fortune strfile [autarkic or not]
Hi. Recently, I asked if it was feasible or not to run Cygwins fortune separated on any Win32 system. Christopher Faylor was not amused about my question due to a misunderstanding, sorry for that. First, its not my aim to cherry pick (as to quote Brian Dessent) integral parts of the Cygwin project for any reasons whatsoever. I did hope to hunt down a minor, but rather vexing problem of mine (maybe not the most effective way, but Im not a programmer after all). Quite a while ago, I decided to set up new fortune quotes of my own. In order to enable fortune to process them, I used strfile for generating the needed DATs. Usually, this is a trivial task: strfile [-io] quotes [quotes.dat] (I once noticed that both -i and -o are worthy for enabling fortunes -s and -l option, respectively.) One should be able now to invoke fortune like this: fortune [-aeslo] quotes But this time fortune didnt return a quote, instead I read nothing. Calling fortune multiple times, once or twice one quote was printed out on screen, this was the first element of the file quotes. The remaining two hundred quotes or so didnt show up, often empty lines were given back. I tried it again and again, varying strfiles arguments strfile -i file, strfile -r etc, I repeated the procedure using quote collections like linuxcookie, startrek, zippy of the fortune directory and so on, but no workable DATs were written. Strangely enough, using the *original* DATs coming with Cygwins fortune release, everything works fine. Now at least I know, that stuffing cygwin1.dll in a directory, bundled with fortune and some of the *original* DATs and quote files, indeed, fortune will work on any Windows system with a DOS prompt. However, strfile will still behave oddly, writing DATs that seem to be faulty somehow. I found a posting of Lee D. Rothstein, also dealing with (different) strfile headaches: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00148.html I didnt check strfile out since then. What's the secret about strfile and those DAT files? Greetings, Mikka -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Autarkic fortune/strfile usage possible?
Hi, I wonder if outsourcing of both fortune and strfile executables is possible, so these programs might be run independently on a Win32 system lacking the regular Cygwin environment. Is it feasible somehow to supply just the indispensable Cygwin library (or libraries) to Windows, so fortune and strfile (needed for generating fortune's dat files) can be run via cmd.exe? Fortune is a unique, lovely little program, I'd like to use on other machines as well - without Cygwin. Any opinions? Greetings, Mikka -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
compiling woes (httping 0.0.3 make error)
Hi Brian! $ make install gcc -ansi -O2 -c -o error.o error.c error.c:1:21: ncurses.h: No such file or directory make: *** [error.o] Error 1 Well, does /usr/include/ncurses.h exist? No, I can't find ncurses.h anywhere, although ncurses had been installed. Entering the command: $ find / -name ncurses* The following is output: /etc/setup/ncurses.lst.gz /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ncurses-5.3.README /usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.3 /usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.3/ncurses-intro.html If not, using the setup package search facility available here http://cygwin.com/packages/ shows ncurses.h to be part of ncurses/ncurses-5.2-8. Is that installed? Hum, shouldn't it be part of the successor version as well? If you want help here, you will have to post more output. We need to see why the make of parser.c returned 255. Funny. Doubting my first attempt, I extracted the archive once again, this time right into /tmp (i.e. C:\cygwin\tmp). Now, the output is different: $ make make -C src build make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/boxes-1.0.1/src' make CFLAGS_ADDTL=-O boxes make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/boxes-1.0.1/src' gcc -ansi -I. -Iregexp -Wall -W -O -c -o parser.o parser.c parser.y: In function `design_needed': parser.y:389: warning: implicit declaration of function `strcasecmp' parser.y: In function `yyparse': parser.y:537: warning: implicit declaration of function `strdup' parser.y:1034: warning: implicit declaration of function `strncasecmp' gcc -ansi -I. -Iregexp -Wall -W -O -c -o lex.yy.o lex.yy.c lexer.l: In function `yylex': lexer.l:172: warning: implicit declaration of function `strdup' lexer.l: At top level: lexer.l:1299: warning: `yy_flex_realloc' defined but not used gcc -ansi -I. -Iregexp -Wall -W -O -c -o boxes.o boxes.c boxes.c: In function `is_dir': boxes.c:328: error: `S_IFMT' undeclared (first use in this function) boxes.c:328: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once boxes.c:328: error: for each function it appears in.) boxes.c:328: error: `S_IFDIR' undeclared (first use in this function) boxes.c: In function `get_config_file': boxes.c:381: warning: implicit declaration of function `strdup' boxes.c: In function `process_commandline': boxes.c:653: warning: implicit declaration of function `strncasecmp' boxes.c: In function `style_sort': boxes.c:901: warning: implicit declaration of function `strcasecmp' make[2]: *** [boxes.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/boxes-1.0.1/src' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/boxes-1.0.1/src' make: *** [build] Error 2 As you might guess already, I haven't got the slightest clue what's going on... Appreciating any help, Regards, Michael -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
was: httping 0.0.3 make error
Dirk Sondermann wrote: try make CC='gcc -ansi' or replace the first line of the makefile by CC=gcc -ansi. Hallo Dirk, Thanks for the reply. Taking your suggestion into account, I'll get (after updating the Makefile): $ make install gcc -ansi -O2 -c -o error.o error.c error.c:1:21: ncurses.h: No such file or directory make: *** [error.o] Error 1 It doesn't seem to be that different... BTW, I also tried to compile boxes (http://boxes.thomasjensen.com), but many errors occured there, too. (Something like: make[2]: *** [parser.c] Error 255 make[1]: *** [build] Error 2-- twice! ...) I'm generally not very experienced in compiling, but: Could it be possible that httping (or boxes) just won't compile for Cygwin? I'd be quite happy to discover a way, though... Greetings, Michael -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
httping 0.0.3 make error
Hi, I didn't work with make so far, and would like to install httping 0.0.3 by Folkert van Heusden (http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/httping) for the current Cygwin release. Did anyone manage to compile this program? I read the FAQ items concerning make and verified that MAKE_MODE is set to unix. Trying to do a 'make', I receive the following error: gcc -O2 -c -o http.o http.c make: *** [http.o] Error 255 (Probably a trivial question, but) What went wrong? Greetings, Michael -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
was: bash loop troubles
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: If I guessed correctly at what you're trying to accomplish (create aliases *in your current shell* to duplicate cmd.exe's syntax for switching drives; not at all obvious from the above description), and how you're doing it (from the inside of a bash *script*), you seem to have forgotten that scripts run in a subshell, and aliases created within that subshell will not get propagated back to the parent shell. Perfect, that's it! Indeed, I didn't think of *that*. Thus, placing the loop inside /etc/alias which is sourced from /etc/profile with the line: test -e /etc/alias . /etc/alias it'll create my intended drive letter assignments a:, b:, c: etc. And Larry's right, this isn't Cygwin specific... Thank you very much, Igor. Greetings, Michael -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
bash loop troubles
Hi,
I tried to run the following bash script:
for drive in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
do
alias ${drive}:=cd /cygdrive/${drive}
done
I guess, the syntax for the loop is okay, if I replace the alias line with a
simple echo command:
echo $drive
I get
a
b
...
and so on.
Doing the following (both at the prompt and within a bash script):
drive='c'; alias $drive:=cd /cygdrive/$drive
will lead to the alias as expected. Merely inside the loop it just doesn't
seem to work.
Any hints?
Thanks in advance,
Michael
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ls question
Hi, I'm working with a localized (german) Windows (XP) version and Cygwin 1.3.20-1 (in conjunction with rxvt). Doing the following: cd /cygdrive/c cd Profile cd Administrator ll | grep Start dr-xr-xr-x+ 3 Administ Kein0 1. Mar 12:00 Startmenü 'Startmenü' is now properly displayed, though performing 'ls -l' results in: [...] dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 Administ Kein 0 1. Mar 12:00 SendTo dr-xr-xr-x+ 3 Administ Kein 0 1. Mar 12:00 Startmen? drwxrwxrwx+ 6 Administ Kein 0 1. Mar 12:00 UserData [...] Both 'cd Startmenü' and 'cd Startmen?' will change in the Startmenü subdirectory. Also, the directories 'Müller' and 'Möller' will look exactly the same through ls: drwx---r-x+ 2 Administ Kein 0 1. Mar 12:00 M?ller drwx---r-x+ 2 Administ Kein 0 1. Mar 12:00 M?ller Is there any way of changing this ls behaviour, i.e. enabling *full* support for umlauts (8-Bit ASCII) somehow? May I influence this with an entry within the .inputrc config file? I've set the following there: set convert-meta off set input-meta on set meta-flag on set output-meta on Thanks in advance, greetings, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! -- 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: assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash
Nigel Steward wrote: Time to get used to left-button copy, middle-button paste. Once you get a grip on the that, you've been officially assimilated! :-) Put this line in your cygwin.bat... rxvt -sl 1000 -rv -geometry 120x30 +sr -e bash -i Hi Nigel! Well, this has nothing to do with the actual question I posted, neither rxvt nor bash are the point: I'm seeking a possibility to enhance the cmd.exe in order to allow closing/exiting it via simple Ctrl+D - not more, and not less. Any other ideas perhaps? Regards, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- 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: assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash
Shankar Unni wrote: As long as you don't mind hitting CR after the ^D, this seems to work: c:\ doskey ^D=exit Now, if you hit ^Dcr (the cr is unfortunately required), CMD.EXE will exit. Yes, this seems to work... and there should still be a trick for adding the missing cr key code to the line, maybe a bit like: doskey ^D=exit nul | x [ x representing the cr key code ] I guess a different, i.e. enhanced doskey replacement could allow this? Or better: an additional program which emulates key codes? Unfortunately I don't know any... The only way in the past of getting cr to work properly for keyboard macros was ANSI.SYS. Any other suggestions? Greetings, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- 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/
assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash
Hi,
I know, this won't be a real Cygwin question, well, anyway...
As I got quite used to Cygwin and Linux I began assimilating the cmd
console's look and feel towards Unix style (name completion, 'ls,la,ll'
instead of 'dir..' etc.).
Unfortunately, there's still one big, annoying MS-feature: one must
enter 'exit' in order to terminate the cmd console.
Well, I mapped a doskey macro to it, so 'Q-Enter' will also do, but I'm
accustomed to the shortcut 'Ctrl-D' (without 'Enter') and would like to
use this in conjunction with the cmd console as well.
Does anyone know whether this could be done in Windows XP?
I surmise, I once did a tweak ten years ago dealing with Windows 3.1 -
one could 'abuse' a system variable named WINPRMT to map the 'Esc' key
value ('Ctrl-P-Esc') to the 'exit nul' command, so hitting Escape closed
the Dos console, it required ANSI.SYS to be loaded.
Any new suggestions for Windows XP?
Best wishes,
Svartsjel
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How to automatically process file/dir names?
Hi, Quite a few problems arise from within self-written scripts when dealing with (Windows') file and directory names containing spaces. I therefore thought about a script which takes a directory as argument, recursively processing both file and (sub)dir names in it (starting with the argument's name itself), replacing each space with an underscore (additionally also rendering everything lowercase), and cutting off trailing space(s) from names, respectively. For instance, the processed files fortunes-o_, index_2.htm_ and index2_.html should be detected and fixed like this: fortunes-o, index_2.htm, index2.html. How would you accomplish that? Many thanks in advance, and best wishes! svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- 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/
aspell within cygwin?
Hi, how can I use aspell in conjunction with Cygwin (vim)? greetings, svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- 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/
was: How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?
Thank you, Max, Igor and Andrew for your suggestions! Yes, I knew the cygdrive-prefix possibility already, nevertheless: thanks, Corinna! I assume Max' softlink solution will please my laziness best. It's somewhat strange I didn't come up with this little trick myself... Best wishes, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- 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/
How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?
Hi everyone! As I often access different drives from within the bash I'm wondering if there's a quicker way to get on, say, drive l (a network drive) than entering 'cd /cygdrive/l'? I alias'd '/cygdrive/l' to 'l' which works fine for cd, but not for commands like chmod, cp, mv etc. Among others I'd like to use the automatic command line completion which doesn't work for /cygdrive/... either. Any suggestions? Best wishes, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- 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/
Question concerning fortune
I'm fond of fortune and therefore would like to know whether a new version of this neat little prog is to be released with Cygwin. Maybe with new libraries of quotes? Another point is this behaviour I noticed a while ago. Let's suppose, we created a library looking like this: BOF One quote % Another one % And finally, a third one % EOF and now we compile the corresponding .dat file, fortune (or rather strfile?) assumes four different quotes because of the last '%' that precedes the EOF. It's not exactly a bug, though... Best wishes, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- 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/
