Setting and using a password in W98

All this is in W98: I pasted the output from crypt {mypassword}into the appropriate place in /etc/passwd as shown {myusername}:{output}:500:544::/home/{myusername}:/bin/bash and now I get prompted for a password when starting Cygwin. Nice. (This is when starting Cygwin with "c:\Cygwin\bin\

Re: grap-1.10

> > I downloaded > > http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/grap-1.10.tar.gz > > What about the latest version I found on the grap homesite: > http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/grap-1.23.tar.gz Gerrit, Thank you for drawing this later version to my attention. Unlike

grap-1.10

I downloaded http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/grap-1.10.tar.gz and within Cygwin, after unwrapping it, I ran the commands ./configure make make install The implementation seems to have worked just fine: by this I mean (i) there were no errors reported during the mak

Re: recursive rm and ls don't work (Win98)

>rm -rf *.~* >ls -r *.~* >ls -r *.pas > However, >ls -r * > works The rm report ("it doesn't work") is strange. I guess it's a bit scary to risk trying rm -r or even rm -rv, depending on how rm is aliased for you (with or without -i?). Why not just cp -vr {important directory

Re: Printing locally

What about this? Any good? If the file a.txt is DOS terminated, try cp a.txt prn OR cat a.txt > prn and if a.txt is Unix-terminated, try cat a.txt | unix2dos > prn Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.

RE: home directory problems

Yes. You are probably installing on W98? I believe the problem has been identified and solved in principle and (presumably?) the solution will at some stage be implemented. For the moment you can get round things as follows: mkdir /home/{yourname} and move anything there that you need to, in

Re: rxvt and (again)

>> Then try: >> >> $ rxvt --backspacekey ^H >> >> HTH It did. Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

rxvt and (again)

I am not dead certain quite what has occurred here. I was rather fed up after the rxvt version upgrade from 2.7.2-6 to 2.7.2-9 (or 8, as it seemed to be announced). What was advertised as a "fix" (and presumably really _was_ some kind of a fix) to key configuration caused me a lot of grief when a

Re: rxvt-2.7.2-6 -> rxvt-2.7.2-8?9?

Sorry : I haven't been able to find any combination of stty erase ^H / stty erase ^? / {nothing} that makes Backspace work properly both at the rxvt terminal and inside an application. Previously (2.7.2-6) and with no reference to stty erase anywhere, I found that Backspace worked just fine at the

rxvt-2.7.2-6 -> rxvt-2.7.2-8?9?

I had not been aware of problems with in rxvt, which on my system has been just fine. I upgraded just now to what comes up on the setup menu as rxvt-2.7.2-9 although the announcement refers to 8. Now is broken. (By which I mean it does not work: cursor and the intended deleted character stay

Re: keyboard config

It's a Windows issue. Cygwin will pick up the existing configuration. Can't speak for anything other than W98, but in W98 try Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Language. This may or may not have the consequence of putting the line c:\windows\command\keyb uk,,c:\windows\command\

Re: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{myname}

Just in case it happens to anybody else during a new install (but I guess it was finger problems with me?) : > Extraordinary, this. Cygwin (latest version) was today installed > on a W98 machine in a way not obviously different from many > previous new installs -- that is, from a zip disk includi

After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{myname}

Extraordinary, this. Cygwin (latest version) was today installed on a W98 machine in a way not obviously different from many previous new installs -- that is, from a zip disk including just setup.exe + /contrib/* + /latest/* and no setup.ini. The startup location after keying "\Cygwin\bin\bash --l

rxvt : hangs when trying temporary exit from an application

I use a command-line arithmetic calculator that exits in the usual way with ^d, aborts long calculations in the usual way with ^c, and allows temporary exits to the bash shell using ^e. You can twiddle away at bash until you want to return to the calculator (use ^d or exit at the bash prompt). But

Impossible to exit rxvt, now

Just upgraded. Now on my system All of \Cygwin\bin\bash --login -i; rxvt and \Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i and \Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/login {username} result as required (and as for months past) in a nice rxvt terminal window. (It can be tweaked with loads of switch

Re: interrupt failure after upgrading 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1

> ls -lR seems to terminate just fine with CTRL-C. Yes, worked for me too in this case. > 'cygcheck -r -s -v' might help track this down. Thanks for this suggestion. I tried 'cygcheck -r -s -v' under each regime. The resulting screeds are very similar (and very long) and wonder whether you w

RE: RXVT Font Question

Try c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn "Fixedsys" -tn cygwin -e /bin/bash --login -i which gives a nice squarecut font and is (I think) the default for Windows telnet and loads of other MS stuff. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http

vimtutor

(a) What should I get as a response to vimtutor ? Both at the bash prompt and in a rxvt terminal window I get tempfile: not found vim6: Command not found followed by a text tutorial several pages long, evidently viewed from within vim itself. Is this "right" (the error messages are a bit