Re: missing telnet, solution

2002-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:10:32PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote: >You are referring to the process of "installing that which you wish to use". >I don't see any problem here. Ditto. >I can't update the User's Guide to say "install inetutils and ssh" because >Cygwin is always changes its mind about wh

Re: xbase

2002-03-22 Thread matt rice
just ran through it.. after modifying my setup.ini i had varying results: a install over my existing cygwin install which was installed with Xinstall.sh while installing returned a bunch of "could not overwrite..." yet ran.. a install into a new directry installed without any input and ran (af

Re: missing telnet, solution

2002-03-22 Thread Phil Burk
Hello Harold, > I will perhaps add a note that extra Cygwin packages may be selected and > installed by the user. That should at least get people to look at the list > of packages that they might want. Once I realized that telnet was missing, I knew I had to go get it. But I scoured the Cygwin

Re: missing telnet, solution

2002-03-22 Thread Phil Burk
> I'm at a loss understanding why Cygwin/XFree86 would need to tell people > that ssh and telnet are required. Neither is needed for X applications. Many people use XWindows on a PC to communicate to remote Unix computers. This is very common for telecommuters. The Installation Guide tells you

xbase - was Re: lieb@sou.edu

2002-03-22 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ matt rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | http://flognat.myip.org/xbase/ | Weeh I am published.. I am published.. :-) Hmm anyone tried it and managed to get it working?? Is the silence a good sign?? Or is it a sign that I have managed to do something that destroys the computers so much that the

RE: missing telnet, solution

2002-03-22 Thread Harold Hunt
Phil, You are referring to the process of "installing that which you wish to use". I don't see any problem here. I can't update the User's Guide to say "install inetutils and ssh" because Cygwin is always changes its mind about which packages to include in the default installation (they dropped

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Re: missing telnet, solution

2002-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:48:41AM -0800, Phil Burk wrote: >Perhaps the Cygwin/XFree86 User Guide could be modified to make sure >telnet and ssh get included in the installation the first time. It >currently tells people to leave the default settings alone but the >default does not include telnet

Re: Launching Term

2002-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:41:14PM +0100, Andrew Markebo wrote: >It is wrong for XFree, and wrong for Bash.. but there is a small >exception.. bash translates PATH, TMP and TEMP and maybe some >more.. if my memory doesn't fail me as usual. It's actually cygwin that translates some environment var

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2002-03-22 Thread matt rice
http://flognat.myip.org/xbase/

Re: gnome-libs-1.4.1.1 configure: error please help

2002-03-22 Thread matt rice
when configuring libdb add --enable-compat185 to your existing configure switches.. Eli Kleinman wrote: > Hello > > I tried to compile on cygwin gnome-libs I got a configure: error > This is the error > > checking for __db185_open in -ldb-3... no > configure: error: Your db library is missing d

missing telnet, solution

2002-03-22 Thread Phil Burk
I followed all the steps to install Cygwin/XFree from the user guide. Everything worked great until I got to the part about telnet. It was missing from my installation. I spent about two hours looking over the Cygwin site trying to figure out how to get and install telnet. I noticed in this forum

Re: Launching Term

2002-03-22 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ "Robert Mark Bram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Thank you to Andy and Eugene for their help! | | >I think it should be (not "\"): | | >SET TERMCAP=/etc/termcap | >SET TERMINFO=/lib/terminfo | >set SHELL=/bin/bash.exe | >set TERM=cygwin | | Well turn me purple, wrap me in a curtain and call me

Copy and paste mouse settings?

2002-03-22 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy all! I have been using Cygwin for a few weeks now and I must say I love it! I have only just started using XFree and I can say right away that I am at least excited about seeing xman, but unsure what else I can get from the system (I installed it for Xemacs, which I haven't got working yet

RE: Launching Term

2002-03-22 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Thank you to Andy and Eugene for their help! >I think it should be (not "\"): >SET TERMCAP=/etc/termcap >SET TERMINFO=/lib/terminfo >set SHELL=/bin/bash.exe >set TERM=cygwin Well turn me purple, wrap me in a curtain and call me Garfield it works!! I thought the system translates directory sepa

Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow

2002-03-22 Thread PD Dr. Edward Wornar
Hello, sorry if this is a bit off-topic but I was unable to find information in the mailing-list archives/Howtos. I have a linux server (Mandrake 8.1) and several Windows clients running cygwin/xfree-4.1 (plus one linux client). On some of the win98 clients, XDMCP is *extremely* slow so it lite

Re: Launching Term

2002-03-22 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ "Robert Mark Bram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Howdy all! | | I am one of those unfortunates that is trying to manage Rational Rose on the | same machine as cygwin-XFree. Get rid of rose.. get rid of rose.. (ehm you might notice that I am working one of the Rational enemies) ;-) Or well, mayb