setup.hint

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
Would it be a good idea for the setup.hint file to have something along the lines of: Maintainer: John Morrison Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? This would allow folks to email the maintainer directly without having to bug the list. For example, I didn't know that Corinna was the maintainer of the

Re: setup.hint

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:21:44AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Would it be a good idea for the setup.hint file to have something along the lines of: Maintainer: John Morrison Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? This would allow folks to email the maintainer directly without having to bug the

RE: setup.hint

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:21:44AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Would it be a good idea for the setup.hint file to have something along the lines of: Maintainer: John Morrison Contact: [EMAIL

Re: setup.hint

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:35:24AM -, Morrison, John wrote: I just thought, when I'd had a question about the maintence of X it would be nice to personally address the person (even if the email goes to the list...) That's what I'm trying to avoid all the time. I don't want to get always

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-21 Thread Jon Green
Thanks for the information. So where can I find out information about the soon to be released features of setup.exe ?? I have made up some cygwin friendly software bundles and published them, the URL's are by HTTP only as follows:- http://www.jasspa.com/release_010814/jasspa-20010801.tar.bz2

Re: which which

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:37:31PM -, Morrison, John wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Morrison, John wrote: And here's the setup.hint: sdesc: Displays where a particular program in your path is located ldesc: Which takes one

RE: which which

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:37:31PM -, Morrison, John wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Morrison, John wrote: And here's the setup.hint:

Re: which which

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:15:33PM -, Morrison, John wrote: -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:37:31PM -, Morrison, John wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: new setup snapshot

2001-12-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Robert Collins wrote: I've uploaded a new setup snapshot for the adventurous. w32api also has been updated, and the update is needed to build the setup HEAD code. Feedback welcome. remaining features to next release: 1) Gary's layout changes. 2) Clickable categories. 3) Pavel

Re: which which

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, the bottom line is that once the new version of which is uploaded, the right thing will happen automatically. The only setup.hint changes that would be required are to the sdesc and ldesc. I think you should make it

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Jon Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the information. So where can I find out information about the soon to be released features of setup.exe ?? In the code, or the Change Log or the README. I assume that the setup.hint will be extended to

RE: src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/wingdi.h

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
Robert. I know your intentions were good, but please there is no need to submit to the patch tracker page at mingw SourceForge site as well. That is for submission of new patches needing review. Unless you make clear that you have comitted this patch to winsup CVS, it may lead to

Linking dlls

2001-12-21 Thread Matthew Brett
Hello again, I made an error in my earlier question, so please forgive the repost. My question is: is there a way that I can link a dll function 'foo' to a routine in code called 'bar'. So, I have a dll, extdll.dll, which exports a routine 'foo'. I don't have the source for the dll. I also

Augusto Deoliveira/SVL/SC/PHILIPS is out of the office.

2001-12-21 Thread augusto . deoliveira
I will be out of the office starting 12/17/2001 and will not return until 01/08/2002. I am in Brasil. If you need to reach me, please contact my Admin Melinda Riddle. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: Updated: cron-3.0.1-5

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:05:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just downloaded cygwin 1.3.6 but I don't see 'cron' or 'bc' etc., as listed on http://cygwin.com/packages/ Am I missing something? Yes, you didn't look through the mailing list archive where this question has been answered

Virtual memory Exhaust problem onWin98

2001-12-21 Thread Arati Dikey
Hi ! The sh-elf-gcc built from GCC 3.0.1 gives error Virtual memory exhausted : Invalid argument while compiling any small C program on Win 98 system. The toolchain has been built in cygwin 1.3.2 environment. This was tested on two systems with following configurations. System1 - Win98

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: units-1.77-1

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
I've uploaded units-1.77-1 to the Cygwin net distribution. The 'units' program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales. The 'units' program can handle multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius.

Re: Virtual memory Exhaust problem onWin98

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:46:08PM +0530, Arati Dikey wrote: Hi ! The sh-elf-gcc built from GCC 3.0.1 gives error Virtual memory exhausted : Invalid argument while compiling any small C program on Win 98 system. The toolchain has been built in cygwin 1.3.2 environment. This was

Re: GPL Violation - VCDImager

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:26:46AM +0100, Andrew Markebo wrote: Isn't a link to cygwin.com enough?? Not much mentioned around it, but I saw it on the html-pages :-) Ahh under platforms.. No, it's not enough. The license is clear. If you provide a binary Cygwin you'll have to provide the

talk(1) on WinXP -- perplexing behavior

2001-12-21 Thread Dr. Andrew Mayer
Subject: talk(1) on WinXP -- perplexing behavior Hi folks, I'm having lots of trouble getting talk(1) to work correctly. I've read the documentation, man pages, mailing-list archives etc but to no avail. My Cygwin system is set up on a WinXP Box running ICF/ICS (Microsoft's Internet

Fw: cygwin Digest 18 Dec 2001 13:12:55 -0000 Issue 1641

2001-12-21 Thread Thomas V. Fischer
Hey All, I am having a weird problem with cygwin (1.3.6) and Internet Explorer 6.0 when running a bash shell. Internet explorer runs fine and I can surf the web, etc. However when I close the last IE window, IE crashes with no real apparent error. This does not occur when cygwin is running.

RE: problem running ssh and crons

2001-12-21 Thread Sommer, Thorsten
Hola, Ziad ... 2. the cygrunsrv can not start the sshd, cygrunsrv: error starting a service : QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has nto been started. Please provide further information (I have been through this for the last weeks and hope I can help you a bit :-)) - How

Re: Virtual memory Exhaust problem onWin98

2001-12-21 Thread Arati Dikey
Thanks a million Corinna ! It did solve my problem. How essential is it for me to *build* the tool chain with the latest Cygwin 1.3.6-6 ? Regards, Arati Dikey On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:46:08PM +0530, Arati Dikey wrote: Hi ! The sh-elf-gcc built from GCC 3.0.1 gives error Virtual

Re: Virtual memory Exhaust problem onWin98

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:40:45PM +0530, Arati Dikey wrote: Thanks a million Corinna ! It did solve my problem. How essential is it for me to *build* the tool chain with the latest Cygwin 1.3.6-6 ? Only if you want to have an advantage of new API calls. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

RE: inetd -- service wont start at boottime on Win XP (add me to the pile)

2001-12-21 Thread Habermann, David (DA)
I, too, could not make this work (in my case to start SSHD as a service), even after an exhaustive search of this list archive. What I ended up with was using the Scheduled Tasks control panel to schedule a cygrunsrv task. This task is scheduled to run At system startup and uses the command

RE: Distribution

2001-12-21 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 4:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Distribution On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:34:10PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: In reality I really only need

Problems using AR utility

2001-12-21 Thread Ignasi Villagrasa
I'm new using Cygwin and have a problem using AR.EXE utility. I have a makefile that builds a program without problems. When I try to add some of the .obj files to a .lib file, instead of using the .obj's in the makefile, I get several undefined symbols. But these symbols are into the library

scrollable console window in Windows 98

2001-12-21 Thread Robert White
Hi Slightly off topic this, but I am sure someone else will have come across this. I use cygwin on several diffent machines, some of them NT, and one Win 98 laptop. One of the features I miss on Win98 is the abiliity to be able to scroll back in the command window. This doesn't seem to be

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:09:05AM +0100, Michael Rumpf wrote: Am I the only one having problems with this, or is this simply the wrong list to ask a question about the Cygwin bash... ?? Nah, this is the right list. Nobody has an answer, though. Did you try `CYGWIN=... tty ...' setting?

Re: Problems using AR utility

2001-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:52:23PM +, Ignasi Villagrasa wrote: I'm new using Cygwin and have a problem using AR.EXE utility. I have a makefile that builds a program without problems. When I try to add some of the .obj files to a .lib file, instead of using the .obj's in the makefile,

AW: scrollable console window in Windows 98

2001-12-21 Thread KRISTOF . DOFFING
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Re: Problems using AR utility

2001-12-21 Thread Ignasi Villagrasa
No. I'm not using VC. I'm using Cygwin. But I mantain .obj and .lib names because I'm migrating these programs from Watcom to Cygwin, and the original names were .obj and .lib. Aditionally, I want to migrate them to Linux, too. So I want to distinguish the program version using different

Re: GPL Violation - VCDImager

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:26:46AM +0100, Andrew Markebo wrote: Isn't a link to cygwin.com enough?? No. What happens if cygwin.com goes away? Then how do people get their source code? You don't rely on other people to satisfy the GPL obligation of providing source code for binaries that you

Re: Distribution

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:38:57PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: If you are in compliance with the licensing of each of the packages that you will be releasing (including the cygwin DLL) then you should be ok. I can only speak in a semi-official capacity for cygwin. The other packages have

Re: bootstrap/5149: gcc-20011217 reads beyond EOF on cygwin

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Werner Tuchan wrote: Weird. The bytes after EOF are a mixture of NULs and 0xc0. Is 0xc0 of special significance in Windows? Is your version of cygwin the latest? I recall some talk about mmap bugs in cygwin. The cygwin version is pretty recent.

Re: bootstrap/5149: gcc-20011217 reads beyond EOF on cygwin

2001-12-21 Thread Neil Booth
Christopher Faylor wrote:- Can I ask why we'd be reading beyond EOF? Is it guaranteed that bytes beyond EOF will be zero on UNIX? This was discussed in September (see thread in gcc@ entitled Bumming cycles out of parse_identifier). It was decided that all known current Unix implementations

cygwin and XP

2001-12-21 Thread Matthew Cary
Is cygwin known to have troubles with XP? Here is my issue: I run setup.exe from cygwin.com, all my packages are downloaded, I get a message that says mount completed successfully, and then setup disappears. If I re-run setup and try to install from my hard drive (using the packages that were

RE: bootstrap/5149: gcc-20011217 reads beyond EOF on cygwin

2001-12-21 Thread Polley Christopher W
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Werner Tuchan wrote: Weird. The bytes after EOF are a mixture of NULs and 0xc0. Is 0xc0 of special significance in Windows? Is your version of cygwin the AFAIR, I once

bash dos

2001-12-21 Thread Fractal A.
Hi, Is there a way to run cygwin from a regular dos prompt? Must I log in to the bash shell in order to use the stuff (like g++ flex bison) in cygwin? I think that if I run things directly under the c:\cygwin\bin or other directories within c:\cygwin, then certain things work. I noticed

Re: bash dos

2001-12-21 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Fractal A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | Is there a way to run cygwin from a regular dos prompt? Must I log in to the | bash shell in order to use the stuff (like g++ flex bison) in cygwin? No you don't need to, just put c:\cygwin\bin or wherever you can find the binaries, in your

Re: Fw: cygwin Digest 18 Dec 2001 13:12:55 -0000 Issue 1641

2001-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:26 AM 12/21/2001, Thomas V. Fischer wrote: Hey All, I am having a weird problem with cygwin (1.3.6) and Internet Explorer 6.0 when running a bash shell. Internet explorer runs fine and I can surf the web, etc. However when I close the last IE window, IE crashes with no real apparent

Re: bash dos

2001-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:19 PM 12/21/2001, Fractal A. wrote: Hi, Is there a way to run cygwin from a regular dos prompt? Must I log in to the bash shell in order to use the stuff (like g++ flex bison) in cygwin? I think that if I run things directly under the c:\cygwin\bin or other directories within

Re: bash dos

2001-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:32 PM 12/21/2001, Andrew Markebo wrote: A small but though, you need to be careful when you throw paths at the tools, they want unix-paths, separated by /, not \, and they probably don't understand drive-letters. Generally, no. With the possible exception of additional configuration for

Re: cygwin and XP

2001-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:00 PM 12/21/2001, Matthew Cary wrote: Is cygwin known to have troubles with XP? You can check the mail archives but I think you'll find the answer to that question to be no. Here is my issue: I run setup.exe from cygwin.com, all my packages are downloaded, I get a message that says

Re: cygwin.bat hangs under .net server

2001-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:00 AM 12/21/2001, Heuckeroth Gunter wrote: Hello there, I have the same problem as Ni Ning: after starting cygwin.bat it will hang. Machine: Compaq with WinNT 4.0 SP6, installed .Net Beta 2 But I found out: If you delete the registry entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus

Re: 1.1.3: mmap() returns unusable memory segments: segm fault

2001-12-21 Thread Lothar Linhard
Hi Corinna, please ignore my prev message. After adding another 500MB swap space on my NT4.0, it worked (don't know why my old swap settings min=150MB max=500MB weren't enough for my application that mmaps ~390MB total). I detected another problem with mmap from real files (above, I used

Re: cygwin and XP

2001-12-21 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I don't have a solution, but I have seen this before on both Win2k and NT4. I was installing onto machines that were on wireless networks and I attributed it to dropping connections/ slow net interface. It seemed to download a few things and then bug out with the error you mentioned. I later

Cygwin and PostgreSQL Install Instructions

2001-12-21 Thread David W. Johnson
Here are instructions for setting up Cygwin and PostgreSQL: http://www.ejip.net/faq/postgresql_win_setup_faq.jsp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

CVS and CR, LF

2001-12-21 Thread David Koski
Hello, I have been using CVS successfully to maintain source code on a Linux based CVS server. The files have been edited with DOS applications and have CR, LF record terminators. The local source is on a Linux Samba share so it has been easy to use the Linux client CVS to commit, update with.

Proper $HOME setup? (/home or My Documents)

2001-12-21 Thread Chris Bailey
I checked the FAQ but didn't see anything on this (and did some mailing list searches, but didn't find it, hopefully it hasn't been covered already, or if so, point me to those if you please)... I have cygwin installed on a Windows 2000 machines. When I fire up bash, it has $HOME set to the My

Re: cygwin and XP

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
Bruce, you might like to try one of the recent setup snapshots. We're approaching feature freeze for a new release, and all feedback is useful. Rob === - Original Message - From: Bruce Dobrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December

Re: Fw: cygwin Digest 18 Dec 2001 13:12:55 -0000 Issue 1641

2001-12-21 Thread Stipe Tolj
I am having a weird problem with cygwin (1.3.6) and Internet Explorer 6.0 when running a bash shell. Internet explorer runs fine and I can surf the web, etc. However when I close the last IE window, IE crashes with no real apparent error. This does not occur when cygwin is running. So we

Re: Reincarnation of Permission denied running programs in other directories

2001-12-21 Thread Aaron J. Outhier
Well, I think I just made a giant step in the solving of this problem, but I still can't figure out what makes certain executables spit out Permission Denied when run. As it turns out, if you'll notice in the makefile output of my recent submission, the makefile makes use of

1.3.6: ftp client does not change directory for ! commands

2001-12-21 Thread Prashant Rane
Hi, The ftp client executes all the ! commands (e.g. !ls, !pwd, !(any unix commad)) with current working directory as users home directory. Even if the directory is changed to some other directory than $HOME, the command !pwd always returns value of home directory. It used to work right. I

Current Events and the End Times - so what?

2001-12-21 Thread Joel
I can show conclusively in the scriptures that Jesus Christ is coming back WITHIN A CERTAIN DATE RANGE in the near future. Yes, people do not know the Day or the Hour of Jesus' return - I agree, No one knows about that day or hour, Matthew 24:27. or, 1 Thessalonians 5:1, Now, brothers,