Re: [ITP] socat

2009-09-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 08/09/2009 13:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: I want to package and maintain socat for Cygwin (1.7). socat is netcat grown up. It will transfer data bidirectionally between just about any two endpoints you can think of. 1) $SIG is a user-specific variable and should be defined in your

gv: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps

2009-09-10 Thread Frédéric Bron
Suddenly, I now get that error when trying to open a .ps file with gv: GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.57: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps. Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window. What should I do? Regards, Frédéric -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: [1.7] Dr. Zell to the rebuild room...

2009-09-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 09/09/2009 03:06, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Some private problems prevent me for working with cygwin the last couple of month. Right now I'm catching up with the almost final 1.5 distribution. I'm also in the middle of downloading the new 1.7 release. I'll try to install it ASAP and will try to

setup.exe hijacked?

2009-09-10 Thread Michael PARKER
I've just tried downloading setup.exe from www.cygwin.com, only to find that it crashes when run on my WinXP x64 desktop. Verifying against the setup.exe.sig signature I see the following: gpg --verify setup.exe.sig setup.exe gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see

Re: setup.exe hijacked?

2009-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
Michael PARKER wrote: I've just tried downloading setup.exe from www.cygwin.com, only to find that it crashes when run on my WinXP x64 desktop. Verifying against the setup.exe.sig signature I see the following: gpg --verify setup.exe.sig setup.exe gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!

Re: setup.exe hijacked?

2009-09-10 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-09-10 08:04Z, Michael PARKER wrote: I've just tried downloading setup.exe from www.cygwin.com, only to find that it crashes when run on my WinXP x64 desktop. I downloaded it from there just now, and it has the same md5sum as a copy I had downloaded three months ago:

Re: Re: setup.exe hijacked?

2009-09-10 Thread Michael PARKER
Greg, Dave, A repeat of my activities earlier (file download via IE8 *and* wget) shows the problem to have now gone away. I've still got a copy of the bad file - same file size as the good setup.exe but with a earlier timestamp: -rwx--+ 1 585728 Aug 5 2008 setup.exe_bad* -rwx--+ 1

Re: BitDefender again

2009-09-10 Thread Michael Kairys
But can anyone say more about Dave Korn's comment that it could horribly frag your heap and bork your maximum allocatable memory limit? Can I test this somehow? Guess I'll just go with it then... :) In the interim I've tried out a few other leading AV products: Avria, Nod32, and Kaspersky,

gcc4.4

2009-09-10 Thread Vincent R.
Hi, when will you release a gcc-4.4 package for cygwin ? Thanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[OT] Remote assistance script?

2009-09-10 Thread Jason Pyeron
I need to ship a laptop to Peru (15:00 GMT-5), I have no idea what type of network connectivity they will have. Also I have no idea what type of user competence will be. Any suggestions for a ssh/vnc setup to make as a double click type script? --

Re: Help needed getting unicode working in bash

2009-09-10 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/10 Kit Johnson: Thanks so much for taking the time to help.  This is the first time I've used a mailing list so I hope I've replied correctly. Yep, except you replied to me instead of the list. ;) I understand charactersets and locales better now.  I followed your recommendations

Re: [OT] Remote assistance script?

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
I need to ship a laptop to Peru (15:00 GMT-5), I have no idea what type of network connectivity they will have. Also I have no idea what type of user competence will be. Any suggestions for a ssh/vnc setup to make as a double click type script? I'd go for an stunnel setup. You can tunnel

Device ports on Cygwin for Kannel

2009-09-10 Thread Siddhartha` Adhikari
Hi All, I am trying to connect my Nokia 5310 mobile with the Kannel Gateway. I am using Cygwin 1.5.25-15 on Windows Vista Business version. My device gets attached to COM34 however, /dev/COM34 is not recognised by Cygwin. What are the valid COM ports for UNIX devices? And is there a restriction

R: Device ports on Cygwin for Kannel

2009-09-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 10/9/09, Siddhartha` Adhikari grad...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: Siddhartha` Adhikari grad...@gmail.com Oggetto: Device ports on Cygwin for Kannel A: cygwin@cygwin.com Data: Giovedì 10 settembre 2009, 20:55 Hi All, I am trying to connect my Nokia 5310 mobile with the Kannel

Re: [OT] Remote assistance script?

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
I'd go for an stunnel setup. You can tunnel any TCP traffic over SSL (including e.g. ssh-- I've done it), and access to port 443 is just about guaranteed. Or, you can just have your ssh server listen on port 443. The only way this wouldn't work is if either (1) port 443 is blocked, which is

R: Device ports on Cygwin for Kannel

2009-09-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
have you tried cygwin-1.7 instead of 1.5 ? --- Gio 10/9/09, Marco Atzeri marco_atz...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Marco Atzeri marco_atz...@yahoo.it Oggetto: R: Device ports on Cygwin for Kannel A: cygwin@cygwin.com, Siddhartha` Adhikari grad...@gmail.com Data: Giovedì 10 settembre 2009, 21:09

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: swig-1.3.38-1

2009-09-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** swig-1.3.38-1 SWIG reads annotated C/C++ header files and creates wrapper code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding C/C++ libraries available to the listed languages, or to extend C/C++ programs with a scripting language.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: python-numpy-1.3.0-1

2009-09-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** python-numpy-1.3.0-1 This Python module contains a powerful N-dimensional array object, sophisticated (broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code, and useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random

Re: R: Device ports on Cygwin for Kannel

2009-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Gio 10/9/09, Siddhartha` Adhikari ha scritto: My device gets attached to COM34 however, /dev/COM34 is not recognised by Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html from cygwin-1.7 sources , up to /dev/ttyS63 = COM64 seems supported An

locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash

2009-09-10 Thread Josh Berdine
Hi, I'm running cygwin 1.7 on windows 7 and seeing aspell crash every time I try to run it. The message I get from the shell is: $ aspell check foo.txt .cset could not be opened for reading or does not exist.lib/aspell-0.60/ Aborted (core dumped) while from within emacs: Starting new

Re: [1.7] Invalid UTF8 while creating a file - cannot delete?

2009-09-10 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/10 Lapo Luchini: But the real problem with that test is not really what shows and how, the biggest problem is that it seems that filenames created with a wrong filename are quite limited in usage and can't seemingly be deleted. % export LANG=en_EN.UTF-8 % cat t.c #include stdio.h

Re: gcc4.4

2009-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: Hi, when will you release a gcc-4.4 package for cygwin ? Right now I'm concentrating on getting a stable 4.3.4 package out that will have all the fixes for all the known problems in 4.3.2 and will be the first fully production-ready version. (I've been struggling with

RE: locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash

2009-09-10 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Josh Berdine wrote on Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:48 PM: I'm running cygwin 1.7 on windows 7 and seeing aspell crash every time I try to run it. The message I get from the shell is: $ aspell check foo.txt .cset could not be opened for reading or does not exist.lib/aspell-0.60/ Aborted

Re: locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash

2009-09-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/10/2009 05:47 PM, Josh Berdine wrote: Hi, I'm running cygwin 1.7 on windows 7 and seeing aspell crash every time I try to run it. The message I get from the shell is: $ aspell check foo.txt .cset could not be opened for reading or does not exist.lib/aspell-0.60/ Aborted (core dumped)

Re: locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash

2009-09-10 Thread Josh Berdine
Thrall, Bryan wrote in message Josh Berdine wrote on Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:48 PM: I'm running cygwin 1.7 on windows 7 and seeing aspell crash every time I try to run it. The message I get from the shell is: $ aspell check foo.txt .cset could not be opened for reading or does not

RE: Re: locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash

2009-09-10 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Josh Berdine wrote on Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:46 PM: Thrall, Bryan wrote in message Looks like foo.txt has Windows line endings; try running 'd2u foo.txt' and then aspell again. Thanks, but after changing to unix line endings I see the same behavior. Same for checking the empty file.

Re: Re: locale issue? cygwin 1.7, aspell 0.60, reproducible crash

2009-09-10 Thread Josh Berdine
Thrall, Bryan wrote in message Josh Berdine wrote on Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:46 PM: Thrall, Bryan wrote in message Looks like foo.txt has Windows line endings; try running 'd2u foo.txt' and then aspell again. Thanks, but after changing to unix line endings I see the same behavior.

[1.7] Updated: swig-1.3.38-1

2009-09-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** swig-1.3.38-1 SWIG reads annotated C/C++ header files and creates wrapper code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding C/C++ libraries available to the listed languages, or to extend C/C++ programs with a scripting language.

[1.7] Updated: python-numpy-1.3.0-1

2009-09-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** python-numpy-1.3.0-1 This Python module contains a powerful N-dimensional array object, sophisticated (broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code, and useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random