Window maker and alternates

2007-04-23 Thread Paul.Durack
Just wondering how many X - window maker packages are available in the current release of Cygwin 1.5.24-2 - In previous versions, I was using wmaker, however this download was disabled by default in a complete installation recently.. Is there a more up-to-date window maker package buried in the fu

attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9, gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit and confusing .exe extensions to symlinks). Also, gzip has released a stabl

Re: Can't use ioctl() to set baud rate on /dev/ttyS0

2007-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:34:45PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: >I've been working on porting a simple terminal emulator application >from HP-UX 10.20 to Cygwin. All it does is make a few termio >settings on stdin, stdout and the specified serial port, then copy >characters from stdin to the seri

RE: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 03:14, Lev Bishop wrote: > On 4/23/07, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 24 April 2007 00:53, Cary R. wrote: >> >>> I had some more time to look into this and when the >>> simple C program I mentioned earlier uses variables >>> like the other program, incorrect results are >>> produced. I

Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-23 Thread Lev Bishop
On 4/23/07, Dave Korn wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:53, Cary R. wrote: > I had some more time to look into this and when the > simple C program I mentioned earlier uses variables > like the other program, incorrect results are > produced. I have attached this C/C++ program. I > certainly don't und

Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-23 Thread Cary R.
> gcc -fno-builtin ./pow-error.c Yes -fno-builtin certainly makes the results consistent, but I would consider this result slightly less correct. > Unless the function call is optimized away. Hmm, I guess I didn't think something as complicated as pow would get optimized away. Thanks for the in

Can't use ioctl() to set baud rate on /dev/ttyS0

2007-04-23 Thread Gary Johnson
I've been working on porting a simple terminal emulator application from HP-UX 10.20 to Cygwin. All it does is make a few termio settings on stdin, stdout and the specified serial port, then copy characters from stdin to the serial port and from the serial port to stdout. It seems to work fin

RE: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 00:53, Cary R. wrote: > I had some more time to look into this and when the > simple C program I mentioned earlier uses variables > like the other program, incorrect results are > produced. I have attached this C/C++ program. I > certainly don't understand what is going on. I woul

Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-23 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-04-23 23:52Z, Cary R. wrote: > I had some more time to look into this and when the > simple C program I mentioned earlier uses variables > like the other program, incorrect results are > produced. I have attached this C/C++ program. I > certainly don't understand what is going on. I would >

Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-23 Thread Lev Bishop
On 4/23/07, Cary R. wrote: I had some more time to look into this and when the simple C program I mentioned earlier uses variables like the other program, incorrect results are produced. I have attached this C/C++ program. I certainly don't understand what is going on. I would have expected pow t

Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-23 Thread Cary R.
I had some more time to look into this and when the simple C program I mentioned earlier uses variables like the other program, incorrect results are produced. I have attached this C/C++ program. I certainly don't understand what is going on. I would have expected pow to be pass-by value which shou

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Michael D. Adams wrote: > On 4/23/07, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: >> > On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the >> *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/23/07, Dave Korn wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: > On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example thi

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/23/07, Dave Korn wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: > On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please, Michael, try and http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR avoid quoting people's email addresses. Thanks. Thank you for pointing that out. I had nev

RE: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: > On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please, Michael, try and http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR avoid quoting people's email addresses. Thanks. The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *W

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: > > The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the > > *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So > > for example this sequence works: > > > > set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% > > s

Re: zsh on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, sethk wrote: I've had some success using a different version of zsh on vista. In the UnxUtils package, there is a version of zsh, named sh. (Not copied or linked to zsh, for whatever reason, and, I should say, named sh.exe.) Two things: 1) that's a win32 native exe, not

Re: Uppercase filenames are shown incorrectly

2007-04-23 Thread Davide Ficano
Oh yeah now works fine, thank you *very* much, dafi 2007/4/23, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 23 April 2007 10:33, Davide Ficano wrote: > I create a file containing uppercase characters in name using cygwin > program and Windows shows them as %xx%xx. > > For example the command > > touch A

RE: how to run shell script

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23 April 2007 10:42, sg wrote: > hi friends,, > > how to run shell script on cygwin in windows.. chmod a+x ./script-name ./script-name i.e. it has to have the executable bit set, and you need to specify the current directory as part of the path if you haven't got the current directory in

RE: Uppercase filenames are shown incorrectly

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23 April 2007 10:33, Davide Ficano wrote: > I create a file containing uppercase characters in name using cygwin > program and Windows shows them as %xx%xx. > > For example the command > > touch AABBCC > > generate the filename %41%41%42%42%43%43%44%44 > > How can I fix definetively this pr

how to run shell script

2007-04-23 Thread sg
hi friends,, how to run shell script on cygwin in windows.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-run-shell-script-tf3630186.html#a10136740 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Uppercase filenames are shown incorrectly

2007-04-23 Thread Davide Ficano
I create a file containing uppercase characters in name using cygwin program and Windows shows them as %xx%xx. For example the command touch AABBCC generate the filename %41%41%42%42%43%43%44%44 How can I fix definetively this problem? best regards, dafi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg