Re: 1.5.1: lseek64 woes (was Re: 1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive)

2003-07-28 Thread David Rothenberger
Darn it! I forgot to change the disposition on those attachments. Sorry about that, guys. Getting late for me. Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

1.5.1: lseek64 woes (was Re: 1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive)

2003-07-28 Thread David Rothenberger
Charles Wilson writes: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I'm getting a strange error from unzip when trying to extract an > archive that contains binary files. Everything works fine if the > archive contains just text files. > >>> > >>>Can't duplicate it. Sorry. > >> > I --can

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:37:43PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: > >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites > > > >The link is out of date, the new one is > >http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCSourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites > > The link is not out

Re: 1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:21:24AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >FWIW, zip does use >fdopen(). Shouldn't matter. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: 1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive

2003-07-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm getting a strange error from unzip when trying to extract an archive that contains binary files. Everything works fine if the archive contains just text files. Can't duplicate it. Sorry. I've since discovered that it has to do with the size of the .zip file, not the

RE: apache problems gone with 1.50

2003-07-28 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
My problems with GCC are gone too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill McCormick Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:10 PM To: Cygwin Subject: apache problems gone with 1.50 I installed cygwin 1.50 and my apache problems have ceased. --- Outg

apache problems gone with 1.50

2003-07-28 Thread Bill McCormick
I installed cygwin 1.50 and my apache problems have ceased. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 7/18/2003 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple P

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:12:07PM -0400, Jon A. Lambert wrote: >From: "Carlo Florendo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> From: "Jonathan Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ? >> >> > Hello Max, >> > >> > This is a good point. I have the sour

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Carlo Florendo
- Original Message - From: "Jon A. Lambert" > From: "Carlo Florendo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Jonathan Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ? > > > > > Hello Max, > > > > > > This is a good point. I have the source d

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Jon A. Lambert
From: "Carlo Florendo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Jonathan Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ? > > > Hello Max, > > > > This is a good point. I have the source downloaded and in backups somewhere > > around here - so it can be l

Re: 1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:15:59PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:14:53PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >>Content-Description: message body text >>>I'm getting a strange error from unzip when trying to extract an >>>archive that contains

Re: 1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive

2003-07-28 Thread David Rothenberger
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:14:53PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: > Content-Description: message body text > >I'm getting a strange error from unzip when trying to extract an > >archive that contains binary files. Everything works fine if the > >archive contains ju

Re: 1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:14:53PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: Content-Description: message body text >I'm getting a strange error from unzip when trying to extract an >archive that contains binary files. Everything works fine if the >archive contains just text files. Can't duplicate it. So

Gnu Ghostscript question??

2003-07-28 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Systems is Win2K with Cygwin-1.3.22 I am trying tetex package and the resulting postcript files (via dvips). The .ps is correctly created (checked it with other postscript viewer under UNIX) but under cygwin (with XFree96) running, the command gs myfile.ps results is error Error

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Carlo Florendo
- Original Message - From: "Jonathan Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:01 AM Subject: RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ? > Hello Max, > > This is a good point. I have the so

ezml problem? Get old messages.:K@N@!:

2003-07-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
HOW do I get old messages from the mailing list? -- ezml claims this: > To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. but I simply can't make it work. I have tried in a load of different ways. --- all answers is in the line with --- cygwin D

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Carlo Florendo
> Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>Not only that, but this appears to go even further. By essentially > >>"compiling" all these GNU utilities into one executable, there's a > >>violation of the GPL to the extent that the

RE: DLL 1.3.22 - etags 5.5.4 fails on XP Pro:K@N@!:

2003-07-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski --8<-- > What you could do is create an "etags.bat" that runs 'bash -c etags "%1" > "%2" "%3" "%4" "%5" "%6" "%7" "%8" "%9"', put it in your PATH, and you > should be able to call that from NTEmacs. > Igor Hm

Re: Backspace problem on VMS:K@N@!:

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:52:08PM +0200, Michael Lemke wrote: >>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:05:52PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Hai Hong wrote: I'm having a problem in which the backspace doesn't work as it should when I telnet into a VMS machine while I'm in an xterm session. Instead o

Re: cygwin1.dll not found, embedding dll into EXE:K@N@!:

2003-07-28 Thread Mukul Sabharwal
Hi, I need did put the c:\cygwin\bin and c:\cygwin in my PATH variable, but no luck, I still need the dll file in the directory from where I'm executing. Yes I'm executing outside of Cygwin. - Original Message - x-sender: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PRO

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Brian . Kelly
Mr. Clark, I almost never put on my attorney's cap anymore, but I am ethically bound to offer one piece of advice when I see that it is truly called for. Please, seek out and consult with an experienced software and intellectual property rights attorney at your earliest possible opportunity

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Peter S Tillier
Al Slater wrote: > I downloaded the tools and ran them. I typed uname -a and received an > error message about a missing export in Cygwin1.dll, so the answer is > yes. > > Al > Likewise. And what is worse, when you exit the thinstall it leaves a number of 4K size executables in your TEMP (in my c

Re: gdb & g++ (de)mangling

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:28:28PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >does cygwin/gdb/g++ demangling work? Yes. cygwin1.dll is written in c++. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cy

Re:Re: No huge packages, please!

2003-07-28 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Thanks to Max, Igor and Chris for your quick reply. Rodrigo Medina -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Jonathan Clark
Hello Max, This is a good point. I have the source downloaded and in backups somewhere around here - so it can be located if needed. While I'm in the process of putting together a new archive that contains more GPL disclaimers (and more utilities), I wish to be in compliance by offering a CDROM

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Jonathan Clark wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > I see, I thought this condition was to eliminate the need to mirror the > source > if you are simply redistributing binaries that already have source mirrors. > > If it meets your approval for satisfying the GPL, I will add the following > information: >

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Jonathan Clark
Hi Christopher, I see, I thought this condition was to eliminate the need to mirror the source if you are simply redistributing binaries that already have source mirrors. If it meets your approval for satisfying the GPL, I will add the following information: "Some programs inside of this archiv

gdb & g++ (de)mangling

2003-07-28 Thread Sam Steingold
does cygwin/gdb/g++ demangling work? I did set print demangle on and neither set demangle-style auto or set demangle-style gnu changes anything: I still get mangled named in the debugger and I cannot set breakpoints &c. thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:10:44PM -0700, Jonathan Clark wrote: >Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have added links to the >web page showing where to download the binaries and source code, and I >will add a message line to the .bashrc file so it states likewise. The >archive in question

Re: readv - incorrect behavior?

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:33:57PM -0400, Hirsch, Matthew wrote: >I've encountered a problem with the readv system call under Cygwin of the >form > > int readv(int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count); > >It appears that readv is reading past the end of the file described by fd >and ins

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Jonathan Clark
Hello Christopher, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have added links to the web page showing where to download the binaries and source code, and I will add a message line to the .bashrc file so it states likewise. The archive in question uses unmodified cygwin EXEs and DLLs, so I'

readv - incorrect behavior?

2003-07-28 Thread Hirsch, Matthew
Hi list. I've encountered a problem with the readv system call under Cygwin of the form int readv(int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count); It appears that readv is reading past the end of the file described by fd and instead reading until each buffer in the iovec is filled. This

1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive

2003-07-28 Thread David Rothenberger
I'm getting a strange error from unzip when trying to extract an archive that contains binary files. Everything works fine if the archive contains just text files. This problem occurs with the 1.5.1 DLL and the latest test packages for zip and unzip. Everything works fine with 1.3.22. It also w

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ishwar Rattan

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-28 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am using cy

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I am using cygwin (dll 1.3.22) under Windows 2K Pro. > > > An attempt to use lpr

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am using cygwin (dll 1.3.22) under Windows 2K Pro. > > An attempt to use lpr results in: > > > > lpr: can't open 'prn' for writing > > lpr: The printer n

Re: fork:Resource temporary unavailable

2003-07-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I execute the syscall Fork(), it return with error[Resource > temporary unavailable]. > If there are some restrictions to fork() in cygwin? More than likely there is some restrictions on your current usage of memory! Usually when I see this you are having a problem

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:37:43PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites > >The link is out of date, the new one is >http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCSourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites The link is not out of date. The link

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites > The link is out of date, the new one is http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCSourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites Cheers Ralf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Question about the cpio-command

2003-07-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Wolfgang, This looks like a question for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, where I have attempted to redirect this email. Harold Hinterplattner Wolfgang wrote: I have a scsi-tapedrive on my local machine. How can I read from the tapedrive or write to the tapedrive with the cpio-command? In H

Re: No huge packets, please!

2003-07-28 Thread Chris
On this subject, part of the reason I'm converting the program "bsdiff" to cygwin is to allow patching to files already downloaded with updated versions, which doesn't seem to currently be supported. Out of interest, has anyone thought of doing this before? would there be much chance of getting it

Re: No huge packets, please!

2003-07-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Rodrigo Medina wrote: > Hello! > > First of all I want to congratulate all you people that have made > possible CYGWIN+XFREE. I think that the whole is already a mature, > wonderful product. In particular the new multiwindow feature of XWin > is really cool. > I have a petition to make: Have a

Re: No huge packets, please!

2003-07-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Rodrigo, On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > Hello! > > First of all I want to congratulate all you people that have made > possible CYGWIN+XFREE. I think that the whole is already a mature, > wonderful product. In particular the new multiwindow feature of XWin > is really cool. FYI,

rsync opening and closing local ports

2003-07-28 Thread Mark Young
Hi, I am noticing that when I rsync data between two machines I see a constant stream of ports, at least 20 per second, being opened and closed on localhost. I'm using the following rsync command: rsync --blocking-io --compress --verbose --recursive --partial --times --rsh=ssh mylargefile [EM

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Available for test: cygwin-1.5.1-1

2003-07-28 Thread 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. This version is currently available for testing only. As in version 1.5.0, it contains major changes to some APIs such that 64 bit file I/O operations are now

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Steve Coleman
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only that, but this appears to go even further. By essentially "compiling" all these GNU utilities into one executable, there's a violation of the GPL to the extent that the code used to do that do

Re: Questions about converting apps to cygwin

2003-07-28 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:36:12PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >Right, these functions are from libgen, who's functionality is not yet > >available in Cygwin. I hope to have everything finished RSN. ATM I've > >only done basename() and dirname

fork:Resource temporary unavailable

2003-07-28 Thread xuzhd
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tcflush waits

2003-07-28 Thread Jon Schneider
I have an app that opens a serial port and sets VTIME to 1, VMIN to 0. When it does tcflush(,TCIOFLUSH) or tcflush(,TCIFLUSH) it takes exactly 100ms. I don't expect there to be anything to read but this call is not supposed to wait. I tried setting VMIN to something else with no effect. Windo

Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
Hi, I manage the cygwin project (I've cc'ed the project mailing list and the reply-to is set to that list). It has come to my attention that you are offering binaries which use cygwin but you do not seem to be providing any sources for download on your web site. The GPL license requires you to pr

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Brian . Kelly
OUTPUT FROM COMMAND: bash -v __ bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! You are now running bash.exe from the Cygwin package This message is being presented by adding a virtual .bashrc file and having Thinstall automatica

No huge packets, please!

2003-07-28 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hello! First of all I want to congratulate all you people that have made possible CYGWIN+XFREE. I think that the whole is already a mature, wonderful product. In particular the new multiwindow feature of XWin is really cool. I have a petition to make: Have a little bit of mercy with us poor gu

RE: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Al Slater
I downloaded the tools and ran them. I typed uname -a and received an error message about a missing export in Cygwin1.dll, so the answer is yes. Al > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:2

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 23:19, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I noticed that but i was wondering if these were actually cygwin tools. > Has anyone verified that? No, but: "You are now running bash.exe from the cygwin package." That plus more descriptive text is in the screenshots on the unix_tools p

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Not only that, but this appears to go even further. By essentially >"compiling" all these GNU utilities into one executable, there's a >violation of the GPL to the extent that the code used to do that does >not appear to be "Open

Re: Questions about converting apps to cygwin

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:36:12PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >Right, these functions are from libgen, who's functionality is not yet >available in Cygwin. I hope to have everything finished RSN. ATM I've >only done basename() and dirname(), but I don't mind adding these if >someone can give m

Re: Updated: automake-devel-1.7.6-1

2003-07-28 Thread Eddie Katz
SUPER, Merci beaucoup - Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 12:50 AM Subject: Updated: automake-devel-1.7.6-1 > Version 1.7.6-1 of the automake-devel package is now available. It > contains GNU automake-1

Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Brian . Kelly
Not only that, but this appears to go even further. By essentially "compiling" all these GNU utilities into one executable, there's a violation of the GPL to the extent that the code used to do that does not appear to be "Open Source". Double Whammy here. And by the way - I AM a lawyer. (Member o

re: unsubscribe

2003-07-28 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Bushy wrote: > Hi, > > I'v e tried multiple times to unsubscribe from this list but it won't let me!~!!! > > What am I doing wrong? Whats the correct suntax to unsubscribe via email. Look at the e-mail header from any e-mail you recieve from a Cygwin mailing list, and you

Re: Questions about converting apps to cygwin

2003-07-28 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Chris wrote: > > Chris wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > For experience (and because I want to use it) I am in the process of > > > converting the "bsdiff" binary diffing application to windows from *BSD, > > and > > > thought I would come via cygwin, and then decide if I should

re: unsubscribe

2003-07-28 Thread Bushy
Hi, I'v e tried multiple times to unsubscribe from this list but it won't let me!~!!! What am I doing wrong? Whats the correct suntax to unsubscribe via email. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documenta

GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/

2003-07-28 Thread Robert Collins
http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/ seems to have cygwin binaries w/out source. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Questions about converting apps to cygwin

2003-07-28 Thread Chris
> Chris wrote: > > Hello! > > > > For experience (and because I want to use it) I am in the process of > > converting the "bsdiff" binary diffing application to windows from *BSD, > and > > thought I would come via cygwin, and then decide if I should move to fully > > windows. > > > > A couple of q

Re: Questions about converting apps to cygwin

2003-07-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Chris wrote: > Hello! > > For experience (and because I want to use it) I am in the process of > converting the "bsdiff" binary diffing application to windows from *BSD, and > thought I would come via cygwin, and then decide if I should move to fully > windows. > > A couple of questions about conve

Questions about converting apps to cygwin

2003-07-28 Thread Chris
Hello! For experience (and because I want to use it) I am in the process of converting the "bsdiff" binary diffing application to windows from *BSD, and thought I would come via cygwin, and then decide if I should move to fully windows. A couple of questions about converting apps.. 1) Cygwin see

Re: Question about the cpio-command

2003-07-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Hinterplattner Wolfgang wrote: > I have a scsi-tapedrive on my local machine. > How can I read from the tapedrive or write to the tapedrive with the cpio-command? > In HP-UX I have the device-file for my tape-drive ( for exaple: /dev/rmt/0m ) > How can I access the tape-drive

RE: Serial Port?

2003-07-28 Thread H. Henning Schmidt
Anthony, Since you said you were about to program something for the serial port on cygwin, you might be interested to know that there is the potential to corrupt your memory (and thus crash your program) when doing that in a straight forward way. See here for details: http://sources.redhat.co

Antwort: Re: CYGWIN: make error

2003-07-28 Thread Berthold . Ruth
Hallo Elfyn, thanks for reply. I was outside one week from the office, so that I noticing it very late. Berthold |-+> | | Elfyn McBratney

Canvas does not appear and the font does not refresh

2003-07-28 Thread philippe guillaume
In my tcl window , there's normally a canvas ... But it does not appear ! ??? And when i open another window upon the tcl one, i see the image of the window at the place of the canvas ! i hear that it was a problem with the XF86CONFIG file but there is no such file in my cygwin directory. How can i