RE: filenames with characters that have the high bit set

2010-03-16 Thread David Byron
And my ~/.inputrc contains: set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set input-meta on set output-meta on Makes plenty of sense. But note that meta-flag is a synonym for input-meta, so you can remove one of them. I was just following the instructions at

RE: filenames with characters that have the high bit set

2010-03-16 Thread David Byron
$ echo $LC_ALL en_US Hang on, where did that come from? It was in my environment. My apologies for being dense. I unset LC_ALL and... Where? I unset LC_ALL in bash, which was the wrong place. Now ls footab adds the actual accented character to the command line, but when

RE: return value of mkshortcut on Windows 7

2010-03-15 Thread David Byron
On March 10, 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: David Byron: mkshortcut is returning 8 when I expect it to return 0. Yep, known issue. I'd love a hand getting mkshortcut to return 0 in this case. Index: src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c

return value of mkshortcut on Windows 7

2010-03-10 Thread David Byron
mkshortcut is returning 8 when I expect it to return 0. This only happens to me on Windows 7. It returns 0 on XP. Here's what I do. $ rm -rf a $ mkdir a $ mkshortcut -n a/b a $ echo $? 8 $ file a/b.lnk a/b.lnk: MS Windows shortcut I'd love a hand getting mkshortcut to return 0 in this case.

MoveFileW succeeding with cygwin 1.7.1 where it failed with cygwin 1.5.25?

2010-02-08 Thread David Byron
I've found a difference in behavior between cygwin 1.5.25 and cygwin 1.7.1 that I don't understand. Renaming a file using MoveFileW fails with access denied under cygwin 1.5.25 as expected, but it works under 1.7. Here's what I do: $ echo foo foo $ mkdir temp $ chmod a-w temp $ ./my_rename

RE: MoveFileW succeeding with cygwin 1.7.1 where it failed with cygwin 1.5.25?

2010-02-08 Thread David Byron
On 8-feb-10 David Byron wrote: I've found a difference in behavior between cygwin 1.5.25 and cygwin 1.7.1 that I don't understand. Renaming a file using MoveFileW fails with access denied under cygwin 1.5.25 as expected, but it works under 1.7. I figured out the difference. My executable

RE: MoveFileW succeeding with cygwin 1.7.1 where it failed with cygwin 1.5.25?

2010-02-08 Thread David Byron
On Monday, February 8, 2010, Larry Hall wrote: So your user must be part of the administrators group then. Adminstrators have access even when permissions are set to deny them, just like on Linux. Yes, my user is part of the Administrators group. Risking an annoying question, is this

RE: regtool freezes on XP (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwi n-1.5.6-1)

2004-01-19 Thread David Byron
On Mon, January 19, 2004, Rolf Campbell wrote: When I run this script *not* from another cygwin program (Windows Run menu as bash -c scriptname.sh, or from W32 GNU Emacs) ---begin script #!/bin/sh echo -n Getting location... regtool get '\' ---end script I get the expected

RE: inetd desktop interaction w/o console?

2003-11-25 Thread David Byron
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: Anyway, I know there has been lots of work around getting windows console output from net, etc. to show up in an rlogin, telnet, ssh, etc. window. Would hiding the console mess this up? Also, when if ever is the console window desireable for inetd,

RE: dpkg --info crashes / dpkg-deb --info hangs

2003-10-20 Thread David Byron
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:10, David Byron wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, David Byron wrote: $ strace dpkg-deb --info dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb dpkg-deb.info.strace There appears to be some kind of infinite loop in rm. Here's the strace file

dpkg --info crashes / dpkg-deb --info hangs

2003-10-07 Thread David Byron
I ran into a problem using dpkg, like this: $ dpkg --info dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb Segmentation fault (core dumped) I can send the .stackdump file if it's interesting, but I'm running into the 100K limit. Since dpkg --info is pretty close to dpkg-deb --info, I tried that next. $ dpkg-deb --info

sshd, native console apps

2003-06-16 Thread David Byron
this out? -DB -- David Byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everdream http://www.everdream.com 6591 Dumbarton Circle voice:(510)818-5550 Fremont, CA 94555fax:(510)818-5510 Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Jun 16 14:50:26

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-12 Thread David Byron
lend this poor sap a hand, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks much. -DB -- David Byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everdream http://www.everdream.com 6591 Dumbarton Circle voice:(510)818-5550 Fremont, CA 94555fax:(510)818-5510 -- Unsubscribe info

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-12 Thread David Byron
\sshd\Par ameters\Enviro nment) or by removing the service and reinstalling it. Thanks for the pointers. Unfortunately, changing it there (both removing tty, and removing everything) still doesn't make my printfs appear. Still curious, -DB -- David Byron [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-12 Thread David Byron
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, David Byron wrote: On Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:30 AM, Vince Hoffman wrote: The CYGWIN environment for the sshd service is set when sshd is installed (via cygrunsrv in ssh-host-config if you used corrina's script

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-10 Thread David Byron
On Monday, June 9 @ 5:22p, I wrote: I seem to have run into the same problem that folks with inetutils pre 1.3.2-11 had with console output from native apps not getting displayed in a telnet session. My console app doesn't display any output. A bit more info here. I get the same behavior

problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-09 Thread David Byron
as there was in inetutils 1.3.2-11? I searched the archives, but came up empty. Thanks much for your help. Please let me know if I can provide more information. -DB -- David Byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everdream http://www.everdream.com 6591 Dumbarton Circle voice:(510)818