Re: Fetchmail is available on Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Kevin" == Kevin Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Corinna, Kevin> I've compiled sendmail in the past. It wasn't easy and after I Kevin> compiled it, I didn't know what to do with it :-) I have no Kevin> experience using sendmail and it's not the most user-friendly

Re: Re: screen echos from cygwin1-20010225.dll

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:20:19PM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: >I don't see these as build errors; maybe I'm missing something. expect >runs the same with the 1.1.7 cygwin1.dll and with the post-1.1.8 >snapshots, except for these additional messages. The results from gcc >and g77 test suites appear

Re: Re: screen echos from cygwin1-20010225.dll

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Prince
I don't see these as build errors; maybe I'm missing something. expect runs the same with the 1.1.7 cygwin1.dll and with the post-1.1.8 snapshots, except for these additional messages. The results from gcc and g77 test suites appear normal; the g++ suite dies after over 3000 PASSes, same as it d

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 7, 2001, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, I think we need something like a AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32. I have mixed feelings about having this macro in autoconf. On one hand, it would be kind of promoting the use of proprietary software. On the other, I see it wou

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread DJ Delorie
> >Fair enough (the diffutils manual is dated 1993). Should I try and > >report it somehow? I have no idea where to report GNU doc bugs. > > Hmm. I don't know either. It's great that you're thinking like this, > though. > > Maybe DJ will know since you're actually referencing his web page. :

Re: Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:01:36PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:58:06PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:46:52PM +0100, Jerry van Dijk wrote: >>> >Kevin Wright writes: >>> > >>> > > I have uploaded ghostscr

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:51:37PM -0800, David Rees wrote: >>>Maybe its a version issue? Anyway, the obvious solution is always use >>>-p0. >> >>I don't think so. I have never seen patch behave in this fashion. It >>doesn't work this way on Linux, AFAICT. > >Fair enough (the diffutils manual is

Re: Change user with the su command

2001-03-07 Thread David Rees
Probably could use runas to start your bash shell as well... d On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:27:48 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Fabio Di Fabio wrote: >> Hi, >> >> after 5 years of Linux, now I'm installing open sorce tools to W2000 for >> web development,

Re: Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:58:06PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:46:52PM +0100, Jerry van Dijk wrote: >> >Kevin Wright writes: >> > >> > > I have uploaded ghostscript-5.50-2 to cygwin/contrib. >> > >> >Why are you using this old version ?

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread David Rees
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:03:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:29:23PM -0800, David Rees wrote: >>On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:19:29AM -0800, David Rees wrote: ... >> >>Your explanation makes sense, but should

Re: Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2

2001-03-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:46:52PM +0100, Jerry van Dijk wrote: > >Kevin Wright writes: > > > > > I have uploaded ghostscript-5.50-2 to cygwin/contrib. > > > >Why are you using this old version ? > > > >To get a usable gs on NT, you need at least GSview 3.6, which re

Re: cygwin / ssh / emacs term type issue

2001-03-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Ehud Karni wrote: > > Way 2 - Uncompile and re-compile. > 2.1 On the PC do: infocmp -I -1 cygwin > cygwin.src Or just get the source from http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygwin.terminfo-5.2-4 which includes all of the subsidiary dependencies. > 2.2 On the UNIX

Re: Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:13:08PM -0500, Derek Pomery wrote: > >Ok... > > > >Are you running inetd from an account with the following privileges: > > > >1) "Act as part of the operating system" > >2) "Replace process level token" > >3) "Increase quotas" > >4) "Logon as a service" > > > >or under

Re: Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:46:52PM +0100, Jerry van Dijk wrote: >Kevin Wright writes: > > > I have uploaded ghostscript-5.50-2 to cygwin/contrib. > >Why are you using this old version ? > >To get a usable gs on NT, you need at least GSview 3.6, which requires gs 6 >as a minimum. It was not clear

RE: Strange problem - access to directories denied

2001-03-07 Thread Heribert Dahms
If the ACL is really empty, that might explain a lot! I'd log in with the real administrator account (maybe a user in administrator group is not sufficient) and try: cacls pktemp /G Everyone:F Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message- > From: John Pollock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Derek Pomery
>Ok... > >Are you running inetd from an account with the following privileges: > >1) "Act as part of the operating system" >2) "Replace process level token" >3) "Increase quotas" >4) "Logon as a service" > >or under user LocalSystem? > >(This information is regurgitated from Corinna Vinschen's Mon

RE: Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Jason B. Alonso
Ok... Are you running inetd from an account with the following privileges: 1) "Act as part of the operating system" 2) "Replace process level token" 3) "Increase quotas" 4) "Logon as a service" or under user LocalSystem? (This information is regurgitated from Corinna Vinschen's Mon, 22 May 200

Re: Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2

2001-03-07 Thread Jerry van Dijk
Kevin Wright writes: > I have uploaded ghostscript-5.50-2 to cygwin/contrib. Why are you using this old version ? To get a usable gs on NT, you need at least GSview 3.6, which requires gs 6 as a minimum. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Team-Ada| web: home.tro

Re: return value of log()

2001-03-07 Thread J. J. Farrell
> From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:10:53PM +0900, Kenta MURATA wrote: > > > > I can't understand that log(x) returns -HUGE_VAL if x < 0. > > Becaus, IEEE definition returns NaN. > > > > Why adopt this implementation? Perhaps because that's how log() on

istream tellg causes loss of characters

2001-03-07 Thread Hao Huang
The following code demonstrate the bug. The code produces correct result on Solaris/Linux. The tellg (with or without call to gcount) cause some characters to be lost. The exact number of characters changes if the file/line changes. string line; ifstream in("test"); getline(in, line); cout <<

Re: #define Win32_Winsock fails in 1.1.8

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Garceau
Hi folks, On 7 Mar 2001, at 8:44, the Illustrious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The reason I am attempting to use the WinSock API via Cygwin is that my > application is integrating with a commercial application (HP OpenView) > and the APIs on the windows version return WinSock sockets that I nee

RE: Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Derek Pomery
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jason B. Alonso wrote: >To access the additional account properties under Win2K... > >Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer >Management->System Tools->Local Users and Groups->Users > >Then right-click on any account and hit properties. > >Happy computi

Re: Windows 95 install insists on MS-DOS mode

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Garceau
Hi folks, On 7 Mar 2001, at 10:21, the Illustrious Earnie Boyd wrote: > "Charles D. Russell" wrote: > > [skip] > > QUESTIONS: > > > > Can someone tell me how to respond to a specific message from the > > archive without formally subscribing and being bombarded with > > messages? Wel

Re: cygwin / ssh / emacs term type issue

2001-03-07 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:13:56 -0800, Todd Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running cygwin bash on Win2k. While running cygwin I use ssh to connect > to both linux and solaris machines. When I attempt to run emacs -nw on the > remote machines, I get this: > > bash-2.03$ emacs -nw my_filen

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:29:23PM -0800, David Rees wrote: >On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:19:29AM -0800, David Rees wrote: >>>Also, as I hope I implied (but didn't say) in my previous email, >>>altering the diff file to use backward slas

RE: Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Jason B. Alonso
To access the additional account properties under Win2K... Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->System Tools->Local Users and Groups->Users Then right-click on any account and hit properties. Happy computing. Jason Alonso -Original Message- From:

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread David Rees
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:19:29AM -0800, David Rees wrote: >>First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been using it >>for testing, but feel free to ignore it in tracking down the problem. >> >>Also, as I hope I implied (

Re: Any chance for a port to Windows CE or pocketpc?

2001-03-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:09 PM 3/7/2001, Josh Klein wrote: >All- > > How hard would it be to request a port of cygwin to windows CE? I think >cygwin would absolutley ROCK on a pocketpc. And I am sure the pocketpc >community (www.brighthand.com) would be extremely excited about something >like this. > >

CYGWIN - GCC - C++ - multi-threaded apps - ACCESS VIOLATION

2001-03-07 Thread René Møller Fonseca
Hi, I'm currently trying to make working multi threaded C++ applications that utilize the win32 api directly (I do not use the POSIX threads implementation). I'm getting ACCESS VIOLATIONs (win32 exception 0xc005) nearly on every run of my applications. Looking at the assembler code generated

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread David Rees
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:08:02 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >David Rees wrote: >> >> Kevin Wright emailed me a suggestion that allowed me to find a >> solution (thanks!), but I still think there may be something wrong >> with patch. >> >> First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been u

Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
We've made a change in the newest version of cygwin that stops the Windows headers from being searched unless a -mwin32 option is specified on the gcc command line. This option also causes Windows options like "WIN32" to be defined automatically. We've done this to make porting easier for some p

Any chance for a port to Windows CE or pocketpc?

2001-03-07 Thread Josh Klein
All- How hard would it be to request a port of cygwin to windows CE? I think cygwin would absolutley ROCK on a pocketpc. And I am sure the pocketpc community (www.brighthand.com) would be extremely excited about something like this. Thanks, thunk -- Want to unsubscri

Re: Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Derek Pomery
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Just two questions, > >did you install the login package as well (needed for telnet)? Well, I assume so, installed everything. This you mean? $ ls -l /usr/bin/login -rwxr-xr-x 1 nemo None11776 Jul 31 2000 /usr/bin/login $ login login: n

Re: Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Just two questions, did you install the login package as well (needed for telnet)? does your guest login actually has no password _and_ the following user properties NOT set: - User must change password at next logon - Account is disabled ? Corinna On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:04

Difficulty with getting ntsec to work.

2001-03-07 Thread Derek Pomery
I have successfully gotten inetd to run on a few win9x machines (and after actually reading the READMEs, the authentication), but still have no luck with my win2k installation. After reading the advice here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg00337.html I carefully read over ntsec.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-5.50-2

2001-03-07 Thread Kevin Wright
I have uploaded ghostscript-5.50-2 to cygwin/contrib. PLEASE READ THE README: /usr/doc/Cygwin/ghostscript-5.50.README The differences between 5.50-1 and 5.50-2 are only cosmetic: - renamed the readme file from gs-5.50.README to the above name. - added a few lines to the readme regarding install

Re: An easy (but possibly time-consuming) test case for Make hanging

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:12:57PM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote: >>I sincerely doubt that anyone else is going to be interested in fixing >>your problem for you. > >Yes, it is "our problem," in that it is affecting our work, but it is >also a bug in Cygwin. Most people who maintain software, free

Re: BUG? ls hangs under chroot'ed bash

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:36:25AM -0500, Noel L Yap wrote: > I downloaded the latest CygWin a couple of days ago onto a NT 4.0 box. > > When bash is running under a chroot'ed environment, ls hangs (actually, ls > becomes completely unresponsive even to Ctrl-C). ls works fine when sh is > runnin

re: contributing without subscribing

2001-03-07 Thread Charles D. Russell
I was wondering how to get it inserted in the right thread. However, the archiver seems smart enough to do that if you simply echo the subject preceded by "re:" _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: An easy (but possibly time-consuming) test case for Make hanging

2001-03-07 Thread Jonathan Kamens
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:37:26 -0500 > From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dunno. Frankly, I think that if you want to get this working you should > debug it yourself. That's just a pragmatic suggestion. I tried. Cygwin's signal-handling code is extraordinarily complex. It

Re: Re: screen echos from cygwin1-20010225.dll

2001-03-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
I think Chris's point is that this is an error. Whenever things don't build cleanly, that's an error. There are no diagnostic messages during a build by default. You can assume that any message you see indicate a problem that needs to be addressed in some way. Larry Hall

Re: Where is GetCurrentFiber?

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:10:08PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 01:06 PM 3/7/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:57:02AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > > I don't think so. GetCurrentFiber() and GetFiberData() are in user32.dll > > > a

Re: Re: screen echos from cygwin1-20010225.dll

2001-03-07 Thread tprinceusa
You asked why I commented that these snapshots of cygwin1.dll were better than the 1.1.8 except for tons of warning messages. If you don't care to give us a hint whether there is a way to turn off such diagnostics, or even whether it points to something which we could work on in expect, so be

Re: Where is GetCurrentFiber?

2001-03-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:06 PM 3/7/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:57:02AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > I don't think so. GetCurrentFiber() and GetFiberData() are in user32.dll > > according to the MSDN. > >Hmm, which MSDN are you looking into? MSDN explicitely says >`G

Re: Where is GetCurrentFiber?

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:57:02AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > I don't think so. GetCurrentFiber() and GetFiberData() are in user32.dll > according to the MSDN. Hmm, which MSDN are you looking into? MSDN explicitely says `GetCurrentFiber()' and `GetFiberData()' are macros, def

Re: Installing inetd

2001-03-07 Thread Duke Normandin
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:00:13AM +0100, Cygwin List wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:34:53PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote: > > I just DLed inetutils (I think that's the name). How does inetd get > > installed and configured. I don't see an /etc/inetd.conf or anything. > > The config files are

Re: #define Win32_Winsock fails in 1.1.8

2001-03-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:44 AM 3/7/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >"struct _reent declared inside parameter list" warning that occurs. I was >hoping know from this list if anyone was aware of this problem to ensure it >got fixed in a future release. Best way to ensure that it gets fixed is to supply a patch. Oth

Re: Where is GetCurrentFiber?

2001-03-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Hm, maybe a new .a needs to be generated for user32.dll. Want to take a stab at it? Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746

Re: An easy (but possibly time-consuming) test case for Make hanging

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:51:11AM -0500, John Pollock wrote: >>In case someone is expecting the "someone with more knowledge" to be >>me, I wanted to let everyone know that I'm not planning on debugging >>this and will be interested in seeing who might be stepping forward to >>give it a go. > >if

Re: screen echos from cygwin1-20010225.dll

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 05:58:33AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: >I assumed these 1000's of "attempt to close protected handle" messages were >intentional in the snapshot .dll's. They certainly slow things down. What kind of statement is this? You're expecting that error messages to be intentional?

Re: Broken stdio using sh.exe?

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:10:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I was under the impression that the reading of text or binary mode of pipes and >non-file devices is controlled by setting CYGWIN to binmode ar nobinmode >(where the default is binmode), see the Cygwin User's Guide: >http://www.c

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:19:29AM -0800, David Rees wrote: >First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been using it >for testing, but feel free to ignore it in tracking down the problem. > >Also, as I hope I implied (but didn't say) in my previous email, >altering the diff file to us

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sources: ssmtp-2.38.7-1

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded ssmtp-2.38.7-1 to cygwin/contrib. PLEASE READ THE README: /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.38.7.README After downloading and installing you'll have to create your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file by calling /usr/bin/ssmtp-config I have tested the interaction with mutt on my system. It

RE: Fetchmail is available on Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread Kevin Wright
Corinna, I've compiled sendmail in the past. It wasn't easy and after I compiled it, I didn't know what to do with it :-) I have no experience using sendmail and it's not the most user-friendly program. I think Dr. Volker Zell has also done this and would have far more expertise in this area. --

Re: Fetchmail is available on Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:36:33PM -, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote: > > A Question to the Cygwin Porters Knowledge Base Eggheads > > > Regarding the compilation of sendmail, which one of these OS's (from >sendmail/devtools/os directory) is

Re: An easy (but possibly time-consuming) test case for Make hanging

2001-03-07 Thread John Pollock
>In case someone is expecting the "someone with more knowledge" to be me, >I wanted to let everyone know that I'm not planning on debugging this >and will be interested in seeing who might be stepping forward to >give it a go. Chris, if no one steps forward, any suggestions as to what we might d

Re: Strange problem - access to directories denied

2001-03-07 Thread John Pollock
> C:\>cacls pktemp > C:\pktemp So you're saying that cacls [dirname] returned no output at all? That's indeed very strange; it should list the default perms on that directory. One thing that might help in debugging is removing the "@echo off" so that you can tell if it was the rd or the md that

Re: cygwin, latex, and vim

2001-03-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > Jeff Homer wrote: > > > > > > I was curios if anyone had the same prob and found a fix: > > > > > > When Latex runs, and drops to a ? prompt, one hit's "e" to edit the file > > > at the line of error > > > > > > In the 2.0 cygwin, when I hit e, it g

Re: gcc from Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread Stephen Smith
If you read the faq, It says "do not upgrade, uninstall the old version and then install the new one" > "Naveen Kansara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have installed a gcc compiler for language 'C' from cygwin -- I > > don't know the version but when I invoke Cygwin B20 I get a dos > > win

RE: cygwin, latex, and vim

2001-03-07 Thread Jeff Homer
it's MikTex v2.0 with the up1 update patch applied :) Thanks all for the responses :)) On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kevin Wright wrote: > Jeff, > > Which version of Latex? Where did you get it? > > --Kevin > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: Fetchmail is available on Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread Malcolm Boekhoff
A Question to the Cygwin Porters Knowledge Base Eggheads Regarding the compilation of sendmail, which one of these OS's (from sendmail/devtools/os directory) is the closest to Cygwin. That would be a good place to start. 386BSD A-UX AIX

RE: cygwin, latex, and vim

2001-03-07 Thread Kevin Wright
Jeff, Which version of Latex? Where did you get it? --Kevin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Homer > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 7:09 AM > To: Earnie Boyd > Subject: Re: cygwin, latex, and vim > > > > I installed the versio

Re: Fetchmail is available on Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:39:54AM -0500, David Bush wrote: > I found a reference to this on the gnu.emacs.vm.info newsgroup. > > http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/ > > Fetchmail, mutt, sSMTP, a/pspell, and GnuPG. Requires Cygwin to run. mutt is in the base distro, ssmtp too (from today on),

Contributing without Subscribing [WAS Re: Windows 95 install insists on MS-DOS mode]

2001-03-07 Thread Barry Buchbinder
Copy what you want into an email and send it to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Like I'm doing now! :-) - Barry Buchbinder === From: "Charles D. Russell" Can someone tell me how to respond to a specific message from the archive without formally subscribing and being bombarded with messages? -- Want t

Re: return value of log()

2001-03-07 Thread Kenta MURATA
At Wed, 7 Mar 2001 04:59:46 -0800, Tim Prince wrote: > I don't know why you would write an app to depend on the NaN behavior; > you would at least have to forgo -ffast-math or supply and use your own > isnan() and take other special precautions to make that work. I don't write any programs now, b

Re: Windows 95 install insists on MS-DOS mode

2001-03-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
"Charles D. Russell" wrote: > > PROBLEM: > > I installed cygwin with no trouble on my office computer (Windows 98) but on > my home computer (Windows 95) clicking on the cygwin icon leads to the > message "This program is set to run in MS-DOS mode and cannot run while > other programs are runnin

Re: cygwin, latex, and vim

2001-03-07 Thread Jeff Homer
I installed the version that the "Install Cygwin Now" puts on, all updated- my bad, it's version 1.1.8 it seems :| On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: > Jeff Homer wrote: > > > > I was curios if anyone had the same prob and found a fix: > > > > When Latex runs, and drops to a ? prompt, one

Re: cygwin, latex, and vim

2001-03-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jeff Homer wrote: > > I was curios if anyone had the same prob and found a fix: > > When Latex runs, and drops to a ? prompt, one hit's "e" to edit the file > at the line of error > > In the 2.0 cygwin, when I hit e, it goes into vim and looks normal, > but any command such as :q responds with

Re: Building tk applications

2001-03-07 Thread Georg Fusz
I am a user of MinGw. But I have run into similar problems (missing header files). I downloaded the sources for the same version of Tcl/Tk as I was using and copied the missing header files. There is also very helpfull news group: comp.lang.tcl. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My first attempts at b

Fetchmail is available on Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread David Bush
I found a reference to this on the gnu.emacs.vm.info newsgroup. http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/ Fetchmail, mutt, sSMTP, a/pspell, and GnuPG. Requires Cygwin to run. Perhaps, Not as facinating as LINE, but useful. david -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com

Re: Windows 95 install insists on MS-DOS mode

2001-03-07 Thread Charles D. Russell
PROBLEM: I installed cygwin with no trouble on my office computer (Windows 98) but on my home computer (Windows 95) clicking on the cygwin icon leads to the message "This program is set to run in MS-DOS mode and cannot run while other programs are running." If I then proceed, it tries to rebo

cygwin, latex, and vim

2001-03-07 Thread Jeff Homer
I was curios if anyone had the same prob and found a fix: When Latex runs, and drops to a ? prompt, one hit's "e" to edit the file at the line of error In the 2.0 cygwin, when I hit e, it goes into vim and looks normal, but any command such as :q responds with bash: :q command not found it see

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
David Rees wrote: > > Kevin Wright emailed me a suggestion that allowed me to find a > solution (thanks!), but I still think there may be something wrong > with patch. > > First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been using it > for testing, but feel free to ignore it in tracking d

Re: Beat me, whip me, interrupt my program!

2001-03-07 Thread Rich Paul
Actually, I haven't yet, but we intend to upgrade for our next minor revision. We're trying to keep everyone on the same version, to minimize unexpected behavior. I guess we'll just wait on that. "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > At 08:35 AM 3/6/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >He

screen echos from cygwin1-20010225.dll

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Prince
I assumed these 1000's of "attempt to close protected handle" messages were intentional in the snapshot .dll's. They certainly slow things down. runtest --tool gcc ) WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file. Test Run By 500 on Wed Mar 7 05:50:38 2001 Native configuration is i686-pc-cygwin

Re: #define Win32_Winsock fails in 1.1.8

2001-03-07 Thread Matt . Brozowski
The reason I am attempting to use the WinSock API via Cygwin is that my application is integrating with a commercial application (HP OpenView) and the APIs on the windows version return WinSock sockets that I need to do a WinSock select on in order to tell when there is data to read. This has no

Building tk applications

2001-03-07 Thread spam_from_cygwin
Dear Cygwin Experts, I have an application built using C++ and tcl/tk/incr tcl which currently runs on Linux and Solaris and I'm starting to port it to Windows using Cygwin. I actually did something like this a few years ago so I know it can be done, but I've forgotten lots and things have chang

Re: return value of log()

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Prince
The math library adopted by cygwin is part of newlib, an entirely separate project not even oriented to the same type of usage as cygwin or even the glibc. I imagine it may be intended not to depend on running on targets which implement IEEE standard. If you're using gcc or g++, it's easy to sup

Re: Broken stdio using sh.exe?

2001-03-07 Thread robert . jan . schutten
>At 05:11 AM 3/6/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>The problem: >> >> >>Using bash to read from stdin works as expected: >> >>schutten@PC6868 ~/tmp >>$ cat test.bin | ./readbin.bash >>61 62 63 64 1a 61 62 63 >> >>Using sh to read from stdin stops after the ^Z (hex: 1a) character: >> >>s

Using DLL problem

2001-03-07 Thread Ildar Mulyukov
Well, I've done everything as it was written in docs. The result is: I successifully built non-relocatable DLL and a program to use it. BUT as I build dll, demo stackdumps' in the dll in a function that does something useful. (behaving ok in an empty function). But linked statically program runs

problem with downloading and offline-viewing cygwin faq as one big html file and suggested solution

2001-03-07 Thread Ed B Visser
hi, hereby i offer an observation of a problem with cygwin faq "as one big html file" and a My observation: I downloaded the cygwin faq "as one big html file" and viewed it offline. As i clicked on a section reference in the toc, my browser tried to open the webpage on the internet and jump

Re: Change user with the su command

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Fabio Di Fabio wrote: > Hi, > > after 5 years of Linux, now I'm installing open sorce tools to W2000 for > web development, in particular the last tool I've installed is the > PostgreSQL database, now it's running, I've some problem in understand the >

Re: return value of log()

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:10:53PM +0900, Kenta MURATA wrote: > Hi there, > > I can't understand that log(x) returns -HUGE_VAL if x < 0. > Becaus, IEEE definition returns NaN. > > Why adopt this implementation? In the newlib sources I found: /* Check for domain error here. */ if (x <= 0.0)

Change user with the su command

2001-03-07 Thread Fabio Di Fabio
Hi, after 5 years of Linux, now I'm installing open sorce tools to W2000 for web development, in particular the last tool I've installed is the PostgreSQL database, now it's running, I've some problem in understand the user management under cygwin, I work usually as administrator, which is li

return value of log()

2001-03-07 Thread Kenta MURATA
Hi there, I can't understand that log(x) returns -HUGE_VAL if x < 0. Becaus, IEEE definition returns NaN. Why adopt this implementation? -- Kenta Murata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~muraken/" -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: lynx & w3m ports (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Initial Release: GNUGhostscript 5.50-1)

2001-03-07 Thread Malcolm Boekhoff
I have previously posted a /bin/sh script that compile lynx2.8.4 on the latest Cygwin, Cygwin DLL version info: dll major: 1001 dll minor: 8 dll epoch: 19 dll bad signal mask: 19005 dll old termios: 5 dll malloc env: 28 api major: 0

Re: lynx & w3m ports (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Initial Release: GNUGhostscript 5.50-1)

2001-03-07 Thread Sagar R. Shah
On 7 Mar 2001, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > This works for me. > o w3m-0.1.10 - http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/ - > ftp://ftp.firedrake.org/w3m/ A little while ago i actually took a peek at www.w3m.org, and there are references to cygwin itself, and in /download/binary/i386, there

Re: ssh-host-config change request

2001-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, I've just found the time to look into it. On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:01:43PM -0600, CyberZombie wrote: > > Looks nice. Could you please send me a diff -up? It's way easier > > to read and apply. > > I made one more update to also put the requested port into ssh_config. One > thing -- shoul

Re: gcc from Cygwin

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Ericson
"Naveen Kansara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed a gcc compiler for language 'C' from cygwin -- I > don't know the version but when I invoke Cygwin B20 I get a dos > window(see attached file cygwin.jpg) with error message "Too many > parameters Bad command or file name" -- Can you

Re: lynx & w3m ports (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Initial Release: GNU Ghostscript 5.50-1)

2001-03-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
diff -upr /gnu/w3m-0.1.10/XXMakefile w3m-0.1.10/XXMakefile --- /gnu/w3m-0.1.10/XXMakefile Tue Jun 6 09:18:45 2000 +++ w3m-0.1.10/XXMakefile Tue Mar 6 18:37:46 2001 @@ -3,21 +3,21 @@ BIN_DIR = /usr/local/bin HELP_DIR = /usr/local/lib/w3m LIB_DIR = /usr/local/lib/w3m -HELP_FILE = w3mhelp-w3m_ja

Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file

2001-03-07 Thread David Rees
Kevin Wright emailed me a suggestion that allowed me to find a solution (thanks!), but I still think there may be something wrong with patch. First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been using it for testing, but feel free to ignore it in tracking down the problem. Also, as I hope