upgrade/add a single package

indow. All pointers appreciated. -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link (c)2005ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ Discussion, News and Chat at http://lawboards.semanticrestructuring.com/ "In dreams we are not tethered to earthly limitations"---G.T.Snail -- Unsubscribe info

Re: upgrade/add a single package

On 11/16/05, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put the radio button at the top to 'keep', then select whichever > individual package you want. Wow but I'm feeling thick right about now. Many thanks. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

rxvt readme?

Hi all, I'm trying to get rxvt set up on a new install; can't seem to find the rxvt readme. I thought it should be in /usr/doc/Cygwin; nothing but tetex readmes there. All clues greatly appreciated. -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link (c)2006ISR http://www.seman

Re: rxvt readme?

Sorry for the noise. Sending the note triggerred a better google search string, which in turn led to an archived post from Igor with a little grep magic that did the trick. cygcheck -l rxvt | grep README Cheers, On 2/6/06, beau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'

mount?

Hi all, I was thinking I ougtta be able to use cygwin while in XP to access the fat partition I've made on my dual boot XP/debian box. But I find I'm not even sure where to start my search. Pointers greatly appreciated; I'm sure there's a howto I should be reading... --

Re: mount?

On 5/3/05, Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It will automagicly be mounted as > /cygdrive/ XP doesn't seem to know this partition exists. I had XP on my full 80GB, used the debian sarge isntaller to shrink it to 30GB, created 10GB FAT, gave the rest to debian, thinking I could use the FAT as a s

Re: mount?

On 5/3/05, Cliff Hones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian will almost certainly be able to access a FAT filestore > made by XP. That looks to have done the trick; thanks! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docu

no place like /home

d way? -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link (c)2005ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ Discussion, News and Chat at http://lawboards.semanticrestructuring.com/ "In dreams we are not tethered to earthly limitations"---G.T.Snail -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: no place like /home

usly put. ;) Don't know I could classify it as a problem so much as a curiosity. Thanks for the lead on doping it out. -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link (c)2005ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ Discussion, News and Chat at http://lawboards.semanticrestructuring.com/ &q

revisiting case sensitivity

to speed? I am pretty new to cygwin in particular and as yet none to snappy with shell scripting in general; all help appreciated. beau -- 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: revisiting case sensitivity

Igor, Thanks bunches for the re-assurance; I'll spend a little time with the bash manpage. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: revisiting case sensitivity

and I'm not bash-or-cygwin-savvy enough to see what is wrong. That said, my failure to grok this is no reflection on the goodness that is cygwin. Rock on. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.14-1

ower users? Thanks bunches, beau -- 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/

req. pointer to howto

Hi all. I don't see where to find out how to revert to an older version of a package (in this case, tex/latex). I've tried running setup.exe, but when I get to the package selection dialog I don't see older versions as options. faq, howto, any and all pointers greatly appre

Re: req. pointer to howto

On Apr 4, 2005 9:31 PM, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 3.0.0-2 > packages now work, but if you genuinely want to go back Thanks for the instructions. I went with 3.0.0-2, but I reckon the time will come when it'll be good to have my head around how to install a legacy package from l

perldoc

Anyone else having trouble with perldoc? I've got perl 5.8.6-4; trying perldoc perldoc in rxvt. What I get is: ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m with "ESC" reversed. Don't even know where to start on this; as always, all help appreciated. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Re: perldoc

On Apr 5, 2005 2:17 PM, Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > export PERLDOC_PAGER="less -+C -e -isrR" You da man; thanks. Speaking of man, I read the less manpage so as to actually understand the options you've picked. Rock on. beau -- Unsubscribe info:

perl, cygwin or caffeine

Not sure where the problem is, and am not having luck with the archives. I've got a little dummy script <--begin quoted--> #!/usr/bin/perl $foo = ; print $foo . "\n"; <--end quoted> It just sits and spins until I kill it. I tried "export PERLIO=perlio" in my .bashrc, but maybe that just displ

Re: perl, cygwin or caffeine

It was the caffeine; I didn't want to assign , I wanted to assign from @ARGV. Oi. Sorry for the noise. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

irc

Hi all, I had just gotten used to irssi when I had to give up the debian box; anyone know how hard it is to get it going on cygwin? Also, I don't seem to have a man page for the irc that I've got. Thanks, beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

Re: irc

Thanks for the encouragement; I'll look at the readmes with the tarball to figure out that --with-perl=no. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: irc

gh, but I'm pretty green about such things. When I tried irssi at the command line I got "command not found." All help gratefully appreciated; I really don't want to keep using trillian. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: irc

On Apr 12, 2005 2:43 PM, beau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I tried irssi at the command line I got > "command not found." Sorry for the noise; irssi.exe was buried deep at /home/Me/irssi-0.8.0/src/fe-text/irssi.exe; I'm sure this the expected behavior and that the l

Re: irc

Igor, Brian, Thanks as always for the patience; make install was all I needed, and I'm embarassed not to have figured it out on my own... beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)

ned to XP. Thought I should say thanks. Thanks. -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link Open your heart, pray for peace, preach healing (c)2005ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)

On 4/13/05, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow! http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WJN ! Damn. Sorry 'bout that. "You guys suck, and now I'm going to go cry in my AOL" is what I meant to say. ;) beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)

re suggesting. You want mean, try saying "knoppix" at #debian. ;) beau (a little flustered at bantering with a celeb) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dave+korn+ksh&btnG=Google+Search You can imagine my confusion after a quick look at this result. I was beginning to feel guilty about switching to bash when I log onto freeshell. Next: let's see what gmail allows for in the way of HTCMMTNQREAIYR. cheers --

cygwin X on XP

rward task? Thanks, all, btw, for giving me somthing tasty for my sigline; I'm actually in a law program, so it's quite topical, and funny (well, at least to me) -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link (c)2005ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ IANAL http://cygwin.com/a

Re: cygwin X on XP

On 4/13/05, Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the cygwin-xfree list, which is dedicated to exactly that sort of roger wilco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: possible DLL license violations

all about; even if they don't stop the infringement they put you on record as opposing it. All in all, maybe worth passing on to relevant qualified legal counsel. HTH. I'm not even on a windows box any more, but I monitor this list 'cause cygwin rocked my world when I really needed i

a2ps on Cygwin quietly exits with code 127 on Windows 7

Greetings. I have a new Windows-7 machine and one of the first things I downloaded was Cygwin, making sure to include a2ps and ps2pdf. Unlike the flawless running (after diddling $HOME/.a2ps/a2psrc) I had under my previous XP box, This one is misbehaving: It does nothing visible, even for a2

cygwin setup failed in windows 10

Hi there, I found my cygwin x86_64 setup suddenly cannot work in win10, but x64 version works fine. It reports: Fatal error: Unexpected windows message 13 received too early in window initialization. Can anybody help? Thanks. mrkissinger -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: cygwin setup failed in windows 10

can anybody help? On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Beau Kissinger wrote: > Hi there, > I found my cygwin x86_64 setup suddenly cannot work in win10, but > x64 version works fine. > > It reports: > Fatal error: Unexpected windows message 13 received too early in >

vim: errors launching "/usr/bin/vi

in\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico /usr/bin/vi // Easily fixed for me by changing "vi" to "vim". But don't know whether this change in behavior has any other implications? Beau -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

obdc module for python?

Greetings, I have not yet found in the docs how to get obdc for python in cygwin. Clues greatly appreciated. -- Robert Thomas "beau" Hayes Link (c)2006ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com Discussion, News and Chat at: http://lawboards.semanticrestructuring.com/ "In dr

ntsec

in on) have all worked as expected right out of the box. All pointers appreciated. -- Robert Thomas "beau" Hayes Link (c)2006ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com Discussion, News and Chat at: http://lawboards.semanticrestructuring.com/ "In dreams one is not tethered to earthly

Re: ntsec

head around cygcheck and hopefully that will either solve my problem for me or give me what I need to ask a better question. Have a great weekend! beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: