[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: nasm-0.98.35-1

The netwide assembler has been included in the Cygwin net distribution. nasm is the famous, portable Netwide Assembler for the 80x86. Many many developers all over the net respect NASM for what it is - a widespread (thus netwide), portable (thus netwide!), very flexible and mature assembler too

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.3.2-20

I've updated the version of inetutils in cygwin/latest to 1.3.2-20. This is a bugfix release. Version 1.3.2-20 containes the following change: - In iu-config, add also zsh to /etc/shells. - Thanks to Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for: Add Cygwin guard to the conditional compilation around

RE: Java (1 of 3): Gcj - Hello world exe (again)

>-Original Message- >From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 07 January 2003 09:51 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Java (1 of 3): Gcj - Hello world exe (again) > >I don't think the version number matters, my fair guess is >that for some >reason a dir or a file was "lo

General comments...

Hello. Now it has been a while since I installed cygwin (all of it!) on my PII/450Mhz Compaq Presario (Model 5670 w 256MB RAM/60G HD). This is three years old hardware and I'm finding more and more things that feels slow, so it's no speed demon any longer. There is one thing that I find almos

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package rxvt-2.7.9-3

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:21:39AM +, Rui Carmo wrote: > Hi there, > > just add the line: > > rxvt*scrollstyle: next > > to your ~/.Xresources file. > > (You might want to run "rxvt --help" or check the man page for other > valid resources you can set this way, since it is far preferable

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package rxvt-2.7.9-3

> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:21:39AM +, Rui Carmo wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > just add the line: > > > > rxvt*scrollstyle: next > > > > to your ~/.Xresources file. > > > > (You might want to run "rxvt --help" or check the man page > for other > > valid resources you can set this way,

Re: General comments...

> I'm on a P4 2.64Ghz/512 DDR-RAM/Over 100Gb HD Space and it's slow for me > ;-) I do like the the idea of a prograss dialog when setup is reading the > packages from lcoal disk though. The major spot I've noticed with slowness is when if you click on the text "Default" in the packages list (initi

Text-based email readers can handle HTML (was Re: Repost, ...)

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:44:42PM -0800, linda w (cyg) wrote: > If only text-based email readers could do the 'lynx' thing with HTML > content They can. I have configured mutt to do the "w3m" thing to handle HTML in the following ways: 1. auto-view HTML as formatted text (by default)

Re: General comments...

> There is one thing that I find almost annoying with the setup utility. > At a certain point it feels VERY slow; when the list of packages to > download/install is about to open up. This may take anything from a > little while to ages to open (No, I haven't measured time so far). As > there is NO

registry heap_chunk_in_mb doesn't seems to have any effect on cygwin memory

Hi, Works on cygwin cygwin1.dll version : 05/07/2002 system Windows XP I'm running out of memory on one of my app on cygwin. The amount I can get seems to be 512 megs and no more. I have try to set the registry HKCU/software/cygnus solutions/cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb to 2ff and more but that doesn

Problem with Cygwin DLL 1.3.18-1 release!

Hi Cygwin, We are using cygwin on a small project which has some makefiles which have been written so that they can be run in parallel in the different directories that make up the project. This has been working fine before Xmas but the new machines we installed during Xmas all fail when "make

Re: hi

Sandy, Please post instead of sending private email. On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:41:48PM -0800, Sandy Sai wrote: > Can you tell me what editor I should use to write a c++ program in > cygwin? > > Sandy > > Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > New News: > === > I have u

Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

I recently ran Cygwin setup and installed lots of updates. However, ever since, I noticed that starting a new shell takes a relatively long time (we're talking 10 seconds or so between typing "bash" and getting a prompt - it might not sound like a lot, but try running make on something of moder

Re: hi

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:29:19AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > Cygwin includes the following editors: > cat > filename:-) > ed > emacs mcedit (a part of the mc package) > nano > vim Regards. -- +---+ | Marcel Telka

RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

Update. I've further observed that while running whoami at the command-line returns a result immediately, running it inside a pair of back-tics "`" shows the blocking behavior. For instance, if I do this: $ whoami I get a result immediately. However, if I do this: $ echo `whoami` It takes

Re: General comments...

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Dave Hooper wrote: > [snip] > Is the source for setup.exe in cvs anyway? > d Yes. See . Igor P.S. Should there also be a link to it on the cygwin home page? Incidentally, does

Setup.exe discussion (was Re: General comments...)

Dave Hooper wrote: > The major spot I've noticed with slowness is when if you click on the > text "Default" in the packages list (initial view, so whatever that > is, Curr/All I guess), and it takes a million years (without an > hourglass) to change to "Install" Yes. If only I can find a sufficien

problem with cygpath.exe (1.3.18-1) when using ant 1.4.1

Hi I recently upgraded my Cygwin to 1.3.18-1 (on Win 2K SP1) and am now noticing interrmittent failures from cygpath. When I run ant I sometimes get the following error, other times it works fine(!): $ ant -version C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6 Error: JAVA

Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

On Wed 08 Jan 2003 05:56, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm sorry. I thought the cygwin project -- was to provide a Posix type > >platform to [aid, assist, help] in porting *nix/gnu utils to the Win32 > >environment. > > Cygwin's primary purpose is to provide a UNIX environment

Re: Text-based email readers can handle HTML (was Re: Repost, ...)

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:44:42PM -0800, linda w (cyg) wrote: > > If only text-based email readers could do the 'lynx' thing with HTML > > content > > They can. I have configured mutt to do the "w3m" thing to handle HTML > in the following ways: > >

problem with cygpath.exe (1.3.18-1) when using ant 1.4.1 (FIXED)

Found answer in archive (sorry, missed it first time) The 2003-Jan-03 snapshot appears to fix for this problem. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20030103.dll.bz2 Vodafone Global Content Services Limited Registered Office: 80 Strand London WC2R 0RJ Registered in England No. 4064873 This

Re: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

Thomas Chadwick wrote: > Update. I've further observed that while running whoami at the > command-line returns a result immediately, running it inside a pair > of back-tics "`" shows the blocking behavior. For instance, if I do > this: > > $ whoami > > I get a result immediately. > > However,

sshd/passwd

Hi everyone, I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup. I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fashion. I have installed sshd and ran ssh-host-config with no problem. I try to run ssh

Re: sshd/passwd

I think Erik Moreau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup. > > I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to > setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fashion. I > have installed sshd and ran ssh-host-

Re: sshd/passwd

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Erik Moreau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup. > > I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to > setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fashion. I > have installed sshd and ran

Makefile: error executing 'shell' command in makefile

problem statement: I have a make file which works perfectly on linux. when I use the same makefile on cygwin, the following line in makefile gives error : CWD = $(shell pwd) The ERROR is === D:\cygwin\bin\pwd.exe: *** Can't create title mutes, Win32 error 6 I notice

Re: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

| $ whoami | | I get a result immediately. | | However, if I do this: | | $ echo `whoami` | | It takes a good 5-10 seconds to print a value and return the prompt. Isn't it something like echo `whoami` starts a new shell, that loads the .profile (or whichever start-file) that takes 5-10 seconds to

Re: Makefile: error executing 'shell' command in makefile

Anand, Generally, a good first step to solving Cygwin problems is searching the mailing list archives to see if someone else has encountered the same problem before. As it turns out, there have been messages about this problem (and a fix) posted within the past month, which can be easily retrieve

Problem going from .o -> .dll

Hello, I've created a very small C library using Cygwin to manipulate the serial port under Windows. My intention is to create a ruby wrapper around the library and perform some OLE automation, but I've hit a brick wall. I have a small test program that I'm testing the library with, and it works pe

Re: sshd/passwd

At 10:53 1/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Erik Moreau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup. > > I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to > setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fas

Re: hi

*** Marcel Telka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: > > Cygwin includes the following editors: > cat > filename:-) > > ed > > emacs > mcedit (a part of the mc package) > > nano > > vim and pico, of course. -- Eduardo http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/ --

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package rxvt-2.7.9-3

Hi, I gave this a try. The "Next" scroll bars are nice looking, and I've generally been in favor of grouping the scroll arrows at one end of the bar (on the Mac this was an option, possibly using some add-on GUI modification software, I don't recall). However, what I'm seeing when I enable the

Re: Setup.exe

>>> Isn't that kinda up to the user. When you finish downloading new >>> packages you kill your internet connection as cygwin setup won't >>> need it. > > Autodialling isn't something that (most) programs do. Windows does it for > them. So setup doesn't know if a connection was made on it's account

Re: Problem going from .o -> .dll

> $ ./driver.exe > EOF > g(smiley face)Err: Close failed This is not a forum for debugging other peoples' code, but ... 1. You are using HANDLE * instead of HANDLE 2. Your logic for nul termination is totally wrong: c->buffer[nBytesRead + 1] = '\0'; should be c->buffer[nBytesRe

Re: hi

Marcel Telka wrote: > cat > filename:-) Of course, if you count cat as an editor, you have to count uudecode as a compiler. :-) -Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cyg

RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

Thomas, The key here is that back-quotes or $( command ) uses a pipe to get the output of the command. Do you run a CPU-soaking background program such as SETI@home, Folding@home (the protein folding experiment) or fightAIDS@home (the AIDS drug discovery program)? If so, you're seeing the res

RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

Do you run a CPU-soaking background program such as SETI@home, Folding@home (the protein folding experiment) or fightAIDS@home (the AIDS drug discovery program)? If so, you're seeing the result of the changes to how Cygin accesses pipes in 1.3.18. You hit the nail on the head!! I'm running SETI

Re: sshd/passwd

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Erik Moreau wrote: > I know that I > have two emoreau's. I'm going to delete the last one. Have you done it? Having your uid on more than one line in /etc/passwd kills ssh-user-config. pwdhome=`awk -F: '{ if ( $3 == '${uid}' ) print $6; }' < /etc/passwd` By the way, that's mo

Subject: Re: Setup.exe

> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:24:22 - (GMT) > Subject: Re: Setup.exe > From: "Dave Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > >>> Isn't that kinda up to the user. When you fin

Re: hi

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:07:10PM -0500, Gerald S. Williams wrote: > Marcel Telka wrote: > > cat > filename:-) > > Of course, if you count cat as an editor, you have to count > uudecode as a compiler. :-) Not compiler, an assembler :-). Telnet is, for example, a mail client (smtp + po

Re: Subject: Re: Setup.exe

Fred, At 10:39 2003-01-08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'll leap in here too... If Windoze is smart enough to autodial when some program wants to use the internet it then should be smart enough to notice that the connection has gone idle and do an idle time-out for hanging up. If not, then it

Re: Subject: Re: Setup.exe

Along with IE/Windows wininet autodial apis, there's a message (I forget the exact message ID right now though) that you can post to an invisible autodial window periodically to tell it that we are busy and to not hang up. There is also an api in shdocvw.dll "SetQueryNetSessionCount", which increm

Setup.exe (was: General comments... )

- Original Message - From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:56 AM Subject: General comments... > There is one thing that I find almost annoying with the setup > utility. > At a certain point it feels

LookupAccountName (\\FW, Domain Admins) failed with error 1332

I have a Windows XP/Pro SP1, it's in a domain with PDC running from a samba server 2.2.3a-6 running under Debian. Generating the /etc/passwd file with mkpasswd goes well, I get the right home dir etc, but trying to generate the /etc/group file gets me in a problem... chj@LUDDES:~$ mkgroup.exe -

Re: Problem going from .o -> .dll

> This is not a forum for debugging other peoples' code, but ... > > 1. You are using HANDLE * instead of HANDLE > 2. Your logic for nul termination is totally wrong: > snip > Try that little lot and see what happens. At the worst it will let you > diagnose any real error correctly. Thank

Bash PATH via ssh

Hello, first post. >From a remote machine I'm doing something like: ssh 192.168.0.150 'echo $PATH' All the path appears to be set to is the Windows system path. I've put path amendments into /.bashrc and ~/.bashrc. As well as in the bash.bashrc files in /etc. Where do I put the path stateme

RE: Bash PATH via ssh

I believe it's correct to assume that the invocation of bash via ssh is a login shell, not an interactive shell. Cygwin puts its path additions in /etc/profile. The corallary for a user would be ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login as the INVOCATION section of the bash man page suggests.

Sed Script works in 3.02-1, fails in 4.0.1-1

Title: Sed Script works in 3.02-1, fails in 4.0.1-1 I am migrating from a machine that uses a cygwin image loaded in May 2002 to one that uses a November 2002 download, and have a sed script that fails in the newer version: (This should be a single line of input, but I'm sure it will wrap whe

setup.exe not executeable on Win98

Hi, Setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com/ dies when started with following message: SETUP[1] verursachte einen Fehler durch eine ungültige Seite in Modul SETUP[1].EXE bei 016f:0048dc20. Register: EAX=fff1df78 CS=016f EIP=0048dc20 EFLGS=00010293 EBX=2e00 SS=0177 ESP=007bfe18 EBP=fff1df78 ECX=000

OCR/Barcode recognition

Slightly off topic: I've been trying to compile "gocr" in cygwin with limited success (even when I get it to build, it doesn't work very reliably), has anyone had any luck with another OCR/barcode recognition package in Cygwin? ( I need something to reliably be able to extract barcode data from

Re: Setup.exe

Gah. Sorry about the half-backed reply there. On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 04:24, Dave Hooper wrote: > (I believe Windows will by default wait until > setup.exe has exitted before closing the dialup connection) unless > setup.exe gives Windows a hint. I'm almost utterly convinced that a > sequence in se

Re: Sed Script works in 3.02-1, fails in 4.0.1-1

Dwight, I can't tell what you intend to do with that SED script, but I agree with its complaint. If you want to use slashes within the pattern or replacement, you'll either have to escape them by preceding each with a backslash or use an alternative separator. I'm fond of semicolon in this kin

Re: Bash PATH via ssh

Thanks. I now have ensured that ~/.profile, ~./bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, /etc/profile all contain the lines: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH" export PATH But still when I do ssh 192.168.0.150 'echo $PATH' it returns only the windows path items. What am I missing here? Any help apprec

Re: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

I have a Pentium III 500 MHz 256 M w/ Windows 98 2nd Ed. I downloaded and installed Cygwin about 2 days ago. I tried your test with whoami and I could not discern any time difference between the two "methods" of invoking whoami. Just a bit of information FWIW. Paul T. Karch - Original Messa

sshd mcafee

Referense to http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg01462.html Disabled Hawk for E-Mail in McAfee virusscan 7, and i can run now openssh 3.5 correctly Sorry i dont't know how to use mailinglist -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: ht

Re: postgresql

Al, Please post instead of sending private email. On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:15:31PM -0500, Claiborne, Al wrote: > I am trying to configure postgresql on windows and am having no luck > with the paths or the configuration. Please read the README: http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgr

Re: Bash PATH via ssh

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:02:06PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: > Thanks. I now have ensured that ~/.profile, ~./bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, > /etc/profile all contain the lines: > > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH" > export PATH > > But still when I do ssh 192.168.0.150 'echo $PATH' it r

Bash backquote bug?

While running a configure script under bash-2.05b, I observed a bug (?) similar to the following: $ ls configure* configure configure.in $ echo timestamp >conftest.file $ ls -Lt ./configure conftest.file conftest.file ./configure $ set X `ls -Lt ./configure conftest.file` $ echo $*

Re: Bash backquote bug?

Michael, I cannot reproduce this. When I recreate your experiment, I get the results I'd expect. Are you sure your script is using BASH? You should know that /bin/sh is ash, not BASH. Nonetheless, I cannot reproduce the problem with ash, either. Out of curiosity, why are you using the "-L" opt

RE: General comments...

> From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Please, > > consider adding a progress display of some sort. > > I'm on a P4 2.64Ghz/512 DDR-RAM/Over 100Gb HD Space and it's slow > for me ;-) I do like the the idea of a prograss dialog when setup > is reading the packages from lcoal disk th

Re: Problem going from .o -> .dll

> Thank you kindly for the suggested fixes. I have applied them; however, > the problem is still there. I guess I can just build my wrapper using > the object file instead of a dll file, but I am curious why the two > would behave differently. > cause a DLL is an exe file with a funny extension it

Re: General comments...

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:08:46AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >P.S. Should there also be a link to it on the cygwin home page? No. >Incidentally, doesn't work. Did somebody say it would? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: Setup.exe (was: General comments... )

Please keep replies on list. Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" >>> Also: I feel that I have to verify settings all the time. I download >>> packages into a local directory, then install them >

RE: Bash backquote bug?

Michael, My genius does not subsume that of the entire Cygwin community. Please keep all Cygwin dialogs on . At 13:53 2003-01-08, Barillier, Michael wrote: The lines in the example are the lines that fail in the configure script. I ran them directly from the command li

Re: General comments...

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:15 PM Subject: Re: General comments... > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:08:46AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >P.S. Should there also be a link to it on the c

Re: Sed Script works in 3.02-1, fails in 4.0.1-1

- Original Message - From: "Dwight Neal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: Sed Script works in 3.02-1, fails in 4.0.1-1 > I am migrating from a machine that uses a cygwin image loaded in May 2002 to > one that uses a November 20

install problems

I'm unable to install and run cygwin 1.3.18-1 unless I'm logged in as 'administrator'. If I try to run cygwin logged in as another user, I get the console window, but it appears to hang. I've tried both a clean 'default' installation and a clean 'all' installation. I'm running Win2k. My previous

Re: bash 2.05b-8 doesnot execute .bashrc even if HOME is definedand .bashrc is under both ~/ and /

Tianming Kong wrote: Both Andrew's method (renaming .bashrc to .bash_login) and Todorovic's method (explictly sourcing .bashrc in .profile) worked. Difference is that using .bash_login is the way it's supposed to be as per the bash man page and does not require that you remember to "fix up" /

Bash appears to have changed...

Hi Folks, I'm not a daily user, but all of this worked a few months ago. I haven't made any changes to any of my dotfiles in that time. However, I just updated all of Cygwin this weekend and now things aren't so smooth. I enclose an brief annotated rxvt session. Can anyone replicate or decipher

Re: dig and nslookup for cygwin

At 07:59 PM 1/8/2003, Mirza Muharemagic wrote: >Hi, > >are tools like dig and nslookup included in cygwin? See the FAQ entry: What packages should I download? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC13 This will direct you to: http://cygwin.com/packages/ which can be used to answer the generi

Re: Bash appears to have changed...

At 09:40 PM 1/8/2003, Andrew Mayer wrote: >Hi Folks, > >I'm not a daily user, but all of this worked a few months ago. I haven't made >any changes to any of my dotfiles in that time. However, I just updated all of >Cygwin this weekend and now things aren't so smooth. > >I enclose an brief annotate

Error while compiling kawa with gcj under Cygwin

My apolodgies for the people who`ve seen these before,but I`m still stuck. I need to compile Kawa library under Cygwing with gcj.Trying to do so with gcj3.2 that comes with Cygwing distridution gives : Bubu@YELLOWWIN /cygdrive/c/baito/kawa-1.6.99/gnu/math $ make CLASSPATH=../..:./../..:$CLASSPA

thanks, makewhatis works, still have man problems

Let my preface by saying thank you to Max Bowsher for his help! I reinstalled cygwin, and no longer get have the problems accessing programs from scripts. I was able to execute makewhatis successfully, and whatis yields an entry for from the database, however I haven't yet been able to access any

RE: Setup.exe

[snip] > > > Isn't the change from downloading to installing info enough? > > Some people won't notice that. A larger issue is if you go away and make > some tea. I for one don't stare at setup.exe while it downloads > eighty-six megabytes of information on a 33.6K modem. (I do sit and watch >

RE: Setup.exe

[snip] > You can assume IE4 is present on the system, thats already a requirement > for setup to operate. > GAH! NOW he tells me! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.htm

RE: Setup.exe

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:15, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > [snip] > > > You can assume IE4 is present on the system, thats already a requirement > > for setup to operate. > > > > GAH! NOW he tells me! ;-) Heh, you told me! (It's a requirement for the GUI update you implemented). Rob -- GPG key

Error while compiling kawa with gcj under Cygwin

I`m really embarased for sending such a mail to all of you. My apolodgies . The error recorded below has no connection with jc1.exe . Bubu@YELLOWWIN /cygdrive/e/baito/kawa/gnu/math $ make CLASSPATH=../..:./../..:$CLASSPATH gcj -C -d ../.. Numeric.java Quantity.java Quantity.java CQuantity.java Co

RE: Bash appears to have changed...

Ok, that seems to have solved most of it, however the file permission still initialize incorrectly. For the record: I'm using an up-to-date WinXP Sp1...a fresh install from a week ago, and Cygwin DLL 1.3.18-1 (and I was earlier too). After I got your response I did the following: 1) I set a Win

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

> > Cygwin's primary purpose is to provide a UNIX environment for > Windows. Although it can be used in other ways, the basic > purpose is not to provide a stepping stone to helping port > programs to native Windows. Things like Win32 path names and > accommodating pure-win32 processes are > *

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

> > Cygwin's primary purpose is to provide a UNIX environment for > Windows. Although it can be used in other ways, the basic > purpose is not to provide a stepping stone to helping port > programs to native Windows. Things like Win32 path names and > accommodating pure-win32 processes are >

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

Sorry for butting in again, but you have a factual error that needs highlighting. On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:18, linda w (cyg) wrote: > > Understanding that double slashes at the > > beginning of a path are special is good sense for any > > portable program. > --- > There you go again, makin

RE: Setup.exe

[replies set to cygwin-apps] > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:15, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > You can assume IE4 is present on the system, thats already a requirement > > > for setup to operate. > > > > > > > GAH! NOW he tells me! ;-) > > Heh, you told me! (It's a requirement for the

RE: Setup.exe

The core requirements are: win95 ie4 thats all we can assume will be present. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Setup.exe

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:05:57PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >[snip] > >> >> > Isn't the change from downloading to installing info enough? >> >> Some people won't notice that. A larger issue is if you go away and make >> some tea. I for one don't stare at setup.exe while it downloads >> e

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package rxvt-2.7.9-3

At 09:09 AM 1/8/2003 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: By the way, even though there appears to be no command-line options for choosing among the three available kinds of scroll bars, I don't know why the resources file is "far preferable" since only with command line options can you readily have

Re: Setup.exe

Christopher Faylor wrote: > Wow, is this off-topic or what? > > However, I can't tell you what a relief it is to hear that I'm not the only > person who does this. I've tried to get my wife to appreciate the beauty of > a defrag screen but she never does. And, so, I sit for lonely hours watchin

Re: Setup.exe

Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Oh, it ain't just you man, it ain't just you! Sometimes I even play a little >>game: I try to guess which cluster will be moved next, and where it will be >>moved to. If I get both right, I win! YAY! It's like watching hundreds of >>chess games all at once at 10

Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

I'm sure that everyone in perl5-porters is sick of this discussion (although I think I remember similar discussions from the days when I was an occasional contributor) and so I apologize. Let me make some points and then I'll shut up: 1) I'm the person who currently sets the direction of the cygw

Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:30:25PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >On Wed 08 Jan 2003 05:56, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I'm sorry. I thought the cygwin project -- was to provide a Posix type >> >platform to [aid, assist, help] in porting *nix/gnu utils to the Win32 >> >environ

dig and nslookup for cygwin

Hi, are tools like dig and nslookup included in cygwin? Thanx a lot Mirza [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: