Re: lilypond-1.6.5-1

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 19:11, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: New upstream stable release. Apart from some important fixes from upstream, there's a small fix in the hint file: added a required dependency on ghostscript. Please upload. I went to upload this, and I can't overwrite corinna's

Re: Pending packages status

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:44, Pavel Tsekov wrote: 2. CMake version: 1.4.5-1 status : reviewed, ready for upload Uploaded. 3. swig version: 1.3.15-1 status : update to an existing package - review is not required Uploaded. swig-1.3.11-1-src.tar.bz2 and swig-1.3.11-1.tar.bz2 removed.

The UID of cygwin packages for installation

2002-10-09 Thread James Michael DuPont
Please excuse my ignorance on this issue, I am a very happy user of cygwin, and would like to port more packages to cygwin. I have tried to find this information in the documents http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ There is much information about the file permissions an ntsec, but no guidelines

Re: lilypond-1.6.5-1

2002-10-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I went to upload this, and I can't overwrite corinna's created files. Thanks anyway! Sorry. No need to say sorry. There are no big bugs, there's no big hurry. Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU LilyPond - The music

Re: lilypond-1.6.5-1

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:31:52PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 19:11, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: New upstream stable release. Apart from some important fixes from upstream, there's a small fix in the hint file: added a required dependency on ghostscript. Please

Re: The UID of cygwin packages for installation

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
Redirected to correct mailing list. On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:46:41AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: Please excuse my ignorance on this issue, I am a very happy user of cygwin, and would like to port more packages to cygwin. I have tried to find this information in the documents

Rootless mode revisited...

2002-10-09 Thread Thomas Chadwick
I just had a thought on how to implement rootless mode and I'm hoping someone more familiar with Windows programming and/or the XWin server might let me know if it's a dead-end before I spend too much time researching it further. The idea I had is this: Can we exploit the features of the

Re: Rootless mode revisited...

2002-10-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Let me sum it up like this: we already know how to do it. That isn't the problem. The problem is that requires lot of work to implement the design that we have in mind. What Thomas suggested is an interesting idea. His idea was obviously a suggestion and it probably wasn't thought out from

Re: Rootless mode revisited...

2002-10-09 Thread Bill Hughey
In a cursory look at the Darwin project, it seemed that they were shadowing every top-level (child of root) window with a pixmap / hbitmap / dibsection. The action would be something like draw into the dibsections memory with X windows drawing routines and then use DirectDraw's fastblt to push it

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog window.cc

2002-10-09 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-10-09 22:31:43 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog window.cc Log message: * window.cc (gethwnd): Use SetThreadPriority method. Patches:

New assignment received from Steve Osborn

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please resubmit any patches against the current CVS. Thanks and welcome aboard.

Is cygwin newlib reentrant?

2002-10-09 Thread Anurag Sharma
Hi All, Does anyone know if the newlib that comes with cygwin is reentrant or not. I know that we can compile newlib to be reentrant by providing -DREENTRANT_SYSCALLS_PROVIDED to the CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET variable in the makefile before building newlib. Not sure if this was done by the cygwin

Re: ntsec and NTFS inheritable permissions

2002-10-09 Thread Roman Belenov
Well, by groking I meant using them while deciding whether certain user has access to file. And it seems that they are just ignored. BTW Can you point me to this discussion in the list ? Searching list archive I found only references to inheritable permissions problem without description of the

Re: ntea dilemma

2002-10-09 Thread S . L .
Larry, [...] to a file in that FAT(32) partition. Just run chmod +rw file for some file and the EA DATA .SF should appear if you're running with ntea enabled. Make sure that ntea is set *before* the Cygwin DLL is loaded (before any Cygwin processes start). [...] no, it does not

The Perl Journal needs help

2002-10-09 Thread Nenad Antic (EAB)
I assume most of you cygwin hackers make good use of Perl. If so you might be interested to know about the current predicament of TPJ. Please help saving a great publication! This is from http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/1835219: rochlin http://www.nw-apts.com writes Looks like The

Re: setup.exe Runtime error!

2002-10-09 Thread Janne K Edelman
In August 1st I wrote: For a some time I have experienced a major problem with Cygwin setup.exe. Otherwise it runs normally (I can select download site, packages, it downloads packages) but it does not install/uninstall anything. Instead it crashes to Runtime error every time it should

Re: your command request

2002-10-09 Thread Pierre Habraken
Preben Randhol wrote: I presume that the only thing I can do is to re-build Gnat from source using ACT binaries and gcc 2.8.1 sources. Or using Linux in stead of Win32 :-) The aim of what I want to do is to provide our students (undergraduate level) with a posix programming environment

Apparent bug with vim

2002-10-09 Thread Abhishek, Dev
Platform: NT/2000 Problem description: When a file with extension .con is opened with vim, it produces an error message such as the following. command: vim foo.con screen dump: foo.con [New File] Error detected while processing /usr/s line 42: E64: \? follows nothing Invalid argument:

Re: grep = * vs grep = * foo

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Schaap
On 9-10-2002 2:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: You'll see that delme is not listed. Cygnus wildcard expansion follows (snip) Cygnus? Who's that? ;-) - Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths

2002-10-09 Thread Jerry van Dijk
Christopher Faylor writes: We do have a buy-out license but I don't see how it applies here. So I get free licenses and support for my paying customers ? Anyway, this is not the place to repeat business discussions from the past. I prefer looking to the future. And my main concern now is

Re: your command request

2002-10-09 Thread Gareth Pearce
BTW, did someone try to build on cygwin gcc 3.2 with ada support ? Try the message list archives - I believe a binary was offered for download from someone in the last couple of months. Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: [gnatlist] Re: your command request

2002-10-09 Thread Jerry van Dijk
Pierre Habraken writes: The aim of what I want to do is to provide our students (undergraduate level) with a posix programming environment (including Ada) that they can easily install and use at home on their own machine. If you just need a programming environment, you could also use a

MessageWall (http://messagewall.org) porting problem in firedns lib

2002-10-09 Thread provodnikov
Hello, MessageWall (see http://messagewall.org) is potentially good and full-featured spam-filtering SMTP proxy. so I tried to make cygwin port. all compiled and linked OK, but it doesn't make a DNSBL search via firedns lib. (http://messagewall.org/firedns.html) below is the log of

Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95

2002-10-09 Thread Wald Ghzala, Laila
Hi, I use touch.exe to change a hour of files to an earlier hour. for example: touch -t 10091020 These always work but to day when i write this after the execution the hour of the file is 1 hour older than the stamp. The hour of the PC is correct, in the date/time properties we are in the time

Re: Apparent bug with vim

2002-10-09 Thread Warren Young
Abhishek, Dev wrote: Problem description: When a file with extension .con is opened with vim, it produces an error message such as the following. In /usr/share/vim/vim61/filetype.vim, find the Century Term Command Scripts line and comment it out. That will probably fix the problem. This

RE: Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95

2002-10-09 Thread Chris January
Subject: Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95 ^^^ you should probably try beta 20b. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread Charles Krug
List: I need a good TERM setting. I'm using rlogin from bash to connect to a solaris machine. On those odd occasionions when I can use CDE, I can resize my terminals and my slang programs work across the full terminal size. When I connect from Cygwin-bash, slang programs seem to think I've a

Re: Can't run NumTut on cygwin-hosted python

2002-10-09 Thread Jason Tishler
Jeff, On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:04:09PM -0500, Jeff Perry wrote: TclError: couldn't open [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no such file or directory It took downloading Numeric and NumTut, building and installing Numeric, and reproducing the error to realize what should have been obvious (to me)

RE: Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95

2002-10-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nah, B14 is the way to go. I don't know what all the hoopla about the 1.3.12 Cygwin DLL is. Cygwin used to do everything anyone would need back around '96. It's a shame people are still wasting their time working on creating new versions of Cygwin for general and free use. For those who

RE: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log into? Larry Original Message: - From: Charles Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:46:11 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What's a good term setting for rlogin? List: I

Re: Problem with Station/Desktop permissions

2002-10-09 Thread Marius Seritan
Hi all, Just to let you know that I fixed my desktop permissions problem on the application side by making sure that I do not add ACEs to an empty DACL. Details When doing a suid (CreateProcessAsUser) cygwin sets up a null Security Descriptor (SD) for Station and Desktop that

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread Charles Krug
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log into? I can do that? If I can, then that's exactly the answer I needed which I didn't have. -- Unsubscribe info:

ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Prive
Hello, I understand the problem I am about to ask is not uncommon, and I have made considerable effort to look for the answers in the archive... On an up-to-date (today) Cygwin install, sshd refuses to start (the MS Management console gives a useless error). On other systems, I have installed

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread Charles Krug
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log into? I copied these lines from /Cygwin/etc/termcap into $HOME/.termcap: cygwin:\

Re: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Elfyn
Hi, I had that when i first installed it... i take it the permissions on files like /etc/sshd* /etc/ssh_host* are exclusive to the SYSTEM account (if your running a shared-style server) and the service is running as SYSTEM. i got around that problem my making the system user the owner of

Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:04:01PM +0200, Jerry van Dijk wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: We do have a buy-out license but I don't see how it applies here. So I get free licenses You can use the software for free. The GPL says that you just have to provide your customers with source. and

Re: your command request

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:21:25PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote: BTW, did someone try to build on cygwin gcc 3.2 with ada support ? Try the message list archives - I believe a binary was offered for download from someone in the last couple of months. Yep. And the URL was actually provided

Re: grep = * vs grep = * foo

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:15:01PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: On 9-10-2002 2:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: You'll see that delme is not listed. Cygnus wildcard expansion follows (snip) Cygnus? Who's that? ;-) OOPS! Slap! How embarrassing. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: The UID of cygwin packages for installation

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
Redirected to correct mailing list. On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:46:41AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: Please excuse my ignorance on this issue, I am a very happy user of cygwin, and would like to port more packages to cygwin. I have tried to find this information in the documents

How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

2002-10-09 Thread Christian Jönsson
I have just a small question... how do I compile binutils cvs trunk under cygwin? This was on a Windows XP SP1/cygwin P4 system with these packages: binutils 2.12.90 20020706 (cygwin ver. 20020706-2) cygwin1.3.12-4 dejagnu 1.4.2.x (cygwin ver. 20010117-1 + cvs 20020428 on

RE: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Prive
-Original Message- From: Elfyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:02 PM To: cygml Subject: Re: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed Hi, I had that when i first installed it... i take it the permissions on files

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/9/2002 8:31 AM, Charles Krug wrote: I copied these lines from /Cygwin/etc/termcap into $HOME/.termcap: cygwin:\ :xn:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:tc=linux: Setting TERM to cygwin, I get: homer:charles% info termcap info: Terminal type `cygwin' is

Re: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Elfyn
Hey, What i meant by shared-server is that more than one person (other than you) would be accessing the server. So if it is a shared environment you might want to tighten security. In general you should run things like crond,sshd etc. as the SYSTEM user as Administrator doesnt have the required

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread Charles Krug
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:35:22AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And is this machine that you copied this line to, a linux machine? Or does it otherwise already know about the linux term type? If not, you'll have to copy over the linux termcap entry as well.. -- Shankar. I just

RE: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Prive
Looks like our problems are somewhat related. I wonder if anyone else has ideas... -Original Message- From: Elfyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:44 PM To: cygml; Scott Prive Subject: Re: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not

Re: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Elfyn
Its pretty funky that this has started happening OOTB (out of the blue). have you had a working sshd? ... i forget. have you installed new soft,libs recently... have you downloaded new net-release packages as well? All ive done is install mysql-3.23.52 on cygwin-1.3.12-2, cant see that making a

RE: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Prive
I can say this works fine on one system, which I installed a while back. Then I got it working on a SECOND system, which worked fine UNTIL I updated Cygwin. Then it broke. I sent an email to this list but never got a reply. Then I tried a THIRD system, and even a fresh install did not work.

Re: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Elfyn
Hey... All i have done is install it. it hasnt even run yet. I did reboot the sys just to see if there was a lib change one of the other admins may have applied by no-diff... Elfyn - Original Message - From: Marius Seritan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Elfyn
Hi, Can you do a cygcheck on all of your cygwin machines so we can compare what exactly has changed `cygcheck -s -s -r'... it has to be a change in package. ill go through latest changes to see what has be upgraded in packages released in the last couple of weeks. I got people pis*ed because of

RE: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Prive
Attempting to run the sshd server as Administrator was purely an act of desperation. All along until them I've left it at default Local System. On my sshd-working system, all of those files belong to None. On the other, broken-sshd system, all of those files belong to Administrator:None.

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

2002-10-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Oct 9, 2002, Christian Jönsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory Looks like you're missing this library, that's probably a dependency of some other library you have installed and

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Oct 9, 2002, Christian J?nsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory Looks like you're missing this library, that's

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

2002-10-09 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:26:47PM +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 19:11, Christian Jönsson wrote: I have just a small question... how do I compile binutils cvs trunk under cygwin? I've never built binutils (or anything else) on Cygwin, but adding --disable-nls to

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

2002-10-09 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Oct 9, 2002, Christian Jönsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory Looks like you're missing this library,

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:31:32 -0400, Charles Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log into? I copied these lines from /Cygwin/etc/termcap into $HOME/.termcap:

RE: ALMOST RESOLVED: ssh service staring problem bad owner /var/empty but not fixed (now password sync issue)

2002-10-09 Thread Scott Prive
OK, done. qacontrol is the system where sshd works... qa2000test is the system where sshd fails to start. I ran cygcheck and diffed my results: the broken system lacked the CYGWIN=tty sec variable, which I added in the WIN2K GUI, restarted all my shells and verified the variable was being

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

2002-10-09 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:14:45PM +0200, Christian Jönsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:48:59PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Oct 9, 2002, Christian J?nsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep:

Cross compiling on one OS for another

2002-10-09 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Can I cross compile the binaries for, say, GNUMach for the Hurd, using Cygwin? I still haven't succeded in building the things, and I thought, I'd try here, and using the absolute latest binaries for Cygwin. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh my! The Second Doctor's

Re: The Perl Journal needs help

2002-10-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Nenad, Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2002 um 11:11 schriebst du: I assume most of you cygwin hackers make good use of Perl. If so you might be interested to know about the current predicament of TPJ. Please help saving a great publication! This is from

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

2002-10-09 Thread Christian Jönsson
version: binutils 20021009 cvs trunk Platform: i686-pc-cygwin configure flags: --host=i686-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-binutils --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-libgcj --enable-sjlj-exceptions --with-system-zlib --without-included-gettext Counting all warnings, there are 68

binutils 20021009 cvs trunk on cygwin: ld failuers

2002-10-09 Thread Christian Jönsson
/gcc-binutils/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross2.t tmpdir/cross3.o /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new: BFD 2.13.90 20021009 assertion fail /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/src/bfd/stabs.c:783 FAIL: NOCROSSREFS 2 testcase /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/src/ld

New version of Xfree is available

2002-10-09 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine There is a newer version of Xfree available. Currently I do not see a pre-built binary for Cygwin, on the mirror that I use for specific binaries, so I am asking here about that. The version number now, is 4.2.1 and it fixes a security violation. Should I bring this to

Semi-OT - interesting link

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
I found this a fascinating link: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ It illustrates a lot of the methods used in arguments that are used here when a heated discussion erupts, as in the recent newsgroup thread. Unfortunately, I see that I have used a couple of the fallacious techniques

grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Sheryl McKeown
Better titled, That dot thing again on Windows XP Pro... Ok, again I'm trying to search recursively through a directory structure looking for specific values. According to grep --help grep -R should walk the directory structure. Cool. So, grep -i -R path32 * returns, as expected, .grep -i -R

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sheryl McKeown wrote: Better titled, That dot thing again on Windows XP Pro... Ok, again I'm trying to search recursively through a directory structure looking for specific values. According to grep --help grep -R should walk the directory structure. Cool. So, grep

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Schaap
On 10-10-2002 1:24, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sheryl McKeown wrote: Better titled, That dot thing again on Windows XP Pro... Ok, again I'm trying to search recursively through a directory structure looking for specific values. According to grep --help grep -R should walk

Named pipes problem

2002-10-09 Thread Chris
Hi there, I have recently installed Cygwin (version 1.3.12-2) on Windows 2k (SP2) and have been trying to evaluate by developing some small programs. One of these uses named pipes. However none of the named pipes functions seem to work - all return -1. Example: retcode = unlink (aPipe);

Cannot use named pipes

2002-10-09 Thread Chris
Hi there, I have recently installed Cygwin (version 1.3.12-2) on Windows 2k (SP2) and have been trying to evaluate by developing some small programs. One of these uses named pipes. However none of the named pipes functions seem to work - all return -1. Example: retcode = unlink (aPipe);

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Sheryl McKeown
Hi Igor, I too am an avocate for find. However, I can't seem to master it's usage in XP's shell. For instance, the find command you suggested find . -name *.vb* -exec grep -ni path32 {} \; -print returns the error find: missing argument to `-exec' in the XP shell. The command works fine

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Sheryl McKeown
Hi Michael, Thanks for the response. snip .grep -i -R path32 * snip This isn't a dot problem. This is a grep usage problem. Specifically, you're telling grep to only look in directories which have '.vb' in their name. Ok, I can live with that. For my understanding, what

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Gareth Pearce
Ok, I can live with that. For my understanding, what does the -R expand then? I had visualized that -R with grep was simular to ls -R. Where ls -R magically displays all files with out having to specify a search path. So I was thinking that grep -R magically searched all the files without

Re: Semi-OT - interesting link

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Chris, Nice link, reminds me of a philosophy course I did back in sixth form. At the time, I thought about it quite a lot from the p.o.v of day to day arguments, but I decided it's all irrelevant. I reckon arguments are completely in the realm of emotions, totally separate from the logic

emacs on cygwin

2002-10-09 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths,

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: Is there a Cygwin

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sheryl, What is the XP shell? Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 16:58 2002-10-09, Sheryl McKeown wrote: Hi Igor, I too am an avocate for find. However, I can't seem to master it's usage in XP's shell. For instance, the find command you suggested find . -name *.vb* -exec grep -ni

RE: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Sheryl, What is the XP shell? I'm sure she's referring to cmd.exe, the embarrassment of the CLI world. Well, second only to =Win9x's command.com. No, on second thought, command.com is really more of a sickening freakshow than an embarassment. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. --

Re: Origin

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im right here. You can't be, because I'm right here and I know that you're not. Pats self, with concerned look on face - you know, you're right, I'm *not here*. Hlp Rob -- --- GPG key available at: