Re: Issue with rxvt

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Borota
I am just guessing here, but I might be right (You may check with rxvt source code and/or 'man rxvt', I no time and don't use it). Without '-e bash', rxvt calls the much simpler, scaled-down 'ash' which is not able to understand more advanced terminal control escape sequences but bash is. And

Re: XEmacs and hot laptops

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Borota
Yes it's true with the stuff I am doing xemacs uses the processor heavyly (according to task manager). Thanks, Greg Larry Hall wrote: At 12:49 AM 2/29/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: When I run cygwin XEmacs on my laptop after some time I have to close it as my laptop becomes very hot (and

Cygwin Shell Here

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Borota
In Windows Explorer I want to add a CYGWIN Shell context menu option on file system folders, giving me a quick way to open a Cygwin window pointing at the selected folder. This is what I came up with: 1. In the cygwin.bat file I add the line set __CYG_PATH_=%~1 (somewhere before 'bash --login

Cygwin Shell Here

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Borota
In Windows Explorer I want to add a CYGWIN Shell context menu option on file system folders, giving me a quick way to open a Cygwin window pointing at the selected folder. This is what I came up with: 1. In the cygwin.bat file I add the line set __CYG_PATH_=%~1 (somewhere before 'bash --login

Re: XEmacs and hot laptops

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Borota
Larry, Your email client is configured to quote raw e-mail addresses in replies, I think it would be good if you'd change that. Now my email address is visible for all spam harvesters to colect.. Greg Larry Hall wrote: At 12:49 AM 2/29/2004, borota you wrote: When I run cygwin XEmacs on

Re: XEmacs and hot laptops

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Borota
Larry Hall wrote: Huh, I never noticed that before. I guess Eudora isn't as smart as I thought right out of the box. Well, I'll look into how to make it behave properly in all situations. As you can see from the below, it will choose the human name over the email address if it has the

ulimit -t

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Borota
Had somebody managed to successfully simulate ulimit -t in a shell script? If yes, how? Greg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

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

2004-03-01 Thread Gregory Borota
You can use LaTeX for that. There are different packages depending on what kind of slides you want to make. (here some I know of: prosper, beamer, seminar, slides, etc.) Some of them take advantage of the powerful presentation features of Adobe PDF (about which I think many of us 'Windows also'

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

2004-03-01 Thread Gregory Borota
PLEASE, configure your email client not to show email addresses in reply!!! (or if you can't take this off list) I work with xemacs (under cygwin) and yap (I can give you nice pointers on how to configure them so that you can get real WYSIWYG). I don't like Lyx, LaTeX is so nice and intuitive

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

2004-03-01 Thread Gregory Borota
Randall, I agree with you. Maybe the master wants to take notice. Greg You wrote on 3/2/2004 12:21 AM: 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

How to retrieve old messages, index, etc.

2004-03-03 Thread Gregory Borota
From the mail one gets when subscribing to this list: To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456 , mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are always returned as sets of 100, max 2000 per request,

Re: How to retrieve old messages, index, etc.

2004-03-03 Thread Gregory Borota
It works! You are a nice guy. Thanks a lot, Grigori You wrote on 3/3/2004 2:59 PM: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote: From the mail one gets when subscribing to this list: To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: setsid-0.0-3

2004-03-03 Thread Gregory Borota
Under my 'CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) i686' doing for example: setsid ls -R / would still block the console window (mostly for as long as ls runs). IMO by redirecting only stdin to /dev/null one gets a setsid functionality closer to how setsid works under Linux and there is no difference

Following on old threads

2004-03-03 Thread Gregory Borota
A bit OT but I don't know where else to quickly go. How can one follow on an old thread which one doesn't have in his/her mailbox? Thanks, Greg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Following on old threads

2004-03-03 Thread Gregory Borota
You wrote on 3/3/2004 5:43 PM: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote: A bit OT but I don't know where else to quickly go. How can one follow on an old thread which one doesn't have in his/her mailbox? Thanks, Greg Hmm, didn't you just ask about that? You locate the thread in the archives

Re: Following on old threads

2004-03-04 Thread Gregory Borota
FYI, the number in the archives is not necessarily the same as the number that you'd use to retrieve via email. The software that we run on sources.redhat.com aka cygwin.com is ezmlm. If there are more advanced questions on using ezmlm, then a web search would unearth some

Re: cygrunsrv taking near all cpu time

2004-03-05 Thread Gregory Borota
From your message I understand the problem is caused by Panda Antivirus not cygrunsrv I also had in the past some minor issues with McAfee (halting one postinstall script, causing cygwin to run slower, etc.). From my experience antivirus software would cause problems not only with cygwin but

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: setsid-0.0-3

2004-03-05 Thread Gregory Borota
Corinna wrote on 3/4/2004 8:07 AM: On Mar 3 16:44, Gregory Borota wrote: (I don't see the point for having stderr and stdout redirected also. (for symmetry maybe)) In theory, redirecting all descriptors attached to the console window should allow to close the console window since when

Email Mangling

2004-03-05 Thread Gregory Borota
Looking at the headers for a message I sent recently (id 89248) I see that my email address was not mutilated in the Received: field. If one uses SBC Yahoo's smtp server he has his email address as username. If this is a very isolated incident then maybe nobody should bother. If not maybe it

Re: 1.5.5.1 st_ctime and st_mtime is not updated for functions.

2004-03-05 Thread Gregory Borota
Forgive my ignorance just wondering what does PERROR has to do with st_ctime and st_mtime. You mean when you redirect stderr to a file? Greg On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Vinay Kumar wrote: Hi all, I ran PCTS on cygwin 1.5.5.1 and found some problem. According to standard document of posix

Re: Email Mangling

2004-03-05 Thread Gregory Borota
, Gregory Borota wrote: Looking at the headers for a message I sent recently (id 89248) I see that my email address was not mutilated in the Received: field. If one uses SBC Yahoo's smtp server he has his email address as username. If this is a very isolated incident then maybe nobody should

Subshell

2004-03-12 Thread Gregory Borota
#/bin/bash echo Silly ( sleep 50 ( sleep 50 ) ) wait each subshell is sh.exe. I want to be be bash.exe. How do I force that without having to write bash -c Thanks, Greg P.S. Looked at cygwin faq, archive, didn't find the answer although this I would think has been brought up before. --

Re: Subshell

2004-03-12 Thread Gregory Borota
Sorry, it should have been #! (beginners mistake, I guess) Thanks, Greg On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:49:27PM -0600, Gregory Borota wrote: #/bin/bash echo Silly ( sleep 50 ( sleep 50 ) ) wait each subshell is sh.exe. Why would bash

Bash bug

2004-03-14 Thread Gregory Borota
I tested this over and over. I think it's a 'nasty' bug here. #!/bin/bash ( # sleep 1# or whatever not very quick command! set -m; sleep 10# or whatever command takes some time to complete set +m; pid=$! ( sleep 1; kill -- -$pid ) wait $pid ) without sleep 1 commented you

xdvi - minor bug

2004-03-15 Thread Gregory Borota
Last line of the script reads: xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+$@} Should be: exec xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+$@} so that SIGNALS are sent to xdvi.bin and not xdvi script. Whizzytex for example, needs to send SIGUSR1 to xdvi.bin to ask it to reread the dvi file. Greg -- Unsubscribe info:

WhizzyTeX

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Borota
I want to port whizzytex (http://pauillac.inria.fr/whizzytex/) to cygwin. It's quite trivial to port it, (http://pauillac.inria.fr/whizzytex/FAQ.html#cygwin), I want to make it available with the cygwin distribution. Is anybody currently involved in that? WhizzyTeX is an (X)Emacs minor-mode for

Whizzytex Package

2004-03-18 Thread Gregory Borota
I tried 3 times to send this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It just won't work! And I am subscribed to the list, and I receive all communication. I am interested in becoming a package maintainer for whizzytex. http://pauillac.inria.fr/whizzytex/ setup.hint

Re: Window title by shortcut

2004-03-21 Thread Gregory Borota
Something like this should do it: 1. add in cygwin.bat (or a copy of it), before bash command: set __TYTLE__=%~1 2. in your .bash_profile add: if [ $__TYTLE__ ]; then PS1=\[\033]0;\$__TYTLE__\007' [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ ' fi 3. Create o shortcut with something like this in

Aspell - Ispell

2004-03-28 Thread Gregory Borota
I see there was some discussion about this before. But still I *personally* would prefer if Pierre A. Humblet's Ispell port would be part of cygwin distribution too as his ispell is much faster than current aspell (at least for english). I tried to use aspell it just makes me mad, it's so

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR

2004-04-01 Thread Gregory Borota
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 LarrysPCRemediesataoldotcom wrote: Igor, How do I go about configuring my mailer to no quote raw-e-mail addresses if I'm using Outlook? I could find no configuration option related to this. I understand the need (i.e.,

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR

2004-04-01 Thread Gregory Borota
Here is an illustration of the previous post about configuring PINE. Just LarrysPCRemedies is quoted. On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, LarrysPCRemedies wrote: Igor, How do I go about configuring my mailer to no quote raw-e-mail addresses if I'm using Outlook? I could find no configuration option related

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR

2004-04-01 Thread Gregory Borota
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Gregory Borota wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 LarrysPCRemediesataoldotcom wrote: Igor, How do I go about configuring my mailer to no quote raw-e-mail addresses if I'm

Re: cc: not found error

2004-04-11 Thread Gregory Borota
In cygwin setup.exe you may want to click on Default next to All to select all packages for install. This way you will not miss gcc, make etc. and other good programs that are not selected by a Default installation. Greg P.S. To install O'caml you might still need to manually install some

WhizzyTeX

2004-03-18 Thread Gregory Borota
I tried sending this message twice, it didn't go through, I try again with a two part message. I am interested in becoming a package maintainer for whizzytex. setup.hint -- sdesc: A WYSIWIG environment for LaTeX ldesc: WhizzyTeX is

Re: WhizzyTeX

2004-03-18 Thread Gregory Borota
I tried sending this message twice, it didn't go through, I try again with a two part message. I am interested in becoming a package maintainer for whizzytex. setup.hint -- sdesc: A WYSIWIG environment for LaTeX ldesc: WhizzyTeX is

xdvi script - minor bug

2004-03-15 Thread Gregory Borota
Last line of the script reads: xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+$@} Should be: exec xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+$@} so that SIGNALS are sent to xdvi.bin and not xdvi script. Whizzytex for example, needs to send SIGUSR1 to xdvi.bin to ask it to reread the dvi file. Thanks, Greg

Re: Emacs crashing under XFree86-4.3

2004-03-17 Thread Gregory Borota
Rajesh Balakrishnan Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:21:28 + (UTC) emacs (under X11) is working fine since Mar 06 snapshot of cygwin1.dll. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ That has not been my experience: I have been tracking the snapshots, but my emacs still segfaults, dumps core, etc. Hopefully I will get

Re: xdvi script - minor bug

2004-03-17 Thread Gregory Borota
Gregory Borota writes: Should be: exec xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+$@} Thanks. I'll forward it upstream, this will be fixed in the next release. Jan. Well, another thing that might be fixed is to allow dvi files to be renamed even while they are displayed. At present one could only copy