[Review - good to go] unrtf-0.19.0

2004-02-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: * Tue 2004-02-17 Igor Pechtchanski | | Not quite. I'd put the whole shebang (starting with UnRTF) in | setup.hint, i.e., | | sdesc: Convert RTF to other formats, including HTML, LaTeX, text, and PostScript. | ldesc: UnRTF is a moderately

a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Andreas Seidl
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Seidl wrote: Hmm, wouldn't the generic build script be the place to add functionality to remove empty directories? Doing it by hand adds work, and even worse, is a possible source for bugs, as a newer release might have actually files in

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Andreas Seidl wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Seidl wrote: Hmm, wouldn't the generic build script be the place to add functionality to remove empty directories? Doing it by hand adds work, and even worse, is a possible source for bugs, as a newer release might

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Andreas == Andreas Seidl writes: Andreas I have written the following script, which is as good as I can do at Andreas the moment. Andreas - begin - Andreas #!/usr/bin/bash Andreas # rmed -- remove empty directories recursively Andreas # usage: rmed [DIR] where

Re: [Review - good to go] unrtf-0.19.0

2004-02-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Igor == Igor Pechtchanski writes: Igor This is now good to go, and can be uploaded as soon as it gathers the Igor necessary votes. Here is one Igor Igor Ciao Volker

Re: [Review - good to go] unrtf-0.19.0

2004-02-19 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:09:16AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: mkdir unrtf ; cd unrtf wget -q -O - http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/unrtf/get.sh | sh This is now good to go, and can be uploaded as soon as it gathers the necessary

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Andreas Seidl
Bruce Ingalls wrote: Anyhow, here is an elegant, working solution. If no optional dir is passed, then the current dir is checked recursively, and empty subdirectories are passed. #!/bin/bash ROOT=${1:-.} if [ ! -d $ROOT ];then ROOT=.;fi find $ROOT -type d -empty|xargs rmdir - Meanwhile I was

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Andreas Seidl
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Here is another one from o http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/categories.html I searched with Google, but did not find it... --- cut here --- : # rmemptydir - remove empty directories # Heiner Steven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 2000-07-17 # #

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Andreas Seidl wrote: Bruce Ingalls wrote: Anyhow, here is an elegant, working solution. If no optional dir is passed, then the current dir is checked recursively, and empty subdirectories are passed. #!/bin/bash ROOT=${1:-.} if [ ! -d $ROOT ];then ROOT=.;fi

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 01:56, Andreas Seidl wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Feel free to send a patch for this. ;-) Igor I have written the following script, which is as good as I can do at the moment. Oh . I'm sorry, I replied to the wrong thread with my previous email about

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 01:56, Andreas Seidl wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andreas, Feel free to send a patch for this. ;-) Igor I have written the following script, which is as good as I can do at the moment. And is utterly useless. Cygwin setup is written in C/C++. Rob --

Re: Window events skip past window manager?

2004-02-19 Thread Takuma Murakami
Christopher, I'm just installed using Cygwin/X via Cygwin Setup: XFree86-base v 4.3.0-1 XFee86-bin v 4.3.0-8 Running on Win XP Pro. The version of XFree86-xserv is important. Options for XWin.exe are also good information. It's a great relief to see X again! I'm starting off with

Re: Problems with the right-button.

2004-02-19 Thread Takuma Murakami
Gonzalo, What do you mean when you say pressing a control key? Which key do you refer? I meant the key which is printed Ctrl on its keytop, but it is not the problem because you prove Cygwin/X has different behaviour to other X servers. I have followed your recomendations, and have done a

Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?

2004-02-19 Thread Takuma Murakami
Jeffrey, Is it possible to have either button 4 or 5 (usually the forward/back buttons) send a 'button 2' signal (ie paste) to cygwin applications? Chad shows the best way for your purpose. As a note, you can swap mouse buttons via xmodmap command in UNIX like environments. For this case

Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?

2004-02-19 Thread J S
Just to confuse the issue further (sorry), can I map the right mouse button to CTRL+F9 ? JS. Jeffrey, Is it possible to have either button 4 or 5 (usually the forward/back buttons) send a 'button 2' signal (ie paste) to cygwin applications? Chad shows the best way for your purpose. As a

Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?

2004-02-19 Thread Takuma Murakami
Just to confuse the issue further (sorry), can I map the right mouse button to CTRL+F9 ? I guess xmodmap cannot do such remapping. However there are some tools which achieve the remapping in Windows layer. Maybe there are some in UNIX layer too. Takuma Murakami

Re: XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)

2004-02-19 Thread Ed Avis
Ed Avis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - I copied a URL from an email message in Evolution - When I paste into a Windows app, that Windows app is stuck. This happened w/iexplorer and explorer.exe. It appears as if the Windows app is stuck indefinitely waiting for the pastable from XWin. I am seeing

putting xwin into background from a batch script

2004-02-19 Thread J S
Hi, I have a batch script to start an xdmcp session. Once the xwin command runs I need to start up xbindkeys. However the program hangs at the xwin command until the session is closed down, then executes xbindkeys: xwin -noreset -ac -query %SERVER% -from %IP% -clipboard -nodecoration

Re: GDI object leak with remote emacs

2004-02-19 Thread Takuma Murakami
Jeremy, I don't know if this is related to the problems that people are experiencing with local copies of emacs but I'm seeing a GDI object leak with remote invocations of emacs that are routed back to my X server. Basically, I run cygwin/XFree86 on my local workstation, and I start an

Re: Problems with the right-button.

2004-02-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Takuma Murakami wrote: ButtonPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e1, root 0x3b, subw 0x0, time 7103754, (84,92), root:(150,158), state 0x10, button 3, same_screen YES It indicates button presses are correctly reported to applications, I

Re: Window events skip past window manager?

2004-02-19 Thread Takuma Murakami
Christopher, Here's what xev reports when I hit F1 in the event tester window, does this shed any light? KeyPress event, serial 22, synthetic NO, window 0x81, root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 71535359, (37,0), root:(72,469), state 0x10, keycode 67 (keysym 0xffbe, F1), same_screen

Suggestion: Minimize All item in Multi-Window Mode Tray Menu

2004-02-19 Thread David M. Miller
You're probably inundated with far more salient suggestions, but I thought I'd try anyway: When the screen is littered with X windows, it would be useful to be able to minimize them as a group without affecting the non-X windows; likewise, an Undo Minimize All item (a la Windows Explorer taskbar

problems with maximized windows

2004-02-19 Thread Massimiliano Hofer
Hi, I'm using XFree86 4.3.0 under Windows 2000 and Windows XP in multiwindow mode, but I have problems with maximized windows. With many applications (especially CrossOver, but not only), if I maximize them, X starts to display duplicate layers and mouse pointers in menues, drop down lists and

Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?

2004-02-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jeff, I just bought the same keyboard and mouse setup and ran into the same issue that you did. The key is to make the mouse wheel click map to something that the mouse driver does not intercept and prevent from being handled by the current application. The Switch Application function is an

Re: XWin causes Windows apps to hang(?)

2004-02-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ed, Yes, the OpenClipboard failure is probably causing your crash. Try editing your startxwin.bat and removing the -clipboard parameter being passed to XWin.exe. There is likely a bug in XWin.exe's clipboard support that will need to be fixed. Harold Ed Avis wrote: Ed Avis [EMAIL

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[PATCH] Add support for non portable mutex initializers

2004-02-19 Thread Thomas Pfaff
This patch will add support for PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP, PTHREAD_NORMAL_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP and PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP (+ some small bugfixes). Attached are also testcases for these initializers. The initializer names are borrowed from linux nptl. These

lpr improvement proposal

2004-02-19 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi all, Now that the new version (1.2.4-1) of lpr works properly I have been trying to configure the printing commands of programs that can print directly, such as dvips, ghostview or xfig. I have found that this task is not trivial because in general the files to be printed need to be

g++ can't find sys/mman.h?

2004-02-19 Thread chuanyung
Dear all, I already download the latest version cygwin. and setup in win2000. I use g++ to compile a cpp file with mmap function. But it can't find the header file. What should I do? And how to use make? When I type make: it's borland make, not gnu make. How to setup? Thanks. Regards, cylin.

Re: good top program for Cygwin

2004-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a decent top program to run from the command line? The one i have with cygwin installation has no help, and doesnt seem to show all the windows 2000 processes running on my box. thanks Simon If you want a program that is top like

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread linda w
Tried this...some scripts ran. One that didn't wanted lanman.pm located in Win32::lanman. Queerly enough, doing a i /lanman comes up zip even though it is in CPAN at /CPAN/sources/authors/id/J/JH/JHELBERG/lanman.1.0.10.0.zip. Obviously I'm still a bit too new for this stuff, get, make and

Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-19 Thread Russell Hind
I have just installed the latest cygwin and set up cron to run using cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D cygrunsrv -S cron It is running as a service (both in XP task manager and in ps -ef) But I can't get it to execute commands. I have tried a crontab as both /etc/crontab and

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 02:21, Thomas Mellman wrote: Re: ftp crash ftp crashes intermittently (but reliably) when getting files. Hmm, I tried to get various files between 1 Meg and 22 Megs, multiple times, and I didn't have any crash. Do you encounter the same problem with a recent Cygwin snapshot?

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Thomas Mellman
Corinna wrote: On Feb 18 02:21, Thomas Mellman wrote: Re: ftp crash ftp crashes intermittently (but reliably) when getting files. Hmm, I tried to get various files between 1 Meg and 22 Megs, multiple times, and I didn't have any crash. Do you encounter the same problem with a recent

Re: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Russell Hind (2004-02-19 10:55 +0100) I have just installed the latest cygwin and set up cron to run using cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D cygrunsrv -S cron It is running as a service (both in XP task manager and in ps -ef) But I can't get it to execute commands. I have

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 19 03:39, Thomas Mellman wrote: Corinna wrote: On Feb 18 02:21, Thomas Mellman wrote: Re: ftp crash ftp crashes intermittently (but reliably) when getting files. Hmm, I tried to get various files between 1 Meg and 22 Megs, multiple times, and I didn't have any crash. Do you

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Thomas Mellman
Corinna wrote: Did you try to use the mapping feature of nmap? I transfer from a VMS What's nmap? I never used it. I don't see that we have a nmap package in the distro. machine, and I need to nmap to get rid of the version number. I also use the case command to convert from uppercase

RE: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Hughes, Bill
Sent: 19 February 2004 13:32 From: Thomas Mellman ..snip.. $ ftp somehost Connected to somehost.com. 220 somehost.3 FTP Server (Version 5.0) Ready. Remote system type is VMS. ftp user mellman 331 Username mellman requires a Password Password: 230 User logged in. ftp cd somewhere

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread Brian . Kelly
Do all the win32 libraries have to have a special port to work on cygwin even though cygwin was supposed to aid in allowing posix type apps (like perl) to run under win either from the bash or cjmd.exe shell? Definitely the win32 lib is a step in the right direction...but why does cygwin

RE: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-19 Thread Richard Campbell
There are some changes in the latest snapshot that may make inetd work better. I tracked down a stupid error that I'd introduced after 1.5.7. Under the 20040218 snapshot, when trying to start X, inetd does not spin out of control CPU-wise. However, XWin.exe does not start. I tried strace -o

Re: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:51:01AM -0500, Richard Campbell wrote: There are some changes in the latest snapshot that may make inetd work better. I tracked down a stupid error that I'd introduced after 1.5.7. Under the 20040218 snapshot, when trying to start X, inetd does not spin out of control

Re: g++ can't find sys/mman.h?

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, chuanyung wrote: Dear all, I already download the latest version cygwin. and setup in win2000. I use g++ to compile a cpp file with mmap function. But it can't find the header file. What should I do? First, please try reading the problem reporting guide lines available

Re: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:51:01AM -0500, Richard Campbell wrote: However, XWin.exe does not start. I tried strace -o strace_out --mask=all XWin.exe: 20040217 - 0 bytes of output in strace_out 20040218 - 0 bytes of output in strace_out

Re: Gdb runtime error

2004-02-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:15 AM 2/19/2004, Chih-Yi Kuan you wrote: After the cygwin setup from the cygwin installer. Execution of gdb in bash results in the follow error message: * 3 [main] ? 3552 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x6167 0x15A) in

RE: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-19 Thread Harig, Mark
Please read the message in the Cygwin mailing list at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00711.html It will provide you with a script that will attempt to diagnose the problem that you are having with cron. -Original Message- From: Russell Hind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem compiling mysql over cygwin

2004-02-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Guy, Monday, February 16, 2004, 8:12:10 PM, you wrote: I got the following errors when compiling mysql over Cygwin: item_timefunc.o(.text+0x2de6):item_timefunc.cc: undefined reference to `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)' item_timefunc.o(.text+0x2e06):item_timefunc.cc:

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:46:05AM -0800, linda w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried this...some scripts ran. One that didn't wanted lanman.pm located in Win32::lanman. Queerly enough, doing a i /lanman comes up zip even though it is in CPAN at

RE: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-19 Thread Richard Campbell
If strace is not producing any output at all, and there is no xwin.exe.stackdump file then that would point something wrong on your end. I have no idea what could cause this behavior. WFM with current cvs. It must be on his end. And I wouldn't be surprised. Any ideas on where to look for

RE: Gdb runtime error

2004-02-19 Thread Chih-Yi Kuan
Sorry but can you explain more detail about how to use these files? Thank you. -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:32 PM To: Chih-Yi Kuan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gdb runtime error At 12:15 AM 2/19/2004,

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 19 05:31, Thomas Mellman wrote: Corinna wrote: Did you try to use the mapping feature of nmap? I transfer from a VMS What's nmap? I never used it. I don't see that we have a nmap package in the distro. machine, and I need to nmap to get rid of the version number. I also

w32api-2.5 GL/glu.h does not define wchar_t (Was: opengl-1.1.0-7 glut.h does not define wchar_t)

2004-02-19 Thread Andre Bleau
Philip Lamb phil at rave dot co dot nz wrote: Hello, The changes to GL/glu.h in w32api-2.5 expose a problem with the glut.h in opengl-1.1.0-7 package, file GL/glut.h. The problem is that whcar_t is now required to be defined by /usr/include/w32api/GL/glu.h, however glut.h does not do so. I

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:48:48AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:46:05AM -0800, linda w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried this...some scripts ran. One that didn't wanted lanman.pm located in Win32::lanman. Queerly enough, doing a i

RE: Gdb runtime error

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Chih-Yi Kuan wrote: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com] wrote: Please do not quote plain text email addresses in replies. They are food for spammers. Also, Larry forgot to remind you to please *attach* your cygcheck output next time. If you put in inline, it

Re: w32api-2.5 GL/glu.h does not define wchar_t (Was: opengl-1.1.0-7 glut.h does not define wchar_t)

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Ford
I'd say this issue is already fixed in cvs, although, I have not completely confirmed it. 2004-02-19 Danny Smith dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net * include/Gl/glu.h: Include stddef.h. Thanks to Greg Couch gregcouch at users dot sourceforge dot net On Thu, 19 Feb

Re: w32api-2.5 GL/glu.h missing GLU_ERROR definition.

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Ford
Not sure if you've seen this yet or not, but I thought I'd close the thread. Fixed in current cvs by: 2004-02-19 Danny Smith dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net * include/Gl/glu (GLU_ERROR): Define. Thanks to Philip Lamb phil at rave dot co dot nz On Thu, 19 Feb

Zsh crashes on Ctrl-Z with cygwin1.dll snapshot 2004-02-18

2004-02-19 Thread Stefan Dalibor
Hi, since upgrading Cygwin Dll from 1.5.5-1 (which I have to, because I need exim 4.30 which won't run with cygwin1.dll 1.5.6-1, so downgrading is not an option), I'm suffering from problems with Zsh (4.1.1-2). I don't know what Zsh does with process management (the problems don't occur neither

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 19 17:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 19 05:31, Thomas Mellman wrote: ftp nmap $1;$2 $1 ftp case Case mapping on. ftp get mspp_i_seq.h 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for somewhere:MSPP_I_SEQ.H;1 (x.x.x.x,y) Segmentation fault (core dumped) FYI,

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:37 PM 2/19/2004, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: On Feb 19 17:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 19 05:31, Thomas Mellman wrote: ftp nmap $1;$2 $1 ftp case Case mapping on. ftp get mspp_i_seq.h 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for somewhere:MSPP_I_SEQ.H;1

RE: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Richard Campbell wrote: There are some changes in the latest snapshot that may make inetd work better. I tracked down a stupid error that I'd introduced after 1.5.7. Under the 20040218 snapshot, when trying to start X, inetd does not spin out of control CPU-wise.

RE: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-19 Thread Richard Campbell
Can you check whether /tmp/XWin.log shows anything when XWin doesn't start? Nothing. Not surprising, though, considering strace wasn't getting any output. -Richard Campbell. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Zsh crashes on Ctrl-Z with cygwin1.dll snapshot 2004-02-18

2004-02-19 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Ford wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Stefan Dalibor wrote: 2004-02-18 snapshot: Zsh starts fine, no more hangups on non-existing commands, but trying to suspend a program (e.g. vim, lynx) by hitting Ctrl-Z results in a crash with error messages like: 4 [sig]

two text/binary oddities

2004-02-19 Thread Robert R Schneck
Short form: 1) cat foo creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what. 2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode, despite what the Cygwin User's Guide says. Long form: 1) Apparently, cat sometimes explicitly sets stdout to O_TEXT. This occurs twice in the source,

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Thomas Mellman
I fixed the bug (which could only show up when using nmap) and uploaded a new version of inetutils. Wow! I'm impressed. Thank you! As an exercise for the reader: buf = (char *) malloc (size); to = buf; [...] if (newsize size) buf = realloc (buf, newsize); while (newsize--)

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Thomas Mellman wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: As an exercise for the reader: buf = (char *) malloc (size); to = buf; [...] if (newsize size) buf = realloc (buf, newsize); while (newsize--) *to++ = *src++; What's wrong with this picture?

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Thomas Mellman
Brian Ford wrote: Oh, I hope there's an answer section in the back of the book. Hint: realloc can move the data, returning a different base address. Oh. I guess I read the man page wrong: The realloc() function changes the size of the block of memory pointed to by the pointer parameter

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread linda w
What features does one get with a unix perl over a perl built where WinNT is defined as true or false? Many (most? all?) of the Win32 calls are available in the Cygwin environment, why not compile the perl as a mixed breed perl that defines WinNT? What is lost by allowing Perl to make

Re: Assembler

2004-02-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Googling brought me to http://line.sourceforge.net, which may be more along the lines of what you seek. Seems to be a Dead Project(TM). No updates or releases since May 29, 2001. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:27:29AM -0800, linda w wrote: What features does one get with a unix perl over a perl built where WinNT is defined as true or false? Many (most? all?) of the Win32 calls are available in the Cygwin environment, why not compile the perl as a mixed breed perl

cp, install, and the .exe extension

2004-02-19 Thread Robert R Schneck
This is a bug in the fileutils packaging (I think). Recently I noticed that install has special handling for the .exe extension, and cp does not. In the fileutils source tarball I notice there are three files: copy.c copy.c.cgf copy.c.orig If I replace copy.c with either of the other two

Re: 20040217 snapshot problem

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:30:01PM -0500, Richard Campbell wrote: Can you check whether /tmp/XWin.log shows anything when XWin doesn't start? Nothing. Not surprising, though, considering strace wasn't getting any output. Right. Very odd. If you just run xwin.exe does it also misbehave? If

Re: ftp bug report

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:02:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 19 05:31, Thomas Mellman wrote: Corinna wrote: Did you try to use the mapping feature of nmap? I transfer from a VMS What's nmap? I never used it. I don't see that we have a nmap package in the distro.

Re: two text/binary oddities (Users Guide Alert)

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:37:12PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: Short form: 1) cat foo creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what. 2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode, despite what the Cygwin User's Guide says. Joshua, could you remove anything which

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:27:29AM -0800, linda w wrote: What features does one get with a unix perl over a perl built where WinNT is defined as true or false? Many (most? all?) of the Win32 calls are available in the Cygwin environment, why not compile the perl as a mixed breed perl that

Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:09:55PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: This is a bug in the fileutils packaging (I think). Recently I noticed that install has special handling for the .exe extension, and cp does not. In the fileutils source tarball I notice there are three files: copy.c

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Reini Urban
Larry Hall schrieb: At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in a bunch (3500+) of files. That should be an easy one.. :) This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result, it's off-topic for this list. But fixing perl's

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-19 Thread Brian . Kelly
It seems cyg_win_ was designed to add POSIX and unix compatibility and functionality to the _Win_ environment with the intent of making things _easier_ (Easy is good -- not everyone can be a master of every technology). So why not make things easier for perl scripters as well by starting

RE: Repeatable crash with CVS version of cygwin1 DLL

2004-02-19 Thread Cliff Geschke
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Repeatable crash with CVS version of cygwin1 DLL On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:03:21PM -0600, Cliff Geschke wrote: I have tried the latest update from CVS. Still crashes, but stackptr does

Re: Assembler

2004-02-19 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Googling brought me to http://line.sourceforge.net, which may be more along the lines of what you seek. I tried it out, with no success. Binary version fails to run it's own hello and rawhello programs and source produces so many serious errors during the

Re: Repeatable crash with CVS version of cygwin1 DLL

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:58:59PM -0600, Cliff Geschke wrote: From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Repeatable crash with CVS version of cygwin1 DLL On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:03:21PM -0600, Cliff Geschke wrote: I have tried

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote: Larry Hall schrieb: At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in a bunch (3500+) of files. That should be an easy one.. :) This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result,

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:47:45AM +0100, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Hall schrieb: At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in a bunch (3500+) of files. That should be an easy one.. :) This isn't

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote: But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing via perl -i would be cygwin specific. Anyone investigated this lately? What on Earth are you talking about? What inability? WFM (see below). ... $

[Auto tool wrappers] The usage for ifnames ??

2004-02-19 Thread Alvyn Liang
I read the book GCC: The complete reference by Arthur Griffith... In this book it says no example about how to actually use the autoconf package.. There is a line says about how to execute the command ifnames and the functionality of it. I also read the manpage of ifnames but still get confused.

Re: Strange symlink and mv interaction

2004-02-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Parker, Ron wrote: From inside of ~/src/myprojects I did a: mv -- --1.2 ~/tla--escapes--1.2 where --1.2 was a directory in ~/src/myprojects. This did not move ~/src/myprojects/--1.2 to ~/src/tla--escapes--1.2. What it did do was move it to

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote: But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing via perl -i would be cygwin specific. Anyone investigated this lately? What on Earth are you talking

Tk usage with / from perl in Cygwin env

2004-02-19 Thread linda w
Has anyone tried using Tk from perl? I was using a simple script example that used Tk for graphics interaction. It wouldn't run because it wanted Tk, so I cpanned / downloaded the Tk perl libs and ran an a make and got: /bin/perl.exe /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.2/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap

Re: Repeatable crash with CVS version of cygwin1 DLL

2004-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:10:02PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:58:59PM -0600, Cliff Geschke wrote: From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Repeatable crash with CVS version of cygwin1 DLL On Wed,

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:47 PM 2/19/2004, Reini Urban you wrote: Larry Hall schrieb: At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote: I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in a bunch (3500+) of files. That should be an easy one.. :) This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result, it's

Re: [Auto tool wrappers] The usage for ifnames ??

2004-02-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Alvyn Liang wrote: Can somebody give me an example about how to use it and what kind of requisite is it for the usage? I can do better: see http://www. http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ It's a little out of date, especially with respect to cygwin, but only because cygwin is much more similar

daylight saving

2004-02-19 Thread King Lung Chiu
Hi, 'date' on cygwin shows time that's 1 hour behind my machine's local time (Win2K). I am on daylight saving right now (ie. 1 hour ealirer than usual). What can I do to fix the cygwin time so it recognises the daylight saving? regards King Lung Chiu -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Egor Duda
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: What on Earth are you talking about? What inability? WFM (see below). ... $ perl -i -pe 's/blah/stuff/g' sometext $ ls sometext sometext.bak It didn't do the editing inline, it created a new file and renamed the old one .bak. In other words, on Cygwin

main thread of a process

2004-02-19 Thread borota
I want to send messages to the main thread of a Win process created with 'spawn'. Is there a way to do that in 'pure Cygwin'? The Windows sequence would be: CreateProcess(NULL, cmd, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, si, pi); ... PostThreadMessage(pi.dwThreadId, WM_QUIT, 0, 0); //or whatever ...

Re: two text/binary oddities (Users Guide Alert)

2004-02-19 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:21:55PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:37:12PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: Short form: 1) cat foo creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what. 2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode, despite what

Re: search and replace tool

2004-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:02:03AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote: huh? what do you mean in-place? linux writes new file to new place, it just deletes .bak file afterwards, unlike cygwin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo aaa xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -i xxx 408096 xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -i -pe