Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me? Fire

Re: Preparing for a new computer

Bob McConnell wrote: I have installed four different variations of Cygwin on my current computer. The first was B.20, my initial exposure to this tool kit. The next one was buried in an SDK for Systech RCS port servers, and I didn't know it was there until after it began installing. The target fo

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me? Firewall issue? Make sure you'

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

Carlo Florendo wrote: Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: No, unless you provide more details. Perhaps it's a firewall issue. In any case, downloading setup.exe WJJFM. ^ Sorry, I meant, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM Thank you very much. Best Regards, Ca

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. You forgot to try one thing. Have you tried downloading from another networ

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me? Firewall issue? Thanks a lot, Jeremy -- Unsubscribe info

RE: Slow directory listing

On 04 July 2007 00:57, Brian Dessent wrote: > Anton Ivanov wrote: > >> Neither does coLinux when accessing it over smb mount. > > Oh and I forgot to mention that this is not a fair comparison either, > because when accessing a windows filesystem over SMB symlinks are not > supported and all file

Re: Slow directory listing

Anton Ivanov wrote: > Neither does coLinux when accessing it over smb mount. Oh and I forgot to mention that this is not a fair comparison either, because when accessing a windows filesystem over SMB symlinks are not supported and all files are owned by root with permissions 0644 (or 0755 for dir

Re: Carriage-return problem with ssh, "hostname" command

David Menestrina wrote: > -- > $ ssh localhost 'hostname | cat -v' > myhost^M > -- You're probably running a different hostname command here due to a different PATH setting. See . Brian -- Unsubscribe in

Re: Slow directory listing

Anton Ivanov wrote: > I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 > seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues > that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem > like any action was taken. Cygwin is slow. This is by de

Carriage-return problem with ssh, "hostname" command

Hi, I have a strange problem with carriage-return (CR, \r, ^M) handling on Cygwin (DLL version: 1.5.24). The problem is only exposed when running the "hostname" command via ssh. Here is a sample session that demonstrates the bug: -- $ hostname | cat -v myhost ---

Slow directory listing

Hi, I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem like any action was taken. Anyways, the directory is strictly on cygwin's root mo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

And, absolutely the last word tonight, here is a hitherto undiscovered way in which old setup misbehaves and new setup does not. It might help locate any current procedural flaw in new setup. Unmount everything. Build a new directory c:\Cygwin\etc\setup and locate an up-to-date installed.db th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

> I asked was whether you could make a stock Cygwin system > on *your* machine and reproduce the issue, just to figure > out if this is an issue in setup because of the non-default > Cygwin location, or there are other things different about > your system. I did this. I built a brand new Cygwin l

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

> I am _not_ the maintainer I'm the Cygwin maintainer for Unison. > but 2.9.1 is the only version I have that > will talk to a current development machine -- a current debian machine too. My Debian host has $ apt-cache policy unison unison: Installed: 2.13.16-6 Candidate: 2.13.16-6 Versi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, fergus wrote: > > Knowing setup.exe as I do, I'm guessing (and this is only a guess) > > that you start setup on the system and manually specify the system > > root to be the root of your unmounted filesystem instead of the > > default 'C:\cygwin'. > > You're absolutely right.

RE: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

On 03 July 2007 18:15, morgan gangwere wrote: > I am _not_ the maintainer Well, duh. You know the person who you're replying to? You know, the person who is asking whether he should carry on maintaining so many versions? He'd be the maintainer. Are you /quite/ sure you're actually awake

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Schulman wrote: > Unison users on Cygwin: > > I'm preparing a new unison2.27 package, to be released shortly. As I do > that, I'm looking over the old Unison packages in Cygwin: > > unison2.9.1 > unison2.9.20 > unison2.10.2 > unison2.12.0 > un

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

> Knowing setup.exe as I do, I'm guessing (and this is only a guess) > that you start setup on the system and manually specify the system > root to be the root of your unmounted filesystem instead of the > default 'C:\cygwin'. You're absolutely right. My system is located at h:/ where h: is a mo

RE: Cygwin installation hanging during post-install shell scripts

If anyone is interested, this issue was resolved with the new Cygwin installer that was released yesterday. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Getz Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 2:16 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Cygwin installation han

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, fergus wrote: > Thank you for all the improvements. Don't want to repeat the long > description at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00658.html so can > I just comment: the new 2.573.2.2 fails to spot an up-to-date but > unmounted Cygwin system so, instead of merely re-mou

ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

Unison users on Cygwin: I'm preparing a new unison2.27 package, to be released shortly. As I do that, I'm looking over the old Unison packages in Cygwin: unison2.9.1 unison2.9.20 unison2.10.2 unison2.12.0 unison2.13 unison2.17 and I'm thinking that it's time for me to abandon the first four of t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

Corinna Vinschen, le Tue 03 Jul 2007 09:54:24 +0200, a écrit : > I'm still not happy with the dependency to ws2_32. > It should still go away and I don't see any reason to keep it. Yes, we did agree on that in the thread. I will also split the package, into brltty, xbrlapi, libbrlapi, libbrlapi-de

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

On 07/03/2007, Pavel Kudrna wrote: > > > * /From/: "Dave Korn" > > They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to POSIX, which > has no notion of a per-drive current directory. > Ok, but Cygwin != POSIX :-) Cygwin application has environment variable for each drive le

RE: newbie question

On 03 July 2007 12:57, Murali Vemuri wrote: > Hello there, > > I was trying to compile Cscope for Cygwin. > My cygcheck output is attached here. > Also, when I try to ./configure for cscope, the output appears to be normal. > Please find the configure output below. > > And when I try to compile,

RE: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

* /From/: "Dave Korn" They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to POSIX, which has no notion of a per-drive current directory. Ok, but Cygwin != POSIX :-) Cygwin application has environment variable for each drive letter to remember current drive. See example and r

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

On Jul 3 01:32, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Samuel Thibault, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 19:59:25 +0800, a écrit : > > Phil Betts, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 12:14:33 +0100, a écrit : > > > Might I suggest a compromise? Create a new "Accessibility" group in > > > setup. It would (at least for now) be the f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

The new version of setup fails to accommodate the following approved practice (ie. recommended on this list). A user who has iterated to a bespoke system and who wishes to build it elsewhere (or who just wants to build a tailored system from scratch) need not follow the painful process of sele

Re: newbie question

Murali Vemuri wrote: Hi Murali, It would be best if you first read > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and note the part that talks about cygcheck. Otherwise, we will just end up guessing what's wrong with your system. -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lgcc