Move nfs-server, emacs-leim out of test (was Re: 3 Packages always Skipped)

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
Is it time to move the two packages below out of test? I've made an empty package for regex so that it will do nothing but delete any previous installation. Should the other two packages become curr? It's a little odd to have a package with nothing but a test version. cgf - Forwarded

Re: Move nfs-server, emacs-leim out of test (was Re: 3 Packages always Skipped)

2005-01-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 5 10:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made an empty package for regex so that it will do nothing but delete any previous installation. Thanks! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader

Re: [RFU] bc-1.06-2 [Was: bc and readline]

2005-01-05 Thread Lapo Luchini
Christopher Faylor wrote: bc is simple and problem-free enough that I don't mind maintaining it. I'll upload a new version with readline support shortly. Ahhh, I should've waited just a tiny bit longer =) Lapo -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP X.509 keys available)

RE: Move nfs-server, emacs-leim out of test (was Re: 3 Packages always Skipped)

2005-01-05 Thread Robb, Sam
Is it time to move the two packages below out of test? I've made an empty package for regex so that it will do nothing but delete any previous installation. I had completely forgotten that nfs-server was only in test. Yes, please - do move it into curr. -Samrobb

Re: Move nfs-server, emacs-leim out of test (was Re: 3 Packages always Skipped)

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:21:02PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: Is it time to move the two packages below out of test? I've made an empty package for regex so that it will do nothing but delete any previous installation. I had completely forgotten that nfs-server was only in test. Yes, please -

xterm

2005-01-05 Thread Meadows, Marty
I've downloaded cygwin/x to my windows xp platform. In /usr/X11R6/bin I see the following x clients: xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, xeyes ... but I don't see xterm. Shouldn't I have an xterm? I also don't see a startx or startxwin.bat file anyplace in the cygwin/x freeware ... and I don't see any

Re: xterm

2005-01-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Meadows, Marty wrote: I've downloaded cygwin/x to my windows xp platform. In /usr/X11R6/bin I see the following x clients: xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, xeyes ... but I don't see xterm. Shouldn't I have an xterm? I also don't see a startx or startxwin.bat file anyplace in the

Re: xterm

2005-01-05 Thread Rob Bell
Meadows, Marty wrote: I've downloaded cygwin/x to my windows xp platform. In /usr/X11R6/bin I see the following x clients: xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, xeyes ... but I don't see xterm. Shouldn't I have an xterm? I also don't see a startx or startxwin.bat file anyplace in the cygwin/x freeware ... and

Re: xterm

2005-01-05 Thread Jack Tanner
Meadows, Marty wrote: I've downloaded cygwin/x to my windows xp platform. In /usr/X11R6/bin I see the following x clients: xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, xeyes ... but I don't see xterm. Shouldn't I have an xterm? I also don't see a startx or startxwin.bat file anyplace in the cygwin/x freeware ... and

popen() fails while system() works

2005-01-05 Thread Rainer Hochreiter
my main program 'mpsvcd.exe' dynamically loads a shared library using dlopen(). one of the functions from this shared library calls popen() to read the standard output from another executable - and this fails with the error messages listed below! using system() instead of popen() to start the

Re: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 4 17:17, Sam Steingold wrote: * Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-23 10:35:16 +0100]: My temporary fix for my developers is to remove coreutils `link' from our systems, that's what I had to do too. but if it is reinstalled every time coreutils is upgraded, this

Re: popen() fails while system() works

2005-01-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 5 10:19, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: my main program 'mpsvcd.exe' dynamically loads a shared library using dlopen(). one of the functions from this shared library calls popen() to read the standard output from another executable - and this fails with the error messages listed below! using

Re: popen() fails while system() works

2005-01-05 Thread Rainer Hochreiter
On Jan 5 10:19, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: my main program 'mpsvcd.exe' dynamically loads a shared library using dlopen(). one of the functions from this shared library calls popen() to read the standard output from another executable - and this fails with the error messages listed below!

Re: popen() fails while system() works

2005-01-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 5 13:08, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.3.README. is this a new package? Nope. didn't find it in my installation, but now I have it ;-) well, do i have to rebase all DLLs on my installation, or only that one mentioned by the error message? won't

Re: popen() fails while system() works

2005-01-05 Thread Jason Tishler
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:43:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: well, do i have to rebase all DLLs on my installation, or only that one mentioned by the error message? won't destroy my installation if doing the wrong thing;-) I'd try to rebase only your own dll first. IMO, rebasing

Re: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:02:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The bottom line is, you can complain, but the better solution is to make your environment more foolproof against changes in one part of it. In case of MSDEV tools I suggest to put the MSDEV tool path in front of the Cygwin paths.

Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread fbartlet
I can install and run cygwin, but (at least) one application won't work either under cygwin or cygwin/x. When I run perl, I get the message C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (2208): *** cygheap version mismatch detected - 0x6179000 0/0xBF. You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system. Search

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (2208): *** cygheap version mismatch detected - 0x6179000 0/0xBF. You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system. [...] I'm rather puzzled -- any clues, anyone? http://cygwin.com/problems.html Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info:

Problems with subversion svn+ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Diego Ernesto Malpica Chauvet
I have been working with this versions of Subversion 1.0.6-1 1.1.1-1 1.1.2-1 snv+ssh doesn't work for me since 1.1.1-1 This is my test case: svnadmin create /repotest svn list file:///repotest svn list file://localhost/repotest svn list svn+ssh://localhost/repotest chmod -R 777 /repotest

RE: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Hughes, Bill
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:02:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The bottom line is, you can complain, but the better solution is to make your environment more foolproof against changes in one part of it. In case of MSDEV tools I suggest to put the MSDEV tool path in

Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck -s output -- 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: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerrit has admonished me, and I am abashed -- I've run cygcheck (below). You have actually read the website I quoted? I.e. this: Run cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode the

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
For reasons I don't understand, the text content of the referenced message does not show up in my mailreader (gnus) or the archive [1], so here it is again. See the archive [1] for cygcheck output. ./configure --without-x11 --pdump --with-modules=no . . . make . . . ./xemacs -nd -batch -l

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread fbartlet
Sorry -- my email client must have de-attached the text file upon sending. It does show up as an attachment in my sent directory, fwiw (nothing, I know). Anyway, I did check hidden and system directories -- no other cygwin1.dll's. (Incidentally, I find the old DOSish command dir /s /a-d

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry S. Thompson) writes: [see subject] Suggestions? I tried using Jason Tishler's rebase on xemacs.exe, but it refused. . . Ah, but rebasing cygwin1.dll _did_ fix the problem (once I had tracked down cygserver and cygrunsrv in the Process Manager and nuked them). ht --

Re: Problems with subversion svn+ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Diego Ernesto Malpica Chauvet wrote: I have been working with this versions of Subversion 1.0.6-1 1.1.1-1 1.1.2-1 snv+ssh doesn't work for me since 1.1.1-1 This is my test case: svnadmin create /repotest svn list file:///repotest svn list file://localhost/repotest svn list

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, fbartlet wrote: Anyway, I did check hidden and system directories -- no other cygwin1.dll's. (Incidentally, I find the old DOSish command dir /s /a-d cygwin1.dll easier to deal with than the Windows GUI. The result's the same, too.) I did a complete reinstallation of

Re: Problems with subversion svn+ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: Diego Ernesto Malpica Chauvet wrote: I have been working with this versions of Subversion 1.0.6-1 1.1.1-1 1.1.2-1 snv+ssh doesn't work for me since 1.1.1-1 This is my test case: svnadmin create /repotest svn list file:///repotest svn

Re: Argument list too long

2005-01-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with about 80K characters. I get the following bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long If I reduce the total characters to less then 32K it works fine. This list is a list of the source

Re: Problems with subversion svn+ssh

2005-01-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Would adding a /etc/profile.d/subversion.sh with export PATH=/usr/lib/subversion/bin:$PATH be a good solution, or was the whole point to not have the executables in the PATH? Already exists! But for an ssh single command, no login shell is ever executed, so profile is not

RE: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Isaac Foraker Sent: 04 January 2005 22:27 I'll be plain. I try to contribute feedback to open source projects that I use. How apposite that, in audio terms, feedback is synonymous with a loud whining noise! cheers,

Cygrunsrv and other random Cygwin apps, 100% CPU

2005-01-05 Thread Chris Wilson
So, I recently updated all my Cygwin stuff. I wanted to play around with a few of the KDE apps, especially the Konsole application, as I like the idea of a tabbed terminal window. Anyways, now that everything has been updated, I'm seeing some very strange behavior. When I run random Windows

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread fbartlet
Igor, Did you reboot since then? Yes. Do you have any Cygwin services running? No -- I've even run listDLLs http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/listdlls.shtml to double-check. What's the output of cygcheck /bin/perl.exe? $ cygcheck /bin/perl.exe C:/cygwin/bin/perl.exe

Re: Argument list too long

2005-01-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: At 10:26 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with about 80K characters. I get the following bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long If I

Re: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Rob Bell
Hughes, Bill wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:02:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The bottom line is, you can complain, but the better solution is to make your environment more foolproof against changes in one part of it. In case of MSDEV tools I suggest to put the

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:30:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can install and run cygwin, but (at least) one application won't work either under cygwin or cygwin/x. When I run perl, I get the message C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (2208): *** cygheap version mismatch detected - 0x6179000

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:51:09AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:30:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can install and run cygwin, but (at least) one application won't work either under cygwin or cygwin/x. When I run perl, I get the message

Re: Negative

2005-01-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz writes: The point would be to bring this to the attention of the people being negative. By seeing that not just one person feels like that, people may decide to stop and think whether their ways are constructive. Hopefully this would effect a change for the better.

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread fbartlet
A clue, perhaps. The error from perl is C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (1692): *** cygheap version mismatch detected - 0x6179000 0/0xBF. You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system. Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start-Find/Search facility and delete all but the most recent

Re: Issue in using xinetd service on windows

2005-01-05 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Sharma, Pallavi (GE Healthcare) wrote: The problem is not with killing the xinetd process. I can kill it by running /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop. Killing xinetd ist not the problem, but...? Now i am facing a new problem. telnet/ftp service is hanging. :-( xinetd process is running but telnet and

Re: Why is cygwin cvs client so slow?

2005-01-05 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Warth wrote: Wow! You're not kidding - cygwin cvs performance is comparable to native performance on local drives. I wonder if you could try running a cvs pserver on the machine hosting the CVS repository. In other words, it might be faster to go through pserver than through

Re: Negative

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:15:31PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Rodrigo de Salvo Braz writes: The point would be to bring this to the attention of the people being negative. By seeing that not just one person feels like that, people may decide to stop and think whether their ways are

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-05 Thread Jason Tishler
Henry, On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:22:48PM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Suggestions? I tried using Jason Tishler's rebase on xemacs.exe, but it refused. . . Ah, but rebasing cygwin1.dll _did_ fix the problem (once I had tracked down cygserver and cygrunsrv in the Process Manager and

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:51:09AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:30:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can install and run cygwin, but (at least) one application won't work either

cygwin vs linux: output differences

2005-01-05 Thread Yves Krähenbühl - MTD
Same programme compiled under Cygwin writes output which differs form its LINUX-compiled version I apologise in advance if the question is too trivial but I am a simple user and not a programmer. I have written a small FORTRAN programme which reads and writes numbers in a file: program toto

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:05:27PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: [blah] Thanks for correcting me. Wow. You're welcome. Can you think of some wording in the error message which would make this clearer? cgf --

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:16:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:05:27PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: [blah] Thanks for correcting me. Wow. You're welcome. Can you think of some

Re: Cygrunsrv and other random Cygwin apps, 100% CPU

2005-01-05 Thread Steven E. Harris
Chris Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I run random Windows applications, Cygrunsrv.exe starts consuming almost all the CPU. Yes, I saw the same thing last night, after having updated my Cygwin installation over the weekend. In my case I was toying around with Exact Audio Copy, with bash,

Re: Another spurious multiple copies of cygwin1.dll -- this time in perl

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:23:35PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:16:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:05:27PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: [blah]

Renaming Cygwin DLLs

2005-01-05 Thread Mike Disbrow
I'd like to build the supporting Cygwin DLLs to be renamed to something other than cyg*.dll (e.g. cygwin1.dll to foo.dll), what is the best way to build the DLLs with different names? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-05 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Jason Tishler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Henry, On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:22:48PM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Suggestions? I tried using Jason Tishler's rebase on xemacs.exe, but it refused. . . Ah, but rebasing cygwin1.dll _did_ fix the problem (once I had tracked down cygserver

Memory for large arrays in cygwin/g77

2005-01-05 Thread Dante Chialvo
I have similar problem than the one posted a while ago in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00842.html Using cygwin/g77, in a PC with 1024 Mb of physical memory. After compiling and running the following test program the limit of 160 Mb cannot be surpassed. implicit double precision

Finding descriptions of cygwin packages.

2005-01-05 Thread TLO
I want to reinstall the cygwin utilities on my computer, but am confused by thev list of packages. Can i find some place which gives a good description of them? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Memory for large arrays in cygwin/g77

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Hadfield
Dante Chialvo wrote: I have similar problem than the one posted a while ago in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00842.html Using cygwin/g77, in a PC with 1024 Mb of physical memory. After compiling and running the following test program the limit of 160 Mb cannot be surpassed.

Fw: GDB (no debugging symbols found)

2005-01-05 Thread Joe Reichman
- Original Message - From: bytemaster1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:56 PM Subject: Re: GDB (no debugging symbols found) Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of bytemaster1 Sent: 03 January

your email will not be read today

2005-01-05 Thread Jeff Abramson
Dear emailer. I am barely checking this email address this month. If this is a time sensitive Gen Art related matter - please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call me at 212.255.7300 x205. If it is personal email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I check on weekends) or 917.225.9251. If this is

problems interrupting cygcheck -c on 20050104 snapshot

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Using the 20050104 snapshot, running cygcheck -c from bash in a console window with tty set and hitting control-C or kill'ing the process (from another window) results in a burst of garbage to the screen, and cygcheck -c continues on. Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Jan

Re: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:22 PM 1/5/2005, you wrote: If those 'experienced' users are that fed up with participating in the project then perhaps they should just take a deep breath and avoid sending a response to those questions at all. Sometimes silence is better. And there's the rub. Sometimes silence is

Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Kal.Dee
Hi all, Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in the cygwin distro... Kalman Dee Canberra, OZ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hi all, Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in the cygwin distro... Kalman Dee Canberra, OZ Um, yeah, I have to second that. And I don't even want to know what the French ones say. A little on the blue side, Powers That Be, and by a

Re: problems interrupting cygcheck -c on 20050104 snapshot

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:36:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Using the 20050104 snapshot, running cygcheck -c from bash in a console window with tty set and hitting control-C or kill'ing the process (from another window) results in a burst of garbage to the screen, and cygcheck -c

RE: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Dave Korn wrote: How apposite that, in audio terms, feedback is synonymous with a loud whining noise! Except that in audio, negative feedback is the kind you want. :) ...until you're READY TO ROCK! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Bug: link.exe

2005-01-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
At 02:22 PM 1/5/2005, you wrote: If those 'experienced' users are that fed up with participating in the project then perhaps they should just take a deep breath and avoid sending a response to those questions at all. Sometimes silence is better. And there's the rub. Sometimes silence

fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in the cygwin distro... Wow. I think I vaguely recall that something like this was in fortune but, if I thought it was a good idea a couple of

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Brian Bruns
On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:58 PM [EST], Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Hi all, Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in the cygwin distro... Kalman Dee Canberra, OZ Um, yeah, I have to second that. And I don't even want to know what

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:32:14PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote: Remember, alot of these have been in the fortunes package for god knows how long, and Cygwin isn't the only one thats going to have them. I'm betting that any distro that has the Fortunes package has them too. Right. The README of the

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:26:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in the cygwin distro... Wow. I think I vaguely recall that something

Re: problems interrupting cygcheck -c on 20050104 snapshot

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:05:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:36:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Using the 20050104 snapshot, running cygcheck -c from bash in a console window with tty set and hitting control-C or kill'ing the

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:16PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:26:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:58 PM [EST], Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Hi all, Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in the cygwin distro... Kalman Dee Canberra, OZ Um, yeah, I have to second that. And I don't even want to

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:32:14PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote: Remember, alot of these have been in the fortunes package for god knows how long, and Cygwin isn't the only one thats going to have them. I'm betting that any distro that has the Fortunes package has them too. Right. The

RE: Negative

2005-01-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:15:31PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Rodrigo de Salvo Braz writes: The point would be to bring this to the attention of the people being negative. By seeing that not just one person feels like that, people may decide to stop and think whether

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Zachary Uram
I agree. As a Christian I find such fortune comments disgusting and they should be burned. Zach On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:54:16 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:32:14PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote: Remember, alot of these have been in the fortunes

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Baldwin
Maybe the package maintainer could consider building two packages : a 'clean' fortune and rename the current package to 'fortune-xxx'. I have no idea how easy or difficult this is, but it would satisfy both camps. Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:54:16 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: My write-in candidate: [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional in the extreme and can only result in embarassment and trouble. As a Christian, I agree with Gary. :) I actually think it's an upstream bug. The

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rant Maybe we should all wear helmets and seatbelts when at the keyboard too, just so nobody gets hurt. This political correctness makes me think of what it must have been like in the USSR in 1955. Remember what Bobby Slaton says, If you can't laugh at yourself... ...make fun of other people!

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-05 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ ] Offended. Think about the children! [x] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values. [ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about how negative this list is now?

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:47:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:16PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:26:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if the