Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread George Hester
Could you give the CVS commands to get the source of the setup? I am thinking this is the only way I can do what this post is asking. At least that is my understanding. Thanks. -- George Hester _ "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in mess

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 02:51:45AM -0400, George Hester wrote: >Suggestion. Let's consider a Manual Install Direction for us weenies >that lost a few toes trying to install this software in the past. You're making things way too hard for yourself. Just run setup.exe and select "Install" rather

I am not going to let Cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-19 Thread George Hester
I realize that at one time setup.exe might not have been all that it was thought to be. And that now it may be better. But once burned many people do not jump back in the flames. Well I decided I would stick my little toe in again and see the results. I really thought there would be manual ins

Linker issues

2002-04-19 Thread Bryan Siever
Greetings, I had posted earlier about some undefined references to InitCommonControls. I seem to be having a problem trying to link with the comctl32 library, I link to it but it still can't find it. I realize that this isn't directly related to cygwin so I am asking if anyone has had any

Re: Bug with /cygdrive/X in binmode

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive mount -u -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive man mount is your friend (although it doesn't explicitly describe how to use the --change-cygdrive-prefix option to change the mode from text to binary without actually changing the prefix... --Chuck

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > Oh -- and one more tip: In windows (cmd.exe/command.com, etc) the > following is a perfectly valid pathspec: > A:/fred/george > I've gotten into the habit of always using forward slashes -- in both > command.com and in bash, so I don't have to worry about the 'oh y

Re: Double back slash. Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Milton - d:/foo works now (in cygwin progs like bash) It even works in windows file dialogs -- but not in cmd.exe or command.com, contrary to my post a few minutes ago. I got confused. --chuck Milton Calnek wrote: > I was wondering if anyone else thinks d:\\foo is too complicated... > o

Double back slash. Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Milton Calnek
I was wondering if anyone else thinks d:\\foo is too complicated... or rather that it could be simplifed to d:/foo. Or if you made the shell read :\ as :\ then we would have a more uniform interface... Hmmm... I'm sure that this issue is more complicated than I understand at this point. I'm jus

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread wayne
Well Barry for what it is worth I think the more cygwin becomes like unix the better. After all it is a product designed to make windows work more like unix and ease porting of unix code to windows. As for the backward paths delimiters and drive letters they will make your code unable to run on

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Schwartz, Barry wrote: > I'm sure you won't put this in the "intelligent" question genre but... > I've been using cygwin for years and I brag about it and make all my teammates >install it and make my managers refuse to piss away money on MKS... > Well, I think that party's over. I just install

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
>>Also, the semantics and output of "which", "ls", and "cp" >>have changed too in my opinion, not the least of which is the >>fau root directory and all the cygnus stuff being in >>"/usr/local/bin" which is not a real directory on my machine. >> > > The cygnus stuff goes into c:\cygwin\bin ak

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Copy-on-write fork > > > This is mainly a question aimed at Christopher Faylor, but > maybe someone else knows the answer. My question is

RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Schwartz, Barry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:30 PM > To: 'Chris Ellsworth'; Schwartz, Barry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING... > > > OK. Feeling better now... If one of my customers wro

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
cgf wrote: > I assume that one possible reason is that the copy-on-write fork may be > somehow bypassing normal in-memory sharing of text segments but I never > knew for sure. > Have either of you tried this comparison on XP, to see if it's any different there? I'm running XP here, if Chris J.

RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Schwartz, Barry
OK. Feeling better now... If one of my customers wrote me that with no examples, I'd get a kick out of it too. So... rsh must have changed. I use it in a script to move perforce clients around from NT to UNIX. The attached script, getfull.pl is the example that failed with the new program and wo

Re: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:06:55AM +0100, Chris January wrote: >This is mainly a question aimed at Christopher Faylor, but maybe someone >else knows the answer. >My question is, with regard to Chris's post "Re: copy-on-write (oh well)" >[http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2000-07/msg00026.

Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Chris January
This is mainly a question aimed at Christopher Faylor, but maybe someone else knows the answer. My question is, with regard to Chris's post "Re: copy-on-write (oh well)" [http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2000-07/msg00026.html], does anyone know why a copy-on-write implementation of fork

Re: xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
And here it begins... Cygwin/XFree86 has its own mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want help you should ask the experts. I've redirected this message there. cgf On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:59:32AM +0200, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >Hi, > >I wanted to update my existing Xfree86-4.2.0-1 >ins

Xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi, I wanted to update my existing Xfree86-4.2.0-1 installation. So i choose a "default" Xfree86 installation. All files downloaded correct, and i was told that everything was ok. But at reboot, a 65497 bytes wininit.ini wants to rename/rewrite 627 files, and no one is replaced (wininit.ini isn'

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Roland Glenn McIntosh
Well Barry, I understand you're pissed off, but the changes were made for logical reasons. I'm sure that a quick skim of the FAQ would answer most of your questions. And /usr/local/bin is in /usr/local/bin on a windows box, as long as you're running a cygwin shell. Otherwise it's *probably* i

Re: cygwin under vmware freezes

2002-04-19 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:56:00 +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > G'day cygwin'ers, > > I realise this is probably a vmware problem, but does anyone else have > problems running cygwin in a win98 guest under vmware on a linux host? > > I have the cygwin console stuttering then totaly freezing win98 w

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Elizabeth Barham
We're here to help you Barry. Elizabeth -- 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: Offer for killall-script

2002-04-19 Thread Chris January
> In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about a killall > util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was waiting > because of licensing problems. > > For killall I'm using a good working script for about a h

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:31:02AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 9:10 AM > >> Since noone acknowledged it was a bug I've been assuming it was a >(rather strange to me) design feature

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:01:34 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>However, if Robert indicates that this is not the desired behavior then >>maybe someone else (*cough*, Michael, *cough*) might have time to look >>in

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Ellsworth
umm calm down, maybe you could post more of your scripts and what they do and expound on this line "What in god's name is "/usr/local/bin" on a windows machine?" do you mean WHERE? not what? - Original Message - From: "Schwartz, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri

RE: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 9:10 AM > Since noone acknowledged it was a bug I've been assuming it was a (rather strange to me) design feature. Actually, I acknowledged it as a bug, but one I couldn't repeat until

RE: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:02 AM > >> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:41:04 +0100 Alan Hourihane > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think this is because you > >>haven't installed the packages yet. I think setup

RE: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Lawrence W. Smith
> From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24 > > > Chris, > > At 12:38 2002-04-19, you wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > >I think to g

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread E
I've noticed similar behaviour. I always use "Download from Internet" to get a local disk image on a zip disk, which I can then use to update cygwin on several machines. However I've sometimes got things out of sync and can't download local copies of the package depending on what computer I'm

RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
Without ANY example of what you are calling, there is NO way that assistance can be provided. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http:/

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:01:34 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: > >setup.exe should know what it's downloaded and not installed. > > Yep. I thought I added code to do that in the previous version but > it's been

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Cliff Hones
Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, April 19, 2002 8:38 PM: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >I think to generalize, the current Setup.exe offers to download based on > >which packages are currently installed, not on which packages are present > >in the loca

RE: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Lawrence W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 3:19 AM > Not entirely true sometimes it improves sometimes it meanders > down a blind alley or two granted. > It's free software as a nobody user I accept its oddities and >

Offer for killall-script

2002-04-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about a killall util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was waiting because of licensing problems. For killall I'm using a good working script for about a half year. P

Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-19 Thread Schwartz, Barry
I'm sure you won't put this in the "intelligent" question genre but... I've been using cygwin for years and I brag about it and make all my teammates install it and make my managers refuse to piss away money on MKS... Well, I think that party's over. I just installed the new distribution and eve

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Ilya Goldin
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >I think to generalize, the current Setup.exe offers to download based on > >which packages are currently installed, not on w

Setup.exe bugreport

2002-04-19 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi, while looking for the new Xfree86 packages in my local package directory (in my case D:\cyg-install), I see that packages are saved in a curious directory since March 22th. Its name is : D:\cyg-install\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin No package appears t

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:08AM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:41:04 +0100 Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >>I think this is because you haven't installed the packages yet. I >>think setup.exe

RE: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24 > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >I think to generalize, the

RE: rexecd/inetutils configuration and startup question

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Ah, good. That's where I was going to direct you. ;-) Larry At 05:25 PM 4/19/2002, you wrote: >Never mind. I was looking out on the web, and found it on my hard drive >instead. Thanks > >-Andy > >-Original Message- >From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Se

Re: Cygwin maildrop patches and issues (was Re: fetchmail 5.9.8 ...)

2002-04-19 Thread Rui Carmo
Hello Jason. Nice to hear from you, and exceedingly nice to see that you stuck to maildrop. I reverted to IMAP/SSL to read my mail for a good while (since I changed offices and my network connectivity improved considerably), and have had little reason to look into the problems in more detai

Bug with /cygdrive/X in binmode

2002-04-19 Thread Andre Bleau
I'm having trouble mounting some of my drives in binmode. As an ordinary user, I tried: mount -b -f E: /cygdrive/e To mount the E: drive in binmode. Mount reports: $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) C:\cygwin on / type syst

RE: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Lawrence W. Smith
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:35 PM > To: Lawrence W. Smith; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windows > 200 0 > > > At 01:18 PM 4/19/2002, Lawrence W. Smith wrote: > >I was a

RE: cygwin mentors? Was: bash and the suid bit

2002-04-19 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi Richard, if it's that important for your company's project (that you work like me 50% of each 25h day 8-) why don't you pay Red Hat per hour or day, so Corinna or Chris work for you in their prime time? -Original Message- From: Richard Troy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Donnerstag,

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 12:38 2002-04-19, you wrote: >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >I think to generalize, the current Setup.exe offers to download based on > >which packages are currently installed, not on which packages are present > >in the local download area(s). > >I

vim doesn't quite get backslash-separated paths right

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Metcalf
If you run vim with "c:\temp\foo" it complains E303: Unable to open swap file for "c:\temp\foo", recovery impossible However, it then manages to correctly write the file out to the indicated path. Looking at strace shows it trying to open a file named /tmp/c:\temp\foo.swp; it thinks the whole

Re: Problems linking program

2002-04-19 Thread Matt Minnis
Larry, I did an nm -C and collected the output to a text file. I found references to these functions in libc, libg, and libcygwin. I am not quite sure what to look for now. Can you explain what I need to be looking for? Thanks, Matt At 02:24 PM 4/18/2002, you wrote: >At 02:16 PM 4/18/2002, Mat

RE: fortune-1.8-2.tar.bz2 minor bug

2002-04-19 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi John. that's not a packing error nor cygwin specific and may also happen with gzipped tar, so for the curious: It's only a warning and avoided by something like bunzip foo.tar.bz2|(tar tvvf -;cat>/dev/null) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: F

Re: lpr problem (was: Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?)

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
> I have also problems with printing through lpr. Unfortunately I > couldn't figure out how to set it up correct yet. > There are some threads in the archives about printing without lpr, > maybe there are some hints? See my message posted a few minutes ago. Currently, lpr.exe from the cyguti

rexecd/inetutils configuration and startup question

2002-04-19 Thread Andrews Harold G Maj USAFA/DFCS
All, Is there a document out there someplace that explains how to start the Cygwin implementation of rexecd, or perhaps somehting a little more generic discussing how to configure and start servers in Cygwin inetutils? I've spent the last couple of hours scouring Google and the Cygwin documentat

NT domain user's "chmod" on Samba file quietly fails

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Metcalf
As I mentioned in my previous message, I've set up a fairly reasonable /etc/passwd that holds SIDs for both my Windows domain and the primary file server, a Samba box. The Windows SID and the Samba SID for each user map to the same UID (the Windows RID) to try to keep cygwin tools largely unaware

Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Try this $ export PRINTER=computerprintername (or maybe) $ export PRINTER=computer\\printername and then run enscript. --Chuck Dave McLaughlin wrote: > Like Xiangjiang, I am also stumped on how to configure the Cygwin 'lpr' > so that it can be used by enscript. I searched the

RE: command to close the bash window

2002-04-19 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi, yes. I prefer Ctrl/D, which I can even type faster than moving the mouse and click on x... -Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 23:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: command to close the bash window Hi, Also, don'

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >I think to generalize, the current Setup.exe offers to download based on >which packages are currently installed, not on which packages are present >in the local download area(s). I hate to say it but that sounds like a bug to m

RE: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windows 200 0

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:18 PM 4/19/2002, Lawrence W. Smith wrote: >I was attempting to offer a new direction that may have been overlooked >from your perspective but clearly the experiences and or suggestions of users >are of little consequence to you. Although you responded specifically to Chris's message, I want

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:08AM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:41:04 +0100 Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using 2.194.2.24 and when I go through "Download from Internet" > > and download the "new" components. It downloads them fine. > > > > Next, I

Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:12 PM 4/19/2002, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:23:56 -0400 "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > At 09:45 PM 4/18/2002, Michael A Chase wrote: > > >From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: "George Hester" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Alan, I was about to send in a similar report yesterday evening. I think to generalize, the current Setup.exe offers to download based on which packages are currently installed, not on which packages are present in the local download area(s). I say this because even though I have a full set o

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:41:04 +0100 Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using 2.194.2.24 and when I go through "Download from Internet" > and download the "new" components. It downloads them fine. > > Next, I re-run setup.exe and I go through "Download from Internet" again, > (but thi

Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:23:56 -0400 "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:45 PM 4/18/2002, Michael A Chase wrote: > >From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "George Hester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, April 18

lpr problem (was: Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?)

2002-04-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dave schrieb: > Like Xiangjiang, I am also stumped on how to configure the Cygwin 'lpr' > so that it can be used by enscript. I searched the archives but didn't > succeed in finding anything that seemed to help. > Here are the messages I get: > lpr: can't open 'prn' for writing > lpr: The prin

Cygwin maildrop patches and issues (was Re: fetchmail 5.9.8 ...)

2002-04-19 Thread Jason Tishler
Rui, On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:45:12AM +, Rui Carmo wrote: > However, mutt then complains that /var/spool/mail/user is not a valid > mbox file, since somewhere along the line, an extra blank line is inserted > at the beginning of the mailbox upon creation. Editing it out by hand > solves the

Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-19 Thread Alan Hourihane
Hi, I'm wondering if I've found a bug in setup.exe. I'm using 2.194.2.24 and when I go through "Download from Internet" and download the "new" components. It downloads them fine. Next, I re-run setup.exe and I go through "Download from Internet" again, (but this was by accident) and it says tha

RE: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Lawrence W. Smith
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windows > 200 0 > What's become a real mess is the fact that people seem to be doing an > "ls" in their download

Nevermind, fixed: Re: Having lots of troubles building/getting cygwin base source!!!

2002-04-19 Thread Mark Paulus
Disregard the previous note. I apologizing for cluttering up the "airwaves" with this trivial matter. On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:03:37 -0600, Mark Paulus wrote: >Ok, > >I seem to be having some difficulties getting cygwin sources. >When I pull the latest source for cygwin (cygwin-1.3.10-1) using >

FAQ entry for setting up /etc/passwd with both NT domain users andSamba servers under ntsec

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Metcalf
I spent a while figuring out the right way to configure Cygwin's /etc/passwd in the face of CYGWIN=ntsec, domain users, and Samba servers. I thought I'd write a quick FAQ entry to save others time. Let's say you have a Windows domain "DOM" to which all your users belong. However, you also have

Re: Having lots of troubles building/getting cygwin base source!!!

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:03:37AM -0600, Mark Paulus wrote: >how do I get a complete & buildable snapshot image of the cygwin >base? Calm down. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs

Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 05:12:59 -0400 george hester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 18 months ago. > > George Hester > > Original Message Follows > > Well my response to you is using it the way you say I should resulted > in > > BSOD the last time I tried to follow as you suggest in Windows

Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?

2002-04-19 Thread Dave McLaughlin
Like Xiangjiang, I am also stumped on how to configure the Cygwin 'lpr' so that it can be used by enscript. I searched the archives but didn't succeed in finding anything that seemed to help. Here are the messages I get: lpr: can't open 'prn' for writing lpr: The printer name is invalid. If it

Having lots of troubles building/getting cygwin base source!!!

2002-04-19 Thread Mark Paulus
Ok, I seem to be having some difficulties getting cygwin sources. When I pull the latest source for cygwin (cygwin-1.3.10-1) using setup, I cannot build it because the winsup/w32api directory is empty, and make fails with a "no for target 'all'. When I try to pull the 20020409 snapshots from

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: Pine]

2002-04-19 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Apr 18, 2002: :) >*** How to run Pine under Cygwin :) > :) > - If you plan to use filters in Pine (display and send filters) or :) > the pipe command, you need to execute the following command: :) > :) > ln -s /bin/bash.exe /bin/csh.exe :) :) Would this still

Looking for mknod implementation

2002-04-19 Thread Edward Ross
Hello: Just installed cygwin today (cygwin-1.3.10-1). I'm trying to create some named pipes like so: mknod myfile p However, I get a "Function not implemented" message and no pipe. Having looked through this list, I found a message from Robert Collins dated Nov 9 2001 http://sources.redhat.co

Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windows 200 0

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:21:20PM +0100, Lawrence W. Smith wrote: >setup.exe has become a real mess TBH between the URL directory names, >accumulating multiple copies of data in multiple places instead of >the simple tree used before and the fallacy inherent in a GUI install. What's become a rea

Re: info

2002-04-19 Thread CoolInfo4U1008
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Re: CreateWindow Errors and undefined reference to InitCommonControls

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:51 AM 4/19/2002, Siever Bryan-BSIEVER1 wrote: >Greetings, > I have two problems that I am hoping some of you could shed some >light on. >I am getting a NULL from calls to subsequent calls to CreateWindow after the >first one to create the parent window. This happens for any call to i

RE: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windows 200 0

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:21 AM 4/19/2002, Lawrence W. Smith wrote: > > From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:34 AM > > To: George Hester; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin > > in Windiows > > 2000 > > > > > > George,

Re: make customized installation of cygwin

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:28 AM 4/19/2002, hugo wrote: >Hi > >I would like create a customized version of cygwin - a cygwin >distribution which includes Perl TK, some perl utilities of my own, some >other extras like Tk::FileDialog and the like. I would like to be able >to package that up, then install this with a s

Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:36 AM 4/19/2002, misi misi wrote: >Hallo, >from where can the source of setup be downloaded? >CVS is no choice, because of a firewall. No, CVS is it. >Is there a possibility to start setup.exe in >batchmodus, so cygwin could be installed an a lot >of machines remotly? I refer you to:

Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:45 PM 4/18/2002, Michael A Chase wrote: >From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "George Hester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 18:09 >Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows 2000 > > > > At 10:

RE: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread Lawrence W. Smith
> From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:34 AM > To: George Hester; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin > in Windiows > 2000 > > > George, > > I don't know what's not to like about Setup.exe (well, maybe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: libpng10-devel-1.0.13-1

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
See libpng-1.0.13-1 announcement --Chuck -- 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/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: libpng10-1.0.13-1

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
See the libpng-1.0.13-1 announcement. --Chuck -- 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/

CreateWindow Errors and undefined reference to InitCommonControls

2002-04-19 Thread Siever Bryan-BSIEVER1
Greetings, I have two problems that I am hoping some of you could shed some light on. I am getting a NULL from calls to subsequent calls to CreateWindow after the first one to create the parent window. This happens for any call to it, I am using the instance value passed to WinMain and am

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libpng-1.0.13-1

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
The libpng package has been updated to version 1.0.13-1. libpng is a library that provides routines to access and manipulate Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images. PNG is a lossless, patent- unencumbered image format intended to replace GIF. CHANGES: - Correct a bug in pngconf.h (_cdecl), upd

Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-19 Thread misi misi
Hallo, from where can the source of setup be downloaded? CVS is no choice, because of a firewall. Is there a possibility to start setup.exe in batchmodus, so cygwin could be installed an a lot of machines remotly? Regards __ Do You Yahoo!? Yaho

Re: [CYGWIN] Updated: postgresql-7.2.1-1

2002-04-19 Thread Jason Tishler
Tim, On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:02:12PM +0100, Tim Finch wrote: > At 09:11 18/04/2002 -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > >New News: > >=== > >I have updated the version of PostgreSQL to 7.2.1-1. The tarballs should > >be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. > > Jason, we appreciate yo

[Fwd: Updated: w32api-1.3-1]

2002-04-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
I don't think this made it to the list via the automated gateway. Earnie. Original Message Subject: Updated: w32api-1.3-1 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:04:49 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've made a new version of th

[Fwd: Updated: mingw-runtime-1.3-1]

2002-04-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
I don't think this made it to the list via the automated gateway. Original Message Subject: Updated: mingw-runtime-1.3-1 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:59:37 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've made a new version of the

make customized installation of cygwin

2002-04-19 Thread hugo
Hi I would like create a customized version of cygwin - a cygwin distribution which includes Perl TK, some perl utilities of my own, some other extras like Tk::FileDialog and the like. I would like to be able to package that up, then install this with a script similar to setup.exe on other compu

RE: texmf-related *.lnk files in /bin/ : invalid?

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
Setup create the .lnk style symbolic shortcuts based on the tar file contents. Nothing is brojen, nothing needs changing, norton is making assumptions. If it is of enough concern, the tar file creator could alter their symlinks before they create the tarball to reference the .exe's instead. Rob

Re[2]: setup with empty proxy password

2002-04-19 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello ljubomir, Thursday, April 18, 2002, 12:08:56 PM, you wrote: lmpc> Sorry for beeing unprecise. My internet acsess setup is solved by an lmpc> "automatic configuration script" proxy server, with an user name, but without lmpc> password (empty password). If I start cygwin setup.exe, and choos

texmf-related *.lnk files in /bin/ : invalid?

2002-04-19 Thread fergus
Using W98 after a complete install including texmf* : then, one of Norton's diagnostic checking procedures picked up 5 *.lnk files in /bin/ as "invalid shortcuts". They are elatex.lnk, pdflatex.lnk, pdfelatex.lnk, lambda.lnk, latex.lnk. They seem to be intended links to etex.exe, p