Re: [1.7] RFU: mercurial-1.4-1

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 20:35, Jari Aalto wrote: New upstream release: wget \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/mercurial/mercurial-1.4-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/mercurial/mercurial-1.4-1.tar.bz2\ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/mercurial/setup.hint

Re: [PATCH] Fix another setup.exe crash.

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 19:45, Dave Korn wrote: The attached patch resolves this by noticing if the std::map::find() method call returns the not-found result, and supplying a static dummy empty All Category object to the PickView constructor instead. This results in a chooser page with a single category

Re: [1.7] RFU: msmtp-1.4.18-1

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 11:32, Jari Aalto wrote: Update to a newer upstream release: wget \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/msmtp/msmtp-1.4.18-1-src.tar.bz2 \ Uploaded. http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/msmtp/msmtp-1.4.18-1.tar.bz2 \ Uploaded.

Re: [1.7] RFU: msmtp-1.4.18-1

2009-11-30 Thread Jari Aalto
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com writes: http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/msmtp/msmtp-1.4.18.tar.bz2 \ *Not* uploaded. What's that? The upstream sources. Was mistakenly copied to the URL listing. Thanks, Jari

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/30 Thomas Dickey:   Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore.  I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release).  I read the other messages and nothing seems to work.   Does anyone have a SIMPLE solution

Re: [PATCH] Repair '-nolock'

2009-11-30 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/30 Fergus: (Sorry to send twice: originally sent yesterday Sunday 0728 GMT but never arrived at cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com; 2nd attempt today Monday 0752 GMT and hope for better progress.) Message was: Thank you. 1 Will this amendment eventually be incorporated into an updated

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/30 Thomas Dickey:   Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore.  I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release).  I read the other messages and nothing seems to work.  

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/30 Thomas Dickey:   Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore.  I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release).  I read the other messages and nothing seems to work.  

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Joe Java
Thank you! xterm now works again. The solution was: Run the Cygwin setup program, and on the Select Packages page, choose Utils and within there choose termcap and downgrade to version 20050421-1. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 29 22:42, Yaakov S wrote: On 29/11/2009 21:28, Joe Java wrote: Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore. I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release). I read the other messages and nothing seems

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/30 Corinna Vinschen:   Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore.  I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release).  I read the other messages and nothing seems to work.   Does anyone have a

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: The latest termcap, which was automatically generated from terminfo, has entries longer than 1K in it. ok... (I thought cygwin was using GNU termcap, which supposedly works with longer entries - though I recall _that_ being fixed

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Isn't xterm linked against ncurses? The new 1.7 xterm is. The old 1.5 xterm is still termcap based. Why does it break on a termcap file at all? 1.5 only, and it breaks because the termcap file was NOT generated using '-r' to limit the number of allowed ':tc='

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xterm-251-1

2009-11-30 Thread Eliot Moss
Thank you, Yaakov -- this definitely fixed my problem, and ldd shows that it requests ncurses, as desired for the future. Best wishes -- Eliot -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-30 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Just to be clear from the start, Cygwin 1.7 not 1.5. And I tried to make this clear. And I tried to not let Outlook's word-wrap inter- fere. Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: My guess: It's the

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-30 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
I wrote: And I tried to make this clear. email -^ *sigh* Sorry! Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-30 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Just to be clear from the start, Cygwin 1.7 not 1.5. ACK. [...] i) ```time checkX -t 12'' How long does it take? vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ time checkX -t 12 real0m0.098s user0m0.046s sys 0m0.031s And *that* shouldn't happen! I

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 29/11/2009 21:28, Joe Java wrote: Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore. I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release). I read the other messages and nothing seems to work.

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog speclib

2009-11-30 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2009-11-30 15:40:23 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog speclib Log message: * speclib: Use last dll found since that's the real name of the cygwin DLL. Patches:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 29 18:22, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar behavior to what Angelo and Robert reported, but it doesn't happen if I export TMPDIR=/tmp before running

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 09:14, ??? wrote: The problems occurs again. Nothing has changed in this code. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports:

Re: [1.7] cvs over ssh hangs on completion

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 22:42, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: I have cvs on a client machine connecting to a host over ssh. The cvs procedure finishes, but the connection does not terminate until I hit ctrl-c. The cvs process is then left running on the host. Regular ssh connections (ie interactive login) do not

possible cygwin_select problem: rtorrent freezes under cygwin 1.7

2009-11-30 Thread Bogdan
Hi, I've compiled and installed a console torrent client rTorrent 0.8.5 under cygwin, following instructions here: http://rtwi.jmk.hu/wiki/rTorrentOnWindows The problem is that rTorrent freezes for random-length periods of time with 100% CPU use. That same version of rTorrent does not freeze

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2009 4:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 29 18:22, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar behavior to what Angelo and Robert reported, but it doesn't happen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 07:31, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/30/2009 4:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 29 18:22, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar behavior to what Angelo and

how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread nwpu053...@gmail.com
how to get the windows PATH env in 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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A search of the mailing list archives shows that the default

1.5.25(0.156/4/2) XWin conflict with Microsoft Outlook 2003

2009-11-30 Thread Larry W. Virden
I am encountering a peculiar problem with Cygwin 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) The administrator has the package installed, with a vbs script that invokes a couple of batch files to get Cygwin and X started, when starting a local xterm. The first .bat file sets up some variables then does a %RUN% XWin

How beta is the beta 1.7?

2009-11-30 Thread Rance Hall
The timeline for 1.7 going stable is any day now. (late November, early December) I am running a windows 7 box that I want to install the new 1.7 Ive used older versions of cygwin so I know what to expect as far as usage goes, but these questions weren't covered in the FAQ as far as I could

Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: I'm aware that this would reserve the 'display forms' of those chars and map them them to their real forms when interpreted within cygwin. I don't see this to be a problem. But it is a problem. It would make it impossible to use the

Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 15:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: They are actually listed in all CJK character sets (checking i18n data). Whether this was really used or not, it makes their view as presentation forms weaker. _I_ use those [wide ASCII chars] in filesnames,

My original report of xterm breaking with the new termcap

2009-11-30 Thread Eliot Moss
... as Corinna requested :-) ... Fairly easy to follow forward to the maintainer's diagnosis that a termcap entry is too big, which causes this failure. Cheers -- Eliot ---BeginMessage--- The new termcap causes my xterm to segmentation fault. When I back out just the termcap line of this

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: package 1.4.18-1 -- Light SMTP client with support for server profiles

2009-11-30 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msmtp License : GPL A SMTP client that can be used to send mails from Mutt and probably other MUAs (mail user agents). It forwards mails to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider), which takes care of

Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:19:07PM -0800, LiuYan ?? wrote: I'm using Cygwin for several years, it help me very much in my work. There's a tiny issue: after downloaded in several years, the total size of my local setup packages directory had grown up to G bytes, while a fresh setup packages

Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:56:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 30 15:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: They are actually listed in all CJK character sets (checking i18n data). Whether this was really used or not, it makes their view as presentation

Re: How beta is the beta 1.7?

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:06:18AM -0600, Rance Hall wrote: The timeline for 1.7 going stable is any day now. (late November, early December) I am running a windows 7 box that I want to install the new 1.7 Ive used older versions of cygwin so I know what to expect as far as usage goes, but these

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A search

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A search of the

getopt bugs

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
Cygwin 1.7 getopt has made some strides towards being more Linux-compatible, but there are still a couple remaining bugs recently detected by the m4 testsuite. On Linux, setting optind=0 forces a re-evaluation of getenv(POSIXLY_CORRECT); this can be useful if a program wants to parse multiple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Ken Brown wrote: On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: I guess a side question here is if TMP does not exist then should it be defaulting to the system wide TEMP variable, the one defined in .bashrc for the user or should it even be created at all? I posted an strace and it shows

Unknown problems with cygwin-1.7 install on windows 7 host

2009-11-30 Thread Rance Hall
I apologize for the vagueness of this post, but I dont know how to track this down as the Windows error messages do not help much. I have windows 7 professional, and just installed cygwin-1.7 beta. As far as I can tell, the installation works and all is well with the cygwin world. However, the

Re: getopt bugs

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 16:54, Eric Blake wrote: Cygwin 1.7 getopt has made some strides towards being more Linux-compatible, but there are still a couple remaining bugs recently detected by the m4 testsuite. Bugs? Linux-incompatibilities, ok, but bugs? On Linux, setting optind=0 forces a re-evaluation

Re: Unknown problems with cygwin-1.7 install on windows 7 host

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 10:57, Rance Hall wrote: I apologize for the vagueness of this post, but I dont know how to track this down as the Windows error messages do not help much. I have windows 7 professional, and just installed cygwin-1.7 beta. As far as I can tell, the installation works and all is

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/26/2009 04:30 PM, Reinier Post wrote: Dear list, I've been using Cygwin daily for years and I'm very happy with it. But today it threw a nice puzzle at me. I must confess I became a list member just to report it. ... Please don't commandeer another's email thread for your own

Re: getopt bugs

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Bugs? Linux-incompatibilities, ok, but bugs? Well, a bug is defined as operating differently than documented, and we are documented as striving for linux compatibility where possible. (and given the first bug, there is no way to

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/30/2009 07:44 AM, nwpu053...@gmail.com wrote: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use echo $PATH. This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be off-topic for this list. --

Re: 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) XWin conflict with Microsoft Outlook 2003

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/30/2009 08:56 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote: I am encountering a peculiar problem with Cygwin 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) The administrator has the package installed, with a vbs script that invokes a couple of batch files to get Cygwin and X started, when starting a local xterm. X problems are best

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP and TEMP in /etc/profile.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: Ken Brown wrote: On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: I guess a side question here is if TMP does not exist then should it be defaulting to the system wide TEMP variable, the one defined in .bashrc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Robert Pendell wrote: Is there a reason for not using the cygwin /tmp folder by default? Dunno. I can't think of a good reason for it but that doesn't mean there isn't one. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Chip Panarchy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28variable%29 On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 11/30/2009 07:44 AM, nwpu053...@gmail.com wrote: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to

Environment variable documentation

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) could use some expansion. For example, it's not stated

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Robert Pendell wrote: P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and patch defaulted to /tmp. I noticed that too... Ken Brown wrote: That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /etc/profile. Then things should work as in linux. Indeed. But a question

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

2009-11-30 Thread wynfield
I have no problem with Japanese-Kana or Chinese-Kanji characters related with cygpath. Some jibberish directory or file names might exist from legacy mis-encodings or non-recogizable character sets, but this would not be a cygpath issue. On Nov 30 09:14, ??? wrote: The problems

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread ︶ㄣ無名氏
What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem. `echo $PATH' would display the path of cygwin: echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin $PATH returns the value of

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Huang Bambo
2009/12/1 �屺��o名氏 tianlij...@gmail.com: What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem. `echo $PATH' would display the path of cygwin: echo $PATH

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
2009/11/30 ︶ㄣ無名氏: What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem. As I understand it, by the time you're in a Cygwin bash shell, the environment variable has been changed by the Cygwin DLL, and the original Windows

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-01, ??? wrote: $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use echo $PATH. This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be off-topic for this list. What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Gary Johnson wrote: On 2009-12-01, ??? wrote: $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use echo $PATH. This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be off-topic for this list. What i mean is that, how to only get the env path

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi angelo.grazi...@alice.it wrote: Robert Pendell wrote: P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and patch defaulted to /tmp. I noticed that too... Ken Brown wrote: That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/30/2009 06:40 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Just to clarify since there seems to be a little confusion concerning what the OP needs. Gary's suggestion will convert the value of the PATH environment variable as the shell used to run cygpath sees it to a value which is acceptable by

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: package 1.4.18-1 -- Light SMTP client with support for server profiles

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Jari Aalto wrote: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msmtp License : GPL package 1.4.18-1? I think your auto-announce/macro-replacement script missed a replacement. The subject line should read msmtp-1.4.18-1 -- Light SMTP... -- Chuck --

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Simply start the Windows command prompt and type in echo %PATH%. You must need to re-read the subject line, since your suggested method does not actually answer the question asked. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/30/2009 08:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Simply start the Windows command prompt and type in echo %PATH%. You must need to re-read the subject line, since your suggested method does not actually answer the question asked. Indeed! You're right. So then the answer is that

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote: The real question here is what does he need the Windows PATH for? Agreed, it depends what purposes OP wants it for and whether it absolutely positively has to be the exact windows path(*) or not. For complete accuracy from within a cygwin environment you'd probably have

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-4

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This is a bugfix release. This

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-13

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This is a bugfix release. This

Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-4

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This is a bugfix release. This

[1.7] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-13

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This is a bugfix release. This