I need some exim hand-holding

2005-05-21 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ername and password munged, but I get the same results when I have my real UN & PW in (what I believe to be) the proper exim.conf locations. So is it a Cygwin problem, an exim problem, or a Gary problem? I'll let you guys know how the ssmtp+SSL thing goes. -- Gary R. Van Sickle exim.conf

RE: ssl on ssmtp

2005-05-21 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
reference to > > `_X509_free' > > > >I commented the line out and I got an executable > which I could > > install and run, > > I don't know what the right fix would be. > This one lives in libcrypto.a. The attached configure.in a

RE: ssl on ssmtp

2005-05-21 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > > This one lives in libcrypto.a. The attached configure.in and > an autoconf solve the link error for me (don't know if it > actually works yet). Just tested it, works great. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

RE: I need some exim hand-holding

2005-05-21 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Never mind, I got ssmtp to work over SSL. ${EXIM_MAINTAINER} might want to check if what I was trying to do can actually be done on Cygwin though. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sick

RE: Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1

2005-05-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier BRETIN > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:46 AM > To: The Cygwin Mailing List > Subject: Re: Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1 > > Hello Gary, > > Gary R. Van Sickle a

RE: I need some exim hand-holding

2005-05-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > From you debug output: > 204.127.134.146 in hosts_avoid_esmtp? yes (matched > "imailhost.worldnet.att.net") > not sending EHLO (host matches hosts_avoid_esmtp) > > If you don't send EHLO, the functionality is reduced. > > Pierre > I get the

Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again?

2005-05-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
"Once sent, your message will be reviewed by one of the cygwin-announce moderators and, once approved, will be automatically forwarded to the cygwin mailing list with an [ANNOUNCEMENT] prepended to the subject." This never happened with the latest mutt release AFACT. -- Gary R.

RE: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again?

2005-05-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:08 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again? > > On May 25 00:59, Gary R. Van Sickle wro

RE: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again?

2005-05-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:31 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Auto-[ANNOUNCEMENT] busted again? > > On May 25 03:15, Gary R. Van Sickle wro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1

2005-05-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
l#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Mutt Maintainer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1

2005-05-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: hermitte[snip] > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Mutt-1.4.2.1i-1 > > Hello. > > "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have updated the version of mutt on cygwin.com to 1.4.2.1i-1. > &g

RE: slow windows foreground operation after installing cygwin-1.5.17-1

2005-05-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ating it), you are starving the rest of the system for RAM, and then you start hitting your pagefile. == slow. -- 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: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
he link I sent -- clicking on links is even > easier than > >running the sample code). > > Yes. You're right. I should have clicked on the link rather > than assuming. I had a knee jerk reaction to what I thought > was a company expecting cygwin tech support. I was

RE: Size of CygWin Display Font

2005-05-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ucida Console-bold-14"' part sets the font and its size. > Many thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > Mohammad Khadhrawi > -- 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: pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

2005-06-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
27;m the child [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ahh, what a good nap << waits for CR >> which I believe indicates the problem you reported is still present in that snapshot. -- 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: nedit 5.4 and 5.5 - locale not supported problem

2005-06-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
uses the newlib C library (which doesn't support them). Are 5.3 and 5.4+ linked differently? See what "cygcheck nedit.exe" says. I don't know why you'd get different results with the older version, since again locales weren't ever supported. -- 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: nedit 5.4 and 5.5 - locale not supported problem

2005-06-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > > Thank you for answer Gary :-) > The nedit 5.3 is probably not from cygwin distribution, but I > don't know from where I downloaded it a few years ago. > Probably at that time the nedit was not yet distributed as a > cygwin package. Well, from your cygcheck

RE: Recently updated tar 1.13.25-6: executable wrongly located

2005-06-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
le that gets put in the real /usr/bin FWIW. -- 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: passwd & group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Roy Wiseman wrote: > I agree that Symantec are a bit of satanic corporation, Wow, I've never heard it put so correctly and succinctly. Perhaps the new Pope can help us all out and exorcise Symantec, McAffe, and Google Desktop Search. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Configuring wxWindows from cvs, on a 3.4GHz P4: Sh = Ash: real3m55.351s user5m8.610s sys 1m53.240s Sh = Bash: real3m41.850s user5m6.220s sys 1m53.426s Looks like the time has come. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
conclusion we must jump to is that, at least on a machine as awesome as mine, the shell used as /bin/sh is not a bottleneck. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle > Sent: Friday, Jun

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-12 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh. > > FWIW, I did find that the configure scripts I tested ran > faster under ash than under bash, but only by 4% to 8%. > > Regards > Thorsten Dahlheimer Wait... So everybody's *always* been using bash during configures? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsub

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-12 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
sh != bash" issues? Hence: - I still say /bin/sh == bash is the way to go. QED. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 6:14 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.c

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-12 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
e fork() concept was a good idea, indeed how they ever even thought it up ("Oh my, wouldn't it be nice if I could magically duplicate the entire state of my app in a new process, even though there has never been a reason to do so?"), so my life's goal is to eliminate fork() enti

RE: POSIX devices

2005-06-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
not implement the /dev directory. > Actually it has for a while now. > I'm afraid there is no cygwin command to find out the order > of devices plugged to the system although I'd be glad if > someone corrects me and says that there is. > You're correct here tho

RE: Cygwin and firewalls

2005-06-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
gt; Not if you're careful. ;-) -- 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: 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:

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

2004-08-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
er! > > :-) > You should also apologize for offering the new information that a single CPU PIII is neither a hyperthreaded machine nor a multiprocessor machine, yet fails a test case which heretofore has been reported to only have problems on hyperthreaded and/or multiprocessor machines.

RE: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?

2004-08-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Charles No problems here, but my network usage 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:

RE: Cygwin function for getting the current directory?

2004-08-18 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/pro

RE: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Well, nearly any native UNIX tool would be confused by CRLF > endings. If you are going to use Windows and UNIX tools like > that then you sort 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 rep

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

2004-08-26 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
also explicitly use lockf() etc? Yikes. If so (and I must 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

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 &quo

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

2004-08-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
oogle faster than they can search 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:

RE: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

2004-08-30 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 -- U

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 ab

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

2004-09-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
is used when you're quoting something that's erroneous or misspelled, but you 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". --

OT: RE: filesystem encoding

2004-09-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
these problems by having a header telling you what codepage the email was composed in, but if the mutt ML is any indication it seems to be spottily implemented. With your garden variety text file, you're just SOL. Welcome to the 21st century, where computers can't even unambiguously repr

RE: What Cygwin is

2004-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
all > references to POSIX and UNIX from that description. > Nor I, nor apparently many others, especially when the replacement is simply not correct. And anyway, if it's going to be a "Linux emulation layer", it better be changed to "GNU/Linux emulation layer" or

RE: diff crashes with big files on Itanium machine

2004-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
quot;. HHehehehehee! Man I love 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. >

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

2004-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> On Sep 9 21:24, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > [snip] > > > > : nudge our legal department again. > > > > > > > > I'll be waiting. (This will give me more time to test > > > readdir_r, once > > > > I decide how to keep

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 Prob

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:

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

2004-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
.ac.at/home/rurban/ Huh, works 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

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 re

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: non-interactive cygwin setup

2004-10-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
create a separate console which > the GUI could then use, however. Here's a maybe-less-icky way to do it. Have two exes, one "setup.exe" which is a 100% command-line program that normally just spawns "winsetup.exe", the current GUI setup, and goes away. Give it &quo

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

RE: non-interactive cygwin setup

2004-10-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
er console, that console will be used. > I should have added, "...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 rem

RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
hesied almost two thousand years ago!: "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." - Matthew 19:30 Aaaaahhhh! It's the rapture! Quick, get the CR/LF thing solved before God comes! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

2005-06-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
solution here is to open the file in binary mode and handle the various EOL chachter combinations in the SpamAssasin code. Which, yeah, is unfortunately reinventing a wheel which should have been "permanently reinvented" in the last century. But hey, it's only the first few years of

RE: More robust color terminal

2005-06-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors. Welcome to 1983. I at least hope they include those horrid CGA colors. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

2005-06-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
t that would make too much sense, so I for one shall not hold my breath. -- 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: announce missed clamav

2005-06-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I thought it didn't matter, especially since it's in the HTML at the top of every archive page (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2005-06/) anyway. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

RE: plz answer these questions about Cygwin

2005-07-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Don't know. That's not even a word! > I used to play the Concludion in my high-school marching band. I was never very good, and I never did figure out what all those left-hand buttons were for, but man oh man, did it ever get me the chicks! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe i

RE: Mysterious g++ link problems

2005-07-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > > Looks like a clash between the two compilers. COMPILER FIGHT! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

RE: Cygwin and NTFS Junction Points

2005-08-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
pers." > > -- Frodak > Weren't we supposed to have ditched filesystems entirely by now, and be storing all of our ASCII text files with their completely-intractable combination of "\r\n"/"\n"/"\r" line endings in some sort of object-oriented database

RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

2005-08-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
en you do, be sure to publish a writeup in a prestegious journal so the rest of us can finally solve the mystery. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cyg

RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

2005-08-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ng with > spaces"' | awk -F'"' '{ print $2 }' > results in > /thing with spaces > > Ken I don't follow; why not just use sed and be done with it? Sed is good at regex, and regex is the best solution to this problem. Give to Caesar what is Cae

RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

2005-08-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
at cygstart and Luc Hermitte's cyg-wrapper.sh > (http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/) > Thanks for that link Morche; I probably knew about this but never tried it. Should come in pretty handy. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

2005-08-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
s own stack. > This ain't the Good Old Days, and you're not writing a task switcher, which is the only legitimate reason to be doing what you're trying to do. -- 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: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality

2005-08-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ld not scan the drive for all links and update > them, for that would be absurd. A slightly less absurd notion would be for Cygwin to keep a list of all links and update them. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

2005-08-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
of things are > "legitimate"? No, just an old country programmer who can recognize the "wrong problem+wrong solution=disaster" situation when he sees it. > Do you actually realise that not all computer languages can > be implemented with a model of one stack? >

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

2005-08-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: "Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >In the post you're replying to, I listed the legitimate reasons for > >wanting to do it. Here they are again: > > > >- If you're writing a task switcher. > > And what's the difference between a task swi

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

2005-08-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
around all your crazy malloc'd stacks? Seriously Chris, how is it that you can come up with all these wild... Schemes... and yet you can't just admit you've taken a wrong turn at Albequerque and do things in a sane way? Whatever, I'm with Faylor. Good luck, and good night nur

OT: Krazy USB Kameras (RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix)

2005-08-16 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
d device anyway). You should see if there is a firmware upgrade available for it. Then again, I know firsthand that Microsoft had USB Mass Storage pretty wildly wrong as late as the release of XP SP...2 I think, maybe 1, so who knows, could be MS's fault. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubsc

RE: building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
kly would expect them to cause more problems than they solved, but who knows, you might get lucky. > So that being said, why can't the cygwin libraries be linked > statically? > An entirely separate issue, and completely unrelated to writing Windows drivers. It would do you no

RE: Path processing bug

2005-08-21 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Cgf wrote: [snip] > I think it's a pretty hard problem and I really don't care > about POSIX ??? This must be a typo, or you wouldn't be here. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cyg

RE: 1.5.18 ( 0.132/4/2 ) - read() - blocks ( serial programming )

2005-08-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
lps!!! "POSIX-Brand Breakfast Cereal: Eases The Pain*" -- Gary R. Van Sickle * When eaten as part of this nutritious breakfast. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.c

RE: Spaces in Environment Variables

2005-08-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Here's a new one to add to that: Windows XP x64 uses *two* > program files > directories: > > C:\Program Files > C:\Program Files (x86) > Oh God, they didn't. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

RE: file not working on executables?

2005-09-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
;s necessary. Any program that doesn't open all files, except text files, with "rb", is a counterexample to this. Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not be necessary. But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong, I simply don't see how anybody can r

RE: file not working on executables?

2005-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ny further discussion there. Reply-To set accordingly. > (Oops, apparently not! ;-)) Well, any LF/CRLF religious debate perhaps belongs there. But religious issues aside, the change you're proposing is a major change to long-standing Cygwin functionality that would affect a large

RE: Bug found, new snapshot generated so still - testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release

2005-09-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Configures and builds cvs wxWidgets here with no observed problems. -- 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: Documentation on functions

2005-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ously, if you are seeing this, then it > succeeded. > Sorry, it still didn't work. -- Gary R. Van Sickle PS: I AM HI-LARIOUS!!! ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: A new day, a new snapshot, more testing required on the road to 1.5.19

2005-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
that this is > tedious Not for much longer, if a certain googly-eyed letter of the alphabet has anything to say about it! [snip] -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

RE: A new day, a new snapshot, more testing required on the road to 1.5.19

2005-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Ok, whatever snapshot this is: "1.5.19s(0.138/4/2) 20050914 20:32:51" Configures, builds, and installs a working wxWidgets here (same wxW's cvs as yesterday). -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

RE: Linking with comctl32 lib

2005-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> not allowing the dll to be redistributable? > > > Any insight/info would be appreciated. The DLL isn't being redistributed, so? I don't follow. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://c

RE: Linking with comctl32 lib

2005-09-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
them due to static linking. No, it doesn't. The .lib you linked to is a stub. It doesn't contain any part of the DLL code, regardless of how much of the library you use. IIUC, the .lib under discussion isn't even of Microsoft origin; it's generated by a Cygwin or Mingw prog

RE: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

2005-09-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
A cvs pull of wxWindows configured and built fine here. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:13 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subje

RE: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

2005-10-12 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
tate this as an axiom: There is not a single soul who is in love with Cygwin's setup. > and simply build an additional install-and-upgrade > program that > uses the same "back-end" technology/interfaces and presents something > different to the user? > We thought of that several years ago. Problem is, there is no "backend" - we inherited a codebase with a tightly interwoven GUI and business logic. Since then, the GUI has been improved dramatically, innumerable defects have been fixed, several features have been added, and some work has gone into separating the business logic. That work was, as far as I know, all gratis. Now, if you're eating the bread from the sweat of another man's brow, as you claim to be doing, it seems to me that the best way to get what you want is to contribute to the program's improvement in some manner, rather than ranting against the hand that's feeding 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://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

2005-10-12 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
tate this as an axiom: There is not a single soul who is in love with Cygwin's setup. > and simply build an additional install-and-upgrade > program that > uses the same "back-end" technology/interfaces and presents something > different to the user? > We thought of that several years ago. Problem is, there is no "backend" - we inherited a codebase with a tightly interwoven GUI and business logic. Since then, the GUI has been improved dramatically, innumerable defects have been fixed, several features have been added, and some work has gone into separating the business logic. That work was, as far as I know, all gratis. Now, if you're eating the bread from the sweat of another man's brow, as you claim to be doing, it seems to me that the best way to get what you want is to contribute to the program's improvement in some manner, rather than ranting against the hand that's feeding 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://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: A build problem of C++ code on Cygwin

2006-08-22 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I think it's mainly hand-rolled makefiles these days, but IIRC if somebody's using crusty enough autotools they'll get configures that do this to 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://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: mwoehlke [snip] > Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to > your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what > it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: mwoehlke > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:44 AM > Subject: Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window? > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: mwoehlke > >> Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your > >> likin

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: G.W. Haywood > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:53 AM > Subject: RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window? > > Hi there, > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > ... The main trick is (or at least used to be) getting > y

RE: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
e when you see an LF that could perhaps have actually > >been a CR/LF. What we really want is > > AFAIK, Cygwin's lseek should handle seeking on text streams. > DJ implemented that years ago. > Last I looked, which was admittedly also years ago, it was "#if

RE: Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make

2006-09-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ke [...] real23m13.115s ^^ 18 seconds saved (approx. 1%) user3m56.285s sys 3m2.261s So, I shall take that 18 seconds to also thank you for your great work. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Proble

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

2006-09-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ile I'm all for saving a cycle here and there (q.v. the 1% make improvement ;-)), I have a hard time believing that ignoring the occaisional "\r" is even a blip on bash's radar compared with fork()ing et al. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

RE: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
ine endings. Also, make sure any other tools you might wish to use to process text, cygwin or non-cygwin, do the same." The "/r/n vs /n vs /r" Crisis Which Shall Plague Computer Science Forever is most assuredly not merely a matter of "don't use notepad". -- Gary R.

RE: Problems with archiver "ar"

2006-09-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
reat, great, great, greatgreatgreat grandchildren will be able to creat a plain text file on one computer and have it be understood on another. But I wouldn't put money on it. -- 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: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
new bash > invocation. Also, you must consider how things should work > when stdin is a pipe containing \r\n data, since with pipes, > you can't prescan the first line of input to see what it > contains because you can't rewind afterwards. > What's going to br

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
solved (or will be when the next Cygwin build is released). -- 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: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

2006-10-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
required by POSIX > can do so. Is this the reason? If so, do you know why POSIX requires this? At some point POSIX compliance ceased to be a goal of the Cygwin project, so I don't see that as an argument either way. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

RE: device drivers - general info

2006-10-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
more specifics i'll provide them. I can't simply > test this because I don't have the driver, and i won't buy it > ($900) unless i feel assured that i will be able to make it > work, hence this email. > > Regards, > > George Locke > -- Gary R. Van

RE: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

2006-11-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
of a stackdump file, it is obviously human > > readable. It is an ascii file which has English words in > it. It was > > NOT clear to me that the OP had actually looked at it. > > Others obviously did understand that; [snip] Eli, you need to take this discussion

RE: bash scripting problem

2006-12-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I don't mean a proof-of-principle; I'm sure a suitable example can be contrived. What I'm looking for is a shell script "in the wild" that purposely has a carriage return embedded in it for reasons other than ending a line of the script. -- Gary R. Van Sickle --

Old Flex

2006-12-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
line ending troubles. -- 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: script problem

2007-03-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
or two interactive shells and leave them up all day) that it's not an issue for me. > BTW, nobody has yet to suggest a solution to my original > problems - XWin won't die during Windows shutdown. Try Xming as your X server instead, I've never seen this problem with it.

RE: script problem

2007-03-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
(one instance) + Xming comes out to ~20MB total, ~6MB for urxvt and ~14MB for Xming. -- 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/

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