FW: How to display Russian Cyrillic and Chinese in Cygwin Bash Console?

Is the third time a charm! I hope so. I forgot to turn off HTML again! I apologize if this query appears again. Since I saw no replies (and not even my own posting) after checking my spam filters, I assume it never got to the list (Maybe I forgot to turn of HML the first time too!) Is it possib

RE: OpenSSH for Non Administrators

I looked in http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#1.1 as reference by c:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/openssh/README and I'm having trouble finding the document that explains how to set ssh up as a service on a windows server. Can someone please point me to the correct document? c:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/openssh/R

How to run X Session from RH8 via ssh -X? How to run vnc via ssh?

Thanks for all the help so far. I hope this will be a 100% cygwin-mailing-list compliant posting. (1) I read the description of TOFU and I still don't understand it. I don't understand what I am doing wrong. If I want to quote a previous posting, should I not put the quoted text first and then my

Is there a cygwin nfs-client?

I looked in the cygwin installation program and I can see the nfs-server. Is there an nfs-client? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

System V IPC Message Queues and Shared Memory?

I'm curious: does cygwin support the msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv & msgctl functions from System V IPC? The sample code I downloaded from the www.wrox.com (for the book Beginning Linux Programming 3rd Edition chapter 14) compiles with no errors bug causes a "5032 Bad System call". Should these function

Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to (using bash) (1) How do I wait for multiple children and wake up when the first one dies? (2) Examine the status code of the dead child and possibly spawn a new one? Where is the documentation on wait? Thanks, Siegfried

Where is documentation on keyring?

I'm poking around in c:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring-0.4.3 trying to understand how to use this program called keyring. Can I expect all Cygwin utilities to be already compiled and have a file that contains a URL to the documentation? I could google for it, but I wanted to be assured that

Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash

Can someone help me translate this to bash? It works with CMD.EXE. java and javac are programs for sun that are not cygwin based so I believe they want windows style file specifications and not cygwin/bash/unix style file specifications. Here is the CMD.EXE script: SET CLASSPATH=.;c:\dev\xalan\xa

RE: Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash

Thanks Igor! > As someone mentioned, you can use "cygpath -p" to convert a POSIX-style > path into a Win32-style one. I think I need to go the other way. Given a CLASSPATH variable in windows, how do I convert it to cygwin? Do I use ":" to separate the elements, or do I use "\;". If I use ":", wh

RE: Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash

anski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:06 PM To: Siegfried Heintze Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Thanks Igor! > > > As someone mentioned, you can use "

Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

I hope Igor will be pleased that I first posted in a g++ forum about reading executable images. I was referred to STABS, DWARF, DWARFv2 and v3 and http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf3std.htm and http://reality.sgi.com/davea/dwarf.html. What is the relationship between cygwin, windows and these fo

dll v so?

I'm confused about dll v. so and cygwin. I've used the documentation to create and load dlls with g++. However, I notice that Apache Httpd uses ".so" files. Is the choice to produce ".dll" or ".so" files purely a matter of who is going to load them? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

>But "extracting debug info" is way too vague of a term to offer any >meaningful help. You'd have to state exactly what you're trying to do. >Try "man objdump" or "objdump -g file", or read the binutils/bfd >internals manuals. I basically want to implement reflection for C++ by extracting all th

RE: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

>The gcc / binutils / gdb distributed with Cygwin use stabs. I believe >that patches to get dwarf2 working have been submitted, and in theory if >you build your own toolchain you should be able to do this. I looked in c:\cygwin\usr\doc\ELFIO and there is a nice PDF file that refers to the exam

RE: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

How does ELFDump.exe work? I did a chmod 777 hello.* and still ELFDump hello.o And ELFDump hello.exe Still produce the Can't openinput file "Hello.exe" Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

libxslt v apache

Has anyone used both libxslt and xalan? How might one decide between xalan and libxslt? Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 7:22 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT]

cygwin NFS File servers on windows?

I was looking for a windows based nfs file server. I googled and found http://opensource.franz.com/nfs/. Does anyone have any experience with this or other opensource nfs file servers? There are others for only $40. Does cygwin include nfs file server? I don't remember ever seeing one. It seems t

Disaster recover with Cygwin?

an open up enough ports on the intervening firewalls. Can I use the cygwin ports of rsync or rdiff-backup initial create a remote repository and later restore a bootable windows partition and then boot locally? Thanks, Siegfried > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:21:38PM -0700, Siegfried Heintze wrote:

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nfs-server-2.3-4

Where is a mirror I can download this from? I tried a few but they only had 2.3-3. Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robb, Sam Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:50 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: n

How to read man pages on nfs-server?

Hmmm... well I tried a few more mirrors and still cannot find nfs-server 2.3-4 -- I'll wait some more. In the mean time, I did a "/usr/bin/find /usr/share | xargs grep -n nfs-server" and found the README contains a list of files below. Now how do I, from looking at the README, know how to learn m

How to convert from windows DLL to windows lib file?

Is there a way to generate a windows LIB file from windows DLL file? I thought I saw it somewhere in some documentation but I cannot remember where. I think it is one of the bin utils. Since someone recently explained that cygwin so files are the same as dll files, can I infer that the same techn

davfs for cygwin rsync?

I'm looking at the man page for rsync and I need a little help. I just learned on the Boulder Linux UG mailing list that it is possible to mount a Web DAV file system with davfs and use rsync with it on a linux system. I assume this works with another utility too, like unison and rbackup. Hmmm...

How to run ddd in XWin?

OK, I apparently already have that installed. I typed "info XWin" and learned about the options. Nothing terribly relevant to ddd here -- did I miss something. OK, I type XWin& and "ddd test.exe" and same error. Any other ideas? Test.exe is compiled with the "-g" option in g77. I also tried ddd

Apache httpd Accepts local connections but not Remote

Since you guys are so smart, responsive and generous with your time, I thought I would try this one on you. I have posted this on the Apache HTTP mailing list twice with no response. I have the following in my httpd.conf file. WebDAV seems to be working from my local network (when using IE 5/6) bu

RE: need -mrtd to create Excel DLL?

Lester, It works! Thank you. Assuming these will be archived, maybe this can help someone else. Since I'm wondering if Excel was caching something, I decided to use C# and it works! Thanks, Siegfried Here is the example of calling cygwin C from C#: --begin here -- // Begin command

How to update official cygwin documentation for g77 and gcc? (was: RE: need -mrtd to create Excel DLL?)

Lester, Yeah, I did the same (with regard to __declspec keywords). Odd, Excell won't read the DLL but C# will! I was just using Excell because it was handy to test with. Good thing I really don't need excel. My real concern is calling g77 from C# (which works). I got C# to call gcc too under cygwi

Regular Expressions from Bash Shell

I want to use grep on all the FORTRAN source code files in the current directory whose file names do not contain a "_" character. How do I do this? I'm using the extension of ".f" to designate FORTRAN. Thank you, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Selectively zipping files together

I did not see this bounce back to me so I am sending it again. I wonder if the problem was with HTML/plain formatting? I'm trying to use sun's jar utility (from Sun's java development kit) along with the Cygwin find comma

RE: Selectively zipping files together

> >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:55 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Selectively zipping files together > >>I'm trying to use sun's jar utility (from Sun's java development kit

How to write telnet server like program for serial port?

I need to write a program similar to a telnet server. A telnet server asynchronously reads data from a socket and writes it to a sub-process, and asynchronously reads data from the subprocess and writes to a socket. My program needs to replace the subprocess with a serial port. The telnet server c

Where is the documentation for installing Win2K services for cvs, ftp, rlogin, inetd?

I found this (see below) via google. I've been spending hours wading thru the documentation trying to find this information. I've performed full installations of cygwin on two different computers in June and yesterday preformed an update on one. I still don't have this file /usr/doc/cygwin/cron.RE

How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

I notice that Cygwin manipulates the path by prepending " /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:" to the windows PATH environment variable. This is a problem for me because I'm using CVSNT and I need my cvs client to be /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin which it never sees because it finds

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:45 AM > >Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: > >PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH" > Where do I put this statement? .b

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward L. Fox >Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:24 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? > >Hi, Siegfried: > >In my opinion, I don't thi

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:38 PM To: Siegfried Heintze Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: > > > >PATH="/cygdrive/c/Progra

RE: Selectively zipping files together

ork: /usr/bin/find . -type f ! -path \^\.\/bin | less Thanks, Siegfried > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 9:40 AM >To: Siegfried Heintze >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTE

where is mail command?

As I recall, there is a mail command on most implementations of U*X. So I looked thru the documentation in Cygwin and could find no documentation. The mail command is not working either. When I type "info mail" at the bash prompt I see "Unable to find node referenced by mailshar". "man mail" says

Bad mirros

I've been trying for weeks to upgrade my Cygwin installation but the setup program, after I have spent 15 or 20 minutes selecting the software I want, comes back and says the download is aborted, would I like to try again? This is very frustrating because then I have to spend another 20 minutes on

How to write minimal program using GD library

I'm looking at the GD documentation (a C graphics library) and it pointed me to a simple minimal C program. I cut and pasted this. See below. I cannot get it to work, however, with g++ or msvc v7. When I follow the directions with gcc, it compiles and links fine but when I try to run the resulting

RE: How to write minimal program using GD library

Thanks Brian, It works! My problem was that I was running the program (via bash) from the emacs compile command. I wonder why the path is not set up correctly when I use emacs to create a subprocess? The path is setup correctly when I click on the Cygwin prompt. I think emacs specifies bash.exe -

RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found

I'm having similar troubles. I have read the cron.README file. I installed cron some time ago. I believe I used the command described in cron.README. I see there are several cron.exes running on my system when I look at the process list. Should there be? Here is one of the many entries in the eve

RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found

] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siegfried Heintze Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:10 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found I'm having similar troubles. I have read the cron.README file. I inst

Documentation on functions

This is the third time I have mailed this to Cygwin@cygwin.com and it has not showed up yet in the list. I am subscribed. Obviously, if you are seeing this, then it succeeded. What a mystery. Anyway... I noticed that when I boot fedora core 4, the function readdir is documented in man. However, w

RE: Documentation on functions

Is there "documentation on the documentation"? In other words, is the process of submitting documentation documented? Does one use the GNU texi or SGML docbook or some other format? I've been curious about these tools for years but have never used them. Are there any functions documented (and I j

FW: Problems compiling grep and friends

I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with “make”. It looks like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? Thanks, Siegfried make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Setting

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

> >On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >> I'm running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. >> ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with "make". It looks >> like it cannot find the usr directory.

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

Siegfried wrote: OK, I tried that. See below for the results. Looks like we have the same problem. Thanks, Siegfried Brian wrote: So as a workaround, try "make install DESTDIR=/" which would result in "///foo/bar" which is the POSIX-sanctioned way of dealing with filesystems that reserve // for ne

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

Dave, I'm not sure what to do. I see you attached a diffs file. Is there a utility such as patch that I can use to apply those diffs? What would be the command? Thanks, Siegfried > >On 04 October 2007 22:13, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >> Siegfried wrote: >> OK, I tri

FW: How to manipulate access control lists (ACL)?

I put a query on unix.com and they pointed me to http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_acl.htm . I don't understand this link: is it describing a bash command? At bash I type "info acl" and "man acl" but I cannot find any description of a bash command for adding an ACL to a file. Can I do