problem with make 4.4.1-2 or gcc-fortran 11.4.0-1

2024-04-19 Thread Arnab Paul via Cygwin
lp will be appreciated Thank you *Arnab Paul,* *PhD Graduate Student,* *Louisiana State University,* *United States of America* -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Set a different C compiler

2020-07-28 Thread paul zhang via Cygwin
cmake-3.14.5/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:60 (message): The C compiler How to deal with this issue? Thanks, Paul -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin

mintty emacs-nox pseudorandom color dimming

2020-06-15 Thread Paul Ausbeck via Cygwin
t that I'd try that. After applying that update, the backspace problem resolved itself. However, the character dimming problem remains. Regards, Paul Ausbeck -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:htt

Unable to test the Cisco ISO Image in GNS3

2020-04-24 Thread Serge Paul via Cygwin
     1 [main] dynamips 12636 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.  Please report this problem tothe public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.comCisco Router Simulation Platform (version 0.2.12-x86/Windows stable)Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Christophe Fillot.Build date: Mar 28 2014 12

Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 19:31, René Berber via Cygwin wrote: > > On 4/15/2020 1:10 PM, Paul Moore via Cygwin wrote: > > [snip] > > Thanks. Can you explain what the \?? prefix on the Installations > > values is about? I'm nervous that there's something going

Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 16:54, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > Am 15.04.2020 um 15:29 schrieb Paul Moore via Cygwin: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 11:54, Csaba Ráduly via Cygwin > > wrote: > > > >> On my machine, I have a > >> > >> HKEY_LOCAL

setup-x86_64.exe --quiet-mode issues using Management Tools

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Isaacson via Cygwin
https://www.itninja.com/question/cygwin-realy-silent-installation-no-progress-window-with-option-to-counsel Thanks, Paul   ___   For IT support, please E-mail: fsmh...@northwestern.edu | Phone: 847-491-HELP   Paul Isaacson Senior Technical Su

Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
id, I'm trying to find cygwin, so I can't run anything from within cygwin at this point :-( Paul -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
idn't think to check there as I didn't recall having run the setup as "All users" so I assumed everything would be in HKCU. I should have checked! Paul -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)

2020-04-15 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
in there, strip \??, and look for a cygwin1.dll, and use the first entry I find that works. But that seems a bit arbitrary. Is there a better way? Thanks, Paul -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwi

Re: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

2020-03-22 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
m goes away. > So the theory now is that the Cygwin argv-processing code has a problem with > áccented charàcters ... > -Jay > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Moore > Sent: Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:42 > To: Jay Libove > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re:

Re: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

2020-03-22 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
.) so I can only offer fairly basic suggestions, I'm afraid... Paul On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 19:27, Jay Libove wrote: > > Thanks Paul, both for your initial reply, and your follow-up. > > In this case it's not a matter case sensitivity. > I've verified that, in one of the exam

Re: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

2020-03-22 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
I suggest we do it under a different subject line. Paul -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

2020-03-22 Thread Paul Moore via Cygwin
Is this because cygwin globbing is (by default) case sensitive? You could set the CYGWIN environment variable to "glob:ignorecase" to get case-insensitive behaviour. Paul On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 17:52, Jay Libove via Cygwin wrote: > > I've never seen this before. > In a W

Re: Is Cygwin 3.1.X Stable Enough to Use?

2020-02-21 Thread Paul Moore
I had the same issue and it was fixed by 3.1.4, so yes upgrading was likely the fix. Paul On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 09:41, Takashi Yano wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:47:25 -0500 > Lee wrote: > > On 2/20/20, Lee wrote: > > > I'll try backing out the registry cha

Re: CYGWIN env variable - glob option

2020-02-20 Thread Paul Moore
o work for my situation, I'd be disappointed if I missed it :-) If there *isn't* an option like that, is it something that could be added to the existing globbing code? I've never contributed to cygwin, but how easy would such a change be? Paul On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 16:46, Pau

CYGWIN env variable - glob option

2020-02-19 Thread Paul Moore
I expect :-( Am I doing something wrong? Or are my expectations incorrect? I need to work with "native" backslash-delimited path names, because that's how my shell autocompletes directory names, and patching them up with forward slashes isn't really an option for me.

Re: Cygwin programs display output incorrectly when run under conemu

2020-02-16 Thread Paul Moore
Thank you. That explains the issue for me very well. Paul On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 01:07, Dr Hartmut Bartels wrote: > > I had the same issue and got answer from Takashi Yano > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg3.html > > My workareound is > using version ConEmuPa

Cygwin programs display output incorrectly when run under conemu

2020-02-16 Thread Paul Moore
dded that information to the ConEmu issue report). Any information that would help to pin down the cause of this problem would be very much appreciated. Paul -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Re: Can't compile port qtermwidget

2020-02-14 Thread Paul Galbraith via cygwin
On 2020-02-10 9:55 a.m., Eliot Moss wrote: I wonder ... are there relevant ./configure options?    EM I finally managed to dig to the bottom of this one, and sure enough it was a simple goof on my part.  qtermwidget has a dependency on 'lxqt-build-tools' which includes cmake modules that prov

X11 crashed immediately

2020-02-12 Thread Paul
:\Windows\System32\Wbem C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0 C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH C:\Users\phenk\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps C:\cygwin64\bin\usr There is no C:\Windows\system64 Should I abandon home and go pro? Should I use 32bit cygwin? Thanks Paul

Re: Can't compile port qtermwidget

2020-02-09 Thread Paul Galbraith via cygwin
On 2020-02-09 5:18 p.m., Eliot Moss wrote: I am not Qt savvy, but I can think of two generic things to check: - The Qt version in the cygwin libraries you have, versus what qtermwidget expects. - The version of the C compiler (gcc keeps evolving, and that sometimes breaks things).   Maybe th

KDE Desktop

2020-02-07 Thread Paul Galbraith via cygwin
Hi everyone, I am trying to get the KDE plasma desktop running. I've installed xorg-server and plasma-desktop and can get simple gui apps running (e.g. gvim).  When I try to run the plasma desktop (from "Plasma" icon installed in the windows start menu), the KDE logo appears against a black bla

Re: package cygwin-d-... case sensitivity problems --

2019-06-19 Thread Townsend, Paul
the first four names in the roff source file with bessel. -- Thanks, --Paul Townsend From: Townsend, Paul Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:46:20 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Townsend, Paul Subject: package cygwin-d-... case sensitivity problems -- The

package cygwin-d-... case sensitivity problems --

2019-06-18 Thread Townsend, Paul
, --Paul Townsend FMI - where was the tarball created? It certainly was not on a computer with Windows and case insensitivity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: sshd problem on WS2008R2 64bit

2019-03-06 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:44:36PM -0800, Stephen Paul Carrier wrote: > PW=`dd if=/dev/random bs=15 count=1 | base 64` That should be 'base64' of course, without the space. --S -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: sshd problem on WS2008R2 64bit

2019-03-06 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:24:59PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: ... > For my part, I'm writing a PowerShell script that does the following: > > 1) Create a local user account > 2) Grant it SeBatchLogonRight > 3) Create a scheduled task for it Powershell is probably more elegant if you're familia

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

2019-01-25 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 08:34:09AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:36 AM Stefan Baur wrote: > > > Not on Linux (and possibly other Unices). There, it's perfectly valid > > to disable an account's password login (both locally and remote), but to > > at the same time allow s

Hi Cygwin

2019-01-18 Thread Paul Keeble
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Semantic difference with/without CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict

2018-09-06 Thread Paul Townsend
Attempts to make symlinks are handled differently depending on (1) whether or not the target file pre-exists and (2) whether or not CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict is exported. Actually, 'ln' seems to require the pre-existence as if it were a hard link attempt when CYGWIN is defined. FWIW

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-05 Thread Paul Sheer
my time trying to fix the problem, when cygwin mailing list respondents refuse to admit the problem exists??? You are like a Flat-Earther the way you argue. Paul On 6/5/18, L A Walsh wrote: > Paul Sheer wrote: >>> Maybe you aren't familiar with 'X'. X is just a graphic

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-05 Thread Paul Sheer
that fact that you are using the reason "X is just a graphical transport" as an excuse makes me realize it is impossible to have a conversation with you. Paul -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-29 Thread Paul Sheer
> > Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: > > https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html > Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. There are a large number of usability problems I have found and I have only been using Cygwin for a couple of hours. It'

Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-29 Thread Paul Sheer
his is intended this way: i.e. is this just a demonstration of the capabilities of CygWin, or is it actually being used by anyone? I ask because there are no reports of anyone finding the X Server slow, yet the software has been many years in release. Thanks Kind regards Paul -- Problem reports:

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2018-04-29 Thread Paul Sheer
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Re: msmtp depends on Gnome!?

2018-04-05 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 02:50:36AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stephen Paul Carrier! > > > My use case is a sendmail replacement (MTA) to use with cron. > > ssmtp > > > ssmtp does this poorly (and hasn't been maintained since 2009). > > Pleas

Re: msmtp depends on Gnome!?

2018-03-29 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:24:50PM -0400, Will Parsons wrote: > On Wednesday, 28 Mar 2018 9:40 PM -0400, Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2018-03-28 15:50, Stephen Paul Carrier wrote: > >> msmtp is billed as a light-weight SMTP client and I would like to use > >> it

msmtp depends on Gnome!?

2018-03-28 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
Dear cygwin people, msmtp is billed as a light-weight SMTP client and I would like to use it with cron instead of ssmtp. What's not light-weight is its dependency on libgnome-keyring0 which has more dependencies that eventually bring in Gnome. This is for a headless workstation. Is it possible

Dear Applicant

2017-10-17 Thread Mr , Paul Steward
ee to email Paul Steward for more details. Time: Asap Pay: $30 - $35 hourly Position: Administrative Assistant Venue: Google HangOut (Gmail IM) Best regard, Human Resources Department. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document

KtikZ port

2017-03-26 Thread Paul Irofti
Hi, When in Windows, I do my LaTeX work in Cygwin. I recently started using KtikZ[0] which I found is missing from the Cygwin ports repository even though it used to be there[1]. Any idea why it was not ported over? Can I help in any way? Thank you, Paul Irofti [0] -- http

[a tangent but hopefully not OT question] Re: Malwarebytes flags qdbusviewer-qt5.exe as Adware.Elex malware

2017-03-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
maybe OSX). I have to deal with Windows via Cygwin, OSX, and Centos/Fedora and can't figure out if I can send anything from any platform to this site. Thanks in advance for humouring my tangent within this same thread (I made sure I changed the subject to reflect the tangent) Paul -- Pr

RE: Issue with delayed process start and effect on Windows 10

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Kitchen
applications that have nothing to do with each other can interfere with each other in this way. Once again thank you for taking the time to respond and also to the CYGWIN team for their time and suggestions. Paul Kitchen -Original Message- From: b...@theworld.com [mailto:b

RE: Issue with delayed process start and effect on Windows 10

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Kitchen
running CYGWIN on my laptop which does not form a part of any windows domain and is therefore not at any time connected to a DC. It is a personal WORKSTATION. The nsswitch.conf file contains : passwd: db group:db db_enum: cache builtin db_home: /home/%U db_shell: /bin/bash db_gecos: Paul

Issue with delayed process start and effect on Windows 10

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Kitchen
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new setup.exe doesn't collapse package sets in full view.

2016-12-13 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
I downloaded the new setup program (2.877, 32-bit) and ran it on a cygwin installation that hadn't been updated in over a year (2008R2). I first got the Pending view, OK, then switched to Full and found that the packages were not aggregated into tabs-- they were in one very long alphabetical list.

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-05 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Ian Lambert wrote: > On December 1, 2016 8:54:57 AM EST, cyg Simple wrote: > > > > > >On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote: > >> On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote: > >>> I think that including the version of the setup program could be > >helpful > >>> - I

Re: python 2.7.12 pip install with extensions fails with warning: "__BSD_VISIBLE" redefined

2016-11-28 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
>> Hi - >> >> The newest version of cygwin with python 2.7.12-1 fails when pip >> installing packages that require compilation. For example, pycrypto >> fails: > >FWIW this patch to pycrypto also fixes it: > >https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/tree/build/pkgs/pycrypto/patches/cygwin/disable-std-c99

Cygwin Xwin Windows 10 Trend Micro

2016-08-13 Thread Paul McKinley
Cygwin-X runs fine, WITHOUT having the pause user mode checking turned on. The support engineer mentioned something about an update coming out *after* my previous post. Apparently I needed both the update and the hotfix to make things work. Hope this helps someone... Paul McKinley -- Problem

Cygwin Xwin Windows 10 Trend Micro

2016-08-05 Thread Paul McKinley
ng issues running Cygwin Xwin with Trend Micro installed, try enabling the "Pause User Mode Hooking" solution above. Hope this helps someone Paul McKinley -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Unwanted disconnections of X clients - cygwin 64 - version 2.874

2016-06-03 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
lar problems. Have someone met similar problems and found how to solve them ? Best regards, Jean-Paul Bouchet Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Centre de Provence, Alpes, Côte d'Azur UR 1052 <http://w3.avignon.inra.fr/gafl/en> - Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits

Re: Installer of Cygwin 64 seems to freeze when executing /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh - version 2.874

2016-06-03 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
tallation executes the set of postinstall scripts ? Jean-Paul Bouchet On 03/06/2016 14:41, Jon Turney wrote: On 02/06/2016 17:22, Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote: Please find attached the script /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh and the output of its execution (file postinstall_xlaunch.txt). Thanks. I

Re: Installer of Cygwin 64 seems to freeze when executing /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh - version 2.874

2016-06-02 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, Please find attached the script /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh and the output of its execution (file postinstall_xlaunch.txt). Thank you. Best regards, Jean-Paul Bouchet On 02/06/2016 15:21, Jon Turney wrote: On 31/05/2016 17:36, Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote: I try to install cygwin 64 on a

Installer of Cygwin 64 seems to freeze when executing /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh - version 2.874

2016-05-31 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
ostinstall/xlaunch.sh" 17:55:47 Changing gid to Administrators Ending cygwin install Is it a normal behaviour ? Best regards, Jean-Paul Bouchet Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Centre de Provence, Alpes, Côte d'Azur UR 1052 <http://w3.avignon.inra.fr/

Re: bug#23314: gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l

2016-04-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Come to think of it, that part of gzip can be simplified considerably, which should make future problems like this less likely. I installed the attached additional patch. Yay, 46 fewer files in the gzip tarball! >From 02b67e301e66c8641230afbe8663f2d503c0f57b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: P

Re: bug#23314: gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l

2016-04-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for reporting the problem. I installed the attached gzip patch on savannah. From 9167b7b9d5b68cea52bdd683b81a3b64381b7ff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:43:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gzip: fix bug with -l output to pipes Problem reported by Christian

Mintty font problem

2016-04-04 Thread Paul Ausbeck
Cygwin setup just updated some older packages while installing a requested new component and now mintty does not recognize fonts properly. I was previously using lucinda-console but now some default font is being used. When I try to change the mintty font through the Options... dialog, the foll

hi cygwin

2016-03-15 Thread Paul Keeble
Sup cygwin http://sixpackclub.net/spoken.php?action=h1f2rn98fwxnhbg2 cs...@yahoo.co.uk -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: Unwanted case-insensivity in file name globbing

2015-11-10 Thread Paul
Ken Brown cornell.edu> wrote: > ...don't forget about the registry setting you need in order to turn > on case sensitivity: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames- casesensitive That's OK, I just need case-insensitive file globbing. I don't want to mess with the a

Re: Unwanted case-insensivity in file name globbing

2015-11-10 Thread Paul
Jan Bruun Andersen jabba.dk> wrote: | Seems overly complicated for me. My current fstab looks like this: | | # /etc/fstab | # | #This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree. | #To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description | #see https:/

Unwanted case-insensivity in file name globbing

2015-11-09 Thread Paul
I just replicated my Cygwin setup on Win 7 (64 bits) onto another Win 7 64- bit machine, including /etc/fstab c: /c ntfs binary,posix=0,user,auto d: /d ntfs binary,posix=0,user,auto e: /e ntfs binary,posix=0,user,auto f: /f ntfs binary,posix=0,user,auto g: /g ntfs binary,posix=0,use

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-10-04 Thread Paul
Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: Lots of good background for newbies to version control apps. Warren, thanks for the comprehensive map of version control apps for newbies. To be honest, I'm not sure when I will have a chance to get spun up on one. But I know where there is a good intro now.

New C compilation error using the Openwindow/xview-devel toolkit on current (September 2015) 32 bit Cygwin

2015-10-01 Thread Paul Morgan
Cygwin updates related to the definition of ucontext_t - and I may be fixing a symptom of something else rather than the underlying cause. Any suggestions? Thanks Paul cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-25 Thread Paul
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: > If anything, I would NOT recommend CVS to anyone making their first > steps into VCS world. Subversion is way more consistent, better > thought out and have about the same usability characteristics where > they are comparable. (And don't forget the marvelous svnb

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-24 Thread Paul
Eliot Moss wrote: > There are also various backup tools based on rsync and compression. > One of these is called duplicity, and it supports encryption as > well. But I suspect there are a number of these and that you can > find one that matches your task ... Andrey Repin wrote: > It seems he need

Re: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-22 Thread Paul
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: > Git, Subversion... basically any sane VCS out there. Ah, yesI've managed to avoid version control all these years because I wanted the convenience of bash file management and changing things on a whim as I see fit. And for lack of time to learn yet another s

workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree

2015-09-22 Thread Paul
I currently take snapshots of selected portions of a folder subtree using zip files. Sometimes, I use command-line zip, but other times I'll use the Windows Compressed Zip folder. I find myself frequently unzipping the snapshots into temp folders just so that I can use the unix diff utility (via

Re: readline behaves differently in R than in bash

2015-04-20 Thread Paul
Marco Atzeri gmail.com> writes: >On 4/17/2015 10:28 PM, paul wrote: >> I "set editing-mode vi" in ~/.inputrc. In bash, it responds as >> expected to (say) "dt,", which deletes characters upto the next >> comma. It does not do this in R; instead, th

readline behaves differently in R than in bash

2015-04-17 Thread paul
I "set editing-mode vi" in ~/.inputrc. In bash, it responds as expected to (say) "dt,", which deletes characters upto the next comma. It does not do this in R; instead, that series of keystrokes simply causes the next two keystrokes to be consumed without any effect. I guess it would be wrong to

Re: "R" help leaves out lines of text

2015-04-17 Thread paul
Marco Atzeri gmail.com> writes: >> I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find >> that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is >> /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the >> same symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty.

"R" help leaves out lines of text

2015-04-16 Thread paul
I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the same symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty. The computer is in a locked down environm

mingw-w32api needs to be upgraded to 4.0.1

2015-01-08 Thread Paul Mattes
I maintain an app called x3270, along with its Windows variant, wc3270. One of the build environments for wc3270 used to be Cygwin, but for well over a year, it has been impossible to build it because of a bug in MinGW 4.0, which was fixed in MinGW 4.0.1 in September 2013. (The current version

Re: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-08 Thread Paul
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >> I don't like using the back ticks myself because of its atrocious >> readability, but I'm not religious about it. > > Then don't use them. Use "$( )" instead. Aside readability issues, > it also solve nesting and quoting problems. So much better...thanks, Andre

Re: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-08 Thread Paul
Bob McGowan symantec.com> writes: | Back to Paul's problem, getting a list of the actual filenames, as | they actually exist in the filesystem, can be handled by 'find', I | think. At least it worked in my simple test setup, above. | | $ find . -name abc | ./abc | $ find . -name 'abc*' | ./abc |

Re: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-07 Thread Paul
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] niaid.nih.gov> writes: >Paul sent the following at Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:12 PM >> I'm wading through many files in two file trees. In particular, I'm >> looking at corresponding directories in the two trees where "diff >

Re: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-07 Thread Paul
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >> I'm wading through many files in two file trees. In particular, >> I'm looking at corresponding directories in the two trees where >> "diff -qr" revealed differences. I want the absolute truth of what >> the filename is with minimal distrations about how to ach

Re: Force

2015-01-07 Thread Paul
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: > alias xargs='xargs ' > alias ls='ls --append-exe' > find -pa pdfcrop | xargs ls > > will execute 'ls --append-exe', but > > alias xargs='xargs ' > alias ls='ls --append-exe' > find -pa pdfcrop -print0 | xargs -0 ls > > will not, unless you also: > > alias -- -0

Re: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-06 Thread Paul
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >> ...if I have ~/bin/pdfcrop.exe, the command "ls ~/bin/pdfcrop" >> shows pdfcrop rather than pdfcrop.exe. Is there any way to force >> ls to show the full filename (including extension) if it matched >> the ls argument, even if the ls argument doesn't specify the

Re: Force

2015-01-06 Thread Paul
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: |On 01/06/2015 02:28 PM, Paul wrote: |>Paul gmail.com> writes: |>> Both solutions are great. I'll set the --append-exe in my bash |>> aliases, and for systems outside of my normal working environment |>> (e.g., working with someone

Re: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-06 Thread Paul
Paul gmail.com> writes: > Both solutions are great. I'll set the --append-exe in my bash > aliases, and for systems outside of my normal working environment > (e.g., working with someone on their unix sessions), I know I can > force display of .exe using asterisk. Drat

Re: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-06 Thread Paul
Tom Robinson gmail.com> writes: >If you don't want to specify the extension, can you specify as >asterisk? > >[3236 CBGSAS04:~/Documents]$ touch name.exe > >[3237 CBGSAS04:~/Documents]$ ls -l name >-rw-r--r--+ 1 cbg.tom Domain Users 0 Jan 7 09:34 name > >[3238 CBGSAS04:~/Documents]$ ls -l name.ex

Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-06 Thread Paul
Right now, if I have ~/bin/pdfcrop.exe, the command "ls ~/bin/pdfcrop" shows pdfcrop rather than pdfcrop.exe. Is there any way to force ls to show the full filename (including extension) if it matched the ls argument, even if the ls argument doesn't specify the extension? I read http://cygwin.com

filename completion fails for quoted command

2014-12-17 Thread Paul
According to the discussion at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/148438, file name completion depends on the preceding command if bash-completion is installed. Since I didn't want this behaviour, I uninstalled bash-completion. However, I just noticed that completion doesn't work when trying t

Re: cygwin Digest 7 Dec 2014 10:57:56 -0000 Issue 8995

2014-12-07 Thread paul . hermeneutic
Based on the output of the identify-compilers.sh script below, it appears that the following C compilers are available on Cygwin. Those labeled "Cygwin" require the cygwin1.dll file to be available. What is the difference between the "pc" and "w64" compilers? Why is there no x86_64-pc-mingw-gcc.e

Re: pdfnup ignores ~/.pdfjam.conf

2014-12-04 Thread Paul
Paul gmail.com> writes: |Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: |> |> I've never used pdfnup, but it's a shell script whose last line is |> |>exec pdfjam --suffix nup --nup 2x1 --landscape "$ " |> |> So it's explicitly supplying options that will ove

Re: pdfnup ignores ~/.pdfjam.conf

2014-12-04 Thread Paul
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: |On 12/3/2014 6:01 PM, Paul wrote: |> I'm using pdfjam that comes with 64-bit cygwin's |> texlive-collection-binextra package, dated 29 May 2013. I have the |> following in my ~/.pdfjam.conf: |> |> paper='letterpaper&#

pdfnup ignores ~/.pdfjam.conf

2014-12-03 Thread Paul
I'm using pdfjam that comes with 64-bit cygwin's texlive-collection-binextra package, dated 29 May 2013. I have the following in my ~/.pdfjam.conf: paper='letterpaper' nup='1x2' landscape='landscape' frame='true' I invoke pdfjam using pdfnup filename.pdf and the messages

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-03 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: > I like bash, but it's no damned explorer, and can't be the one. > Simple for lack of visualization. My regular "shell" is > http://farmanager.com/ I would have said that bash is not a damned explorer -- rather, it's a darn good shell, which can often times be muc

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-02 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Keith Christian wrote: > This function echoes the present directory to the clipboard, so that > I don't have to enter the path manually. > > I use this function in a script that sources when a bash shell is > started. Also echoes the path to the terminal for verification. > Handy for pasting dire

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Paul . Domaskis
On 2014-10-01, Paul.Domaskis wrote: > cygpath -aw foo | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard Gary Johnson wrote: > Define a function in your ~/.bashrc. > > winclip() > { > cygpath -aw "$ " | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard > } > > Then just execute > > winclip TheFile Jim Garrison

Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file from a Windows app. If I use cygpath -aw TheFile > /dev/clipboard I can paste into the Windows file-opener without browsing. Also, I don't need to mouse around

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-25 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Eliot Moss cs.umass.edu> writes: >On 9/24/2014 6:19 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: >>Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >>>Paul.Domaskis wrote: >> Can anyone suggest how the bash-completion man page is acccessed, and >> what M-/ means? > > M is for "meta", as in the meta escape key functionality in Emacs.

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-24 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >Paul.Domaskis wrote: >> I think I will need to deepen my knowledge into the bowels of unix. >> This thread is the first I've heard that completion depended on the >> command being typed. Thanks, all. > > That's the reason for bash-completion package. If you remo

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-19 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > David is right: find does accept a file name as the path argument. > I didn't know that. (Obviously.) The man page doesn't really say, > but all references to the path argument suggest that it contains a > directory or list of directories. > > Nevertheless, th

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Andrew DeFaria DeFaria.com> writes: >On 9/18/2014 11:42 AM, David Boyce wrote: >>> The path argument to find must be a directory. >> >> Sorry, but I can't let this go by. The statement above is >> incorrect, as a simple test like "find /etc/passwd -print" would >> show. > > Or just "find /etc/pas

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Paul . Domaskis
writes: > writes: >> I'm using the following 64-bit packages: >> >>cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 >> >> If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory >> _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type "ls _" or >> "ls _v" and press tab -- nothing happens. I can't

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Paul . Domaskis
writes: > I'm using the following 64-bit packages: > >cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 > > If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory > _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type "ls _" or > "ls _v" and press tab -- nothing happens. I can't really do > any

No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Paul . Domaskis
I'm using the following 64-bit packages: cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type "ls _" or "ls _v" and press tab -- nothing happens. I can't really do anything about it because

Re: vi editing at bash command line: cc command doesn't work

2014-09-09 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > I have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Cygwin installed on a > Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 system. I can confirm that using a Cygwin > Terminal, cc works on the 32-bit installation but not on the 64-bit > installation. > > There is no connection between the vi

Re: vi editing at bash command line: cc command doesn't work

2014-09-09 Thread Paul . Domaskis
writes: > writes: >> I needed cygwin on a new work computer that was locked down. I >> created a DVD from all the 64-bit packages some time in the first >> quarter of 2014, then took the several months needed to get >> approval for its installation. I then replicated the environment >> from an o

Re: vi editing at bash command line: cc command doesn't work

2014-09-08 Thread Paul . Domaskis
writes: > I needed cygwin on a new work computer that was locked down. I > created a DVD from all the 64-bit packages some time in the first > quarter of 2014, then took the several months needed to get approval > for its installation. I then replicated the environment from an old > work compute

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