Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:33:23PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >"H. James de St. Germain" wrote: >>at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more >>curious that placing it after cygwin starts causes programs like rxvt >>to core dump. > >Why should that be curious? As Chris

Vertically-oriented version of 'xmessage'

2004-01-08 Thread Tim Hubberstey
Is there a vertically-oriented version of xmessage available? Is there some other tool that puts up buttons and returns codes? I want to create shell script that puts up a toolbar down the side of my screen with customizable text buttons. I know I could do this in Tk but the learning curve is not

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Brian Dessent
"H. James de St. Germain" wrote: > at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more > curious that placing it after cygwin starts causes programs like rxvt > to core dump. Why should that be curious? As Chris pointed out it has to be set before cygwin1.dll initializes. If

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:35:08PM -0700, H. James de St. Germain wrote: >several people have responded that the CYGWIN environment variable >should be set in the cygwin.bat file, but for whatever reason, I put it >in the shell resource file and that fixed the problems i was having at >the time...

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread H. James de St. Germain
several people have responded that the CYGWIN environment variable should be set in the cygwin.bat file, but for whatever reason, I put it in the shell resource file and that fixed the problems i was having at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more curious that placing

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 05:03 PM 1/8/2004, H. James de St. Germain you wrote: > >(But doesn't everyone just work in emacs anyway?) > > No, if I'm one of "everyone". Hey, I personally use vi(m). But I do know people who'd like to boot up emacs as their OS. :-) > >Then when you

Re: Cygwin mailing list post "Re: Cannot delete shortcuts under windows XP"

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Paul, All Cygwin-related queries should go to the Cygwin mailing list. Not only will it give you access to more expertise than any one person can provide, it also puts your question and any answers to it in the archives which, as you discovered already, can be used by others with similar problems

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:03 PM 1/8/2004, H. James de St. Germain you wrote: >(But doesn't everyone just work in emacs anyway?) No, if I'm one of "everyone". >Then when you start cygwin, it pops up an rxvt terminal for you. > >NOTE: in the past I have had > > setenv CYGWIN "tty" > >in my resource file (.tcshrc)

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread H. James de St. Germain
To follow up on using rxvt: I have changed by cygwin.bat to have rxvt -e tcsh -l as the final line. (Yes I (currently) like some of the old tcsh properties over bash (though I've used both over time)) (But doesn't everyone just work in emacs anyway?) Then when you start cygwin, it pops u

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:44:56PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>i don't have a winsup directory (didn't compile cygwin from src) so >>fixing fhandler_console.cc might be more than i want to attempt. >>strange though, you would think that if it were that easy the >>developers would have already

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Jim, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header. Also, if advice given by someone on the Cygwin list helped you, it's usually a good idea to post a followup to the list stating this, just to bring things to a closure, so that others searching the archives will see what worked and w

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, H. James de St. Germain wrote: > Control spacebar doesn't work in the standard cygwin terminal. This is > a problem for those of us who love emacs... > > From the cryptic posts I've found on the web, it seems that this results > because the "C-spacebar" is not a recognized ASC

control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread H. James de St. Germain
Control spacebar doesn't work in the standard cygwin terminal. This is a problem for those of us who love emacs... >From the cryptic posts I've found on the web, it seems that this results because the "C-spacebar" is not a recognized ASCII value and thus is not being "sent" Could someone wh

select with timeout on /dev/com1 never returns

2004-01-08 Thread Dave Korn
Ever had one of those weeks where *every* feature you try and use seems not to want to work for you? sigh :-{ Well, unless I've done something really dumb, this simple testcase ought to wait 1/4 of a second to receive a char from com1 and then exit. But it doesn't. It locks up in some v

Re: X11R6.4 Problem

2004-01-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:44 PM 1/9/2004, Eric LaBolle you wrote: >I am trying to build an application that uses X11R6.4 libraries and includes, >however, these are now distributed with the current cygwin. Previous versions (B20) >do not seem to work properly. Where do I get the most recent X11 distribution with

Re: X11R6.4 Problem

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:44:55AM -0800, Eric LaBolle wrote: >I am trying to build an application that uses X11R6.4 libraries and >includes, however, these are now distributed with the current >cygwin. Previous versions (B20) do not seem to work properly. Where do I >get the most recent X11 d

X11R6.4 Problem

2004-01-08 Thread Eric LaBolle
I am trying to build an application that uses X11R6.4 libraries and includes, however, these are now distributed with the current cygwin. Previous versions (B20) do not seem to work properly. Where do I get the most recent X11 distribution with all of the necessary includes and libs? Eric

[ANNOUNCEMENT] CMake-1.8.3-1

2004-01-08 Thread William A. Hoffman
CMake 1.8.3-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors. There has been a new release of the official cmake (1.8.3). This is a minor release from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3. Changes from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3 Bug #407 - nslookup is being deprecated for Red Hat and Fedora distributions Bug #408 - Using -D without a type

RE: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Morche Matthias
Hi Frantisek, try appending c:\cygwin\bin to Your windows PATH environment variable. That should do the job... matthias ... > So, now I have the latest cygwin but I can no longer run it from a > standard Windows BAT file because it doesn't "see" > cygwin1.dll file (and > other DLL files

Re: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Frantisek Fuka wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Frantisek Fuka wrote: > > > >>[snip] > >>Thank you all for the help. The problem was that I kept the old > >>cygwin1.dll because I needed it to run the old sitecopy version. > > > > > > FWIW, there should

Re: Problem with clisp package.

2004-01-08 Thread Kaz Kylheku
The packaged CLISP is built using libsigsegv. However, that library is not packaged with it, so it's not possible to do custom links of CLISP, which some CLISP-based applications need to do! (That is to say, some programs add their own C functions to CLISP by adding them to the set of pieces from

Re: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Frantisek Fuka
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Frantisek Fuka wrote: [snip] Thank you all for the help. The problem was that I kept the old cygwin1.dll because I needed it to run the old sitecopy version. FWIW, there should be no need to do this. Newer versions of cygwin1.dll should let older ap

Re: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Frantisek Fuka wrote: > [snip] > Thank you all for the help. The problem was that I kept the old > cygwin1.dll because I needed it to run the old sitecopy version. FWIW, there should be no need to do this. Newer versions of cygwin1.dll should let older applications run just f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-1.5k-2

2004-01-08 Thread Dr . Volker . Zell
Hi A new version of 'man' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: Man, apropos and whatis. CYGWIN NEWS: - Fixed problem of makewhatis -s It couldn't take more than one parameter Thanks to Matthew Carter See also: o http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/20

Re: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:27 AM 1/8/2004, Frantisek Fuka you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: >>At 04:59 AM 1/8/2004, Frantisek Fuka you wrote: >> >>>Hello >>> >>>I am not a Cygwin expert but I am trying to compile sitecopy >>>(http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/) under the Cygwin, which should be possible "out of >>>the box". U

Re: SSH-Keyauthentification with Windows 2003

2004-01-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:48 AM 1/8/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: >Hello, > >I want to realize SSH-Keyauthentification with Windows 2003 and cygwin >1.5.5.1 As ssh-client I use putty 0.53b on a Windows NT SP6-workstation. > > I use a technical account for the ssh-service with the privileges > >- logon as service

Re: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Frantisek Fuka
Larry Hall wrote: At 04:59 AM 1/8/2004, Frantisek Fuka you wrote: Hello I am not a Cygwin expert but I am trying to compile sitecopy (http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/) under the Cygwin, which should be possible "out of the box". Unfortunately, after unpacking he source, entering the directory and ty

Re: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:59 AM 1/8/2004, Frantisek Fuka you wrote: >Hello > >I am not a Cygwin expert but I am trying to compile sitecopy >(http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/) under the Cygwin, which should be possible "out of >the box". Unfortunately, after unpacking he source, entering the directory and typing >"./co

SSH-Keyauthentification with Windows 2003

2004-01-08 Thread Stefan . Vogler
Hello, I want to realize SSH-Keyauthentification with Windows 2003 and cygwin 1.5.5.1 As ssh-client I use putty 0.53b on a Windows NT SP6-workstation. I use a technical account for the ssh-service with the privileges - logon as service - create token - replace process token because the local s

GNU Emacs/rxvt/bash and dead-keys

2004-01-08 Thread Nelson Marques
Although I can get dead-keys working on rxvt/bash, I can't use them in GNU Emacs at the same environment. Can you please help me with this irritant problem? I had already searched mailing lists and websites for this problem, but no solution seems to work in here. Thanks in advance, Nelson Marq

Re: Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Frantisek wrote: > Hello > I am not a Cygwin expert but I am trying to compile sitecopy > (http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/) under the Cygwin, which should be > possible "out of the box". Unfortunately, after unpacking he source, > entering the directory and typing "./configure", small window app

Crash when compiling Sitecopy

2004-01-08 Thread Frantisek Fuka
Hello I am not a Cygwin expert but I am trying to compile sitecopy (http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/) under the Cygwin, which should be possible "out of the box". Unfortunately, after unpacking he source, entering the directory and typing "./configure", small window appears with the following tex