RE: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Installed the latest coreutils OK. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Bowsher Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:29 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

RE: [?@yahoo.com: Found problem of floppy drive acces]

2004-12-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
by Windows? Yeah, the story you just read is true. Count your blessings if the worst MS does to you is hit your floppy drive once in a while. PS: I thought you were Korn-shell-guy. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

RE: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
a notion, let 'er rip. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: new snapshot fixes a few problems - please try

2004-12-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
worked without incident. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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?)

2004-12-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
if that's because it supports format=flowed or does its own kooky thing. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

RE: Weird interaction between Visual C++ and Cygwin

2004-12-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
. If gcc is running full-out compiling your files, unless you take some special action to lower its priority, the next Windows app to come along is only going to run at half speed. Run another app, and now each process gets only a third of the available processor. Etc etc. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] Can we now stop this off-topic clash of the titans and get back to cygwin, please? Not until somebody tells me where I can download this Army Mozilla 1.0. And don't evey try lying to me - I can read souls. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: 1.5.12: problems without registry keys

2004-12-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
. You aren't telling us the whole truth. There's no way on earth it should even load, let alone crash: you should get a requester saying Could not find missing dll in path a copy of cygwin1.dll along with the exe != computer [has] cygwin installed -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: strange problems with cvs

2004-12-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] I have vim, but I still like to use notepad, which only works with \r\n... Dude, nobody *likes* to use notepad ;-). Google for a little gem called Textpad, and don't look back. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

RE: Copyright year, year, ... statements in setup.exe

2004-11-22 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
changes. You mean some people were able to maintain copyrights to the code they wrote for setup. How does this work. bk Setup is not Cygwin. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
in the world. I can't say I've ever seen a Windows app do this. Most simply don't have command line options. Those that do document them in Help. Of course we don't have that either -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: Getting latest version of cygwin1.dll

2004-11-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
How old are you not yet to have learned that saying 'Hey, you stupid bastards, you guys really suck, help me out now!' doesn't work? Yeah, how old is cgf anyway? ZING! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

RE: setup size prefs

2004-11-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
in the registry, in the appropriate places (analogous to the paths above). -- Gary R. Van Sickle

Re: 10-csw-cygwin-install-strip.patch

2004-11-01 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Chuck, Applied to branch-2-0, except that I've used $host_os to simplify the case matching. I'll port into HEAD shortly. Thanks! Gary. Charles Wilson wrote: Peter sent me an updated version of this patch, which fixes the quoting of the exit command, and removes os2 from the case

Re: 11-csw-cygwin-wrapper-with-no-deplibs.patch

2004-11-01 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
sourced, check that generated_by_libtool_version is nonempty, instead of notinst_deplibs. Thanks. Applied to HEAD and branch-2-0. Cheers, Gary. -- Gary V. Vaughan ())_. [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org} Research Scientist ( '/ http://tkd.kicks-ass.net GNU Hacker

RE: setup.exe - RFC: reorganizing source into category directories

2004-10-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
and the GUI code. Hear hear. I also think Igor's resources dir is a good idea. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: Shiny Icon

2004-10-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
, but then as now that seemed to me to be a false economy. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: setup.exe sizes openldap-2-2-15

2004-10-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] An argument for demand-downloaded .mo files, then? An argument for simply adding the translations to res.rc as localized STRINGTABLES. MESSAGETABLES Then you can use FormatMessage() and things are much less brain-bamaging. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: sync(2)

2004-10-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
work. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: sync(3)

2004-10-26 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
that it really can't be relied on to do anything though. That will avoid people who come along later, see that sync looks like it should be working but isn't, and wonder what's wrong when there really isn't anything wrong. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: setup.exe sizes

2004-10-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] Unfortunately most of the rc entries are hardcoded and are not calculated at init. I'd prefer to calc them at init and place the ressources then relatively from left, up, right and bottom, but this looks like a lot of work. It is. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: setup.exe sizes openldap-2-2-15

2004-10-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle schrieb: Unfortunately most of the rc entries are hardcoded and are not calculated at init. I'd prefer to calc them at init and place the ressources then relatively from left, up, right and bottom, but this looks like a lot of work. It is. Ah, I see. Not much

RE: Your nail works for me.

2004-10-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Now how did that subject line get through my spam filter? ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Hello Harold, your nail works (if you can read this;) To test the direct SMTP mail with nail I have this in .mailrc in my home directory: set smtp=192.168.1.1 set asksub set askcc set askatend

RE: [ITP] email-2.3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
that is: fuck 'em. I'll port it just to be a thorn in the guys side. Harold LOL! -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: non-interactive cygwin setup

2004-10-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
, ...in the context in question. I though sure that this was already tried, and whoever was doing it was unable to get a usable console handle and eventually gave up. What the problem may have been, or even if I'm remembering correctly, I know not. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http

RE: non-interactive cygwin setup

2004-10-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
setup.exe which is a 100% command-line program that normally just spawns winsetup.exe, the current GUI setup, and goes away. Give it --help, and it prints help in the regular command-line way and exits. Yeah, two exes, but worse tragedies have happened. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info

RE: non-interactive cygwin setup

2004-10-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] I thought if a GUI app called printf it generally caused a console to be opened for it. Maybe that's only with msvcrt. In any case, the fact is that it is being run from a cmdline and so it certainly can communicate

RE: generic build script 'help' patch

2004-10-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
as a reminder to myself of what some of my available operations are, and exactly what 'all' does. Feel free to improve the particulars of my help text. The main thing is that I think some help text is needed. Andrew. Hear hear. -- Gary R. Van Sickle --- generic-build-script.orig 2004-10

RE: [ITP] shellsupport-1.2.4-1

2004-10-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
anything that wasn't so specialized that if you needed it, it was unreasonable to expect some package to do it for you (i.e. arg permutation). Reini, what exactly are the features [you] miss here? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

2004-10-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Wget appears to still work. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus

RE: Cygwin openssh(d) login without password

2004-10-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
So these little unfindable jewels exist not to be used _by_ new users, but to be shot _at_ new users in ascerbic opprobrium. Welcome to the wonderful world of Unix my friend, where you must be an expert before you can be a beginner. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http

RE: Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ?

2004-10-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
. On a semi-unrelated note: Didn't this very mailing list, which so disturbs Mr. Faylor on a continual basis, buy him a laptop not too long ago, when he was suckered by an E-bay con? Perhaps this list is too sensitive. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: qmail, DJB licensing

2004-10-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
even work without resorting to managed mounts? Nope, it can't. Special chars in the filenames which Windows either doesn't support at all or treats differently than Unii. Maildir is a decent idea implemented in a non-POSIX, non-portable manner. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info

RE: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
throughout various system APIs without any problem for years. Sysinternals hooks, AVPersonal virus guard. But I wouldn't expect this to work without any problems if the name symantec or mcafee is involved. A. Men. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
the task requestor for the tasks that you have an interest in helping with. www.cygwin.com Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: And I've had the same positive experience with Windows XP stable... plus tons of Windows Updates, plus SP1, plus tons of Windows updates, plus SP2 (Plus Cygiwn of course

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. [snip

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Oct 1 05:08, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 1. Roll up your sleeves, get to work, and let the list know when you're done. The maintainers (yes, I'm looking at you Chris) will at best see this as a threat to their little fifedom, and the only help you'll get will be in the form

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
, RCS/CVS, web programming, database programming, Unix systems programming, Unix and Windows system administration, etc.: Well, what more skills do you think are required to do this? If you're reasonably proficient in all these, it seems to me that your skills are not the issue. -- Gary R

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
That is simultaneously so sweet and so wrong. I wonder which Device Class that one falls under ;-). -- Gary R. Van Sickle -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:36 AM To: Gary R. Van Sickle Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: No, test development should be done by people not involved with the development of the software under test, or you have a conflict of interest. Not entirely true. There's whitebox testing -- where knowledge of internals is used to craft the test

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
and/or help from anybody else. I wish you well. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
for speed reasons alone (cp was corrupting files over the network back in the day). I can't think of any other alternatives offhand that would make any sense to do a local copy like this. What happens if you cp between two hard drives, or across the network? Same crazy slowness? -- Gary R. Van

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
seems like something's wrong somewhere. Are you running USB2.0 hub-to-device? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

RE: setup: current setup version crashes on XP

2004-09-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gerrit schrieb: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I'm running XP SP2, setup.exe crashes, I cannot install the latest packages. So currently I cannot use my XP box to work on new packages. I've been running SP2 for quite a while now at work and home and haven't had any trouble with setup

RE: [INFO] Adding cygwin here to Windows Explorer

2004-09-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
. Wonder if it's more likely to happen now or less -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: setup: current setup version crashes on XP

2004-09-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
for quite a while now at work and home and haven't had any trouble with setup. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: [PATCH]: Still path.cc

2004-09-22 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
you. -- Gary R. Van Sickle [1] DISCLAIMER: This statement is not to be construed as a 'Thank you' and is therefore *NOT* fair game in anyone's mind for directing shame at me.

Re: cygwin, libtool, dlpreopen, and .rdata

2004-09-22 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
Excellent catch. Applied. Thankyou very much! Cheers, Gary. - -- Gary V. Vaughan ())_. [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org} Research Scientist ( '/ http://tkd.kicks-ass.net GNU Hacker / )= http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool Technical Author `(_~)_ http://sources.redhat.com

9-15 snap has newlib prob?

2004-09-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Chris, Did you build the 9-15 snapshot with the newlib problem? I'm getting the same symptom as the ones that did, i.e. bash hangs on startup and you never get a prompt. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

RE: Also unison/ssh [Re: Win XP SP2: cvs over ssh problems]

2004-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] I'll restrain myself in the future, and will keep learning from the list how to be helpful without being shot down. Wow, did YOU stumble into the wrong mailing list! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

RE: BUG: Bad call to GetFileSze in ext2fsprogs lib/ext2fs/getsize.c

2004-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] As far as I can tell the O_BINARY changes are good to have. Earl Well, mandatory if standards are to be cloven to and tragedy is to be avoided. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

RE: HELP: How to disable killing of Bash Shell window with mouse?

2004-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
with rxvt as well. Never used to. Wonder who fixed that when. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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

RE: What Cygwin is

2004-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
be changed to GNU/Linux emulation layer or Stallman will throw a hissy fit. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

RE: diff crashes with big files on Itanium machine

2004-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
that one! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: OT: RE: filesystem encoding

2004-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Welcome to the 21st century, where computers can't even unambiguously represent written text. Isn't this something unicode was meant to solve? Yes, and if implemented properly, it mostly does. or does unicode still need a codepage to map to glyphs

RE: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
want to convey that you didn't make the error when transcribing the quote: Blah bl-blah blah blha (sic) blah blah. I think it's Latin for yep, that's what the man said. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

OT: RE: filesystem encoding

2004-09-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
, you're just SOL. Welcome to the 21st century, where computers can't even unambiguously represent written text. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

HostBasedAuthentication with OpenSSH

2004-09-08 Thread Gary Whitehead
have appended my ssh_config file. Cheers, Gary. # $OpenBSD: ssh_config,v 1.19 2003/08/13 08:46:31 markus Exp $ # This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file. See # ssh_config(5) for more information. This file provides defaults for # users, and the values can be changed in per-user

RE: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

2004-08-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip problems building under cygwin on HT machines] FWIW, Kate Ebneter iPod Build Engineer Apple Computer, Inc. Um, just out of curiosity... Why is Apple using a Unix emulation running on Microsoft Windows to do their builds? ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http

RE: We have a hacker

2004-08-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[um... snip] on my own. I bought every one of those computers. The VIC, the 128, the Amiga, The Tandy, the 286, the 386, the Compaq Presario and now an HP. 1. So *YOU* are the other guy who bought a C-128! I knew I wasn't the only one! 2. What in blazes are you talking about? -- Gary R

RE: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)

2004-08-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
the contents of their harddisk. A ridiculous state of affairs of course, but here we are. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

RE: F_ULOCK, F_LOCK, F_TLOCK, F_TEST missing in unistd.h

2004-08-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Aug 26 22:48, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Well, I just did my 2 minute due diligence and looked up the difference between advisory and mandatory file locking. Did I read right? Does advisory locking actually in no way prevent write access to the locked file unless all

RE: F_ULOCK, F_LOCK, F_TLOCK, F_TEST missing in unistd.h

2004-08-26 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
be missing something there), couldn't this be implemented in Windows simply as named mutexes, with the names being some suitably-chosen derivative of the file name? You wouldn't even need to do any explicit sharing between Cygwin processes then. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info

Cygwin-Perl upgrade and modules

2004-08-24 Thread Gary Nielson
. -- Gary -- 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: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
of get what you deserve, IMO. Just stick with Cygwin CVS and you'll be all set. ...as long as you don't put the repository on a text mount. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?

2004-08-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
with Cygwin is pretty much limited to cvs (client) and wget these days. Autotools, gcc, and friends seem to have no problems. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?

2004-08-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
with Cygwin is pretty much limited to cvs (client) and wget these days. Autotools, gcc, and friends seem to have no problems. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

RE: Cygwin function for getting the current directory?

2004-08-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
But Cygwin doesn't emulate all of Posix, only parts of it, right? Most of it. And what Cygwin don't have, you don't want. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

RE: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise)

2004-08-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
and/or multiprocessor machines. You're not Just Mean(tm), are you? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

RE: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP)

2004-08-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] For filename completion, the following might help .inputrc: set completion-ignore-case on set bell-style none Oh nonono dude, gotta have the completion bell, that's the best part! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

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

2004-07-13 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
to quit. Otherwise, let's just let it die and move on. I think all relevant points have been made already. Indeed. Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economise it. - Mark Twain -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: cygwin: /proc and /cygdrive insvisible

2004-07-13 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen, ? With friendly GrĂ¼ssen. I knew that high school German would come in handy some day... ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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?)

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
is stage one. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
? I downloaded it and can't get it to provide that functionality. Am I missing some checkbox somewhere? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
. They latch into outlook/oe to provide this functionality. Are you sure this is true? I downloaded it and can't get it to provide that functionality. Am I missing some checkbox somewhere? -- Gary R. Van Sickle Ok, it can be configured to do what's mentioned in the acronym dealy

RE: Extending long threads

2004-07-11 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
GARY VANSICKLE wrote: There's three reasons people knee-jerk against HTML email: 1. It isn't ASCII (i.e. the Back in my day a child would open up a gift and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb! That's the way it was and we liked it![1] Defense). 2a. There isn't

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

2004-07-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
and such. If somebody isn't able or willing to learn these rules, bad luck for him or her. I'm against pampering clueless people so that they can lean back and stay clueless. Call me mean. You're mean ;-). -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

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

2004-07-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
. -- Gary R. Van Sickle [1] Dana Carvey, Grumpy Old Man, SNL -- 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 GARY VANSICKLE
opinion, Corina, is uncompromising. Hit the bricks DeFaria, we don't need your cool head and clear thinking 'round these parts! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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 GARY VANSICKLE
even the slightest indication that they want Chris do anything with respect to this? DISCLAIMER: I am not asking Chris to do anything with respect to this post. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

RE: higher-level IO very slow with cygwin1.dll 5.10 (due to set_flags?)

2004-06-26 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount) d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount) e: on /cygdrive/e type user (textmode,noumount) And you're all set. You have to umount before mounting if any of the directories are already mounted unfortunately (last I checked anyway). -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: Delete key... was home directory.

2004-06-17 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
key deletes stuff without all kinds of configuration contortions by the user. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

RE: Generic build script instructions

2004-06-16 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
to my mind when I switched over to using gbs for packaging mutt. I'd put an else clause in though and croak if there's no defs file. -- Gary R. Van Sickle

[SEMI-OT]: XP SP2 (was: RE: Unable to open files including Korean names)

2004-06-13 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Hello from Gregg C Levine Actually Gary, its called SP2 RC1, for XP. Its going through that phase, with SP1 RC2 due out towards the end of the month, and the actual SP2 going to the RTM phase so that its in time to be released by the 21 July, date. (If you can believe that.) I of course

RE: Unable to open files including Korean names

2004-06-12 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
with... Japanese I think?... filenames. Perhaps this is in some way related to that... As I remember, there wasn't any problem like this before my update few days ago. [snip] ...or possibly not. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: Please include unsubscribe information in announcement email

2004-06-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
that I put in my last cygwin DLL release announcement. cgf Huh? Can't whoever's running the mailing list now just set things up to put the same unsubscribe info that's on every post in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wait, won't it be there anyway? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: more pain - YAM

2004-06-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
tantrums via personal email. TIA.) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: flushall

2004-06-04 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
when you can do it, the method is completely different in Win9x and the NT series. Gary Are you saying this can be done with admin privs? Yep. Where would I find out how to do this on NT? I think you have to look in the Windows DDK documentation, under mass storage IOCTLs. You essentially

Implementation of some ieeefp functions in Cygwin

2004-06-02 Thread Gary Polhill
, and BuildDate 2000-04-07 00:28:57) supplied with a version of Swarm (2.1.1, see wiki.swarm.org). The source code is released under the GNU GPL, and available for download at http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/fearlus/floating-point/download.html Gary Polhill -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: flushall

2004-06-01 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
could probably be added to the cygserver by somebody with sufficient reason to do so. Until that happens, if you really truly need an all-the-way-to-the-media flush in cygwin, you're SOL. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

RE: Data loss in Cygwin's creator?

2004-05-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I got this *System Error* message in my e-mail: *plonk* Ahh... cgf I'm concerned that creator might be dropping some critical data. However someone more knowledgeable in these matters will have debug this. I also don't have a 64 sheet test roll installed in my bathroom.

RE: Data loss in Cygwin's creator?

2004-05-09 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I got this *System Error* message in my e-mail: *plonk* Ahh... cgf I'm concerned that creator might be dropping some critical data. However someone more knowledgeable in these matters will have debug this. I also don't have a 64 sheet test roll installed in my bathroom. Brian

RE: Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-22 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:26:00AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) that Cygwin is different (e.g. we could do this in the cygwin :) applications mailing list). :) :) Why do you want to change so many programs when all you need is a :) cygwin managed mount? IMO, the correct

RE: Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-21 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
tunnel. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. [1] This is not a guarantee. -- 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: Comparative Performance of C++ Compilers (including gcc cygming special)

2004-04-21 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
[snip] New copying methods have been added and checked: Test file modes : text, binary -- Testsuites -- C-01 : Functions getc() and putc() C-02 : Functions fgetc() and fputc() C-03 : Functions fread() and

RE: working sync() code

2004-04-10 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Hi all, I found a way to issue an actual sync() on win32, and as browsing through winsup directory gave me only this winsup/sygwin/syscalls.cc #1128 extern C int sync () { return 0; } I think cygwin DLL might benefit from a code I found by looking in sync.exe by

RE: working sync() code

2004-04-10 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
[snip] SUSv3 has this to say about sync(): quote The sync() function shall cause all information in memory that updates file systems to be scheduled for writing out to all file systems. The writing, although scheduled, is not necessarily complete upon return from sync(). /quote

Re: Test

2004-04-05 Thread Gary Pennington
and will deal with it accordingly. Please note that at this point in time I have NOT read your email. I apologise for this complication, but I had to take these measures to reduce the drain on my productivity that spam and viruses were imposing. Thanks, Gary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.

2004-04-04 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Noo... Please, remove all of these safety checks. There must be some kind of user sanity presupposition. Or else the tools soon will be crippled to a state where they are unusable for normal work. FWIW I'm with Hannu. Should rm ask you, Do you *really* want to delete this file?, or make a

RE: cygwin... from Turkey

2004-04-01 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Subject: Re: cygwin... from Turkey ...NER NERRR! Keep on rockin' in the Free world!... ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

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