Re: How to check cygwin version?

2020-07-01 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jeffrey Walton via Cygwin wrote: > I think the documentation leaves a lot to be desired... I'm trying to > tell someone what version of Cygwin I am using. > > There's a FAQ item at > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.version. It gives this > useless advice:

Re: Console doesn't work correctly under anything else than cmd or mintty

2020-05-13 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
I had a similar experience when I tried to use the CLI that comes with MongoDB. Switched to use TakeCommand instead when I needed to use the MongoDB CLI. Too bad! - Eric L On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:05 PM Kacper Michajlow via Cygwin < cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was testing latest

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
Cygwin itself is actually just DLL, you can select a previous version of it in setup.exe. That solved our issue with corrupted display of Maven. You can also install older versions of any package (but not all old versions ever published will be available to choose from, just a few ones). Anyway,

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
You simply run the setup program, it's possible to select a few older versions. - Eric L On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 6:32 PM wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 18:01:59 +0200 > Eric Lilja wrote: > > > Did you try to go back to Cygwin 3.0.7? At work, we had to do that, after > > output from Maven (which

Re: incorrect text mode graphic character display

2020-05-07 Thread Eric Lilja via Cygwin
Did you try to go back to Cygwin 3.0.7? At work, we had to do that, after output from Maven (which is colored) gets corrupted after a change in 3.1.0 and onwards. The output problem we saw manifests itself slightly different from yours, but it might be worth trying Cygwin 3.0.7 nonetheless. -