Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

Hi, it seems to me that the application misses a running X server. It is the same under Unix if you start an X application directly on a console without having X running. Erich On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:41 +, John Emmas wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Hall (Cygwin)

Re: Get IO Error opening file

Hi, one follows the other. Try to find this file via Google or Yahoo, download it manually to the location where cygwin stores its files on your machine and then try to install it again. This happens once in a while. Maybe the path is wrong or the file is missing on the server. Erich

Re: Building C++ program with QT under cygwin

Hi, hce wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hce wrote: I actually tried QT 4.3 linux packaget, but could not build it could not find cygwin-g++ in makespec directory. The QT seems only support minGW on Windows. Note that a QT you build for

Re: Standard include problem

Hi, did you check the include path of the compiler in use? Erich Shay wrote: Hi I am sorry to ask this but I really searched before. I would like to compile a C program but includes are not found : The file 'stdio.h' cannot be opened The file 'stdarg.h' cannot be opened I installed

Re: Building C++ program with QT under cygwin

Hi, one thing at a time. hce wrote: I am new to cygwin. I've just installed cygwin for building my C++ I see Cygwin as an emulator. Your program will see Linux but not Windows. But you still can call Windows directly. and the C++ program was built using macro #ifdef WIN32 for the code

Re: Remote Linux desktop in my Cygwin windows PC

Hi, marcos rebelo wrote: I'm really basic with Linux. I'm running remote applications with: xhost ssh export DISPLAY So I'm using Eclipse, gedit, firefox, ... like this for example in my windows. Now I'm curios if I'm able to have the full desktop of my Linux machine like a window in my

Re: Problem with installing the X environment

Hi, David Garber wrote: Deal all, After installing the cygwin several times, when I tryy to open the X by xinit, I got again and again this error: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/, removing from list! and the X window is closed. what happens, if you create

Re: 1.5.25-6: Win32 programs don't get correct redirection

Hi, René Berber wrote: Jack Brennen wrote: What you don't see is that Windows' echo added a CR so you get to see the second line followed by CR-LF and the rest of the (overwritten) first line. the CR will be added after the appended characters and so not interfere with the example's data.

Re: Almost nothing works for me in Cygwin 1.5.24-2

Hi, I have had once problems like this too. The solution was very simple. I reinstalled from a different mirror. Erich Rob Larkins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I run Cygwin it loads normally; if I exit Cygwin immediately I logout just fine. If I do pretty much

Re: Pasting and copying between X and Windows

Hi, a very rough method in an Windows environment is a fresh installation. Try to start setup again and reinstall cygwin. It looks to me that some parts got not properly installed. Erich jose isaias cabrera wrote: Holger Krull escribió, jose isaias cabrera schrieb: cygwin XWin, I

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

Hi, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Not to leave you hanging, the problem was the xdmcp was not enabled. But there is another problem, which has nothing to do with cygwin. Somehow, my userID has something weird. Other co-workers are connecting fine, but my user ID is not working from any

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

. You can also take SSH if you do not know who else listens between. Erich jose isaias cabrera wrote: d-tuxedo 00:32:35- set | grep DISPLAY DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 what should it be? - Original Message - From: Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

Hi, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I don't seem to be able to open an xterm. All I get is a full screen without anything. I am running this command: I did this for years using FreeBSD as the server. No problems. XWin

Re: New to cygwin

Hi, Tomasz Jankowski wrote: 2007/11/27, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would recommend to use cygwin if you want to write a program for multiple platforms. That is what I'm going to do. What is your programming background? Sorry I don't understand this question? What do mean

Re: New to cygwin

Hi, Tomasz Jankowski wrote: I'm completely new to cygwin (and generally to programming for the MS Windows too). I'm working on a library and I need to use some socket API in it. I decided to prepare port for win32, but it's much harder, that I thought. the basic socket API of Windows and

Re: DISPLAY set up

Hi, did you install a window manager and did you select the same window manager in your startup script? Erich Hernan Praddaude wrote: Sirs: I installed cigwin and I'm able to get the full screen and the pointer but nothing else. At some stage of the trying process I receive the error msg.

Re: copying a million tiny files?

Hi, Brian Dessent wrote: Using xcopy, is kind of silly and wont get you compatiblity.. especially in scripts Portability to non-Windows systems is of course a problem but xcopy is present on every install of Windows that has ever existed going back to some very old version of

Re: Cygwin Window

Hi, Earl Albin wrote: Can anyone help me with envoking the window interface with the latest Cygwin X winow application. I tried both methods the shell scrip and the batch file method and neither works.\ you must tell us a bit more. Post at least your batch file you are using to start X and

Re: Has anyone run xdm successfully under cygwin?

Hi, pbs wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: I do not know about this package but all other packages' source can be downloaded via setup.exe with checking the proper checkbox. The sources will then automatically fit to the binary you have on your machine. Thanks I had not see the src column

Re: Has anyone run xdm successfully under cygwin?

Hi, I do not know about this package but all other packages' source can be downloaded via setup.exe with checking the proper checkbox. The sources will then automatically fit to the binary you have on your machine. Erich pbs wrote: pbs wrote: pbs wrote: pbs wrote: I have come back to

Re: How to write directory address under Cygwin?

Hi, Peter Hains wrote: Hi all, I know this quite probably a very basic question, so basic in fact, I haven't been able to find any help! I have Cygwin up and running on my PC and I am trying to use a UNIX program under Cygwin. The program requires a parameter file telling it where to find

Re: How to write directory address under Cygwin?

Hi, Peter Hains wrote: René Berber r.berber at computer.org writes: Are you sure you need the directory path not the file path? I actually need to specify a file within the directory. I wasn't aware that would make a difference. For the record, I do have read/write permission in the

Re: gcc does not know about new and delete

Hi, Framk gave you the answer. gcc is a plain c compiler. Erich Joel W. Gannett wrote: I've checked but was unable to find any FAQs on this subject, as keywords such as new and delete apparently created too many hits. Why doesn't my cygwin gcc know about the standard C++ functions new and

Re: xterm changed from german to english

Hi, Holger Krull wrote: Sebastian Posch schrieb: I have a german WindowsXP installation with a german keyboard. Since yesterday all of a sudden I get only english input in xterm. y is z, - is / ... I still have german input in bash and DOS prompt, so I tried restarting the X server and

Re: Cygwin inoperable immediately following install

Hi, Asa Zernik wrote: I just tried to install Cygwin on an HP Pavilion running Windows XP Media Center Edition (which I think is only different in having a some media this should not be the cause of the problem. 2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c

Re: Cygwin Window closes immediately

Hi, did you edit the batch file which starts cygwin? If not, do so. All you need to know is inside the batch file. Erich David FAY XX (SY/EPA) wrote: Hello, I am having problems opening cygwin. A window pops up when I double click on the shortcut on the desktop but it immediately closes.

Re: executing C program in cygwin

Hi, Enna wrote: /path to the program/programnamefilename This worked fine yesterday, however today all i get is the message bash: filename: no such file or directory. I must admit that I shifted the check for spaces in the names and insert a space behind the program name. Erich --

Re: Bash

Hi, Jam One wrote: I have downloaded the recent copy of cygwin and there is no bash.exe in the cygwin/bin directory, yet the cygwin.bat file points to the bash command. you have to install bash after installing cygwin. Erich -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: help! cygwin window linux cmds dont work/ not recognised

Hi, edzio wrote: Hi, I just installed cygwin from cygwin.com, the window opens with a bash-3.2$ prompt no colon - i am trying cygwin to have a command line c++ compiler that behaves like linux. but commands like ls or cd arent recognised or any command at all... what am i missing? I

Re: hacked package on server

Hi, Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it ^^ So you see, it's a problem of thought. The UI message *is*

Re: hacked package on server

Hi, Pedro Alves wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it ^^ So you see

setup exe comes with an empty list of mirrors

Hi, I just have downloaded setup.exe on a machine which never has had cygwin installed. Starting setup.exe showed only an empty mirror list. I think that this could confuse new users. Erich -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Problem with stat

Hi, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Erich Dollansky on 6/26/2007 6:57 AM: if (stat (/usr/X11R6/share/doc/lesstif-0.94.4/html/Lessdox, Stat) == 0) { printf (Mode: %lX\n, (unsigned long) Stat.st_mode); if (S_ISDIR (Stat.st_mode

Problem with stat

Hi, I have a problem with either understanding the C function stat or with cygwin. When I run stat from the console I get this: File: `Lessdox' - `/usr/X11R6/share/doc/lesstif-0.94.4/html' Size: 40 Blocks: 1 IO Block: 1024 symbolic link Device: e491f35dh/3834770269d

Re: Problem with stat

Hi, Václav Haisman wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: [...] When I run this little C++ program: PRIVATE VOID StatLessdox (VOID) BEGIN struct stat Stat; IF (stat (/usr/X11R6/share/doc/lesstif-0.94.4/html/Lessdox, Stat) == 0) THEN printf (Mode: %lX\n, (unsigned long) Stat.st_mode

Re: Problem with stat

Hi, Eric Blake wrote: If it were truly C++, you would have also showed the include files and preprocessor macros that you used. If you want help on this issue, provide a COMPILABLE example, and preferably one that is not so masked by macros that it looks more like pascal than C++. here we

Re: Problem with stat

Hi, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Why is Lessdox not recognised as a link here? Because your program asked about what the link pointed to, and not about the link itself. The command line 'stat' uses lstat(), which is probably what you want your program to do. And

Re: Cygwin allocted time slice

Hi, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1998: B20 rocks! I wish it wasn's so slow. Should I defragment my drive? isn't reformat and reinstall Windows the right answer here? Erich -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: folder creation

Hi, jayachandran kamaraj wrote: any folder created by windows inside my documents has just d- the folder needs at least one x set. chmod manually? Erich -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Kile on Cygwin?

Hi, 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

problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

Hi, I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 did simply not see file2 even if I started cmp from e:. As I was off-line when I needed cmp, I wrote my own cmp to compare the files. What surprise. The same

Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote: I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive relative it works perfectly

Re: problem with drive letters when running from DOS box

Hi, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote: I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file. cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2 Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive

_ultoa

Hi, I try to find the function _ultoa to convert some numbers. Even the search at project's website does not show a single hit. Google finds a lot but I did not find a reference which solves my problem. I can compile sources with references to _ultoa because I have mingw installed. But I

Re: Why is Cygwin1.dll monolithic?

Hi, Václav Haisman wrote: Today I woke up and one of the first things that came on my mind was this: Why isn't Cygwin1.dll devided to the kernel and separate C library? isn't it just the API? So why should there be a 'kernel'? Erich -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: scp timeout on dual-core processor

Hi, Harig, Mark wrote: The Cygwin version of the openssh utility program, 'scp', appears to have a defect that prevents it from copying files above a certain size, when 'scp' is running on computers with Intel dual-core processors. Cygwin/openssh/etc. on two more computers with dual-core

Re: pthreads don't scale on windows xp, but does scale on linux, cygwin 1.5.19

Hi, jdeifik wrote: At 07:00 PM 3/21/2006, you wrote: jdeifik wrote: I have a dual xeon 2.4ghz machine with hypertreading enabled. This gives me 4 logical processors. I am not sure why it is important to have a HT aware scheduler for Windows, when there are 4 or more threads. I can see

Re: Where is The Binary Only Install CD?

Hi, you can do it yourself. Just download all the packages you want but do not install them. They files are kept in a location one directory level below where the setup executable sits. Then burn all to CD including the setup program and start it at the target machine. Erich big one

Re: scribus: cygjpeg-62.dll not found

Hi, René Berber wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: [snip] - From Cygwin/X's main page you can also find the mailing list at CygGnome project, which also looks appropiate: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=67909 I will try it there. BTW the OP problem was probably the result of not

Re: scribus: cygjpeg-62.dll not found

Hi, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:13:24PM -0600, Ren? Berber wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: [snip] Sorry but it isn't up to Yaakov to decide if things that aren't part of the cygwin distribution are discussed here. The fact that we advertise other people's cygwin

Re: scribus: cygjpeg-62.dll not found

Hi, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: And (before someone asks) wrt to the first scribus thread started by René, I only continued that discussion here since her problem has to do with qt3 itself, which I maintain *within* the distro. It now appears that she may have

scribus: cygjpeg-62.dll not found

Hi, after installing Scribus from ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports, I get the error message that cygjpeg-62.dll is missing. I tried first an upgrade of my old installation an later did a fresh one. I got in both cases the same error message. Is there a solution to this? How can I

Re: scribus: cygjpeg-62.dll not found

Hi, thanks for your help. I found out that the package I needed war not available at the original site. Christopher Faylor wrote: after installing Scribus from ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports, I get the error message that cygjpeg-62.dll is missing. If you visit

Re: scribus: cygjpeg-62.dll not found

Hi, René Berber wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Have you tested any other X Windows application? I just closed Gimp before writing this. I use X since a long time without any problems like this. ~/.qt is empty, no problem there, you can set some options running /usr/lib/qt3/bin

Re: sshd and X

Hi, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Running an application gives a different error now also. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xcalc X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). you need to run xauth + at your machine plus

Re: Deutsche Buerger trauen sich nicht ...

Hi, first the Nazis conquered Europe and now they conquer all those mailing lists. The German text looks like being written on a US keyboard. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Auslaenderbanden terrorisieren Wahlkampf - deutsche Buerger trauen sich nicht ihre Meinung zu sagen! Weiter auf: