, when doing a chere -ifcm -t mintty -s fish and invoke the new fish shell from the Windows Explorer context menu, I get plenty of error messages, like this:

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-08 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 07/04/2014 23:35, Dave Kilroy wrote: On 07/04/2014 13:02, Ronald Fischer wrote: I have installed fish 2.1.0. Works fine, when invoking a new fish shell manually. However, when doing a chere -ifcm -t mintty -s fish and invoke the new fish shell from the Windows Explorer context menu, I

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-10 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 10/04/2014 11:06, Ronald Fischer wrote: I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file ~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one), then things should work as intended: if status --is-login set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH end

Re: Deafult to bash so $chere will work (possibly?)

2014-08-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 24/08/2014 11:02, Michelle Pace wrote: HOORAY! Thanks Andrey, this command worked for me: $ chere -i -t mintty -s bash I'm glad you got it to work. chere is attempting to use the shell defined in your passwd (as retrieved by getent). The shell being returned is '/bin/sh'. It looks like

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-08 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 08/10/2014 10:57, Andrew Schulman wrote: On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 05:13:54 AM Andrew Schulman wrote: When I try to start fish directly from the Windows shell instead of from bash, I get a boatload of errors, like this: I suggest you to read fish manual page, and find how to invoke

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 08/10/2014 18:36, Alive4Ever wrote: On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:08:43 AM you wrote: Does that work. It seemed to have the same issue as noted in the following thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00111.html Dave. It should work, although I don't recommend running cygwin

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 09/10/2014 18:26, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Andrew Schulman! Bad news: the PATH problem is back. When I run C:\cygwin64\bin\fish.exe -l I get the same error messages as before on startup, and PATH doesn't include /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin. How are /bin /usr/bin etc. normally added

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-13 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 10/10/2014 14:46, Andrew Schulman wrote: OK, I rolled a new release of fish 2.1.1: x86: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/x86/fish-2.1.1-1.tar.xz http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/x86/fish-2.1.1-1-src.tar.xz x86_64:

Re: chere Bash Prompt Here window closes immediately

2015-11-30 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 23/10/2015 16:16, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and select > "Bash Prompt Here", a window opens briefly and then closes > immediately. If I select "Applications -> Xterm" from the > Cygwin/X Server tray icon, XTerm opens fine. > > Cygcheck and

[RFU] chere-1.2-1

2011-12-03 Thread Dave Kilroy
Please upload, removing anything except the previous version (1.1-1) I've 'solved' my hosting problem by putting the chere release in a public git repo. The following wget (all one line) works for me - please let me know if there are problems wget

Re: [RFU] chere-1.2-1

2011-12-03 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 03/12/2011 20:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 3 19:19, Dave Kilroy wrote: Please upload, removing anything except the previous version (1.1-1) I've 'solved' my hosting problem by putting the chere release in a public git repo. The following wget (all one line) works for me - please let

Re: [RFU] chere-1.2-1

2011-12-03 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 03/12/2011 23:12, Dave Kilroy wrote: On 03/12/2011 20:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 3 19:19, Dave Kilroy wrote: Please upload, removing anything except the previous version (1.1-1) I would upload, but there are at least three problems with this package. - The tar file should

SSH key for upload access

2013-12-14 Thread Dave Kilroy
Name: Dave Kilroy Package: chere BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY Comment: 4096-bit RSA, converted by Dave@dalamar from OpenSSH B3NzaC1yc2EDAQABAAACAQC8bLP25QYkZ9cFSRmKhNemR2DmLT5E5Vc2Aboc6+ 2vz7ZIIKJ5JltcUq2Bag/OAry3eQdQI4wWBwDsYFssdm2EMXnCHIiD9h+q34Jamaz/MYfq

Missing enscript dependency

2014-07-09 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi all, Just tried to use enscript for the first time in a while, and noticed that I no longer have an lpr... Given that `enscript foo.txt` prints to the default printer, it seems that enscript is missing a dependency on cygutils-extra. Thanks, Dave.

Re: [ITA] fish

2014-10-13 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 13/10/2014 09:33, Andrew Schulman wrote: I'd like to adopt the fish package. The package seems to be abandoned. A new release is out upstream with multiple security fixes, but the Cygwin package hasn't been updated. Emails to the maintainer have bounced, and he hasn't answered recent

Updated chere-0.8-1

2007-06-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
The chere package has been updated to 0.8-1 chere is a tool to manage context menu items for starting shells from Windows Explorer. See the man page for detailed instructions. Bug fixes --- * xterm invoked with /usr/X11R6/bin in the path. This allows it to find various DLLs it requires. *

Updated: chere-1.2-1

2011-12-06 Thread Dave Kilroy
Version 1.2-1 of chere has been uploaded. chere is a script allowing you to add context menus to Explorer to start cygwin in the selected directory. Changes: - Support 64 bit Windows registry - Add support for dash - Add support for mksh - Add support for urxvt ***

Updated: chere-1.4-1 (x86 and x86_64)

2014-02-20 Thread Dave Kilroy
Version 1.4-1 of chere has been uploaded and should be available from mirrors shortly. chere is a script allowing you to add Explorer context menus to start cygwin in the selected directory. This script supports x86 and x86_64 simultaneously. If you have 32 and 64 bit cygwin installed on