On 2/22/2014 9:32 AM, carolus wrote:
When multiple mirrors are selected in setup.exe, if a server becomes
unresponsive should the program automatically roll over to another
server and continue? When it does, should it avoid repeating previous
downloads?
answered: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin
On 2/27/2014 5:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
, if you start one session of setup, select a
package, download it, and don't install it (for whatever reason), then
start another setup session and do the same thing with a with a different
mirror, you'll get the same package again under a
On my last download, a few days ago, when the initial server became
unresponsive, the setup process simply hung up even though I had
selected several alternate servers. After waiting a while, I terminated
and restarted the process but again the process hung up. I had to
remove the offending
When multiple mirrors are selected in setup.exe, if a server becomes
unresponsive should the program automatically roll over to another
server and continue? When it does, should it avoid repeating previous
downloads?
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On 2/12/2014 9:07 AM, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
My colleagues have no interest in fixing it since they have g77 on their
unix machines, and to them, it isn't broken.
Perhaps your colleagues would be willing to look at your results and
tell you whether there is a trivial fix for your problem.
On 2/10/2014 10:14 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
My suggestion was not an exact recipe, it was just a scheme.
Here the exact step-by-step procedure. I've checked it works on my Windows 7
box.
From the Windows Start menu, in the Search box at the bottom
(formerly called
On 2/10/2014 11:41 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
an administrative password to run minty
That's new to me. My PC at work (despite being secured with tons and tons
of Gov't restrictive policies) does not require any additional permissions
to run a command incorporated in the
On 2/10/2014 8:34 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Just
C:\Programs\CygWin\bin\mintty.exe --exec /bin/vi.exe
is enough.
or in my case
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe --exec /bin/vim-nox.exe
Thanks
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On 2/10/2014 8:41 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
@carolus, navigate to your Cygwin installation /bin, locate mintty.exe, bring
up it's properties and remove the Requires admin powers checkbox on
Compatibility tab.
Confirm your changes, and it should work fine from now on.
Done, works OK now
On 2/8/2014 11:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, carolus!
Is there some configuration that will let me open a text file in Cygwin
vim by clicking on the file in an Explorer window?
There's like 5 ways to do it.
What you've tried already and what your results so far?
I don't know how
On 2/9/2014 8:37 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, carolus!
Is there some configuration that will let me open a text file in Cygwin
vim by clicking on the file in an Explorer window?
There's like 5 ways to do it.
What you've tried already and what your results so far?
I don't know how
On 2/9/2014 11:35 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
If there is no simple answer,
Maybe not as simple, but...
What about adding a Vim destination to your Send To... folder
under your Windows profile?
Thanks, but maybe not simple enough for me. I find a SendTo shortcut
under
On 2/9/2014 2:07 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, carolus!
Is there some configuration that will let me open a text file in Cygwin
vim by clicking on the file in an Explorer window?
If there is no simple answer, let's just drop the subject. I'll
continue to open cygwin and cd
On 2/9/2014 4:16 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Just create a shell link in your personal Send To... folder with specified
command. On Windows XP, it is in %USERPROFILE%/SendTo. Dunno about other,
This way, even though a bit convoluted, allow you to edit ANY file with your
chosen program. Regardless
On 2/9/2014 12:49 PM, carolus wrote:
On 2/9/2014 11:35 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
If there is no simple answer,
Maybe not as simple, but...
What about adding a Vim destination to your Send To... folder
under your Windows profile?
Thanks, but maybe not simple enough
On 2/9/2014 7:49 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, carolus!
Just create a shell link in your personal Send To... folder with specified
command. On Windows XP, it is in %USERPROFILE%/SendTo.
On Windows 7, %USERPROFILE$ points to my user folder. But I get an
access forbidden message
On 2/9/2014 10:44 PM, carolus wrote:
Right-click and Send To now briefly flashes a Cygwin console but then
immediately closes it.
More exactly, it requests an administrative password to run mintty, and
only after supplying the password does the Cygwin window flash on the
screen.
I had
On 2/9/2014 5:54 PM, Lee wrote:
I'm surprised this worked, but
right click on a .txt file in explorer, select open with, choose program
click on browse, navigate to c:\cygwin\bin (or wherever you
installed cygwin), double-click on vi.exe
Hot dog! It really works. (But on my system it is
Is there some configuration that will let me open a text file in Cygwin
vim by clicking on the file in an Explorer window?
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How can one remount a hotplugged NTFS external USB drive as noacl? (I
take it this is necessary to get sensible Windows permissions when using
rsync for backup. If not, please correct me.)
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On 2/4/2014 9:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
How can one remount a hotplugged NTFS external USB drive as noacl? (I
take it this is necessary to get sensible Windows permissions when using
rsync for backup. If not, please correct me.)
Change the /cygdrive entry in /etc/fstab
Then you'll get
On 2/4/2014 10:27 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 2/4/2014 11:09 AM, carolus wrote:
On 2/4/2014 9:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
How can one remount a hotplugged NTFS external USB drive as noacl? (I
take it this is necessary to get sensible Windows permissions when
using
rsync for backup
On 2/4/2014 10:50 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
How can one remount a hotplugged NTFS external USB drive as noacl? (I
take it this is necessary to get sensible Windows permissions when
using
rsync for backup. If not, please correct me.)
Change the /cygdrive entry in /etc/fstab
The Cygwin README for rsync says:
2) to install service: (cygrunsrv --help for help)
cygrunsrv -I rsyncd -p /usr/bin/rsync -a '--daemon --no-detach'
This command seems to run OK with no messages, but then ps does not show
rsyncd or rsync.
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On 2/6/2012 5:05 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
The -mno-cygwin flag is still handled by gcc3, but that is deprecated
and may be removed at any time. The officially supported way to
build such apps is to use the appropriate mingw or mingw64
cross-compiler.
Is there an easy procedure that is
On 2/7/2012 1:51 PM, Tim Prince wrote:
On 2/6/2012 2:29 PM, Charles D. Russell wrote:
i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran.exe hello.f -o hello
cdr@dell03 ~/mingtest
$ ./hello
/home/cdr/mingtest/hello.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
libgfortran-
3.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such
On 2/7/2012 2:26 PM, Tim Prince wrote:
How about the recent suggestion of -static?
That solves my problem. It took a while for the suggestion to sink in.
Thanks
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On 2/7/2012 1:44 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
On 6 February 2012 14:29, Charles D. Russell wrote:
cdr@dell03 ~/mingtest
$ make hello
i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran.exehello.f -o hello
cdr@dell03 ~/mingtest
$ ./hello
/home/cdr/mingtest/hello.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
On 2/7/2012 10:42 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
On 2/7/2012 5:13 PM, carolus wrote:
On 2/6/2012 5:05 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
The -mno-cygwin flag is still handled by gcc3, but that is deprecated
and may be removed at any time. The officially supported way to
build such apps is to use
On 2/7/2012 3:12 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
There's the usual misconception about the GPL. If you create an
application which is linked against the Cygwin DLL (or any other GPLed
library), but you only use the application in-house, there's no reason
at all to distribute the source code to
On 2/7/2012 5:14 PM, Jesse Ziser wrote:
Well, if you don't want them to have to install Cygwin, then that's a
bigger issue than just licensing. Think of Cygwin like an OS. If you
want to create something that can run under Windows, not Cygwin, then
you have to build it for Windows, not Cygwin.
On 2/7/2012 11:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
Actually, you can easily bundle a program with the Cygwin DLL and have
it work fine.
I confess to doing that for a while, until I learned about -mno-cygwin,
but is that not a license violation? My understanding is that in order
to conform to
On 11/29/2011 8:29 PM, carolus wrote:
Then maybe I just need to update my Cygwin installation, which is about
a year old.
Yes, that fixes the problem. Thanks, everyone.
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After opening man ls, trying to search for --all leads to
Pattern not found (press RETURN).
Inquiring on comp.unix.shell, I was told that for this kind of search to
work properly in linux , one must set PAGER=less. However, that does not
seem to work in Cygwin, at least using the old default
On 11/29/2011 3:56 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, carolus wrote:
After opening man ls, trying to search for --all leads to
Pattern not found (press RETURN).
My experiment agrees with that. Do you know why that happens -- what
is it doing so /--all doesn't work?
No idea
On 11/29/2011 5:13 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
Man pages were being formatted with some sort of Unicode
hyphen or dash character in place of the ASCII hyphen.
Not sure that is the same problem. What happens if you search for --all
in man ls? For me, the display looks OK, but the search doesn't
On 11/29/2011 5:49 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
The display scrolls so that the line
-a, --all
is at the top of the screen and the string --a is highlighted in
reverse video in that line
Then maybe I just need to update my Cygwin installation, which is about
a year old. Are you using the
Midnight commander does not see USB storage devices on a remote machine
using an ssh connection. cd /cygdrive/f gives the message no such file
or directory from within mc, but the same command works as expected
from ssh.
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On 11/20/2011 3:55 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
On 11/20/2011 3:59 PM, carolus wrote:
Midnight commander does not see USB storage devices on a remote machine
using an ssh connection. cd /cygdrive/f gives the message no such file
or directory from within mc, but the same command works as expected
On 11/4/2011 2:33 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
You didn't supplied a username to the remote host at all.
Quite predictable, you got a name mismatch...
Thanks. That was the clue. The following all work, connecting to my
cygwin home directory on the server:
ssh dell03
sftp dell03
lftp
On 11/3/2011 10:51 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
What was exact command?
curl -v -O sftp://dell03/cygdrive/f/transit_ext/this_is_external_drive.txt
(without the newline. I can't get rid of it using the Thunderbird
newsreader to write this reply.)
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On 11/3/2011 6:08 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Look at the output: You're using the wrong keys with the curl
command.
How do I get them right? Why does curl insist on using
the DSA key, when ssh is quite happy with the RSA key? I tried
appending the public DSA key from the client to
On 11/3/2011 6:57 PM, carolus wrote:
I tried
appending the public DSA key from the client to known_hosts on the
server, but that didn't change anything.
Correction: What I did was to append id_dsa.pub from the client to
authorized_keys on the server, and to delete known_hosts on the server
After setup with ssh-host-config, ssh-user-config, and ssh-copy-id,
public key authentication works with ssh but fails with curl. (Password
authentication works with curl -u, but is less convenient.)
curl -v shows:
SSH authentication methods available:
On 3/14/2011 10:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 14 10:29, Charles Russell wrote:
The following works on Windows XP, but fails on Windows 7,
apparently because of some permission setting (even in Administrator
mode).
# dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb
dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Permission
On 3/14/2011 11:11 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Charles Russell sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 10:03 AM
Is there some way to read the volume label on a USB flash drive?
Something like blkid in linux?
Something like this?
function label() {
$(cygpath
On 3/14/2011 4:55 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
carolus sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 1:05 PM
I didn't realize that the output of dir depended on whether it was
invoked from cygwin or from cmd, and I didn't know about label.exe.
dir does not differ depending
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