Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 00:45 -0700, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Alright if I download and compile it can I just mv gdb.exe into /bin and overwrite gdb.exe? use ./configure --prefix=/ make make install and it should end up in the right place

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 14:37 +, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 00:45 -0700, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Alright if I download and compile it can I just mv gdb.exe into /bin and overwrite gdb.exe? use ./configure --prefix=/ make make install and it should

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
On 5/3/2012 7:47 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Is this the right place to suggest that gdb be upgraded for cygwin. If not where could I suggest that? If this is an acceptable place then can I add here that if you guys do upgrade gdb that I was hoping you could make it a bit more

Re: man redirect error

2012-01-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error. $ man gcc | head GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E]

RE: man redirect error

2012-01-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants: $ MANPAGER=head man gcc GCC(1)

[ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r--

2011-07-20 Thread Reid Thompson
Is this broken? Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy? Or am I missing something with my posix/windows file permissions settings reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~ $ ls -rlt afile -r--r--r-- 1 reid.thompson Domain Users 6 2011-07-20 14:02 afile reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~ $ if [ -w afile ]; then echo file

Re: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r--

2011-07-20 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:05 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: Is this broken? Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy? Or am I missing something with my posix/windows file permissions settings reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~ $ ls -rlt afile -r--r--r-- 1 reid.thompson Domain Users 6 2011-07-20 14:02 afile

Re: 'tr' Bug

2011-03-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On 03/11/2011 10:28 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: echo /opt/IBN/df | tr [A-Z] [a-z] produces: /opt/xxx/df not: /opt/ibn/df Both Linux and FreeBSD produce correct results. Is this a known 'tr' bug? $ env|grep LANG LANG=en_US.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8 [10:38:15] rthompso@raker~ $ uname

Re: 'tr' Bug

2011-03-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On 03/11/2011 10:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 03/11/2011 08:28 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: echo /opt/IBN/df | tr [A-Z] [a-z] produces: /opt/xxx/df Let me guess - you have a file named 'x' in the current directory. Quote your arguments, so that the shell won't glob them: echo /opt/IBN/df |

Re: No manual entry for awk

2011-01-19 Thread Reid Thompson
On 1/19/2011 7:08 PM, Chris Velevitch wrote: I've just downloaded and run setup.exe v 2.738 on Win 7 Ent. I've only installed 'base' and the 'vim' editor. 'base' includes awk, but the man entry for seems to be missing. How do I get it and who needs to know for future cygwin updates? Chris

Re: 1.7.[67]: getting bash prompt takes 50 seconds

2010-09-02 Thread Reid Thompson
On 9/1/2010 8:35 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: + Did you tried to *uninstall* bash-completion? What changed such that bash-completion, which previously worked fine, no longer does? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: 1.7.[67]: getting bash prompt takes 50 seconds

2010-09-02 Thread Reid Thompson
On 9/2/2010 11:03 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On 9/1/2010 8:35 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: + Did you tried to *uninstall* bash-completion? What changed such that bash-completion, which previously worked fine, no longer does? The biggest change i've seen is in the slowdown of ./configure and make

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

2010-08-31 Thread Reid Thompson
Download the mutt 1.5.20 source from the mutt website.. it configures fine for me (had to add some dev libs, etc) ...snip... checking wctype.h usability... yes checking wctype.h presence... yes checking for wctype.h... yes checking for iswalnum... yes checking for iswalpha... yes checking for

Re: changing font

2010-07-20 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:00:21PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote: - xlsfonts - . . .

Re: changing font

2010-07-13 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:59:11PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote: 1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing post. 2. I have a font I'd like to use and its located at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF with administrator permissions. 3. How can I make this font the

Re: changing font

2010-07-13 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:33:14AM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:59:11PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote: 1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing post. a starting point would be to google mailing list netiquette some pointers

Re: Mail program

2010-07-01 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:07:19AM -0700, Refr Bruhl wrote: when you say I really need the ability to redirect a text stream to a pipe to mail. do you mean ala $ cat file.txt | mailprogram -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: mintty screen size problem

2010-06-10 Thread Reid Thompson
On 6/10/2010 8:06 PM, Steven Woody wrote: On 11 June 2010 01:31, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 6/10/2010 1:21 PM, Steven Woody wrote: On 11 June 2010 01:18, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.comwrote: On 6/10/2010 1:09 PM, Steven Woody

Re: Terminal windows

2010-05-19 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:29:03PM +0100, Luis Vital wrote: Hi, I am running the text version of cygwin. What I want to do is, while in a terminal window launch a script wich opens another terminal window and launches inside this one a program. Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards,

Re: problems starting xterm

2010-03-19 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 10:54 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Hi, I have plenty of shells installed (bash, ash, dash), and they work ok in MinTTY. I'm afraid I'm missing some simple but important setting somewhere. Any ideas? what happens when you call xterm from the mintty command line? --

Re: mintty colors

2010-03-03 Thread Reid Thompson
On 3/3/2010 2:33 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: Thanks, but I guess my explanation wasn't clear enough. What I would like to be able to configure are the colors that mintty uses to display the 16 colors of a 16-color terminal. I guess these are termed ANSI colors. These are the colors that programs

Re: mintty colors

2010-03-02 Thread Reid Thompson
On 3/2/2010 9:07 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color palette other than to send escape sequences. I could echo the escape sequences in my ~/.bashrc, but mintty isn't the only terminal I

Re: mintty colors

2010-03-02 Thread Reid Thompson
On 3/2/2010 9:07 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color palette other than to send escape sequences. I could echo the escape sequences in my ~/.bashrc, but mintty isn't the only terminal I

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-26 Thread Reid Thompson
On 2/26/2010 6:40 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi; Now, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to use KDE as my Window Manager and I'd like some KDE-based utilities, like konsole and karm (? the task/time manager). I don't see a great deal of visible difference between twm and openbox, but

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-25 Thread Reid Thompson
twm I would assume (yea, I'm sticking my neck out) I could comment out twm and substitute another WM. Doing so works with WindowMaker. It doesn't with OpenBox. Reid Thompson suggested doing something similar here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-02/msg00149.html What am I doing

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-25 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:32 -0800, Joseph Ess wrote: From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net Openbox is just a WM. It does not provide a panel, pager, or other desktop components. Maybe I'm thinking of BlackBox, since it has a toolbar. Thanks, Joe these

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Try this: Copy the shortcut as mentioned earlier in the email trail. set the Target to be: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx -- /usr/bin/Xwin.exe Note the double quotes around the last argument. Without them, Xwin.exe doesn't start on my box. startx also would

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-24 Thread Reid Thompson
On 2/24/2010 9:54 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Apparently I'm missing some components... $ openbox-session which: no hsetroot in [PATH content deleted] which: no esetroot in [PATH content deleted] xsetroot: unable to open display 'KWOLCOTT-T61:0.0' which: no gnome-settings-daemon in [PATH

Re: xls to text conversion ?

2010-02-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On 2/4/2010 1:55 PM, Maarten Vanneste wrote: Dear all, I was wondering whether there is a cygwin tool/program which converts microsoft excel files to text. Any suggestions ? Thanking you in advance, With best regards, Maarten I just ran through some options installed XLSperl at work for

Re: C compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1

2009-12-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Paul McFerrin wrote: My C compiler appears to be broken: .$ cc -v -O test.c what are the contents of test.c -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Questions about gnu debug

2009-12-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Gio 24/12/09, Liming ha scritto: Thanks. Csaba, I still not so clear about gdb, I am usually use microsoft Visual Studio 1. With g++ -g -o executable_name a.o b.o ... Can I set break point? or this one only display the place the code has problem, then go to there to

Re: Questions about gnu debug

2009-12-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Eliot Moss wrote: And this may add a little to your understanding: Note these two options to gdb also... --tui Use a terminal user interface. -w Use a window interface. --tui will utilize a *curses interface -w brings up insight on my system -- Problem

The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll

2009-12-23 Thread Reid Thompson
I'm getting the subject error on attempting to update. Any pointer or suggestions for a remedy? removed the attached the error screen shot as mailing list disallowed it. pasted it here http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mwaygws=6 Thanks reid -- Problem reports:

Re: The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll

2009-12-23 Thread Reid Thompson
Jason Pyeron wrote: Could you move the dialog, I would like to see which part of the setup it is in. Thanks. I think i've gotten past it. I found and renamed the infrarecorder installed C:\Program Files\InfraRecorder\cdrtools cygwin1.dll and the cygwin /bin/cygwin1.dll. Re-ran setup marked

Re: RAM requirements for Cygwin/x

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Thompson
WALLACE, ANDREW F (ATTLABS) wrote: Dear Cygwin/x developers, I have a laptop with 2 GB of RAM running Window XP Professional Version 2002. Do I need more RAM for Cygwin/x to work effectively? No. i've ran X with 512, 768, and 1000MB fine. I wasn't attempting to run Gnome or KDE desktops,

Re: Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-3

2009-12-11 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: I have just uploaded an updated GCC-4 package to cygwin.com. It will be arriving at your favourite mirror next time it synchronizes itself with the official Cygwin repository. A well written post. Thank you. One thing that I noticed re /etc/alternatives with regard to

Re: Help with errors while compiling

2009-12-07 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 12:12 -0800, Afflictedd2 wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to build a simple program using pthreads, but I get the following errors, why? Any help appreciated. J make -f Makefile CFG=Debug g++ -c -g -o Debug/Pthreads.o -I/Cygwin/usr/include Pthreads.cpp In

Re: Help with errors while compiling

2009-12-07 Thread Reid Thompson
Afflictedd2 wrote: Thank you Dave! I hadn't thought of doing it directly in the cygwin console, because I had tried it on my regular console which also has the cygwin path in it, but it also has the mingw32 path.. which I think that's the root of all evil :\ Hey, no fair, you never mentioned

Re: Help with errors while compiling

2009-12-07 Thread Reid Thompson
Afflictedd2 wrote: what... ? what are you implying.. that doesn't help ! jreidthompson wrote: Afflictedd2 wrote: Thank you Dave! I hadn't thought of doing it directly in the cygwin console, because I had tried it on my regular console which also has the cygwin path in it, but it also has the

Re: Hippo icon for cygwin...

2009-12-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Wilson wrote: Greg Chicares wrote: Might this file: 1a652c4c8c31b80c85d6cbc2b4093060 *hippo.ico be somehow malformed? My computer BSODs every time I try to view it in 'irfanview'. This has happened three times in a row. irfanview handles it fine on my box (XP). -- Problem reports:

Re: cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?

2009-12-03 Thread Reid Thompson
wgw...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi: I sent this post earlier this week and have not received any replies. If this is the wrong place to post this, please let me know where I should. Thanks Hi All: This is my first post here. I've never had a

Re: Cygwin/x window no longer appears

2009-11-18 Thread Reid Thompson
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: On Friday, November 13, 2009 Csaba Raduly wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Olivia Cheronet wrote: I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X. Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.bat in the Cygwin bash shell. Everything seemed

Re: Cygwin error

2009-11-18 Thread Reid Thompson
baseball07 wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Could you please type out the syntax. I'm a newbie to Linux code. Thank you very much. ssh -Y usern...@host -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Even after I install ALL the 'Devel' packages, still receive no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH error

2009-11-09 Thread Reid Thompson
Chip Panarchy wrote: Hello World!!! I've installed all the Devel packages, plus a few extra. However, whenever I try to compile a Linux tool with: ./configure, I get the following output; c...@panarchy /cygdrive/n/rancid-2.3.2 $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install...

RE: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:49 -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie opens up the

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Joel Gwynn wrote: Ha! That seems to do it. Although I also have to wait a bit between closing the xwin window and restarting, but that's not so bad. I guess there's some process that takes awhile to exit. possibly having to wait for the X server socket to completely free up between between

Re: Bash - IF Statement

2009-10-27 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:01:38PM -0700, briglass111 wrote: I am trying to write an IF Statement in Bash, but I am having issues. It doesn't like the following format: echo yes or no? read T if [$T=y]; then echo YES fi .. It also doesn't like the following

Re: Bad XTerm Vim coloring

2008-11-24 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 11:34 -0500, Nick Deubert wrote: Hey everyone, First off thanks for your hard work on cygwin/X it is very appreciated. I upgraded to the new Xorg last week and I have had one you didn't mention whether you'd ran setup.exe and re-installed vim -- perhaps one, or more, of

Re: can any body help me to solve the permission denied problem

2008-10-13 Thread Reid Thompson
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:17 -0700, andylai wrote: can anybody help me to solve this problem??? thk andylai wrote: don't not why after i run the command below: tar -zxf cygdrive/d/toolchains/cygwin/sdcc-2.7.0-2sensinode_banked-cygwin.tar.gz the condition of cannot open: permission

Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

2008-10-10 Thread Reid Thompson
Dirk Napierala wrote: , but what I do not understand is that after we found that only replacing the dll cause the prob and fix it again when reverted, why isn't that enough to troubleshoot the dll now? Also because it does not work with the 1.7 version. I think if you'll go back through

Re: RE:Using mutt to sendmail via remote SMTP

2008-08-10 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 04:32 +0700, bjoe wrote: Thank for the answer, I finally find tutorial in http://www.andrews-corner.org regarding this subject, and successfully sending this mail with mutt. I just want to share this link. This tutorial point me to using mutt as MUA, msmtp as MTA

Re: How to replace default bash window with rxvt / bash shell?

2008-08-08 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:17 -0700, CheapLisa wrote: I want to replace the default cygwin bash window with something where I can have multiple tabs may be of interest/use http://en.poderosa.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: RE:Using mutt to sendmail via remote SMTP

2008-08-07 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 00:43 +0700, bjoe wrote: n 2008-08-03, Spiro Trikaliotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, * On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 04:56:56PM +0700 Bayu Adiwibowo wrote: I using thunderbird to send this mail, recently i found that I can run cygwin with my USB, so I wonder how

Re: Cygwin Mail and Exchange Server

2008-05-19 Thread Reid Thompson
I generally use mutt on the command line ssmtp must still be configured and you need to answer YES to linking sstmp to sendmail $ mutt -x -s the subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mutt -x -s the subject -a /path/to/file/to/attach [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ (uuencode afile afile) | mutt -x -s subject [EMAIL

Re: Cygwin Mail and Exchange Server

2008-05-19 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 12:04 +, Ronald Fischer wrote: Hello, at a customer's site, I would like to be able to send email from bash scripts. The setup of the software is pretty standard: Usually mail is sent and read using Outlook, and there is an Exchange server lurking somewhere to do

Re: FW: How to get scroll bars on initial xterm instance?

2008-04-07 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:23 -0700, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: When I run startx it creates an xterm for me. But this xterm does not have a scroll bar. I like to create xterms with -sl 3000 -sb so I get lots of history. How can I make startx create an xterm with these options? Thanks,

Re: Konsole or similar in cygwin

2008-03-14 Thread Reid Thompson
google .Xdefaults and look at some examples ala https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/UsingTheXdefaultsFil http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/configs/dot-Xdefaults On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 09:27 +0100, Danilo Turina wrote: I change this stuff by using cmd line arguments, e.g.:

Re: prevent scroll (or something like that)

2008-01-26 Thread Reid Thompson
Greg Chicares wrote: On 2008-01-26 11:57Z, electron wrote: I'm doing an assignment for school and I'm supposes to disassemble a piece of code with a disasembler. This works just fine but the output asembly code is to large to fit on the screen. So when i scroll all the way up I can't read the

Re: how to check email through cygwin

2008-01-09 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:45:39PM +, morgan gangwere wrote: thanks, after config can I reply mails by vi in cygwin? thats all mutt's job. cygwin is almost an OS running on an OS (unix running on windows) mutt is like outlook or thunderbird. heh, more like pine or elm :) -- Morgan

Re: how to check email through cygwin

2008-01-08 Thread Reid Thompson
sun wrote: hi everyone, Can I check email of some acount like [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cygwin ? if that is possible could someone please advise how to config and reply the mail. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: how to check email through cygwin

2008-01-08 Thread Reid Thompson
sun wrote: hi everyone, Can I check email of some acount like [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cygwin ? if that is possible could someone please advise how to config and reply the mail. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: ok, i'm an idiot, so bear with me

2007-12-19 Thread Reid Thompson
rb76543 wrote: please look at this screen shot and give me a clue. in the file 'make_avr2.txt', the first line says this: cd /cygdrive/d/cygwin/home/loser/avrdude, but if you look at the last line of the screen shot, clearly that directory exists. i've just started working with cygwin, so i'm

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

2007-11-30 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:42 -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Holger Krull escribio, jose isaias cabrera schrieb: Greetings. 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

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

2007-11-30 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:38 -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Hi, DISPLAY on the Linux box must be set to the IP address of the cygwin box. H... But DISPLAY on the cygwin box must be set to either localhost or the IP address of this machine. Ok, this one was set to d-tuxedo,

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Reid Thompson
I've yet to have any problems with http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html reid On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:50 -0400, Olivier Langlois wrote: Hi, I am currently using Kaspersky AVS but I am looking for a replacement because using it with Cygwin brings my system unstable whenever a

Re: Problems with freshclam

2007-09-30 Thread Reid Thompson
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Rene' Berber wrote: The recommended way is to use UNIX socket (the default is /tmp/clamd.socket), I have LocalSocket /tmp/clamd.socket Does this mean I have UNIX socket ? i.e. /tmp/clamd.socket == UNIX socket ??? yes -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: math packages

2007-09-17 Thread Reid Thompson
not sure if qalculate will compile or meet your needs, but it may be worth a look On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:49 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote: Is there any math package that I can install for free on cygwin that will allow me to do symbolic algebra and symbolically solve DEs and symbolically

Re: How to configure VIM to generate files with LF line endings

2007-09-13 Thread Reid Thompson
add set fileformat=unix to vimrc/gvimrc On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:39 -0700, Michael Giroux wrote: How do I configure VIM to write files using LF for line endings? I've tried man vi, and man vimrc and man .vimrc, without success. Michael -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: scroll bars

2007-09-06 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 00:22 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote: %RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -scrollbar -e /usr/bin/bash -l does not work for me I also tried it with -scrollBar That's because -scrollbar is not a valid command line parameter tor xterm. %RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -sb -sl 2500 -e /usr/bin/bash

Re: scroll

2007-09-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: Cole Radcliffe wrote: What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine which are %RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow give some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does not allow you to scroll my options

Re: scroll

2007-09-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Cole Radcliffe wrote: What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine which are %RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow give some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does not allow you to scroll my options are the same - XWin

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-05 Thread Reid Thompson
how bout -fn 12x24 On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:26 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote: I tried to change the font size with the option -fs after the xterm command however xterm did not recognize that option even though it appeared in man xterm. I am guessing that it was just not compiled into the

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-05 Thread Reid Thompson
run xlsfonts and pick one -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Cole Radcliffe wrote: OK. I think it was not working because I was just appending options to -e /usr/bin/bash -l in the startx batch file which for some reason does not work for any option I append (the shell just dies quickly). One interesting thing I found is that if I replace the %RUN%

Re: scroll bars

2007-09-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Cole Radcliffe wrote: Thanks for the help with the font size. Now why does why does %RUN% XWin -silent-dup-error -scrollbars give me a terminal with no scroll bars? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Help with mount..

2007-09-04 Thread Reid Thompson
echo 'alias cdbar=cd /cygdrive/foo/bar' .bashrc On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:03 -0700, gms5002 wrote: Thanks for the reply Steve. What I am actually trying to achieve here is to be able to access a certain folder (say C:\foo\bar) by typing cd /bar at the command prompt. Steve Holden

Re: Simple shell script not working

2007-07-30 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:07 -0700, on behalf of zip184 wrote: This is the 2-line shell script I'm trying to run: #! /bin/sh touch test.txt The privledges are set to 777 I get the error output line: bash: $'\r': command not found for each command I put in the script, including

Re: xterm scrollbar...PLEASE

2007-07-17 Thread Reid Thompson
sorry, -sr is rxvt try $ xterm -sb -ls -sr -rightbar 1000 -bg CornflowerBlue -fg LemonChiffon -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: xterm scrollbar...PLEASE

2007-07-17 Thread Reid Thompson
try $ xterm -sb -ls -rightbar -sl 1000 -bg CornflowerBlue -fg LemonChiffon What does that give you? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: which packages are needed for simple bashing

2007-07-12 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:57 -0700, on behalf of wardhj wrote: Greetings. I just want basic functionality: a shell (say, bash) and basic unix commands like ls, wc, diff, vi, cd, and find. The target machine (on which I want to install Cygwin) has no network connection, so I will have to

Re: cygwin terminal question

2007-07-06 Thread Reid Thompson
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:57 +0200, Jan Moesen wrote: e.g. I can only see the last 200 lines in my terminal. If you are talking about the default console window (e.g. bash), you can change its properties in the window's system menu. Click on the icon in the title bar, choose Properties, go

Re: cygwin terminal question

2007-07-06 Thread Reid Thompson
the layout problem but can't find the .xdefaults file. If you can point me to the location of the file or a good tutorial on this subject, please let me know. Thx again, pp Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:57 +0200, Jan Moesen wrote: e.g. I can only see the last

Re: bashrc question

2007-06-12 Thread Reid Thompson
dos2unix .bashrc On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:30 -0400, Stephen H. Dawson wrote: Hello, I am running the latest version of Cygwin on XP Pro. Since day 1, I have been getting an error message at startup, bash: $'\r': command not found. Working with a friend, he said I need a bashrc file. He

RE: Java

2007-06-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:05 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote: Brian D. McGrew, le Mon 11 Jun 2007 10:53:03 -0700, a écrit : However, I need java. There is a higher level user interface that goes on top of our C/C++/X/Motif stuff that's all done in Java. Could it work with the java support of

RE: Java

2007-06-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:33 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote: What issue(s) are you having with a standard SUN jdk install?? - None, I was asking if a standard Sun JDK could be installed on cygwin and if so, which one? -brian ala, Gordon Prieur, I've used at least 1.4 and 1.5 SUN JDK

Re: Multiple Session Question

2007-06-07 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 10:50 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: Hello, I've got cygwin working well via SSH to single host, single window. I connect via SSH, and run startkde - I get the KDE desktop in one single window. Works great! How do I connect to a second machine at the same time. See

Re: running vim on cygwin

2007-06-05 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 07:27 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi I installed vim 7.1 via cygwin on Windows XP machine. However, when I run vim on the bash shell of cygwin, I am getting the following error. E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'cygwin' not known. Available builtin

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:08 +0200, Nenad Antic (KI/EAB) wrote: Anyway, today I removed the Sunbelt Personal Firewall (as it's called now), and tried reinstalling PHP 5.2.2. (This might seem a bit odd, but it can serve as a benchmark here. The installation creates subshells at least four

Re: IDE for cygwin

2007-05-24 Thread Reid Thompson
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: vim with compatibality turned off? +1 -- 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: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe

2007-05-16 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:17 -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 5/16/07, Chadwick wrote: Cygwin is currently installed on over a hundred windows 2003 servers, and is used to do some admin tasks as well as to pull files from the servers on a daily basis via ssh. One of the files pulled

Re: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe

2007-05-16 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:29 -0500, René Berber wrote: Chadwick wrote: Cygwin is currently installed on over a hundred windows 2003 servers, and is used to do some admin tasks as well as to pull files from the servers on a daily basis via ssh. One of the files pulled from each server is a

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-08 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Wilson wrote: Sigh. cygwin's rxvt is not broken. It works for me, and about 2000 others. +1 --I have been using cygwin rxvt for several years (Xwin and Win) -- has fulfilled every terminal need that I have. kudos to the 'maintainer'??. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 03:45 -0400, -Patrick wrote: This may seem trivial to some, but at least to me it affects productivity. I would like to know how I can change the background-color of the X- bash shell. So when I do 'startx' at the cygwin shell, I get the X terminal, which leads to

RE: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:18 +0100, Simon Crombie wrote: Thanks for the information about changing the defaults for X-term windows. How can I amend this to get scroll bars to appear? And can you set the default window size there as well? Grateful for any advice. -- Unsubscribe

Re: loop through folders

2006-06-19 Thread Reid Thompson
smanna wrote: Hello I am trying to write a script. This is the thing, I want to loop through all folders in a certain folder and send all files in these folders to a java program. The files are somewhere in the neighbourhood of 170.000. the setup is: Home cygwin.sh

Re: Updated: vim-7.0.017-1

2006-06-12 Thread Reid Thompson
Luis P Caamano wrote: Well, almost. After updating I realized that gvim is not included :-( so I ended up with a vim 7.0 and a gvim 6.4, which is not that useful it seems. Had to go back to 6.4. :-( On 6/12/06, Luis P Caamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/12/06, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL

Re: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?

2006-05-25 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: On 24 May 2006 21:48, Bruce Wehr wrote: Spamming is a sin; it is selfishness and arrogance to the point of solipsism. Stop it today. HEY! One point we can agree on! Cool! Maybe you're not such a bad guy after all! READ the faq:

Re: Resizing images from CLI

2006-04-28 Thread Reid Thompson
zzapper wrote: From the talk NG I got this info for CLI image manipulation requires ImageMagick installed and in path # from imageMagick convert -sample 80x40 abbeyparkarch.gif s_abbeyparkarch.gif lsimg abbeyparkarch.gif s_abbeyparkarch.gif What I'd like now is to resize an image but

Re: The right user information

2006-04-07 Thread Reid Thompson
VEGH, Janos wrote: Hi, I am trying to use your Win32 X server. The first step was perfect, I accepted all the default settings, I proceeded as shown in the step-by step tutorial. I successfully installed it, I have the bash (DOS) box. Even I can make a limited use of it, like [EMAIL

Re: getsockname problem

2006-04-07 Thread Reid Thompson
Antonio Querubin wrote: I've run into a problem where getsockname() doesn't work as expected. Below is a test program where it fails under cygwin but runs on any other Unix/Linux system. I searched the mail archives for any limitations #include sys/types.h #include sys/socket.h #include

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