Troubles launching windows command line tools

2013-03-23 Thread Kirill Golub
I have troubles launching windows command line interactive tools like mysql in cygwin console - when logged they become detached from console input-output ( Are cygwin console supposed not to work with windows interactive command line tools ? By being detached I mean my keyboard input doesn't get

Re: Troubles launching windows command line tools

2013-03-23 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/23/2013 9:04 AM, Kirill Golub wrote: I have troubles launching windows command line interactive tools like mysql in cygwin console - when logged they become detached from console input-output ( Are cygwin console supposed not to work with windows interactive command line tools ? see here

the DBI for perl

2013-03-23 Thread Wynfield Henman
Thank you Csaba and Reini for the information in helping me build the Perl database interface code. I downloaded the gcc-4 and the build process worked. And Reini, thanks for the 64 number significance explanation. Regards -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: single point of failure: server machine for setup.exe

2013-03-23 Thread Alexander Stohr
Christopher Faylor wrote: The mirrors list used by setup.exe comes from cygwin.com. In an update scenario i have a cache mirrors list and i have the chance to find tons of other mirrors via what ever sort of search engine the web does offer. The second option is still possible for a first time

cvs changes to support CR/LF in Root & Repository files

2013-03-23 Thread Bill Priest
All, I used tortoisecvs (as a plugin for windows eclipse) to check out some repositories to a "windows 7" directory (e.g. not a cygwin directory). I tried to use the cygwin cvs client to diff files and check status but it complained ": no such repository" for "cvs log ". A simple dos2unix on th

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread Frank Fesevur
2013/3/23 Anthony Geoghegan: > I thought about it for a while myself before posting but I concluded your > choice was a good one: the usefulness of -h for hibernate probably > outweighed the benefits of retaining compatibility with a more traditional > (BSD) Unix shutdown. I checked to see if POSIX

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread David T-G
Frank, et al -- ...and then Frank Fesevur said... % ... % It seems there is not such thing as a *general* shutdown command. % "Every" distribution has its own. Just picked three: ... % % This would still conflict with the -H of the ones above, but I have no % problem with it. Anyone against chan

Re: : reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Fesevur! > 2013/3/22 Thorsten Kampe: >>> > And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the windows shutdown? >>> I know it is used by server versions of Windows. When you request >>> shutdown/reboot you must enter a reason, and it is logged in system logs >>> (don't know exactl

Re: : reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Fesevur! >> I thought about it for a while myself before posting but I concluded your >> choice was a good one: the usefulness of -h for hibernate probably >> outweighed the benefits of retaining compatibility with a more traditional >> (BSD) Unix shutdown. I checked to see if POS

Re: : reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread David T-G
Andrey, et al -- ...and then Andrey Repin said... % ... % % If anyone can explain the difference between "halt" and "power off" in the % terms of Linux 'shutdown' man page, I would probably vote for one of the % choices. [snip] On some machines, halting can leave you at a BIOS/firmware prompt b

Re: cvs changes to support CR/LF in Root & Repository files

2013-03-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bill Priest! > All, > I used tortoisecvs (as a plugin for windows eclipse) to check out > some repositories to a "windows 7" directory (e.g. not a cygwin > directory). I tried to use the cygwin cvs client to diff files and > check status but it complained ": no such repository" for "

Re: cvs changes to support CR/LF in Root & Repository files

2013-03-23 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Bill, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Bill Priest wrote: > All, > I used tortoisecvs (as a plugin for windows eclipse) to check out > some repositories to a "windows 7" directory (e.g. not a cygwin > directory). I tried to use the cygwin cvs client to diff files and > check status but it c