Requirements depth in setup.exe

2008-06-26 Thread Thrall, Bryan
We have a custom cygwin mirror for distributing our software and occasionally run into problems where a package that is listed in the setup.ini as being required isn't installed like it should be. For example, xterm is required (eventually) but isn't installed by default. The problem seems to be

Re: Requirements depth in setup.exe

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:46:22PM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote: We have a custom cygwin mirror for distributing our software and occasionally run into problems where a package that is listed in the setup.ini as being required isn't installed like it should be. For example, xterm is required

New install - cannot see linux from xp

2008-06-26 Thread unclewilco
I'm a newbee to unix and xwindowing. After I connect to work through Nortel Networks VPN, I would like to xwindow into one of our internal (ip addr is 10.x.x.x) redhat servers whose firewall is turned off. I know I can connect to it through the Xterm using ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] followed by my

winsup/doc ChangeLog effectively.sgml

2008-06-26 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-06-27 00:34:02 Modified files: doc: ChangeLog effectively.sgml Log message: * effectively.sgml: Correct subject-verb agreement, missing verb (typo), preposition

Let Ooh!JAPAN Open up Shopping in Japan to You!

2008-06-26 Thread infomail
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Re: Windows COM port use

2008-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 02:35, Borge wrote: Thanks Corinna, could you also help me specify the baud rate and suggest a program to access stty the serial port? telnet /dev/ttyS0 does not cut it, and I can't find a Cygwin Kermit package. If you want terminal functionality, it's agetty in the util-linux

Get the cygwin PID of a Win PID

2008-06-26 Thread Borislav Ivanov
Hello, I'm currently updating cygwin from 1.3.22 to 1.5.25 and I encountered a problem with Winpids/Cygwinpids. I have a custom tool that checks if a process is running by invoking kill(PID, 0). The PID is retrieved from a PID file which all applications write on startup. On 1.3 I get this:

RE: No such file or directory

2008-06-26 Thread pirracas77
I reinstalled all cygwin. Now works fine. Dave Korn wrote: pirracas77 wrote on 26 June 2008 07:53: Hello all: I am trying to make a script in bash using cygwin. (script.sh) There is a line with a command like this ping www..com -t file.txt when I launch this commad

Setup.exe error

2008-06-26 Thread Paul, Brent S
I downloaded the package Python 2.5.1-2. I then started to install that package but was running another instance of cygwin and had to cancel the installation. I then killed the cygwin window and ran setup.exe to try to install Python. However I get an error that setup.exe has

Many Thanks

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Somos
I've been using Cygwin since 2002 and am quite pleased with it. I had been on various Unix systems since 1982, and later Linux. When I found myself at a job with *NO* Linux/Unix access I was hurting really bad. Then I found Cygwin. While Cygwin may not be perfect, it sure beats the

Re: Many Thanks

2008-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 11:36, Neil Somos wrote: Thanks for all the work that Chris, Corinna, and everyone else have done to make Cygwin as capable and useful as it is. That's nice. Thank you! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader

Cmake 2.6 and the FindwxWidgets.cmake seems to use the wrong locating logic in Cygwin

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Keener
I'm not sure if this should be posted here or if I should go upstream to cmake.org but I was compiling an application that uses cmake/ccmake and can be compiled on Windows/Linux/MingW/Cygwin and so on. Not a lot of folks try it on Cygwin so I have been stumbling over some of the issues.

DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Jwelch
I've been trying to do a block copy of one of my systems but I'm having an issue with finding the partition on cygwin. When I go to /dev, I don't see my hard drives so I can't do a DD. Here is the website I was using: http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html DD

RE: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Korn
Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 18:13: I've been trying to do a block copy of one of my systems but I'm having an issue with finding the partition on cygwin. When I go to /dev, I don't see my hard drives so I can't do a DD. Even though you don't see them, they are there. The /dev filesystem

RE: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Jwelch
Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. How do I create it so I can see it? Dave Korn wrote: Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 18:13: I've been trying to do a block copy of one of my systems but I'm having an issue with finding the partition on cygwin. When I go to

Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
There is no \device directory. You just use /dev/whatever even though it doesn't show up in ls. On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Jwelch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. How do I create it so I can see it? Dave Korn wrote: Jwelch

RE: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Korn
Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 19:18: Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. Not /device, /dev. How do I create it so I can see it? mkdir /dev will create it (but won't populate it), or perhaps better, you could use the create_devices.sh script that is linked from

Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Jwelch wrote: Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. How do I create it so I can see it? You are misinterpreting what is written on that page. There is no need to create anything, nor is there a need to know about anything under \Device as that is the NT name not the

Re: Perl Term/ReadKey.pm missing from perl 5.10.0-4 package

2008-06-26 Thread Reini Urban
steve campbell wrote: The /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Term/ReadKey.pm file is missing from the perl 5.10.0-4 package. It is present in the 5.10.0-3 package. Has it been removed for a reason? I have removed it from my modules file, for some yet unknown reason. This looks like a

Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Jwelch
This is some good stuff, thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it. The problem I have now is that every time I try to DD the drive, it freezes on me. I have tried it 3 times and it freezes on the same number of bytes every time. $ nc -l -p 7000 | dd of=/dev/sda punt! 16+0 records in

Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:39:20PM -0700, Jwelch wrote: This is some good stuff, thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it. The problem I have now is that every time I try to DD the drive, it freezes on me. I have tried it 3 times and it freezes on the same number of bytes every time. $

Copy edits for 'cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html' - patch and changelog entry

2008-06-26 Thread korz_fred
) unified diff against the anon cvs sources (as of about 2200GMT 20080626). It's been quite a few years since I've last contributed to projects (e.g. elisp manual in 1990s, gmake test builds, etc). Given the overhead (pointer chasing, etc, etc), I hope these changes make it into the tree and the online

Re: Get the cygwin PID of a Win PID

2008-06-26 Thread Reini Urban
2008/6/26 Borislav Ivanov: I'm currently updating cygwin from 1.3.22 to 1.5.25 and I encountered a problem with Winpids/Cygwinpids. I have a custom tool that checks if a process is running by invoking kill(PID, 0). I searched through the list, but found only transition from cygwinpid to

Re: Copy edits for 'cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html' - patch and changelog entry

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached are (1) ChangeLog entry per the pointers in http://cygwin.com/contrib.html and the GNU ChangeLog standards and (2) unified diff against the anon cvs sources (as of about 2200GMT 20080626). The HTML files are generated files, so you can't change the text

Re: Copy edits for 'cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html' - patch and changelog entry

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:43:03PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Fred Korz wrote: Attached are (1) ChangeLog entry per the pointers in http://cygwin.com/contrib.html and the GNU ChangeLog standards and (2) unified diff against the anon cvs sources (as of about 2200GMT 20080626). The HTML files

Re: Copy edits for 'cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html' - patch and changelog entry

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
the anon cvs sources (as of about 2200GMT 20080626). The HTML files are generated files, so you can't change the text there as changes will just be overwritten the next time they're generated. The file you need to patch is winsup/doc/effectively.sgml. The changes were small enough that I was able

Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think Wow! Zing! was not anyone trying to be professional or encouraging. I very much do not care what version of Linux someone uses and do not care if someone learns Unix. I do think that people should spend a

Re: [linux-l] Crear usuario en Kubuntu 8.4

2008-06-26 Thread lhl
Ok, gracias pero room number que es. Salud2. Liuber. - Original Message - From: Joan Manuel Lopez de la Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Soporte técnico para Software Libre y GNU/Linux. linux-l@listas.softwarelibre.cu Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [linux-l] Crear usuario

Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Newell
My thanks for offering the if Cygwin is based on anything it would be FreeBSD, not Linux. I took the link I posted too literally. There was no point to be missed in OP's purpose as I couldn't have cared less what his purpose was. Though I still dislike Wow! Zing!, I agree with your stated

No such file or directory

2008-06-26 Thread pirracas77
Hello all: I am trying to make a script in bash using cygwin. (script.sh) There is a line with a command like this ping www..com -t file.txt when I launch this commad througth the promtp this commad works without problems but when I launch the script bash script.sh a No such file or

Windows COM port use

2008-06-26 Thread Borge
Question: How do I access a Windows COM port from cygwin? I'd like to open a terminal connection to an application I have running in an external MCU. Easy business with TeraTerm but I don't know how to do it from the shell in Cygwin. Eventually, I want to use Octave to generate some hex data

Re: Windows COM port use

2008-06-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 01:52, Borge wrote: Question: How do I access a Windows COM port from cygwin? [...] I'm using 38400 baud 8/N/1 on what TeraTerm sees as COM1. I'm running Cygwin on 32-bit XP. Win32 COM1 == Cygwin /dev/ttyS0 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails

RE: No such file or directory

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Korn
pirracas77 wrote on 26 June 2008 07:53: Hello all: I am trying to make a script in bash using cygwin. (script.sh) There is a line with a command like this ping www..com -t file.txt when I launch this commad througth the promtp this commad works without problems but when I

Re: ggi terminal for gnuplot

2008-06-26 Thread Peter Rosin
Peter Rosin skrev: Hi! I noticed the following in the cygport file of gnuplot # This gives parse errors # --with-ggi and thought I'd have a look. The cause is a type cleanup in libggi, and here's a patch to make gnuplot follow. Just writing back to inform that I posted a variant

Re: Windows COM port use

2008-06-26 Thread Borge
Thanks Corinna, could you also help me specify the baud rate and suggest a program to access the serial port? telnet /dev/ttyS0 does not cut it, and I can't find a Cygwin Kermit package. Thanks, Borge Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: On Jun 26 01:52, Borge wrote: Question: How do I

Perl Term/ReadKey.pm missing from perl 5.10.0-4 package

2008-06-26 Thread steve.2.campbell
Hi, The /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Term/ReadKey.pm file is missing from the perl 5.10.0-4 package. It is present in the 5.10.0-3 package. Has it been removed for a reason? Thanks, Steve Campbell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: