Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

2004-03-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's inherently error prone, will never be done anywhere near thoroughly enough and properly is a responsibility of the list software. IMO, of course.

Re: Java Thread Dump in Bash

2004-02-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Frank-Michael, At 07:37 2004-02-18, Frank-Michael Moser wrote: Larry Hall wrote: OK. Maybe now it's time for you to look at and follow: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Larry, what was wrong with my mails? Sorry, if..., but...? I'm reading the mailing list since a long

Re: Java Thread Dump in Bash

2004-02-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Frank-Michael, I hesitate to continue this on the Cygwin list, but I will, for now. At 09:45 2004-02-18, Frank-Michael Moser wrote: Randall, does your Java application die after pressing Ctrl-Break or not? It appears it terminates. As you've had me trying this much more than I ever have in the

Re: Java Thread Dump in Bash

2004-02-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Frank-Michael, CTRL-BREAK produces a thread-dump using the latest Sun JVM on my system when launched from BASH. However, if the program is reading standard input from the unredirected console, it receives an end-of-file indication on that stream as well. Randall Schulz At 03:42 2004-02-17,

Re: Java Thread Dump in Bash

2004-02-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Randall Schulz Randall R Schulz wrote: Frank-Michael, CTRL-BREAK produces a thread-dump using the latest Sun JVM on my system when launched from BASH. However, if the program is reading standard input from the unredirected console, it receives an end-of-file indication on that stream as well

Re: gcj problem...

2004-02-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jason, You need to learn about the ways in which GCJ differs from the stock Sun Java Tools. In particular, you need to use the --main= option to nominate the class that bears the primary entry point. See http://gcc.gnu.org/java/faq.html#4_1 for more. In general, familiarize yourself with the

This Just In: Mozilla Releases Compiled Using Cygwin

2004-01-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Howdy, Folks, I installed the new Mozila (1.6) yesterday and was exploring the about:* pages via the new about:about master about page. Check out about:buildconfig: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- about:buildconfig Build platform target i586-pc-msvc Build

Re: bash $substitution in 2.05b.0-9

2003-08-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
David, At 12:28 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ... Your problem is that /bin/sh is ash, not BASH. To get BASH, use /bin/bash #!/bin/sh Dave Randall Schulz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Yes but I don't understand ...

2003-08-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
Igor, At 13:29 2003-08-05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Selby wrote: You are dead right, I tried /bin/bash script and it worked perfectly, but I am afraid I do not understand why ... echo $BASH_VERSION Tells me I have bash Yes, because it's inherited from the parent

Re: Yes but I don't understand ...

2003-08-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
David, At 13:14 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: You are dead right, I tried /bin/bash script and it worked perfectly, but I am afraid I do not understand why ... echo $BASH_VERSION Tells me I have bash I call cygwin with ... c:\cygwin\win\rxvt.exe -e \bin\bash --login -i ie bash Where did ash

Re: loading DLLs created with Cygwin into Sun JDK

2003-08-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ville, At 10:33 2003-08-03, Ville Herva wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:24:33AM -0400, you [Norman Vine] wrote: Marcus G. Daniels writes: Incidentally, does anyone know of a Windows application that can be used to see the VM maps in a given process. (Like in Linux, with

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rob, At 07:01 2003-07-25, Rob wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there was any way to activate an existing windows 2000 dial-up connection from the cygwin command line. I don't know of an explicit command that will do this, and once upon a time before I received the blessing of DSL, I did look

Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin

2003-07-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hey, Sam, Where were you when I was looking for this way back when? That's two lacunae in as many days: rasdial mkshortcut Ignorance is _not_ bliss! Thanks to you and Luke Kendall for the enlightenment. RRS At 07:46 2003-07-25, Sam Edge wrote: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL

Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash

2003-07-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Damien, Here's the stock Cygwin.bat file: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- @echo off D: chdir \cygwin\bin bash --login -i -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- All you have to do to substitute tcsh for BASH is change the last line. The options are slightly different, though (check

Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

2003-07-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
Richard, You know, we heard you the first time... At 10:02 2003-07-23, Richard Anderson wrote: When I start Cygwin 1.3.22-1 and then try to shut down Windows XP using the normal Start / Turn Off Computer procedure, Windows pops up the End Program - Cygwin ... Windows cannot end this program

RE: Skipping the /proc filesystem

2003-07-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 13:59 2003-07-23, Chris January wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: I would wish to tell find not to get involved with the /proc filesystem at all. Can that easily be done? Very easily: % find / -path '/proc' -prune -o -print Would it make sense

Re: Cygwin prevents normal Windows shutdown

2003-07-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
Richard, For starters, you're sending two copies of your messges (some of them, anyway), both a To: copy and a CC: copy. Please try to avoid that. At 15:19 2003-07-23, Richard Anderson wrote: - Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Anderson [EMAIL

Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

2003-07-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
and translate them into POSIX signals (SIGUP, say). Randall Schulz At 17:16 2003-07-23, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Cygwin apps don't know about and cannot respond to the system-generated messages that request that applications quit in preparation for the system to shut down or the user

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
David, Investigate the options to test (the binary or the BASH built-in) that detect symbolic links: -h or -L (they are synonymous) and the command readlink (as in man readlink). Again, this is stock Unix / Linux stuff. Randall Schulz At 18:23 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently, I was

Re: Skipping the /proc filesystem

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
David, At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: Maybe this is something any native *nix speaker knows, but I'm stull trudging up the learning curve. It is entirely non-Cygwin-specific, yes. If I do a (cygwin) find for some fragment of a filename, I get a whole pile of hits in the

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 18:29 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently, I was trying to do strace Xemacs . . . First I got a No such file error, so I changed to do strace `which xemacs` -- still a failure. which xemacs returns

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 20:08 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote: ... What would happen on *nix? The same thing as on cygwin. Really? Since Cygwin strace is not a Cygwin program, it does not get Cygwin symbolic links resolved. Whereas on Unix or Linux, a symlink would be resolved by the kernel if it was used by

Re: [PATCH] : make cygpath use multiple filename arguments

2003-07-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mark, Cygpath will process multiple names when it's operating as a filter. I suggest that your patch be changed to print each converted argument on a separate line. Randall Schulz At 13:53 2003-07-17, Mark Blackburn wrote: Dunno if anybody will find this useful or not: Currently if you say:

Re: Problems with @pathnames

2003-07-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Magnus, The @-file expansion feature is active only when a non-Cygwin program invokes a Cygwin executable. Try your examples from CMD.exe or COMMAND.exe and you'll see that @-file expansion works as advertised. Randall Schulz At 09:11 2003-07-15, Magnus Lewis-Smith wrote: Do you have to do

Re: What's up with the Cygwin homepage?

2003-07-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steve, So far this morning (I tried first around 7:00 am and just now, 9:25 am PDT) I get no response at all from the Web page and Setup.exe cannot retrieve its mirror list. If it's relevant, here's the DNS resolution of cygwin.com: Non-authoritative answer: Name:cygwin.com Address:

Re: posix and win32 enviornment

2003-07-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andrew, At 14:48 2003-07-07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Shankar Unni wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your program will not understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32 ones). Well, to be totally, utterly nitpicky, I believe /WinNT/System32

Re: Advice on where to look to solve a problem

2003-07-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steve, This is elementary Unix script programming. Well, maybe intermediate scripting. The find command will do everything you want. Read the man page (man find). It's chock full 'o options. I do suggest you clarify your file age criteria. File time stamps have approximately second-level

Re: send message/mail from command line

2003-07-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andrew, The most minimal solution is ssmtp. More fully featured is exim. Man pages and extended documentation in /usr/doc/exim-* and /usr/doc/ssmtp-* are available for both of these. Randall Schulz At 18:52 2003-07-08, andrew goa wrote: Is it possible to send messages/mail from the command

Re: find -exec oddity

2003-07-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ken, At 16:38 2003-07-07, Ken Dibble wrote: Ok, I'm an idiot. I've looked in the FAQ, searched the mail lists and checked sundry Unix sources (no, not the source code). Well, I doubt greatly that you're an idiot. Confusion is the prelude to enlightenment, after all... (Compare that with Eudora

Re: [[ ]] test always reports a not found error in bash shell scrip t

2003-06-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, At 09:21 2003-06-26, MATTHEWS,MICHAEL (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: Thu 2003/JUN/26 0921 PDT Hello, I am porting a Linux build system to Windows XP by using the Cygwin 1.3.22-1 environment (see the attached text file for output from cygcheck -s -v -r). All of the bash shell scripts use the

Re: website broken

2003-06-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, At 15:03 2003-06-25, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Rolf Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I view www.cygwin.com, I get an empty page. /home/rcampbell wget -S www.cygwin.com --16:57:26-- http://www.cygwin.com/ = `index.html'

Re: Bourne Shell Programming on Windows

2003-06-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
TAM, Cygwin includes ash, BASH and pdksh (as well as zsh and tcsh), so the answer is pretty much yes, though with BASH you might want to investigate its Bourne shell compatibility mode. I'm unfamiliar with any details of pdksh's Bourne compatibility, but it should be pretty close or perhaps

eBay Fraud (OT)

2003-06-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, This is from the latest Risks digest (22.77--see news:comp.risks): -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:14:12 -0400 From: John Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: eBay fraud Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, are working with eBay to determine

Re: Mozilla vis-à-vis Cygwin

2003-06-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, Oh, yeah... Another D'Oh! moment: Now that you mention it, I remember your post. Sorry to act like it was a discovery. Apparently the people who earlier mentioned an interest in Mozilla under Cygwin / Cygwin-XFree86 had only an idle interest. I'll admit it's not a priority for me, I

Re: changing bash window title

2003-06-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 07:54 2003-06-17, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote: Hi, the bash window has title Cygwin by default .. whenever I do a telnet or lynx .. it changes the title .. how do I restore it again or change it to something custom .. TIA Sanjay Sanjay, The default

Re: Mozilla vis-à-vis Cygwin

2003-06-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, Oh, yeah... Another D'Oh! moment: Now that you mention it, I remember your post. Sorry to act like it was a discovery. Apparently the people who earlier mentioned an interest in Mozilla under Cygwin / Cygwin-XFree86 had only an idle interest. I'll admit it's not a priority for me, I

Mozilla vis-à-vis Cygwin

2003-06-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, A while back there was some talk about the feasibility of a Cygwin-based Mozilla. In perusing the release notes for Mozilla 1.4 (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4rc1/) I noticed this: - As of Mozilla 1.4b, it is possible to build Mozilla for Win32 using GCC. See the win32 build

RE: Bash 2.05 not reading my ~/.bashrc

2003-06-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dean, At 07:52 2003-06-16, Schulze, Dean wrote: I checked the mail archives for this problem before posting but found nothing of any help. A search engine that uses boolean logic (or something like Google) would help a lot. Use the domain-restricted Google search feature at

Mozilla vis-à-vis Cygwin

2003-06-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, A while back there was some talk about the feasibility of a Cygwin-based Mozilla. In perusing the release notes for Mozilla 1.4 (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4rc1/) I noticed this: - As of Mozilla 1.4b, it is possible to build Mozilla for Win32 using GCC. See the win32 build

Re: bash : stderr more (pipe for stderr)

2003-06-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
Alex, At 00:25 2003-06-14, Alex Vinokur wrote: $ command | more # works only for stdout $ command | more bash: syntax error near unexpected token `' How to use pipe for stderr? BASH uses the Bourne and Korn shell syntax for redirection. You're using the CSH / tcsh variety. # Redirect

Re: The other side of bell-style

2003-06-13 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, Cygwin was changed to use the system beep as of Cygwin version 1.3.21: From http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00841.html: Changes since 1.3.20-1: - Use MessageBeep for cygwin bell. (Vaclav Haisman) So just update your Cygwin and you'll get what you want. Randall Schulz At

Re: Vim and the navigating with arrow keys

2003-06-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Brian, At 06:27 2003-06-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True Vim'ers DO NOT navigate with arrow keys. I remember reading that somewhere. Certainly the correct way to navigate in Vim is with the H J K and L keys. Understood, acknowledged, yaddy yadda yaaa. That said - I like to use the arrow

Re: Vim and the navigating with arrow keys

2003-06-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Brian, At 07:25 2003-06-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... However, I do take issue with your practically flawless line - for I still have the need to do CTRL-L refreshes with small files. Example: Simple text file with the following text: cygrunsrv -E cron Open in Vim, and do nothing but touch

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 10:44 2003-06-05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about since when typical unix/linux FSs support holes inside files ! Traditional UNIX has done this for at least 10

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 06:53 2003-06-06, Christopher Faylor wrote: ... Nevermind. I was testing in a directory where I'd set the compression bit on. So much for my trustworthiness... Never ascribe to malice something that can be explained by absent-mindedness. It's one of those Occam's razor things. I

Re: rsync and cygwin paths

2003-06-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 10:06 2003-06-04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: ... Please notice that there is a default prgoramm called cygpath that's really useful to convert path- and file-names between the two version, and it's not so hard to create wrapper scripts to convert

Re: rsync and cygwin paths

2003-06-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 10:44 2003-06-04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 10:06 2003-06-04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: ... http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH NEWARGS= for arg in $@ ; do

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Randall Schulz At 13:40 2003-06-03, Biju G C wrote: cgf, When I reply to any mail from cygwin list it is going to the actual sender instead of

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 15:54 2003-06-03, Biju G C wrote: --- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Randall Schulz Then how is it happening in cygwin-xfree list

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jeremy, At 08:47 2003-06-02, Peter Colovas wrote: I think the multi-window mode of xfree is great work. Since the addition of the changeable window title it has been everything I need. I have a feature request. I don't know how difficult it would be, but it would be great if the right click

Re: Windows NT installation 1.3.22-1

2003-05-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
Panos, This question probably belongs on the general Cygwin list, no on Cygwin-XFree. I've added that list to this reply's distribution. Further follow-ups and replies should go there only. I believe you're expecting a CSH-equivalent shell (tcsh, e.g.). That shell is available under Cygwin,

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sam, At 03:17 2003-05-28, Sam Edge wrote: Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Tue, 27 May 2003 13:07:18 +0100: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote: Make sure that if your script uses Bash-specific features, it starts with

Re: Windows NT installation 1.3.22-1

2003-05-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
Panos, This question probably belongs on the general Cygwin list, no on Cygwin-XFree. I've added that list to this reply's distribution. Further follow-ups and replies should go there only. I believe you're expecting a CSH-equivalent shell (tcsh, e.g.). That shell is available under Cygwin,

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Peter, Make sure your scripts explicitly state /bin/bash as their shell. The default shell (i.e. /bin/sh) under Cygwin is ash, not BASH. It produces the diagnostic you mention when given that command. Randall Schulz At 00:56 2003-05-27, Peter Oosterlynck wrote: When using a line like for ((

Re: redistributing cygwin1.dll

2003-05-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
Yo! Presto Man, Where's that bait site you were going to set up? Or is it one of those hide-and-seek things? RRS -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Bash and xterm window title

2003-04-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ajay, The preferred answer is: Read the BASH manual, where the details of how to use the special escape codes recognized in the PS1 string are fully explained. To wit: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- PROMPTING When executing interactively, bash displays

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chuck, At 15:52 2003-04-05, Charles Wilson wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Chuck, I was meaning to write this up earlier, but work keeps getting in the way. When I used your new termcap entry, less (when it's displaying output piped to it via its standard input but not when it is given a file

Re: How to access a Linux partition

2003-04-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Martin, At 14:06 2003-04-04, Martin wrote: How does Cygwin access a Linux partition? I guess you still need help from us short-tempered chits, eh? There's no way to directly access a file system in Cygwin. Cygwin relies on Windows for file access. If you can find a file system driver for

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Chuck, Thanks for the clarification. I have no idea what was up with the MIME encoding or whatever it was that glitched. At 20:16 2003-04-02, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Since there were no attachments, I placed the text embedded in the message into a file named cygwin.terminfo

RE: Problem in tcsh

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 06:55 2003-04-03, Soumitra Pal wrote: Corinna, I did whatever you said. Current passwd is the following. ... But still the problem is not solved. Mine is latest cygwin. Thanks and regards, Soumitra. Soumitra, No one seems to have asked you about your readline options. I know next to nothing

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Tim, At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: ... Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers depend on cygwin, which

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 12:22 2003-04-03, Timothy C Prince wrote: ... We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. -- Lily Tomlin __ They may care. I doubt their chances of overtaking linux-ia64 or making back their investment in XP64 this year are

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
(rename cygwin in the above to wcygwin and lcygwin to cygwin), less works as usual for both standard input and file name arguments. Randall Schulz At 12:30 2003-04-03, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Can I trouble you to explain why your termcap replaces something so different in the existing

Re: Pipe behavior

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steven, At 16:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: Hello, I have a question about pipe behavior. I wrote a simple program that does a printf, sleeps for 5 seconds and then another printf. If I run the program with the following way: $ ./simple | cat The output is delayed until the program finished. I

Re: What package is GLX OpenGL from?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Everybody! (with a Dr. Nick Riviera intonation) With the Monty Python Spam song intonation: FAQ, FAQ, FAQ, FAQ FAQ, FAQ, FAQ, FAQ But in keeping with my policy of not taunting or scolding without including a constructive answer, go here: http://cygwin.com/packages/. For best

Re: how do I configure ssmtp on pacbell.net?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steve, At 23:34 2003-04-01, you wrote: I'm a pacbell dsl user. They gave me an IP address, but not a domain name. Are you sure? Perhaps they simply didn't tell you what it was. Is this you? % nslookup adsl-63-197-19-160.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Server: ... Address: ... Non-authoritative

Re: cygwin license

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ehud, [ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS spy-ware. ] At 04:44 2003-04-02, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... I'm intending to do a similar thing - to make a CD

Re: how do I configure ssmtp on pacbell.net?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 07:25 2003-04-02, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: Steve, At 23:34 2003-04-01, you wrote: I'm a pacbell dsl user. They gave me an IP address, but not a domain name. Are you sure? Perhaps they simply didn't tell you what it was. Is this you

RE: how do I configure ssmtp on pacbell.net?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sergey, At 07:45 2003-04-02, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: Everyone may use free DNS service like dyndns.org. For example D:\nslookup sokhapkin.dyndns.org Server: barney.leapstone.com Address: 10.10.30.21 Non-authoritative answer: Name:sokhapkin.dyndns.org Address: 216.220.64.102 D:\nslookup

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Charles, I must be missing something. At 00:29 2003-04-02, you wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Sorry, I haven't been following this thread. See below. I'll try to figure out which parts are missing, and reinstate them -- look for a new release (of terminfo-) sometime in the next week. Try the

Re: Make shows invalid contents

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
- Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:12 AM Subject: Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

RE: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hannu, Here's the full set of recommendations: Yours: Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such. Plus: Write all your scripts to accommodate the presence of spaces and shell metacharacters in file names. This is a true pain in the ass... I wish everybody could

Re: cygwin license

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 10:40 2003-04-02, you wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: [ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS spy-ware. ] Good answer. You've earned the star. Wow

Re: stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Christian, At 11:22 2003-04-02, you wrote: Hello, I have cygwin, it works fine but when I run it from a Win2k Telnet session it fails: *=== Bienvenido al servidor Telnet de Microsoft.

Re: cygwin license

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Igor, At 13:34 2003-04-02, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 10:40 2003-04-02, you wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: [ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting I would cease to use Cygwin in favor

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from system to system, though POSIX dictates a minimum value for this limit. If you've got to deal in some kind of open-ended argument list (lists of

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
John, Are you a famous composer? If so, are you _the_ famous composer? At 18:58 2003-04-02, John Williams wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from system

Re: cygwin license

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 20:21 2003-04-02, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Good answer. You've earned the star. Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal parade a slave would ride in the chariot with him. As the cheering throng tossed flowers

Re: ls Question + bug?

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Thorsten, At 06:42 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) (03-04-01 11:30 +0100) IMO the sense of it is still there, even in NT. Can't tell about XP - but I would be surprised if the changes were that many. XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. Hardly. NT 4 and 2000 have

Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: ... XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. [snip] Thorsten ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#office). OH. MY. GOD. I installed SP3 on my

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: Big Brother is Real At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: ... XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. [snip] Thorsten ... with completely

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Thorsten, At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of http://www.aaxnet.com

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Herr Doktor Faylor, At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:24:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Thorsten, At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: XP is the first

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Maybe a gold star would help persuade me to stay... Sorry. cgf Randy (there he is again) -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 09:19 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Sorry. Yes, master

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Günter, At 09:56 2003-04-01, you wrote: I missed out on that.. What does sp3 for win2k do? It opens a back door for MS snooping. DRM indeed! Btw. I only use amd cpu's. To my understanding they don't have the cpu id (I don't trust a software that allows me to turn the id of because obviously

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 10:10 2003-04-01, you wrote: A lisp would be already a good start. Just don't write programs with it... Hey! Lisp is my all-time favorite language! Corinna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Günter, That first remark of mine was meant facetiously, of course. SP3 does more than just open a privacy hole (I assume). My guess (nope, I haven't done the research--I had my child-like naivete destroyed by Igor's URL just today!) is that it's during system update that you're going to be

Re: making X server a COM object..

2003-03-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Harold, At 15:50 2003-03-31, you wrote: KH, The scope is probably beyond the scope of this mailing list. I think you would be better off working first on a version of Cygwin/XFree86 that compiled without Cygwin... then, and only then, could you even begin to worry about wrapping XFree86 with

Re: Ping program?

2003-03-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sam, You don't say which version of Windows you're running, but NT, 2000 and XP all include a ping program. Is it insufficient for your needs? % type ping ping is /cygdrive/d/WINNT/system32/ping Randall Schulz At 08:24 2003-03-31, you wrote: I'm dying here. Does anyone have a ping program that

Re: command prompt window title

2003-03-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Anoop, At 11:38 2003-03-31, you wrote: I'm running cygwin's latest version 1.3.22-1. When I run cygwin from my desktop, it brings up a command prompt window with a title Cygwin. I modified cygwin.bat to make my default shell tcsh. Anyway, after I run vi, the window title changes to vi fname

Re: command prompt window title

2003-03-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 15:19 2003-03-31, you wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: Anoop, At 11:38 2003-03-31, you wrote: ... Anyway, after I run vi, the window title changes to vi fname where fname is the file that I'm editing. When I quit vi, the title of the window remains that way until

Re: command prompt window title

2003-03-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 17:02 2003-03-31, you wrote: Randall, Most likely there is no wrapper script. This is an option of vim itself. In vim, help title. Igor Igor, That explains why I could not find documentation for the title / notitle command when Thorsten mentioned it: I looked in the man and

Re: (Aucun objet)

2003-03-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jean-Luis, Even though you're using CYGWIN, which provides a very Unix-like environment and inside of which the PATH has a Unix-like syntax, the Sun Java compiler is a Windows application and it expects CLASSPATH to be formatted according to the Windows convention. The path components are

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, You wrote vmtools and vmware. Is that http://www.vmguys.com/vmtools/ or http://www.vmware.com/? Both? Something else? It's really just idle curiosity. I had never heard of vmtools before, so I had to go look it up (it's Java XML stuff) and so it doesn't sound related, but I just thought

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Robert, Ah, right. I should have remembered that. I have VMware on this system (for a couple of months, now) and of course I installed the VMtools. I use VMware to run Linux under Windows since I now have a client who has some Java software that has to runs and build on both. Thanks for

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

2003-03-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 14:15 2003-03-27, you wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: ***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin documentation poem!

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

2003-03-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andrew, At 11:41 2003-03-26, Andrew M. Inggs wrote: ... Specifically for CD-R, I have had trouble doing this because the URL-encoded directories that setup.exe creates to keep track of which mirror you select are not ISO9660 or Joliet friendly. I usually just rename the directory before

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? Randall Schulz At 17:24 2003-03-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just outta curiosity, has anyone built Mozilla 1.3 on cygwin? thanks, JeffH -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, At 21:32 2003-03-26, Michael F. March wrote: Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but...

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