Re: .bashrc and.bash_profile missing

2011-06-29 Thread Weiqi Gao
find the file but it jerked back > to the usual prompt so I was able to look inside my home/user/ directory. > After using ls -a it showed that this directory was completely empty, no > .bashrc, no .bash_profile. I'm fairly new to this so I don't know why this > is happe

Re: Is it okay to delete Cygwin (mirror) download directories?

2011-05-07 Thread Weiqi Gao
hat can happen? A messed up Cygwin installation? You can always delete the whole thing and start over. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Weiqi Gao
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:02 PM, gviewer wrote: > > Thanks for letting me know you know of. I can view PDF files with xpdf (which is part of the "install everything" installation of Cygwin). -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- Problem rep

Re: Cygwin and Java

2009-07-13 Thread Weiqi Gao
ith your CLASSPATH environment variable setting---it needs to include the current directory "." If that doesn't work, then you may have saved your *.java file in the wrong case. mv it to a different name and then mv it back with the proper capitalization, then recompile

Re: TEMP Environment Variable Changed Format After Cygwin Update Today

2006-01-19 Thread Weiqi Gao
On 1/19/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The TEMP handling hasn't been changed for a long time. This is not the cause of my problem then. Sorry about the noise. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Weiqi Gao
achine that has > not cygwin installed, and run it there? No. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: postgresql-8.0.4-1 and 8.1.0-1

2005-11-17 Thread Weiqi Gao
Reini, Thanks for the new release. I went through the installation process and wrote up my experience at http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/11/17/postgresql_8_1_0_comes_to_cygwin.html. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: xdvi in cygwin?

2005-10-18 Thread Weiqi Gao
On 10/18/05, Paminu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to install xdvi under cygwin? Yes. Just select the tetex-x11 package in the Publising category. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: how to run a program from the bash console

2005-08-31 Thread Weiqi Gao
les'/''/ executable>:$PATH > export PATH > > This does not appear to work. Does anyone know how to do this? Should be PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/''/:$PATH export PATH The program executable's name should not be part of the PATH enironment variable. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: setup.exe filename

2005-08-08 Thread Weiqi Gao
ctures, and the naming of executables. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Weiqi Gao
d've been carefuller. :) -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Weiqi Gao
ins a copy of setup.exe (or SETUP.EXE). That seems to be the Windows way of install programs. > Couldn't you just name it something useful? () Setup.exe is plenty useful. I've been using it, you know, running it everyday before I go making my tea, for the past eighteen years. And

Re: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Weiqi Gao
setup.exe to > cygwin_setup.exe (or your favorite) or to do save link as. Can't you just click on the http://cygwin.com/setup.exe link from within IE and say "run"? There's no need to save it anywhere. This way you will be always be running the latest and greatest Cygwin setup.exe. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Lpr problem with Cygwin 1.5.13 (Works fine with 1.5.12)

2005-03-24 Thread Weiqi Gao
ing the thread started with the above message, I know that it has been identified as a cygwin bug. What I don't know is when will it be fixed. Will the fix be in the upcoming 1.5.14? If yes, thank you very much. If not, is there a workaround aside from rolling back to 1.5.12? -- Weiqi G

mkpasswd -d generates an error: [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2005-02-14 Thread Weiqi Gao
e details of which I know little. All I've heard is that we are using Samba instead of Windows now. Thanks, -- Weiqi Gao (éäå) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: setup.exe cannot proceed...

2003-09-20 Thread Weiqi Gao
e was corrupted yesterday. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: tetex-base 2.0.2-13...

2003-09-19 Thread Weiqi Gao
Domain U0 Sep 19 10:18 . -rwxrwxrwx1 weiqiDomain U 436764035 Sep 19 10:20 cmcbx5.pfb ==== -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: changing bash window title

2003-06-19 Thread Weiqi Gao
quot; that contains the line "cmd /c title bash" in my path. Every time my title is messed up (almost always after using lynx), I simply type "t" and the title is restored. Not as politically correct as the "^[e;[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*" alternative but it works. -- Weiqi

Re: JNI multiple String problem

2003-03-12 Thread Weiqi Gao
round the GCJ stuff by using explicit -I, -L and -l command line options combined with the -mno-cygwin option: $ gcc -mno-cygwin -c -I c:/j2sdk1.4.1_01/include -I \ c:/j2sdk1.4.1_01/include/win32 nativ.c $ gcc -mno-cygwin -shared -L c:/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/bin -o cygnativ.dll native.o -lwhatever --

Re: Setup feature request: adding a "Skipped" view

2003-01-29 Thread Weiqi Gao
say he should click all the way to reinstall :) Setup version 2.249.2.5 I've never tried that. And it would work for me. I do have some packages that I want to skip (the three emacs packages and the package for setup), but I know where they are, and can go to them quickly and click to make

Setup feature request: adding a "Skipped" view

2003-01-29 Thread Weiqi Gao
n a much shorter list. Maybe there is a better way of doing this already that I'm not aware of. In that case I would like to hear that too. Thanks, -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

My bug or your bug?

2002-05-21 Thread Weiqi Gao
foo is not expected. As a matter of fact, after the first run of ./foo, ALL commands (cygwin or otherwise, such as ls and notepad, except bash built-ins) generate the same error. I checked that I have only one cygwin1.dll on my system, and it's at the correct location (C:\cygwin\bin). -- W