Re: [RFU] w3m-0.5.2-1

2010-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 5 17:27, Robert S. Heckel Jr. wrote: New upstream release (for YAMWHTLT at least, 0.5.2 is from 2007 :) wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=1 \ http://bheckel.sdf.org/cygwin/w3m/w3m-0.5.2-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://bheckel.sdf.org/cygwin/w3m/w3m-0.5.2-1.tar.bz2 \

Re: [PATCH] A setup.exe performance enhancement

2010-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/26/2010 10:39 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 26 November 2010 15:22, Jon TURNEY wrote: I've also uploaded a setup snapshot at [1], I would be much obliged if that received some testing. [1] http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.738.exe Wow, what a difference. It's so fast that the new

New setup.exe version 2.738 installed

2010-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
I just installed a new version of setup.exe to pull in Jon's incredible speedups. The old version is still available as setup.exe.old, in case of problems. Thanks, Jon, for all of your work on setup.exe. It is much appreciated. cgf

Re: New setup.exe version 2.738 installed

2010-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:08:29AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I just installed a new version of setup.exe to pull in Jon's incredible speedups. The old version is still available as setup.exe.old, in case of problems. Thanks, Jon, for all of your work on setup.exe. It is much appreciated.

Re: X server with multiple Windows desktops

2010-12-06 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: On 16/11/2010 20:37, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Is there any way for the X server to recognize these as four different desktops, so I could, for example, open an Xterm explicitly on a given desktop, for example:    

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog path.cc

2010-12-06 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-12-06 13:09:40 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog path.cc Log message: * path.cc (path_conv::check): Don't generate ENOENT for non-existant CYGDRIVE and NETDRIVE paths. Add

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog cygpath.cc

2010-12-06 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-12-06 13:40:25 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog cygpath.cc Log message: * cygpath.cc (get_device_name): Fix path length test. Patches:

Re: cygpath -w for non-existent server

2010-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Andy, On Dec 4 16:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 4 06:35, Andy Koppe wrote: With non-existent server foo, and Cygwin 1.7.7 or the latest 1.7.8 snapshot: $ cygpath -w //foo/bar \\foo\bar $ cygpath -w //foo cygpath: error converting //foo - No such file or directory

Re: cygpath -w for non-existent server

2010-12-06 Thread Andy Koppe
On 6 December 2010 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Andy, On Dec  4 16:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec  4 06:35, Andy Koppe wrote: With non-existent server foo, and Cygwin 1.7.7 or the latest 1.7.8 snapshot: $ cygpath -w //foo/bar \\foo\bar $ cygpath -w //foo cygpath:

Re: cygpath -w for non-existent server

2010-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 6 11:59, Andy Koppe wrote: On 6 December 2010 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec  4 06:35, Andy Koppe wrote: $ cygpath -w //foo cygpath: error converting //foo - No such file or directory Is that as intended? [...] - //foo is a virtual path, valid only in Cygwin.  You

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w3m-0.5.2-1

2010-12-06 Thread Robert S. Heckel Jr.
Version 0.5.2-1 of w3m has been uploaded. A text-based web browser as well as a pager like 'more' or 'less'. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

2010-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Eric, On Dec 3 15:17, Eric Blake wrote: A new release of findutils, 4.5.9-2, is available for test, while 4.5.9-1 remains current. NEWS: = This is a minor release to try and fix -execdir executing in the wrong directory. If this passes testing by those who complained about the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

2010-12-06 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of findutils, 4.5.9-2, is available as the current version, replacing 4.5.9-1 and leaving 4.5.8-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor release to try and fix -execdir executing in the wrong directory. The experimental build released last week passed both list and my testing, so

Re: Wrong message 'Pattern not found'

2010-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2010 2:10 AM, Thomas Wiedmann wrote: Hello, when I call 'man grep' in Cygwin 1.7.1 and try to search the pattern -P, which is really available, with '/-P', the wrong message 'Pattern not found (press RETURN)' appeared. This behaviour only occurs with Cygwin and only on a certain

Program repeatedly restarts when its console is closed

2010-12-06 Thread Arthur Norman
At the end of this message is a short program. It is linked as a windows-mode executable so when it is launched it does not have a console. It then allocates one and uses it. The expected behaviour is that when I run it a fresh DOS-style console appears and I can type a few chars in and they

Re: Program repeatedly restarts when its console is closed

2010-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2010 6:07 PM, Arthur Norman wrote: At the end of this message is a short program. It is linked as a windows-mode executable so when it is launched it does not have a console. It then allocates one and uses it. The expected behaviour is that when I run it a fresh DOS-style console

Re: Program repeatedly restarts when its console is closed

2010-12-06 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-12-06 23:07Z, Arthur Norman wrote: [...] It is not clear to me whether this is an issue of the mingw bits not handling things and exiting badly or of the cygwin execv behaving improperly. Eg it I write a very short program that goes basically execv(./bad0,...) and compile that using

Install still fails on win7 (and no tips after 2.5 months?)

2010-12-06 Thread Stig Hackvan
Why does cygwin not install properly on windows 7 (32 bit)? i've googled it and all I've found is a scatterring of similar issues and no suggestions. Why isn't there a FAQ? I have the same error messages as David Means (23 Sep 2010), and I've tried to install cygwin with all the version

Re: Install still fails on win7 (and no tips after 2.5 months?)

2010-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2010 9:43 PM, Stig Hackvan wrote: Why does cygwin not install properly on windows 7 (32 bit)? ...on your machine. It's a fair question. But also one that may require more input and action by you to resolve. I'll offer a couple of pot-shots, in the absence of more details. snip

Re: Install still fails on win7 (and no tips after 2.5 months?)

2010-12-06 Thread Mark Geisert
And then also look for http://www.acronymfinder.com/#BLODA. A nitpick but that URL seems incorrect. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA works. The thing about BLODA is that, even if you're not running any of the BLODA currently listed (see the additional URL within the definition on the

Permissions on Windows 2008

2010-12-06 Thread Bryan Slatner
I've just installed Cygwin on a Windows 2008 Standard server with SP2. I'm noticing two strange behaviors with files that I upload via SFTP (or SCP, I'm not actually sure which protocol WinSCP uses by default). First, the ACL list on the uploaded files contains an entry for ServerName\None,

Re: Permissions on Windows 2008

2010-12-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/06/2010 11:09 PM, Bryan Slatner wrote: I've just installed Cygwin on a Windows 2008 Standard server with SP2. I'm noticing two strange behaviors with files that I upload via SFTP (or SCP, I'm not actually sure which protocol WinSCP uses by default). First, the ACL list on the

Updated: w3m-0.5.2-1

2010-12-06 Thread Robert S. Heckel Jr.
Version 0.5.2-1 of w3m has been uploaded. A text-based web browser as well as a pager like 'more' or 'less'. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into