Re: End of support for 9x

- Original Message - From: "Trans-Mit Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: End of support for 9x Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA is just out of the question. I'm not surprised that you're having bad experiences with Windows if you insist on

Fw: End of support for 9x

Haven't had many bad experiences with Win98, and now being serious, I do use XP and cygwin, but still prefer Win98 performance cf. XP on same H/W Its just a pitty I won't be able to keep the CYGWIN up to date on my WIN98 Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA

Re: awk -v BINMODE=rw

On Aug 21 18:34, Tom Rodman wrote: > Hello: > > awk is removing the \r below: > > ~ $ date;uname -sr > Thu Aug 21 18:26:08 CDT 2008 > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) > ~ $ printf "HI\r\n"| awk -v BINMODE=rw '{print}'|/bin/od -Ad -c -toC > 000 H I \n > 110 111 012 >

Re: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

On Aug 24 19:07, Jay wrote: > The referenced email describing 1.7 lists some special characters that are > now allowed, but it doesn't mention question mark. > Perhaps a good description would be LIKE: "all 8 bit characters except > forward slash and nul"?? > (or, whatever, all 8 bit characters ex

Re: End of support for 9x

Trans-Mit Support wrote: > Re:- > > Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me > > will be discontinued with the > > > next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin. > > Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA > is just out of the question

Re: End of support for 9x

- Original Message - From: "Barry Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: End of support for 9x Windows 9x doesn't even work on most modern hardware any more, due to lack of widespread driver support. That's been my experience too. I've been developing software for nearly 20 years.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: git-1.6.0-1, git{k,-gui,-completion}-1.6.0-1

2008/8/20 Eric Blake: > This is a new upstream release. It moves most helper scripts (such as > git-add) out of /bin, so you should now use 'git add' rather than > 'git-add'. cogito is broken now, attached is the straightforward patch. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ co

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: git-1.6.0-1, git{k,-gui,-completion}-1.6.0-1

2008/8/25 Reini Urban: > 2008/8/20 Eric Blake: >> This is a new upstream release. It moves most helper scripts (such as >> git-add) out of /bin, so you should now use 'git add' rather than >> 'git-add'. > > cogito is broken now, attached is the straightforward patch. same for stgit -- Reini Urb

RE: End of support for 9x

It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that were written for those platforms and they will not upgrade, for reasons of their

Re: End of support for 9x

On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: > > > It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. > This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', > but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that > were written for those platforms

RE: End of support for 9x

That should do it. Thanks... Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:56 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: End of support for 9x On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: > > > It is a pity

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: >>It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and >>95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported >>software', but where a vendor has written applications

RE: End of support for 9x

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Re: End of support for 9x

On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: > >>It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and > >>95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported > >>so

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:21:20AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: >We volunteer. Ok. Thanks. You will have to make a copy of the release directory as well as setup.exe and setup.ini. I'd suggest rsync for that. Unless you are set up to do this, I can set up a "cygwin-legacy" mailing list to discus

Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > >The parallel make is hit and miss; I've seen make go for quite some time > >without failures. I'm also seeing occasional failures with gcc -pipe. > >But it looks like I've finally stumbled on a 100% reproducible testcase, > >in the m4 testsuite. /home/e

Re: End of support for 9x

On Aug 25 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro > > >around for those user who are still running Cygwin on Windows 9x o

Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:50:17PM +, Eric Blake wrote: >> Have you tried the latest snapshot? I made a grasp-in-the-dark change >> there. > >Whatever you did made a difference. Everything I've tried with a self-built >cygwin1.dll with your change has worked without issues, where it was >pr

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:55:18PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 25 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro >

apache

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Re: apache

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gnome application does not start. and where is the startgnome script?

Hi, I installed gnome from cygwinports but none of the gnome-applications starts up. they just exit immediately without any error on the terminal. Not sure if it logs error somewhere. And how to start the gnome desktop? I couldnt find the startgnome script though it seems gnome-session is instal

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cogito-0.18.2-2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new package, cogito 0.18.2-2, is now available for download, replacing 0.18.2-1. NEWS: = This is a minor patch update, attempting to fix cogito to work with the new installation layout of git 1.6.0. However, cogito is no longer actively maintai

Magic disappearing "e"

I have a strange issue. The letter "e" magically disappears in my cygwin bash terminal. If I type "e", and only the "e", at the prompt, nothing appears until I type the next character. If I type "ee", only the first one "hides". The others appear normally. Has anyone else seen this? It ha

Re: Magic disappearing "e"

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:14:07AM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: >I have a strange issue. The letter "e" magically disappears in my >cygwin bash terminal. > >If I type "e", and only the "e", at the prompt, nothing appears until >I type the next character. > >If I type "ee", only the first one "hides"

Re: gnome application does not start. and where is the startgnome script?

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