Re: Drop textmode from setup?

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, Gary R. Van Sickle writes: I've always seen it the opposite way: only use binary mounts if you know what you're doing, otherwise you'll constantly have two problems: - Text files created by Cygwin programs will trip up many native programs. - Text files created by native Windows

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to

2004-08-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Reini, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So that you usually ssh to the cvs repo, move it there physically, and update your local cvs copy then. Don't you want to do a (physical) *copy* and than a cvs del? That way, you can still checkout older versions, while if you do a physical

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to

2004-08-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Reini, Benjamin Riefenstahl schrieb: Don't you want to do a (physical) *copy* and than a cvs del? That way, you can still checkout older versions, while if you do a physical *move*, you loose that. Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the revisions are kept solely in the ,v file

Re: antiword-0.34

2003-10-09 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Gerrit, Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cp1250.txt:0x81 #UNDEFINED Undefined is meaningfull. Think of the difference of NULL and '0' (e.g. in SQL). Why does Word makes use of undefined characters? Are you sure it does? The error messages seems to come from the

Re: Setup Query for Gary: FreeResource

2003-08-02 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 05:16, Max Bowsher wrote: According to the MS docs, FreeResource is an obsolete 16-bit compatibility function. Do we really want/need to use it? Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS recommend using DeleteIcon etc rather than it for new code - and yes,

Re: TEST: patch-2.5.8-4 (package maintainers, please note)

2003-07-25 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
David Rothenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it's done through newlib headers. That was my thought initially, too, when I was investigating the patch problem, but I did run gcc -E on some source and the result still called fdopen. Good, I was beginning to wonder ;-). After all

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-24 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a user base of a few thousand, the error has been reported by, oh, 10 users, and it's been tested on even less machines (AFAIK). 10 bug reports (if it were that much) in a few thousand seems quite a lot to me. I don't even want to

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still a little leery, as the already pointed out limitations - are there machines with vector instead of bitmaps Dlg fonts. As I already mentioned before, that is not the issue at all. It's nice for debugging to wonder if the actual

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-21 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Glenn, Max, Glenn Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: implementation specific symbols, e.g. include guards, should begin with '_' to avoid namespace pollution Pardon me if I try to clarify: By implementation you probably mean the compiler headers, like stdio.h, including POSIX headers like

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-01 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Gary, Sorry for this long reply. ;-) Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm guessing that the real problem isn't the particular font used, but rather some code somewhere that isn't doing the ridiculously arcane Dialog Units - Pixels - Font Size conversions quite right and/or

Re: Setup.exe: Mouse wheel

2003-06-01 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lack of time, and lack of feedback - there's been no commentary. Sure, understood. Finally it's not obviously the Right Thing to do. It seems to me we'd want to trap those events and translate them in the rest of the choose event loop,

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: Mouse wheel

2003-05-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, Benjamin Riefenstahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attached a simple patch to choose.cc to do this. Is nobody interested? so long, benny

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-05-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Gary, Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A lot of people have been having this problem, it'd be great if we could fix this. So what's up? What more can I do to help? so long, benny

Re: cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excellent idea. Now I just need someone to write that script. Shouldn't be too hard. Any takers? How about fontdir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts wfontdir=`cygpath -w $fontdir` mount -bfs $wfontdir $fontdir 2 /dev/null || mount -bfu $wfontdir $fontdir