rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters [Was: Re: why "Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject"?]

2008-05-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Daniel Barclay wrote: So just because I mention that I'm NOT using X11, my message gets rejected because X11 is off-topic? Yes. The filters aren't that smart -- they are word based, not natural-language based. So you can't expect them to understand term negation -- or spammers would start adv

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkg-config-0.23a-1

2008-05-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Damon Register wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do not feed the harvesters. Do not quote email addresses in replies. The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed libraries in the system, including the CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and other information necessary to compile

Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive

2008-05-09 Thread Adam McCarthy
I really enjoy Cygwin and would love to have a portable copy on a thumb drive. I use Cygwin all the time, and obviously I can't install it on every computer I go on, especially since many are not mine. I saw many instructions on the web for doing it, but I wanted to see if their were instructions

Re: ssh hanging on some connections

2008-05-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Foulk wrote: Aloha, Has anyone figured out why ssh is hanging sometimes? Saw it mentioned in some back archives, but no answers. Just installed the latest Cygwin today and now I've got the ssh hang problem when I access a particular Linux box over the Internet. It connects okay, thoug

Re: How do I try cygwin 1.7?

2008-05-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
William Deegan wrote: Greetings, Are the snapshots 1.7 snapshots? Yes. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _

RE: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Mark J. Reed wrote on Friday, May 09, 2008 12:38 PM: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Lee Maschmeyer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The thing that puzzles me, as a non-newbie but relatively ignorant >> user, is why >> >> cygcheck -c script >> >> returns nothing. > > Because script is not i

Re: why "Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject"?

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Dave Korn wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote on 09 May 2008 17:22: : Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject. This is probably due to an off-topic post. ... --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. ...> Subject: widely-spaced characters in rxvt (non-X1

libusb-win32: libusb.pc

2008-05-09 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Apparently the linux version of libusb ships with a libusb.pc pkg-config file. Packages use it to determine if libusb is installed, but libusb-win32 package is missing it. Could something like the attached be added to libusb-win32? Yaakov -

Re: cygwin perl useradd command

2008-05-09 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Jaspreet Singh wrote: > ok Hugh Sasse > > as you have saw what i have done. i understand everything you > wrote as i am a programer like about using functions and grep. > But, the problem is that i am a windows programer and do > programing in Visual Basic, I have already comp

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Toggle the "View" button until you get to "Full". >> That shows packages in a single alphabetical list. > > It isn't there. The list goes from screen to scsh. Right. Because screen is not a package. It is one file. You

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Toggle the "View" button until you get to "Full". That shows packages in a single alphabetical list. It isn't there. The list goes from screen to scsh. -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Unsubscribe

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Greg Chicares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toggle the "View" button until you get to "Full". > That shows packages in a single alphabetical list. Helpful tip. Thanks! -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thing that puzzles me, as a non-newbie but relatively ignorant user, is > why > > cygcheck -c script > > returns nothing. Because script is not its own package. It's one of the programs included in the util-linux pa

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
The thing that puzzles me, as a non-newbie but relatively ignorant user, is why cygcheck -c script returns nothing. -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: why "Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject"?

2008-05-09 Thread Dave Korn
Daniel Barclay wrote on 09 May 2008 17:22: >> : >> Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your >> subject. This is probably due to an off-topic post. ... >> --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. > ...> Subject: widely-spaced characters in rxvt (non-X11 mode)

why "Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject"?

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
: Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your subject. This is probably due to an off-topic post. ... --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. ...> Subject: widely-spaced characters in rxvt (non-X11 mode) What the heck is off-topic about rxvt and X11? Dani

SWIG is downlevel

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Rossi
Hello, this has been mentioned before in this archive but I just wanted to bump this issue back up in the collective conscious again. The current version of SWIG distributed with cygwin is incompatible with the Pyhon 2.5 include files also included in the cygwin distribution. The specific pro

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-05-09 15:50Z, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But, now that I know what Cygwin package it's in, how do I turn that >> into knowing what to look for in Cygwin Setup? > > Well, you look for the package name. You just have to guess what >

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, now that I know what Cygwin package it's in, how do I turn that > into knowing what to look for in Cygwin Setup? Well, you look for the package name. You just have to guess what category it's in. :\ Since it's named "util-linux"

RE: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread lemons_terry
>On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:19:39AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: >>On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Does the 'script' utility exist in cygwin? >>Yes. >> >>> searched the components of the latest distribution but didn't see it. >> >>Well, it's right there i

Re: cygwin perl useradd command

2008-05-09 Thread Jaspreet Singh
ok Hugh Sasse as you have saw what i have done. i understand everything you wrote as i am a programer like about using functions and grep. But, the problem is that i am a windows programer and do programing in Visual Basic, I have already compleated this useradd, usermod , userdel, etc Commands

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:19:39AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: >On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> Does the 'script' utility exist in cygwin? >Yes. > >> searched the components of the latest distribution but didn't see it. > >Well, it's right there in /usr/bin/

Re: rsync's --delete and --exclude option

2008-05-09 Thread David Rothenberger
On 5/9/2008 6:45 AM, Richard Ivarson wrote: When you use rsync with option --delete and --exclude (for example exclude='*.bak') then rsync will exclude such files from source and destination and hence also not delete *.bak files on the destination. However, would it be possible to still make r

Re: Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Does the 'script' utility exist in cygwin? Yes. > searched the components of the latest distribution but didn't see it. Well, it's right there in /usr/bin/script on my machine. don't know what package it came from, but it wor

Script utility for cygwin?

2008-05-09 Thread lemons_terry
Hi Does the 'script' utility exist in cygwin? I searched the components of the latest distribution but didn't see it. Google'ing found some old (2001) messages about adding a 'script' port to cygwin. I'm looking for a utility that will allow the same functionality as the Linux 'script' comma

rsync's --delete and --exclude option

2008-05-09 Thread Richard Ivarson
Hi, When you use rsync with option --delete and --exclude (for example exclude='*.bak') then rsync will exclude such files from source and destination and hence also not delete *.bak files on the destination. However, would it be possible to still make rsync delete such excluded files on the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkg-config-0.23a-1

2008-05-09 Thread Damon Register
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed libraries in the system, including the CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and other information necessary to compile and link against one or more libraries. post 0.23 release: is this the one called 0.23a-1 in the s

cygwin perl useradd command

2008-05-09 Thread Jaspreet Singh
hey guys, anybody has useradd command on cygwin. Here's something interesting. i wrote a perl script for useradd command. it takes following arguments -u : Username\n"; -p : Password\n"; -g : Initial Group\n"; -c : Comments\n"; -d : Home Dir

xinetd and telnet

2008-05-09 Thread Jaspreet Singh
i installed cygwin and xinetd on windows XP sp2. then i disabled all xinetd services but telnet. Now in log it says Must specify a server in telnet telnet xinetd config service telnet { flags = REUSE socket_type = stream wait= no

Re: SDL and OpenFST package

2008-05-09 Thread Václav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi | | Just wondering if there is any available cygwin package for | | SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx and OpenFST. | | currently need them for my project, however can not find them in cygwin | setup | | please let me know if anyo

About init

2008-05-09 Thread Jaspreet Singh
hey guys, i got a QUS? When i run init from net start init it does not start services in rc.d or init.d directories. Anybody got an idea Bring your gang together. Do your thing. Find your favourite Yahoo! group at http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://

Re: How to backup Cygwin packages list?

2008-05-09 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'd like to backup the packages list of my current Cygwin installation, >>> ie >>> the config files which list which packages Cygwin got installed. >>> So that I could take this configuration file(s) to another PC with fresh >>>

Re: cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state

2008-05-09 Thread Gloria Muñoz
> You have forgotten to allocate some memory for your out_file buffer. Cheers! That was the problem!! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state

2008-05-09 Thread Václav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gloria Muñoz wrote: | Hi all! | | First of all hello everybody! because I've just joined | the list. I've had a lok into the Mailing list archive and I've seen | that this error has happened before to other people but each time the | solution was di

cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state

2008-05-09 Thread Gloria Muñoz
Hi all! First of all hello everybody! because I've just joined the list. I've had a lok into the Mailing list archive and I've seen that this error has happened before to other people but each time the solution was different and I haven't found the answer to my specific case so here we go! I'm j

RE:lpr works? FAQ in error?

2008-05-09 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Lee D. Rothstein on Fri, 09 May 2008 01:26:09 -0400 wrote: >I've gotten /usr/bin/lpr to work under Vista. So is the FAQ in error? It is in error. There is a working lpr which is part or cygutils. See man pages. > My problem is finding a filter for Epson printers. For modern Epson printers you ma