[ITP] patchutils

2003-06-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi, Any interest in patchutils? It builds OOTB and I find myself using it more and more. :-) http://exposure.org.uk/cygwin/patchutils-0.2.22-1-src.tar.bz2 http://exposure.org.uk/cygwin/patchutils-0.2.22-1.tar.bz2 sdesc: Patchutils is a small collection of programs that operate on patch files.

Re: [ITP] patchutils

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:21:34AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Any interest in patchutils? Sure. It's got my vote. cgf

RE: [PATCH] Setup window.{cc,h}

2003-06-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Approved on one condition - please remove the reference to folk in Hell. I'm not christian, but that doesn't seem at all appropriate. Fair enough; religious humor excommunicated. ;-) A small suggestion (doesn't prevent it being commited) - a helper fn to return an already casted value might

Re: glimpse 4.17.4 - a new package for review

2003-06-04 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
* Mon 2003-06-02 Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.cygwin-apps | On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:28:00AM +0200, Hack Kampbjorn wrote: | http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/index.php?dir=sublicensingpage=licensing.html | | Are we allowed to redistributed it? Yes, COPYRIGHT grants it on a | nonprofit

YA try at the PCRE packages

2003-06-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Separate setup.hint files for all, and libpcre containing only the DLLs. I didn't see any other comments come by, so I hope it's OK now.. md5 sums and URLs follow. rlc 2a0fd43ea31c65efe7ed4c217ca85df4 *libpcre-4.1-1-src.tar.bz2 965f50c72dd7712600c784166433f354 *libpcre-4.1-1.tar.bz2

RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop

2003-06-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Umm, Jean-Claude, most likely I'm missing something, but shouldn't you be able to create one yourself rather easily by taking the code for a stock xterm (the simpler - the better), removing the call that creates the window, and using root drawing calls instead of window drawing calls? I know it

Schedule for upgrade to XFree 4.3?

2003-06-04 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Folks, Is there a schedule for upgrade to XFree 4.3? Ruth

Re: xwinclip shouldn't monitor the primary selection

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Think what you want in five minutes, but I have worked on it for over a year and it isn't as simple as you think. Keep your suggestions to yourself if you don't have anything concrete to contribute. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry. I have searched the maillist and I've read several

Re: CVS Import

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander, Thanks for taking care of this. I am pulling a tree down now. Harold Alexander Gottwald wrote: Hi, I've just imported the Xfree 4.3.0 sources and the server test 91 sources to the xoncygwin cvs at sourceforge. I've not yet done a test build. Some changes which were applied to the

Re: Schedule for upgrade to XFree 4.3?

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Is this a broken record? I replied to this yesterday. Harold Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Folks, Is there a schedule for upgrade to XFree 4.3? Ruth

Re: Problem with releases since -37

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:38:52AM -0400, Andrew Braverman wrote: I updated the XWin package to -42 and changed nothing else. The new stackdump is attached. Thank you again for all the help. I was talking about the latest CYGWIN DLL, not the latest XWin package. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Schedule for upgrade to XFree 4.3?

2003-06-04 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Ruth, No schedule. We are working on it, sort of. Thanks for the reply, and sorry I didn't notice it earlier... don't know why :-( I was thinking mainly of the font system improvements, I guess. Regards, Ruth -- Ruth Ivimey-Cook Software

Re: compile does not create me an xwin.exe

2003-06-04 Thread Calvin Smith
I looked through the build log and it appears that it fails to build something is wrong with: winmultiwindowclass ... rm -f winmsg.o gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -Wpointer-arith -I. -I../../../../exports/include/X11 -I../../../../include/fonts -I../../../../programs/Xserver/fb

Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Rob, Please update to XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42. I forget... did I already ask you to try this without using -clipboard (you are using -clipboard, right)? If not, please try this without using -clipboard and report your results. Harold Robert Pang wrote: Hi John This is what I see in

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 91

2003-06-04 Thread Ralf Habacker
Harold Hunt wrote: 5) winclass.c, winclass.h - Rename these files to winmultiwindowclass.c and winmultiwindowclass.h, respectively, since they are only used in MultiWindow mode. Prefix the functions in these files with MultiWindow. (Harold L Hunt II) The appended patch contains some

Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

2003-06-04 Thread Robert Pang
Hi Harold I update to XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42 and mozilla still crashes when I click on the address bar. But it doesn't crash if I do not use -clipboard. So, is -clipboard the problem? How come I don't have a problem with -clipboard if mozilla is run from Linux instead? Thanks. Rob -

Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

2003-06-04 Thread Robert Pang
Harold BTW, I don't have the crash when -clipboard is in use when I do not use multiwindow mode. Rob - Original Message - From: Robert Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Rob, Welcome to the world of threads. The clipboard manager and window manager run in their own threads within the X Server process... there is likely to be a bug in one of those modules or in the supporting modules. I have no idea which module actually contains the bug at this point. How

Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Rob, There is a temporary release of XWin.exe available that watches our for more NULL pointer dereferences. Please try it out and report your results: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/XWin-Test91-DEBUG.exe.bz2 There are instructions for installing such a binary at:

Re: ooh, ooh! more nitpicking

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jack, Yeah, that is definitely a feature that people getting paid to program would implement. :) I think we have many more fundamental problems to solve before we worry about such issues. Harold Jack Tanner wrote: So I love the fact that my X-forwarded apps now show up in the Alt-Tab list

Re: ooh, ooh! more nitpicking

2003-06-04 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi-Jack, All the local MS applications should have a big yellow 'M' in their icon foregrounds. remote Macs should have a big red 'X' (OS X only!)), Suns a big 'S', HP's a big 'P' etc. I'm sure they will all oblige and change their icons, after all X came first (or did it?). Post it to their help

Re: ooh, ooh! more nitpicking

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Okay, okay, no need to go overboard. Harold Colin Harrison wrote: Hi-Jack, All the local MS applications should have a big yellow 'M' in their icon foregrounds. remote Macs should have a big red 'X' (OS X only!)), Suns a big 'S', HP's a big 'P' etc. I'm sure they will all oblige and change

Efforts to make xwinclip/-clipboard not steal the selection [Fwd:[Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)]

2003-06-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Okay, since the selection stealing by xwinclip/-clipboard probably generates the largest amount of annoying questions on this mailing list, I decided to finally spend a little time trying to redo this properly. I had been meaning to look at Keith Packard's XFIXES extension that was added to

Possible X-Wndows problem

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Manning
I had Cygwin crash on me the other day and was wondering if this is my machine doing this (like it ran out of memory or some such) or if it was a known problem with Cygwin. What happened: I wrote a small program which opened a 400x400 pixel screen and then proceeded to write to each pixel

xwinclip patch

2003-06-04 Thread uribarri_u
What I'm requesting is so simple as this: --- xwinclip.c.orig 2003-01-13 02:27:22.0 +0100 +++ xwinclip.c 2003-06-04 10:09:18.0 +0200 @@ -362,15 +362,6 @@ exit (1); } - /* Assert ownership of PRIMARY */ - iReturn = XSetSelectionOwner (pDisplay, XA_PRIMARY, -

src/winsup/cygwin configure.in configure

2003-06-04 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-03 17:32:03 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : configure.in configure Log message: * configure.in: Allow any i?86 variant. * configure: Regenerate. Patches:

stat weird feature

2003-06-04 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Here is the patch discussed today on the developers' list. I have also moved a comment that had drifted out of its natural spot. Pierre 2003-06-04 Pierre Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::fstat): Mark the pc as non-executable if the file

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Steve, Windows security is built in such a way that it won't trust authentication tokens from remote machines that don't contain a password. Thus, if you use passwordless ssh or rexec, the token created will be enough for the local machine, but won't be accepted by a remote share.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LibXML2 (2.5.7) test packages available

2003-06-04 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
Hi Elfyn, xmllint works fine for me. I tested it with the following options: $ xmllint -noout -valid -catalogs Specification.xml not specifying -catalogs or specifying -dtdvalid URL fetches the DTD from the given URL, as expected. Without the -valid option, only the well-formedness is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LibXML2 (2.5.7) test packages available

2003-06-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi Elfyn, xmllint works fine for me. I tested it with the following options: $ xmllint -noout -valid -catalogs Specification.xml not specifying -catalogs or specifying -dtdvalid URL fetches the DTD from the given URL, as expected. Without the -valid option, only the well-formedness is

Re: Problem with accept?!! (was: Re: apache cygwin package hangs when MaxRequestsPerChild reached!)

2003-06-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:41:02PM -0700, Christopher B. Liebman wrote: Bingo! ***much*** better. It will be intresting to get some feedback from someone who is running an active web server with apache/cygwin. Would you mind to check out the latest from CVS and test it again? Thomas Pfaff

Re: Slight patch for Cron

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald Landheer-Cieslak I've developed an insignificant patch to cron (attached) that makes cron detach from the console before forking out (under

rsh to start background job on remote machine

2003-06-04 Thread Joe Buehler
Can someone tell me how to start a background job on a Cygwin machine using rsh? I cannot figure out how to get the job to detach -- the rsh always waits for the job to finish, which is not what I want. I just want to fire up a command on a remote machine and forget about it. -- Joe Buehler --

RE: New setup: User not found? /cygdrive/h as default home directory?

2003-06-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hans, Look at the last number in the SID (last comma-separated entry in the gecos (fifth) field of your /etc/passwd line). For example, on my machine: igor::1001:544:Igor Pechtchanski,U-igor,S-1-5-21-1681344628-1719607816-643004363-1001:/home/igor:/bin/bash

RE: Slight patch for Cron

2003-06-04 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Faylor On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: Please, next time make the filename extension be *-patch.txt or some such. This is not necessary. .patch is a perfectly

Re: Slight patch for Cron

2003-06-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hi Corinna, On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:31:05AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: I've developed an insignificant patch to cron (attached) that makes cron detach from the console before forking out (under Cygwin only). The patch is against

Re: Slight patch for Cron

2003-06-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:31:05AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: I've developed an insignificant patch to cron (attached) that makes cron detach from the console before forking out

a question about build/installing

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher B. Liebman
Can I just drop in the cygwin1.dll and keep the .a and .h files from 1.3.22? -- Chris - Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:55 AM Subject: Re: Problem with accept?!! (was: Re: apache cygwin package hangs

Re: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-04 Thread Shankar Unni
Soren Andersen wrote: Now sharing the drive space between the cvs tool (and cpan, too!) works, I think (haven't actually tried cvs yet but had to work on cpan a few minutes ago, and discovered it was suffering from the same difficulty). I'd be amazed if this all works seamlessly. Nevertheless,

Re: a question about build/installing

2003-06-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Christopher B. Liebman wrote: Can I just drop in the cygwin1.dll and keep the .a and .h files from 1.3.22? Yes. No problem. Just the .a and the .h must be kept together and then it only affects newly build applications, obviously.. Corinna --

Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Greg Fenton
I am looking to enhance SWISH-E ( http://www.swish-e.org )to support Cygwin. It builds and runs just fine, but internally the code takes a configuration parameter and if it is a shell-command, converts all of the / characters to \. For example, if IndexDir is set to c:/swish-e/bin/spider.pl,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: proftpd-1.2.9rc1-2

2003-06-04 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of ProFTPD to 1.2.9rc1-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. This version was built from the official ProFTPD 1.2.9rc1 tarball with two small patches applied to: 1. handle textmode mounts properly 2. fix

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:09:11AM -0700, Greg Fenton wrote: I am looking to enhance SWISH-E ( http://www.swish-e.org )to support Cygwin. It builds and runs just fine, but internally the code takes a configuration parameter and if it is a shell-command, converts all of the / characters to \.

Observation - ntemacs + rcs + cygwin note (lowercase+uppercase userid workaround)

2003-06-04 Thread Willis, Matthew
First off, I know this is slightly offtopic since it mentions a program (ntemacs) which is not part of cygwin, but I figured I would just chime in with a finding which may be potentially useful to cygwin users who use ntemacs. I use ntemacs in preference to the cygwin /usr/bin/emacs, because of

Re: Slight patch for Cron

2003-06-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:44:19PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:31:05AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: I've developed an insignificant patch to cron

Cygwin rsh/socket bug?

2003-06-04 Thread Joe Buehler
I cannot figure out how to get the job to detach -- the rsh always waits for the job to finish, which is not what I want. I just want to fire up a command on a remote machine and forget about it. E.g., the following hangs: rsh cygwin-machine 'some_command /dev/null /dev/null 21 ' (If I got

SEGV in conv_path_list_buf_size with xemacs-21.5-b13 and cygwin-1.3.22-1

2003-06-04 Thread Pete McCann
Hi, I am experiencing occasional SEGVs with xemacs-21.5-b13 while running the VM mail reader. It happens after some unpredictable interval (couple of hours) whether or not I am actively browsing mail (often happens when I am away from my desk for lunch) I downloaded and compiled the

RE: New setup: User not found? /cygdrive/h as default home director y?

2003-06-04 Thread Hans Deragon (LMC)
Yep, My uid was 64k. I changed it to an arbitrary 64k number in /etc/passwd and it works fine now. Thanks to you and Igor for the help. Hans Deragon -Original Message- From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Inability to resize/rearrange controls/windows

2003-06-04 Thread Biju G C
--- Shankar Unni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju G C wrote: I really appreciate any comments. Looks interesting, with a bizarre quirk: if you try to resize below its minimum size, it regrows the window on the other side so that it says the minimum size. Any way to just not allow the

winsock error 10048 (errno 112) from ssh

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Paulus
I am running CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WS117V0509 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin under Windows 2000 w/latest service pack. I have noticed this little odd behaviour for a while, and I have tried a couple of upgrades to ssh to see if that will alleviate the problem, but to no

Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Biju G C
cgf, When I reply to any mail from cygwin list it is going to the actual sender instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] upon checking the header of the mail from the list i am not seeing Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] line. just like cygwin-xfree list can v added Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to mail the

Re: cygipc/cygwin-daemon

2003-06-04 Thread Sven Köhler
hi, i just want to know, how far the development of the cygipc-replacement is. i'm just interested in that technique. Check the email archives or CVS for details. Allot of good work has been done but more is needed. It needs maintainers with some free time to devote. Wanna sign up? :-) Nice

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Greg Fenton
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't be defining _WIN32 for cygwin. Cygwin gcc doesn't define this by default. Unfortunately, autoconf is doing this for us. It is picking up windows.h from /usr/include/w32api, which in turn includes windef.h. Besides, we *do* want

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Randall Schulz At 13:40 2003-06-03, Biju G C wrote: cgf, When I reply to any mail from cygwin list it is going to the actual sender instead of

Calling gcc built DLL from .NET (Visual Basic)

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas X. Hoban
Does anyone have a good example that shows how to create a DLL using cygwin/gcc and call it using VB .NET? I am specifically interested in an example that shows how to pass a String variable. In the example that I show below, I am able to call a C function. I can successfully pass a long

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Greg Fenton wrote: --- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't be defining _WIN32 for cygwin. Cygwin gcc doesn't define this by default. Unfortunately, autoconf is doing this for us. It is picking up windows.h from /usr/include/w32api, which in turn includes windef.h.

Re: Calling gcc built DLL from .NET (Visual Basic)

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Thomas X. Hoban wrote: Does anyone have a good example that shows how to create a DLL using cygwin/gcc and call it using VB .NET? I am specifically interested in an example that shows how to pass a String variable. In the example that I show below, I am able to call a C function. I can

Respond ASAP

2003-06-04 Thread shnorhig
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL PLS. REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Dear Friend, I am highly compelled upon strict recommendation, to write you this very urgent and confidential letter. I do hope my letter will not embarrass you since I had no previous correspondence with you. I hope this mail

Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given?

2003-06-04 Thread Constantine
Andrew Markebo wrote: Hi! Just a guess, I usually throw -p1 or more, not -p0? Could it be that? /Andy / Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello! | | I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the | patch(1) utility, I am always being asked to type in the file

Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given?

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Constantine wrote: Andrew Markebo wrote: Hi! Just a guess, I usually throw -p1 or more, not -p0? Could it be that? /Andy / Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the patch(1) utility, I am always being

Re: SEGV in conv_path_list_buf_size with xemacs-21.5-b13 and cygwin-1.3.22-1

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Pete McCann wrote: I don't understand why path is filled with junk. Also, note that normalized_path is NULL, which I think is the culprit with respect to strlen. Perhaps it is this code: /* 100: slop */en = (to_posix size = strlen

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Greg Fenton
--- Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No: Cygwin != _WIN32. No argument from me here. :-) A native/Cygwin dual-mode binary sounds like a clever idea, but AFAIK has never been done before, and is probably ridiculously infeasible on the balance of work/benefit. I don't see that the

Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given?

2003-06-04 Thread Constantine
Max Bowsher wrote: Constantine wrote: Andrew Markebo wrote: Hi! Just a guess, I usually throw -p1 or more, not -p0? Could it be that? /Andy / Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the patch(1) utility,

Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given?

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
/ Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the patch(1) utility, I am always being asked to type in the file name to a file that needs to be patched. Max Bowsher wrote: Perhaps your patch file is corrupt. Please post the first

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Greg Fenton wrote: --- Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No: Cygwin != _WIN32. No argument from me here. :-) A native/Cygwin dual-mode binary sounds like a clever idea, but AFAIK has never been done before, and is probably ridiculously infeasible on the balance of work/benefit. I

'fortune', 'strfile' binmode

2003-06-04 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
After significant searching, I discovered that 'fortune' requires 'strfile' to create the index database ('.dat' file) for each text file of fortunes. ('strfile' is not listed under See also: 'man fortune' and hence does not appear in the output of 'apropos fortune'. The 'man' page needs to be

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Biju G C
--- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Randall Schulz Then how is it happening in cygwin-xfree list? No were in my mail system I have

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Scott W Brim
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 02:13:05PM -0700, Randall R Schulz allegedly wrote: Hi, The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Randall Schulz Reply-To is often added by list servers, but I vote

RE: Inability to resize/rearrange controls/windows

2003-06-04 Thread Biju G C
--- Shankar Unni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, not dragging the window itself. I mean when you *resize* the window by clicking on the top edge of the top border and dragging the border down, after a certain minimum size, the window moves its own bottom border down while you're dragging the top

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Then how is it happening in cygwin-xfree list? No were in my mail system I have mentioned [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I use same mail-id with same settings to access both cygwin and cygwin-xfree But they do it differently !!! [...] Yup. It's been thrashed out here, adding 'Reply-to' headers I

Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given? [closed]

2003-06-04 Thread Constantine
Max Bowsher wrote: / Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the patch(1) utility, I am always being asked to type in the file name to a file that needs to be patched. Max Bowsher wrote: Perhaps your patch

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 15:54 2003-06-03, Biju G C wrote: --- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Randall Schulz Then how is it happening in cygwin-xfree list?

Re: Calling gcc built DLL from .NET (Visual Basic)

2003-06-04 Thread Biju G C
--- Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas X. Hoban wrote: Does anyone have a good example that shows how to create a DLL using cygwin/gcc and call it using VB .NET? I am specifically interested in an example that shows how to pass a String variable. In the example that I show

[ANNOUNCE] LibXSLT (1.0.27) test packages available

2003-06-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I have uploaded test packages for LibXSLT version 1.0.27 to sources.redhat.com . The LibXSLT source and binary packages should be available on most mirrors in a couple of hours. Please test the library as much as possible, as I'd like to get this update out there ASAP. If you find any

NetPBM / ppmforge problem

2003-06-04 Thread Aelfwyne
For lack of a better place to ask, and since this seems to be a Cygwin compatibility issue I'm trying to use ppmforge to generate graphics for a project I'm working on. It's supposed to generate, with the options I give it, a random globe. This works perfectly on a Linux system, but the

Looking for Package Donation HOW-TO

2003-06-04 Thread Joakim Erdfelt
I'm attempting to find a HOW-TO on donating to the cygwin project. Not having much luck tho. I'd like to know what it takes to ... a) update an existing package (fvwm for example. 2.4.7 is current in cygwin, but 2.4.16 is officially the current version). * I'd take on the role of

Re: Looking for Package Donation HOW-TO

2003-06-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I'm attempting to find a HOW-TO on donating to the cygwin project. Not having much luck tho. I'd like to know what it takes to ... a) update an existing package (fvwm for example. 2.4.7 is current in cygwin, but 2.4.16 is officially the current version). * I'd take on the role

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:54:30PM -0700, Biju G C wrote: --- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Then how is it happening in cygwin-xfree list? No

/usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Alexander Enchevich
Hi all This is the third time I am posting this problem and I got no response so far so I am getting desperate. I guess next time I should try some idiotic subject like help or question - these seem to draw attention... :) Anyway here's the problem: - When I run

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2003-06-04 Thread Bob Kummerfeld
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Re: Looking for Package Donation HOW-TO

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:42:04PM -0400, Joakim Erdfelt wrote: I'm attempting to find a HOW-TO on donating to the cygwin project. Not having much luck tho. The Cygwin Web Page Contributing Cygwin Packages Or, since this is fvwm you could assume that it had something to do with

Re: Looking for Package Donation HOW-TO

2003-06-04 Thread Joakim Erdfelt
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:42:04PM -0400, Joakim Erdfelt wrote: I'm attempting to find a HOW-TO on donating to the cygwin project. Not having much luck tho. The Cygwin Web Page Contributing Cygwin Packages Or, since this is fvwm you could assume that it had

Re: Path Seperator

2003-06-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
Simply check for the presence of ';' in PATH, if it exists that is the seperator else ':' is the seperator. Of course Win32 environment typically will not return the value of PATH as the lookup for environment variable is case sensitive and the variable name is Path instead. Earnie. --

Re: Path Seperator

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:31:39PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: Simply check for the presence of ';' in PATH, if it exists that is the seperator else ':' is the seperator. You'll never see a ';' separator if you use getenv in cygwin. And you won't reliably see a ':' separator if you use a windows

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Larry Hall
Max Bowsher wrote: Greg Fenton wrote: --- Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No: Cygwin != _WIN32. No argument from me here. :-) A native/Cygwin dual-mode binary sounds like a clever idea, but AFAIK has never been done before, and is probably ridiculously infeasible on the balance of

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Greg Fenton
--- Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max is right (surprised Max? ;-) ) But I want to point out something else about what you've said. If your main concern is paths, don't convert '/' to '\'. Windows understands both under the hood. (Cygwin does too but that's another matter).

Re: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Larry Hall
Alexander Enchevich wrote: Hi all This is the third time I am posting this problem and I got no response so far so I am getting desperate. I guess next time I should try some idiotic subject like help or question - these seem to draw attention... :) Anyway here's the problem:

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Larry Hall
Greg Fenton wrote: --- Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max is right (surprised Max? ;-) ) But I want to point out something else about what you've said. If your main concern is paths, don't convert '/' to '\'. Windows understands both under the hood. (Cygwin does too but that's another

RE: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Alexander Enchevich
so updatedb actually creates and index for you??? Would you mind sending me the output of your cygcheck.exe -v -s -r -c, perhaps I could compare them and find something there... Also, I noticed that it seeks the floppy whenever I do updatedb (which is strange coz it isn't mounted and I supposed

Re: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Alexander Enchevich wrote: Hi all This is the third time I am posting this problem and I got no response so far so I am getting desperate. I guess next time I should try some idiotic subject like help or question - these seem to draw attention... :) Anyway here's the problem:

Re: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Larry Hall
Alexander Enchevich wrote: so updatedb actually creates and index for you??? Would you mind sending me the output of your cygcheck.exe -v -s -r -c, perhaps I could compare them and find something there... I'll send it to you personally rather than dumping it to the list. Maybe you'll notice

Re: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:05:52AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Alexander Enchevich wrote: Hi all This is the third time I am posting this problem and I got no response so far so I am getting desperate. I guess next time I should try some idiotic subject like help or question - these

Re: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Aren't you the new maintainer of the package which includes updatedb? cgf Nope. 'updatedb' is a part of findutils. Unless your hinting. ;-) Elfyn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: boat launch?

2003-06-04 Thread John Keklak
What is this '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address? -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:29 PM To: John Keklak Subject: Re: boat launch? John Keklak wrote: I can explain... :-) You don't have to explain to me. You have to explain to

RE: boat launch?

2003-06-04 Thread John Keklak
ha ha Actually, you might not believe this story, but I went home, had dinner with my wife and kids, and then came back to SW. My brain works much better between 9pm and midnight than it does between 9am and 5pm. Let's see, if you believe that one, then I'd like to know if you'd like to buy

[Fwd: RE: boat launch?]

2003-06-04 Thread Larry Hall
Sorry folks. My mistake. Ignore this thread. Larry Original Message Subject: RE: boat launch? Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:32:35 -0400 From: John Keklak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha ha Actually, you might not believe this story, but I went home, had dinner with my

RE: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Soren Andersen wrote: Now sharing the drive space between the cvs tool (and cpan, too!) works, I think (haven't actually tried cvs yet but had to work on cpan a few minutes ago, and discovered it was suffering from the same difficulty). I'd be amazed if this all works seamlessly.

RE: Calling gcc built DLL from .NET (Visual Basic)

2003-06-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Does anyone have a good example that shows how to create a DLL using cygwin/gcc and call it using VB .NET? ^^^ Get a rope. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Alexander Enchevich
Aren't you the new maintainer of the package which includes updatedb? Nope. 'updatedb' is a part of findutils. Unless your hinting. ;-) Hmmm, maintainers... good idea. So I got the source findutils package and looked inside the AUTHORS file, these are the

Re: /usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:28:16AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Aren't you the new maintainer of the package which includes updatedb? Nope. 'updatedb' is a part of findutils. Unless your hinting. ;-) Duh. I mean, yeah, I was hinting. You want to maintain findutils? I see the code in

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