[OT] Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> IIRC, that discussion occurred before the 'locale' application (was >> written|got smarter). Sure, I think C.UTF-8 should be the "default >> default" but the arguments in favor of respecting the users' own Windows >> i18n settings make sense. > Does it? Even if I

name-based commands aren't working....arg0='pipefail'??

2011-10-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Any command I'm running -- and this is on a WinXP(sp3)-32 version of cygwin. I first noticed this when I tried to run 'grep'...keeps giving me the usage message. so I ran: /bin/echo "$@" -i pattern pathname What I saw: pipefile -i pattern pathname Um? why is my arg0==pipefail?

openSSH

2011-10-05 Thread Clayton Evans
I have four questions that are not clear to after reading /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. 1) When running ssh-host-config, what is the correct string to enter for the CYGWIN environment variable? 2) When running ssh-host-config, is it necessary to use "pwd" as the password for the user sshd_ser

Re: Alternative to iconv

2011-10-05 Thread Walter Barnes
Thanks Eric, I had previously ran the setup utility and searched for iconv and found only the libraries (libiconv and libiconv2). Also, libiconv2 was pre-installed but I was still getting "command not found" when I attempted to run iconv. I went ahead and installed the libiconv package in addit

Re: Alternative to iconv

2011-10-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/05/2011 04:04 PM, Walter Barnes wrote: Hi all, I have a large csv file (1.5GB) that I need to convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8 however it appears iconv is not currently included in cygwin. Huh? iconv is too part of cygwin: $ cygcheck -p iconv\\.exe Found 3 matches for iconv\.exe libiconv/l

Alternative to iconv

2011-10-05 Thread Walter Barnes
Hi all, I have a large csv file (1.5GB) that I need to convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8 however it appears iconv is not currently included in cygwin. Due to the large size of the file I would rather not open it in an editor. Is there an alternative command line tool I can use? Thanks! Walter --

RE: setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Andrew Schulman sent the following at Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:01 PM >I run setup unattended as e.g. > >setup.exe --quiet-mode --packages aria2,atool,autoconf,... > >This works great, except for one thing: There are some packages for >which the "current" versions are broken, at least for me,

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 01:50:33PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 14:23 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >> I think you're mixing two questions that should be kept separate. The >> first is how /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} should set LANG. That's a >> question that the Cygwin dev

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 14:23 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > I think you're mixing two questions that should be kept separate. The > first is how /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} should set LANG. That's a > question that the Cygwin developers and/or base-files maintainer need to > decide. Agreed. There

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Ken Brown schreef, Op 5-10-2011 20:23: I think you're mixing two questions that should be kept separate. The first is how /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} should set LANG. That's a question that the Cygwin developers and/or base-files maintainer need to decide. The second is whether libintl sh

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 14:23, Ken Brown wrote: > I don't recall any complaints from Cygwin users about C.UTF-8 being > the default, but there have already been several complaints about > the new behavior of libintl. Good point. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwi

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 13:31, Charles Wilson wrote: > The other is the issue that spawned this thread, which raised questions > about how basefiles::/etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} should behave, and > other related complexities. IIRC we reached an impasse with this > subthread (and replies): > http://cygwin.com/

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/5/2011 1:31 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 10/5/2011 12:27 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 5 18:04, Erwin Waterlander wrote: Op 4-10-2011 20:20, Corinna Vinschen schreef: On Oct 4 20:03, Erwin Waterlander wrote: By the way, I noticed that with the default locale C.UTF-8 the nl_langin

Re: setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> >There are some packages for which > >the "current" versions are broken, at least for me, so I want to keep the > >"prev" or some other already-installed version of the package. Is there a > >way to specify in the setup invocation that I want a particular version of > >a particular package? > >

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/5/2011 12:27 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 5 18:04, Erwin Waterlander wrote: >> Op 4-10-2011 20:20, Corinna Vinschen schreef: >>> On Oct 4 20:03, Erwin Waterlander wrote: By the way, I noticed that with the default locale C.UTF-8 the nl_langinfo(CODESET) C function returns

Re: libGL1 under question

2011-10-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 09:19 +0200, Denis Excoffier wrote: > I have uploaded the new Cygwin packages from this morning (many of > them, in particular many more than those announced by Yaakov). There were announcements on cygwin-xfree-announce as well, and the X11R7.6 announcement covered over 260 p

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Op 5-10-2011 18:27, Corinna Vinschen schreef: That's a bug in libintl8 0.18.1.1-1. It does not happen with the previous version 0.17-11. Hopefully this gets fixed ASAP. Corinna OK, thanks. -- Erwin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwi

Re: setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:00:43PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >I run setup unattended as e.g. > >setup.exe --quiet-mode --packages aria2,atool,autoconf,... > >This works great, except for one thing: There are some packages for which >the "current" versions are broken, at least for me, so I want

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 18:04, Erwin Waterlander wrote: > Op 4-10-2011 20:20, Corinna Vinschen schreef: > >On Oct 4 20:03, Erwin Waterlander wrote: > >>By the way, I noticed that with the default locale C.UTF-8 the > >>nl_langinfo(CODESET) C function returns wrongly > >>"ISO-8859-1", > >Not for me: > >[...] >

Re: Performance issue in SFTP , CygWin Server

2011-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 06:41, BhavyaMadiri wrote: > > Our application downloads files from various source systems to our server. We > have Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 with Advanced Platform version on > our server. Windows sources system (SRC1) , has Windows Server 2003 on their > server that hosts Cyg

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Op 4-10-2011 20:20, Corinna Vinschen schreef: On Oct 4 20:03, Erwin Waterlander wrote: Corinna Vinschen schreef, Op 4-10-2011 16:29: Does it? Even if I'm running a german OS, I absolutely hate to see german diagnostic output from gcc, and I absolutely hate certain programs using non-ASCII char

setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
I run setup unattended as e.g. setup.exe --quiet-mode --packages aria2,atool,autoconf,... This works great, except for one thing: There are some packages for which the "current" versions are broken, at least for me, so I want to keep the "prev" or some other already-installed version of the pack

Re: Performance issue in SFTP , CygWin Server

2011-10-05 Thread jojelino
On 2011-10-05 PM 10:41, BhavyaMadiri wrote: We have not encountered any performance problems with downloading files (same number and size ) from unix/linux systems using SFTP. We suspect this performance issue to be related to Cygwin. Any inputs on this is greatly appreciated. if you do care p

Performance issue in SFTP , CygWin Server

2011-10-05 Thread BhavyaMadiri
Our application downloads files from various source systems to our server. We have Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 with Advanced Platform version on our server. Windows sources system (SRC1) , has Windows Server 2003 on their server that hosts Cygwin. They recently moved from FTP to SFTP. They

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-10-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/4/2011 8:45 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: However, one issue is that windows basically will always have SOME setting -- even if just "English". Which would cause locale to report 'en_US' or something. So you'd never actually SEE the "default default" of C.UTF-8 take effect. You'd see it if

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: nosleep 0.1.4-1

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new package, nosleep, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. nosleep runs a command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until the command finishes executing. By default nosleep just prevents the computer from going to sleep during idle periods. More aggressive optio

libGL1 under question

2011-10-05 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, I have uploaded the new Cygwin packages from this morning (many of them, in particular many more than those announced by Yaakov). After that, my Cygwin/X server loads only briefly and then stops. Then xinit quits (after a few seconds). With a little testing with /usr/bin/Xfake, i finally

Re: error while running shell in emacs

2011-10-05 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Ken Brown was heard to say: On 9/30/2011 10:27 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 sbhc123 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin I use some Emacs extensions which execute external programs using (call-process). This used to work on my previous setup, but it fails on my current b