Chuck wrote:
I think it's actually something to do with the gmane interface that I
post to. I attach the files with Thunderbird but when they post to the
list, they end up being embedded. Apologies but there doesn't seem to be
any way for me to control that.
No, it's working right... your
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Chuck wrote:
I have both openssl 0.9.8 and 0.9.7 installed. How can I find out what
is using 097 and get rid of it if I don't need it anymore?
Based on Corinna's comment, it's fair to assume that if you have this
package, it is because you have one of the following
Sven Severus wrote:
Hello,
a simple (i hope ;-) question for bash scripting experts:
I want to write a script, that interactivly prompts the user
for a couple of input items. So my bash code looks like
this: read -er -pItemX: ITEMX
Most of the items have default values, and I would find
Asher Vilensky wrote:
One annoying thing I've noticed is that the backspace button doesn't
work in vi. It produces '^?' character. Can somebody remind me how to
set this right in .vimrc or whatever? I've been away from Unix/Linux
for a while.
My first guess would be 'stty erase'. Failing
David Abrahams wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My WAG
WAG? Oh chuckle I can guess what that means ;-)
Hmm... Feral Donkey Conjecture? Oh, wait, that's an FDC. :-)
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Raymond Miller wrote:
Yes, I have installed in this pc (laptop) the Logitech webcam software and
this is not installed in the desktop pc (I don't have any webcam on that
pc), but could be it the cause of the segmentation fault?
I wouldn't discount it until you've uninstalled it and reproduced
Vaclav Haisman wrote:
David Fernandez wrote:
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
[snip]
I wonder why do people keep adding things like this to their emails? It
is not like it has any legal power, IMVHO.
Bureaucracy. Need I say more? :-)
Oh, and it's also
zzapper wrote:
Hi,
In my confused mind ln and mount seem to achieve the same thing.
In my case I want to have an easy to type path(s) to my old pc
so I typed:-
mount -f -u -b //dell25/c/ /o
but I also tested
ln -s //dell25/c/ /old
In the Cygwin context does one method have any advatanges
Dave Korn wrote:
On 15 March 2007 17:21, Charles Russell wrote:
Larry Hall (I think!) wrote:
This is likely a DNS/DHCP problem (i.e. not a Cygwin problem). What do you
get when you ping sony06?
$ ping sony06
Pinging sony06 [192.168.2.100] with 32 bytes of data:
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
It's working because we know it's trying to mail you something.
To find out what, remove MAILTO= and install a poor man's mailer as follows.
It will write the mail output to /cronmail.txt
~: cd /
/: cat cronmail.sh
cat /cronmail.txt
(NOTE: type CTRL-C after typing
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Charles D. Russell wrote:
I suppose I'll have to repeat this every time DHCP changes the IP
addresses.
Correct. Unless your router allows you to associate a dynamic IP with
your MAC address (i.e. static DHCP). The poor man's workaround for this,
assuming that you
Gerry Tan wrote:
I've installed gtkmm-2.4 package (using cygwin installer) from which I need
to use glibmm library in my source code, but I don't know how can I use it.
#includeglib.h doesn't work. It always says 'header file not found' when
compiled.
Usually you need the gtkmm-devel package.
Dave Korn wrote:
On 15 March 2007 22:10, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
It's working because we know it's trying to mail you something.
To find out what, remove MAILTO= and install a poor man's mailer as
follows. It will write the mail output to /cronmail.txt
~: cd /
/: cat
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
I can try. Go to Start-Settings-Network Connections. Click on
Local Area Connecton. RMB down and choose Properties. Look in the
box called This connection uses the following items:. Make sure you
have Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and that it is checked. Select it
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Ok, Larry, I have to ask... does your $50 appliance really have a DNS
server in it too?
No. But it will happen someday. ;-) But your question reminds me that
I forgot to mention that the router should be set up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a question about tab completion in the console window. The
.bash_profile exports the right paths and the console performs tab
completion. My scripts can be found in ~/bin. I can tab out
myscript.sh, but can not tab complete ./myscript.sh; or sh
myscript.sh. Is
Ken Fast wrote:
I will check into the ncurses
issue and maybe even go poking around in the source code.
That would be great. I am pretty sure it *is* a bug, because IIRC POSIX
explicitly allows '//' to mean something other than '/'. This means that
looking for //.terminfo if HOME=/ is Bad
Ben Wylie wrote:
I have a batch file which runs bash and calls a bash script.
My batch file reads:
cd F:\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i deletescript.sh F:/Progra~1/NAVIEG/queues/
The bash script is:
#!/bin/bash
cd $1
F:/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -exec awk '(/various/ || /search/ ||
/keywords/)
Kevin Markle wrote:
In this search I want to get winops only not winops and winops-hq
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/e/wsus/group_1a_DEV
$ ls -al | grep winops
-rwx--+ 1 Administrators 1079474 Apr 2 19:32
winops-hq_WINDOWSUpdate.log
-rwx--+ 1 Administrators 18993 Apr
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
lftp and yafc show a wrong prompt in the following terminals: cmd, 4nt,
console and far manager. Basically each coloured part of the prompt is
surrounded by two funny faces - the first is white and the second has
the desired colour.
I don't know what these are. Are they
Thrall, Bryan wrote:
Gary Johnson wrote on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:05 PM:
If you're piping 'ls' into another command, the -1 isn't necessary.
'ls' detects that its stdout is not a tty and delivers single-column
output automatically.
Not when you use 'ls -l':
Sure it does. There is still
Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
I thought it was decided to keep the MinGW Runtime man pages separate
from the Cygwin man pages?
Yes, it was, but I don't remember concluding that putting them in
/usr/man was the solution. Please either don't install them at
Eric Blake wrote:
The bug in all three of these programs is that they are adding spurious \1 into
the string passed to readline. When you call readline(\001\001invisible\001
\002plain), then readline assumes that anything between the FIRST \001 and the
\002 is invisible (ie. special to the
Mike R Brown wrote:
[snip]
Nope. With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under
/usr/bin. When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the
version that worked from my machine and did a version check while in
/usr/bin I get
./perly - v returned 5.8.8 (original
Mike R Brown wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Mike R Brown wrote:
Everything I have checked points to just one Perl installation. So
maybe the question here is where did this version come from?
That is indeed a good question, since the latest available 'perl' from
kernel.org is 5.8.7-5
Cheney, Christian wrote:
learn.to/quote -- please do (no TOFU*, in particular)
And PCYMTNQREAIYR* while you are at it.
(*http://cygwin.com/acronyms)
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:57:33PM -0700, Cheney, Christian wrote:
I have installed cygwin on Windows XP using the
PCYMTNQREAIYR, especially don't quote cygwin AT cygwin DOT com!
Jeff Hawk wrote:
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
\cygwin\usr\bin and \cygwin\usr\lib are /real/ directories created by
the initial Cygwin installation routine. He shouldn't delete those
directories - just keep them empty...
Not true...
I
Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
I get the error:
router send_to_gateway: cannot find router driver manaulroute.
Can you shed some light on this?
Well manaulroute seems to be a typo, did you make it in this e-mail or
when typing your config? :-)
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Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
Matthew Woehlke mw_triad AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net wrote:
...oh, and www.cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR, thanks!
Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
I get the error:
router send_to_gateway: cannot find router driver manaulroute.
Can you shed some light
Cary R. wrote:
It would be nice if this could be made
more compliant, but I also realize that it's not
anyones job to do that.
Actually, this would be the job of the newlib maintainers. If newlib is
not giving the results you expect (especially if, as in this case if I
am reading right, it
Fungazid wrote:
Hello to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'T-DO-THAT.com people
PLEASE DON'T DO THAT! There is a reason we have the
www.cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR policy, *PLEASE* don't violate it
by hand, and with the mailing list address at that.
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted.
Pandare, Prasad wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
^^^ ^^^
Of Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Sent: Friday, April
Tony Richardson wrote:
Andy at Jet-Net Andy at jet-net.co.uk writes:
In ps -s I get something like:
PID TTYSTIME COMMAND
1234 con 09:00:00 /path/program
Is there a way of doing this through ps (or an alternative) in Cygwin?
An alternative would be to parse /proc/PID/cmdline.
Dave Korn wrote:
On 30 April 2007 18:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
um... and since Cygwin has this information, doesn't this mean that 'ps'
is missing a feature that is standard to pretty much every other *nix
implementation of 'ps'? (I don't have a POSIX standard handy
Yes you do: open
Dave Korn wrote:
On 30 April 2007 19:23, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
On 30 April 2007 18:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
um... and since Cygwin has this information, doesn't this mean that 'ps'
is missing a feature that is standard to pretty much every other *nix
implementation
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
On 30 April 2007 19:23, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Anyway, since the information is
available, and most other *nix's 'ps' provides it, any reason Cygwin's
'ps' shouldn't do the same?
I believe you can probably guess the answer to this one
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Atzinger, Joseph on 5/4/2007 2:28 PM:
I feel your pain with slow release times.
Huh? The problem here isn't slow release times [snip]
I'm guessing he was referring to I really wish we
could get a new setup.exe release made official, in which case I second
Aaron Brown wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
You may be doing something wrong: all those mirrors are
up-to-date, and according to the timestamps have been
since a couple of days after the release
Indeed I was. I use a dialup connection and, to minimize
the time spent downloading, I select the Keep
Aaron Brown wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
...the answer to your question is to first pick 'keep' and
then manually make any changes to things you do want to
install/upgrade.
That's what I've been doing. When I leave Keep selected,
clicking on CLISP's entry in the New column cycles between
Aaron Brown wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Hmm, ok, I was misunderstanding the problem then. You are
getting a new package list, right? (I.e. you are not
trying to install locally?)
Correct.
It's actually a bit different than the descriptions I gave
in my last couple messages:
If I leaved
Aaron Brown wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Meanwhile I would guess that installing the 'prev' version
first would work.
I was in the process of doing this when I had the idea of
seeing whether CLISP version 2.41-2 was visible when Hide
obsolete packages was unchecked, so I cancelled
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 21 15:46, Dave Korn wrote:
On 21 May 2007 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
so we can change cygcheck to handle this unambiguously.
cygpath.
Right. Unfortunately I just found that -m is sometimes used as a modifier
(-dm makes sense) and sometimes standalone
mark2 wrote:
I just signed up for this forum
This is not a forum. It's a mailing list.
since it looks like there's quite a bit of
useful information on Cygwin here. I have already consulted the Cygwin
manual and searched this forum
Wei-Hao Lin wrote:
OCaml 3.10 is just released. The Cygwin ocaml package generously
contributed by Igor Pechtchanski in 2004, however, is still 3.08.1.
Although OCaml can be compiled under Cygwin without any change, surely
it will save some time if OCaml package is updated and made available
Lev Bishop wrote:
Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and
why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the
user to specify an additional flag.
...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags,
thus '-ul' is also
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Lev Bishop wrote:
Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and
why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the
user to specify an additional flag.
...as I previously noted, '-us
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 24 10:49, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags,
I don't think so. The -s and -l modifiers don't make any sense with -u.
There's no short
Greg Chicares wrote:
On 2007-05-30 00:12Z, Scott Peterson wrote:
Here's the content of the intermediate file dbus-binding-tool-glib.i:
[major snip]
On 2007-05-29 02:07Z, you had written:
In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:4,
from dbus-binding-tool-glib.c:39:
John Cooper wrote:
Incidentally, would cygwin be able to exec such 64-bit programs?
Cygwin has no problems starting 64-bit programs, that's exactly what our
cygwin build environment does when building the 64-bit version of our
stuff (using the MSVC8 compiler)...
The only problem that
Saro Engels wrote:
Gustavo Seabra schrieb:
I wonder if anyone here is using Kile (the LaTeX editor) under Cygwin.
Kile is not in cygwin. You didn't overlook anything.
There is a very difficult way provided by a third party to bring some
KDE stuff running under cygwin - which is not
yitzle wrote:
(I did not try emacs, and won't until I know ahead
of time how to quit. vim was painful enough.)
ctrl-Z, 'ps', 'kill pid of vim' :-)
(not sure what the problem was, ctrl-C tells you how you quit...)
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Brian D. McGrew wrote:
From the stock gcc-3.4.4 to the current gcc-4.2.0 from ftp.gnu.org? Will
this break anything in cygwin?
Since 'gcc' is in no way a requirement for a functional Cygwin
installation, I don't see why not. This assumes* however that you can
get gcc 4.2.0 to build on
David Kastrup wrote:
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PCYMTNQREAIYR
If the named file is a symbolic link, the stat() function shall
continue pathname resolution using the contents of the symbolic
link, and shall return information pertaining to the
Dave Korn wrote:
On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote:
Sending a copy of it to one support tech to
debug that vendor's library does not constitute distribution, AFAICT.
Utterly comprehensively wrong. Sorry.
Really?
You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of
Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
Hello all,
following situation:
I hate white spaces in file and cranked tiny bashscript for replacing
them that goes like this:
for i in `find . -type f`
do
mv $i /some_directory/`echo $i|sed 's/ /_/g'`
done
On this I get complaints from mv that it cannot find files that
(nonstandard quoting reformatted)
André Bleau wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
(*) and, funny enough, there's no API call in Win32 to return a DCWD.
There's just a call GetCurrentDirectory() which returns *the* CWD.
Which makes sense, given that the RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS can only
store one
Pedro Alves wrote:
The switch from:
do you want to format your drive?:
+-+ +-+
+ yes + + no +
+-+ +-+
to:
do you want to format your drive?:
++ +-+
+ format + + cancel +
++ +-+
... Makes it much easier to understand what the
Nicolas Saunier wrote:
PS: is there a way not to break the email thread without subscribing to
the list ?
Use gmane.org? (Ok, you're still subscribed, but NNTP != e-mail)
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Linda Walsh wrote:
What was supposed to change in the new setup, anyway? Is
there a URL for the Changelog?
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/90285
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yitzle wrote:
$ cygpath.exe -w /bin
C:\cygwin\bin
$ cygpath.exe -w /usr/bin
C:\cygwin\bin
/usr/bin is a link to /bin
Can't find where BASH is exported...
JFTR...
Shell Variables
The following variables are set by the shell:
BASH Expands to the full file name used to
Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
The gcc version for Cygwin is currently 3.4.4, which was release by
the gcc group in May '05. Since then 3.4.5 and 3.4.6 have been
release. In addition, gcc 4 has been released with the lastest
version being 4.2.1.
gcc 4 support mudflaps for finding memory issues. I'm
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can
get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached
test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail.
[snip]
I'm looking for
- Remote NFS over SFU NFS
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 1 10:50, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
I had to use the 'alternate version' on the other computer I tested with.
Yeah, it looks like some OSes don't like to open file or directories
with 0 access mode. At least READ_CONTROL is required, apparently.
That sounds
Long, Phillip GOSS wrote:
Sigh ... if I had a way, I'd clip out the bozo string my employer's
email server tacks onto the end of every message.
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin :-)
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Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote:
I created an nedit shortcut on my desktop.
It is just a shortcut to c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe nedit
This works fine but I can't drag files on top of it to edit them because
it expects /cygdrive/c/somefile.txt instead of c:\somefile.txt
Is there a solution for
Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote:
Matthew Woehlke Wrote :
Instead of 'nedit', you could run.exe a script that looks
something like:
nedit $(cygpath -u $1)
I get an error Can't open /usr/X11R6/bin/$(cygpath:...
Can't read the entire error because it is in an unsizeable window.
...did you put
Robert Kiesling wrote:
? I don't know what this means but Windows has the equivalent of SIGSEGV.
The signal is non-catchable by UNIX apps. That ability would
be useful when malloc goes whizzing off into the video RAM, but
the issue is almost always a bug somewhere else in the app. That
is
Richard Ivarson wrote:
I've seen two handicaps:
1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the
script file. Ommiting --password doesn't ask for it, however.
'ask for password' is planned in a future release of wget (probably the
next-to-next release).
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
IOW what's the advantage of an sftp client over just plain scp?
Directory listings. Unless I miss something, it's hard to scp a file
when you don't already know its path.
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Ronald Fischer wrote:
I configured my system so that it automatically starts Cygwin
during boot time via the Windows autostart feature, by using
startxwin and Cygwin/X to start several xterm and rxvt terminals,
and also to start one bash shell in plain Cygwin (outside X).
Occasionally, one or
I'm fiddling with some stuff that needs Cygwin for a customer on a
fairly pristine system, and thought I'd try to use lftp instead of being
stuck with 'doze ftp, however it gives error 128 when run. According to
cygcheck, it's missing libexpat, which seems to not be installed when
installing
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA256
Andrew Schulman wrote:
Matthew, lftp includes libexpat0 in its list of dependencies in setup.hint:
requires: cygwin libexpat0 libiconv2 libintl8 libncurses8 libreadline6 minires
openssl
Actually, the current
Sean Daley wrote:
I've got a quick question regarding one of the bullet points on the
release of cygwin-1.5.25-11.
- Fix a crash when creating stackdumps on Windows XP x64 Edition and
Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition.
When it says crash, does that mean that the 2003x64 OS actually
crashes or
John Cooper wrote:
I've just upgraded to the latest version of Cygwin (1.5.25-15) and found
that the execute bit is not getting set when I create files:
$ umask 'u=rwx,g=r,o=r'
$ touch a
$ ls -l a
-rw-r--r-- 1 John None 0 Oct 28 21:42 a
(the execute permission also doesn't get set when I use
John Cooper wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
I don't think I've met a POSIX-like system yet that automatically creates
things with any +x bits set.
I'm assuming that the recent Cygwin's failure to set the +x bit is the cause
of the underlying problem, namely that any files I create (e.g., via
Scott Thompson wrote:
Hi all. I'm trying to do the following and running into some
problems:
1. Install cygwin on a host computer (works).
2. Compile a set of binaries and dll's using gcc/make (works).
3. Sanity check that the binaries actually run and execute
properly (works).
4. Zip
Ian Puleston wrote:
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previous attempts to send this with X11 in the subject line.
As the bounce message that you did not read attempted to tell you, this
is the wrong mailing list. You want cygwin-xfree.
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Herb Maeder wrote:
Any code requiring elevation is obviously already cygwin specific.
How so? There are tools on Linux that are only useful if run as root;
how is that significantly different? (Especially on SELinux systems
where rights are much more complicated than in the traditional UNIX
Bartolomeo Nicolotti wrote:
but the command
find . -type f | xargs md5sum
has problems with blanks in the name of the files:
[snip examples]
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
...tells find to output \0-separated lines instead of \n-separated
lines, and tells xargs to expect
Roger Wells wrote:
if you are concerned about the cygdrive text there is a registry entry
where you can set that to whatever you want including . That is what I
do. I would tell you what it is but my windows machine is not here right
now. Then when you ls / you get /c, /d etc instead of
Long, Phillip GOSS wrote after the sig:
(Posting so anyone else that wants to complain knows it's already been
mentioned; my usual reason for yelling publicly :-).)
FYI it's also good practice to remove signatures when you reply; it
confuses good mailers if you don't: your reply becomes a
Eric Blake wrote:
Oh, by the way, if you use tcsh, be aware that it also uses the LS_COLORS
environment variable internally, but that it does not understand quite as
many options as ls does and gripes about what it doesn't understand, which
is why I had to patch the cygwin version of LS_COLORS
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:54:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I think it is needed. At least the base-files-mketc.sh postinstall
script creates paths which point outside the Cygwin root, so it either
needs to reference cygdrive paths, or use DOS paths. Using
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 12 12:41, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
Oh, by the way, if you use tcsh, be aware that it also uses the LS_COLORS
environment variable internally, but that it does not understand quite as
many options as ls does and gripes about what it doesn't
Rob Walker wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Rob Walker wrote:
Saying cygwin's bash wasn't designed to handle CRLF is a lot like
saying that cygwin's bash (as previously released all these years)
wasn't designed to work with the rest of Windows. This might
actually be the case, but I don't
Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 11 16:20, Wells, Roger K. wrote:
When I installed this my previous installation broke and now the sshd
server stops immediately when it is started. Any hints will be
appreciated.
thanks
Maybe that's it:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE, thanks!
Rob Walker wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Rob Walker wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Rob Walker wrote:
Many, many other cross-platform products make allowances for CRLF
(version control systems are a prime example) to maximize
compatibility
Angelo Graziosi wrote:
If Cygwin aims to reproduce Linux on Windows who installs Cygwin should
also installs a minimum of X.
I don't recall installing X being a prerequisite of a functional, useful
Linux system. I regularly use Linux boxes for which my need for X is
minimal-to-nonexistent.
Angelo Graziosi wrote:
It seems that there is some problem with completion.
I have the cygdrive prefix mounted to '/'.
Bash 3.1-9
(I have not installed the package bash-completion)
With the 'curr' version of these packages, 5.1-5, I can do
$ ls -lrt /c/DoTAB
ls -lrt /c/Documents\ and\
Angelo Graziosi wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Have you checked that this isn't a case sensitivity issue?
Yes, it isn't.
I confirm this http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00642.html.
If I'm being blind/dense/otherwise stupid, you might want to leave the
relevant part of your message
Linda Walsh wrote:
Of course Cygwin is already faster than MS's own POSIX subsystem;
Such compatibility may be one reason why MS dropped future revisions
of their Interix (POSIX) subsystem support. I wonder if it even
runs on Vista? For that matter, anyone tried Cygwin to see if there are
any
Jim Seymour wrote:
I have two shell programs - one that launches the other in the
background. The background one runs a utility program that (under
normal circumstances) will shut down gracefully.
However, if things don't work fine, the background process sticks around
to plague me later.
Jonathan Lanier wrote:
Also, because (I know the FAQ
says not to say this, but I think it's useful information in this case)
we have a much older version of Cygwin (cygcheck reports v1.5.14) that
works flawlessly with CIFS and does not suffer the same problems. So,
at the very least, it appears
ali azimizadeh wrote:
Hello all,
i want to build gcc on cygwin.
Why do you want to build gcc when there are pre-built binaries available?
the cygwin doesn't have gnu make i read the installation manual of gcc.
Sure it does. Did you try installing 'make' when you ran setup.exe?
(Hint: you
DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here.
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU again. Reformatted.
The entry just defines TOFU:
Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, Text Oben,
Fullquote Unten). A
Jonathan Lanier wrote:
If anyone could
direct me to an ftp or http archive of the older Cygwin distributions,
it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
See:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=%22cygwin+time+machine%22btnG=Search
Particularly:
DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as
guidelines in http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Care to offer a
patch?
The submitting a patch guidelines seem to refer to program
patches... since this is only
Eric Blake wrote:
There is also the possibility of making bash turn igncr on by default, but
/bin/sh leaving it off, since only /bin/sh is specified by POSIX; but that
also gives me the willies thinking about people who will complain why
their script doesn't work when they change from
Long, Phillip GOSS wrote:
U don't have d2u on all platforms, but U probably _do_ have awk or
gawk on every platform. I came up with a simple fix for the CRLF
problem when I encountered it, which is still klugy, but works on
every POSIX or Cygwin platform:
gawk '//' fileFromTextMount
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
on Friday, October 27, 2006 2:16 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Long, Phillip GOSS wrote:
U don't have d2u on all platforms, but U probably _do_ have awk or
gawk on every platform. I came up with a simple fix for the CRLF
problem when I encountered
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