Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-30 Thread John Emmas
Thanks for the links Yaakov. I haven't had a chance to download anything yet but they seem to be just what I was looking for. John - Original Message - From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" Sent: 28 August 2008 17:22 Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: > Usually, if something is not provided, it is because no one has > volunteered to port it yet. You are welcome to try building it yourself, ...or check if it's in Cygwin Ports already :-) http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/

RE: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Korn
John Emmas wrote on 28 August 2008 15:48: > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, one tradition we have on this list is please don't quote people's email addresses in the body of your email. See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR. >> [Please don't co

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries. [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] Oops, sorry! Most mailing lists start a new topic automatically as long as y

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] According to John Emmas on 8/28/2008 5:50 AM: > 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compiled binaries > with associated header files? Yes (although often, the heade

A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread John Emmas
Hi guys, I noticed that the setup package for Cygwin includes (optionally) lots of 3rd party libraries. For example, in the audio section, there are libraries for flac, libogg. libesound etc. This raises a few obvious questions:- 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compile

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-03 Thread Alexey Illarionov
Thanks to everyone for your help. On 10/3/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexey Illarionov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing > > about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my > > cygwin session just

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Holden
Alexey Illarionov wrote: Hello, I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my cygwin session just by starting the unchanged 'cygwin.bat' file. I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh'

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Alexey Illarionov (Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:53:13 -0700) > I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh' > > #!/bin/sh > cd /cygdrive/c > > Unfortunately, it does not work. The command './run.sh' does nothing. Actually it does. You can see that by putting "pwd" at the bottom of your s

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Alexey Illarionov wrote: > I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh' > > #!/bin/sh > cd /cygdrive/c > > Unfortunately, it does not work. The command './run.sh' does nothing. Let's back up a moment. What do you expect the above script to actually do? Nothing is the proper and

newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-02 Thread Alexey Illarionov
Hello, I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my cygwin session just by starting the unchanged 'cygwin.bat' file. I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh' #!/bin/sh cd /cygdrive/c

RE: newbie question

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 July 2007 12:57, Murali Vemuri wrote: > Hello there, > > I was trying to compile Cscope for Cygwin. > My cygcheck output is attached here. > Also, when I try to ./configure for cscope, the output appears to be normal. > Please find the configure output below. > > And when I try to compile,

Re: newbie question

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Murali Vemuri wrote: Hi Murali, It would be best if you first read > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and note the part that talks about cygcheck. Otherwise, we will just end up guessing what's wrong with your system. -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lgcc

newbie question

2007-07-02 Thread Murali Vemuri
Hi I am a newbie using Cygwin and I have 2 problems: Problem 1: I am trying to compile CSCOPE for Cygwin (essentially for windows) and when I try "./configure", I am getting this error: "checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables S

Re: Newbie question on current version running established perl program

2007-04-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jennifer Young (Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT)) > Very new user installing cygwin for the first time on > new pc. Trying to run perl program that has been used > a number of times (probably not the problem) > > Followed all the instructions on install and all > instructions in faq and us

Re: Newbie question on current version running established perl program

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Jennifer Young wrote: > to run my program, I was instructed to use command: > > $ perl preprocesstest.pl -o buffer -n 2 -t 00:00:000 > -l 300 > > (-o = output, -n = number in test, -t = start time, -l > = length of time of test) > > system returns: > > bash perl: command not found This would

Newbie question on current version running established perl program

2007-04-25 Thread Jennifer Young
Thank you very much for your help. Very new user installing cygwin for the first time on new pc. Trying to run perl program that has been used a number of times (probably not the problem) Followed all the instructions on install and all instructions in faq and user docs that could assist. Insta

RE: Newbie question - bad terminal configuration

2006-12-22 Thread Steven Buroff
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:41 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Newbie question - bad terminal configuration > > Steven Buroff wrote: >

Re: Newbie question - bad terminal configuration

2006-12-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Steven Buroff wrote: > $ echo $TERM > nutc That's your problem. Or more precisely, it's Rational Rose's problem which became your problem. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Newbie question - bad terminal configuration

2006-12-21 Thread Steven Buroff
I've just installed cygwin on Windows XP with SP 2. There is something wrong with the way the terminal is configured. When I run man, I get the message: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional When I run vim, it is clearly confused about the terminal too. When I type a ":", it doesn't

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Luke Vanderfluit wrote: > long saga about windows Perhaps we're having a terminology problem here. Are you typing (literally) the string "cd c:\" as the entire input to bash? If so, you need to be aware that all Unix-y shells do *escape processing* using "\", so you have to double them up if

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-19 Thread zzapper
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:48:32 +1030, wrote: >Hi. > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: >> >> > >I will study the documentation but meanwhile might need some quick help >here and there. > Help starts here http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-18 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: I'm wondering: I've installed cygwin in c:\foo\bar\. Now when I open a shell, I can't cd back to C:\ Is there a way to or do I have to install everything in the root directory? Cygwin emu

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: >I'm wondering: >I've installed cygwin in c:\foo\bar\. >Now when I open a shell, I can't cd back to C:\ > >Is there a way to or do I have to install everything in the root >directory? Cygwin emulates linux so you shouldn't be using

newbie question chdir

2005-12-18 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. I'm wondering: I've installed cygwin in c:\foo\bar\. Now when I open a shell, I can't cd back to C:\ Is there a way to or do I have to install everything in the root directory? Thanks. Kind regards. -- Luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

Re: Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin? [SOLVED]

2005-04-21 Thread Jason Barnett
005 2:45 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin? > > First of all I apologize if this was answered somewhere else, but I > didn't find it. I tried searching Google, the archives > (http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=%2

RE: Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin?

2005-04-21 Thread Stephan Mueller
Windows programs often like ^Z as EOF. stephan(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Barnett Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:45 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin? First of all I apologize if

Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin?

2005-04-21 Thread Jason Barnett
First of all I apologize if this was answered somewhere else, but I didn't find it. I tried searching Google, the archives (http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=%2Fml%2Fcygwin%2F;exclude=;config=htdig;method=boolean;format=builtin-long;sort=time;words=stdin%20AND%20%5ED%20OR%20EOF;p

Re: newbie question about using gcc in cygwin

2005-01-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:42 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote: >Hi all: > I want to know how to compile a program in cygwin using gcc. > Here is my instance: > 1>I install cygwin in c:/cygwin > 2>I wrote a piece of code named test.c in E:/prog/test/test.c. > AND suppose the program just prin

newbie question about using gcc in cygwin

2005-01-07 Thread Emerson
Hi all: I want to know how to compile a program in cygwin using gcc. Here is my instance: 1>I install cygwin in c:/cygwin 2>I wrote a piece of code named test.c in E:/prog/test/test.c. AND suppose the program just printf "hello". How can i com

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:11:49AM -0800, Roger Pryor wrote: >On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:52:24 -0500 >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >This seems to have dropped into a black hole, does anyone know what is >> >the status of tcsetattr w.r.t serial ports? >> >> Possibly the reason

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Roger Pryor
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:52:24 -0500 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >This seems to have dropped into a black hole, does anyone know what is > >the status of tcsetattr w.r.t serial ports? > > Possibly the reason this "dropped into a black hole" is that you used > the word "newbie

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:12:47AM -0800, Roger Pryor wrote: >On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:15:23 -0800 >Roger Pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'm a new cygwin user, attepting to port a Linux package that uses the >>COM ports to drive a remote device. I'm finding that calls to >>tcsetattr don't seem t

Re: Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-22 Thread Roger Pryor
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:15:23 -0800 Roger Pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I'm a new cygwin user, attepting to port a Linux package that uses the > COM ports to drive a remote device. I'm finding that calls to tcsetattr > don't seem to work. What is happening is that although the speed

Newbie question regarding tcsetattr

2004-11-19 Thread Roger Pryor
Hi: I'm a new cygwin user, attepting to port a Linux package that uses the COM ports to drive a remote device. I'm finding that calls to tcsetattr don't seem to work. What is happening is that although the speed is being setup correctly, the values that I want for c_iflag and c_cflag are not bei

RE: another newbie question

2003-08-15 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Rob Clack > After my previous installation, done by someone else, got blown away > when I installed 1.3.22-1 I find I can't get everything to work > perfectly. Mostly, just not perfect. > > eg /etc/profile advises me to put person

another newbie question

2003-08-15 Thread Rob Clack
After my previous installation, done by someone else, got blown away when I installed 1.3.22-1 I find I can't get everything to work perfectly. Mostly, just not perfect. eg /etc/profile advises me to put personal customisation of $PATH into my .bashrc file, but this doesn't get executed when I

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-30 Thread rdamle
Dave, I am not sure if you got an answer to your Cygwin install question, but here is what I did when I was faced with the same problem a few weeks ago. I was trying a fresh install of version 1.3.22.1 on a WinXP and Win2K machine and noticed that the /home/ directory was not formed as I had seen

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> > Even though having /dev is optional isn't the setup program supposed to > > create this and proc? > > I may be wrong (since I've had a cygwin installation a long time and created > them myself), but I don't think so. > > I'm afraid I'm about to leave for the weekend, but hopefully someone else

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- david sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > passwd file: >david:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-IBM-311IWKNAA4G\david,S-1-5-21-1994407283-2032670471-1942978529-500:/home/david:/bin/bash > > uid=500(shidan) gid=513(None) Well, the above lines together look like a problem to me. I don't know why

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread david sarraf
d and it seems to work. Even though having /dev is optional isn't the setup program supposed to create this and proc? Dave From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin Newbie Question Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:25:28 -0800 (

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
ous installations I was able to create the home directory. > And set the variables in bash. > > How would I create the /dev directory and why isnt setup.exe not working > correctly? And why is bash_history in the c drive? > Thanks again, > Dave > > >From: Joshua

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread david sarraf
and why isnt setup.exe not working correctly? And why is bash_history in the c drive? Thanks again, Dave From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin Newbie Question Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:33:14 -0800 (PST) > C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec) > UID: 400(david) GID: 401(mkpasswd) > 401(mkpasswd) It looks like the your /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group files were not created correctly by the setup.exe postinstall process. Can you describe the process you used to install Cygwin? Oh, and running mkpas

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Here is the output of cygcheck -svr. For this installation, i just added the > directories to windows path and have not created a home directory. Out of curiousity, did you read ? Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread david sarraf
Here is the output of cygcheck -svr. For this installation, i just added the directories to windows path and have not created a home directory. Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Mar 28 14:21:56 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Path

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, david sarraf wrote: > Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For > some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg. > PATH)do not get set up properlly. > > When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up.

Cygwin Newbie Question

2003-03-28 Thread david sarraf
Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg. PATH)do not get set up properlly. When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up. Also for some reason the .bash_history file i

Re: Newbie Question: Tcl/tk undefined reference

2003-03-08 Thread Eric L T Tan
In fact, I got away with adding -ltcl -ltk to the gcc -o ... line in the Makefile. Somehow the ./configure didn't do this for me. Thanks anyways.. Eric On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote: > Hi! > > Just a quick thought, throw us the command-line that gives the error > too.. And there are

Newbie Question: Tcl/tk undefined reference

2003-03-07 Thread Eric L T Tan
Hi all, I encountered a linking problem when trying to make Tim's program xcircuit(http://xcircuit.ece.jhu.edu/) that uses tcltk. The linker conplains that undefined reference to `_Tcl_NewObj' ...etc. I am sure I installed tcl/tk when installing Cygwin. In addition, doing "cygcheck -c" produ

RE: gcc and libtiff, maybe a newbie question

2003-01-02 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
e: gcc and libtiff, maybe a newbie question > > > Hi, > > The problem is partially due to where the -lname bits are. > They should be put at the end of the line (after all options > and stuff). You also needed to include libz (-lz) and libjpeg > (-ljpeg). > >

Re: gcc and libtiff, maybe a newbie question

2003-01-02 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi, The problem is partially due to where the -lname bits are. They should be put at the end of the line (after all options and stuff). You also needed to include libz (-lz) and libjpeg (-ljpeg). This worked for me: $ gcc -static -o tifft tifft.c -lm -ltiff -ljpeg -lz P.s. I renamed your file t

gcc and libtiff, maybe a newbie question

2003-01-02 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, first I haven't done C programming in years and am a bit rusty with gcc and ld. I am having problems with ld reporting "undefined reference to _TIFFOpen" etc, which should be in libtiff. However, I am not even sure if the problem is about libtiff or if miss something else. Here is my minimize

newbie question

2002-09-25 Thread Ony S Darmawan
how to activate cron in cygwin? begin:vcard n:Darmawan;Ony Sixta tel;fax:+62 21 39836545 tel;work:+62 21 39836556 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.dagang2000.com org:PT. Indosatcom Adimarga;Development version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:-\|/- adr;quoted-printable:;;Menara Kebo

Re: Newbie question - where do I get g++ from?

2002-05-06 Thread Jon Foster
Hi, > This is my first time using cygwin. I wasn't sure > (from reading http://www.cygwin.com) if installing > cygwin also installs g++ or not. Only if you select "gcc" from the list of packages in setup. You probably want "binutils", "make", and maybe others from the "Devel" catagory, too. Se

Newbie question - where do I get g++ from?

2002-05-06 Thread Robert Schwartz
Hi, This is my first time using cygwin. I wasn't sure (from reading http://www.cygwin.com) if installing cygwin also installs g++ or not. If not, then where should I download g++ from? Are cygwin and g++ released together, or separately? Sorry for the simple question, and thanks in advance for

Re: A newbie question for cygwin 1.3.9

2002-01-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:22:07PM +1100, Wong, Mun Chung (Mun Chung) wrote: >I am new to cygwin and just installed it but I couldn't find gcc as >part of the distribution. Am I missing something ? Yes. Try installing again. When the installation gets to a screen where it is saying things like

A newbie question for cygwin 1.3.9

2002-01-30 Thread Wong, Mun Chung (Mun Chung)
Hi I am new to cygwin and just installed it but I couldn't find gcc as part of the distribution. Am I missing something ? I am also not having luck with common programs like file & more. Do I have to download those separately ? For now I need the gcc more than anything. The other question is if

Re: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Paul Johnson wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to set >25 lines on a DOS box > using Win98. I was hoping that Cygwin itself had such a mechanism, or that > there was a third party tool in use. consize, and win95cmd or ReactOS-cmd. See here: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/use

Console size on W9x - was RE: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
n Cuthbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:06 PM > > To: Paul Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Newbie Question > > > > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter > > the set

RE: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
> What would really be nice is if "newbies" actually read the message that > they get when they subscribe to the list which contains the following: > > Before posting, please check out following links: > > The Cygwin Web Sitehttp://cygwin.com/ > The Cygwin FAQ htt

RE: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:06 PM > To: Paul Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Newbie Question > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter > the settings just as you would for a DOS box. > > Regards > ---

Re: Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions)

2002-01-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
Neither rxvt tips nor instructions for installing everything with setup.exe are in the FAQ yet. I'm really sorry. Hopefully tonight? Meanwhile you'll have to search the email archives. (I think the FAQ tells you to do that anyway, before writing to the mailing list.) The problem with my FAQ ma

Re: Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions)

2002-01-09 Thread Dylan Cuthbert
Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Newbie Question > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:55:45PM +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > > > >I didn't know you

Re: Newbie Question

2002-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:55:45PM +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > >I didn't know you could do that - thanks for the tip! :-) > >It would be nice if Cygwin didn't install those standard command.com bash >icons on the desktop or at least gave a few more pointers (suggestions) to >using the rxvt pac

Re: Newbie Question

2002-01-09 Thread Dylan Cuthbert
January 10, 2002 1:46 PM Subject: RE: Newbie Question > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > > Of Dylan Cuthbert > > > > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter &g

RE: Newbie Question

2002-01-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Dylan Cuthbert > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter > the settings just as you would for a DOS box. > *Way* better than that, use rxvt instead of... ugh... c

Re: Newbie Question

2002-01-09 Thread Dylan Cuthbert
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:52 AM Subject: Newbie Question > Having just installed Cygwin under Win98, I'm curious to know if I can > change the screen height to 50 lines (or some other, larger, number). > > TIA, > > Paul > >

Newbie Question

2002-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Having just installed Cygwin under Win98, I'm curious to know if I can change the screen height to 50 lines (or some other, larger, number). TIA, Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: ht

Re: Setting cygwin for the first time (newbie) question with CYGWIN=n tsec

2002-01-03 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:30 PM 1/3/2002, Tim Michals wrote: >Installed cygwin from the net today, and set in the include file What does this mean?? >CYGWIN=ntsec, ran mkpasswd -l -g > passwd and mkgroup -

Setting cygwin for the first time (newbie) question with CYGWIN=ntsec

2002-01-03 Thread Tim Michals
All, Installed cygwin from the net today, and set in the include file CYGWIN=ntsec, ran mkpasswd -l -g > passwd and mkgroup -l > group in the /etc directory. The issue, still cannot create directories. for example in /home/Administrator perform the following commands: Administrator@T~ $ mkdir

Re: Newbie question

2001-12-17 Thread hongxun lee
I did move ahead a little, but it sticks at login: $ net start inetd The requested service has already been started. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182. $ telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Administrator@ALLELUJA /cy

Re: Newbie question

2001-12-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo hongxun, 2001-12-17 14:19:27, du schriebst: > Thank you Gerrit Give me some more light pls. > I'm on win2k professional. > I again ran 'iu-config' under /etc, and the response was (i didn't see the > prompt if install inetd as a service) > Administrator@ALLELUJA /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc >

Re: Newbie question

2001-12-17 Thread hongxun lee
Thank you Gerrit Give me some more light pls. I'm on win2k professional. I again ran 'iu-config' under /etc, and the response was (i didn't see the prompt if install inetd as a service) Administrator@ALLELUJA /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc $ iu-config Overwrite existing /etc/ftpusers file? (yes/no) yes

Re: Newbie question

2001-12-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo, 2001-12-17 12:03:22, du schriebst: > What i have done: > under /etc, run 'iu-config' to generate some files. iu-config asks if you want to install inetd as a service. If you said NO here you need to install it manually. $ inetd --install-as-service > What to do next ?? > inetuti

Re: Newbie question

2001-12-16 Thread hongxun lee
Same question. What i have done: under /etc, run 'iu-config' to generate some files. What to do next ?? inetutils..README says: login but where? what should have been done before 'login'? Thanks - Original Message - > Hallo Robert, > > Am 2001-12-16 um 21:27 schriebst du: > >

Re: Newbie question

2001-12-16 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Robert, Am 2001-12-16 um 21:27 schriebst du: > I have been using cygwin for some time now, as a replacement shell > basically on various flavours on Windows machines. > I only joined this list about a week ago however, and have noticed that > some of the mail is to do with server side net

Newbie question

2001-12-16 Thread Robert White
All I have been using cygwin for some time now, as a replacement shell basically on various flavours on Windows machines. I only joined this list about a week ago however, and have noticed that some of the mail is to do with server side networking, such as imetd. I am very interested in setting

Re: gcc newbie question

2001-12-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Myriam Abramson wrote: > > thanks so much. I'm always there. > > One more thing: I get an undefined reference to WinMain@16. What do I > am missing? Read the FAQ on cygwin.com - it contains an answer to your question. There are also many ather usefull topics covered in it :) -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: gcc newbie question

2001-12-04 Thread Myriam Abramson
thanks so much. I'm always there. One more thing: I get an undefined reference to WinMain@16. What do I am missing? -- myriam -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documenta

[Pavel Tsekov ] Re: gcc newbie question

2001-12-04 Thread Myriam Abramson
--- Begin Message --- Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Great! that works now. Thanks *so* much. I am getting a bunch of > undefined references however. I usually link this program with -lnsl > and -lsocket but those libraries do not exist so what to do? try adding -lwsock32 :) And please post to the

Re: gcc newbie question

2001-12-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > I need to make a dll. > > I do > gcc -Wl, shared -o foo.dll foo.o ^ +-+ Is this a space here ? -+ Remove it! :) > > But I get the following error: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld

Re: gcc newbie question

2001-12-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > I need to make a dll. > > I do > gcc -Wl, shared -o foo.dll foo.o > > But I get the following error: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot >open : No such file or directory > collect2: ld returned 1 exit stat

gcc newbie question

2001-12-03 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I need to make a dll. I do gcc -Wl, shared -o foo.dll foo.o But I get the following error: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot open : No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ld exists in /bin/ld so what's wrong? Th