RE: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy all! For the record, these are two reg files I found that worked for me on XP: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01685.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01648.html Rob :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

2003-01-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:00:20PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:49:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> >On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote: > >>

Re: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:00:20PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:49:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote: >> > >> >> grep: /home/Robert: No such file or directory >> >>

Re: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

2003-01-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:49:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote: > > > >> grep: /home/Robert: No such file or directory > >> grep: Mark: No such file or directory > >> grep: Bram/.bashrc: No such fil

Re: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:49:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote: > >> grep: /home/Robert: No such file or directory >> grep: Mark: No such file or directory >> grep: Bram/.bashrc: No such file or directory > >Don't know about the rest of the script, b

RE: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

2003-01-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote: > grep: /home/Robert: No such file or directory > grep: Mark: No such file or directory > grep: Bram/.bashrc: No such file or directory Don't know about the rest of the script, but looks like someone forgot his quoting... Naughty, naughty... :-)

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Rafael Kitover wrote: > > From: "Brian Kelly" > > To: > > > > Boy I just don't GET IT!! Anyone who wants to use ANY cmd.exe > > command, including start just needs to use cmd /c > > ANY-WINDOWS-CMD-COMMAND-HERE > > Assuming cmd.exe is available, and it's not under windows 9x/ME or >

RE: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Rafael Kitover
> From: "Brian Kelly" > To: > > Boy I just don't GET IT!! Anyone who wants to use ANY cmd.exe > command, including start just needs to use cmd /c > ANY-WINDOWS-CMD-COMMAND-HERE Assuming cmd.exe is available, and it's not under windows 9x/ME or linux. Also this won't translate cygwin paths.

RE: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Brian Kelly
Boy I just don't GET IT!! Anyone who wants to use ANY cmd.exe command, including start just needs to use cmd /c ANY-WINDOWS-CMD-COMMAND-HERE HOW EASY IS THAT? Maybe adding this insight to the FAQ might be helpful - for those who FAIL to read the SIMPLE output from cmd /? ... Of course -

RE: RE: Cygwin 1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
I knew I forgot something. Thanks, Tim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Timothy C Prince Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:11 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: Cygwin 1.3.19-1 -Original Message- From: "Robert McNulty Jun

RE: Cygwin 1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Timidity++ is similar to Wingroove. Both were made by the Japanese. Whereas Wingroove can do GM MIDI files, timidity makes midi files into waves with sampled instruments. A MIDI-to wav converter. It was made to compile under Unix, Linux, and Windows using either Cygwin or Mingw. That's all I can th

Re: RE: Cygwin 1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: "Robert McNulty Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:37:37 -0600 Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.3.19-1 Max, I used Timidity, too. Compiled Fine. With Gcc-3.2.2, before the changes today. I'll go b

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert McNulty Junior wrote: > Max, I used Timidity, too. Compiled Fine. > With Gcc-3.2.2, before the changes today. > I'll go back as soon as I think about this through. > If you noticed on the gcc-3.2.2 (later on) what caused it was a > couple of missing identifiers. > JCF and another. > I'll loo

RE: Cygwin 1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Max, I used Timidity, too. Compiled Fine. With Gcc-3.2.2, before the changes today. I'll go back as soon as I think about this through. If you noticed on the gcc-3.2.2 (later on) what caused it was a couple of missing identifiers. JCF and another. I'll look into either sources. -Original Mess

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert McNulty Junior wrote: > I went back to Cygwin 1.3.18-1 > Sorry, Chris. > It was too buggy trying to compile the GCC compilers. Well, that is what [prev] is for - but it might be in your interest to try to find a smaller testcase than "compile gcc-3.3 or above" ! Strange that it should say

Cygwin-1.3.19 fixed vim bug! Thankyou!

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
First, I'd like to say thanks for fixing a long-standing bug in vim: Using the arrow keys in insert mode cancelled it. Whilst I'm writing this, I'd like to ask about this item in the Change list: - Correctly detect windows size changes when CYGWIN=tty. (Christopher Faylor) Was this meant to SIG

RE: cygpath question - Command Prompt Here

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy all! Command Prompt Here == I got CommandPromptHere from this url: http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/CygwinPromptHere/ I then followed these steps: $ tar xvzf CygwinPromptHere-20020528.tar.gz $ cd CygwinPromptHere $ ./install Below is the result of my install. I am no

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rob, Well, the RXVT-ers keep copping an 'tude with us lowly console users, so... I really don't know what's different on my system that makes this nifty feature work for me. I'm inclined to think it's not a BASH setting or anything specific to my Cygwin configuration. It works in CMD.exe, too

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Rafael Kitover wrote: >>> 2) support cmd.exe builtins like del/copy/exists/etc, and execute >>> dos batch files. Things like if and goto, because they're only >>> useful in batch, would present little problem as well. >> >> Yuk! Why? > > Often when I go between cmd and zsh, I get my copy/cp del/rm

RE: snapshots R us

2003-01-24 Thread William S Fulton
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Just installed it (WinXP), getting this: c:\WINDOWS>uname c:\unix\bin\uname.exe: *** shared version mismatch detected - 0xBC3E/0x3E. You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system. Search f

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:24:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:09:43PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: > >>Really? Or would it simply delay them learning the knowledge to > >>function in an environment that does not make specific allowances for > >>them? > > > >Well,

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy Randall, Click and drag method == > Actually, on my system, dropping on RXVT from Windows Explorer, whether > file or directory, with or without spaces, nothing happens at all. OK - I found this too (I have never used rxvt before, so I am not aware of any advantages

Cygwin 1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
I went back to Cygwin 1.3.18-1 Sorry, Chris. It was too buggy trying to compile the GCC compilers. I hope you're not mad at me for backing down. Robert McNulty Junior -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentatio

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:09:43PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: >>Really? Or would it simply delay them learning the knowledge to >>function in an environment that does not make specific allowances for >>them? > >Well, the goal would be for new cygwin users, who often have little >knowledge of UNI

RE: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Rafael Kitover
>-Original Message- >From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:38 PM >> 2) support cmd.exe builtins like del/copy/exists/etc, and execute dos >> batch files. Things like if and goto, because they're only useful in >> batch, would present little problem

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:37:38PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >2) I could be wrong, but I don't think you are going to get that much >enthusiam about this. I think the idea of a plugin for zsh or bash (does bash allow plugins?) is sort of interesting. It could be a cygwin package. Of course, *I'm

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Larry, Finally! Something to hold out as an advantage of the console over RXVT! Actually, on my system, dropping on RXVT from Windows Explorer, whether file or directory, with or without spaces, nothing happens at all. It all works fine in a character ("console") window. It works there even wi

RE: anyone have implicit linkage of gcc DLLs working in Visual C?

2003-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm actually quite interested in this topic but when using the -mno-cygwin switch, you're really not using Cygwin functionality at all. In that respect, you're probably better off on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list rather than this one. Larry Original Message: - From: Todd West [EMAI

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm lost! ;-) Drag and drop for me on W2K to bash does get me the windows file name but it's not escaped or quoted. So you must have some cool setting there that I don't have. What is it? Do tell! ;-) BTW, I'm up-to-date with everythig as of 1/21 and I'm currently running a snapshot Cygwin DLL

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Rafael Kitover wrote: > Currently there is a fundamental divide between the cmd.exe shell and > a unix shell, even on windows with Cygwin. > > A source project can of course support a native windows build using a > makefile with make --win32, or using dmake > (http://search.cpan.org/author/GSAR/dma

idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread Rafael Kitover
Currently there is a fundamental divide between the cmd.exe shell and a unix shell, even on windows with Cygwin. A source project can of course support a native windows build using a makefile with make --win32, or using dmake (http://search.cpan.org/author/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32). Or configure an

RE: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes

2003-01-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
Cygwin df does not show Windows mounts, it shows cygwin mounts only. > -Original Message- > From: Brian McGroarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: df failes to list directory-mounted volumes > > > Windows NT and XP ca

Re: Question about GCJ/cygwin Thread Support and Character Encoding Support

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please check out the project web page for links to available information and ports: http://cygwin.com/ . If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is the best place to make observations or get questions answered. Information on the mailing list is available at the project

[ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

2003-01-24 Thread Joe Buehler
GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available. Changes: - fixed problem with DOC file causing LISP documentation functions to fail; X and non-X emacs now have separate DOC files New users please be aware: - You will want "tty" included in your CYGWIN environment variable setting, and probably "binmode".

updatedb and /cygdrive/c

2003-01-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Two problems with Cygwin and "updatedb": 1. "updatedb" terminates with "/usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find". This happens unless called with '--prunepaths="/cygdrive"' ("/cygdrive" is a "real" directory). 2. I'm calling "updatedb" with '--prunepaths="/cygdrive /cygdrive/c

Re: setup.exe 2.249.2.5 problems

2003-01-24 Thread a
*cough* I tracked the problem down to a ZoneAlarm firewall problem. Even though ZoneAlarm wasn't running at the time it was still blocking setup.exe from reaching the Internet. (ZoneAlarm must persistently cache its deny rules) Sorry for the false bug report, Shane On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:33

Re: setup.exe 2.249.2.5 problems

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Shane Owenby wrote: > I am trying a fresh install of a freshly downloaded Cygwin > install (setup.exe version 2.249.2.5) on an WinXP box. > > However, when I get to the step after "Select your Internet > Connection" > the setup program pops up the "Can't get a list of download sites" > dialog box.

anyone have implicit linkage of gcc DLLs working in Visual C?

2003-01-24 Thread Todd West
I'm experimenting with using Cygwin and gcc -shared to build Windows DLLs which are called by code compiled by VC6.0 SP5 or the Intel C 7.0 plug-in for VC. I've using some very small stubs of test code and DLLs extracted from Atlas 3.4.1. Implicitly linked calls go down fine at compile and link t

Re: undefined reference to `__getreent'

2003-01-24 Thread Takayoshi Shimizu
This is a rather old subject, but there seem to be no replies yet. I encountered the same problem recently, and have just escaped from that. The compile option "-D__linux__" is the cause. There are some header files which use __linux__ in them. But cygwin environment (that corresponds to __CYGWI

df failes to list directory-mounted volumes

2003-01-24 Thread Brian McGroarty
Windows NT and XP can mount volumes on directory mount points instead of or in addition to drive letter mount points. If a directory mount point is used, df delays for an abnormally long time prior to output, then fails to produce the complete listing. Using XP's tools to unmount the directory-mo

setup.exe 2.249.2.5 problems

2003-01-24 Thread Shane Owenby
Hi, I am trying a fresh install of a freshly downloaded Cygwin install (setup.exe version 2.249.2.5) on an WinXP box. However, when I get to the step after "Select your Internet Connection" the setup program pops up the "Can't get a list of download sites" dialog box. other relevant data: my use

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rob, All is not lost. If you simply drag an icon for a file system entity and drop it in a Cygwin window, it will get quotes _as necessary_! Nice, actually. The syntax will still be Windows, including backslashes, but actually Cygwin will handle this correctly. And in case you're not aware of

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Corinna, I'll have to go home (the working day here has ended) but if you want, I do have an XP box at home with Cygwin on it, so I could do some more tests there if it is of any use to you. (If not, I'll just enjoy the week-end). Otherwise, I'll be happy to continue any testing of any Cygwin fe

Re: cygwin1.dll

2003-01-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sirs, > We are proposing to use the Red Hat OpenSSH package on our NT/W2K servers > but some concerns > have been raised re. the Cygwin1.dll shared memory vulnerability. > As the only Cygwin application running on these machines will be OpenSSH I > am

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:51:31PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > However, shouldn't the -E option have changed the mode of the "world" > > file? My mount table shows "noexec" for /home and "world" is still > > executable - as is the "doe

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
OK. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Accessing Uberbaum On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:38:53AM -0600, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: >i meant th

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:51:31PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > However, shouldn't the -E option have changed the mode of the "world" > file? My mount table shows "noexec" for /home and "world" is still > executable - as is the "doe" file I just created with Explorer, but not > the "j

Re: cygpath bug converting really long filenames

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:35:16PM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote: > >Hi! > >The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to >convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying "z", >then "zz", and so on. > >When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garb

Re: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:38:53AM -0600, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: >i meant the cvs directory on sources.redhat.com. You reference it like any other cvs directory on sources.redhat.com. There is no magic. >I'm outa here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Re: cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:39:46PM -, Steve Fairbairn wrote: >How cliquey? I reckon us outsiders should make a mass exodus if >Christopher *in-most-mother-esq-tone-I-can-manage* fails to explain >himself. It's simple: Corinna works for me. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: How can I set up users?

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:26:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Original Message: >- >>From: Baras, Gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:09:04 +1000 >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: How can I set up users? >> >> >> >>Despite your style,

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:28:08PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > Yes, I am a member of the administrators group. > > No, the administrators group is not mentioned in /etc/passwd (but it is in > > /etc/group) > Add it using mkpasswd -l and

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Sorry. I meant the directory uberbaum on sources.redhat.com uberbaum. I'll reset my enviroment here back to the way I had it. Later Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Steve Fairbairn
How cliquey? I reckon us outsiders should make a mass exodus if Christopher *in-most-mother-esq-tone-I-can-manage* fails to explain himself. -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 January 2003 15:34 Actually, in a way, I guess I did say it. cgf

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
i meant the cvs directory on sources.redhat.com. I'm outa here. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Accessing Uberbaum Ori

Re: cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:39:21PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: >> Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from setup.exe? >> The cygwin environment is different on almost every machine at our company. >> It

RE: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - >From: Robert McNulty Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:27:52 -0600 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Accessing Uberbaum > > >Could someone tell the right way to call Uberbaum? Well, I call him Sam but it's probably more proper to call him 'M

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:28:08PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Yes, I am a member of the administrators group. > No, the administrators group is not mentioned in /etc/passwd (but it is in > /etc/group) Add it using mkpasswd -l and everything's fine. It's added automatically when runn

Re: Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:27:52AM -0600, Robert McNulty Junior wrote: >Could someone tell the right way to call Uberbaum? No. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

Accessing Uberbaum

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Could someone tell the right way to call Uberbaum? -- 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: How can I set up users?

2003-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - >From: Baras, Gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:09:04 +1000 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: How can I set up users? > > > >Despite your style, thank you for your reply. I've been able to piece >together several bits of in

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > The "hello" is created with `touch hello`; the `world` with explorer. > > Content-Description: output of ls > > total 46 > > -rw-rw-rw-1 RLandhee Aucun 0 Jan 2

Mmap and semaphores?

2003-01-24 Thread Elliot Mednick
Hello, I'm try to write a client server application that used shared memory and asemaphores. Appended is a simple test case. It works under Solaris using the -lposix4 library. But it doesn't work under Cygwin. Given the lack of any otherquestions about this, I imagine that I'm doing something

RE: PROPOSAL: translate '::' to '.' in arguments to the man command

2003-01-24 Thread Ian R. Chesal
Try perldoc instead of man for help with Perl modules. It reads the POD embedded in the modules and does the :: to / or \ translation for you. For example: perldoc File::Basename Would give you the POD embedded in /lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Basename.pm. It's also a good way to: a) make sure y

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > The "hello" is created with `touch hello`; the `world` with explorer. Content-Description: output of ls > total 46 > -rw-rw-rw-1 RLandhee Aucun 0 Jan 24 14:51 hello > -rwxrwxrwx1 65535Aucun 0

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:58:38PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:23:28PM +0100, Christian Mueller wrote: > > >>I don't want to use ntsec because I use my Cygwin

Re: File locking???

2003-01-24 Thread nanorobot
Its some function in C for file locking. Some servers use it. maybe fcntl_lock -- 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/

cygpath bug converting really long filenames

2003-01-24 Thread Jesper Eskilson
Hi! The attached shell-script causes cygpath to malfunction by trying to convert a long string of z:s using 'cygpath -w'. It begins by trying "z", then "zz", and so on. When trying more than 240 z:s, the result becomes garbled. For example: 246 z

GCJ Thread.start called but threads not available

2003-01-24 Thread Bart Lamot
Hi all, After i compile my java program using gcj in cygwin and execute the output file i get "Thread.start called but threads not available" When I check GCJ it seems it has been build with thread support (see below). I compile using: gcj --main=Test -g0 -o test *java A Test.java which is basi

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Doug VanLeuven
I found vi can be tamed by having a vimrc file in /usr/share/vim/vimrc to cover users that don't have a ~/.vimrc I copied in the vimrc_example, but any vimrc that turns off vi compatibility mode works. Even an empty vimrc turns off vi compatibility. Don't know amout mc. IMHO, timing is everything

Re: Tastatur Problem: rxvt und less/vi

2003-01-24 Thread roneau
rxvt -backspacekey ^h Hat mein Problem gelöst! Thanks ;-) > Either: Launch rxvt with "rxvt -backspacekey ^h" > > Or: Inside rxvt, do "stty erase ^?" > -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscrib

Request for development: Samba port to ...

2003-01-24 Thread peetz
Subject: Request for development: Samba port to ... Groups: comp.protocols.smb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all, Note: I'm not trying to start a flame war. You might find my request just ridiculous. You might have seen it before and laughed about it or even didn't take it for ser

AW: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Harald Kierer
> All of this brings me to the rather depressing conclusion > that I cannot make > the same shortcut in cygwin that I often use in cmd.exe: > copying a path from > Windows Explorer, alt-tabbing to the command prompt, typing > "cd " with the > left hand then right clicking with the right hand and

cygwin1.dll

2003-01-24 Thread jim . a . davidson
Sirs, We are proposing to use the Red Hat OpenSSH package on our NT/W2K servers but some concerns have been raised re. the Cygwin1.dll shared memory vulnerability. As the only Cygwin application running on these machines will be OpenSSH I am not sure how significant a risk may exist. Can you please

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:58:38PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:23:28PM +0100, Christian Mueller wrote: > >>I don't want to use ntsec because I use my Cygwin home directory for > >>Cygwin *and* Windows programs and nt

Re: question about openssl

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:00:28PM -0800, Maria Scharin wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed cygwin and I am trying to create a certificate using > openssl. > The command is: > openssl req -new -out server.csr > And I get the following: > unable to write 'random state' It sounds as if you have no

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > > Napísané d??a 2003.01.24 04:16, (autor: Christopher Faylor): > > I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities > > available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is > > below. > > The problem reported here: > http:/

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-24 Thread Marcel Telka
Napísané d??a 2003.01.24 04:16, (autor: Christopher Faylor): I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. The problem reported here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/threads.html#00485 introduced in

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:39:21PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: > Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from setup.exe? > The cygwin environment is different on almost every machine at our company. > It all depends on when you ran the setup program.I have two suggesti

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy Randall, > >$ cdd C:\Rob\mcd3060\Tri32002\a2 > >bash: cd: C:Robmcd3060Tri32002a2: No such file or directory > In this case, the unquoted backslashes > essentially just disappear, since in > each case the character they precede > is not special. Thank you very much for your reply. I

RE: PS1 color codes?

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Excellent - thank you Gareth! Rob :) -- 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/

Signal 11

2003-01-24 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
SOrry for crossposting. Gcc 3.3=branch give me a Signal 11. here's the error gcc -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing- prot otypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_ FILE -o gengtype.exe \ gengtype.o gengtype-lex.o gengty

Re: PROPOSAL: translate '::' to '.' in arguments to the man command

2003-01-24 Thread Danilo Turina
Rafael Kitover wrote: I have noticed that some man pages, for example perl modules below the root namespace, are installed as Foo.Bar instead of Foo::Bar because apparently windows file names cannot contain "::". Eg. $ touch 'Foo::Bar' touch: creating `Foo::Bar': Invalid argument This is suffi

PROPOSAL: translate '::' to '.' in arguments to the man command

2003-01-24 Thread Rafael Kitover
I have noticed that some man pages, for example perl modules below the root namespace, are installed as Foo.Bar instead of Foo::Bar because apparently windows file names cannot contain "::". Eg. $ touch 'Foo::Bar' touch: creating `Foo::Bar': Invalid argument This is sufficiently different from

problems compiling many files with gcj

2003-01-24 Thread magnus persson
when compiling 850 class-files using gcj i get this error: gcj: installation problem, cannot exec `/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/collect2.exe': Invalid argument i used this line: (works ok when compiling one file). gcj -CLASSPATH C:\cygwin\usr\share\java\libgcj-3.2.jar:

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Re: How can I set up users?

2003-01-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Baras, Gal wrote: > The complete answer to my question was that a user was required in > /etc/passwd. To find this user's ID, I had to use 'ls -ln' on some > files I owned, then copy the Administrator line, change the ID from > 500 to my own (400) and the pw_gecos field to "my_domain\my_user_ID".