RE: Cannot connect to remote target via serial port

2004-11-22 Thread Hans Kester
Dave is right, /dev/comX works fine. And it is indeed not fixed in 6.1. Hans -Original Message- From: Dave Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 6:10 PM To: 'Keith Seitz'; Hans Kester Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cannot connect to remote

Re: How to use GNOME

2004-11-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Angelo Graziosi (D. Zanello) wrote: Hi, I have downloaded and installed (with setup.exe) the GNOME-packages (those in release/GNOME directory). (I have all CYGWIN installed). It is not clear for me how I, now, have to use them. (I have not desktop icons for GNOME, also is I have selected, from

Cygwin rsync and the Window XP SP2 firewall

2004-11-22 Thread Hans Kratz
Hi! We want to use cygwin rsync to implement an autoupgrade feature for our software. For that we implemented a script which connects to an anonymous rsync server on the default rsync port (873). This works just fine but there is one problem. When rsync is invoked the Windows firewall displays

Re: Cygwin rsync and the Window XP SP2 firewall

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Hans Kratz wrote: > Now my questions are: > What does rsync do to provoke this message? > How can I prevent this message from being displayed I think this would be better addressed to the rsync mailing list. The cygwin version of rsync is unchanged from the upstream (except for a textmode patch

RE: Grep and matching end of line (anchoring)

2004-11-22 Thread Dalton, Barnaby
Thanks for all the replies. In practice I am using grep on the output of a DOS utility rather than via cat (sorry for the bad example). So I was originally writing something like: doscommand | grep '\.h$' I imagine its fairly common usage to want to pipe DOS command output to cygwin utilities. A

AW: Compatibility to Windows2003 (64-bit)

2004-11-22 Thread Jung, Rudi
Hi, thank you all for the informations. The IA64 version is released since 2003. The AMD/EM64T version is planned "for the first half of 2005" (Microsoft info). Rudi -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 19. November 2004 16:33 A

RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-22 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Bob and Pierre thanks for your analysis so far. Bob Byrnes wrote on Friday, November 19, 2004 5:49 PM: > I spent a little time looking at these straces and scp -v > output. I still don't understand what's going on, but it > seems to be unrelated to the recent pipe changes. I say that > becau

Add hyperthreading issues to "Known Problems" section of the FAQ

2004-11-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
Hi, It would have saved me some irritation over the last few days if the Cygwin FAQ mentioned that there are some unresolved issues with running on hyperthreaded processors. The first thing I did when I encountered problems was check the FAQ - since hyperthreading wasn't mentioned, I initially

post uninstall script?

2004-11-22 Thread niac78
Hi! I built a package with a post install script (located in /etc/postinstall/) and I would like to create a script with a "post uninstall" script to clean up some files. Is this possible? What is the best way? Thanks for your help. Nick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: audio recording

2004-11-22 Thread jashy
is cat /dev/dsp working? -- 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: post uninstall script?

2004-11-22 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I built a package with a post install script (located in /etc/postinstall/) and I would like to create a script with a "post uninstall" script to clean up some files. Is this possible? What is the best way? No, but you can have a preremove script (/etc/preremove). -

Re: audio recording

2004-11-22 Thread Shuhei Habu
hi jashy-san, Even cat /dev/dsp doesn't work like this: Permission denied Humm, could you tell me what is wrong? On 22 Nov 2004 20:56:17 +0800 jashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is cat /dev/dsp working? > > -- Shuhei Habu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 090-7900-0633 -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: audio recording

2004-11-22 Thread Shuhei Habu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp crw-rw-rw-1 hub ‚È‚µ 14, 3 Nov 22 22:10 /dev/dsp And sound device's permission is ok like above. On 22 Nov 2004 20:56:17 +0800 jashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is cat /dev/dsp working? > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

gmp.h and 'g++ -mno-cygwin'

2004-11-22 Thread Alex Vinokur
Here is file bar.cpp. -- bar.cpp -- #include int main () { return 0; } - -- Compilation -- $ cygcheck -c cygwin gmp gcc Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.11-1 OK gcc 3.3.3-3

Re: gmp.h and 'g++ -mno-cygwin'

2004-11-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Alex Vinokur wrote: Here is file bar.cpp. -- bar.cpp -- #include int main () { return 0; } - -- Compilation -- $ cygcheck -c cygwin gmp gcc Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.11-1 OK gcc

Re: gmp.h and 'g++ -mno-cygwin'

2004-11-22 Thread Alex Vinokur
"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alex Vinokur wrote: > > Here is file bar.cpp. > > > > -- bar.cpp -- > > #include > > int main () > > { > > return 0; > > } > > - > > > > -- Compilation -- > > > > $ cygcheck -c cygwin gmp gcc > > Cyg

Re: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:29:02AM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: > Hi Bob and Pierre > > thanks for your analysis so far. > > As Pierre already stated, the trace just has this difference of > 120 vs. 64 read bytes in line 4538 and the following call for > the debug output. :( Do you have access

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: Re: pax available? > At 04:34 PM 11/19/2004, you wrote: > >What does any of this have to do with pax? The FAQ d

Re: audio recording

2004-11-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:06:50PM +0900, Shuhei Habu wrote: > hi jashy-san, > > Even cat /dev/dsp doesn't work like this: > Permission denied > > Humm, could you tell me what is wrong? Weird. open("/dev/dsp", ) should never produce that error. Please strace your simple open program or "cat /dev

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
Thank you very much. Now at least I know that (a) pax is not officially part of cygwin yet, and (b) where I can download the sources to compile it myself if I feel safe with an alpha version. Does that version for the MS Resource Kit work on XP? That's probably the version I had under Win2K . I d

Re: select() read() and write() on /dev/console

2004-11-22 Thread Jason Curl
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Jason Curl wrote: > >My question, how do I go about investigating what the root cause is? Has > >anybody else seen similar issues and been able to work around it? I'm > >stuck and I've never seen the source co

Re: More pipe problems (was Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem])

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Hipp
This solution is problematic as the Unisons avail with Cygwin are beta versions 2.9.2 or 2.10.2 whereas the latest stable unison is 2.9.1. Normally this wouldn't be a problem except these versions will not run with a 2.9.1 version at the other end (Unison seems somewhat unique in that regard -

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Roger Pryor
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:15:23 -0800 Roger Pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I'm a new cygwin user, attepting to port a Linux package that uses the > COM ports to drive a remote device. I'm finding that calls to tcsetattr > don't seem to work. What is happening is that although the speed

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
Reini, I just downloaded the version of paxutils you referenced and ran through the configure/install procedures. All it builds is tar.exe and mt.exe. It doesn't build a pax.exe. There were some failures in making tar as you said that appear to be related to creating a test directory and file. If

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:18:07AM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote: > >Aaron Miller wrote: >>Raye Raskin wrote: >> Hi! I've just been installing Cygwin on a new machine and getting everything into the shape I like it, but there's something I can't seem to figure out how to fix. I'm

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:12:47AM -0800, Roger Pryor wrote: >On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:15:23 -0800 >Roger Pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'm a new cygwin user, attepting to port a Linux package that uses the >>COM ports to drive a remote device. I'm finding that calls to >>tcsetattr don't seem t

Re: select() read() and write() on /dev/console

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:53:20PM +, Jason Curl wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Jason Curl wrote: >>>My question, how do I go about investigating what the root cause is? >>>Has anybody else seen similar issues and been able to work ar

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:16 AM 11/22/2004, you wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:09 PM >Subject: Re: pax available? Don't feed the spammers. They're fat enough already.

Re: More pipe problems (was Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem])

2004-11-22 Thread Adrian Corduneanu
Hi Michael, You can take the sources of whatever unison version you want to match the unison on your server, and compile it in cygwin. You can also control the version of unison on your server by compiling unison in your home directory on the server, and using the '-servercmd' option of unison

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
- Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: Re: pax available? > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Chuck wrote: > > > I can't find pax as a package in the cygwin setup prog

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: pax available? > At 09:16 AM 11/22/2004, you wrote: > > >- Original Message - > >From: "Larry Hall

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:06 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote >- Original Message - >From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:17 PM >Subject: Re: pax available? > Again, don't feed the spammers.

Re: select() read() and write() on /dev/console

2004-11-22 Thread Jason Curl
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > In dtable::select_{read,write,except} . > > cgf Where is fds[0] defined, so I can see exactly what functions are being called by peek_console, etc.? e.g. fh->get_readahead_valid(); fh->bg_check(SIGTTIN). Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Peter Rehley wrote: > On Nov 20, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Reini Urban wrote: > > [snip] > > ok thanks, for confirmation. > > so cgf should repackage it. it's obviously a bug. > > I think so also because this isn't the behavior that occurs on linux or BSD. Umm, which behavior are yo

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
Subject: Re: pax available? Newsgroups: news.gmane.org:gmane.os.cygwin To: Cygwin List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > At 12:06 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote > >>- Original Message - >>From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To:

Re: g++ 3.4.1 (gold stars)

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > [snip] > Oh, and I forgot, can we get two gold stars for Brian Ford for > spearheading the dwarf-2 effort for cygwin? I've been meaning to > suggest this for a long time. Done. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pe

Re: Executing ssh from perl

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Stephen Studley wrote: > At 1:28 AM +0100 11/20/04, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Stephen Studley wrote: > > > > > At 4:30 PM -0500 11/18/04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > perl -we 'my $str=`ssh -n [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls`;print "[$str]\n"' > > > good idea, however same results,

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:26 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: >Subject: Re: pax available? >Newsgroups: news.gmane.org:gmane.os.cygwin >To: Cygwin List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in ^^^ >> Again, don't feed the spammers. >>

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:09:48PM -0500, Chuck wrote: >BTW How to I get that gmane.org NNTP server to accept posts? Everything I >post to the NG goes into oblivion. If I post from email however it works >fine. I'd much rather read the threads on a newsreader than in email. That is a question for

Re: select() read() and write() on /dev/console

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:18:46PM +, Jason Curl wrote: >Where is fds[0] defined, so I can see exactly what functions are being >called by peek_console, etc.? e.g. fh->get_readahead_valid(); >fh->bg_check(SIGTTIN). Also in dtable.cc. Look for the obvious. -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Oct. pthread problem seems still there

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Xiaochuan Huang
I am using pthread extensively in my program and I am getting problem from pthread similar to those posted in October in this same mailing list. The problems can described as below: 1. It seems that main execution thread randomly hangs while the dispatched threads are joined or collected. It happ

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Roger Pryor
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:52:24 -0500 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >This seems to have dropped into a black hole, does anyone know what is > >the status of tcsetattr w.r.t serial ports? > > Possibly the reason this "dropped into a black hole" is that you used > the word "newbie

Re: bugs in autotools wrapper scripts

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Charles Wilson wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool > > 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every > > option known to either -stable or -devel, but fail in > > several respects. > >

Re: More pipe problems (was Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem])

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ugh, top posting. FYI, you should be able to run the Cygwin version of Unison with "nontsec" in the CYGWIN variable (e.g., 'CYGWIN="$CYGWIN nontsec" unison...') to get the same behavior as the Windows version... HTH, Igor On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Karl M wrote: > Hi Adrian... > > I thought of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Available for testing: Bash 2.05-17

2004-11-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 2.05b-17 of the Bash package is now available for download. This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-16, and fixes the bug discussed in a thread starting here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00781.html To update your installation:

Re: Oct. pthread problem seems still there

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:03:25AM -0800, Peter Xiaochuan Huang wrote: >Sorry that I can not offer a simplified test case. I >hope it will help people who already handled the >problem to look into it again. AFAIK, no one has "already handled" the problem. A test case would be required. Sorry. >

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:11:49AM -0800, Roger Pryor wrote: >On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:52:24 -0500 >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >This seems to have dropped into a black hole, does anyone know what is >> >the status of tcsetattr w.r.t serial ports? >> >> Possibly the reason

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Rehley
On Nov 22, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Peter Rehley wrote: On Nov 20, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Reini Urban wrote: [snip] ok thanks, for confirmation. so cgf should repackage it. it's obviously a bug. I think so also because this isn't the behavior that occurs on linux

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Peter Rehley wrote: > On Nov 22, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Peter Rehley wrote: > > > > > On Nov 20, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Reini Urban wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > ok thanks, for confirmation. > > > > so cgf should repackage it. it'

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin (No longer on topic)

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Rehley
On Nov 22, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] [snip] Modified build commands would be ./configure; make LDFLAGS="/usr/lib/automode.o" The above should really be ./configure; make LDLIBS="/usr/lib/automode.o" make LIBS="-lintl /usr/lib/autom

Entry point not found

2004-11-22 Thread Crescioli, Phil
All, I'm running cygwin on my win 2000 PC and I keep getting the following pop-up error when compiling a bunch of C++ code that I know other people compile fine on their cygwin/win 2000 machines. Cc1plus.exe - Entry point not found The procedure entry point putc_unlocked could not be

Re: Entry point not found

2004-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:23 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: >All, > >I'm running cygwin on my win 2000 PC and >I keep getting the following pop-up error when compiling a bunch of C++ >code >that I know other people compile fine on their cygwin/win 2000 machines. > >Cc1plus.exe - Entry point not found > The proc

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Aaron Miller
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:18:07AM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote: Aaron Miller wrote: Raye Raskin wrote: Hi! I've just been installing Cygwin on a new machine and getting everything into the shape I like it, but there's something I can't seem to figure out how to fix. I'm

Re: Executing ssh from perl

2004-11-22 Thread Stephen Studley
At 12:33 PM -0500 11/22/04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: That's probably the best you could hope for at this point. If you want to know why the original program didn't work as expected, you should really ask the distributor of your Windows perl version (ActiveState?) and not this list. Igor Un

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:50:57PM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote: >Thanks for the pointer, and I'll ask on the cygwin-xfree list as well. >It's not really a query about xterm, though: using a shortcut that >starts bash in a standard Windows command-shell which is 100 columns >wide, if I ask for a manua

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:50:57PM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote: Thanks for the pointer, and

Re: audio recording

2004-11-22 Thread Shuhei Habu
Hi Pierre-san, > Weird. open("/dev/dsp", ) should never produce that > error. Please strace your simple open program > or "cat /dev/dsp ". Thank you. You are right that open() never output Permission denied. Frankly, but I don't know why open() with O_RD* always returns -1... In case of "cat /de

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > >Thanks for the pointer, and I'll ask on the cygwin-xfree list as well. > >It's not really a query about xterm, though: using a shortcut that > >starts bash in a standard Windows command-shell which is 100 columns > >wide, if I ask for a manual page, I still get it form

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Raye Raskin wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . Thanks. > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:35 PM > Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raye Raskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Raye Raskin wrote: - Origina

Re: audio recording

2004-11-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:47:07AM +0900, Shuhei Habu wrote: > Hi Pierre-san, > > > Weird. open("/dev/dsp", ) should never produce that > > error. Please strace your simple open program > > or "cat /dev/dsp ". > > Thank you. > You are right that open() never output Permission denied. > Frankly, b

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Aaron Miller
[forgot to reply to list; sorry about that] ... Well, that's not a full bug report, since man uses a cached cat page if it's present. So, unless your system doesn't have the cat directories, you need to run "man -c" to force regeneration of cat pages. That said, I confirm that "MANWIDTH=20 man -

Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:57:53PM -0500, Aaron Miller wrote: >Anyway, thanks again for the information and also for giving me time to >explain what I ought to've made clearer in my first email. Now that we have confirmed that this command works on 27 different varieties of linux and is supposed t

Re: audio recording

2004-11-22 Thread Shuhei Habu
Pierre-san, > Looks like /dev/dsp is not recognized as a device. > Are you sure you are using a recent version of Cygwin? > What does "uname -a" report? After introducing cygwin1-20041117.dll.bz2 (its Snapshot one), reading /dev/dsp got to work well. Thanks a lot! FYI: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 shuhei 1.5.1