bug in cygstart utility

2021-03-01 Thread John Vincent via Cygwin
is not outputting the correct UFT-8 for either the * character or the ? character. I think this is a bug. Thanks, John Vincent. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscri

RE: CRLF to LF Issue

2003-06-26 Thread John Vincent
If you just want a quick fix, try using the dos2unix and unix2dos utilities _ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

query regarding use of Xwin -multiwindow

2003-06-03 Thread John Vincent
uname -a gives "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 JPV 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin" I expect I just need to configure something, but I'm at a loss as to where to start with this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, /John Vincent.

Re: RXVT Problem with buffering of application output.

2003-03-21 Thread John Vincent
ms as appropriate. This is just an idea ... I'm not offering to do it, I'm afraid. /John Vincent. On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FYI, you could try writing a Cygwin wrapper program that would capture the output of a Windows process and print it o

Re: Duplicate CygWin

2003-02-18 Thread John Vincent
opriately. I hope this suggestion helps. /John Vincent. (snipped from original posting) Noting:- It's not a cut down version of CygWin*.DLL I need, but a cut down version of the file system, to just a couple of dozen files in /bin, /tmp, /usr and /etc, for

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread John Vincent
Hi, I don't want to be accused of advertising, but we use SOPHOS in my office, and it doesn't interfere with the download/install processes or setup.exe at all. I've used it on NT, 2000, and XP. Just for information. /John. _ He

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-25 Thread John Vincent
Hi Igor, I see from your latest email that you now completely agree with what I've been saying. I'm pleased. Also, you're right, this is off-topic to this list (although maybe it's been of interest anyway, I hope). Re

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-25 Thread John Vincent
h the values it inherits from it's environment, people often forget that these two sets of variables are really quite independent, even though the shell deliberately tries to blur the destinction. I hope we're all clear now. /John Vincent. From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-24 Thread John Vincent
functions in the cygwin1.dll) /John Vincent. From: Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin Here power toy Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:44:47 +0200 REGEDIT4 [...] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Director

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-24 Thread John Vincent
ministrator@JPV ~ $ AAA=bbb Administrator@JPV ~ $ AAA=aaa echo $AAA bbb Administrator@JPV ~ $ In the above example the echo command is run with an environment variable AAA with a value of "aaa" but the shell variable AAA is passed with a value of "bbb" set on the previous line.

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-18 Thread John Vincent
shell variable (which is currently empty) so the echo prints a blank (it's empty argument) and ignores the in it's environment. This syntax is useful for setting environment variables for one command invocation only. They are not saved. I hope this fully explains what is goin

Re: problem with "more" under cygwin-1.3.13-1

2002-10-15 Thread John Vincent
p;write). The logic was that this saved a variable in the init process that started the login on the ttys. Memory was expensive back then ... Just a little history lesson for the interested /John VIncent. >From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Performance Issues due to Anti-Virus software.

2002-09-23 Thread John Vincent
Hi, This is a Wild Guess: maybe you could look at rebasing the cygwin DLLs that you are using, to make sure they don't clash with the norton DLLs. Search this mailing list looking for rebase. Like I say, it's just my guess. Good Luck ! /John Vincent. >From: "Graham

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-23 Thread John Vincent
7;uninstall'. 2. The "setup" program installs menu options to 'update' or 'uninstall' as part of the installation. If the cygwin setup does not do either of these things, then it's not going to be "intuitive". /John Vincent. >From: Soren A <

Re: Getting MAC address within C/C++-program in Windows2000

2002-09-23 Thread John Vincent
e long one, end result: people pay attention to the email that speculates at length on possible solutions, while ignoring the one-liner with the "definitive" answer. It happens a lot, not just on this list. That's my opinion, anyhow :-)) /John Vincent. >From: Nicholas Wo

Re: Promoting rxvt (non-X11)

2002-09-23 Thread John Vincent
"\e[H": beginning-of-line "\e[F": end-of-line "\e[7~": beginning-of-line "\e[8~": end-of-line set convert-meta off set output-meta on The convert-meta and output-meta settings are used so I can use the (£) UK pound symbol. I am in the UK and have a UK keyboa

Re: Open bash at the current explorer directory?

2002-09-18 Thread John Vincent
Hi, Here is an alternative that has also been posted before, that also works when it's a disk drive rather than a directory. Does this work any better for you? (Both work fine for me on W2K SP3) /John Vincent -- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Dire

Plea regarding sarcastic comments

2002-05-23 Thread John Vincent
not always understand everything on the web pages. I know that this list should be limited to sensible questions, but if you can't answer someone's query, it's best not to post a reply at all (In my opinion). /John Vincent. ___

Re: vi is missing

2002-05-18 Thread John Vincent
Hi, Here's an extra hint - don't look for vi - look for vim. /John. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting

Re: Cut and paste standard input and output

2002-05-14 Thread John Vincent
At the risk of being a "me too", I'd like to offer Chris every encouragement and support in every way possible [excluding any practical help:-)] to implement a feature so that doing an ls on /dev lists all devices, and in general, make any file name that can be open()ed, or stat()ed be possible

environment variables and setup.exe

2002-05-03 Thread John Vincent
the path after selecting "Installation". Thanks, /John Vincent. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K

2002-04-30 Thread John Vincent
Hi David, Thanks for the info. I created a system-wide environment variable using the control panel called "CYGWIN" with a value of "ntsec" and rebooted, and now telnet and ftp are working fine! Thanks for your help. /John >From: David Starks-Browning <[EMAIL PROT

problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K

2002-04-30 Thread John Vincent
I've discovered that I cannot successfully telnet into my Win 2K box using the cygwin inetd, there is also a problem with the ftp service. I've installed inetd as per instructions, and installed it as a service. When I use telnet to attempt to log in, everything goes OK until the point where a