Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Reini Urban
Brian Dessent schrieb: Again, I'm looking for any kind of feedback about these new features: works/doesn't work, bad wording, UI comments, etc. Are you really sure that Redhat has the copyright from 2002-2005 also? I remember only for the beginning, but from then on it belongs to the authors:

Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Reini Urban wrote: Brian Dessent schrieb: Again, I'm looking for any kind of feedback about these new features: works/doesn't work, bad wording, UI comments, etc. Are you really sure that Redhat has the copyright from 2002-2005 also? I remember only for the beginning, but from then on it

Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Dessent wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Brian Dessent schrieb: Again, I'm looking for any kind of feedback about these new features: works/doesn't work, bad wording, UI comments, etc. Are you really sure that Redhat has the copyright from 2002-2005 also? I remember only for the beginning, but from

Re: Dependency checking change...

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Dessent wrote: Okay, how about this scenario: Remove the checkbox; add a button that says Select these now (Recommended). When you press it the packages are selected and the contents of the text box are replaced with the status of those changes (e.g. selecting foomatic-1.2.3-1... but the

Re: Setup - Hiding ZZZRemovedPackages?

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Dessent wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Would it be possible to hide the ZZZRemovedPackages category when in Category view, without changing the dependency logic regarding this category? Yes, in fact I've been meaning to bring this up. In terms of the end user, there should be no reason at

Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Max Bowsher wrote: You're right, it's not really Redhat's copyright. I changed it to say Copyright 2001-2005 Redhat because the previous value Copyright 2000,2001 seemed a bit out of date. What about, Copyright 2000-2005 Redhat and various contributors? Yes, I think thats fine

tetex postinstall suggestion

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
In order to give the user a little progress feedback, I suggest that post-texmf.sh be split into post-texmf-stage1.sh, -stage2.sh, etc. In this way, there will be some visible indication in setup.exe that progress is occurring. Max.

Ready to begin release cycle?

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
I believe I have now got the MD5 checking to behave in a sensible way. I'm inclined to make a release branch, to start the process of getting the nicer dialogs and proxy port fix into a release. Then, Brian can start using trunk to develop the new dependency logic. Any thoughts on anything

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:30:00AM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I am running xterm and I would like to use a different color instead of bold. I have set all the options and I still get bold double strike instead of a different color. Any ideas where to change this? My cygwin bat

Re: good .Xdefaults

2005-05-07 Thread Jack Tanner
Alexander Gottwald wrote: The colors are defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb If the file is not installed, broken or somehow the xserver tries to use a different file then the colors are not defined. I have a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. I also created a symbolic link, rgb-rgb.txt. showrgb should

Re: good .Xdefaults

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Jack Tanner wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: The colors are defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb If the file is not installed, broken or somehow the xserver tries to use a different file then the colors are not defined. I have a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. I also created a

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Here is my XWin call from startxwin.bat: run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -silent-dup-error Here is my xterm call: xterm -geometry 80x60 -sl 5000 -bg black -fg grey -fbb -fb font2 -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -e /usr/bin/bash -l - Original Message - From: Thomas Dickey

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:43:59PM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Here is my XWin call from startxwin.bat: run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -silent-dup-error Here is my xterm call: xterm -geometry 80x60 -sl 5000 -bg black -fg grey -fbb -fb font2 -display

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Thank you Thomas! Sometimes, well, you try too hard. I have been through these and kept trying different settings. I appreciate your help, folks! Thanks. josé - Original Message - From: Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jose isaias cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog devices.cc

2005-05-07 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-07 20:20:52 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog devices.cc Log message: * devices.cc: Regenerate with correct name for dev_netdrive_storage. Patches:

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygtls.h path.cc

2005-05-07 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-07 21:06:09 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygtls.h path.cc Log message: * path.cc (normalize_posix_path): Don't treat '//' specially since newer versions of

Re: [PATCH 21.5.20] HAVE_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST instead of SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED in sysdep.c

2005-05-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Christopher Faylor writes: Um. Wrong mailing list Volker. Upps, sorry ... and I was wondering why it didn't show up on the xemacs patches list. cgf Ciao Volker

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Paul Eggert
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Except that it can't be made to work correctly due to a bash bug. Which Bash bug is that? Bash bugs can be fixed. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

i18n: readdir API implementation

2005-05-07 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've known for sometime that there are limitations to the the internationalization support provided by the cygwin dll. Specifically, the POSIX readdir implementation returns dirent names where non US-ASCII characters default to ASCII '?' character. I am sympathetic to the difficulties

copy paste, windows clipboard

2005-05-07 Thread zzapper
Hi, Your access to the Windows/cygwin clipboard cat fred | putclip # copy/paste getclip # copy/paste cat /dev/clipboard echo hello /dev/clipboard Have I missed anythinh? Are putclip getclip Cygwin specific? -- zzapper vim -c :%s%s*%Cyrnfr)fcbafbe[Oenz(Zbbyranne%|:%s)[[()])-)Ig|norm Vg?

Re: DD converts LF - CR / LF

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM: That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on open and fcntl to do the work? If they don't work, they should. I installed this into coreutils: 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: builtin_ansi builtin_xterm builtin_iris-ansi builtin_dumb defaulting to ansi Help

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:34:56PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Except that it can't be made to work correctly due to a bash bug. Which Bash bug is that? Eric Blake alluded to it here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00254.html Bash is

Re: DD converts LF - CR / LF

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:14:17AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM: That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on open and fcntl to do the work? If they don't work, they should. I installed this into coreutils: 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert

Re: copy paste, windows clipboard

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:51:00PM +0100, zzapper wrote: Your access to the Windows/cygwin clipboard My access? Are you snooping on me? cat fred | putclip # copy/paste How did you know about fred? Get off of my computer! getclip # copy/paste cat /dev/clipboard echo hello /dev/clipboard

Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
After upgrading some packages (tetex-3.0.0-3.tar.bz2, man-1.5p-1.tar.bz, doxygen-1.4.2_20050421-1.tar.bz2, yesterday 06 May 2005 and subversion-1.1.4-1.tar.bz2, subversion-devel-1.1.4-1.tar.bz2, _update-info-dir-00232-1.tar.bz2, tzcode-2005h-1.tar.bz2, xemacs-21.4.17-1.tar.bz2, xemacs-tags,

Re: problem with using tetex 3.0.0-2

2005-05-07 Thread TC
Sorry. It still doesn't work. I have ran updmap by hand, somehow get it runs successfully. But it does not create the directory /var/lib/texmf. What else can I do? I think I have to switch back to the earlier version of tetex such that I can get my work done for now. -- TC writes: When

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:52:10PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I discovered the following strange behaviour in bash and xterm (startxwin) shells: BACKSPACE does not delete y as aspected but it only shifts the cursor on y and when I type n and then RETURN the file foo.txt is REMOVED! This has

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Not only in xterm but also in standard bash shell. I have always used xterm and until today I never have discovered those problems. What about the fact that when rm command (or cp or mv) ask to confirm something, I can move the (box) cursor along the window as in a Editor? Thanks angelo. On

Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

2005-05-07 Thread Jason Tishler
Steve, On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:48:16AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: You can workaround the problem by defining PYTHONCASEOK: $ PYTHONCASEOK= python -c 'import bar' $ I will work with the Python developers to try to come up with a better long term solution. I have found the

[Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird (I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions the cursor on screen, so that the

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Bohlman
You can us stty erase ^H (or what ever might be appropriate for the terminal) to get this to work. I was able to observe the exact symptoms you reported and correct do the above. -- Mark Angelo Graziosi wrote: Not only in xterm but also in standard bash shell. I have always used xterm and

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM: Which Bash bug is that? Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir(//) is currently no different from chdir(/)'. Is that a bug in bash or in cygwin, though? The comments for

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:08:05AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM: Which Bash bug is that? Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir(//) is currently no different from chdir(/)'. Is

Re: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]

2005-05-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird (I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions the cursor on screen, so that the actual

Re: DD converts LF - CR / LF

2005-05-07 Thread Sebastian Schuberth
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] * NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags binary and text. * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it. * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it. That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the

Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

2005-05-07 Thread Steve Ward
Jason - Looks like just the right fix. Thanks for all the good work. - Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Rebase dlls not from cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Jason Tishler
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:00:59AM -0700, Selin 428 wrote: i have a problem with rebasing dlls not from cygwin. I like the switch for setting offset so i don't want to use M$ rebase which works for me but cygwins rebase always writes: .dll: skipped because not rebaseable i call it outside

Re: copy paste, windows clipboard

2005-05-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:51:00PM +0100, zzapper wrote: Your access to the Windows/cygwin clipboard My access? Are you snooping on me? cat fred | putclip # copy/paste How did you know about fred? Get off of my computer! getclip #

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin

2005-05-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have not understand what I should to do. In any case, I am conforted that there is someone who oberve the some symptoms! I think that the problems arise from recent upgrades that now I cannot single out. It is as if something has changed in the configuration. The problems are not specific

Re: mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:25:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:08:05AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM: Which Bash bug is that? Bash is the most important program for

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:59 AM 5/7/2005, you wrote: When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: builtin_ansi builtin_xterm builtin_iris-ansi builtin_dumb defaulting to ansi Help does not work for vim I get the

Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument

2005-05-07 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 5/6/05, Jørgen Havsberg Seland wrote: This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the executable using the -X switch. For instance, use I don't mind adding an FAQ, it looks like it's been asked few

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Trevor Osatchuk
On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: builtin_ansi

Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:11:39PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 5/6/05, J?rgen Havsberg Seland wrote: This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the executable using the -X switch. For instance,

Re: Help with error in vi and man

2005-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:27:59PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'cygwin' not