Windows command window "quick edit mode" problem

2007-03-31 Thread lin q
Hi, I am wondering if you have such problem. When I run cygwin, sometimes I need to do a copy & paste of the cygwin window to other Windows application. One convinient way to do this is to click "Property" of the window and enable "Quick Edit Mode". Then I can use mouse to select any text on C

Can I download packages and install seperately

2007-03-26 Thread lin q
Hi, I have a slow internet connection at home and now I want to install cygwin on it. Based on my passed experience, the only way I can do a fresh install is to download setup.exe, run it, configure what packages I want and it will download the packages. This does not work for me this time.

Re: Can not start UltraEdit using cygwin path

2006-10-15 Thread lin q
From: Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can not start UltraEdit using cygwin path Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:34:15 -0700 lin q wrote: > If I run it with cygwin path like this, > > uedit /cygdrive/c/tmp/log > >

Can not start UltraEdit using cygwin path

2006-10-15 Thread lin q
Hi, I am using BASH on cygwin, I define the following function to start UltraEdit, uedit () { uedit32.exe $@ & } But I find that I can only give it DOS path like this, uedit c:/tmp/log If I run it with cygwin path like this, uedit /cygdrive/c/tmp/log UltraEdit says the path is wrong

Is there a way to install old version cygwin?

2006-10-05 Thread lin q
Hi, I just installed the latest cygwin from scratch, it does not work with some important software I use everyday. I do not have the enough time to investigate the problem. Since the old version worked very well with my software, I am wondering if there is some way to install the old version?

rsync can run in command line but not in cron

2006-10-04 Thread lin q
Hi, I just installed lastest cygwin on windows xp service pack 1. I enabled cron in cygwin, the crontab looks like this, # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.3548 installed on Wed Oct 4 19:11:00 2006) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14

Can not run telnet?

2006-04-27 Thread lin q
Hi, I have cygwin installed on my Dell laptop with Windows XP, it works great. But today I find a strange thing, I can not start telnet. In cygwin, after I run command, "telnet myMachine", it quietly returns, nothing happens. Then I go to DOS window and run the same command, it works fin

Re: Help : can not get cron work

2006-01-10 Thread lin q
OK, now I figure out what is the problem. /etc/passwd file is not correct, after I fix it, rsync in cron works great. Thanks so much for your every help! From: "lin q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work Date: Tue, 10 Jan 200

Re: Help : can not get cron work

2006-01-10 Thread lin q
Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:52:11 -0500 (EST) On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, lin q wrote: > > Isn't 'H' a network drive? That is probably your problem -- read > > <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares>. > &g

Re: Help : can not get cron work

2006-01-10 Thread lin q
Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:14:42 -0500 (EST) > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, lin q wrote: > > > > > > Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work > > > > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:23:06 -0500 (EST) > > &

Re: Help : can not get cron work

2006-01-05 Thread lin q
From: Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: lin q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:32:17 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, lin q wrote: > > Subject: Re: Help : can not get

Re: Help : can not get cron work

2006-01-05 Thread lin q
From: Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: lin q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:23:06 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, lin q wrote: > From: Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Help : can not get cron work

2006-01-05 Thread lin q
From: Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help : can not get cron work Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:00:46 -0800 lin q wrote: > 1) "cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a –D" You should run /usr/bin/cron-config, and

Help : can not get cron work

2006-01-04 Thread lin q
Hi, I just installed a brand new cygwin on my WinXP machine, but I can not get cron work for me. Here is how I did it: 1) "cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a –D" 2) "crontab -e" to edit the crontab file, here is the dump out, $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - ed

Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread lin q
From: Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:05:53 -0800 lin q wrote: > I wonder what the problem is, I can start vi by running, /usr/bin/vi.

Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread lin q
Hi, I just re-installed the latest cygwin to have cron installed. Then i run the following command to install the cron service, cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D After that I run, crontab -e But I get the following message, bash-3.00$ crontab -e

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-28 Thread lin q
H-1 is in general less CPU intensive than SSH-2. SCP protocol is usually faster than SFTP too. On 11/28/05, lin q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have 2 Windows XP machines installed with latest cygwin. In using scp to > copy some large chunk of data, I find that the speed i

How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-28 Thread lin q
Hi, I have 2 Windows XP machines installed with latest cygwin. In using scp to copy some large chunk of data, I find that the speed is never over 180KB/s. The 2 machines are on the same giga bit sub network. I wonder if I can do something to improve the speed? Thanks. _

RE: can not find valid cygwin path

2005-11-01 Thread lin q
From: "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: RE: can not find valid cygwin path Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:16:28 - lin q wrote: > Hi, >I have the latest cygwin installed on WinXP SP1. It works fine in > general until I try to run some program today. >

can not find valid cygwin path

2005-11-01 Thread lin q
Hi, I have the latest cygwin installed on WinXP SP1. It works fine in general until I try to run some program today. It is really weired, the program requiring setting up some environment viriables, I guess iniside its code it tries to find some data based on that variable setting. Anyway,

example rsync.conf needed

2005-10-19 Thread lin q
Hi, I am wondering if someone has an example rsync.conf, I just installed lastest cygwin and want to enable rsync server on this machine. Thanks. _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.c

Re: gv: Unable to open the display.

2005-07-25 Thread lin q
From: Ken Dibble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin , cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gv: Unable to open the display. Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:03:43 -0500 lin q wrote: Hi, I just installed gv using the cygwin installer, I select "Download from the internet" option

gv: Unable to open the display.

2005-07-25 Thread lin q
Hi, I just installed gv using the cygwin installer, I select "Download from the internet" option and the install process runs for quite a while. After that I run "/usr/X11R6/bin/gv.exe" and I saw this error, gv: Unable to open the display. What does that mean? Should I install something

Can I copy file from Linux machine to Windows machine like scp?

2005-07-11 Thread lin q
Hi, I just tried using scp to copy files from Windows machine to Linux machine which are on the same LAN, it worked great. Now I wonder if I can do things the other way round? I do not want the hassel of setting up SAMBA, but I just tried scp, it did not work. Any suggestion? ___

how to change the window title dynamically

2005-05-26 Thread lin q
Hi, I wonder how to change the window title synamically like command prompt to list the full path? Google returns me such command, print -nP -u2 "\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%~\a" But "print" is not recognized, I tried printf, it says -n and -u not recognized. Thanks. __

find command in cygwin

2005-04-27 Thread lin q
Hi, I am having a hard time running find command in cygwin, here is an example, $ find . -type f -print find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] Do you see anything wrong? $ which find /usr/bin/find Thanks. ___

can not compile cscope on cygwin

2005-04-27 Thread lin q
Hi, I am using latest version cygwin and I just downloaded cscope 15.5, but in compiling it there is such error, $ make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/c/bin/cscope-15.5' Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory `/c/bin/cscope-15.5/doc' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all

can not run OPUS MAKE

2005-04-20 Thread lin q
Hi, It is strange:in cygwin when I am trying to run OPUS MAKE, I always get this error, OPUS MAKE: Don't know how to make '!*'. Stop. I turn on the debug mode and I see the following, *** Read c:\opus6.12/make.ini *** Note: You are using Opus' default initialization file 'c:\opus6.12/make.ini'

does not work : change /cygdrive to /

2005-04-18 Thread lin q
Hi, I am trying to change the path prefix from /cygdrive to / and I tried the following commands, mount --change-cygdrive-prefix / mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix / but neither works! There is no error code returns, but "cd /c" returns error and I have to use "cd /cygdrive" again.

why $HOME/.bashrc is not picked up?

2005-04-18 Thread lin q
Hi, I just installed latest cygwin on my WinXP, I can run command and do some usual stuff, but I found that .bashrc is not picked up in opening a new shell. Here is the file, set prompt="%/% " set autolist set -o vi cd $HOME alias vi="vim" echo hahaha ^

arrow key work strange

2005-04-12 Thread lin q
Hi, I am new to cygwin and find a problem annoying. I have version 1.5.11 installed on my windows XP. I find 2 things in using the BASH command history feature. 1) when I press "UP Arrow" key, there is no history command show up. I must press several times "DOWN arrow" key, and then "UP arrow