Re: Installing a copy of an installation on a new computer

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Hall
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:38:56AM +0100, Olle Olsson wrote: Hi, I found the following   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. /olle I was having trouble coming up with a sed command to convert all the version

Re: install from install files?

2009-07-31 Thread Tom Hall
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:56:12PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 07/28/2009 07:33 PM, Robert Mark Bram wrote: snip One more question: I notice that each time I update Cygwin, I get another ftp...mirror.. folder. I know this is not your question but I figured it was a point that

Re: problems with running Gnome applications

2009-07-10 Thread Tom Hall
Belated thanks Dave (for reminding me to do what the bluefish website said but I forgot to do :-) On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:32:55AM -, Dave Korn wrote: Alessandro Lendaro wrote: i cant execute bluefish ( Bad system call message) etcetera. This is a

Re: ls / rm etc return no such file or directory

2008-04-24 Thread Tom Hall
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:50:59PM -0700, TomL wrote: Based on the idea that its a file locking problem, I ran handle from sysinternals, and it showed up as an open filehandle in an explorer.exe process. I terminated the process, and all is well. I don't understand how it got into that

how to safely remove hardware with cygwin ?

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Hall
Is there a cygwin command line utility that will perform the function that Windows does when you safely remove hardware - like before unplugging a USB drive ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: how to safely remove hardware with cygwin ?

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Hall
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:36:38PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: Not in the main distribution, but in the past I got both http://www.hoopyfrood.net/DevEject and http://www.heise.de/ct/03/16/links/208.shtml to work with minor modifications... I've been meaning to package them, but haven't

using a USB flash mem device

2007-09-30 Thread Tom Hall
I got this nice little Sandisk sansa express MP3 player that plugs into the USB port on my XP machine. Unlike other USB devices I've used, Windows doesn't give this thing a drive letter, but does something else; it shows up on the explorer window and kind of acts like a drive there, but it

Re: using a USB flash mem device

2007-09-30 Thread Tom Hall
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:46:42PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Check under the Disk Management snap-in in Windows (under Administrator Tools, Computer Management). If it shows up there, you should be able to set a drive letter. If not, you may be able to access it using /dev/sdXX

Re: using a USB flash mem device

2007-09-30 Thread Tom Hall
syntax. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html for guidance on how to map the information you see here into /dev/sdXX form. On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:34:13PM -0600, Tom Hall wrote: Nope. It's not there. I did find it under Portable Devices but not under Disk

just got wrong DLLs or wrong mutt.exe

2007-02-24 Thread Tom Hall
I think there's a bug in the Cygwin setup I just installed Cygwin for the first time on an XP machine and mutt wouldn't run but other things seemed OK. The problem turned out to be that the version of mutt.exe I got was looking for /usr/bin/cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll and /usr/bin/cygssl-0.9.7.dll but

Re: df and floppy seeks

2005-02-28 Thread Tom Hall
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:28:33 -0700 From: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: df and floppy seeks [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-20041227-1] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Hall on 2/27/2005 2

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-20041227-1

2005-02-27 Thread Tom Hall
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:50:19 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-20041227-1 On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 07:33:23AM -0700, Tom Hall wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 17:42:11 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-20041227-1

2005-02-19 Thread Tom Hall
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 17:42:11 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made a new version of 'findutils' available for installation... Thanks you ! Perhaps more importantly, this version includes a patch from Corinna Vinschen which should stop the dreaded floppy seek problem that was

Re: [?@yahoo.com: Found problem of floppy drive acces]

2005-01-02 Thread Tom Hall
Since this problem appears to be the result of a bug in Windows, and I don't use my floppy too much, I've come up with a Windows-level hack that makes the problem more tolerable for me on Windows 98 until the proper Cygwin solution is found. This works for both find and df. Add this line