[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-4

rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows command shell. This port can be used with or without X. This build enables 256 color support and fixes a problem loading the newly named X11 dll when displaying to an X display. To update your installation, click on the "Insta

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-4

Hi, On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:23:46AM -0500, Steve O wrote: > rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows > command shell. This port can be used with or without X. > > This build enables 256 color support and fixes a problem loading > the newly named X11 dll when display

Re: XEmacs and hot laptops

> Most of laptops I've seen have fixed speed fans, that are turned on when > heat exceeds some predefined limit, and for some reasons on some laptops > fan just runs "for sure" once a while. > > Mine laptop is set as high as 70 celcius CPU temp, so well, it get's > hot, specially from under (Yes,

Problem with dd to raw disks

Hi, I am facing problems issuing dd to raw disks from windows 2k3 server thru cygwin. dd if/dev/zero of=".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=5 seek =3 fails with the error dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument But it works the other way, I mean if i give ".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" a

RE: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line

Now that You point it out, I myself also do not understand how this can work, but it does! BTW, Hannu, Your mailto does not really work :-) > -Original Message- > From: Hannu E K Nevalainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 3:04 PM > To: Morche Matthias > Sub

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.1.1-3

Peter, On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:35:27PM -0500, Peter A. Castro wrote: > 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 changing the DLL > buildin

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Anees Mannesseri > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problem with dd to ra

read(): varblk tape records...

The NT API 'ReadFile' for reading variable block tape records indicates the block length by returning only one full-block at a time (per read call) which isn't being honored by CygWin's read() function. Can CygWin be changed to detect a *tape* read() call and not continue to fill the user-buffe

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: > Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation > problem"... What about reading the user's guide instead? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806 Corinna > > -Original Message- > > dd if/dev/

Re: read(): varblk tape records...

On Mar 1 13:32, Jason Winter wrote: > The NT API 'ReadFile' for reading variable block tape records indicates the > block length by returning only one full-block at a time (per read call) > which isn't being honored by CygWin's read() function. ??? > Can CygWin be changed to detect a *tape* re

Re: cygcheck

Hi Chris... Blaming is a mean thing to do :,). ...Karl From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygcheck Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:44:46 -0500 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:36:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 29 Feb 20

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

Hi, Thanx for the references. I tried the forward slash, but that didnt help. After going thru the user's guide, i tried /dev/sde instead of //./PHYSICALDRIVE4 and it worked. From what i could undertand, the problem is with opening the file for write. Any clue on how to get thru this ? Thanx Anee

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Larry At 09:47 AM 3/1/2004, you wrote: >On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: >> Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation >> problem"... >

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the docum

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful > >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user

[OT] List archive configuration

Hi, I'm aware that this may be quite a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to reproduce the archiving setup of the Cygwin mailing lists on another list, and I was wondering if the exact archiving procedure and the relevant MHonArc config files are accessible somewhere, or if some particular standard pro

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something. Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all. Ken > -Original Message- > From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks > > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

Oh well, I thought I'd made my intent impossible to mistake. Entire discussion reformatted with top-quoting for your convenience (though I refrained from leaving the list-trailers in). On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:51PM -0500, Ken Thompson wrote: > What really bugs me is people who complain inst

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

> Sent: 01 March 2004 16:45 From: Christopher Faylor > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful > >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It s

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

Ah, but you'd have to read the documentation for that... Igor P.S. What's "cygwim.com", and what relevance does it have to this discussion? ;-) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Ken Thompson wrote: > What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something. > Quit complaining and do someth

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:16:22AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful >>>information. Why would any

Re: [OT] List archive configuration

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >I'm aware that this may be quite a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to >reproduce the archiving setup of the Cygwin mailing lists on another list, >and I was wondering if the exact archiving procedure and the relevant >MHonArc config

Re: gettimeofday

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Tim Prince wrote: > The implementation used by cygwin doesn't set the fractional seconds > fields, so you must fall back on the Windows API for milliseconds. > and > The cygwin specific code in the g77 date_and_time() source code shows use > of the Windows API call to compensa

Re: Man not finding pages

* Ross Boulet (2004-02-28 23:06 +0100) > 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

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

I can reproduce with that snapshot, but I get slightly different results. Here is the stderr output from 1052 runs, but the strange thing is that even when I get errors, the task continues to run. It seems somehow that the return code of the errored run gets lost or something. This is differ

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:12:18PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: >I can reproduce with that snapshot, but I get slightly different >results. As long as we're comparing results, I might as well mention that I've been running this on a Windows 2000 SP4 system since Friday without interruption. cgf

cron problem report

Hi, I have trouble getting my cron to work. I have tried cron_diagnosis.sh 1.3 but I could not find any problems. I also did the suggestion from the cron_diagnosis.sh output but it does not work. Here is the crontab -l, cron_diagnose.sh output and the cygcheck -srv output. Hope you can help me. %

A Brand New 100% Internet-Based Business

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Re: [OT] List archive configuration

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >I'm aware that this may be quite a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to > >reproduce the archiving setup of the Cygwin mailing lists on another list, > >and I was wondering if the exac

RE: cron problem report

Please try version 1.4. It has additional checks. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01341.html > -Original Message- > From: Seiji Tokunaga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cron problem report > > > Hi, > >

RE: cron problem report

> > % crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on Mon Mar 1 15:03:19 2004) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 > corinna Exp $) > * * * * * `date` >> ${HOME}/foo.log > % Do not include backquotes on 'date' -

Re: cron problem report

* Seiji Tokunaga (2004-03-01 21:27 +0100) > I have trouble getting my cron to work. Please consider explaining what you mean by this otherwise any answer to your report won't satisfy you. > % crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on

proftpd

hi, after install proftpd, the bash shell cannot find "proftpd", why? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

-- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: proftpd

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Michael Chen wrote: > hi, after install proftpd, the bash shell cannot find "proftpd", why? > It's in /usr/sbin, which is not, by default, in your PATH. Please try a cursory look yourself before posting next time. You can also use the package search facility at http://cygwin.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.1.1-3

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jason Tishler wrote: > Peter, > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:35:27PM -0500, Peter A. Castro wrote: > > 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 releas

RE: proftpd

Thanks for the reply, I learned how to find out where is the installed piece by the help of http://cygwin.com/packages/ . Thanks. Surprisingly, "which" didn't tell me that. -Original Message- From: Brian Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:10 PM To: Michael Chen

RE: proftpd

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Michael Chen wrote: > Thanks for the reply, I learned how to find out where is the installed piece > by the help of http://cygwin.com/packages/ . Thanks. > Surprisingly, "which" didn't tell me that. > "which" only tells you about things in your PATH. -- Brian Ford Senior Rea

invalid spawn id (4)

Hey, nobody ever replied but the answer is, don't use Microsoft telnet client with cygwin expect. Install cygwin telnet client ( NOT installed by default, heaven alone knows why when they have a gazillion other things installed by default that will only be useful to 0.000

Fix for : read()

Hi Corinna, (For continued reference:) The Tape Block Length information is in MSDN, within the document Q161338 in the knowledge base. The CygWin read() function calls ReadFile() repeatedly while the programmers read buffer-length parameter value "#of bytes" hasn't been read from the handle.

rxvt man page is garbled

The man page for the "rxvt" command is garbled. I have rxvt-2.7.10-4 (the latest). "man rxvt" shows: .YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .SH "NAME" .YODLTAGEND. rxvt (ouR XVT) - a VT102 emulator for the X window system.YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .PP .YODLTAGEND. .YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .SH "SYNOP

Error using cygrunsrv to stop bash scripts

I have installed cygrunsrv to run bash.exe with a script as parameter. Service starts and stops OK but on the stop it also produces these errors. . A system error has occurred. System error 1067 has occurred. The process terminated unexpectedly. Script does catch the signal and terminate graceful

Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

You can use LaTeX for that. There are different packages depending on what kind of slides you want to make. (here some I know of: prosper, beamer, seminar, slides, etc.) Some of them take advantage of the powerful presentation features of Adobe PDF (about which I think many of us 'Windows also' peo

Re: invalid spawn id (4)

At 07:33 PM 3/1/2004, you wrote: >Hey, nobody ever replied but the answer is, don't use Microsoft telnet >client with cygwin expect. > >Install cygwin telnet client ( NOT installed by default, heaven alone knows >why when they have a gazillion other things installed by default that will >only be

Gnucash?

I saw that Ivan Middleton was working on getting GnuCash to run under Cygwin as of last May. Anyone know if it will now? -- Jonathan E. Brickman http://joshuacorps.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

Re: Error using cygrunsrv to stop bash scripts

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Cousins, Andrew wrote: > I have installed cygrunsrv to run bash.exe with a script as parameter. > Service starts and stops OK but on the stop > it also produces these errors. . > > A system error has occurred. > System error 1067 has occurred. > The process terminated unexpecte

RE: Man not finding pages

> > You. Man. Are. Genius. > Thanks, but you embarrass me. I just get lucky occasionally. I'm not an expert at man and I know next to nothing about zsh, but based on some personal observations, I think I can answer some of your questions about man and manpath. > Recently I posted http://artic

Re: Error using cygrunsrv to stop bash scripts

Igor, Service is installed with # cygrunsrv --install actest3 \ --path c:/usr/Cyg-Win32/bin/bash.exe\ --args d:/usr/ea/dr_service/actest.sh \ --desc "MOSAIC/DNMS Disaster Recovery" \

RE: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

Dear Greg, Thanks for the reply. What I really want is something to make presentation slides in seminar, something like Lyx, which is the drive for me to install cygwin-:) Any ideas? Best regards, Michael Chen -Original Message- From: Gregory Borota [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monda

Re: another new version of cygwin-doc for upload

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > Here is a new version of cygwin-doc that fixes the PDF > problem reported on the list. It would probably be best > to remove 1.3-7 and leave 1.3-6. > > >

crontab: no changes made to crontab

Dear all, since the first time using "crontab -", I can never change the crontab file anymore. "crontab -e" calls emacs, but cron just discarded any new modifications. The emacs saved the "crontab.*" into /tmp. What's wrong? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

RE: can't achieve password-less ssh authentication when my home directory is on a network file server

> > [snip] > > > > - Create a local home directory (e.g. /home/john); mount the remote > > > directory (//Filer) onto it; then mount c:\cygwin\home\john\.ssh onto > > > /home/john/.ssh. > > > > I want to make sure I understand your suggestion. Does it > amount to doing > > the following on 'Alpha'

Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

PLEASE, configure your email client not to show email addresses in reply!!! (or if you can't take this off list) I work with xemacs (under cygwin) and yap (I can give you nice pointers on how to configure them so that you can get real WYSIWYG). I don't like Lyx, LaTeX is so nice and intuitive t

Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

Hi, I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's inherently error prone, will never be done anywhere near thoroughly enough and properly is a responsibility of the list software. IMO, of course. Randa

Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

Randall, I agree with you. Maybe the master wants to take notice. Greg You wrote on 3/2/2004 12:21 AM: Hi, I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's inherently error prone, will never be done anywh

Better way to do this? (bash scripting)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope this isn't considered too far OT, but perhaps someone will find this useful. I wrote the attached scripts, which I place in /etc/profile.d/, in order to get quicker access to the original-package and Cygwin-specific documentation. (pkgdoc and cy

Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

Yes, the mailing-list software could be changed to obfuscate them. Is it so hard ? On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Randall R Schulz wrote: > I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to > this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's > inherently error prone, wi