Re: Aupdated: antiword-0.34-2, please upload

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Igor schrieb: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo PPLMAPU, I've updated antiword, now the annoying syntax Error in: ... messages (which actually aren't errors) are gone, please upload:

Re: Aupdated: antiword-0.34-2, please upload

2003-10-15 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-10-15T16:44+0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: ) I've updated antiword, now the annoying syntax Error in: ... messages ) (which actually aren't errors) are gone, please upload: ) ) http://anfaenger.de/cygwin-1.5/antiword/antiword-0.34-2.tar.bz2 )

Updated again: antiword , please upload (was: Re: Aupdated: antiword-0.34-2, please upload)

2003-10-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Igor and Daniel, I'm sorry to say this, but I'm still getting the error: You are too fast;-) I just saw, that the patch does not apply. I have no idea why, I'll try again now. Check for DOS line endings... Igor Hmmpf, patch is somewhat broken regarding this... Ready now,

RE: Vote for nfs-server

2003-10-15 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-10-15T23:48-0400, Robb, Sam wrote: ) I pulled what's posted now and did a quick auto-review: ) Auto-review? Do you have a script that does some packaging ) checks? I have automated some of the tasks I perform before upload, including a minimal set of packaging checks: Check for bindir,

Re: Vote for nfs-server

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:33:03AM -0400, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-10-15T23:48-0400, Robb, Sam wrote: ) I pulled what's posted now and did a quick auto-review: ) Auto-review? Do you have a script that does some packaging ) checks? I have automated some of the tasks I perform before upload,

RE: Vote for nfs-server

2003-10-15 Thread Abe Backus
I'd like to be able to run such a script against my packages before I submit a request to cygwin-apps for upload :)

X in 8 bit mode - Perfomancetroubles

2003-10-15 Thread Harald Pollak
Hy! Im using Cygwin XFree on a Acer Travelmate 634lci with Windows XP ( Color 32 bit ) my Application running on OpenVMS. I have to use 8 Bit Colormode for correct display. When i start X with the command: X -ac -fullscreen -depth 8 The display is ok, but the perfomane is unuseabel. When

Re: X in 8 bit mode - Perfomancetroubles

2003-10-15 Thread Thomas Chadwick
I think the best 8-bit performance will result if you downshift the Windows desktop to 256 colors and run XWin in windowed mode, which will allow it to use the DirectDraw engine. From: Harald Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X in 8 bit mode -

Can't start gnome-terminal, fatal error

2003-10-15 Thread Jonathan Primeau
Hi, I am running the latest version of XWin on my Windows XP machine. I am able to connect to the remote Sun Ultra 5 (running Solaris 9 w/ GNOME 2.0) by using the following command: Xwin -screen 0 1280 1024 -from myhost -query remote_host -fp tcp/remote_host:7100 -fullscreen -depth 24 -refresh

(additional info) Can't start gnome-terminal, fatal error

2003-10-15 Thread Jonathan Primeau
I have more information related to my problem. I hope that this will make my problem more obvious... When I run gnome-terminal from a standard terminal I get: BEGIN OUTPUT ** (gnome-terminal:161): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD

Re: Copy / Paste

2003-10-15 Thread Cliff Stanford
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I have written many messages about this before. I am surprised you haven't seen one yet. Thank you for your excellent responses. I had actually totally missed that there were searchable archives available. *blush* So,

Re: Cygwin Setup 99%

2003-10-15 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
A bit of bad luck here: I'm reinstalling Cygwin on a newly formatted machine this morning. So what do I do to get it installed now? The setup is hung. Do I cancel and run it again? What? Thanks. On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:13, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Wayne, While we can't expect everyone to

RE: Cygwin Setup 99%

2003-10-15 Thread Jonathan Primeau
Hi Jean-Claude, When does the setup hang exactly? I installed Xwin this morning and it hangs while executing XFree86-bin-icons.sh. So I cancelled the installation and I went in the /etc/postinstall directory and I executed all the sh scripts one by one and renamed them *.done. I don't know why

Re: Cygwin Setup 99%

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Open a bash shell and run kill -9 `ps -s|grep cygpath|awk '{print $1}'` from it. Setup should then simply continue. Igor On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: A bit of bad luck here: I'm reinstalling Cygwin on a newly formatted machine this morning. So what do I do to get

Re: Copy / Paste

2003-10-15 Thread Cliff Stanford
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in working on it. Hmm... CVS seems to be missing a copy of

Re: Copy / Paste

2003-10-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Cliff Stanford wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in working on it. Hmm... CVS seems to

Re: XWin --query

2003-10-15 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Just to be sure: are you using the correct option : XWin -query dmcphost (good) not XWin --query dmcphost (bad) ? Has there been a security change that now requires xhosts +node to be run somehow with the XWin --query command? Greg -- Greg Freemyer = Sylvain Petreolle

GOOD NEWS

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Questions

2003-10-15 Thread Robert Chong
Hi, I've installed Cygwin and XFree86 in my Windows XP laptop. XFree86 works great! I really like it, and enjoy using the X Windows. Now I've got questions regarding security. It seems to me that someone could use X Windows to spy on what I'm doing on my laptop. Is there any settings in

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog dcrt0.cc fhandler_ ...

2003-10-15 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-15 08:23:26 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog dcrt0.cc fhandler_console.cc winsup.h Log message: * fhandler_console.cc (char_command): Add escape sequence for codepage

Re: [Patch]: Ncurses frame drawing

2003-10-15 Thread Micha Nelissen
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 10:26 PM 10/14/2003 +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote: @@ -1110,6 +1117,12 @@ break; case 9:/* dim */ dev_state-intensity = INTENSITY_DIM; + break; + case 10: /* end alternate charset */ +

Re: [Patch]: Ncurses frame drawing

2003-10-15 Thread Micha Nelissen
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: FWIW, wouldn't it be cleaner to make alternate_charset_active a member of dev_state instead of introducing a new global variable? 1) that alternate_charset check which currently is

[Patch] *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating.

2003-10-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
The background for this patch was just explained on the Cygwin mailing list. We must make sure that the user sid is present in the default DACL of impersonation tokens, internal as well as external. Thus the place to do it is in seteuid32(), and it becomes useless to create a default DACL in

Re: various sundry things

2003-10-15 Thread Demmer, Thomas
Edward Peschenko wrote [...] Misconception: You thought that -mno-cygwin was a flag that needed to only be passed to the linker. true, but that is a conception that any user - especially newbies - could make. You've got to understand something. When I come across a project and evaluate it

Accessibility issues

2003-10-15 Thread Saqib Shaikh
Hi I am a blind computer user, and like many other bvlind people really would like to use Cygwin. However the package selection part of the setup.exe program is not accessible with screen reading programs. The problem is that it uses some kind of custom control which you can't navigate with the

RE: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
All, As a side note, I have 11 copies of that DLL (java dev and runtime, Visual Studio/Source Safe, ...) on my system, but only the system32 one is in my normal path. Someone mentioned something about possible issues to do with the path being different, so I thought I'd run a quick test. --- $

RE: system() refuses to work!!! HELP

2003-10-15 Thread Chris January
It did not work. Will it be that I found a bug??? How much luck I have.. :-) It follows the source. that program does not do anything of important! It is alone a test. what we most can do? I changed the command for DIR who list the directories of the windows just to facilitate the

sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-15 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I followed the procedure of setting up sshd: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html I launch the sshd with an account that is part of the administrator group (WinXP). One peculiarity about this account is that it is not a local account i.e. when I log into Windows, I specify a

Re: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:21:37AM -0400, Sandy Pyke wrote: Hello all, I am new to Cygwin and I've run across a problem. I have installed Cygwin on two different Windows XP Pro machines and one is working fine and the other is not. On both machines I did a Default installation plus some

Re: various sundry things

2003-10-15 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Edward Peschko wrote: You've got to understand something. When I come across a project and evaluate it for usability, I take about a half an hour with the manual and FAQ to see if I can get it off the bat. Best is if I don't have to spend *any* time with the manual. I have to bite the hook on

Odd error message from cp and mv when omitting .exe suffix

2003-10-15 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
I have noticed an oddity in the behaviour of the cp command. It gives an incorrect error message when I try to copy an .exe file but refer to it without the .exe suffix: cp calc /usr/local/bin/calc.new This produces the incorrect message: cp: calc and /usr/local/bin/calc.new are the same file.

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

2003-10-15 Thread peter garrone
Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: A list of active threads is maintained. A thread calling moncontrol(1) gets put in the list. When a call to SuspendThread fails, the thread is assumed to be defunct and taken off the list. Seems reasonable. I guess I was

RE: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
-Original Message- From: Steve Fairbairn Sent: 15 October 2003 09:19 Subject: RE: cygpath hangings I ran this first with my normal bash shell, renamed the output, and then ran it again from within setup. I am attaching the 2 files as they are as well because of the

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:57:31PM +0800, peter garrone wrote: Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: A list of active threads is maintained. A thread calling moncontrol(1) gets put in the list. When a call to SuspendThread fails, the thread is assumed to be defunct

Re: sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:08:47AM -0400, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I followed the procedure of setting up sshd: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html I launch the sshd with an account that is part of the administrator group (WinXP). One peculiarity about this account is that it

setreuid

2003-10-15 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, I'm trying to use tftp-hpa. Why does setreuid(1012, 1012) fail with EPERM? Should I have any special privileges? Cygwin 1.3.22-dontuse-21 running on a Windows XP 5.1.2600 (system utility in control panel says version 2002, whatever this means). I'm user ibr (member of Administrators),

Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread a12
Hello, I have just installed Cygwin and ssh. ssh is working as expected, except when I terminate the connection, I get the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ exit Connection to rdb closed. \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\03[0m\] As far as I can understand the output is supposed

Re: how do I use two versions of cygwin on one machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Jim Perkins
Your more generic questions needs a more specific answer. I am using cygwin to cross compile the real-time program for a PPC based single board computer. The OS for the SBC is eCos. Using the most recent version of cygwin I CAN compile the real-time program but it does will not execute on the

Daylight saving bug in winsup/times.cc

2003-10-15 Thread Vanlerberghe Ignace
Hello, We are using an old versio of cygwin : uname -a = CYGWIN32_NT NTDATAKOR 5.0 17.6 i686 Now we are dealing with a daylight saving problem because the time from the NT-server must be correct for our application. Since the 5 th october there is a difference of one hour between

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
OK, again with simple tests... I've added a printf to the very start of main in cygpath.cc... --- Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/postinstall $ ./setup_from_win.sh + CYGWIN_DEBUG=/bin/cygpath + set CYGWIN_SLEEP=2 + echo -e 'CYGWIN_DEBUG=/bin/cygpath\tCYGWIN_SLEEP=' CYGWIN_DEBUG=/bin/cygpath

RE: Daylight saving bug in winsup/times.cc

2003-10-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Vanlerberghe Ignace wrote on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 3:10 PM: We are using an old versio of cygwin : uname -a = CYGWIN32_NT NTDATAKOR 5.0 17.6 i686 Now we are dealing with a daylight saving problem because the time from the NT-server must be correct for our application. Since the 5

'bison' error, possibly installation related

2003-10-15 Thread Daniel Edwards
Hello, I'm getting the following error when i'm running the following bison command bison -yd -r all -p _NPropMgr prop_parser.y Signal 6 *** Error code 134 However, I've recently moved the cygwin installation and remounted and I think this is the real problem as I can make the problem go away

Re: Cygwin installer resizable windows

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Eljay, Please don't send personal e-mail with Cygwin questions unless specifically requested. All Cygwin-related inquiries should go to the appropriate list (in this case, cygwin at cygwin dot com). This way you get access to more expertise than any one person can provide, and your question and

Accessing files under rsync-process

2003-10-15 Thread L.-I. Porges
Hello, I've installed Cygwin on a WindowsNT-machine and it works fine. Now I want to transfer files using rsync to a Linux-machine. This also works quite well. There's only one problem, that I am not able to access some of the files and directories using rsync. A 'ls -l' shows me in such cases,

sshd

2003-10-15 Thread e-bone
Anyone have any idea why I might be getting the following error when trying to start up the sshd: The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll I don't think this is a permissions problem. It should start automatically at boot as the Local

little correction

2003-10-15 Thread L.-I. Porges
There is a little mistake in the two passwd-lines I've sent you some minutes ago. Here are the right ones: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:Administrator,U-WEBCAT1\Administrator,S-1-5-21-15...-18..-91...-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash

RE: system() refuses to work!!! HELP

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Chris January wrote: It did not work. Will it be that I found a bug??? How much luck I have.. :-) It follows the source. that program does not do anything of important! It is alone a test. what we most can do? I changed the command for DIR who list the

Re: 'bison' error, possibly installation related

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Daniel Edwards wrote: Hello, I'm getting the following error when i'm running the following bison command bison -yd -r all -p _NPropMgr prop_parser.y Signal 6 *** Error code 134 However, I've recently moved the cygwin installation and remounted and I think this is

Re: sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:22 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:08:47AM -0400, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I followed the procedure of setting up sshd: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html I launch the sshd with an account that is part of the administrator group

Re: sshd

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:26 AM 10/15/2003, e-bone you wrote: Anyone have any idea why I might be getting the following error when trying to start up the sshd: The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll I don't think this is a permissions problem. It should

Re: Accessing files under rsync-process

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:22 AM 10/15/2003, L.-I. Porges you wrote: Hello, I've installed Cygwin on a WindowsNT-machine and it works fine. Now I want to transfer files using rsync to a Linux-machine. This also works quite well. There's only one problem, that I am not able to access some of the files and directories

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:05 AM 10/15/2003, a12 you wrote: Hello, I have just installed Cygwin and ssh. ssh is working as expected, except when I terminate the connection, I get the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ exit Connection to rdb closed. \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\03[0m\] As far as

Re: Accessing files under rsync-process

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, L.-I. Porges wrote: Hello, I've installed Cygwin on a WindowsNT-machine and it works fine. Now I want to transfer files using rsync to a Linux-machine. This also works quite well. There's only one problem, that I am not able to access some of the files and directories

Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Hi, I was perusing the cygwin mailing lists and was wondering if you could help me with a cygwin/opengl question. i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows. Now, from what i understand, cygwin allows

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it *attached*, not enclosed. We also prefer 'cygcheck -srv'. Larry, it *is* attached. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding

Re: setreuid

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:52:12PM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use tftp-hpa. Why does setreuid(1012, 1012) fail with EPERM? Should I have any special privileges? Yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin

VC++ and Perl

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Hello all, I have a C program calling a Perl module running successfully under Cygwin. Can I use VC++ environment to call this Perl? Thanks. Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows. Really? I thought that all Nvidia cards capable of pixel/vertex shaders had Linux driver support. Now,

Re: VC++ and Perl

2003-10-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:46:27AM -0400, Paul Bezzam wrote: Hello all, I have a C program calling a Perl module running successfully under Cygwin. Can I use VC++ environment to call this Perl? Dunno and AFAICT it's off-topic here. If you want to do anything with MSVC, ask a MSVC-related

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:45 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it *attached*, not enclosed. We also prefer 'cygcheck -srv'. Larry, it *is* attached. Not for me and not in the

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Micha Nelissen
Larry Hall wrote: At 11:45 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it *attached*, not enclosed. We also prefer 'cygcheck -srv'. Larry, it *is* attached. Not for me

possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Sebastian Hoffmann
Hi! I apologize if this question is already covered somewhere else, but I didn't find anything with a simple search of the mailing list... I'm of course also happy for pointers to answers to be found somewhere else... (Possibly naive) question: Is it possible to copy a whole cygwin

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Brian Ford wrote: There will be no ouput unless main calls foo, right? Actually, if the DLL was loaded, there should be output even if foo isn't called... Just linking to it causes a load, or is it

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:50 PM 10/15/2003, Micha Nelissen you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 11:45 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it *attached*, not enclosed. We also prefer

Re: possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Sebastian Hoffmann wrote: Hi! I apologize if this question is already covered somewhere else, but I didn't find anything with a simple search of the mailing list... I'm of course also happy for pointers to answers to be found somewhere else... It's been covered, but I

Re: cygwin on ext2

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:55:13PM -0400, e-bone wrote: Just curious, has anyone tried to run cygwin on an ext2 partition using one of the ext2 filesystem drivers available for windows ? like the one from paragon e.g. i imagine there is nothing to gain, since cygwin was designed for

Re: possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:50 PM 10/15/2003, Sebastian Hoffmann you wrote: Hi! I apologize if this question is already covered somewhere else, but I didn't find anything with a simple search of the mailing list... I'm of course also happy for pointers to answers to be found somewhere else... Just covered last week

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: A list of active threads is maintained. A thread calling moncontrol(1) gets put in the list. When a call to SuspendThread fails, the thread is assumed to be defunct and taken off the

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Brian Ford wrote: There will be no ouput unless main calls foo, right? Actually, if the DLL was loaded, there should be output even if foo isn't

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
All, OK, so I tried a lot of things already tried, and at least one thing that hadn't been tried ;). I must admit I haven't followed everything said in the threads so didn't realise we already knew cygpath wasn't actually starting. So, getting this straight in my own head. Setup runs

Re: how do I use two versions of cygwin on one machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Jim Perkins
It works now?? It was four weeks ago when I discovered this problem. Today I installed the latest cygwin so that I could investigate the problem in depth. Now everything works fine? Don't know why and I not going to worry about it. FWIW I'm running 1.5.5 now and I was having problems with

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
I thought this might be useful on the main Cygwin list as well... Igor -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:15:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup 99% Open a bash

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: OK, so I tried a lot of things already tried, and at least one thing that hadn't been tried ;). I must admit I haven't followed everything said in the threads so didn't realise we already knew cygpath wasn't actually starting. No problem here.

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
Well, as the doctor says, If it hurts, don't do that. I think the best suggestion right now is just to run setup from a bash shell. Then all is fine. Well, at least if you haven't already started the other way. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I thought this might be useful on

Re: Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Suresh Venkatasubramanian
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows. Really? I thought that all Nvidia cards capable of

Re: Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows.

Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Hello, Can anyone please point me how to run Cygwin programs(like Perl) from DOS commad line under Windows? Thanks. Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Paul Bezzam wrote: Hello, Can anyone please point me how to run Cygwin programs(like Perl) from DOS commad line under Windows? Make sure the DOS path to /cygwin/bin is in your path to find cygwin1.dll. Use DOS path to Cygwin perl. What doesn't work? -- Brian Ford

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:49:18PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: I don't know how this communication works when bash is starting a non-Cygwin process, though. The cygwin stub stays around until the non-cygwin process exits in this case. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: Again, probably going over old ground but I can't find anywhere that it has actually been stated for those that can't duplicate the problem, that TOPFOLDER=$(cygpath d:/)/Cygwin-XFree86 hangs, but cygpath d:/

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:19:14AM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: All, As a side note, I have 11 copies of that DLL (java dev and runtime, Visual Studio/Source Safe, ...) on my system, but only the system32 one is in my normal path. Someone mentioned something about possible issues to do with

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: Again, probably going over old ground but I can't find anywhere that it has actually been stated for those that can't duplicate the problem, that TOPFOLDER=$(cygpath d:/)/Cygwin-XFree86 hangs, but cygpath d:/ doesn't hang? This

Re: possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Sebastian, Please don't send personal e-mail with Cygwin questions unless specifically requested. Also, please make sure your mailer honors the Reply-To field. I'm redirecting this to the appropriate list. More replies inline below. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Sebastian Hoffmann wrote: Hi! Many

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Brian, I did put the C:\Cygwin\bin in the DOS path; but when I try to run a program under DOS(this program was already compiled under Cygwin before), I get a dialog box saying: This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix it.

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: As Brian has noted, Executing the binary with ' /dev/null' stops the hanging, but also executing it without capturing the output to a variable also stops the hanging. I would

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd be more interested in cygcheck cygpath output in the two different cases. That would tell us which DLLs were being loaded. No difference. For the stripped down MINGW version of cygpath: Found: .\cyghan.exe cyghan.exe

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: As Brian has noted, Executing the binary with ' /dev/null' stops the hanging, but also executing it without capturing the output to a

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: You could try testing the following things: $(cygpath d:/) # don't capture the output but execute cygpath in a subshell Just a subshell works ie. (cyghan.exe). Both $(cyghan.exe) and `cyghan.exe` without assignment to a variable hang. sh -c

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: As Brian has noted, Executing the binary with ' /dev/null' stops the

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of which, what's the version of SHLWAPI that hangs? On my machine (which doesn't exhibit the hang) I have $ ls -l shlwapi.dll msvcrt.dll -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administ

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Paul Bezzam wrote: Brian, I did put the C:\Cygwin\bin in the DOS path; but when I try to run a program under DOS(this program was already compiled under Cygwin before), I get a dialog box saying: This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:31:51PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of which, what's the version of SHLWAPI that hangs? On my machine (which doesn't exhibit the hang) I have $

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Hello, Yes, cygwin1.dll is in the C:\Cygwin\bin directory. Below is the info: C:\Cygwin\home\Administrator\mirapointdir c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is BCDA-6AEC Directory of c:\cygwin\bin 09/20/2003 04:32 PM 971,618 cygwin1.dll

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2003-10-15 Thread caj
shlwapi.dll 6.0.2800.1226 - 395,264 bytes msvcrt.dll 6.1.9844.0 - 286,773 bytes I get the crash -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:31:51PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administ SYSTEM 395264 Jul 13 16:05 shlwapi.dll Version 6.00.2800.1226 -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administ SYSTEM 286773

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
I must be going senile. I just managed to duplicate the problem on my system at work. I could have sworn that I tried this several times to no avail. Stay tuned. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Y. Peng
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote: I have two problems with cron: 1. Where can I get cron.README? I found several places where this file is referred to. But I can't find it in my installation of cygwin.

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: Brian Ford Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:49 PM On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: Is it possible to put a nice big sleep into the bash script before the it gets to the cygpath. Attach gdb to bash during this sleep Add a break point to the exec or whatever the

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Brian Ford wrote: Another weird thing I noticed in the msvcrt.dll properties: Created: Tuesday, May 13 2003 3:34:33 PM Modified: Saturday, July 15 2000 Huh? Quite a normal thing, when a file is copied. The creation date/time of the copy is set to the date/time the copy is performed, while

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: Brian Ford Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:32 PM On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of which, what's the version of SHLWAPI that hangs? On my machine (which doesn't exhibit the hang) I

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