I forgot to mention that XF86Config support is disabled in this release.
It may be possible to get XF86Config support building again, but
Alexander recently added some command-line options that should be a
useable replacement for most users. In addition, the keyboard
autoconfiguration seems
Alexander, dont you think startxwin.bat should exit
if XWin fails to start ?
This should be pretty easy to support in a batch file :
start XWin -multiwindow
if not errorlevel 0 goto badexit
--- Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
This is normal behaviour.
well, I doubt that you
- Forwarded message from Ross Boulet rboulet -
From: Ross Boulet
To: Cygwin
Subject: Man not finding pages
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:06:22 -0600
I solved my own problem with man not finding pages but in doing the research
on it, I found something I thought might be worthy of mentioning.
Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
Alexander, dont you think startxwin.bat should exit
if XWin fails to start ?
This should be pretty easy to support in a batch file :
start XWin -multiwindow
if not errorlevel 0 goto badexit
Won't work. start launches XWin, then returns to the batch shell
immediately.
Well I'll be dipped in shit.
Ain't that the weirdest thing you ever heard of? Now I gotta go revert
that script and put a proper note in there so that no one tries to fix
it like I did.
Harold
Christopher Faylor wrote:
- Forwarded message from Ross Boulet rboulet -
From: Ross Boulet
A few issues I've encountered with Cygwin/X 4.3.0-47:
Issue #1:
In multiwindow mode, XWin doesn't reset when the last client exists.
Example:
XWin :9 -terminate -multiwindow sleep 5; DISPLAY=:9 xhost
XWin should terminate after 5 seconds, but it remains running.
It isn't supposed to. Run
On 2004-02-28 21:07, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
In multiwindow mode, XWin doesn't reset when the last client exists.
It isn't supposed to. Run 'twm' as your window manager and you will
see that the X Server does not reset when the last non-window manager
client exits; this is because the window
Eran,
As for preventing multiple instances of XWin, a kludgy way to do it is
by checking if anyone is listening on the X server port, using NETSTAT.
Example:
This feature is already implemented in my local tree (not
port based but mutex based detection). It is in test and
documentation
Eran Tromer wrote:
On 2004-02-28 21:07, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
In multiwindow mode, XWin doesn't reset when the last client exists.
It isn't supposed to. Run 'twm' as your window manager and you will
see that the X Server does not reset when the last non-window manager
client exits; this is
Takuma Murakami wrote:
Eran,
As for preventing multiple instances of XWin, a kludgy way to do it is
by checking if anyone is listening on the X server port, using NETSTAT.
Example:
This feature is already implemented in my local tree (not
port based but mutex based detection). It is in test
Oh, I also forgot to mention that this is a test release, so I need
people to report on how well it works before I can mark it a the current
version.
Harold
i've downloaded the latest X server, and clipboard integration
is still failing for me, hanging my X application (xmh on a
remote machine) as soon as i select something. if i don't
use -clipboard, then xwinclip still works ok, with it's known
problems.
let me know if i can provide more info to
Hallo Fabrice,
Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 um 17:37 schriebst du:
Hallo Gerrit,
Thanks for your help. I would like to ask you a few questions:
1) If I use your mysql-4.0.17 libraries, that is if I link my code
against your libmysqlclient.a
then my code works OK. On the other hand, then
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:07:23 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:08:03PM -0500, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:14:38 +, Ryan _ wrote in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Cygwin, a window appeared (looked like a dos prompt) then
Hallo Gerrit,
thanks for your help. I think I will now use your compiled libs instead of
those provided by the MYSQL installer.
I still have a couple question if I want to recompile myself the
libraries:
1) as I understand, the mysqlclient.a are compiled from the MYSQL source
tree
2) where
From: Larry Hall
To: Przemyslaw Sliwa
Subject: Re: A FTP class using C++
This really is off-topic for this list. If anyone had the information
Przem is looking for, please send it directly.
Larry
Sorry; Reply to the list - to make this info visible in the archives.
$ man ncftp
...
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, MEA-MikeFriedrichs wrote:
At 04:55 PM 02/27/2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
MEA-MikeFriedrichs wrote:
This is my error that Win2k reports when I try to use 'less'.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID:
I've installed the latest cygwin. That seemed to go OK in Windows 2000 Server SP3.
I started cygwin from the desktop icon made during the install process.
I ran cygcheck -s
I find there are a few things not found.
1) cpp (good!)
2) gcc
3) gdb
4) ld
What are these? Why is cpp Not found
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:22:38AM -, Hughes, Bill wrote:
Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski
cgf says:
Try the latest snapshot http://cygwin.com/snapshots/.
Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore.
But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error
Frédéric L W Meunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:55:16PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
As far as setup.exe is concerned, it should have installed this package
for you. The setup.hint for the 'less' package includes the line:
--- Marcel Telka wrote:
Hi Elvin.
Napísané dňa 23.01.2004 19:45, (autor: Elvin
Peterson):
At 12:46 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you
wrote:
Hello,
1) When I use xmlto to convert a docbook
xml
file
to
html-nochunks, I get the following error:
basename:
Please forgive me if this is a basic question, but I've searched google
and the cygwin mail archives and can't find the answer. (Actually,
someone asked the same question on the mailing list, but no one
responded.) While using rxvt, I can't use control-c to exit a running
program, i.e. pressing
George,
Please instruct your mailer to wrap long lines, otherwise it's very hard
to read the messages in the archives. Thanks. More below.
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, George Hester wrote:
I've installed the latest cygwin. That seemed to go OK in Windows 2000
Server SP3.
I started cygwin from
When I run the man command on a file in a local
directory, I get
not executing command:
unsafe shell command
and no output is produced. I have checked with
different manpages (ones copied to the local directory
from /usr/man) and I get the same error. man works
well otherwise.
Google
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Christian Matuszewski wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:22:38AM -, Hughes, Bill wrote:
Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski
cgf says:
Try the latest snapshot http://cygwin.com/snapshots/.
Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore.
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Chuck Irvine wrote:
Please forgive me if this is a basic question, but I've searched google
and the cygwin mail archives and can't find the answer. (Actually,
someone asked the same question on the mailing list, but no one
responded.) While using rxvt, I can't use
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
When I run the man command on a file in a local
directory, I get
not executing command:
unsafe shell command
and no output is produced. I have checked with
different manpages (ones copied to the local directory
from /usr/man) and I get the
When I start Jboss server from rxvt, I cannot exit, that is, shutdown
the server, using Control-c. If I start the server from the normal
cygwin bash prompt, that is, cywin.bat, control-c shuts down the server.
Control-c from rxvt in other contexts does seem to work, for example, if
I invoke ping
The same problem keeps coming up in new and different
ways that keep running into. My background also has user
interface design, usability in it and I keep running into
problems as I try to use things from the perspective of
a user like my mom -- or just a windows users not famililar
with linux
From: Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
When I run the man command on a file in a local
directory, I get
not executing command:
unsafe shell command
SNIP
Exactly which man page fails? Could you possibly attach the failing one,
along with the exact
Chuck Irvine wrote:
When I start Jboss server from rxvt, I cannot exit, that is, shutdown
the server, using Control-c. If I start the server from the normal
cygwin bash prompt, that is, cywin.bat, control-c shuts down the server.
Control-c from rxvt in other contexts does seem to work, for
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:04:17AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
u2d test.fil
test.fil:
u2d processing test.fil: No such file or directory
d2u test.fil
test.fil
d2u processing test.fil: No such file or directory
You probably need to refamiliarize yourself with:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:29:01AM -0800, linda w wrote:
[long, rambling off-topic email deleted]
Ok.
As mentioned here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00186.html
you're now blocked from this mailing list.
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Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email.
Dave,
I tried changing the jboss startup script to use /usr/bin/bash instead
of /bin/sh and that worked pretty well. When I hit control-c, the
jboss server does shut down. However, the normal logging sent to
standard out showing the progress of the shutdown does not come through.
Not sure what to
Chuck,
If you wish to get a clean shutdown, *do not* rely on Cygwin signals
unless you're sure that the program can handle them properly. I suggest
looking at the Cygwin sources to find out exactly what a SIGINT gets
turned into for Windows processes. Most likely it's doing exactly what
you
Chuck Irvine wrote:
I'm a little hesitant to go to the latest snapshot since I rely on
cygwin for many things. Do you think it is as safe as the current
version?
I think it's much safer, actually. I've been using the latest snapshot
since it was released and believe it to be the best since
At 02:08 PM 2/28/2004, Chuck Irvine you wrote:
I'm a little hesitant to go to the latest snapshot since I rely on
cygwin for many things. Do you think it is as safe as the current
version?
What does that mean? What makes the current version safe? You are
implying something here by your
Larry,
I see that I've caused you some concern. Let me be more specific. Not
being familiar with Cygwin snapshots, I was tending to equate the term
with what might go by the name daily builds in other projects. Folks
are often warned that these are less stable then the current stable
release and
I solved my own problem with man not finding pages but in doing the research
on it, I found something I thought might be worthy of mentioning. From the
message:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00064.html
I learned the a colon prefix to $MANPATH allows man to search its default
paths
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 03:20:56PM -0600, Chuck Irvine wrote:
I see that I've caused you some concern. Let me be more specific. Not
being familiar with Cygwin snapshots, I was tending to equate the term
with what might go by the name daily builds in other projects. Folks
are often warned that
I think Chris's response sums up the current state of the Cygwin DLL
quite nicely and properly sets the expectations for recent snapshots.
Obviously, in general, snapshot volatility can vary. People who try
snapshots generally shouldn't expect that the snapshot will perform
better than a
Hello,
localtime() seems to be returning GMT instead of the local time. I've
tested the same script on three different machines. (Unfortunately, on
linux and sgi, they are using perl 5.6.1 whereas on cygwin, I'm using
5.8.2, but I don't *think* it's a perl bug). If I just use 'date', I
An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.1.1-3) has been released and should be
at a mirror near you real soon.
This release fixes the rebase issue concerning zsh. Previous releases of
zsh were generated using a method which created DLLs which were not
rebase-able. This release corrects this problem by
Thanks for the quick response.
John,
Please configure your mailer to wrap long lines. Thanks. More below.
Sorry about that. My mail anonymizer (Sneakemail) strips returns from
messages composed in its text body input box. You have reformatted the
message correctly.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2004
--- Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
From: Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
When I run the man command on a file in a local
directory, I get
not executing command:
unsafe shell command
SNIP
Exactly which man page fails? Could you possibly
--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
not executing command:
unsafe shell command
Thanks.
Elvin,
invoking man, you don't give it the actual man page,
AFAIK, but the name
of the command...
From man(1):
However, if name contains a slash (/)
A cursory check of the archives would have dug up this exchange:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00582.html
Sooo - either try the latest snapshot of the cygwin1.dll, or
wait for release 1.5.8.
And *when* will that be you might ask??
The definitive answer:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 ncokwqc02atsneakemaildotcom wrote:
[snip]
So my question is this: How do I modify the file(s) on 'Alpha' or on
'//Filer' to obtain password-less access from 'Beta' to 'Alpha' when the
password file on 'Alpha' says '//Filer/john' is my home directory?
Sorry, no
--- Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
From: Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
When I run the man command on a file in a local
directory, I get
not executing command:
unsafe shell command
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01661.html
This
--- Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
From: Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
When I run the man command on a file in a local
directory, I get
not executing command:
unsafe shell command
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01661.html
I
I have updated the lftp package to 2.6.10-2.
A command line file transfer program. It supports ftp, ftps, http, https,
hftp, fish and file protocols. It also supports tab-completion, command
histories and more.
-The previous release (2.6.10-1) didn't have SSL support. I have recompiled
lftp with
About eighteen months ago, running WinME, I used to be able to use RXVT
under Cygwin; but with the latest version of Cygwin and rxvt et al.,
it's not working -- no matter what I try, the rxvt window comes up, but
the terminal-control codes don't set colors and such, but show up as
backslashed
When I run cygwin XEmacs on my laptop after some time I have to close it as
my laptop becomes very hot (and the fan goes non-stop and lot noisier than
usual). So I work on porting some latex related stuff that works only on
cygwin to native XEmacs. I wouldn't do that but I am afraid not to fry
Hi,
I want read the manual of the C++ function gettimeofday. But I can't
find it. I'm not sure whether I installed it or not. Can somebody help me?
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Peng
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* From: Jonathan E. Brickman jbrickman at joshuacorps dot org
* To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
* Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 23:06:38 -0600
* Subject: Issue with rxvt
About eighteen months ago, running WinME,
Peng Yu wrote:
I want read the manual of the C++ function gettimeofday. But I can't
find it. I'm not sure whether I installed it or not. Can somebody help me?
That function is a C function, and it's part of libc, the standard C
library. info libc is a good place to start. However,
What I did was download the Linux man pages from The Linux Documentation
Project
(http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/man-pages/man-pages-1.55.tar.gz)
'tar zxvf man-pages-1.55.tar.gz' them and then copy man2 and man4 to
C:\cygwin\usr\man (/usr/man/)
Greg
At 09:53 PM 2/28/2004, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
I want read the manual of the C++ function gettimeofday. But I can't
find it. I'm not sure whether I installed it or not. Can somebody help me?
Thanks.
Not part of C++ AFAIK. It's a posix function with C binding. Apparently,
there's no cygwin
What is AFAIK?
How I can fall back on the Windows API?
Peng
- Original Message -
From: Tim Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: gettimeofday
At 09:53 PM 2/28/2004, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
At 11:00 PM 2/28/2004, Peng Yu wrote:
What is AFAIK?
How I can fall back on the Windows API?
The cygwin specific code in the g77 date_and_time() source code shows use
of the Windows API call to compensate for this lack in cygwin
gettimeofday(). http://cygwin.com/acronyms/Way back in the
An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.1.1-3) has been released and should be
at a mirror near you real soon.
This release fixes the rebase issue concerning zsh. Previous releases of
zsh were generated using a method which created DLLs which were not
rebase-able. This release corrects this problem by
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