Re: setup.exe won't update

2008-10-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2008-10-06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: >> I have Cygwin installed on three PCs running Windows XP. I run setup.exe >> periodically on all of them to keep the packages up to date. When I did >> this last, a few days ago, setup.exe updated the

Re: setup.exe won't update

2008-10-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2008-10-08, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > > > >> I did some searching for setup.exe debug hints and found out about >> /var/log/setup.log.full, so I've attached a copy of that. I also looked >> in /etc/setup for any clues that mig

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-06 Thread Gary Johnson
about the issues on this list at the time 1.3.0-1 was released. I'm at home at the moment and away from my Windows system so I can't experiment or look at the run commands I use. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-06, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > To clarify this request a bit: > > > > Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a > > command. > > The only recent package that actually worked was ru

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-08, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-09-06, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > > > To clarify this request a bit: > > > > > > Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a > > > c

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-09, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gary Johnson! > > > I wrote a batch file and a shell script to implement a Run Bash Here > > feature from the Windows file manager "Send to" context menu, much > > like chere but without having to mess with the r

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-08, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-09-09, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Gary Johnson! > > > > > I wrote a batch file and a shell script to implement a Run Bash Here > > > feature from the Windows file manager "Send to" context menu, much

Re: vi editing at bash command line: cc command doesn't work

2014-09-09 Thread Gary Johnson
. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Gary Johnson
tion for find completes only directory names when it is expecting the path argument. Bash alone, without the bash-completion package, doesn't know anything about find's arguments and will complete file names, too. The ls command, on the other hand, can be used to list files or direc

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Gary Johnson
;> incorrect, as a simple test like "find /etc/passwd -print" would > >> show. > > > > Or just "find /etc/passwd". (-print has been the default for > > decades... The man page it's the default but you should proob) > > Maybe things ha

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Gary Johnson
oard? Define a function in your ~/.bashrc. winclip() { cygpath -aw "$@" | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard } Then just execute winclip TheFile Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Gary Johnson
tr is for. Another solution would be to wrap the redirection to /dev/clipboard in a function or script that takes your "-n" option and pipe the output of cygpath or whatever command to that wrapper. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: 1.7.35: possible backspace key and arrow keys bug

2015-04-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-04-10, René Berber wrote: > On 4/10/2015 2:21 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2015-04-09, René Berber wrote: > > >> Why vim on Cygwin doesn't install, or use if you add one, /etc/vimrc? > > > > Executing > > $ vim --version > &g

Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file

2015-04-20 Thread Gary Johnson
ur help > It would be doubly nice if cygwin handled it ;-) It seems gunzip > had no problem recognizing the file as double compressed. > Thanks all for the help. I think you misunderstand. Gunzip decompresses once. As Eric wrote, tar recognizes compressed files and will decompress them auto

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Gary Johnson
> > cygstart sh "tail -f foo" > > Any help would be appreciated mintty -e tail -f foo & The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent with those I write for other terminals. HTH, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: > Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > mintty -e tail -f foo & > > > > The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent > > with those I write for other terminals. > > > > HTH, > > Gary

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: > Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > > > I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Color _is_ enabled in > > the new terminal. > > > > As an experiment/demonstration, I executed this command in my home >

Re: Environment variable mixing when starting non-cygwin GVIM from within cygwin terminal?

2012-02-06 Thread Gary Johnson
vim an environment closer to the one it gets when started by Windows. You may need to use cygpath to convert other paths to a form usable by other programs that gvim may invoke, such as Python. Regards, Gary -- #!/bin/sh

FW: Lost Network Connectivity from Cygwin

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Furash
etwork activity is fine if I run the DOS prompt and just add Cygwin executable to my path. gary furash | email: fura...@alumni.bowdoin.edu; mobile: 520-907-2470; share:http://bit.ly/zwgMAI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

RE: Lost Network Connectivity from Cygwin

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Furash
Domain Users:S-1-5-21-3885614643-332083874-814631590-513:10513: Strangely, the “U-CATNET\” above doesn’t correspond to any line by name in group. When I logon to my computer it’s as \catnet\furashg. All network activity is fine if I run the DOS prompt and just add Cygwin executable to my path.

RE: Lost Network Connectivity from Cygwin

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Furash
. All network activity is fine if I run the DOS prompt and just add Cygwin executable to my path. gary furash | email: fura...@alumni.bowdoin.edu; mobile: 520-907-2470; share:http://bit.ly/zwgMAI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: Can't edit crontab

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Johnson
gt;>I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again. You may need to export EDITOR as well. HTH, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Can't edit crontab

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Johnson
M What version of vi or Vim are you using? Within the editor, execute :version and see what the first four lines say. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Mintty Log Off problem

2012-02-18 Thread Gary Johnson
machines using mintty and bash. > No problems on Vista or W7, though. I see this occasionally, too, using XP, mintty and bash. It doesn't seem to happen every time I reboot. It hasn't been annoying enough, and I don't reboot often enough, for me to have determined a pattern.

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-27 Thread Gary Johnson
ion 5.7 works correctly on my Fedora system, and the function in question was added between versions 5.7 and 5.8. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe in

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-28 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-03-28, Peter Rosin wrote: > Gary Johnson skrev 2012-03-28 08:55: > > On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were > >> idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used > >> str

Re: How to run cygwin on boot

2012-04-05 Thread Gary Johnson
gin -i You may want to keep the "--login" option, e.g., bash --login -c "your script" Otherwise you will not get important parts of the Cygwin environment such as PATH. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.566-1

2012-07-18 Thread Gary Johnson
alue, /usr/share/vim instead of /usr/share/vim/vimfiles. It is normally not necessary to use that option at all. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

"dst_lib_init: openssl failure" Error with any INET or BIND

2012-07-19 Thread Gary Furash
1. Have installed and reinstalled the OPENSSH, INETUTILS, and BIND utilities. During the installation, INETUTILS post install always fails with a "1" 2. Whenever I use anything in INETUTILS or BIND, I get "dst_lib_init: openssl failure." However, whenever I use anything in the OPENSSL package, ever

Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)

2012-08-08 Thread Gary Johnson
xec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \; and that. The quoting of . and {} is not needed. Perhaps the real problem is with "my pattern". Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Strange behaviour of mutt.exe

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Johnson
"PS:" - after "Done:" The non-breaking space is 0xa0 in Latin1 and 0xc2a0 in UTF-8. I think that 0xc2 is being rendered as a B in whatever you're using to view that file. The only problem is that that viewer doesn't know it's looking at UTF-8. Regards, Gar

Re: Enlarging the Dos box window and font

2012-09-13 Thread Gary Johnson
another dialog box will pop up, asking if you wish to "Apply properties to current window only" or "Modify shortcut that started this window". Select one and click OK. HTH, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

How do you enable the conceal feature?

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Johnson
nable-conceal I could probably get it with --with-features=huge, but I don't want the kitchen sink. How do I add the conceal feature to a normal build? Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: How do you enable the conceal feature?

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-07-23, Gary Johnson wrote: > I just updated to the latest Vim 7.3 changeset on my Linux system > and after building it noticed that the conceal feature wasn't > included. I tried to enable it using > > ./configure --enable-cscope --enable-conceal >

NTFS network drives in cygwin 1.7.5

2010-08-05 Thread Gary Steele
/ns/qt/nanotubes/data/ Has there been a recent change in cygwin that is causing some problems with network drive file permissions? Is there a solution for this? Thanks, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: vi and vim

2010-08-12 Thread Gary Johnson
#x27; in your ~/.vimrc, you will get > a vi-compatible version of vim. Actually, just the presence of ~/.vimrc will set 'nocompatible'. See :help compatible-default If you want a vi-compatible vim, name your rc file .exrc and not .vimrc. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports:

Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2010-09-23 Thread Gary Furash
I regularly update my CYGWIN installation, so I received the new version of Perl that is included in the current CYGWIN distribution. When I run perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->notest(install => CPAN::Shell->r)' it works fine, until it gets to trying to install a new version of BZ2, and then dies "rep

Proper Setting of mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Furash
Problem: 1. When I create a file or such using cygwin, it says that the group is "mkpasswd". This usually indicates that the Cygwin profile I'm logged on is not setup properly 2. My work PC is part of a windows group. That same account is also a PC administrator. 3. My home PC is not part of a wind

Script to Auto CYGWIN -U all environment varialbes

2011-02-07 Thread Gary Furash
t; /cygpath/c/windows/etc) Or something like that. So, by the time you hit your cygwin prompt all your environment variables are already cleaned up. Gary Furash | furashg...@gmail.com | 520-907-2470 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

FW: Windows XP Headaches w/ Network Communication

2011-02-10 Thread Gary Furash
I just had to downgrade my PC from Windows 7 to Windows XP. I reinstalled Cygwin (from scratch), rebased, etc. However, now, none of my cygwin network programs work except within my work's internal network (they used to work just fine with Windows 7). I tried turning off windows firewall (the only

No Network Access Nearly Resolved

2011-02-18 Thread Gary Furash
the local administrator account group to no avail (by modifying the 3rd field of the passwd file). cat /etc/group Domain Users:S-1-5-21-3885614643-332083874-814631590-513:10513: cat /etc/passwd furashg:unused:102527:10513:Furash, Gary F - (furashg),U-CATNET\furashg,S-1-5-21-3885614643-332083874

Cannot Access Network Resources

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Furash
error starts. /etc/passwd : Administrator:unused:500:544:U-CC-MOS-FURASHG\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3574936 039-1405650911-2634891579-500:/cygdrive/c/Users/Administrator:/bin/bash furashg:unused:102527:10513:Furash, Gary F - (furashg),U-CATNET\furashg,S-1-5-21-3885614643-332083874-814631590-92527:/cy g

RE: ICMP: Unknown Protocol

2011-03-29 Thread Gary Furash
ation not permitted Connection closed 3. However, graphical utilities (putty), etc. allow me to sftp to that address without a problem Gary Furash| furashg...@gmail.com | 520-907-2470 | @furashgf (twitter) | http://gfurash.blogspot.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

Preferred path setup for cygwin

2011-03-31 Thread Gary Furash
GWIN PATHS]:[STANDARD WINDOWS PATHS] Gary Furash| furashg...@gmail.com | 520-907-2470 | @furashgf (twitter) | http://gfurash.blogspot.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubs

RE: Continued Networking Issues

2011-03-31 Thread Gary Furash
-- From: Gerry Reno [mailto:gr...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:51 PM To: Furash, Gary F - (furashg) Subject: Re: Continued Networking Issues On 03/31/2011 05:10 PM, Furash, Gary F - (furashg) wrote: > I still haven't solved the networking issues on my PC. After including the stand

Re: Email "hangs"

2011-04-06 Thread Gary Furash
at below and edit it to your email # and name. MY_NAME  = 'Gary Furash' MY_EMAIL = 'furashg...@gmail.com' #REPLY_TO = '' # If your mail server uses SSL or TLS in order to create # a secure communication,

Python Configuration for Cygwin

2011-04-15 Thread Gary Furash
Most articles on configuring your python installation assume that you're using the native python or installing it yourself. Given that I've installed python via the (excellent) Cygwin exe, and it seems to be working fine: 1. what else do I need to setup and how (e.g., how should PYTHONPATH look on

Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux

2011-08-08 Thread Gary Johnson
re > some of the programs invoked under cygwin are Windows programs (which > therefore need Windows paths, etc.). But in any case, setting up > suitable environment variables, aliases, etc., in a section of setup > scripts that tests uname seems to be the agreed advice, along with > specifics concerning cygpath and settings for particular programs ... Something else the OP may be able to use is Luc Hermitte's cyg-wrapper.sh script. It's designed to solve exactly this problem of running a Windows program from a Cygwin environment. http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/ Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
he ASCII hyphen. It hasn't been a problem recently, though, and it works fine for me, in both the old Cygwin console and in mintty. cygwin 1.7.9-1 less 444-1 man 1.6g-1 Windows XP Professional 2002 SP3 Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-11-29, carolus wrote: > On 11/29/2011 5:13 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > Man pages were being formatted with some sort of Unicode > >hyphen or dash character in place of the ASCII hyphen. > > Not sure that is the same problem. What happens if you search for > --all i

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
se? > > Works for me in mintty and the console window. Ditto. Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one

2011-12-12 Thread Gary Johnson
ven't changed the new Cygwin Terminal shortcut's properties. These are the most important ones. General [Name:] Cygwin Terminal Shortcut Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - Start in: [empty] Shortcut key: None Ru

Re: 2.2.0: possible bug with Vim 7.4.764 and syntax highlight

2015-08-04 Thread Gary Johnson
ng to do with the automatic querying of the terminal's background color introduced with patch 7.4.757. There have been two subsequent patches that have fixed all known issues with that feature, 7.4.766 and 7.4.770. Updating to version 7.4.770 or later should fix the problem. Regards, Gary

Re: vim 7.4 spontaneously changes the working file

2015-08-10 Thread Gary Johnson
olution is to update to some version of Vim at least as recent as 7.4.770. In the mean time, I think that you may be able to work around the problem by adding this to your ~/.vimrc: set t_RB= I think that will disable the feature added at Vim patch 7.4.757 that queries the terminal

Re: Vim and cursor position

2016-02-14 Thread Gary Johnson
a look at /etc/vimrc and see if it makes any other settings you find undesirable and undo them in your ~/.vimrc as well. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

.bashrc not sourced

2016-03-29 Thread Gary Furash
OS: Windows 7, Windows 10 Cygwin: latest, x64 When I log on w/ Mintty or Bash (via the bat file) it takes me to my home directory but doesn't automatically source .bashrc. If I hand type "source .bashrc" it then sources it. -- gary furash | furashg...@gmail.com, 520-907-2470 --

Mount Windows C drive as POSIX root?

2012-10-17 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
Is this still a plausible setup for 1.7? Is there a better way? -- Gary Oberbrunner -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Mount Windows C drive as POSIX root?

2012-10-17 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
y shell history, I will go crazy. :-/ I now think I have to experiment with installing cygwin in the root of the C drive, despite all the warnings to the contrary. I can be pretty careful about those special root folders (etc, usr, bin, and so on). -- Gary Oberbrunner -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Johnson
ion. Cygwin is intended to provide a Linux-like environment. Linux doesn't use backslashes as path separators, so you shouldn't expect a backslash-separated path to work under Cygwin. If you need to pass a Windows path to a Cygwin program, use cygpath. Regards, Gary -- Prob

ISC DHCPv6 Server?

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Johnson
o see if anyone had built this on Cygwin, but the latest work I could find was a patch to dhcp-3.0.1rc11, which does not support DHCPv6. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: bash-completion load times

2013-04-09 Thread Gary Johnson
to wait for the Cygwin package to be updated to the latest 2.1 version and see how that improves performance. Or just download and install it from source yourself. That said, I'm surprised by the variation in load times of the files in /etc/bash_completion.d that you observed. Those files a

Re: ln -s do not work

2013-04-19 Thread Gary Johnson
but not what you intended. One alternative would be $ ln -s ../Repos/bugn/ Projects/ Another would be $ ln -s $PWD/Repos/bugn/ Projects/ Which one is better depends on your environment and on what you're trying to achieve. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http:/

Re: vim-7.3.943-1 missing command 'let g:colors_name = "elflord"' found in vim-common-7.3.943-1

2013-05-17 Thread Gary Johnson
commands, run vim and not vi, or alias vi to vim. If you want to use the "small" vi, you'll have to adjust your ~/.vimrc to avoid using commands that are not supported. See :help no-eval-feature Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Recent Cygwin problems

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Johnson
d output of "cygcheck -srv" (including the messages to stderr) and let me know how I might fix this mess? (I sanitized it only to the extent of changing some names to "MY...".) I had been installing packages from kernel.org but changed to osuosl.org in case the kernel.org repos

Re: Recent Cygwin problems

2013-07-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-06-21, Gary Johnson wrote: > I've had Cygwin installed on this computer for over two years > without any problems but recently I've started seeing a few problems > and my installation seems corrupted. > > 1. Starting several weeks ago, whenever I run setup.ex

Re: pango1.0.sh exit code 1

2013-08-01 Thread Gary Johnson
rlier thread ("Recent Cygwin problems", June 21, 2013), I didn't see this message on XP until sometime in May or June of this year. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://c

Re: Possible vim bug

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Johnson
.2.0486-1 vim-common8.2.0486-1 vim-doc 8.2.0486-1 vim-minimal 8.2.0486-1 util-linux2.33.1-2 bash 4.4.12-3 Util-linux is the package containing column. So I don't see a bug at all. Regar

Re: Trouble with setting ini files : gnuplot and vi

2020-12-21 Thread Gary Johnson
ghlighting as well as some other vim features. If you want a full-featured vim, install the vim package. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

2016-09-02 Thread Gary Johnson
also check the value of 'term'. I see this: :set term? term=xterm I can't think of a cause at the moment, but maybe trying those steps will shed some light. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

2016-09-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-09-02, Felipe Vieira wrote: > Dear Gary, > > you are absolutely right. Vim is not the problem. > > I did two changes at the same time and indeed tried the vim -u none > but maybe did not catch the error. > > Finally what causes the error is: > > inoremap

Re: profile_d

2016-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
and so the binary operator = will have operands on both sides. However, profile_d is sourcing every .sh file in /etc/profile.d and one or more of those files may not be enclosing some variable(s) in double-quotes. All of the .sh files in my /etc/profile.d handle their variables correctly, so the e

Re: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list

2016-12-21 Thread Gary Johnson
al, section 12 Mailing Lists and section 5.4 Miscellaneous Functions, the function. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygwin console software

2017-02-26 Thread Gary Johnson
ter--or as good--for Cygwin. Can you describe the problem you're having in more detail? Maybe we can find a solution. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Un

Re: After installing nc (netcat), nc.exe is not found

2018-07-11 Thread Gary Johnson
> > > Is there something special I need to do to get nc.exe installed? > > Check your antivirus quarantine area. Yep. If you're in a corporate environment, IT may have a program running to check for the installation of unwanted and suspicious files. Corporate IT departm

Re: After installing nc (netcat), nc.exe is not found

2018-07-11 Thread Gary Johnson
> for me :( I had this problem at another company, but that was something like ten years ago. I think I solved it by either renaming nc.exe to something else, compiling my own Netcat, or using Socat, but I don't remember which approach actually worked. And of course, depe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

2018-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
Last downloaded files to: C:\Users\garyjohn\AppData\Roaming\Cygwin Last downloaded files from: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ Package VersionStatus inetutils-server 1.9.4-1OK The OS is Windows 7 Enterprise version 6.1.7601. Regards, Gary

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

2018-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-20, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:19:10 -0700 > Gary Johnson wrote: > > 2018/07/19 11:54:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > > "/etc/postinstall/inetutils-server.sh" > > *** Warning: The permissions on

Re: Is who -b command available? Need to know when computer was started.

2018-10-16 Thread Gary Johnson
I need to install in order to have this command available > (or any other command > > that can tell when the computer was last booted). The procps-ng package provides the uptime command which will tell you how long it has been since the computer was last booted. Regards, Gary -- Prob

Opt-In-Data Needs

2018-11-27 Thread Gary Johnson
:- I'll come up with the data counts, costs & few samples for your review. Keep us posted on the same. Regards, Gary Johnson Business Development Dept. USA |UK | EMEA | APAC Note: To edit mail preference, please respond with Unsubscribe in the Subject Line -

Windows - special device question message 6168

2018-12-22 Thread Gary Graham
ygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Any help is appreciated ! Regards, Gary G. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Virtual device in Windows 10

2018-12-31 Thread Gary Graham
Greetings, Trying to use socat to bridge from the network to a virtual serial port on Windows. The detailed output shows a connection is opening, but it does not stay open. socat -d -d pty,link=virtualcom0,waitslave tcp:192.168.0.11:8023 2 [main] socat 15388 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn

Re: Virtual device in Windows 10

2018-12-31 Thread Gary Graham
:28 socat[10780] N socket 1 (fd 5) is at EOF 2019/01/01 01:14:28 socat[10780] N socket 1 (fd 5) is at EOF 2019/01/01 01:14:28 socat[10780] N socket 2 (fd 6) is at EOF 2019/01/01 01:14:28 socat[10780] N exiting with status 0 Can you tell why the PTY is closing ? Regards, Gary G. On Tue, Jan 1, 2

Re: Request to support wxt terminal ( Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.2.6-1)

2019-03-05 Thread Gary Johnson
ck background and only the surface (in purple) is visible. To see the rest of the plot, still on a black background, I executed gnuplot -e "set term sixel monochrome" -e "splot [x=-3:3] [y=-3:3] sin(x) * cos(y)" Is this a bug in mintty that it doesn't use a whi

Re: Request to support wxt terminal ( Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.2.6-1)

2019-03-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2019-03-05, Achim Gratz wrote: > Gary Johnson writes: > > Is this a bug in mintty that it doesn't use a white background for > > the plot? > > No. By default the background in gnuplot is transparent in terminals > that support it. You can set a solid fill c

Re: find / without traversing /proc

2017-04-27 Thread Gary Johnson
t of places to look rather than just excluding some set of directories from one place to look, but it seems to work well. You'll need to have the extglob shopt set. $ find /!(dev|proc) ... HTH, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: ht

Re: How to get 'Normal' (or higher) version of (x86) vim?

2017-05-23 Thread Gary Johnson
$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/vi vim-minimal-8.0.0596-1 $ which vim /usr/bin/vim $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/vim vim-8.0.0596-1 If you want to get vim by typing vi, you can use an alias, e.g., alias vi=vim Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: How to repeat a bash shell script until success

2017-07-13 Thread Gary Johnson
aleph.gutenberg.org::gutenberg /Volumes/Shared/Project-Gutenberg > exit 0 > else > exit 1 > fi Let the name of your script be "myscript". The following will run myscript every two seconds until it succeeds. while ! myscript; do sleep 2; done This is rea

Problem with differences with DLOPEN / DLSYM compared to ubuntu (16.04) / debian (stretch).

2017-09-14 Thread Gary Schneir
I am finding a behavior difference with DLOPEN / DLSYM compared to ubuntu (16.04) and debian (stretch), specifically when the DLOPEN is passed NULL for the filename. I have a shared library (.so) file that contains some functions that I need to location by name. The code executing this is within t

Re: Problem with differences with DLOPEN / DLSYM compared to ubuntu (16.04) / debian (stretch).

2017-09-15 Thread Gary Schneir
  The behavior should be the same as in other POSIX environments. If you are saying that I did not include some sort of __declspec(dllexport) directive in my code so that it can find my symbols, that is something else but you indicate that you think cygwin hides that complexity in shared libraries.

File Based Repository Doesn't Work w/ Git (but works fine w/ Git Bash)

2017-10-16 Thread Gary Furash
git site) it works fine. If I sync from Cygwin GIT, I get the following fatal: '/GitSrcCtrl/wo219161' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. -- gary furash

Cygwin Git can't Sync File Based Repository

2017-10-16 Thread Gary Furash
e) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). -- gary furash | furashg...@gmail.com, 520-907-2470 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Cygwin Git cant' Sync File Based repository

2017-10-16 Thread Gary Furash
>From windows GIT [gffurash ~] $ git --version git version 2.14.2.windows.3 [gffurash ~] $ which git /mingw64/bin/git [gffurash ~] $ >From Cygwin GIT [gffurash ~] $ git --version git version 2.14.2 [gffurash ~] $ which git /usr/bin/git [gffurash ~] $ in each case they're referring to a differe

Re: Cygwin Git cant' Sync File Based repository

2017-10-16 Thread Gary Furash
I think the issue IMHO is that when you use a *file* based repository git stores the file path in a certain way, and Cygwin64's git gets confused. -- gary furash | furashg...@gmail.com, 520-907-2470 On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Gary Furash wrote: > From windows GIT > > [gff

FZF Newer Version

2018-02-13 Thread Gary Furash
Regardless of how I toggle the version on Cygwin Setup, I get FZF version 0.8.9. The current version (0.17) has lots of cool features and settings. How do we get that? -- gary furash | furashg...@gmail.com, 520-907-2470 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: cygwin update, gvim 8.2. file type plugin, perl script error

2022-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
ssages. If that works for you, then there seems to be something in your Vim configuration, e.g., your vimrc, that's causing the problem, but I haven't given a whole lot of thought to what that might be. As for where to ask about the problem, this is probably the right place to start and

Question about your website

2021-02-17 Thread Gary Bell
My name is Gary and I’m a Community Outreach Manager for an AT&T Preferred Dealer.  I came across your page as I was looking online for resources related to international calling codes. My team created a resource, that contains both country codes and iso-codes. It is a list that can be

Re: Editing with vim clears Windows 10 file system archive bit.

2021-11-15 Thread Gary Johnson
src/version.c | 2 ++ 7 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) The only change I see to an open() call was removing O_TRUNC on systems with ftruncate() and adding a later call to ftruncate() on systems that have it. There were also some changes to the setting of permissio

w3m displays blank help page

2021-12-29 Thread Gary Johnson
v 2. Type H The package appears to be installed properly: $ cygcheck -c w3m Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus w3m 0.5.3-3OK The output of "cygcheck -s -v -r", sanitized, is attached. Regards, Gary

Re: w3m displays blank help page

2021-12-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2021-12-29, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/29/2021 4:44 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > >So, I have > >a workaround for the problem, but I'd really like a proper fix, and > >there may be other users with this problem. > > w3m currently has no maintainer. Would you like

Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-10 Thread Gary Johnson
conds for vim to start isn't too bad, but when I actually edit a file with my normal configuration, it takes 5 seconds for vim to start vs. 1.2 seconds for Cygwin's vim. Cygwin and all my Cygwin programs are up-to-date. I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise version 1909. Regards, Gary

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