Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-25 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
ent color was too dark. I changed the accent color to white, which doesn't seem to interfere with my color scheme, and paid more attention to overlapping mintty and gvim windows (which have black backgrounds), and as you say, it's faint but there. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports:

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-24 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: > > > Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: > >On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > >>On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin > >> wrote: > >>>This is an upd

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-24 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
gt; or black background (where the shadow isn't visible). > > > > Just FYI > > > > -- > > Jim Garrison > > j...@acm.org > > This is also true for Windows 10, although I may have had to > explicitly enable it (I don't remember). It's i

Re: Update of ctags?

2023-07-18 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
types have been added. > > Thanks for your consideration. I'm not the maintainer, but this would not be a package update; it would be a new package. The Cygwin ctags package is Exuberant Ctags 5.8, while ctags 6.0 is the latest release of Universal Ctags. Regards, Gary -- Problem

Re: mintty mouse behavior with vim

2023-05-11 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
pport X, but other than that, I don't know what Ubuntu vim package supports what. I always install vim-gtk so I have everything. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

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

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

Re: Latest versions of cygwin - Paths with spaces

2022-05-17 Thread Gary Johnson
ng is unusual, but it's not wrong. For example: $ cat foo #!/bin/bash for word in "$@" do echo "$word" done $ ./foo one two" "three four one two three four However, I've always seen the C: drive under /cygdrive as

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Gary Johnson
the third column) for the bc package probably says Skip. Click on the arrow in that field and select the newest package number, which should be 1.06.95-2. At the bottom of that page, click on Next and follow whatever instructions follow. That should install bc as /usr/bin/bc. HTH, Gary

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > > So, does anyone know why is takes so much longer for bash to run the >

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > So, does anyone know why is takes so much longer for bash to run the > > > vim I built than the official Cygwin vim? More

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > I build my own copy of Vim for the Cygwin terminal from the source > > at https://github.com/vim/vim.git. Lately, I've noticed the startup > > time getting slower,

Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

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

Re: w3m displays blank help page

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

w3m displays blank help page

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

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

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

Question about your website

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

Re: Trouble with setting ini files : gnuplot and vi

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

Re: Possible vim bug

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

USA-Based answering service for Village Mart?

2020-10-06 Thread Gary Lucero via Cygwin
burden. *Would you like an Inbound Call Answering Services quote? *All I need is for you to reply, let me know your expected (monthly) call volume & a good number myself or one of my associates can reach you. If there's anything further you need, please let me know! Thanks, Gary Lucero

Re: Assistance with 'split -l' command

2020-08-12 Thread Gary Vaughan via Cygwin
Thank you for the reply and information. Gary Vaughan Analyst Calero-MDSL o:+1 469-808-3047 www.calero.com<https://www.calero.com> www.mdsl.com<https://www.mdsl.com> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail transmission and any attachments to it is information belonging to the s

Assistance with 'split -l' command

2020-08-11 Thread Gary Vaughan via Cygwin
5000 /desktop/ESM.csv /desktop/ESM.csv is resulting ESM/csvaa and would like it to be ESMaa.csv Gary Vaughan Analyst Calero-MDSL o:+1 469-808-3047 www.calero.com<https://www.calero.com> www.mdsl.com<https://www.mdsl.com> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail transmission and any atta

email --verbose returns version info

2020-05-28 Thread Gary E. Rafe, PhD via Cygwin
to be updated from the current github source (still marked in VERSION as 3.2.3-git) ? Thank you. -- Gary E. Rafe, PhD | +1 419.699.1181 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

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

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

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

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

Re: Virtual device in Windows 10

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

Virtual device in Windows 10

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

Windows - special device question message 6168

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

Opt-In-Data Needs

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

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

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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

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

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

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

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

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

FZF Newer Version

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

Re: Cygwin Git cant' Sync File Based repository

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

Cygwin Git cant' Sync File Based repository

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

Cygwin Git can't Sync File Based Repository

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: How to repeat a bash shell script until success

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

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

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

Re: find / without traversing /proc

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

Re: cygwin console software

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

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

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

Re: profile_d

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

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

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

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

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

.bashrc not sourced

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

Re: Vim and cursor position

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

Re: vim 7.4 spontaneously changes the working file

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

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

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

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

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

Re: 1.7.35: possible backspace key and arrow keys bug

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

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

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

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

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

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

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

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

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

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

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-04 Thread Gary Johnson
l of these questions are answered in the man page for bash, or whatever shell you are using. If you don't want to read the whole thing, just search for keywords from your questions. If you have further questions, you will have to find a different forum/list in which to ask them. Regards, Gary

Re: How to disable all syntax coloring in Cygwin/bash?

2013-12-16 Thread Gary Johnson
When compiled and installed from the original sources on Unix, vi does not use colors. To see what configuration files 'vi' is reading, run "vi --version" and look for the various vimrc files. If your 'vi' is displaying colors, they are being enabled

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
nd /usr/bin/vim on my Fedora 17 installation are configured with those same system vimrc files: $ /usr/bin/vi --version ... system vimrc file: "/etc/virc" ... $ /usr/bin/vim --version ... system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc" ... It makes sense th

Re: vim not working as an editor for git

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
ground. To keep it in the foreground, use "gvim -f". Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-08 Thread Gary Johnson
cs port or in Cygwin itself, the actual > bug needs to be fixed, rather than hack out the feature that tickles > the bug. There was a discussion around March 27, 2012, about another change in the behavior of RCS between 5.7 and 5.8. It appears that someone decided to make some sweeping

Re: VIM Vundle not working under Cygwin64

2013-10-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-10-03, Paul King wrote: > Hello > > I have tried to get vim's vundle package to work under Cygwin64, and > it appears as though vim doesn't understand most of the package. > Vundle works under 32-bit Cygwin, but something in the way the 64-bit > version was compiled looks in the wrong plac

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.3.0-1

2013-09-30 Thread Gary Johnson
ygwin. One of my scripts stopped working after the upgrade and I finally tracked the problem down to run-1.3. After numerous attempts to fix the problem by changing the quoting on the arguments, I downgraded to run-1.2 and the script works fine again. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports:

Whois for Cygwin64

2013-08-09 Thread Gary T. Giesen
It looks like a package for whois (gnu whois) hasn't yet been compiled for Cygwin64. I downloaded the source package for it and once I had all the dependencies taken care of it compiled nicely with cygports (--64). Just wondering if there's something else holding up the package or it just hasn'

Re: pango1.0.sh exit code 1

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

Re: Recent Cygwin problems

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

Recent Cygwin problems

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

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

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

Re: ln -s do not work

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

Re: bash-completion load times

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

ISC DHCPv6 Server?

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

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

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

Re: Mount Windows C drive as POSIX root?

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

Mount Windows C drive as POSIX root?

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

Re: Enlarging the Dos box window and font

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

Re: Strange behaviour of mutt.exe

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

Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)

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

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

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

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

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

Re: How to run cygwin on boot

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

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

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

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

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

mkpasswd and domain fail with windows network

2012-03-14 Thread Furash, Gary F - (furashg)
I've had this problem in the past with in other organizations and have never been able to get around it. Problem: running mkpasswd w/ '-D' doesn't work/finish Details: I am running Cygwin on Windows 7 64 bit in a typical work environment. I don't think that matters because I've had this exact p

Re: Mintty Log Off problem

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

Re: Can't edit crontab

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

Re: Can't edit crontab

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

Re: No Network Access Nearly Resolved

2012-02-10 Thread Furash, Gary F - (furashg)
Hi Corrina: > For a start, maybe you should set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group as they > are supposed to be, not as you think they should be: > $ mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd > $ mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group Even when I run mkpasswd from a dos prompt (that can see mkpasswd) and ca

RE: Lost Network Connectivity from Cygwin

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

RE: Lost Network Connectivity from Cygwin

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

FW: Lost Network Connectivity from Cygwin

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

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

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

Re: Perl system() function works sometimes.

2012-01-30 Thread Gary E Barnes
o need to invoke a subshell (or do a great deal of process piping on my own). Would it help reduce DLL space usage if I wrote the commands out to a file and ran the file as a shell script underneath Perl? Gary On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Gary E Barnes wrote: > I have tried pe

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >