RE: mintty deadlocks when pasting very long lines of text

Ryan Johnson wrote on Friday, December 14, 2012 2:51 PM >On 16/12/2012 6:57 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >>> $ cat > foo.txt >>> >>> Thoughts? >> $ getclip > foo.txt >!! > >You learn something new every day... In that case, also l

RE: mintty deadlocks when pasting very long lines of text

Ryan Johnson wrote on Friday, December 14, 2012 2:51 PM > $ cat > foo.txt > > Thoughts? $ getclip > foo.txt - Barry Disclaimer:  Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ D

RE: Symlink Size [was Rebase/Perl packaging problem?]

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:08 AM Thank you. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

Symlink Size [was Rebase/Perl packaging problem?]

Barry Buchbinder sent the following at Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:02 PM >For the record, I was worried that if I simply deleted it cygcheck -c >perl would report perl as incomplete. So I changed the link so that it >pointed to . cygcheck reports complete and the >rebaseall error message goes aw

RE: Rebase/Perl packaging problem?

Reini Urban sent the following at Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:09 AM >On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] >wrote: >> For me, this is only a problem because of the rebaseall error message. >> >> c:\cygwin\bin> dash -c rebaseall >>

Rebase/Perl packaging problem?

For me, this is only a problem because of the rebaseall error message. (In other words, it is merely a slight annoyance.) I've no idea whether this causes a problem for perl as I do not usually use perl (at least directly). c:\cygwin\bin> dash -c rebaseall /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-

RE: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again?

Paul sent the following at Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:00 AM >My laptop will be re-imaged, so I want to be able to replicate my cygwin >setup on the brand spanking new computer. The laptop has been taken >away so I no longer have it right now. Hence I can only provide limited >details about the

RE: Clean-up Reinstall

ZekefromMD wrote on November 01, 2012 3:43 PM > Did you find any solution for this cleanup problem? > View this message in context: > http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Clean-up-Reinstall-tp93233p94146.html > Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Turned out the final reins

FW: cygwin Digest 30 Oct 2012 19:48:59 -0000 Issue 8142

marco atzeri sent the following at Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:40 PM >On 10/30/2012 9:05 PM, Mr. Gecko wrote: > >> That just explains the security model of Cygwin and windows. I am >> sure if I read all 5,858 words, then I will be able to fix this >> issue... However I do not have the time at the m

RE: Problem getting remote packages and installing

Michael Steele wrote on October 26, 2012 12:32 PM >Below is the code I'm using to perform an unattended install, with extra >packages. > >> >@ECHO OFF >REM -- Automates Cygwin installation and kick start the Barnyard2 compile > >SETLOCAL > >REM -- Change to the d

RE: motd hippo

Tom Schutter wrote in October 19, 2012 10:34 PM >I have a critical question regarding the motd hippo: > >|_.---.) | >| (^--^)_.-" `; | >| ) ee ( | | >| (_.__._) / | >| `--',,

RE: Mount Windows C drive as POSIX root?

Gary Oberbrunner sent the following at Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:22 PM >I understand about not installing cygwin in c:\. But I really want a >single filesystem, so cygwin's / is Windows c:/, and cygwin /Program\ >Files is Windows /Program Files and so on. I have an environment with >lots of non

Clean-up Reinstall

Today I noticed that I had a lot of files from the gvfs package in my cygwin installation. Cygcheck -c showed that gvfs wasn't installed. That was strange. It seems that when uninstalling a bunch of packages a long time ago*, a lot of files were left behind. Not just config files, which would be

RE: Pristine-tar 1.17-1 and 1.18-1 block bug or update-info-files bug

Charles sent the following at Monday, September 17, 2012 3:36 PM >Windows 7 Home Premium (64), Cygwin version as of today > >I previously downloaded selected packages (past four months) When I ran >the info command, a list of all info files in the directory appeared. > >Yesterday I downloaded the e

RE: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

ned. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 2:38 PM Subject: RE: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact John Wiersb

RE: Cygstart bug: doesn't keep command line arguments intact

John Wiersba wrote August 03, 2012 3:18 PM >Calling /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe >"a b c.doc" works. >Calling cygstart /c/program\ files/microsoft\ office/office12/winword.exe "a b >c.doc" tries to open a.doc, b.doc, and c.doc. In the first, bash strips t

RE: FAQ and Documentation translation to other languages

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, July 20, 2012 4:48 AM >On Jul 19 22:38, SPC wrote: >> Hello. I'm a Cygwin lists subscriber (with some problems from time to >> time to send mails but this is another story). >> >> The message about outdated FAQs of yesterday let me think in the >> gene

RE: Permission request from "Translation for education"

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:01 PM >On Jul 17 17:20, Aram Agabekyan wrote: >> I am a student at the Department of Foreign Languages and at the >> same time a volunteer at an organization named "Translation for >> Education". I love surfing on the Internet and bein

RE: Inconsistence on file operation when the name already exists with exe extension

Aaron Schneider wrote: on July 08, 2012 at 4:19 PM > Is this behavior intended? This is not unix like, the filename should be > preserved as is. This may help explain this behavior: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-exe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

RE: BLODA nominee: Seagate GoFlex Home file server

Matt Seitz wrote on July 04, 2012 3:42 AM > FYI: The Seagate GoFlex Home file server does not support setting > FAT file flags (read-only, system, etc.). As a result, Cygwin > cannot create symbolic links on these servers. Just a quibble: Those that are more knowledgeable may correct me, but I

RE: pv command not found

Coldpizza wrote on July 02, 2012 4:33 PM > I would like to try to compile it for cygwin and add it as a package. > Any starting guide about how to compile for packages for cygwin? http://cygwin.com/setup.html It is on the navigation bar, under Contributing. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made

FW: gdbserver on cygwin

Richard H Lee wrote on June 29, 2012 7:29 PM > As of 2003 gdbserver was not supported on cygwin. > > Is it supported yet? http://cygwin.com/packages/ http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=gdbserver - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Prob

RE: Trusted Software Vendor

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, June 11, 2012 10:56 AM >On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:51:07PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote: >>cgf wrote: >>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work >>>around the problem? >> >>Most likely. I don't think wget cares about protecting

RE: Trusted Software Vendor

Andrey Repin sent the following at Monday, June 11, 2012 10:03 AM >This is because of the file being downloaded from the web (check file >streams for details). You can easily cleanup the file metadata by >copying it to FAT drive (Flash disk/memory card). It worked! For the record, I had to delete

RE: Trusted Software Vendor

I have setup.exe downloaded to /usr/local/bin (and renamed to getcygwin.exe). When I launch it by hand (but not by cmd /c start), Windows tells me that the publisher could not be verified and asks whether I want to run it. This is a minor annoyance but it would be nice if it could be addressed wi

RE: Shell script loop runs out of memory

Just to complete this topic ... This gets rid of all the fork-execs in the inner loop except for sleep. Instead of comparing file contents, it uses the test builtin to compare time stamps. #!/bin/dash FILE_TO_CHECK=/mypath/style.less COMPARE_FILE=/mypath/compare_file.tm

RE: Shell script loop runs out of memory

The following are just ideas - totally untested. You might try changing [[ condition ]] to [ condition ] Perhaps single brackets use memory differently than double brackets. If that doesn't work, try changing #!/bin/sh (which calls bash) to #!/bin/dash You will have to have retain

RE: Display a starting message

Eliot Moss sent the following at Monday, May 28, 2012 3:01 PM >On 5/28/2012 2:26 PM, Shravan1804 wrote: >> I would like my cygwin terminal to display a starting message every time I >> start the program. For example something like "Hello Shravan, what do you >> want to do today?" or this type of pi

RE: Bashrc distinguish between mintty and x-windows xterm

Andrew Hancock sent the following at Friday, May 25, 2012 12:42 AM >Barry, it works flawlessly. Thanks immensely! You are very welcome. But I forgot to export ThisTerm, otherwise it is always unset when a subshell is launched. # Only set ThisTerm if not set. if [ -z "${ThisTerm}" ] then if [ $

RE: Bashrc distinguish between mintty and x-windows xterm

Andy sent the following at Monday, May 21, 2012 8:39 PM >My bashrc sets the color of the prompt depending on $TERM. My x-windows >xterm has a white background and the cygwin default terminal, which has >a black background, use to not have $TERM=xterm. I could distinguish >between them in the bashrc

RE: Cygwin Commands

Max wrote on May 17, 2012 5:37 PM I fully agree with Otto. You need to learn more (and to learn it elsewhere) before you will be ready to pose questions in this forum. But to explain. > admin@mypc ~ > $cd > > admin@mypc ~ > $ The ~ represents your home directory. You started in your home dir

RE: [feature] alias "more" to "less"

Noel Grandin sent the following at Friday, May 11, 2012 4:33 AM >It seems that pretty much all unixes alias "more" to "less" these days. >It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin. > >Would save me from constantly wondering why nothing is happening when I >type "more " o

RE: 'cmd /C start cmd' no longer non-blocking (base-cygwin 3.1-1), but used to work (in base-cygwin 3.0-1)

Andrey Repin sent the following at Saturday, May 05, 2012 7:31 AM > On 5/4/2012 3:43 PM, Petrisor Eddy-Marian-B36037 wrote: >> I am using at work cygwin on various machines (XP and Windows 7) and made >> several scripts that use gnu utilities from cygwin. One of those is a script >> that starts in

RE: find.exe vs. cmd.exe dir command vs. filesystem object in vbs script

Cary Lewis sent the following at Friday, April 27, 2012 10:29 AM >I have a system that makes use of a number of directories which contain >hundreds of thousands of files. > >The sheer number of files in the directories makes it very difficult to >do simple things using cygwin. > >For example the fi

RE: Odd behavior of scripts in dos mode

Earnie Boyd sent the following at Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:27 AM > >http://cygwin.com/faq/#faq.api.cr-lf You can also avoid to change the source code at all ^ changing - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: xargs: Why does order of command line switches matter?

On 4/25/2012 6:29 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: >Eliot Moss sent the following at Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:05 AM > >> Why do I get a different output in the following two invocations of >> xargs? I had expected that the relative order of the command line >> switches (-I, -L) would not matter: >> >>

RE: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

De-Jian, Hello. It's me again. I suspect that just writing wrapper scripts would be faster than playing with RPMs and/or trying to compile blast yourself. As I understand it, blast programs are all command-line. I think that the easiest thing would be to just use the Windows version supplied b

RE: don't believe everything you read on random sites about Cygwin

Andrew Schulman sent the following at Monday, April 16, 2012 4:36 PM >http://cygwin.com/dontbelieveeverythingyoureadonrandomsitesaboutcygwin.html Should this be a FAQ? (Section 3 "Further Resources": ) (No :) - I'm serious.) - Barry Disclaime

RE: Some context is being stripped and I don't know how to create it to avoid "error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" problem

Richard Troy wrote on April 14, 2012 12:47 PM >Did that, though once again I ran into the ole cygwin update / >installation disaster that is based on the fact that something >somewhere doesn't download and the installation doesn't complete properly >and you have to manually figure out what didn't

RE: Where are end user instructions to compile an updated package?

Keith Christian sent the following at Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:41 AM >I'm interested in compiling the latest Sqlite source into a Cygwin >package to updated the current version, for use on one machine. > >Could someone point me to the instructions that are complete enough for >an end user to beg

RE: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

De-Jian Zhao sent the following at Monday, April 09, 2012 11:12 AM >> On 4/8/2012 5:10 AM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: >>> On 2012-4-7 16:12, marco atzeri wrote: >> >>> Thanks, Marco. I was not trying to run a native linux apps, and instead >>> tried to rebuild the app from source. The BLAST software provi

RE: How best to update Cygwin if setup.exe has been deleted?

Josh O'Brien sent on April 08, 2012 6:44 PM >I am running Cygwin 1.77(0.230/5/3), and would like to update it to >the most recent version. Unfortunately, I deleted setup.exe after the >initial install, not understanding that it'd be important to keep it >around. Not important to keep. Perfectly a

RE: Cygwin 1.7.12-1: exit code 1 during post-install regarding dirs in /dev

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:40 AM > On Apr 4 16:33, Andre Loker wrote: >> $ ls -l /dev >> total 0 >> crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None 13, 254 Dec 1 2006 clipboard >> crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None 14, 3 Apr 4 16:31 dsp >> crw--w--w- 1 Administrator

RE: Is this supposed to work this way?

Andrey Repin sent the following at Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:21 PM >[Z:\]$ assoc .sh >.sh=unixshell.script > >[Z:\]$ ftype unixshell.script >unixshell.script="C:/Programs/Cygwin/bin/env.exe" "%1" %* > >[Z:\]$ testcase.sh >++ readlink -fn 'Z:\testcase.sh' >+ XXX='/z/Z:\testcase.sh' >+ echo '/z/Z:\te

RE: 1.7.11: Ctrl-C does not work in bash shell (Win7)

Spackmann, Richard M. sent the following at Tuesday, April 03, 2012 2:18 PM >When I open up a cygwin command line bash shell and I notice now that >Ctrl-C does not exit out from the current command prompt to start a new >one. > >Ctrl-C will however exit a running process. > >Is this to be the behav

RE: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs

Barry Buchbinder sent the following at Friday, March 30, 2012 10:23 AM >Ken Brown sent the following at Friday, March 30, 2012 9:28 AM >>If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash >>prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing >>message with `rec

RE: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs

Ken Brown sent the following at Friday, March 30, 2012 9:28 AM >If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash >prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing >message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject. (This is >what happens if I

RE: find: File system loop detected problem in find and locate

leoslists sent the following at Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:15 AM >I'm trying to use locate and find. When I issue >find / -xdev -name "*hallo*" > >I get the warning >find: File system loop detected; `/c/cygwin' is part of the same file >system loop as `/'. > >It is important to note, that I

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lzip-1.13-1

JonY sent the following at Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:52 PM > >This is a new upstream release. Changes include: > * Lziprecover has been moved to its own package because it can recover >files produced by any of the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, >plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip and pdlzip. The

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploaded base-files-4.1-1

On 28 February 2012 19:58, David Sastre Medina wrote: > 4.1-1 >    * Setting a system locale and a per-user locale breaks some configs >      and doesn't play well with mintty. Changed to a user-defined setting in >      /etc/profile/lang.* Reported by Peter Rosin and Andy Koppe. See >      cygwin.

RE: Cygwin errors after altering Windows command prompt shortcut (???)

Earnie Boyd sent the following at Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:49 AM >On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Pat Tressel wrote: >> >>> It's even weirder, than you'd think. >>> Hint: reg:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console >> >The MSYS part of msysgit doesn't muck with registry keys. Maybe >something with tksh th

RE: Cygwin.dll version in bug reports

Matt Seitz (matseitz) sent the following at Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:04 PM >> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:17:18PM -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> > >> >Today I sent a couple of bug reports. I based my "Subject" on the >> >examples" given at: >> > >> >http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> >

problem with /dev/dsp

I used to be able to copy WAV files to /dev/dsp, they would play, and I would know what was happening in my scripts. Now I get a silent error message. $ /bin/cp bin/alert.wav /dev/dsp cp: writing `/dev/dsp': No space left on device cp: failed to extend `/dev/dsp': No space left on device $ cat b

RE: Proxy settings for setup.exe

Achim Gratz sent the following at Wednesday, February 08, 2012 2:58 PM >Is there a command-line switch to tell setup.exe that it should use the >proxy settings from IE? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.cli -p --proxy HTTP/FTP proxy (host:port) -- Problem

RE: W7 and rebase [was "YA call for snapshot testing"]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) sent the following at Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:49 PM >If you're not seeing a problem now, you don't need to run rebaseall. >If you choose to run it anyway, so be it. Given the almost constant >state of flux of DLLs on Windows machines, running it isn't any kind of >perpet

RE: W7 and rebase [was "YA call for snapshot testing"]

marco atzeri sent the following at Monday, January 30, 2012 3:20 PM >On 1/26/2012 1:07 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> marco atzeri sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 3:49 AM >>> my 2c$ : As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always &g

W7 and rebase [was "YA call for snapshot testing"]

marco atzeri sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 3:49 AM >my 2c$ : As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always >suggesting it to anyone with fork problem, My box was upgraded from XP Pro to W7 a couple of months ago. At the beginning I was getting fork errors all the ti

RE: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

cygwin sent the following at Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:00 AM >I want to thank everybody that responded. It looks like you don't think >this is a bug. Given that date seems to work as I expect on SL 6.0, I >would like to make a feature request: "Fix the date command to actually >respond with the d

RE: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

Keith Christian sent the following at Monday, January 23, 2012 2:00 PM > >> cygwin sent the following at Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:39 PM > >On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] > wrote: >> /c> cal 9 1752 >> September 1752 >>

RE: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

cygwin sent the following at Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:39 PM >Thanks for corroborating my finding. I wasn't corroborating. You originally asked for debugging help and I "debugged" it for you. Except that there was no bug. There was "operator error". >Does anybody else think it is odd >that th

RE: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

cygwin sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 7:34 PM >I'm seeing a problem with my setup where the date command fails in an >odd way: > >this is what it does: $ date -d '1 January 1900' date: invalid date `1 >January 1900' > >same thing on a linux box: $ date -d '1 January 1900' Mon Jan 1

RE: The -O option of curl under cygwin.

Hongyi Zhao Wrote on Monday, January 02, 2012 10:51 PM On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:51:09 +0100, marco atzeri wrote: >> I think you misunderstood the curl documentation, in this way it works >> as you expect >> >> curl -L >> http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe >> -o .

RE: CRLF

Thorsten Glaser wrote on 31 December 2011 15:00 >tr -d \\r would work, too (but also strip CR in the middle). sed -e 's/\r$//' preserves CRs in the midddle. - Barry ..Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html F

RE: Problem with new setup.exe v. 2.763

Downloaded again this morning (with curl). Now it works. Sigh. Sorry for the noise. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:

Problem with new setup.exe v. 2.763

Windows 7, no administrator rights. version 2.761 seems to work fine. As discussed previous in another thread, Windows 7 won't run without administrator rights. Download and run: /usr/local/bin> curl -R http://cygwin.com/setup.exe-o getcygwin.exe /usr/local/bin> chmod 777 getcygwin.exe ls -og

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

Shaddy Baddah sent the following at Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:12 AM >At this point, I should make a disclosure. To do this as a >non-Administrator grouped user, I must rename setup.exe to cygpkg.exe. >This defeats the later Windows releases abilities to automatically >detect installer applicati

RE: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

Jeremy Bopp sent the following at Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:01 PM >On 12/14/2011 01:33 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> I like having only one home directory. It's extremely convenient to have >> the same settings and the like both when on Cygwin and when on Linux. >> >> Often home directories are

RE: injob version 1.3

Andrew Schulman sent the following at Monday, December 05, 2011 1:11 PM > >> gcc -lntdll -o injob injob-1.3.c > >Put -lntdll at the end: > >gcc -o injob injob-1.3.c -lntdll Thank you for helping me find my happy place. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: injob version 1.3

Dave Korn sent the following at Monday, December 05, 2011 11:27 AM >> Windows 7. Everything up to date. >> >> /arc/2build> gcc -o injob injob.c >> /tmp/ccOdzsVZ.o:injob.c:(.text+0x87b): undefined reference to >> `__imp__NtQueryInformationProcess@20' >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> >> Wh

RE: injob version 1.3

Daniel Colascione sent the following at Sunday, December 04, 2011 8:46 PM > > * injob: runs a program (Win32 or Cygwin) in a job object, imbuing it > * and all its sub-processes with Cygwin job control support. > * > * Revision history: > * > * Version 1.3 - 2011-12-04 > * > * - Add ability to wa

RE: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

Tim McDaniel sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59 AM > >BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin? > >Unless someone has another suggestion, maybe

RE: Will win32 style paths ever work in mksh on cygwin?

Chris Sutcliffe sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:17 PM >Fundamentally, Cygwin has been pushing the use of POSIX paths for quite >some time (in fact it warns you when it encounters a DOS / Windows >path). As has been pointed out, many Cygwin utilities support DOS / >Windows paths

RE: Perl not completely downloading for cygwin

Matt Pettis sent the following at Thursday, November 17, 2011 4:58 PM > >I am trying to download perl 5.10.1-5 for cygwin through setup.exe, but >it usually ends up at around 99% complete and then throws the error >"download incomplete. Try again?" I've tried a couple of different http >repositorie

RE: What does mean 'obsolete' category?

Oleksandr Gavenko sent the following at Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:37 PM >Search: > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=xorg-x11-xwin > >take: > xorg-x11-xwin/xorg-x11-xwin-7.4-1 Obsolete package > >From setup.ini: > @ xorg-x11-xwin > sdesc: "Obsolete package" > ldesc: "Obsole

RE: Install all packages from local repository?

Oleksandr Gavenko sent the following at Monday, October 31, 2011 3:49 PM >31.10.2011 19:48, Jim Garrison ?: Though I have no experience with it, I believe that one can create an empty dummy package that "requires" what you want. Try Googling < site:cygwin.com "setup.ini" requires dummy packag

RE: question on backup

Ken Brown sent the following at Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:26 AM >On 10/27/2011 3:24 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> My question is how do I get an archive of what cygwin packages I have >> installed. > >/etc/setup/installed.db or sed -n -e '2,$s/ .*$//p' /etc/setup/installed.db or to feed int

RE: Remove cygwin

Casual Trash sent the following at Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:42 AM >Thanks to everybody for the replies. > >I have tried to install again the cygrunsrv, setup.exe doesn't return >any error but I can't find the cygrunsrv anywhere. > >And procexp.exe has found any process in the cygwin folder. > >

RE: Mapping "underline" to "colour" - how is the colour determined?

Ronald Fischer sent the following at Friday, October 14, 2011 9:18 AM >When I (to give an example) execute a "man" command within a mintty >window, and do the same within a "normal" Windows console window, I see >that those words represented as underlined words in the mintty window, >are represente

RE: Cygwin & WordNet???

gviewer sent the following at Monday, October 10, 2011 1:52 PM >Hello, I used to be able to install WordNet alone on my Windows machine. > >Recently I want to install wordnet on a new Windows 7 machine. However, >The WordNet installer always triggers the cygwin installer. I don't want >to do that.

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

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: automated cygwin install

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Friday, September 09, 2011 4:32 PM >On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:26:27PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >>On 9/9/2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>> Here's what mine looks like: >>> >>> setup.exe ^ >>> --no-shortcuts ^ >>> --quiet-mode ^ >>> --disable-buggy-a

RE: Open Windows Explorer from Cygwin prompt

Vincent Rivière sent the following at Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:13 PM >Christian Franke wrote: >>> Cygstart is not needed in this case. Explorer can be launched directly. >> This works from cmd.exe and from any cygwin shell: >> >> explorer . > >You are right, this is equivalent in this specifi

RE: More on Cygwin package naming

Luke Kendall wrote on Sunday, September 04, 2011, at 11:16 PM >In my previous mail I may have used the wrong term ("package"): the term >"package" seems to refer to each .tar.bz2 file (for the source and >install files of each version). So perhaps I should instead be talking >about "@-names" -

RE: Device names in /proc/mounts

Schwarz, Konrad sent the following at Friday, July 29, 2011 9:34 AM >> > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the >> corresponding >> > volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace? >> >> We're not mounting volumes, we're mounting Win32 paths. >> There is no direct correspondenc

RE: cygcheck's understanding of TZ

Thomas Wolff sent the following at Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:54 AM >Am 09.06.2011 09:46, schrieb EXCOFFIER Denis: >>> It seems that /usr/bin/cygcheck does not interpret TZ the same way as >> /usr/bin/date does, in the case TZ is set to a file name, like in the >> following example: >> >> (under tcs

RE: Executing a basic program

Agnelomaria wrote on Friday, May 20, 2011 10:11 PM > I am just learning to program in C++. I couldn't help you if I wanted to, but you are off topic for this list. You might look elsewhere, because, from past experience I doubt anyone here will help. Just wanting to save you some time. Good lu

RE: 1.5.25: bug in touch statement

Philippe sent the following at Sunday, May 15, 2011 8:25 AM >Philippe gmail.com> writes: >> I've found an interesting behaviour with this command on my Windows 7 64bits >> system. It seems that there is a bug, or that we should change the >> documentation... But I can get around with the followin

RE: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:19 PM >If we changed the /dev/console to /dev/consN (where N is a unique number >for each console window) would that address your use case? Yes, it works for me if there would be a reasonably small (preferably single digit) number in

RE: determining what user mounted a drive

Len Giambrone sent the following at Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:25 PM >Is there a way of determining with what user credentials a share was >mounted? I suppose I could touch a file on the drive and then find out >who the owner is, but that's not ideal. > >mount will tell me that it's a user mount, but

RE: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Monday, May 09, 2011 12:10 PM >Chris and I are wondering how many people are using the Windows console >as local console window in CYGWIN=tty mode and why. I've been using it for so long that I do not remember why - probably because I thought it was recommend

RE: Background processes prevent terminal window from closing

Ryan Dortmans sent the following at Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:30 AM >I have found that background processes prevent the terminal window from >closing. I have tried with the cmd terminal as well as mintty. Here is a >simple example: > >$ notepad .profile & >[1] >10260 >$ exit >logout > >The window r

RE: admin sees another file-owner as a normal user

Eliot Moss sent the following at Friday, April 22, 2011 1:03 PM >On 4/22/2011 12:27 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Matthias Meyer wrote: >> As normal user "grep 1033 /etc/passwd" don't deliver a result. So I >> removed /etc/passwd. >> After this the mysterious was removed too. It seems there was two

RE: Idea on how to improve cygstart

SJ Wright sent the following at Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:31 PM >Well, maybe there's a better word than "improve." Maybe "streamline" >would be better. Anyhow, here it is. > >Allow users to create a list of paths to GUI apps they have on their >systems -- other than the selected Windows defaults --

RE: Bad HTML on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

Jens Schweikhardt sent the following at Saturday, April 16, 2011 11:48 AM >the bulleted list of mirrors on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html looks >like it has a problem. > Africa: > South Africa: href="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/cygwin/";>ftp.is.co.za(ftp) > Asia: > > <--- this should not be t

RE: Bash: Cannot execute binary file

Eliot Moss sent the following at Monday, March 28, 2011 10:28 PM >Why not just use the Windows version and invoke it from cygwin (if >cygwin is the environment from which you want to do that)? It is easy >to invoke Windows programs from cygwin; you just need to remember to >format any arguments in

RE: Migrating to windows 7

Tod sent the following at Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:01 AM >I've migrated to Win7 and basically just copied over my existing cygwin >install over to the new drive. Things are working but my user account >has changed so I'm getting an error saying my homedir is owned by >someone else. I can still do

RE: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

Larry Hall (Cygwin) sent the following at Friday, March 18, 2011 6:01 PM >On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: >> Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a >> Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to beif you >> must >> any detailed spec for ho

RE: How to read thumb drive volume label

carolus sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 1:05 PM >I didn't realize that the output of dir depended on whether it was >invoked from cygwin or from cmd, and I didn't know about label.exe. dir does not differ depending on from where it is invoked. Compare the output of the following. In

RE: How to read thumb drive volume label

Charles Russell sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 10:03 AM >Is there some way to read the volume label on a USB flash drive? >Something like blkid in linux? Something like this? function label() { $(cygpath --sysdir)/cmd /c dir ${1}:\\ | \ tr \\r \\n | \ sed -n -e '

RE: New Cygwin release

Karl M sent the following at Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:57 PM >Is another Cygwin release planned for after the current round of bug >fixes settles down and before significant new development starts again? As of last Monday: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00583.html - Barry Disclaimer: St

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