Bash Here prompt for folder list

2002-01-21 Thread Reid Thompson
along with the shortcut not working, my Bash Here prompt in the right click window no longer works. Previously this was setup as: In Explorer, Tools-Folder Options-File Types, click on Folder, Click on Edit, in Actions added a 'Bash Here' and set it to bash.exe -c 'cd %1; exec rxvt -sr

Re: undefined references compiling gcc with ncurses

2005-10-25 Thread Reid Thompson
Jeff Scudder wrote: Greetings, I am a curses newbie and having trouble running a simple curses program. I haven't run into a discussion thus far on the specific problem I'm having and I imagine there is a simple solution. My program is named ctest.c and is as follows: #includestdio.h

RE: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM

2005-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: S.Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:32 AM To: CYGWIN@CYGWIN.COM Subject: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM Hi, I have checked the following links. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages

RE: KSH Mode in CYGWIN CPU-Usage

2005-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: S.Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:43 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: KSH Mode in CYGWIN CPU-Usage Hi ..., If I enter KSH for KORN-Shell mode , CYGWIN is not responding. And when I start CYGWIN the CPU-Usage rises

RE: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM-Thanks

2005-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: S.Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 10:26 AM To: HELP-Cygwin Subject: Re: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM-Thanks Hi Alexander zzapper Dave Reid, As you guys instructed I will run the SETUP Program and Uninstall all packages and

RE: cscope compilation error in cygwin

2005-10-31 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:59 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cscope compilation error in cygwin hi, I try to use cscope in cygwin. My pc is win2000. the cygwin version is $ cygcheck -V cygcheck version 1.64 System

Re: Making the command console stay on top

2005-11-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Terry Dabbs wrote: I have an application written and compiled using gcc and ncurses (for the colors), in the cygwin environment. This application gets information from a database, and displays it to an operator running a machine telling them what program to input (among other things). The

Re: System Tray

2005-12-13 Thread Reid Thompson
Lst Recv wrote: Gary, could you post a few links to some of those libraries? Yes, that's exactly what I'd like to do. Why? It's a great way for unobtrusive, yet noticeable, notifications. My immediate goal is to script a little unit test runner in the background, which constantly runs, and

Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread Reid Thompson
Brian Dessent wrote: lin q wrote: Hi Brian, I attach the log from cygcheck. I do not see anything obviously wrong as I am not familiar with it. Since there are some personal data in it, please do not reply to the public email alias, I appreciate your help very much. That's

Re: mailx + cygwin

2006-01-02 Thread Reid Thompson
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Crawford, Carl wrote: Igor, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE. I'm forwarding this to the appropriate mailing list, and setting the Reply-To accordingly -- please make sure your mailer honors it. Did you find a port of mailx to

Re: mailx + cygwin

2006-01-02 Thread Reid Thompson
Crawford, Carl wrote: thanks. nice replacement. i am able to read mailx mailboxes. how do you set up mutt to send email thru a pop server, particularly one that has password protection? --carl edit .muttrc per /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/mutt-1.4.2.1i.README can also reference...

Re: Have anyone compiled splitvt ?

2006-01-06 Thread Reid Thompson
steven woody wrote: splitvt is tool which can split terminal screen into two part and let you run commands independently in each of parts. it is so handy when you want to do something on a program and see response of another program. i compiled splitvt with no error. but when i run it, it did

Re: Have anyone compiled splitvt ?

2006-01-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: steven woody wrote: splitvt is tool which can split terminal screen into two part and let you run commands independently in each of parts. it is so handy when you want to do something on a program and see response of another program. i compiled splitvt with no error

Re: Tcsh .history file growing out of control

2006-01-26 Thread Reid Thompson
Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi All, This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that is 4 to 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once

Re: where is SCP

2006-01-30 Thread Reid Thompson
Scott Purcell wrote: Hello, I need to scp some files to a remote machine on our network, and I cannot find the scp module? When I loaded cygwin, I loaded most default stuff, but even today, I am trying to search for it, and cannot find scp? Thanks, -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Bash Window Geometry

2006-02-06 Thread Reid Thompson
rxvt takes -geometry as a parameter -- it also provides a much better interface than CMD.EXE -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Bash Window Geometry

2006-02-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: rxvt takes -geometry as a parameter -- it also provides a much better interface than CMD.EXE forgot to mention that rxvt will run natively or with X. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

pdksh, set -o vi strange new behavior

2006-02-13 Thread Reid Thompson
After recent update rebaseall began having the following strange behavior. the command line sequence escape slash ( to search through history ( pdsh with set -o vi )) causes what appears to be two returns to be input... I.E, with cursor sitting after '$' as shown below ( my prompt is two

Re: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

2006-02-13 Thread Reid Thompson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] I get the same can't-duplicate as Chris does, on 'uname -a'= CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DFW5RB41 1.5.20s(0.153/4/2) 20060209 14:37:47 i686 Cygwin I don't have any of this stuff in $CYGWIN, might be worth a try to ditch it: CYGWIN = 'server

Re: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

2006-02-14 Thread Reid Thompson
I'm able to reproduce this on my machine, but only when I'm running it under rxvt. If I run it from cmd.exe or within a standard cygwin bash shell, then it completes without the '-- BOGUS ALARM --' warnings. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 claus 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 i686 Cygwin $

Re: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

2006-02-14 Thread Reid Thompson
Robb, Sam wrote: From: Robb, Sam I'm able to reproduce this on my machine, but only when I'm running it under rxvt. If I run it from cmd.exe or within a standard cygwin bash shell, then it completes without the '-- BOGUS ALARM --' warnings. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 claus

RE: postgresql problem

2004-05-04 Thread Reid Thompson
read the doc for postgresql under cygwin/usr/share/doc/Cygwin reid -Original Message- From: Christopher Benson-Manica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: postgresql problem initdb doesn't work, because it says the

RE: problems with cygwin

2004-05-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Try removing the -multiwindow parameter to XWin reid - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. wmaker fatal error: it seems that there is already a window manager running waiting for X server to shut down winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: - 1.

Re: gcc inst hosed after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.10x

2004-05-27 Thread Reid Thompson
The point was... Second paragraph on that page: Eric S. Raymond has written a wonderful article on how to write smart http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html questions. If you adhere to his guidelines, you'll have a very good chance of getting a high-quality response to your

RE: gcc inst hosed after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.10x

2004-05-28 Thread Reid Thompson
see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00535.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00536.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01792.html reid -Original Message- From: Hans Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 12:11 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: Stat

2004-07-21 Thread Reid Thompson
download coreutils from the gnu ftp site ./configure -- at first glance appears to configure with no errors make -- at first glance appears to build with no errors cp stat.exe to /bin or make install ( will attempt to install the just built versions of all coreutils executables -- this

RE: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls

2004-08-10 Thread Reid Thompson
take the underscore out of the dll name psuedo_stub - psuedostub reid -Original Message- From: Peter Ekberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls Christopher Faylor wrote:

RE: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls

2004-08-10 Thread Reid Thompson
-RESULTS pseudostubs.dll dlopen: Win32 error 126 foo.dll ok psuedostubs.dll ok reid -Original Message- From: Reid Thompson Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:49 PM To: Peter Ekberg; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls take the underscore

RE: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls

2004-08-10 Thread Reid Thompson
DOH! char *dlls[] = { pseudostubs.dll, foo.dll, psuedostubs.dll, NULL }; should be char *dlls[] = { psuedostubs.dll, foo.dll, psuedostubs.dll, NULL }; and all works reid -Original Message- From: Reid Thompson Sent: Tuesday

RE: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls

2004-08-10 Thread Reid Thompson
well -- i just redid the entire thing, with the correct spelling and your original post works $ ./load pseudo_stub.dll ok foo.dll ok reid -Original Message- From: Peter Ekberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:06 PM To: Reid Thompson; [EMAIL PROTECTED

fltk compilation error

2004-08-15 Thread Reid Thompson
I'm hoping someone can help me correct the issue causing the error listed below. I've attached minimal files to reproduce the error. Thanks, reid $ fltk-config --compile test.cxx gcc -mwindows -DWIN32 -o test test.cxx -mwindows /usr/lib/libfltk.a -lole32 -luuid -lcomctl32 -lwsock32 -lsupc++ In

RE: fltk compilation error

2004-08-17 Thread Reid Thompson
Ken Dibble wrote: I am unable to determince what the error is, not knowing anything about gcc, fltk or fltk-config the following command produces a gui executable (at least for this trivial example) which prints Hello World to the console when Open is selected from the File menu. gcc

RE: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Reid Thompson
that's a dead url -- http://cygwin.com/licensing.html Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and

Re: update on hyperthreading system for cgf

2005-01-20 Thread Reid Thompson
David Christensen wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Hasn't anyone put together a nice $400 system? How about $417.50? http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishR.asp?ID=1251752 You need to provide the hard drive, CD-ROM drive, floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, and operating system. David --

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts Sent: 08 February 2005 17:09 It's insane. not really -- works exceptionally well for me, much better than keyboard shortcuts for my use. Unless you have the precision muscular control skills of a

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts Sent: 08 February 2005 17:09 The selection model used by rxvt is standard throughout the X11 world. http://seth.positivism.org/man.cgi/rxvt there are hyperlinks in the above page that reference how

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Reid Thompson
copy with left mouse button, select_and_paste at same time into new window via middle mouse button/scroll wheel. or, copy with left mouse button, select new window with right mouse button(rather than left), paste with middle button/scroller reid -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-10 Thread Reid Thompson
Rizwan Kassim wrote: Rxvt v2.7.10 - released: 26 MARCH 2003 Options: XPM,transparent,utmp,menubar,multichar_languages,scrollbars=rx vt+NeXT+xterm,frills,linespace,256colour,.Xdefaults [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$cat .Xdefaults Rxvt.cursorColor: red Rxvt.scrollBar_right: True

RE: cygwin telnet/ftp?

2005-02-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Mike Sent: 15 February 2005 16:47 From bash typing 'telnet' I get windows' telnet. Is there a telnet specifically for cygwin? Yes. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today LOL

OLOCA

2005-03-18 Thread Reid Thompson
WJFFM. -- is not on list http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/ -- 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: Using vi in UNIX mode instead of DOS mode

2005-03-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. wrote: Is there anyway of telling vi to use UNIX-mode editing as supposed to DOS-mode? I want to avoid all the ^M's when transferring files from Windows to UNIX, even though I use dos2unix to remove them, I want to just simply avoid that step. Any and all

RE: Using vi in UNIX mode instead of DOS mode

2005-03-21 Thread Reid Thompson
at one time i'd pulled these from somewhere also -- currently they are commented out in my .*vimrc. au BufReadPre * if (ff == dos) |au BufReadPost * set fileformat=unix |au BufReadPost * %s/^M\+$// | endif au BufReadPost * if (ff == dos) | set ff=unix | %s/^M\+$// | endif reid -- Unsubscribe

RE: does rxvt support cut and paste?

2005-03-23 Thread Reid Thompson
Daniel B. wrote: Does the rxvt application support cutting and pasting? If so, how (what keystrokes)? If not, does anyone know why not? Thanks, Daniel highlight text, click in window to paste to, click middle mouse button( wheel). reid -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice

2005-03-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Thanks for the link, now it looks much better. Now I just need to find a font I like. Thanks for replying so quickly Jonathan with such excellent help, it helps make this world a kinder place. Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold at buddydog dot org) Amazing Developments

RE: Postgres 7.2

2005-03-25 Thread Reid Thompson
there id the option of just downloading the srcs from www.postgresql.org for 7.2.X and building them yourself. reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: irc

2005-04-11 Thread Reid Thompson
beau wrote: Hi all, I had just gotten used to irssi when I had to give up the debian box; anyone know how hard it is to get it going on cygwin? Also, I don't seem to have a man page for the irc that I've got. Thanks, beau $ tar xvfj irssi-0.8.9.tar.bz2 $ cd irssi-0.8.9 $ ./configure

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Totte Karlsson wrote: Hi, I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it does not work. How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly,

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Totte Karlsson wrote: Hi, I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it does not work. How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly,

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: Totte Karlsson wrote: Hi, I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it does not work. How do I get the folders

RE: setup.exe keeps hanging

2005-04-18 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Jurgen Defurne Sent: 14 April 2005 13:38 I still have the following problems : - The installation of cygwin1.dll keeps hanging at 78 % -- Probably because the installation is not complete, i cannot get access to my D: drive (which is just

RE: setup.exe keeps hanging

2005-04-20 Thread Reid Thompson
Alan Ning wrote: I just tried it now, and I have the same problem. My CPU usage was at 100%, and it was running multiple instance of sh.exe. I ran setup.exe again, same thing happened. ... Alan Reid Thompson wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Jurgen

RE: vi installation

2005-04-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Lars Zeb wrote: How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment? Where can I get vi from? How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the EDITOR shell variable in the Korn shell pointing to the editor of choice. There does not seem to be anything like that in bash.

RE: Re: Basic test

2005-04-28 Thread Reid Thompson
René Berber wrote: maggi wrote: I have installed cygwin, and I am able to launch the console with the promt bash2.05b$ But when entering ls or other comands, I get always bash-2.05b$ ls bash: ls: command not found bash-2.05b$ dir bash: dir: command not found That's strange, I think the

RE: Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread Reid Thompson
jds wrote: Sorry, my question is very basic, but I have to ask it. Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? Long Version: Basically, my problem is that when I install cygwin it gets stuck on this screen: are you sure it's

RE: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait Yes, sure, that's right. The hippo's the second fastest animal ever, right after the

RE: Re: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Chris Herborth wrote: Chris January wrote: I noticed that the icon for Cygwin on the website has changed from the green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait Hippos are bloated and

RE: Re: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Chris Herborth wrote: Chris January wrote: I noticed that the icon for Cygwin on the website has changed from the green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait Hippos are bloated and

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-09 Thread Reid Thompson
William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: I'm sure this is the result of my having done something stupid with the setup application, but suddenly static destructors no longer run. That is, for the following program: #include stdio.h struct S { S(); ~S(); } s; S::S() { printf(In

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-09 Thread Reid Thompson
William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: I'm sure this is the result of my having done something stupid with the setup application, but suddenly static destructors no longer run. That is, for the following program: #include stdio.h struct S { S(); ~S(); } s; S::S() { printf(In

bunzip2 cygwin1-20050511.dll.bz2 yields 8911171 byte sized cygwin1-20050511.dl

2005-05-12 Thread Reid Thompson
what am i missing/doing wrong. from the snapshots page cygwin1-*.dll.bz2 is a compressed cygwin1.dll without debug information. cygwin1-20050511.dll.bz21,964 Kb $ bunzip2 cygwin1-20050511.dll.bz2 $ ll cygwin1-20050511.dll -rwx-- 1 Reid.Thompson Domain Users 8911171 May 12 12:06

Setup does not offer uninstall of emacs ( which I did not knowingly install in the first place )

2005-05-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Somehow, my installation has decided that emacs is a required download and is not to be uninstalled. Could someone shed some light on this? Is it uninstallable due to some other package that I've downloaded, or for some other reason? Can setup be configured so that I can uninstall emacs

RE: Windows XP SP2

2005-05-25 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an application which uses Cygwin (1.5.12(0.116/4/2)) to interact with a Sun workstation, e.g., rsh, rcp, awk, etc. Everything was working fine until I installed Windows XP SP2. The firewall is disabled, but the Cygwin commands aren't working properly. On

RE: print.exe

2005-06-01 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Evert Coetzee Sent: 01 June 2005 19:18 I hate to point to the infamous competitor but this script that I have was intended for the use with mks toolkit (which is a not-so-free alternative to cygwin):

RE: print.exe

2005-06-01 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Evert Coetzee Sent: 01 June 2005 19:18 I hate to point to the infamous competitor but this script that I have was intended for the use with mks toolkit (which is a not-so-free alternative to cygwin):

Idle telnet sessions appear to go to sleep

2003-03-20 Thread Reid Thompson
by clicking on it I begin to type my command into the window. It takes anywhere from 3 to 15 seconds for the session window to recognize my keystrokes and display/act upon them. Using latest CYGWIN on XP professional. Reid Thompson Ateb, Inc www.ateb.com 919.872.1275 Direct Dial

RE: [Bug] 1.3.22-1 - rxvt xterm displaying escape codes, cursor problems

2003-03-31 Thread Reid Thompson
re backspace , it appears that stty erase has been changed from ^? to ^H -- thanks, reid -Original Message- From: diedrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bug] 1.3.22-1 - rxvt xterm displaying escape codes, cursor problems

Mailing list question

2005-06-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Do the cygwin mail lists support 'suspend'? Is there a command to get the available commands from the mailing list? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: More robust color terminal

2005-06-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Alternatively, you could compile (and, hopefully, contribute) gvim. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'

RE: More robust color terminal

2005-06-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 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 recompiling rxvt for 256 colors is not hard. $ ./rxvt -help |head Rxvt v2.7.10 - released: 26 MARCH 2003

Re: More robust color terminal

2005-06-25 Thread Reid Thompson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 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 recompiling rxvt

RE: rxvt 2.7.10-6: bash Control-C exits all backgrounded children rxvt processes as well as foreground process/command

2005-06-27 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some wrappers to invoke a telnet or an ssh within an rxvt window so that I can label it with the host I'm connecting to. I love rxvt because it has real vt emulation, and also gives me X-like middle mouse cut and paste operations that I'm used to from my Sun

RE: Path Statement Not Being Evaluated by Bash in Cygwin

2005-07-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Ross MacGillivray wrote: I am trying to test KDE 3.4 (and Qt 3.3) on Cygwin. I have installed the additional packages needed for KDE 3.4 and I even did a complete re-install of all packages to ensure that I have a clean system. when I start bash and enter 'echo $path'. This is the path

NOMACHINE NX client uses cygwin

2005-07-29 Thread Reid Thompson
as info.. uses cygwin and cygwin X http://www.nomachine.com/screenshots1.php WS-XP-4960: /C/Program Files/NX Client for Windows $ find . . ./bin ./bin/cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll ./bin/cygjpeg-62.dll ./bin/cygminires.dll ./bin/cygpng12.dll ./bin/cygserver.exe ./bin/cygwin1.dll ./bin/cygXcomp.dll

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

2005-08-16 Thread Reid Thompson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] NOTE: A digital camera shows up as an USB drive, i.e. a DOS drive - e.g. /cygdrive/next free letter - and is available so long as the camera stays ON (it eventually WILL go OFF after last use, just as your screen blanker! Depending on how you've set it or

Re: readline completion

2005-08-17 Thread Reid Thompson
Sam Steingold wrote: * Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-17 19:30:14 +]: Mounts are persistent. Running the command just once will make it affect all future cygwin startups, until you rerun mount or umount. thanks! (Just like Unix mount points.) Not on linux. mount

RE: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

2005-08-30 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am trying to export the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking out on the space. export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\\ SDK export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java SDK\ and, export JAVA_HOME=c:/Java SDK/ all fails. Please

Re: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

2005-08-30 Thread Reid Thompson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh! That shouldn't have happened -- I use QuoteFix when using Outlook... will have to check to see a crash or something re-configured some of my settings -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set

2005-09-12 Thread Reid Thompson
Hommersom, Fred wrote: My startup of cygwin is a .bat file with contents call bigsetup.bat set HOME=C:\Data\locations\tc50_custy00 c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i The file bigsetup.bat contains a huge amount environment variables. For a medium number (~ 600) everything works fine For a larger

RE: Documentation on functions

2005-09-14 Thread Reid Thompson
Siegfried Heintze wrote: This is the third time I have mailed this to Cygwin@cygwin.com and it has not showed up yet in the list. I am subscribed. Obviously, if you are seeing this, then it succeeded. What a mystery. Anyway... I noticed that when I boot fedora core 4, the function

RE: Documentation on functions

2005-09-14 Thread Reid Thompson
Eric Blake wrote: Followup - for standard functions, like readdir or pthread_attr_init, I usually refer directly to POSIX (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm) to at great pointer -- thanks reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: Documentation on functions

2005-09-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Siegfried Heintze wrote: Is there documentation on the documentation? In other words, is the process of submitting documentation documented? Does one use the GNU texi or SGML docbook or some other format? I've been curious about these tools for years but have never used them. Are there

Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

2005-09-18 Thread Reid Thompson
No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt. I usually just use a shortcut to a script

Re: Best place to put new envvars?

2005-10-07 Thread Reid Thompson
Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sharing a Cygwin installation in a NetWare drive among a number of developers. I want to put export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs/repository in one profile that is run by everyone AND I don't want it overwritten if I update Cygwin. i'd put

Re: Memory debugging under cygwin

2004-10-02 Thread Reid Thompson
splint is available via setup also. www.splint.org Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi all, I have a program that segfaults, and it's quite obvious that this is caused due to some memory corruption. Except it segfaults at a place where, if running it in gdb, there shouldn't be a problem. There seems to

RE: Run program in background.

2004-10-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Brian Dessent wrote: If you just want your program to simply run in the background, launch it with a at the end of the command from the shell. However, if it expects to use stdout, stdin, or stderr, it will stop -- so these must all be redirected to files or pipes. not exactly correct

Re: Program to talk to serial port?

2004-10-19 Thread Reid Thompson
David Arnstein wrote: I need a program that can talk to a serial port on the local computer, the way Hyperterm does for Microsoft Windows. I would like this program to present its user interface in an xterm. If that is not possible, perhaps a program that is itself an X11 client would do. I was

Re: Program to talk to serial port?

2004-10-19 Thread Reid Thompson
Bruce Dobrin wrote: I got it working with very helpful suggestions from list people last week. You need to unpack on a linux box and change every reference to reserve word aux to something else, next comment out the tweak the code to disable the root checking, like this: You can avoid

Re: Program to talk to serial port?

2004-10-19 Thread Reid Thompson
It appears that the main issue is the directory in the source tar file named aux. If you do not have access to a system other than windows on which to untar the source and rename the aux directory, you can use the 7-zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/ )program to rename this directory while it is

Re: Not what I expected at first startup :0

2004-10-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Nemes wrote: Firstly I would to ask if it is normal for cygwin to startup and just show a cmd.exe black window as the access to the install?? Yes Is there anyw ay to get a KDE style setup from the, startx cmd from cygwin, or somethign similar? like maybe, window maker or, blackbox something

RE: Setting Enviroment Variables

2004-10-25 Thread Reid Thompson
Nemes wrote: --begin--reply--- Yeah Dave that would great thanks.. And it does seem to be running ok, I get no errors on starting cygwin, and the ones I do get are from starting x-windows, and from what I can gather, are not to be worried about, at least according to the docs available at

RE: Cygwin not honoring setmode

2004-11-02 Thread Reid Thompson
Brad Bell wrote: This problem has been discussed before under the subject heading Problem with gzip. In particular, the message http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00494.html appears to state that a problem with cygwin not honoring setmode was fixed. On Saturday, October 30,

Re: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2

2004-11-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Doug Poland wrote: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.0.0... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file *** config.log for the exact error that occured. This usually *** means

cron not finding executable

2002-05-10 Thread Reid Thompson
If someone could help, it would be appreciated. I am getting the error message at the bottom emailed when cron attempts to perform crontab entries ( not finding the executable ). The script exists: WS014_NT500:/home/rthompso ll mailit.sh -rwxr-xr-x1 Reid.Tho Administ 63 May

Re: cron not finding executable

2002-05-10 Thread Reid Thompson
-x3 Reid.Tho Administ 4096 May 10 13:20 tmp/ -Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:59 PM To: Reid Thompson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cron not finding executable At 08:06 AM 5/10/2002, Reid Thompson

RE: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin

2003-10-17 Thread Reid Thompson
try xfontsel reid -Original Message- From: Edward Peschko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin hey, I've been searching for decent fonts in cygwin, and haven't found a really

Re: Binaries compiled under 1.5.6 don't work with 1.5.5 ?

2004-01-19 Thread Reid Thompson
Damn, no listing of the 12?.? Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:43:51PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: I compiled Lynx under 1.5.6 and tried to run it under 1.5.5: The procedure entry point _fcntl64 could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll How many

Re: Postgres 7.3.4 errors

2004-01-24 Thread Reid Thompson
a quick search in the mail archives will give you the answer. Judd wrote: I'm trying to start postgres. I built a data directory: e.g. mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data I just want to get the database initialized and the postmaster going. I run the command: initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data here's

Re: Postgres 7.3.4 errors

2004-01-24 Thread Reid Thompson
This directory is quite handy also. {driveLetter}\cygwin\usr\share\doc\Cygwin Judd wrote: I'm trying to start postgres. I built a data directory: e.g. mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data I just want to get the database initialized and the postmaster going. I run the command: initdb -D

Re: wincvs and cygwin (tcl DLL naming issue)

2004-02-03 Thread Reid Thompson
my 2 cents, and what i believe is an easier and more appropriate solution ( think like you're on unix/linux) - for your cygwin bash/rxvt/etc terminals explicitely set the path in your .bashrc such that the cygwin binaries are found first -- and either do not add the cygwin binary paths to the

Re: new cygwin window from script?

2004-02-21 Thread Reid Thompson
alternatively, add something along the line of this to your .bashrc ( remove or modify the parameters to suit/match your environment). Then, you can call newterm from your script. alias newterm=rxvt.exe -sr -sl 2500 -name $HOSTNAME:$PWD -fn \Courier New-16\ -geometry 80x25 -sb -bg

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