Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Lapo Luchini
Charles Wilson wrote: Expires today. Yay!!! Shall I respin libtiff to include LZW support, and distribute the new LZW-capable libtiff via the cygwin mirror system? I guess my libungif package is obsolete too ^_^ -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP X.509 keys available)

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Gareth Pearce
erm - not to rain on this ... but is it a good idea if the patent has only expired in america? Gareth - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: Re: Unisys patent On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:38:28AM

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I posted a reply to this earlier but it's just not my day for doing things right. I shouldn't publicise my bad language skills, should I?! :-) Please don't do this. From tomorrow the Unisys LZW patent will be defunct in the US, and again a day later in Canada. That still leaves serveral

Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm about to do the include guard cleanup I mentioned some time ago. Whilst I'm tidying up the names of the include guards, I might as well tidy up the locations of the include guards (with respect to the comments at the start of the file). Is this ordering OK? :

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: I'm about to do the include guard cleanup I mentioned some time ago. Whilst I'm tidying up the names of the include guards, I might as well tidy up the locations of the include guards (with respect to the comments at the start of the file). Is this ordering OK? :

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Collins
Max Bowsher wrote: I'm about to do the include guard cleanup I mentioned some time ago. Whilst I'm tidying up the names of the include guards, I might as well tidy up the locations of the include guards (with respect to the comments at the start of the file). Is this ordering OK? :

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Elfyn McBratney wrote: I posted a reply to this earlier but it's just not my day for doing things right. I shouldn't publicise my bad language skills, should I?! :-) Please don't do this. From tomorrow the Unisys LZW patent will be defunct in the US, and again a day later in Canada. That still

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Collins
Max Bowsher wrote: Off-list (presumably accidentally), Gary R. Van Sickle replied: I tend to think that the include guards should wrap as much of the file as possible, idea being that the compiler then bypasses the most text possible. But then again, rumor has it that gcc (at least) recognizes

Re: Unisys patent

2003-06-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: I posted a reply to this earlier but it's just not my day for doing things right. I shouldn't publicise my bad language skills, should I?! :-) Please don't do this. From tomorrow the Unisys LZW patent will be defunct in

Re: Xfree issues under Windows 2000

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Ken C wrote: Thanks again for the help - here's the result of the program (I'm assuming you wanted me to post it): [output] looks normal. lo: family=TCP/IP (0) addr=127.0.0.1 eth0: family=TCP/IP (0) addr=192.168.0.101 and you tried with the -from 192.168.0.101

Re: US-Intl keymap (was: Re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session)

2003-06-20 Thread Stefan Heinzmann
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: The right-hand Alt key is used as a shift-key to produce alternate characters together with most of the other keys in the same way as the AltGr key on german keyboards. The left Alt key

Re: Custom icons + MouseUp fix

2003-06-20 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi Earle, The DLL hook is fairly straightforward to use, but is intrusive on the rest of a system, (MS don't really recommend using them!) MSDN however have lots of stuff on hooks e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/WinUI/WindowsUserInterface/Win dowing/Hooks/AboutHooks.asp I've

Re: US-Intl keymap (was: Re: X server acting funny when displayingremote KDE session)

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: I tried that and it didn't work for some reason. I defined the AltGr key combinations by modifying xkb/symbols/us_intl, which I attach. I modified xkb/keymap/xfree86 to include a us_intl_sh variant that pulls in my new file and modified XF86Config

Re: US-Intl keymap (was: Re: X server acting funny when displayingremote KDE session)

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: Does the mapping in the attached file make sense? The entrys for no symbols were too much. I've removed them. See the attached file. A short test was ok (äñ© for alt-r + qnc). bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org

Re: US-Intl keymap (was: Re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session)

2003-06-20 Thread Stefan Heinzmann
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: Does the mapping in the attached file make sense? The entrys for no symbols were too much. I've removed them. See the attached file. A short test was ok (äñ© for alt-r + qnc). Umm, the

Re: US-Intl keymap (was: Re: X server acting funny when displayingremote KDE session)

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: Umm, the attachment seems to have been lost... Silly me ;) bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723// // $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/us_intl,v 1.4.4.1 2002/08/26 21:43:24 paulo Exp $ // //

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Stefan Heinzmann
It doesn't work for me. I created a separate us_intl_sh file in order not to upset the existing us_intl. I created a new entry in xkb/keymap/xfree86 as follows: // Stefan Heinzmann's version of a US-international keyboard xkb_keymap us_intl_sh { xkb_keycodes{ include xfree86

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: entry in xkb/keymap/xfree86 as follows: I also added an entry to xkb/keymap.dir But it doesn't seem to have the slightest effect on the keybord behaviour. Have you got an idea what could be wrong? The best is to test it with xkbcomp xkbcomp -xkm

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
I had a similar strange problem with AltGr while having the following entries in .inputrc : set meta-flag On set convert-meta Off set output-meta On I entered those to be ableto have danish national characters displayed correctly in bash. The effect was that using xterm in a local xserver

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Stefan Heinzmann
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: entry in xkb/keymap/xfree86 as follows: I also added an entry to xkb/keymap.dir But it doesn't seem to have the slightest effect on the keybord behaviour. Have you got an idea what could be

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote: There's a minor niggle left, however: Under Windows the behaviour of the dead keys is somewhat different. When a dead key is followed by a kepress with which it doesn't combine, the character of the dead key is generated followed by the character

Re: Xfree issues under Windows 2000

2003-06-20 Thread Ken C
[output] looks normal. lo: family=TCP/IP (0) addr=127.0.0.1 eth0: family=TCP/IP (0) addr=192.168.0.101 and you tried with the -from 192.168.0.101 parameter? Have you checked if the xdm server reported any errors? You can start xdm with xdm -debug 10 to print out a lot of debugging messages.

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Stefan, --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h Stefan Heinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't have that installed, thanks for the hint. Do I assume correctly that the defines use the Unicode encodings? Not in general. X11 keysyms are a

Re: Xfree issues under Windows 2000

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Ken C wrote: Yep, I tried -from with both dynamic and static IP addresses. I'm guessing the xdm startup you're referring to is on the Linux box? I'm not sure how to do that, as everything starts up automatically at boot right now. Shut down the already running login manager with

Dead key and mode shift key behaviour

2003-06-20 Thread Stefan Heinzmann
The attachment is a question from the cygwin-xfree list which appears to be more appropriate for this list. I wanted to add another question to it: I noticed when working with the right Alt key as a mode-shift key that it matters whether Shift is pressed after or before the right Alt-key. In

Re: Xfree issues under Windows 2000

2003-06-20 Thread Ken C
Shut down the already running login manager with /etc/init.d/xdm stop (maybe this file is kalled kdm or gdm or how the login manager is called) start xdm in debug mode xdm -debug 10 -nodaemon Pardon my ignorance, but I think I've restarted this with the correct settings (I found kdm in

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Stefan Heinzmann
--- Benjamin Riefenstahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Do I assume correctly that the defines use the Unicode encodings? Not in general. X11 keysyms are a bit older than Unicode. But keysyms are identical with Latin-1 for that range, so anything below 256 is also identical to Unicode.

What is a good Windows Manager for cygwin/XFree86

2003-06-20 Thread Greg Freemyer
I want to find a basic windows manager the supports: resize, move, minimize, maximize Seems like a pretty basic request, but I have tried twm, mwm, and fvwm2. fvwm2 is the most functional for me, but it does not have min/max. What windows manager provides the above in a cygwin/XFree86 env.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog pinfo.cc

2003-06-20 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-21 00:08:02 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog pinfo.cc Log message: * pinfo.cc (_pinfo::commune_send): Don't attempt to communicate with a pure windows process.

top is gone

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, Today, I came in and found a Kerio firewall warning that someone from Australia (other side of world) tried to connect the the sshd process (part of cygwin). No problem, just deny access. Then I tried to run top and the command was not recognized. That's weird. xterms don't give me the

Re: top is gone

2003-06-20 Thread jurgen . defurne
Fred, I think top is part of the procps package. Try installing that. Regards, Jurgen Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/2003 08:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/PHILIPS) Subject:top is gone

Re: top is gone

2003-06-20 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hi Fred, Try running cygcheck -svr | grep procps and if it gives you nothing, that means that top is not installed. By the way, you may want click the Packages link under http://cygwin.com and try to look for the utility you're missing. For example, you may type top.exe (without the

Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, I think top is part of the procps package. Try installing that. Regards, Jurgen Thanks, Jurgen. It turns out to be in /usr/bin, which I checked. It's amazing. I wonder how it disappeared the first time (before I wiped away c:\Cygwin). Right now,

RE: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi, sshd stores its logs in the windows event log. Vince -Original Message- From: Fred Ma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 June 2003 08:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, I

Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
Original Message Subject: Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:47:06 -0400 From: Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi, sshd stores its logs in the windows event

top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
Forgot to change the subject line Original Message Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 20 Jun 2003 09:53:42 - Issue 2902 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:54:15 -0400 From: Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Carlo Florendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:28:26 +0800 From: Carlo

Re: gdb attach/detach kills the target process

2003-06-20 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: That's the way Windows debugging works -- once you attach to a process, detaching from it kills the process. No way around it. I don't think this is true any more. XP enables debuggers (or at least the VS debugger) to detach from executing

starting cron

2003-06-20 Thread kumarchi
I am unable to start the cron. I followed the instruction in /usr/doc/Cygwin/README_cron and used cygrunsrv to start the service But the services in my windows it was unable to start the cron. Any suggextions? Thanx -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread bsiever
Greetings, Seeing all the postings about cygwin license, I have one question about the licensing as it relates to using cygwin and gcc to build a windows app. If you use gcc in the cygwin environment to build a windows app and link against the windows dll's (using -mnocygwin option), does this

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Sam Steingold
* In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of cygwin license with windows apps? * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:19:59 -0500 * Honorable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you use gcc in the cygwin environment to build a windows app and link against the windows dll's (using -mnocygwin option),

RE: Problem with cron!

2003-06-20 Thread Tim
Just mention that i had previously changed my system time to 23:59 :) Thanks Tim -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Tim Envoyé : vendredi 20 juin 2003 16:35 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Problem with cron! hi, i'm having a bit of

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:33:09AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: * In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of cygwin license with windows apps? * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:19:59 -0500 * Honorable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you use gcc in the cygwin environment to build a windows app

RE: Problem with cron!

2003-06-20 Thread Tim
i just checked the windows journal and i found many of the folowing entries: Impossible de trouver la description de l'ID d'événement ( 0 ) dans la source ( crontab ). L'ordinateur local n'a peut-être pas les informations de Registre nécessaires ou les fichiers DLL de messagerie pour afficher

RE: problem with g77

2003-06-20 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Hall Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: --8-- What filesystem are you using? If not FAT or FAT32 then try chmod u+x on the executable. (IIRC there is some problems regarding chmod on FAT fs'es.) Actually,

Noer's paper missing at Cygwin

2003-06-20 Thread Weiguang Shi
Hi, Browsing the Cygwin site, I noticed that the link http://cygwin.com/usenix-98/cygwin.html which is supposed to point to the paper, Cygwin: A Free Win32 Porting Layer for UNIX Applications by Geoffrey Noer, leads to nothing. Could anyone please send me a copy, preferably in PS or PDF? Thank

troubles with inetd

2003-06-20 Thread olivier
Hi, I installed the inetutils package on NT4.0. and on WIN98. On WIN98, I got no problems to run inetd and connect from other computer. On NT, it was installed as service, after an update of register tables, it could be run on the computer. But it was impossible to connect : connection refused.

RE: Problem with cron!

2003-06-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Tim, This (loosely) translates as Unable to find the description for event ID ( 0 ) in source (crontab). Perhaps the local computer doesn't have the necessary information in the registry, or the message DLL files for printing messages from a remote computer. crontab : PID 1244 : (tim) END EDIT

RE: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Cary Lewis
Some more questions: Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause a program to be covered by the GPL? If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't have any

RE: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: Some more questions: Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? Because the GPL is what's known as a viral license, infecting anything that makes use if it. On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries,

RE: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: Some more questions: Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? Because the GPL is what's known as a viral license, infecting anything that makes use if it.

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:18:41PM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: Some more questions: Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? Because that's how the GPL works. From the GNU GPL FAQ: Linking FOO statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:35:00PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: * In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of RE: cygwin license with windows apps? * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:18:41 -0400 * Honorable Cary Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a

Re: cygwin gcc

2003-06-20 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

Re: Posible to create filenames with colons?

2003-06-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, jordi wrote: As win FAT's doesn't allow any filename with that kind of characters (\,/,:,*,?|), would like to know if a sometimes used character like colon :, can be mapped through cygwin as it just does with slashes. Could be possible? Thanks. FYI, Cygwin does not

Re: Cygwin Net - Compilation

2003-06-20 Thread DEEPA SIVASANKARANE
Hi Igor, 1. Thanx for the reply. The ../include directory got included when I used umsgcc. umsgcc is in /c/ums/bin. When I used gcc instead, there was no such problem,the appropriate gcclib directory got included and I got this: -

RE: starting cron

2003-06-20 Thread Harig, Mark
Please run the attached script. It will attempt to diagnose your problem with cron. It will not modify any files on your computer. You might need to run the script several times. Each time that it finds a problem, it stops and displays a descriptive message. -Original Message- From:

RE: Problem with cron!

2003-06-20 Thread Harig, Mark
Please run the attached script. It will attempt to diagnose your problem with cron. It will not modify any files on your computer. You might need to run the script several times. Each time that it finds a problem, it stops and displays a descriptive message. -Original Message- From:

bash kills console history

2003-06-20 Thread Sam Steingold
when I start a non-cygwin interactive application in a console window under cmd, I can recall the previous lines with the Up key and edit the current command line with Left and Right. when I start the same application under bash, I can no longer recall history with Up (although LeftRight still

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

2003-06-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Cary Lewis wrote: Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause a program to be covered by the GPL? If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't have any

Re: Question about Cygwin License

2003-06-20 Thread Bill C. Riemers
Depending on the country you are distributing in, so long as you don't actually distribute the cygwin.dll with your application, this may be classified as Fair Use. You'll have to consultant an attorney as Fair use varies both by country and state. Some countries don't have a fair use clause for

Re: Question about cygwin License

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:36:03PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote: Depending on the country you are distributing in, so long as you don't actually distribute the cygwin.dll with your application, this may be classified as Fair Use. You'll have to consultant an attorney as Fair use varies both by

Re: bash kills console history

2003-06-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 20 Jun 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: when I start a non-cygwin interactive application in a console window under cmd, I can recall the previous lines with the Up key and edit the current command line with Left and Right. when I start the same application under bash, I can no longer recall

Re: bash kills console history

2003-06-20 Thread Sam Steingold
* In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of Re: bash kills console history * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:41:05 -0400 (EDT) * Honorable Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20 Jun 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: when I start a non-cygwin interactive application in a console

RE: bash kills console history

2003-06-20 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
I may be mis-understanding your question, but you have to be sure history is enabled on bash and you have HISTFILE set. CMD.EXE is a different shell with different history semantics. Under bash, I set 'vi' to 'on' to get get 'vi' compatible editing, but up/down arrow still work. You also have

1.3.22-1: tcsh starts with error

2003-06-20 Thread Ameesh Oza
I installed cygwin 1.3.22-1 on new computer (Win-XP). When I type tcsh to start a tcsh, I get the error if: Expression syntax. I have no .cshrc or .tcshrc files. I think this may be because my Win-XP user name is Ameesh Oza and unix does not like spaces in names. I had some error messages from