Re: ls -C broken

2022-02-03 Thread Greywolf
That would be rude on the part of GNU, that's for sure. Below, though, I don't see the use of -C explicitly.  ls defaults to -C if output is to a terminal, and to -1 if not, as it has done for many years. I see a lot of red herrings in the explanations below as regarding column, tabs,

Re: What is wrong with the name excel?

2020-04-17 Thread Greywolf
On 4/17/2020 11:01, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 4/17/2020 1:24 PM, Erik Soderquist via Cygwin wrote: > What seems a little odd to me is this.  If I had invoked via: > >     excel.exe > > I would not be surprised the MS Excel would launch, because it is probably > earlier in the path.  But the OP said

Re: find command seems to lock files

2019-08-19 Thread Greywolf
!"' Thank you for the kaffe spit-take. You just made my day! --*greywolf; -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Postfix+Cygwin: "mail system startup failed"

2019-06-19 Thread Greywolf
n starting and fatal, I expect that I would get a more detailed dump of what's gone wrong. Anyone have any insight? --*greywolf; -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] tcsh 6.21.00-1

2019-06-17 Thread Greywolf
On 2019-06-17 09:11, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2019-06-17 07:13, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 2:12 PM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: Just wondering... Does anyone still uses tcsh? That was my favorite shell before bash. There are always pockets of resistance, hiding out in the

bdftopcf: mis-classified?

2018-12-17 Thread Greywolf
Greetings, --*greywolf; -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: vim yellow lines problem

2018-10-09 Thread Greywolf
On 10/9/2018 4:33, James Darnley wrote: On 2018-10-09 10:49, Tapas Mishra wrote: I had a C program which I copy pasted and there were line numbers in code. So I replaced line numbers in vi by following command :%s/\d*. (<-- last of * is a dot) Now I am opening vim in cygwin then all typed

Re: getclip/putclip not present?

2018-10-04 Thread Greywolf
On 10/4/2018 20:19, Lee wrote: On 10/4/18, Greywolf wrote: Greetings, I have two installations of x86_64 cygwin, one at home, one at work. Both under windows 10. The one at work has getclip/putclip. The one at home does not, and I cannot locate them anywhere. https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2

getclip/putclip not present?

2018-10-04 Thread Greywolf
Greetings, I have two installations of x86_64 cygwin, one at home, one at work. Both under windows 10. The one at work has getclip/putclip. The one at home does not, and I cannot locate them anywhere. Help? --*greywolf

Re: 64-bit urxvt?

2018-04-19 Thread Greywolf
On 4/19/2018 0:19, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 4/19/2018 6:13 AM, Greywolf wrote: Greetings; Does there not exist a 64-bit urxvt? I fetched the most recent setup-x86_64.exe and I could swear I have the 64-bit package at work, but can't seem to find it for home... --*greywolf

64-bit urxvt?

2018-04-18 Thread Greywolf
Greetings; Does there not exist a 64-bit urxvt? I fetched the most recent setup-x86_64.exe and I could swear I have the 64-bit package at work, but can't seem to find it for home... --*greywolf; -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Cygwin/X11 - the X11 server won't start.

2017-10-12 Thread Greywolf
Found the problem.  It has to run as administrator.  Did that and it ran fine.  Still not sure why this was not an issue before.  Sorry for the trouble.  Might upgrade to 64 bit, but that means picking out what i have installed.                              --*greywolf;/* on the road

Re: TIOCSTI or workaround?

2017-06-25 Thread Greywolf
On 2017-06-25 20:58, Greywolf wrote: Greetings, I have a program I've writ which takes input and types on to other terminals; however, it seems that under Cygwin, TIOCSTI on a file descriptor doesn't work according to plan -- I get "Invalid argument", but I don't know why.

TIOCSTI or workaround?

2017-06-25 Thread Greywolf
bout POSIX STREAMS. I thought that paradigm had died a mean nasty ugly death YEARS back, but I'm hoping that's entirely beside the point. Does there exist a way to successfully call ioctl(fd, TIOCSTI, (char *)cp) or is there a workaround? -- --*greywolf;

XTerm 329-1 throwing error on absent bold font

2017-06-20 Thread Greywolf
Greetings, Whenever I start up an XTerm, even if I have the resources allowBoldFonts: false it throws the following error: xterm: cannot load font "-Sun-Serif-bold-R-*-*-14-140-72-72-M-80-ISO8859-1" Never mind the font name, this is irrelevant. The fact that it wasn't throwing an error

Re: find / without traversing /proc

2017-04-29 Thread Greywolf
-xdev was, however in SUSv2-1997... [sorry for the blather/spam-like substance. I'll shut up now.] On 2017-04-29 00:16, Greywolf wrote: -xdev was never a GNU extension; it was in Posix 1 (1990). On 2017-04-28 17:32, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Eric Blake! On 04/27/2017 08:11 PM, Andrey

Re: find / without traversing /proc

2017-04-29 Thread Greywolf
[oops; hit send when meant to hit cancel (while confirming what I was talking about before sending it...)] On 2017-04-29 00:16, Greywolf wrote: -xdev was never a GNU extension; it was in Posix 1 (1990). On 2017-04-28 17:32, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Eric Blake! On 04/27/2017 08:11 PM

Re: find / without traversing /proc

2017-04-29 Thread Greywolf
-xdev was never a GNU extension; it was in Posix 1 (1990). On 2017-04-28 17:32, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Eric Blake! On 04/27/2017 08:11 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Doesn't the -xdev switch help with this? Just keep in mind that -xdev is an extension and different platform may use a

OLOCA

2017-04-26 Thread Greywolf
ing when instructed to restore some files in place... --*greywolf; -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: What is the proper mailing list for server issues?

2017-04-22 Thread Greywolf
all on your local machine. Check your home router to see if it has a firewall with restrictions. Perhaps you're passing through a proxy server or firewall at the ISP? Try traceroute or wget to analyze what site you're really attaching to. On 4/21/2017 2:35 AM, Greywolf wrote: Hello, I am ha

What is the proper mailing list for server issues?

2017-04-21 Thread Greywolf
is "contact your ISP". So who do I contact about this? Not being able to automagically fetch the mirror list is annoying, and not being able to reach the site to see about updates and such is similarly so. Regards, --*greywolf; -- Problem reports:

Cannot reach main cygwin.com/cygwin.org site: 403 Forbidden

2016-12-06 Thread Greywolf
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Re: X Windows disappearing/unmapping (Win10 + 3rd party virtual desktops)

2015-08-18 Thread Greywolf
[sorry for the top-quote, but...] I have a workaround and I apologise for blaming it on cygwin. I think it's how the unmapping is handled by the desktop manager. You can close this, I think. On 15.08.17 02:07, Greywolf wrote: ENVIRONMENT: OS:Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Cygwin

X Windows disappearing/unmapping (Win10 + 3rd party virtual desktops)

2015-08-17 Thread Greywolf
. WHY I AM SUBMITTING THIS AS A CYGWIN BUG: Because this happens as a result of using at least two different non-microsoft desktop managers, and ONLY X11-based applications are vanishing (xterm plus, as a test, xfd). --*greywolf; -- Problem reports: http