Re: Incomplete installation of subversion

2010-08-13 Thread Phil Betts
On 13 August 2010 11:27, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >>> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Andrey Repin  wrote: >>> > (snip) >>> >> :curl -iI -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -s -- >>> >> "http://cygwin.com/setup.exe"; >>> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK >>> >> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:59:

RE: gcc4 and -mno-cygwin

2009-10-02 Thread Phil Betts
Jerry DeLisle wrote: > You could try this: > > http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?call=fortran Am I going blind, or is there no source available from there? Phil -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe Ltd using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- Problem reports: http://cy

RE: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

2009-10-01 Thread Phil Betts
There's a tree package available from here: http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/release/ I've no idea if this was the origin of the posted binary, but these packages DO come with source. I used to find these packages quite useful, but many packages had dependencies that conflicted with official cygwi

RE: find(1) assertion for folder with a sub-folder named `x:'

2009-06-23 Thread Phil Betts
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 19 17:55, Haojun Bao wrote: > > hi, > > > > Here's a test case to make find(1) assertion: > > > > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/bar: -p > > > > #this will not assert > > find no-such-dir/ > > > > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/c: -p > > I think the right answer here

RE: R: How to make cygwin redirect in UNIX mode?

2009-06-09 Thread Phil Betts
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:27:27AM +0800, Pan ruochen wrote: > >> you installed cygwin in text mode. > >> So the output is DOS style, to have UNIX output > >> you need to install in binmode > > > >I did get one cygwin distribution which can excute scripts both in DOS > >

RE: urxvt-X terminfo and Bash readline

2009-06-02 Thread Phil Betts
Dan Moulding wrote: > The other odd thing I noticed is that for some reason in Bash the > readline functionality "horizontal-scroll-mode" defaults to "on" when > running inside urxvt-X. Normally this should default to "off" (as per > the Bash man page). When running Bash in an xterm window, it is s

RE: Can I speed up running "configure" script?

2009-05-20 Thread Phil Betts
Ravenik wrote: > I type "./configure" in xterm to configure package. The script runs > very slowly - above 40 minutes. I suppose it should run faster on the > E8400 2x3GHz CPU. Can I speed up / boost this ? Windows Task Manager > shows "idle" process takes ~70%. Sorry if the question is stupid, I

RE: dialog ?

2009-05-20 Thread Phil Betts
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 find a packet > named "dialog". > Which packet do I have to

RE: mark-active (was: [1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1)

2009-05-18 Thread Phil Betts
Marc Girod wrote: > Two more changes I noticed with 23.0.92 (with respect to 21.2): > > 1. mark-active stays t after use (e.g. in the *shell* buffer), > with the result that the visual effect to mark the region gets > sticky. I can't help you here. I've not tried cygwin's 23.0.92 yet, but I can'

RE: system shared memory version mismatch

2009-05-18 Thread Phil Betts
Polon Tang wrote: > When the problem appears, the error seems to complain about > cygwin1.dll version mismatch. [snip] > Is this a know issue? Is there any patch available to cure? Please > help. Many thanks. This is almost certainly because you updated cygwin without first terminating ALL cygwin

RE: Moving Cygwin

2009-05-01 Thread Phil Betts
Tim Visher wrote: > Maybe the context for my question would help. I'm attempting to > follow advice from [Steve Yegge's My .emacs File > article](http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/my-dot-emacs-file) in > order to get useful cygwin bash interaction from within NT Emacs. He > seems to be of the op

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-20050409-11

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Betts
Charles Wilson wrote: > * Add -uas (--unixAltSpace) option to bypass Win32 handling > of Alt-Space key combination, and allow client (e.g. > Emacs) to handle it instead. Thanks for this Chuck. I can't see what in my previous post got you so worked up, and was a bit stung by your response. I

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-20050409-10

2009-04-24 Thread Phil Betts
Charles Wilson wrote: > o Restore Alt-Space behavior (e.g. pass thru to windows, to > allow access to Minimize/Maximze/Restore menu). Reported > by Davide Dente. You say "restore", but I've never seen this behaviour in rxvt. Did it only make a transient appearance? Alt-Space is used in emac

RE: [openssh] unnatended instalation + forcing service account

2009-04-17 Thread Phil Betts
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 16 18:14, Julio Costa wrote: > > That's your call. For me it's fine either way. > > Thanks, I'll release a new openssh package shorty. ^^ shortly Fixed that for you (assu

RE: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH' error message on install

2009-04-08 Thread Phil Betts
j.jovinbasil...@xxx.xx.xx wrote: > I am getting the above message when i run ./configure from the > extracted > gcc-4.3.3 directory. I have attached the cygcheck.out for your > reference. > > Let me know to get rid of this issue and to install verilog-perl on my > cygwin You have more than on

RE: edit Aux.pm under GNU emacs hangs

2009-04-06 Thread Phil Betts
Marc Girod wrote: > Hi, > > I try to open a new file named 'Aux.pm' under GNU emacs, and this one > hangs. > Both in X and -nw modes. > > This is emacs 21.2.13 under cygwin 1.5.25-15. > > emacs works otherwise normally. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames Phil --

RE: don't know why ./configure command fails

2009-04-02 Thread Phil Betts
Jaroslav Rynik wrote: > Hello, > > when I wanted to install a program under Cygwin (NetBSD package of > instalation program), the error message saying that no suitable C > compiler was found appeared. > > However, during the instalation I reset all the components from > "Default" to "Install". I

RE: cygwin commands (cat,grep) not working in my windows 2008 machine

2009-04-02 Thread Phil Betts
sudhap85 wrote: >I am using windows 2008 machine. I have installed latest cygwin. > Here I am facing problem with the "cat" "grep" commands. In command > line its working fine. but In my scripts it's giving error. So what's the error? Without this as a clue, we can only guess. How are you r

RE: 'no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH' error message on install

2009-04-01 Thread Phil Betts
Jaroslav Rynik wrote: > when I wanted to install, the program with cygwin (using package for > NetBSD), the error message "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH" > came up. This list is for X related questions only, setting the follow-up address to the main cygwin list. > However, I have instal

/etc/alternatives was RE: [Re: GCC 4 installation problem]

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Betts
Dave Korn wrote: > Sounds more to me like you forgot to use the alternatives program to > configure the alternatives and have been messing around manually in its > private data directories and broken it. > > (You're not the first person to do this. For some reason it seems to > be a hard-to-r

RE: Re: Want to let variable pass to cygstart.

2009-03-11 Thread Phil Betts
Hongyi Zhao wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:37:46 +, Dave Korn > wrote: Please don't quote raw email addresses. It only feeds the spammers. > > It's bash shell metacharacters. The '&' character terminates a > command and > >puts it into the background. The simplest way is to use single q

RE: grep -P regexp problem

2009-03-04 Thread Phil Betts
Andriy Sen wrote: > Below is an example of the problem. > > G:\>cat test.s > a > 1 > > G:\>cat test.s | grep -P "[^0]1" > a > 1 This is not cygwin-specific, so it is really OT for this list, that being said... grep -P treats the whole input as a single string, and outputs the line (or lines) con

RE: 'man' page for 'mintty' for review

2009-02-09 Thread Phil Betts
On Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:48 PM Lee D.Rothstein wrote: > MinTTY users, > > Please, if you would, review the attached 'man' page -- 'mintty.1'. > Andy Koppe intends to fold it into the 0.3.6 MinTTY release. > > Comments, corrections, addtitions to this list, please. I haven't checked all th

RE: how to get mmap page size?

2009-01-16 Thread Phil Betts
Jay Foad wrote on Friday, January 16, 2009 12:24 PM:: > I have an application that wants to use mmap() to read a file, but > only if it can guarantee that this will leave one or more zero bytes > after the end of the contents of the file in memory: > > if ((filesize & (pagesize - 1) != 0) >

RE: source for tree command?

2008-12-22 Thread Phil Betts
Steve Lefevre wrote on Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:02 PM:: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Steve Lefevre wrote: >>> Hello - >>> >>> I'm desperately looking for a source for the tree command in cygwin. >>> It isn't listed separately in any of the package sources that I >>> looked at. I tried goog

RE: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Betts
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:49 PM:: > The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists > no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. > > If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please > send it to on

RE: Problems with remote programs using ncurses (aptitude)

2008-12-09 Thread Phil Betts
Brian Dessent wrote on Monday, December 08, 2008 2:31 PM:: > SO wrote: > >> I have problems opening remote programs using ncurses library. >> Aptitude for example. Menus and other interface components are just >> garbage on my term on windows vista. Is there a solution for that? > > The answer w

RE: Finally managed to create a jailed SFTP server, but how secure?

2008-12-04 Thread Phil Betts
TheO wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:48 PM:: >>> I understand why all these virtual directories are necessary at the >>> absolute '/' root level. But here I refer to /cygdrive which is >>> created inside the jail directory, which means in absolute path, >>> /jail/cygdrive (/jail being the r

RE: Using -mno-cygwin causes different program behavior

2008-12-03 Thread Phil Betts
Eric Blake wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:42 AM:: > According to C-Programmer on 12/3/2008 6:29 PM: >> But if I compile using the following command line argument: >> $ gcc -mno-cygwin -o ioProg1 ioProg1.c > > Then you are no longer using cygwin, and this is almost more of a > question for

RE: Setup wants to revert my upgrade of Emacs

2008-11-21 Thread Phil Betts
Jonathan Ferro wrote on Friday, November 21, 2008 7:05 AM:: > Casual browsing recently revealed that one of my all-time favorite > software packages, Emacs Calc, has returned to active maintenance and > is part of the GNU Emacs distribution. My thought: why does my > Cygwin installation not have

RE: mmap call gives invalid argument

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Betts
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:45 PM:: > On Nov 19 22:56, Carlo Florendo wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Nov 19 14:49, Carlo Florendo wrote: Trees removed to enable wood to be seen... Table at 0x3BEE3000. > 152 61108 [ma

RE: Powershell Ouput via Cygwin and Open SSH

2008-10-21 Thread Phil Betts
Nick Calvert wrote on Monday, October 20, 2008 10:17 AM:: > Thanks very much Larry, even if i cant solve this issue i at least > know the cause. > > Sadly i cant find tfy.exe anywhere. I dont suppose anyone here still > has a copy? > You didn't look too hard. It took me only 1 minute to uncov

RE: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

2008-10-09 Thread Phil Betts
Dirk Napierala wrote on Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:51 AM:: > If I missed feedback to the thread below I have to apologize. > Otherwise I would like to recall this (my last post)again Please don't keep reposting the same message. You can google the mailing list archives if you think you may ha

RE: g_assertions

2008-09-22 Thread Phil Betts
John Emmas wrote on Monday, September 22, 2008 11:09 AM:: > Hi - I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this question. I'm > just starting to use Cygwin. Firstly, the Cygwin web site says that > the current version is 1.5.25-15 but my install log says that it > installed 2.573.2.3 so I'm a b

RE: Access problems

2008-09-15 Thread Phil Betts
Zarathustra wrote on Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:03 PM:: > I'm having some problems with certain executables in my cygwin > instalation. > Some executables (such as xgettext) issue an "Access is denied" > error. Any ideea on what's causing this? I'd wager you don't have permission to access so

RE: setup.exe --quiet-mode

2008-09-11 Thread Phil Betts
Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:22 PM:: > Rob wrote on 10 September 2008 19:03: > >> Since I'll be doing this upgrade on close to 100 boxes, >> I've been trying to devise a *relatively* unattended process. >> In case it helps anyone in the future, here's a snippet of my cmd >>

RE: 1.5.25-15:bash failure with all basic commands

2008-08-27 Thread Phil Betts
Phil Ten wrote on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:27 PM:: [snip] > > Attached cygcheck.out > > It reports > > "Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path" > > but I double checked and could find only one cygwin1.dll > on the server. > > Any help would be very appreciated. > > Phil Ten

RE: Cygwin compiler and linker options

2008-08-22 Thread Phil Betts
John Emmas wrote on Friday, August 22, 2008 1:54 PM:: > Just doing some searches on the internet, there seems to be an awful > lot of misinformation / misunderstanding about what the various > Cygwin-gcc compiler and linker flags do. > > For example, I saw one article that said that that flag -mn

RE: fate/resolution/location of things like "sys/sockio.h"

2008-05-27 Thread Phil Betts
Mike Marchywka wrote on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:53 PM:: > $ cygcheck ./pktdump_ex.exe | sed -e 's/ /./g' [snip] > ..C:\WINNT\cygwin1.dll ^ This is asking for trouble. Although it's probably nothing to do with the current topic, chances are that it's out of date and likely to be the c

RE: Fonts look ugly in X with gvim

2008-04-22 Thread Phil Betts
Steven Woody wrote on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:32 AM:: > Hi, > > I am using gvim in X window of cygwin. I selected a font Lucida > Typewriter same as I set for my windows version of gvim. Lucida > Typewriter looks good in windows version of gvim, but in cygwin's > gvim, it's ugly, looks like t

RE: Easy question

2008-03-12 Thread Phil Betts
Troy Bull wrote on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:45 PM:: > Greetings > > I use rxvt and I use the -fg and -bg to set colors. Where can i find > a list of the colors that I can put in there. I know I can do the > obvious ones, Black, White, Blue, etc but I also found "Wheat" and > some other ones

RE: bash programming: testing for empty string

2008-03-05 Thread Phil Betts
bootleg86 wrote on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:28 AM:: > Hi, > > I'm trying to find the time of a file by doing this. > > filetime=`ls -l --time-style=+%a:%H:%M /tmp/1.txt | awk '{print $6}'` > > if [ -z "$filetime"]; then > echo "File does not exist" > else > echo "Time file: $filetime" > fi

RE: sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

2008-02-18 Thread Phil Betts
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, February 18, 2008 12:12 PM:: > + echo "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty is existant but not a directory." Perhaps: + echo "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty exists but is not a directory." would avoid a typo (it's "existEnt"), and sound less like a Google translation ;-) Phil

RE: Uninstalling Cygwin

2008-02-12 Thread Phil Betts
PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM:: > -Mensaje original- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre ^^^ ^^^ > de Larry Hall (Cygwin) > Enviado el: lunes, 11 de febrero de 2008 16:38 > Pa

RE: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?

2008-02-07 Thread Phil Betts
Paul Leder wrote on Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:31 PM:: > Eric Blake wrote: > >> Bash has two variable namespaces - shell variables, and environment >> variables. Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and >> not just in the bash shell variable namespace? > > thanks - I had no id

RE: RE: undefined reference to `_msgDebug' in GCC

2008-02-05 Thread Phil Betts
Anik Pal wrote on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:12 PM:: > Phil, > Thanks for the info you provided. I'm not conversant with GCC. > I remove the path for regular library like libm.a, and all the paths > specified in posix , now my linker option is as follows > > -L/cygdrive/f/geolog6.6.1/lib -lcgg

RE: undefined reference to `_msgDebug' in GCC

2008-02-04 Thread Phil Betts
Anik Pal wrote on Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:05 AM:: > I am trying to using a library in my code whose default compiler is > MSVCRT. When I try to compile that code in cygwin GCC environment I > get the following errors > > F:/geolog6.6.1/lib/libgeolog6.a(fileprintf.o):C:/development/ptc:(.tex

RE: Warning msg: multiple cygwin1.dlls

2008-02-04 Thread Phil Betts
Fergus wrote on Monday, February 04, 2008 6:28 AM:: > Sorry to return to this old favourite. For ages (years) I have had > both /usr/bin/ and /bin/ set in my PATH and cygcheck -srv reported > both as d:\bin. I just removed the latter from the PATH and now get > exactly one report of d:\bin. > BUT

RE: Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

2008-01-11 Thread Phil Betts
Jay wrote on Friday, January 11, 2008 3:14 PM:: >> That's still somewhat wasteful, starting bash just to get a vim >> alias - why not use the full name gvim, and bypass the bash process >> to begin with? > > you right, i'm going to remove it, thanks. > > My main problem now is that for some rea

RE: socket : MSG_WAITALL isn't defined

2007-11-28 Thread Phil Betts
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:57 PM:: > On Nov 28 15:24, patrick ficheux wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to use recv() with MSG_WAITALL [...] > > Don't you read earlier replies on the list? > > > Corinna It seems he's running an old version of Brain which had a problem

RE: cygwin install possibly stuck

2007-11-19 Thread Phil Betts
adamb wrote on Monday, November 19, 2007 5:12 AM:: > only found 1: Maybe that's all *you* could find, but cygcheck almost certainly would have found another. If you had followed the instructions given in the first response you received from Eric, you'd almost certainly have been up and running

RE: Workaround for silent linkage errors

2007-11-14 Thread Phil Betts
Eric Blake wrote on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:56 PM:: > According to Phil Betts on 11/9/2007 10:15 AM: If anyone missed this because of ultra paranoid virus filtering (it had a .sh attachment), it's here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-11/msg00173.html I didn't get a copy my

Workaround for silent linkage errors

2007-11-09 Thread Phil Betts
We seem to be getting a lot of messages along the lines of "I ran xyz and it did nothing." The typical response is something like "if you echo $? it is probably 53 which indicates a missing DLL." This usually gives rise to a further email asking where to get the missing DLL. Attached is a short

RE: When I start a process in bash - which pid is correct - Windows Task Manager or ps -ef

2007-10-11 Thread Phil Betts
Brian Keener wrote on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:31 PM:: > I have an application that I have been trying to gather info on and it > hangs but it seems finding the pid is difficult for attempting to > attach to it. > Use ps -el instead of -ef. That lists the winpids too. Phil -- Unsubscrib

RE: How to use the X clipboard

2007-09-18 Thread Phil Betts
Robert Kiesling wrote on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:02 AM:: > I need to set the X server option, "emulate3Buttons," in order to use > the X clipboard with the Cygwin system's mouse. The FAQ tells me that > I can add, "-emulate3buttons ," to the X server arguments. > However, if I start the ser

RE: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Phil Betts
Marko Loparic wrote on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42 PM:: > Hello, > > Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin problem I > have? > > I have tried to contact Red Hat but they did not seem interested in > offering support for the type of problem I have (or perhaps I didn't >

RE: RE: Re: Possible bug: d does not seem to read ~/.d.conf

2007-08-10 Thread Phil Betts
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 4:09 PM:: > Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't > know what I and Ronald were talking about. I'm so sorry, but my telepathy module has a malfunction. Until it's fixed, I can only respond to what is actually written

RE: Re: Possible bug: d does not seem to read ~/.d.conf

2007-08-10 Thread Phil Betts
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM:: > * Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:09:11 -0500) >> Ronald Fischer wrote: >>> From >>> >>>info d >>> >>> we can see that /usr/bin/d is supposed to honour a configuration >>> file ~/.d.conf and that in this file, the boolean

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-07 Thread Phil Betts
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:26 PM:: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:22:30PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >> On 6/6/07, Dave wrote: >>> Brian Dessent wrote: Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhap

RE: scripting and cygwin

2007-06-01 Thread Phil Betts
John wrote on Friday, June 01, 2007 3:05 AM:: > I finished the script I have been working on. Unfortunately, > this Pee Cee version won't even finish the full data run > as it crashes with Zone Alarm. Since I have a long term good > relationship with Zone Alarm, I have to write off cygwin. > > An

RE: slow bash command line and scripts

2007-05-31 Thread Phil Betts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:53 PM:: > The response time to bash command from the command line is very slow. > For example, if I type "ls", it takes about 0.5 sec to get some > output, and after the output, another 0.5 sec for the prompt. > > Likewise, my scripts are very s

RE: multiple cygwin installs (gold star)

2007-03-29 Thread Phil Betts
Igor Peshansky wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:27 PM:: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:34:07PM +0100, Phil Betts wrote: >>> >>> Any 3PP that forces one to use their (inevitably out of date) >>> ver

RE: multiple cygwin installs

2007-03-29 Thread Phil Betts
Steve M. Robbins wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:05 AM:: > Howdy, > > I had installed cygwin and used it for some months. Then I had to > install another tool (crestron SIMPL+ compiler) and discovered that > cygwin no longer worked. It turns out that the SIMPL+ compiler is > based around a

RE: Extraneous characters in mutt text manual?

2007-03-26 Thread Phil Betts
Mark S. Reglewski wrote on Friday, March 23, 2007 4:50 PM:: > Forgive a naive question from a naive user: should there be any > formatting codes/escape sequences at all to work around in what's > supposed to be a plaintext file? > /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt gives this as it's last line:

RE: RE: Accessing remote PC (ssh?)

2007-03-15 Thread Phil Betts
Dave Korn wrote on Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:50 PM:: > On 15 March 2007 16:28, Phil Betts wrote: > > [talk list snipped, no need to x-post] > I didn't cross post, I set the reply to field to the talk list. I just forgot to point out it was TITTTL'd. > It's c

RE: RE: Accessing remote PC (ssh?)

2007-03-15 Thread Phil Betts
zzapper wrote on Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:34 PM:: > zzapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:Xns98F49BF615AA2zzappergmailcom@ > 80.91.229.5: > >> >> I used http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html as FAQ >> > # basic steps > setup a windows password (if you have none) > mkpasswd

RE: Re: stupid spaces in environment vars

2007-02-09 Thread Phil Betts
David Bear wrote on Friday, February 09, 2007 4:56 AM:: > Okay, the problem is in quoting in shell scripts, I think. It is. It's not a Windows problem and it certainly isn't a cygwin problem. Although spaces occur more often in Windows than on other platforms, they can and do occur on Unix/Linu

RE: Precision of doubles and stdio

2006-03-06 Thread Phil Betts
Roberto Bagnara wrote on Monday, March 06, 2006 9:30 AM:: > > what is and what is not noise depends on the application. > In our applications we systematically use controlled rounding on IEEE > 754 floating point numbers. In the end, what we obtain (in memory) > are definite (i.e., provably corre

RE: Updatedb grinding floppy drive

2006-02-27 Thread Phil Betts
Dai Conrad wrote on Monday, February 27, 2006 1:05 AM:: > I've been having a problem with updatedb for a while now. The > symptoms are that late in the process it starts grinding my A: drive > and I have to hit ctrl-C to kill it. > ... > > Any suggestions or recommendations will be greatly app

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-09 Thread Phil Betts
On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:25 PM Dave Korn wrote: > It's insane. > > Unless you have the precision muscular control skills of a world-class > gymnast, a mouse always moves at least a little bit when you press down on the > button. Which is one reason why I prefer a trackball - moving an

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Betts
On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:14 AM Rizwan Kassim wrote (sort of): > I haven't been able to find out how to do the following: > I'd like to accelerate my car using the left pedal and find some > other way of stopping it (maybe the pedal on the right). > > Anyone know how to do this? > > Cheers,

RE: Bash is very, very stable

2004-09-24 Thread Phil Betts
Hi Eric, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > Did you see the patch at > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00882.html? I predict it will > fix your problem. I had seen it, but at the time I hadn't drawn the connection between the symptoms I was seeing and those the patch addressed (and which I hadn't exp

RE: Re: Bash is very, very stable (was: Bash returns incorrect process status)

2004-09-24 Thread Phil Betts
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Hi Phil, > > The symptoms are consistent with the pid reuse issue, > although it is not common on NT4, AFAIK. > > A patched version is available as > http://xx.xxx.xxx//bash.exe > Please keep that url private. > > If you try it, let me know (or the lis

RE: What is this

2004-09-06 Thread Phil Betts
There goes your C: drive! The --help options to commands should only be used when you already know what the command does, but are unsure what parameters it takes. Here endeth the lesson. -- Phil Betts ** This email and any f

Workaround for broken pipe key on 98/ME

2004-04-05 Thread Phil Betts
Hi Folks, I just installed cygwin on W98 and hit the problem with the pipe key on W98/ME: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_5.html#SEC129 After googling to see what had already been tried, it became clear that the problem was with readline. This workaround uses readline to fix itself. Just add the foll