RE: screen and native win console apps

Rafael Kitover sent the following at Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:29 PM >It seems when in screen in the console, native windows programs that use >the console don't work correctly. Not unexpected. See the documentation. The following is a good place to start. Or search the mailing list. http://cy

RE: OpenBSD version of netcat ported to cygwin

T. Linden sent the following at Wednesday, March 02, 2011 6:52 AM >I've ported the OpenBSD version of netcat to cygwin. It provides much >more features as the one supplied with cygwin. > >Details can be found here: http://www.daemon.de/Netcat I looked and it seems that you are distributing cygwin1

RE: Windows OS and uname; compatability

Fergus sent the following at Monday, February 28, 2011 11:50 AM >Thanks to a previous responder I now know that in response to uname: >NT-5.0 = W2000 NT-5.1 = XP NT-6.0 = Vista NT-6.1 = W7 >Q1 Can anybody please tell me the corresponding information for W98? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sou

RE: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

Bengt Larsson sent the following at Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:58 AM > >As I mentioned in an earlier message I have been developing UTF-8 >support for an editor, Mg2a. I chose to call it Mg3a. > >You can fetch it here: http://www.bengtl.net/files/mg3a/ > >Or directly here: http://www.bengtl.net

RE: Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin

Corinna Vinschen wrote > cygwin_parent=$(cygpath -ua $(cygpath -ma /)/..) Might the ability to identify cygwin's root be a good thing to add to cygpath? (Note: I'm not commenting on Corinna's proposal per se - hers was just the latest email in this thread.) Under "System information", one could

RE: Default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe

Bruce Cran sent the following at Thursday, February 03, 2011 6:26 AM >I'd like to suggest making the default state of the >desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe unchecked. This >would make it follow Microsoft's desktop guidelines at >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511450.aspx . I don't

RE: No manual entry for awk

Chris Velevitch wrote on Jan 19, 2011 at 9:58 PM >On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:29, Reid Thompson wrote: >> try >> $ man gawk > >Interesting. awk is linked to gawk. That means there is an issue with >the man pages because, from my experience, any time a command has >multiple names, the man entry refe

RE: Order of .profile & .bashrc

jwzumwalt sent the following at Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:39 PM > >My prompt and a few other items are not working correctly. I have found >teh following startup files... are there any more? What is the order or >priority of configuring? > >/etc/bash.bashrc >/etc/profile >/etc/skel/.bashrc >/e

Setup bug? Looping through requisites

First, let me start with gratitude and a complement. Overall, I LIKE that speed improvements in setup. Thanks for all the work that went into it! Now, a bug report. This morning setup when into a loop while checking requisites. It was start by a batch file that called a windows shortcut with t

RE: Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file

Andrew DeFaria sent the following at Thursday, November 25, 2010 10:15 AM > On 11/25/2010 09:35 AM, Alexandre Bezroutchko wrote: >>> you can use a different separator in the sed command. >>> You can use the following line >>> >>> echo 123 | sed "s%2%${HOME}%g" >> >> Right, this will work in most

RE: Is updatedb using incremental update of the database?

Giorgos Tzampanakis sent the following at Friday, October 29, 2010 12:27 PM >I created a database by running updatedb, and then i re-ran updatedb >and it took roughly the same amount of time. After a short discussion >in #linux at freenode, I think that this is because the cygwin updatedb >does not

RE: strange crashes on invocation

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Friday, October 01, 2010 6:03 PM >So: How about how? > >http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygw

RE: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem

DEWI - N. Zacharias sent the following at Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:36 AM >> > as mentinoned in >> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html i have set CGWIN to >> > tty . >> see POSIX name on >> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.htm >This link do not work

RE: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cygwin?

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] sent the following at Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:07 PM >bsmile sent the following at Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:52 PM >>I installed Cgywin(don't know how to see its version number) under >>windows xp and so far so good. However, the

RE: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cygwin?

bsmile sent the following at Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:52 PM >I installed Cgywin(don't know how to see its version number) >under windows xp and so far so good. However, there is one >thing very inconvenient for me to use Cgywin, that is, I cannot >highlight a text to copy and right button to

RE: warning messages while deleting cygwin folder

bobby_2010 sent the following at Friday, September 17, 2010 4:19 AM >hi, i am trying to completely delete cygwin from my system, as it is >taking up too much hard disk space. i followed the instructions at >the cygwin.com FAQ by first removing any subscribed services. this >worked fine. then, i wen

FW: Behaviours of Terminal Versus Script when using "<<"

delbydev sent the following at Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:18 PM > >Hello Have hunted all over for this one but it seems no one else has >reported the issue - maybe because they don't use the feature or there >is something awry with my installation > >I write scripts that dart in and out of dat

lyx packaging error?

http://cygwin.com/packages/lyx/lyx-1.6.6-1 The postinstall script is here. etc/postinstall/lyx.sh/lyx.sh Shouldn't it be here? etc/postinstall/lyx.sh - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.7-1

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:59 AM > I just released 1.7.7-1. The package is significantly bigger than 1.7.6-1. Most of the difference comes from usr/bin/dumper.exe. SizeSource of size info. 506894http://cygwin.com/packages/cygwin/cygwin-1.7.6-1 1

RE: How/Where do I get an older version of Cygwin?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) sent the following at Thursday, August 26, 2010 3:24 PM >Look at the page where you select packages, just above the list of >packages and to the right, next to the "Category" button. "Cur" is the >default selected radio button. "Prev" is one of the other options. There >is als

RE: associating device names with cygdrive directories

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote: >On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem >names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell. Is this what you want? (The multiple spaces are really tabs.) $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo "$F$(

RE: Postinstall error (partly solved)

Milos Puchta sent the following at Monday, August 23, 2010 2:22 PM >Hello > boxes.sh exit code 2 > libglade2.0.sh exit code 3 > exim.sh exit code 1 > mined.sh exit code 1 > boxes.sh exit code 2 > exim.sh exit code 1 > libglade2.0.sh exit code 3 > mine

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:16 AM >What changed since Cygwin 1.7.5: > > >- Cygwin handles the current working directory entirely on its own. The > Win32 current working directory is set to an invalid path to be out of > the wa

RE: Postinstall for mintty fails when installing "just for me"

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:43 AM > >That usually just means you don't have admin privs. For the archive: That is indeed the case. >Here's the actual problem: > cygdrive prefix / system binary,noacl,posix=0,auto > >The cygdrive prefix is set

Postinstall for mintty fails when installing "just for me"

$ bash --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/mintty.sh /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin': Permission denied mkshortcut: Saving "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Cygwin\mintty.lnk" failed; does the target direc

RE: Stray /c invoking robocopy

Daniel Colascione sent the following at Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:04 PM > >Where does the /c come from when I type "robocopy /?"? > >When I type, at a bash prompt, "robocopy /?", robocopy complains about >an invalid parameter #1, "/c". With switches other than "/?", I don't >have a problem. Sound

RE: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

I seem to remember that, long ago, I occasionally had this problem. I seem to remember that sometimes I could get a complete download by using a mirror that was far away (for me, Europe or Australia). My speculation as to why this worked was that most people who might use the mirror were aslee

license violation

I hope that it is appropriate to duplicate reports of license violations when a lot o time has passed? (This was reported 4 years ago .) These guys are distributing cygwin1.dll ver. 1.5 as part of the "free" (as in beer) product "SUPER (c)

RE: Cygwin visual brand

Steven Collins sent the following at Monday, May 10, 2010 4:19 PM >On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 13:36, Klaus Grue <> wrote: >> In conclusion, I suggest a new term is invented such as the Cygwin >> Package Manager (CPM) or something like that. Then one could simply >> write Cygwin Package Manager under

RE: Cygwin visual brand

mike marchywka sent the following at Monday, May 10, 2010 10:09 AM >Just personally I LIKE the ASCII art hippo. It demonstrates an ability >to use primitive and CONCISE represntations for information - captures >the essence without the extraneous junk. Today we are seeing lots of >bloated things ca

RE: Cygwin visual brand

Steven Collins sent the following at Saturday, May 08, 2010 8:32 AM >Searching the net for "cygwin hippo" doesn't reveal any clues for >the significance of the hippo for the community (anyone care to add >details?), but you will find that somebody came up with an icon at >one point. Maybe your sta

RE: Text editor with shell integration

Csaba Raduly sent the following at Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:59 AM >On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, lood wrote: >> Hi all. How could I integrate my text editor (e.g. Notepad++) to run >> it easily from Cygwin? I mean, something similar to "notepad >> ./file.ext" - this works, I just want to use Not

RE: General cuestions about package mantainership

d.sastre.medina wrote on Saturday, April 17, 2010 6:59 AM > I'm taking into consideration the possibility of taking over the > maintainership of an orphaned package[1], but I'd need some > clarifications regarding this task, in order to decide if I am capable > enough to do it. Caution comes from

RE: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, April 09, 2010 4:43 AM >Given that the entire chooser has no keyboard support at all so far, >that would be a lot of work. So far you can't even select a package for >further action. But I'm sure everybody would applaud the person who adds >keyboard su

RE: installer improvements

wefwef wefwef sent the following at Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:18 AM >On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Morgan Gangwere >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:10 AM, wefwef wefwef wrote: >>> Choosing the fastest server could save a lot longer than 45 seconds >>> in download time. This functionality would be us

RE: Show window for BASH script run with /bin/run

J. David Boyd sent the following at Friday, April 02, 2010 2:32 PM >JPMcGrath writes: >> I am running a bash script under cygwin from within another >> (non-cygwin) program. The script normally does not interact with the >> user, so I use /usr/bin/run when running the script to avoid having a >>

RE: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

George Barrick sent the following at Friday, March 12, 2010 8:41 AM > I've tried a couple of different >browsers as well as 'wget' to pull the setup.exe file. I swear that >I'm not being an idiot. I also went to a sub-network here at our >organization that implements a different router, and wou

Possible Documentation Inconsistency

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#using-shortcuts By default, Cygwin uses a mechanism that creates symbolic links that are compatible with standard Microsoft .lnk files. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html#cygwinenv-implemented-options (no)winsymlinks ... De

RE: Network install of Cygwin?

Tim Visher sent the following at Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:25 AM >On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM, John Sambrook > wrote: >>> Is it possible to do a network install of the Cygwin distribution, so >> that a copy doesn't have to reside on every machine where it might be >> used? > >I'd be very inte

RE: User Guide Suggestion

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, March 09, 2010 5:00 AM >On Mar 8 07:58, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, March 05, 2010 10:44 AM >> >On Mar 5 09:00, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> I

RE: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

Olle Olsson sent the following at Monday, March 08, 2010 3:46 AM >Have good installations of cygwin on some computers. But these were >manually setup using the interactive cygwin setup tool. Always forgot to >install a couple of packages. > >Can a fresh install be made using an existing installatio

RE: User Guide Suggestion

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, March 05, 2010 10:44 AM >On Mar 5 09:00, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >>> On <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html>, a link from the >>> discussion of CYGWIN to >>> <http://cygwin.com/cy

RE: symlinks: converting Windows shortcuts to cygwin style

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, March 05, 2010 10:33 AM >On Mar 5 09:11, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Does someone have a script that converts symbolic links from "Windows >> shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set" to &quo

symlinks: converting Windows shortcuts to cygwin style

Does someone have a script that converts symbolic links from "Windows shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set" to "plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute set". (See "(no)winsymlinks" in .) Would i

User Guide Suggestion

On , a link from the discussion of CYGWIN to would be convenient. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

RE: what's the problem of my cygwin installation?

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Friday, February 05, 2010 9:59 AM >On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:08:59PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >>On 05/02/2010 11:58, G.W. Haywood wrote: >>> It's long seemed to me that there's a case for changing the name of >>> this file. On the average Windows box it is

RE: FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

Harnessing the Power of the Internet"' on >><http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/ful >>l_papers/noer/noer_html/noer.html> > >On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:14:44AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >[E] wrote: > >Don

FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 AM >On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund the >>early development, in the first place? To have a windows-hosted build >>environment

RE: Why require ps -W and kill -f

Dave Korn sent the following at Friday, January 22, 2010 6:38 PM >On 22/01/2010 21:28, Don Beusee wrote: >>> People don't care about implementation details. They care about what >> is running on the system (the WHOLE system). > > You are speaking for yourself. Not "everyone in the world". (Larr

RE: Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?

Batson, Chuck sent the following at Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:11 PM >I am aware it is possible to disable the "MS-DOS style path detected" >warning with the 'nodosfilewarning' option. > >But this message raises the question of, "What is the Cygwin ideal?" >That is, how to avoid the warning in a

missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

The command line arguments listed in the FAQ http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli are incomplete. The following are missing. -O --only-site Ignore all sites except for -s -P --packages Specify packages to install -C --categories

RE: Cygwin 1.7.1-1: problem with pipe to windows programs

KJ gmx.net> writes: > within a cygwin shell I used to pipe some data into a windows program > (sqlcmd.exe) which used to work pretty well. Since upgrading to > version > 1.7 I get the following error: > $ echo "select @@version" | sqlcmd > Sqlcmd: Error: Internal error at ReadTextLine (Reason: Un

RE: Problem with setup (maybe a feature request)

Rance Hall sent the following at Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:13 AM > >I'm running cygwin 1.7.x and I've been pretty faithful with running >setup again when updates are announced. > >I've noticed that setup remembers almost all the answers from the >previous run, so if you are just doing an update

cygpath: out of memory

Upgrading from 1.5 to 1.7 I started getting an error message from cygpath where I hadn't previously. This can be exemplified by the following. $ cmd /c dir /s /b o:\\ | cygpath -u -f - | wc cygpath: out of memory 20029 20029 332488 While I've fixed my problem*, I thought that the cygwin dev

RE: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

Just a note which I hope is related. vim was having problems with one of its files in ~. In Windows Explorer I copied the entire /home folder (d:\path\home) from 1.5 to c:\cygwin\home, thereby overwriting it. Then I used Explorer again to remove any read-only attributes. That seemed to solve

Broken link in FAQ

On http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.mirror and http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.mirror the link to http://wget.sunsite.dk/ is broken. It should probably point to http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ or maybe http://mirrors.dotsrc

RE: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly

aputerguy sent the following at Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:10 PM > > Seriously, there are times to use Perl and times not to... But launching > perl seems a bit of overkill when I just have to do a simple match in a >.bashrc script or when I need a small shell script wrapper. Looking at the man

RE: New package: lzip-1.8-1

algorithm with a >>> user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports recovery from >>> damaged archives. >>> >>> Homepage:<http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html> >> >On 11/17/2009 23:18, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > >>

RE: New package: lzip-1.8-1

JonY sent the following at Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:36 AM > >Version 1.8-1 of "lzip" has been uploaded. > >lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with >a user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports recovery from >damaged archives. > >Homepage:

RE: How to capture stderr of dos process running in bash shell??

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Friday, November 13, 2009 1:43 PM >On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:39:41AM -0800, aputerguy wrote: >>I am trying to capture the error messages of 'subinacl.exe' (a dos >>program included with Windows 2003 toolkit) which I am running from a bash >>script. >> >>Ho

RE: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7?

Kenneth Chiu sent the following at Monday, October 26, 2009 2:29 PM > >Considering that I only want to know whether or not two files differ, >this should not require any significant memory usage. (In other words, >don't use mmap().) If you only want to know whether or not they are identical, use c

RE: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Bruno Galindro da Costa sent the following at Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:44 AM > >Works great! Thank you very much Chuck! >> Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: >>>Thank you very much for the answer. In the package "psmisc", the >>> "tree" tool doesn't exists, only the tool "pstree". I have sear

RE: Re: Cygwin portable bash

I'm not aware that this has been mentioned before in this thread, but I'd worry that there is no mount table. (I assume that this is cygwin 1.5.) See the documentation on mount (hint: the -m option might be especially useful) or just run setup, clicking through it, on the derivative machines.

RE: cygdrive prefix

Vincent R. sent the following at Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:09 PM >> Vincent R. wrote: >>> Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before >>> accessing a drive? > >Ok I see your point but I find it weird to complicate things by adding >/cygdrive. Maybe some people are crazy

RE: gvim crashes immediately

Linda Walsh sent the following at Monday, June 29, 2009 2:12 AM > Any reason not to run the Win32-Gvim native client? Linda (or anyone who has an answer): Do you have any suggestions for commands that should be put in _vimrc so using cygwin is transparent? I am especially concerned with th

RE: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

Mark J. Reed sent the following at Friday, June 26, 2009 10:14 AM >> cygstart has an option to set the working directory. > >cygstart -d /path/to/directory cmd > >should do the trick. Sorry I forgot to included in my previous email that cygstart can load Windows shortcuts. This might be useful to

RE: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

Mark J. Reed sent the following at Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:15 PM >cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe > >or, if you have that in your $PATH, just > >cygstart `which cmd` cygstart has an option to set the working directory. $ cygstart --help [snip] Directory options -d, --director

RE: how big is a complete cygwin?

From: Damián Rodríguez Sánchez > How big (approximately) is a complete current Cygwin installation ? The FAQ is your friend. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.disk-space -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

RE: grep -f option is not working in release of grep (2.5.3-1)

Tulasi Ram wrote on Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:04 AM: > In the latest release of grep (2.5.3-1), the -f option (read search > patters from a file) is not working for me. I have tried to search by > providing pattern file. > > I have tried by using below command. It didn’t work. > > grep -F -B 10

RE: How to change the file mode to link?

Peng Yu wrote on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:17 PM: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: >> Peng Yu writes: >>> Is there such a cygwin command to extract the link from a windows >>> link. >> >> Did you not see Barry's response on this thread? > > I missed it before I sent this

RE: Can I install cygwin from my own setup.ini?

Pan ruochen wrote on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:08 AM: > I only want to install the following modules: > -- > bash > base-files > sed > gawk > -- > > But it's an uneasy work to deselect all the unwanted modules from the > default status on the cygwin

RE: How to change the file mode to link?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:38 PM: > Peng Yu wrote: >>> No. Shortcuts created with Windows contain more and different > ^^ >>> information than Cygwin symlinks. If you need a symlink, create it >>> under C

cygpath -a anomaly

With cygdrive prefix = /, from the root directory of a drive (e.g., /c = c:\ or /h = h:\), when asking for the absolute unix path with -au, cygpath doubles the / between the drive letter and the first directory of the path. /h> echo Home | cygpath -au -f - /h//Home /h> echo Home | cygpath -a

RE: dialog ?

Phil Betts wrote on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:08 AM: > Markus Wenke wrote: >> In early versions of cygwin, I've used "dialog" for some scripts. >> Now I want to start the script and "dialog" is not installed on the >> current cygwin version. I tried to install it with Cygwin-setup, >> but I can't

RE: What is Cygwin DLL & emulation Layer ?

Neeraj Sahu wrote on Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:51 AM: > I have searched for the answers in Google, and cygwin mailing list, In addition to Google, the ML archives, and Warren Young's comments, you should might want to look at the FAQ and other documentation. > Documentation: http://cygwin

RE: Can't run Bash!

Yarin wrote on Monday, May 11, 2009 8:27 PM: > I'm trying to compile Linux binaries on Windows. To do this, I've > downloaded and installed Cygwin (along with it's GCC packages). You are a bit ambiguous here. Are you trying to compile "linux binaries" of POSIX code? For that you need a cross-co

RE: Wodim and ramping up speed

Jason Pyeron wrote on Monday, May 11, 2009 12:33 PM: > I was just wondering if this is proper as it struck me as odd. No, it is not proper. It is off-topic for this mailing list. As far as I know, cygwin does not interact directly with hardware. It asks Windows to do that. So speed issues will

RE: Can cygwin boot faster?

Lenik wrote on April 29, 2009, at 7:44 PM: > I feel it has been slightly faster in cygwin-1.7 than cygwin-1.6. But > it is still very slow compared to msys-1.10. What does cygwin indeed > execute when start up? I found that bash-completion slowed startup a LOT. If you have it, you might try not

RE: Using real paths in ash

Stephen Paul Weber wrote on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:59 AM: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:50, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] > wrote: >> Stephen Paul Weber wrote on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:39 AM: >>> I really like the cygwin ash.exe, but I have a problem.  It tries t

RE: Using real paths in ash

Stephen Paul Weber wrote on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:39 AM: > I really like the cygwin ash.exe, but I have a problem. It tries to > replace C: with /cygdrive/c everywhere. This actually breaks my > utilities, because they expect real Windows paths. mkdir -p > "$TEMP/t" for example ends up creat

RE: 'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

SystemOverload wrote on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:09 PM: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> SystemOverload wrote: >>> Right - UPDATE: >>> >>> I've now entered the correct paths for the Compilers etc: >>> >>> C Compiler set to D:\APPS\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe >>> C++ Compiler set to >>> Make Command set

RE: Starting other Cygwin console from Cygwin console

Thomas Wiedmann wrote on March 07, 2009, at 7:12 AM > how, i. e. by which command, can from an open Cygwin console > a 2nd Cygwin console (or tab) be started in Windows XP? cygstart /path/to/bash_shortcut.lnk cygstart bash --login -i cmd /c start 'c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat' Between this question and y

RE: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

Spiro Trikaliotis wrote on Friday, March 06, 2009 2:59 PM: > * On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:29:02PM -0500 Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis >> wrote: > >>> Well, we can think about many things: However, this is not the way >>> it works on Windows, obviously.

RE: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

Dave Korn wrote on Friday, March 06, 2009 11:21 AM: > Arun Biyani wrote: > >> Yes. Meant exactly that. I created a shortcut on desktop for mintty. >> Assigned it the key "ctrl+alt+M". I like my desktop to be >> uncluttered. So after assigning the key, I moved the shortcut icon >> into my work fold

RE: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

Dave Korn wrote on Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:48 PM: > Hongyi Zhao wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've written a cygwin/bash script and want to run it by a customized >> hotkey laterly, it this possible? >> > > Sure. Create a windows shortcut to bash.exe, open the properties. > In "Target", after

RE: Are there some tools from cygwin to manipulate the windows's clipboad?

Hongyi Zhao wrote: > Are there some tools from cygwin to manipulate the windows's clipboad? getclip putclip - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/p

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] End-of-life/Updated: gcc-3.4.4-999

The new package for gcc-g++ is significantly bigger than the old. 3028397 2006-12-18 08:18:47 gcc-g++-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2 8016063 2009-03-02 10:23:49 gcc-g++-3.4.4-999.tar.bz2 Is this to be expected? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Unsubscribe info

RE: Files in /usr/bin

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Friday, February 27, 2009 3:43 PM: > On 02/27/2009, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> As I understand it, is mounted on ; everything >> should >> be in and nothing in >> . > > I think your notation for the last part of

RE: Installation problem - "unix" root doesn't work

Michel Wozniak wrote on Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:36 AM: > CygCheck -s -v -r gives me : "Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode the output. Just attach it as a st

Mirror List Inconsistencies

A few quibbles on the mirror list : Germany is listed twice. - The first is as a country in Europe having 15 mirrors. - The second as a region, having one "country", called Europe, that has a single mirror, . Canada is listed as it

RE: Copy converts tabs to spaces ?

> On 02.02.2009, at 21:16, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Ralf Gans wrote on Monday, February 02, 2009 8:57 AM: >>> On 02.02.2009, at 11:05, xerces8 wrote: >>>> I noticed that when copying text from a the Cygwin Bash window and >>>> then past

RE: Copy converts tabs to spaces ?

Ralf Gans wrote on Monday, February 02, 2009 8:57 AM: > On 02.02.2009, at 11:05, xerces8 wrote: >> I noticed that when copying text from a the Cygwin Bash window and >> then pasting it somewhere (like WordPad), tabulator characters are >> converted to spaces. >> >> The same happens with RXVT too. >

RE: chere and mintty patch

Dave wrote on Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:36 PM: > Frank Fesevur wrote: >> Hereby a patch for chere to add support for MinTTY as well. > > Thanks Frank! > > I'll also look at adding support for dash, and anything else I've > neglected for a while :) > > Dave. > chere maintainer. I don't believe t

RE: A question about cygstart

Andy Hall wrote on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:57 PM: > I start Visual Studio in the scripts as follows. > > cygstart --showminimized "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft > Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.exe" /edit > > If Visual Studio is not ruining, Visual Studio will start minimized. >

RE: ps COMMAND column

Paul McFerrin wrote on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:14 PM: > Is there a way to get "ps" to display more on the COMMAND column? Doesn't look like it. But try $ pstree -a $ procps -f $ procps -F -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwi

RE: fetchmail pops up console windows

Gary Johnson wrote on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:23 AM: > On 2008-02-22, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> This still bugs me. fetchmail pops up console windows when >> delivering mails to procmail. It doesn't matter if I run fetchmail >> directly from the commandline (in my case in a rxvt window under X)

RE: Wait for cygstart finish

Jeenu V wrote on Monday, January 12, 2009 11:45 AM: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > wrote: >> Just run the app without 'cygstart'? > > :) Well this was related to one of my earlier posts, if you recall, > where I had problems with running cmd.exe from screen. I now work >

RE: MinTTY

Thorsten Kampe wrote on Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:37 AM: > * Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:03:48 -0500)> >> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:40 AM: >>> you have to use "start". >> >> Or "cyg

Inconsistency with sort -n?

`sort -n' and `sort -g' work inconsistently with 0 and -0 if there are leading spaces. Sometimes -0 is before 0, as I would expect, and sometimes it is afterwards. Adding `-b' does not seem to help. Is this where I should report it or should I go upstream? In case you are wondering why I want

RE: MinTTY

Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:40 AM: > you have to use "start". Or "cygstart.exe"? > Windows has a GUI setting for user and system variables (which is > quite lenthy to access). Start Menu => Settings => Control Panel => System (applet) => Advanced (t

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