new snapshot (setup-20020225.exe) uploaded

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
Chris, This is it, no bugs left AFAIK. How should we move forward? Rob

setup-20020225.exe still clips text with large fonts set

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Schaap
Hi, Just wanted to mention that there's still a small bug in setup-20020225.exe. When a system is set to use large fonts (Display properties/Settings/Advanced/General), the top pixel or two of the packages are clipped off. The categories are displayed correctly. When the system is set

Re: setup-20020225.exe still clips text with large fonts set

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Michael Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did have a quick look at the source, but unfortunately, my low-level Windows GUI programming skills are insufficient to find the source of the problem. ;-( I think I know where the bug has been introduced. I don't

Re: setup.exe rebase patch

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:41:13PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Neato. This sounds like a cygutils thingo to me, or a new package. Chuck? O Chuck? Ummm...do we really want to fork the code into two separate locations? No, they should somehow share the common

Re: new snapshot (setup-20020225.exe) uploaded

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:53:50PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: This is it, no bugs left AFAIK. How should we move forward? Advertise the snapshot on cygwin@cygwin, give it a couple of days, and then release it? cgf

Re: setup.exe rebase patch

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Tishler
Rob, On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:45:32PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Jason Tishler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some ideas follow: Attached is a patch that adds the rebase functionality to setup.exe. I would like to get some feedback before I start to resolve

printing from cygwin-Xfree remote printer

2002-02-25 Thread Bernard Revet
Dear Cygwinnies I am trying to install LPRng program in Cygwin-Xfree under Windows NT. It is not an easy task but I understand that the complexity of Microsoft Windows does not help. I followed most of the indications to have LPRng installed but I was stopped by the owner rules when I tried

RE: ORBit install

2002-02-25 Thread O'BRIEN,STEVE (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1)
Thanks for the hints Rob. I'll have a look at this again as soon as I get the chance. It will be some time before I will have a chance to build a debug cygwin1.dll though. Steven -Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 February 2002 12:25 To:

Re: printing from cygwin-xfree remote printer

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
I don't see anything in this email that would indicate that this is an issue for the Cygwin/XFree project. I think you're sending to the wrong mailing list. cgf On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:45:00PM +0100, Bernard Revet wrote: Dear Cygwinnies I am trying to install LPRng program in Cygwin-Xfree

glib gtk+ software under Cygwin ...

2002-02-25 Thread Alex Bogdanov
Hello gtk+/glib Cygwin experts, I am trying to get gpsdrive software work under Cygwin. I managed to compile it (minor changes to source code) but when I try to run it - I got very slow results (graphics _very_ slow) and I got following errors when I start it: ---cut--- ** WARNING **:

Big checkin to allow 64bit file access

2002-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, after Chris has tagged Cygwin for the 1.3.10 release, I've now applied the patches to allow 64 bit off_t. Basically it adds the datatypes needed and new function calls with trailing 64 as `lseek64', `stat64', etc. Additionally I renamed lstat to cygwin_lstat to circumvent a problem with

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Adding version numbers is not a bad idea (although, I can't honestly think of a time when it would have helped to have this information). Adding version numbers in the middle of the program, in the middle of a text string is, IMO, a bad idea. The version number should be at the top of the

Re: Big checkin to allow 64bit file access

2002-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Btw., this introduces two new datatypes, defined by SUSv2 but not yet defined in newlib, blkcnt_t and blksize_t, both used in struct stat. I added the definition of these types to cygwin/include/cygwin/types.h not to trouble newlib for now. Corinna

Re: help/version patches

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:23:51PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Well, cygpath is wrong. cygcheck is wrong too, under this scenario, but strace not quite as wrong since it at leasts puts the version in its own string. I believe, it

RE: Make 3.79.1 - dependency checking previous versions

2002-02-25 Thread John Segrave \(x3254\)
Larry - thanks for those files. I think we have our issue sorted: when we use the FSF win32 port of make 3.79.1, dependency checking works fine - when we use the cygwin port of make 3.79.1, it doesn't. For the moment we can get away with using the FSF port, but as soon as I get time I'll try to

Signal handling (cygrunsrv)

2002-02-25 Thread anviscov
Hi, I'm trying to run as a service 2 exe with cygrunsrv. The first exe goes ok starting and stopping, the second (which handles 1 COM), gets an error 1053 when stopping it. Looking at signal processing I noticed that the first does not handle SIGTERM, instead the second does handle it. The signal

Re: /dev/clipboard protection fault on Win98

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:35:12AM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: I have been forgetting to write in about this. In cannot use /dev/clipboard on Win98; anything redirected to it causes a fault (Windows error box). Anybody else having troubles like this? Not me. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: printing from cygwin-xfree remote printer

2002-02-25 Thread Bernard Revet
Dear Christopher I thought that I could send my problem to Cygwee-Xfree mailing list as it is under cygwin-Xfree that I cannot print . If you succed to print under Cygwin-Xfree, I would appreciate to know how you do it? Thanks for your help Best regards Yours Bernard -- Unsubscribe info:

Reading console input from Java under Cygwin shell (was Re: inputstream!)

2002-02-25 Thread David P. Caldwell
Pramod: if i write a simple java program that uses a BufferedReader reader object wrapped from System.in and then try to read a line from user and then echo it back, cygwin for some reason already has stuff on the stream and so without waiting for the user to type something in the program

Re: SSHD fails to start - not responding in a timely fashion

2002-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:18 PM 2/23/2002, Scott Mulroy wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: -This strikes me like a service dependency issue. There has been some -discussion of this on the list. You might want to look into this. Because -services start in different sequences or

autoconf 2.52a-1: M4PATH not being honoured through wrapper script.

2002-02-25 Thread James Harvey
I've been converting some of our build system to use the cygwin autotools recently, and I think I've come across a bug in the autoconf/autoheader wrapper scripts (I assume these may occur in the other auto* scripts, but these are the specific ones I use). Our build script sets up M4PATH to the

Hi

2002-02-25 Thread Deshmukh N. Gopaul
Hello, I installed cygwin on my PC (intel PIII) running winXP. I want now to install a C compiler like GCC, so that I can run some C programs. I cannot install GCC from the tar file because it needs a c compiler itself for its installation. Where should I begin? I downloaded Borland free C

Re: Hi

2002-02-25 Thread Peter Buckley
You need to use the setup.exe program that is available from cygwin.com to download and install any of the packages that come in the cygwin distribution. Simply select gcc from the list of packages to download and install, and it will install it correctly. HTH, Peter Deshmukh N. Gopaul

Re: SSHD fails to start - not responding in a timely fashion

2002-02-25 Thread Scott Mulroy
My apologies. I didn't mean to offend anyone or imply anything. I merely did not understand the nature of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address--it could have been, for example, an automated distribution of work load in which no one other than the individual replying actually sees the conversation. I

vi and nano running under rxvt term.

2002-02-25 Thread Aaron J. Outhier
--cut-- $ nano Error opening terminal: xterm. --cut-- Also, vi/vim inserts A, B, C, D instead of moving the cursor under I or A mode (that is, after pressing A or I, cursor keys act strange). cygcheck output attached. = Sincerely, Aaron J. Outhier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bash screen output pauses....

2002-02-25 Thread Peter Klemm
Cygwin Users, I have seen the bash output pause on several machines running Win2000 and NT 4.0. When running a build that has considerable output the bash window sometimes hangs. By simply typing CR the remaining output scrolls by and everything appears normal again. Has anyone else seen this

inetd.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Dave Waller
I have a need for this on a Windows9x machine. What is the right way to start/stop this automagically? Dave Waller -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: SSHD fails to start - not responding in a timely fashion

2002-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
No apologies necessary. I think Chris and I just wanted to be sure that you and others didn't get the mistaken impression about this list and it's participants. Personally I feel your inquiries and responses are quite appropriate for this list. I expect other 'regulars' here would agree. So

Return code when cygwin1.dll not found

2002-02-25 Thread Tracy A. Kuhrt
[Please cc responses to me, as I am not subscribed to this list.] I have a gcc and binutils port that are hosted under Cygwin. Is there a standard return code that will be returned from the gcc and binutils port when cygwin1.dll is not found? Tracy -- Unsubscribe info:

Excessive packages installed by default

2002-02-25 Thread rotaiv
It used to be when ever I install a fresh copy of cygwin, I selected the minimal applications I wanted then ran setup.exe a second time and let it catch any dependencies and updates. This worked fine for many installs until recently. The last time few times I did this, numerous other

inetd.exe in the system tray

2002-02-25 Thread Dave Waller
Is there any way to get inetd.exe to run in the system tray? Dave Waller -- 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/

setup.exe V2.125.2.10 cannot install from local directory

2002-02-25 Thread Thomas Rachel
Hi, I have downloaded the whole set of cygwin packages to a local directory (for saving it on CD) and wanted to install it now from the local directory: from E:\!dnld\cygwin (where I have put the packages) to E:\cygwin (where is my old version of cygwin). But after entering the directories, I am

Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs. It is accessible via http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. Please use this, and report any bugs back to us. We know of one with large fonts

RE: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Dr. Carsten Bormann
The full view window looks completely truncated in my Windows98SE. Hard to explain, but of the whole scrollable canvas, only a few lines are visible, and only the first 10 cm or so horizontally. If you scroll, you just get more white space, and if you scroll back, some more of the text is gone.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-0.9.9-1

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Schaap
Hi, At 05:50 24-2-2002, Charles Wilson wrote: cygutils-0.9.9-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. I checked a bunch of mirrors, but this hasn't shown up yet. Are you sure it was correctly uploaded, and that whatever-needs-to-be-done-to-get-it-into-cygwin.ini was done? -

RE: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Ross Smith
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs. It is accessible via http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. Please use this, and report any bugs back

RE: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Ross Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I just tried it and everything seems to be OK. (OS is Windows 2000.) (Screenshot: http://storm.net.nz/~ross/temp/cygwin1.png) Yes, there is meant to be an image, but we don't have one. There have been a few

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Ross Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I just tried it and everything seems to be OK. (OS is Windows 2000.) (Screenshot: http://storm.net.nz/~ross/temp/cygwin1.png) Yes, there is meant to

sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

2002-02-25 Thread Andrew T. Schnable
Greetings, I was doing some pthreads/semaphore work and I tracked down a problem in my code to a bug in sem_trywait. Posix sem_trywait is defined as returning -1 and setting errno to EAGAIN if the semaphore would have blocked. The cygwin implementation returns EAGAIN an leaves errno

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
of setup.exe We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs. It is accessible via http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. Please use this, and report any bugs back to us. We know of one with large fonts

Fonts and rxvt

2002-02-25 Thread Pat Gunn
Hi, it seems that the cyg non-XF86 program 'rxvt' is misnamed -- it's too easy to confuse it with the real thing. Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone has had any success changing the font that it uses -- I need to get line-drawing characters working so when I telnet to other systems, things display

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-0.9.9-1

2002-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Michael Schaap wrote: Hi, At 05:50 24-2-2002, Charles Wilson wrote: cygutils-0.9.9-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. I checked a bunch of mirrors, but this hasn't shown up yet. Are you sure it was correctly uploaded, and that

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Bruce Dobrin wrote: 1: got message cannot open (null) for reading. message a couple of times when installing from a local (network) directory onto a new XP machine, followed by a failiar message indicating more info in setup.log.full. Nothing out of the ordinary noted in that file.

Re: Fonts and rxvt

2002-02-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Pat Gunn wrote: Hi, it seems that the cyg non-XF86 program 'rxvt' is misnamed -- it's too easy to confuse it with the real thing. It IS the real thing. When DISPLAY=:0, it uses MSWin calls to draw itself. When DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 (or some other X-ish looking thing) it uses X11 calls to