RE: bash & $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 20:37 2003-01-31, Rolf Campbell wrote: My prompt is (from the script below) "PS1='$PWD> '". All of the characters are 'printable' and none are \[\] enclosed. Rolf, Is 'printable' different than plain old printable? Anyway, I can repeat this (and other concomitant artifacts, too). It loo

system() error for each LoadLibrary() dll

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Kienzle
Hi, I'm trying to debug a problem with Octave running under Cygwin for Windows ME. Every time I fork, I get a message box for each dynamically loaded dll saying: Octave has caused an error in SUB.DLL Octave will now close. This does not happen in Windows 2000. In trying to locate the probl

bash lockup

2003-01-31 Thread Sean McBride
I thank all of you who comented on my last post. I have another small problem. I installed the package with the installer and then later, added pine to my installation. I don't think installing pine has anything to do with my problem, but I only noticed this after adding that package. occasiona

RE: bash & $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
My prompt is (from the script below) "PS1='$PWD> '". All of the characters are 'printable' and none are \[\] enclosed. > -Original Message- > From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 11:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: bash & $PS1 (di

Re: /usr/bin/tclsh84

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:13:47AM +, Jonathan Larmour wrote: >Ah another day another tclsh. Ah, another hour, another tcl/tk whinge. >Even if it's only a soft link to the most recently installed tclshNN >(like RPM post-install scripts do for the linux kernel etc.). I know >cygwin has got po

Re: bash & $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rolf, Assuming some of your prompt is non-printing (escape sequences) offset those non-printing portions with \[backslash-escaped square brackets\]. That tells BASH (and / or the readline library it incorporates) not to count those portions for the purpose of wrapping the displayed input lines.

bash & $PS1 (display error)

2003-01-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
I've noticed several display problems with bash and prompts. Here's an easy way to recreate one of them: (I've marked the lines to alleviate the wrapping problem) #line 1 PS1='$PWD> ' #line2 mkdir -p /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tm

/usr/bin/tclsh84

2003-01-31 Thread Jonathan Larmour
Ah another day another tclsh. Unfortunately there are those of us who like having scripts that are portable between OS's :-). On Linux at least, tclsh is installed as /usr/bin/tclsh with no version number suffix. Cygwin used tclsh83 and tclsh84 and will no doubt use tclsh85 when it comes out.

Re: i have a similar site as cygwin.com... want to link to you

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:43:40PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Hmm, I don't think anyone really wants to know what her ".dll" stands >for... :-) Yeah, I get the feeling that her's definition is not the same as our's. cgf >> At 14:48 2003-01-31, Angela Karesh wrote: >> >> >I noticed cygwin.c

Re: i have a similar site as cygwin.com... want to link to you

2003-01-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hmm, I don't think anyone really wants to know what her ".dll" stands for... :-) Igor On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hey! I've got an idea. > > Why don't we each send Angela a reply tell her what we think of her > suggestion (whatever that may be). Please be thorough in ex

Re: i have a similar site as cygwin.com... want to link to you

2003-01-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hey! I've got an idea. Why don't we each send Angela a reply tell her what we think of her suggestion (whatever that may be). Please be thorough in explaining your point of view. RRS At 14:48 2003-01-31, Angela Karesh wrote: I noticed cygwin.com (Cygwin) ranked #24 in Google for the keyword

Re: fatal IO error 104:

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:53:30PM -0600, Aldi Kraja wrote: >Hi, > >I Open x windows: three open by default. I connect with one of them >through ssh to a server. After some work I exit from each window with >"exit". Cygwin at the end it reports a problem: >The problem: >XIO: fatal IO error 104 (

fatal IO error 104:

2003-01-31 Thread Aldi Kraja
Hi, I Open x windows: three open by default. I connect with one of them through ssh to a server. After some work I exit from each window with "exit". Cygwin at the end it reports a problem: The problem: XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" waiting for X server t

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:48:13PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: >OK, sorry for the confusion. I guess the setup comment about this only >working with gdb threw me off track. I upgraded to it, and a tcl script I had >that uses the tcl package http stopped working. I looked at the comment, >

i have a similar site as cygwin.com... want to link to you

2003-01-31 Thread Angela Karesh
I noticed cygwin.com (Cygwin) ranked #24 in Google for the keyword ".dll". I have a website that is a good match for your's and I think it makes sense for us to link to each other for 2 important reasons: 1 - It will be beneficial to both our users (most important!) 2 - The more links we both h

Re: tail -f problem

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Smith
This is not a simple issue of "the linux tail works, and the cygwin tail doesn't". You're exporting an smb share, which most likely (or could possibly) affect buffering/flushing. At any rate, if the linux tail is working for you, use it. cheers, -Matt > I've read the archives (now that I found

RE: tail -f problem

2003-01-31 Thread Scott Alexander
I've read the archives (now that I found it) about other people posting about this. However, this does not change the fact that linux's version of tail works plenty fine with viewing IIS logfiles vs. Cygwin's version of tail. -Original Message- From: Matthew Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Suggestion: KDE / QT and GNOME cygwin available

2003-01-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
>Currently it is a resourcen problem, that kde/qt isn't be distributed with the >cygwin net release. I have all hands to do with the user support on the >kde-cygwin mailing lists and foren and to deal with the basic stuff (ld, >imagehelper,libtool,...), that there is no time to support the users i

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Mo Awad wrote: > Could someone help me get off this list? Unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of *every* message. Read them. >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: ht

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Mo Awad
Could someone help me get off this list? - Original Message - From: "William A. Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:02:58 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter > At 03:15 PM 1/31/2003 -0500, Christopher Fayl

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread William A. Hoffman
OK, sorry for the confusion. I guess the setup comment about this only working with gdb threw me off track. I upgraded to it, and a tcl script I had that uses the tcl package http stopped working. I looked at the comment, and figured since I was not gdb, there was no use complaining that it di

Re: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Sy or Ursula Bensky wrote: > The installation would be much simplified if it was available as a > tarball or.ZIP file. Ooh, just what I wanted! A 1.6Gb tar or .ZIP file :) Let's see you download *that* over your 56k modem! (sorry, just couldn't resist...) > Sy Bensky > >

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Norman Vine
Jason Tishler writes: > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0500, Paul Stodghill wrote: > > Upgrading to either tcltk-20030128-1 or tcltk-20030128-2 appears to > > break Python's tkinter. Reinstalling Python didn't help. Reverting to > > tcltk-20021218-1 fixed the problem. > > Cygwin Python wil

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:02:58PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: >At 03:15 PM 1/31/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:34:29PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: It's strange that every new release of tcl/tk breaks all past programs which rely on it. >>> >>>I

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

2003-01-31 Thread Jeffery B. Rancier
> "Max" == Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about: > $ mkpasswd -d -u james >> /etc/passwd > No registry fiddling involved. Nope, that didn't do it. I added: administrator Administrator ADMINISTRATOR I exited and restarted, but still get garbage as the name. I'm r

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread William A. Hoffman
At 03:15 PM 1/31/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:34:29PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: >>>It's strange that every new release of tcl/tk breaks all past programs >>>which rely on it. >> >>I would not say that this is strange. The tcl/tk that is in cygwin, is >>o

Re: linker can't find getsubopt()

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:47:15PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:59:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't think it is that simple. Cygwin doesn't use the getopt that comes with newlib. >>> >>> Ah. Just be

Re: linker can't find getsubopt()

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:59:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> I don't think it is that simple. Cygwin doesn't use the getopt that >>> comes with newlib. >> >> Ah. Just because I'm curious, why? >> >>> Is there supposed to be any correspon

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:34:29PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: >>It's strange that every new release of tcl/tk breaks all past programs >>which rely on it. > >I would not say that this is strange. The tcl/tk that is in cygwin, is >only for insight/gdb, as the comment says. It is not a full >

RE: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > I assume you never did an early slackware linux install then. You considder the early Slackware installs difficult, eh?? Hah! Those were easy (I did many an install of the early Slackware from floppy images (and I still like & use Slackware today!))

RE: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

2003-01-31 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > > Umm, I don't think this is dependent on the Windows version... My > (mostly standard, slightly edited) /etc/profile *prepends* > "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/X11R6/bin" to the > PATH...

Re: gcc as strictly win32 compiler

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:26:12PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >If you are not using any of the unix APIs, you may be interested in the >MinGW project (mingw.sf.net). Cygwin's gcc takes the -mno-cygwin option >which causes it to function as a MinGW compiler - i.e. the produced exes use >MSVCRT, not c

Re: $CDPATH bug in zsh

2003-01-31 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > zsh doesn't evaluate the root directory ('/') if it is in $CDPATH. I > tested this under SuSE 8.1 and it works as supposed, so this seems to > be a Cygwin-zsh bug. > > Have a look at the example[1] ('**' is my prompt). Interesting... Notice that if

Re: Re: gcc as strictly win32 compiler

2003-01-31 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:26:12 - Subject: Re: gcc as strictly win32 compiler Sean McBride wrote: >... as I understand it, cygwin.dll interprets many commands and > uses MSVCRT.dll

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread William A. Hoffman
>It's strange that every new release of tcl/tk breaks all past programs >which rely on it. I would not say that this is strange. The tcl/tk that is in cygwin, is only for insight/gdb, as the comment says. It is not a full distribution of tcl/tk. See the thread "tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh

Re: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sy, Thanks for all you laconic input. Too bad you couldn't spend some of the time you saved with these breif email messages to the list looking at the email archives that discusses this issue at length. If you had, you would see why Cygwin doesn't install in the form you want. That would've rem

Re: emacs in separate window

2003-01-31 Thread Joe Buehler
Shankar Unni wrote: Another approach is to massage the existing NT code in emacs to use the native windowing system instead of X11. It probably would not be too hard to do. Err, wouldn't that just be "NTEmacs"? I thought the Cygwin build disabled all the NT-specific code in Emacs. Or doesn't

Re: gcc as strictly win32 compiler

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Sean McBride wrote: > I know this is a VERY newbie question, but I have looked on the list > archives and been confused by the compiler flags for making win apps, > and the definitions of WIN32 and CYGWIN defines. > > I have several straight win32 apps that I wrote using MSVC and I > simply want to

Re: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sy, It is. Or, more accurately, they are. A single archive would be unwieldy and somewhat at odds with the rapidly changing set of packages and the presence of very many packages of less than universal interest. You can download individual tarballs (source tarballs are separate) from any of a

path to include files

2003-01-31 Thread Hans Ydelm
Hi All, This must be asked a million times but I failed to find the answer in google/FAQ search. For some reason cygwin complains that the X11 include files can not be found. gcc file.c -lX11 -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib however ls /usr/X11R6/include/X11 shows them all. I tried ch

Re: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread Sy or Ursula Bensky
The installation would be much simplified if it was available as a tarball or.ZIP file. Sy Bensky On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:52 AM, Max Bowsher wrote: subensky wrote: In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen anything as convoluted and difficult to use as your CygWi

gcc as strictly win32 compiler

2003-01-31 Thread Sean McBride
I know this is a VERY newbie question, but I have looked on the list archives and been confused by the compiler flags for making win apps, and the definitions of WIN32 and CYGWIN defines. I have several straight win32 apps that I wrote using MSVC and I simply want to create the executables with gc

Re: emacs in separate window

2003-01-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Joe Buehler wrote: Another approach is to massage the existing NT code in emacs to use the native windowing system instead of X11. It probably would not be too hard to do. Err, wouldn't that just be "NTEmacs"? I thought the Cygwin build disabled all the NT-specific code in Emacs. Or doesn't i

Re: tail -f problem

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Smith
This is not the fault of tail, rather IIS. Search the archives if you're interested why. cheers, -Matt Smith > With cygwin's tail, the output is not quite the same as the linux version of > tail. With Cygwin's version, I will get output with tail -f, but the > updates aren't "realtime" as the

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:05:37PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >Paul, > >On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0500, Paul Stodghill wrote: >> Upgrading to either tcltk-20030128-1 or tcltk-20030128-2 appears to >> break Python's tkinter. Reinstalling Python didn't help. Reverting to >> tcltk-20021218-

Re: manuals for newbies?

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Quan Ding wrote: > Since I'm totally new to cygwin, (I just installed it > a couple of days ago) it turns out that I had a lot of > questions while getting familiar with it. I hate > asking them here cause I believe they are very simple > questions and probably lots of people had the same > questio

Re: annoying problem with 'mv'

2003-01-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Lynn, Try strace'ing your mv command to see where the time goes, like so: cd /c strace -o mv.strace mv OldDir NewDir and look through /c/mv.strace. For more info on strace, "man strace" (which also has a pointer to the web page). The file may be large, so you may want to compress

User Guide page out of date

2003-01-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, A note to the maintainer of the User Guide: the "regtool" information on is out of date (so, for that matter, is the regtool manpage). For more info, see "regtool --help". I could provide a patch for the manpage if I only knew what to diff a

Re: ps does not show all the processes ?

2003-01-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Gael, % ps --help Usage: ps [-aefls] [-u UID] -a, --all show processes of all users -e, --everyone show processes of all users -f, --full show process uids, ppids -h, --help output usage information and exit -l, --long show process uids, ppids, pgids, winpids -s, --summ

Re: gdb stopped working after moving Cygwin installation

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >> While trying to debug the bug I reported earlier >> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01642.html) I ran >> out of disk space, so I thought I'd move Cygwin to another >> harddisk... (bad idea) >> >> I saved my /home directory, removed all references to

manuals for newbies?

2003-01-31 Thread Quan Ding
Since I'm totally new to cygwin, (I just installed it a couple of days ago) it turns out that I had a lot of questions while getting familiar with it. I hate asking them here cause I believe they are very simple questions and probably lots of people had the same questions before. But the cygwin and

Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Jason Tishler
Paul, On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0500, Paul Stodghill wrote: > Upgrading to either tcltk-20030128-1 or tcltk-20030128-2 appears to > break Python's tkinter. Reinstalling Python didn't help. Reverting to > tcltk-20021218-1 fixed the problem. Cygwin Python will have to be built against the

Re: ps does not show all the processes ?

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Gael Mulat wrote: > I've noticed that ps -aux does not show all the processes that we > can see with Task Manager. I can imagine that we cannot see some > completely native processes, but it is also the case for some > processes launched via cygwin ! The intentional behaviour is that Cygwin pr

Re: ps does not show all the processes ?

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:49:36PM +0100, Gael Mulat wrote: >I've noticed that ps -aux does not show all the processes that we can >see with Task Manager. I can imagine that we cannot see some >completely native processes, but it is also the case for some processes >launched via cygwin ! > >Is the

Re: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
subensky wrote: > In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen anything > as convoluted and > difficult to use as your CygWin download/installer. And the point of this email was ... ? Constructive criticism is welcome. Useless whining is not. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Cannot run ssh...

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:29:58AM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >you must install the openssl package. >see http://www.cygin.com/packages Which should, of course, have already been installed automatically if you run the normal cygwin install. I'm redirecting this to the proper mailing list. I

ps does not show all the processes ?

2003-01-31 Thread Gael Mulat
Hi, I've noticed that ps -aux does not show all the processes that we can see with Task Manager. I can imagine that we cannot see some completely native processes, but it is also the case for some processes launched via cygwin ! Is there a reason for that behaviour ? Is there a workar

Re: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* subensky (03-01-31 16:58 +0100) > In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen anything as > convoluted and > difficult to use as your CygWin download/installer. Yeah, clicking seven times [Next], once [OK] and selecting a mirror *is* difficult, indeed. Thorsten -- Content-Ty

Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Stodghill
Upgrading to either tcltk-20030128-1 or tcltk-20030128-2 appears to break Python's tkinter. Reinstalling Python didn't help. Reverting to tcltk-20021218-1 fixed the problem. Thanks. quimby-xp$ cygcheck -s Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Jan 31 12:27:55 2003 Wi

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, I'm running 'Windows Classic' 'no effects' 'Color quality Medium 16 bit' 'Adjust for best performance' In other words I strip out all the Microsoft clutter from my desktop? No silly dogs, animated paper clips or WMP 9's in sight! Ooop's showing my unix heritage again. Colin -- Unsubscribe

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Marcel Telka
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:03:05PM +, Colin Harrison wrote: > Hi, > > Tried running th elocal directory outside cygwin tree..no joy. > > When in the GUI chooser: Select Packages, Exp, View Category:- > I get all the + line entries. > When I click on the +'s I get the appropiate number of 'bla

annoying problem with 'mv'

2003-01-31 Thread Lynn Wilson
My understanding of the way that 'mv' works is that it will try to RENAME the file or directory in question provided the source and destination are on the same partition otherwise it will do a COPY. If I mv (in the sense of renaming) a large directory that is buried deep in some other director

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, Tried running th elocal directory outside cygwin tree..no joy. When in the GUI chooser: Select Packages, Exp, View Category:- I get all the + line entries. When I click on the +'s I get the appropiate number of 'blank lines' where the expanded entries should be. Colin (are they on a differe

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
First off, a note to anyone including either setup logs or cygcheck output: *please* include it as an *uncompressed* *text* *attachment* (Colin, I'm not picking on you personally). It really does screw up the archive search with false positives. As for your problem, Colin, On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, C

tail -f problem

2003-01-31 Thread Scott Alexander
All, This is my first post to this list, so please excuse missing information that is normally seen in a possible problem with cygwin. Here goes... In my career, I'm a software consultant, doing QA on a web client/server application. Part of my investigation of issues is looking at the realtime

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, var/log/setup.log.full (after running setup session passed my empty chooser display) 2003/01/31 16:15:43 Starting cygwin install, version 2.249.2.5 2003/01/31 16:15:43 Current Directory: C:\Temp 2003/01/31 16:15:45 source: network install 2003/01/31 16:15:45 root: D:\cygwin binary system 2003

Re: cygwin 1.3.19-1 and up: Garbage printed in ls output if the user entry is missing from /etc/passwd

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:16:30PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >Hello, > >I've just completed a fresh installation of Cygwin on Win2k Pro / SP3. I >installed Cygwin as Administrator but then created an user called ptsekov. >It happened that I forgot to update the password database after I created

RE: CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread Steve Fairbairn
I assume you never did an early slackware linux install then. Steve. -Original Message- From: subensky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 January 2003 15:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CygWin Installation In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen anything as conv

CygWin Installation

2003-01-31 Thread subensky
In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen anything as convoluted and difficult to use as your CygWin download/installer. Sy Bensky [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
You're really not giving anyone much to go on... I have a WAG, though: your setup.ini may be messed up somehow. Try downloading a new one. Otherwise, try to divulge a little more information: does the log say anything useful? rlc On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Colin Harrison wrote: > Can't see full lis

RE: Problems with find

2003-01-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ian, At 06:49 2003-01-31, Ian R. Chesal wrote: Your syntax is incorrect. Try: No. Both Franz's and your syntaxes are acceptable. A backslash is equally useful for protecting the shell glob character '*' as is surrounding the argument (or just the asterisk) in single or double quotes. Franz's

Re: Problems with find

2003-01-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
For the archives: No. This is not going to do what the OP wants at all. In fact, if there's more than one file named 1000.*, it won't even work (find will produce a "find: paths must precede expression" error). For details, "info find" and "info bash". To the OP: Is your 1000 directory a symboli

gdb stopped working after moving Cygwin installation

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hello all, While trying to debug the bug I reported earlier (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01642.html) I ran out of disk space, so I thought I'd move Cygwin to another harddisk... (bad idea) I saved my /home directory, removed all references to Cygwin from the registry, moved

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Harrison
Can't see full list in setup.exe? Select Packages with Exp and View Full gives no display. Colin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http:/

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Colin Harrison wrote: > I'm running the cygwin installer setup executable. And your problem is ? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, I'm running the cygwin installer setup executable. XP Pro sp1 + cygwin 1.3.19-1 + 16 bit video Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Jan 31 14:56:27 2003 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Path: D:\cygwin\usr\local\bin D:\cygwi

RE: Problems with find

2003-01-31 Thread Ian R. Chesal
Your syntax is incorrect. Try: find . -name "1000*" I just tried in in /tmp on my cygwin installation and here's the output: $ find . -name 1000* -o -name 1000.* ./1000 ./1000/1000.zip ./1000.tar.gz You can limit the find to just files or directories with

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Colin Harrison wrote: > I can no longer see the full list when I run setup.exe? Of what?. Go read http://cygwin.com/bugs.html before replying. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http:

Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, I can no longer see the full list when I run setup.exe? Colin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

2003-01-31 Thread James Begley
> >How about: >$ mkpasswd -d -u james >> /etc/passwd >No registry fiddling involved. > Yep, that worked just as well. I might try that next time! Thanks, James. James Begley -- Telephone: +354-552-0240. Marine Research Institute, Skulagata 4, P.O. Box 1390, 121 Reykjavik, Iceland. -- Unsubsc

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

2003-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
James Begley wrote: >> I've just posted about the same issue :) You are missing the entry >> for >> james in the /etc/passwd file. Update the passwd database with >> mkpasswd >> and you should be fine. > > Thanks for that - I have now got it to work, but it wasnt quite as > simple as it should h

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

2003-01-31 Thread James Begley
Hi, >I've just posted about the same issue :) You are missing the entry for >james in the /etc/passwd file. Update the passwd database with mkpasswd >and you should be fine. Thanks for that - I have now got it to work, but it wasnt quite as simple as it should have been! The 'administrator' a

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

2003-01-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, James Begley wrote: > Hi, > > I have just upgraded to the most recent version (1.3.19) of the cygwin dll, and > I have small, weird problem. The bash prompt no longer shows the username > correctly - see examples below. I am running cygwin from a Win2000 machine,

Cygwin 1.3.19-1 and up: Garbage printed in ls output if the userentry is missing from /etc/passwd

2003-01-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I've just completed a fresh installation of Cygwin on Win2k Pro / SP3. I installed Cygwin as Administrator but then created an user called ptsekov. It happened that I forgot to update the password database after I created the new user. So I've logged in as ptsekov and the first thing I s

Re: (no subject)

2003-01-31 Thread Earnie Boyd
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:37:03 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthew Aldous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mingw-runtime-2.3, w32api-2.1, uberbaum Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Conte

Cygwin 1.3.19/bash prompt bug

2003-01-31 Thread James Begley
Hi, I have just upgraded to the most recent version (1.3.19) of the cygwin dll, and I have small, weird problem. The bash prompt no longer shows the username correctly - see examples below. I am running cygwin from a Win2000 machine, with service pack 3 installed. ===

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: exim-4.12-3

2003-01-31 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
I've updated the version of exim to 4.12-3 This version is identical to 4.12-2 but now linked against openssl-0.9.7 It also works around a chown bug when running the queue from the shell. Pierre To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://sources.redhat.com/

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-31 Thread Vincent Legoll
> - Return ENOSYS on invalid argument to setitimer. >(Christopher Faylor) Shouldn't that be EINVAL instead ? ENOSYS isn't for: no syscall ? -- Vincent Legoll - Peregrine Systems - C.M. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.c

Re: Problems with find

2003-01-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03-01-31 09:57 +0100) > I trie to search file with find an didn't find all the file which should be > found > > I search for all file starting with 1000 an the file 1000.zip in the > diretory 1000 is not found > $ find . -name 1000\* find -type f -name '1000*' > ./1000.zip

Re: Problems with find

2003-01-31 Thread Carlo Florendo
find . -name 1000.* - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:57 PM Subject: Problems with find Hi folks, I trie to search file with find an didn't find all the file which should be found I search for all file starting with

Getting rid of auto-import warnings

2003-01-31 Thread Johnny Willemsen
Hi, I am working on getting ACE/TAO compiling with Cygwin GCC 3.2. For this, I have setup a daily build that published the build results to http://doc.ece.uci.edu/scoreboard/. You can there find the current results for Cygwin GCC 3.2. I have modified a lot of makefiles to correctly set __declspec

Problems with find

2003-01-31 Thread fj_br_
Hi folks, I trie to search file with find an didn't find all the file which should be found I search for all file starting with 1000 an the file 1000.zip in the diretory 1000 is not found $ find . -name 1000\* ./1000.zip ./1000 but when I ls the directory 1000 the file is listed $ ls 1000 1000.

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2003-01-31 Thread fj_br_
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