GNUPLOT in Cygwin: Terminal type set to 'unknown'

2011-02-24 Thread Dilan Shah
I am trying to use GNUPLOT in Cygwin, however whenever I start it up it just says the terminal type is unknown and then when I try to plot something simple like sin(x), nothing happens. $ gnuplot G N U P L O T Version 4.4 patchlevel 0 last modified March 2010 Syst

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 23 20:36, Bengt Larsson wrote: > Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> Why not ITP it as an official package? > > > >It will need a license. Right now there's no license information anywhere > >in the tarball AFAICT. > > > >Is the code in Mg3a taken from Emacs? If so, you need to include the GPL > >

License conflicts in Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Denk, Uwe
Hello, we would like to use Cygwin. After checking the license conditions we found two license conflicts in Cygwin, which is GPL v2 licensed in accordance with the COPYING files of Cygwin: 1) GPL v2 - GPL v3 incompatibility: (see http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Compatible_licenses#GPLv3-

Re: License conflicts in Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 10:55, Denk, Uwe wrote: > Hello, > > we would like to use Cygwin. After checking the license conditions we > found two license conflicts in Cygwin, which is GPL v2 licensed in > accordance with the COPYING files of Cygwin: First of all, you're referring to an old version of Cygwin. Ri

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Bengt Larsson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Just a hint: > >When on Cygwin, you might better use Cygwin's(*) wcwidth function. It's >based on the same code from Markus Kuhn, but it interacts with the >setlocale function to make sure that the width returned for the CJK >ambiguous width characters makes sense in the g

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 11:56, Bengt Larsson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Just a hint: > > > >When on Cygwin, you might better use Cygwin's(*) wcwidth function. It's > >based on the same code from Markus Kuhn, but it interacts with the > >setlocale function to make sure that the width returned for the CJ

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Bengt Larsson
Bengt Larsson wrote: >I don't use surrogates. I only use UTF-8 and UTF-32. But using cygwin's >wcwidth may be worth thinking about. I suppose it will be consistent >with mintty that way; otherwise not? And: is wcwidth always available in modern Unices? How do you find out these things? I mean prac

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Bengt Larsson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Using wcswidth isn't very useful in the editor because it has special >> requirements, like showing control characters with ^C. > >Well, it's not really such a big problem to special case wide char >control values and just call wcswidth otherwise... Oh I see. wcwidth tak

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 12:19, Bengt Larsson wrote: > Bengt Larsson wrote: > >I don't use surrogates. I only use UTF-8 and UTF-32. But using cygwin's > >wcwidth may be worth thinking about. I suppose it will be consistent > >with mintty that way; otherwise not? > > And: is wcwidth always available in modern Uni

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 12:40, Bengt Larsson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> Using wcswidth isn't very useful in the editor because it has special > >> requirements, like showing control characters with ^C. > > > >Well, it's not really such a big problem to special case wide char > >control values and just

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Andy Koppe
On 24 February 2011 11:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 24 11:56, Bengt Larsson wrote: >> I don't use surrogates. I only use UTF-8 and UTF-32. ... which of course means that you don't support anything but UTF-8 and ASCII locales. Can't argue with that, but you might want to use nl_langinfo(COD

Re: GNUPLOT in Cygwin: Terminal type set to 'unknown'

2011-02-24 Thread Keith Christian
There is lots of additional good gnuplot info on the WWW. Fast answer: gnuplot> set terminal dumb Terminal type set to 'dumb' Options are 'feed size 79, 24' gnuplot> plot sin(x) A (crude) graph of sin(x) should now be on the terminal screen, or if you're using X, then it will appear in an X win

Re: License conflicts in Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/24/2011 03:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Disclaimer: IANAL. I can't speak for our legal dept, of course. There > won't be any changes in the Cygwin license any time soon as far as I'm > aware. If your lawyers feel that they have more questions about this, > the best course of action mig

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/24/2011 04:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 24 12:19, Bengt Larsson wrote: >> Bengt Larsson wrote: >>> I don't use surrogates. I only use UTF-8 and UTF-32. But using cygwin's >>> wcwidth may be worth thinking about. I suppose it will be consistent >>> with mintty that way; otherwise no

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 17 February 2011 07:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Apart from your testing and our fixing of obvious bugs, the other item > holding up the release of Cygwin 1.7.8 is the imminent release of > Service Pack 1 for Windows 7.  It seems unwise to release a new Cygwin > package just minutes before a Se

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 09:56, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > On 17 February 2011 07:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Apart from your testing and our fixing of obvious bugs, the other item > > holding up the release of Cygwin 1.7.8 is the imminent release of > > Service Pack 1 for Windows 7.  It seems unwise to release

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Bengt Larsson
Andy Koppe wrote: >On 24 February 2011 11:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 24 11:56, Bengt Larsson wrote: >>> I don't use surrogates. I only use UTF-8 and UTF-32. > >... which of course means that you don't support anything but UTF-8 >and ASCII locales. Can't argue with that, but you might wan

RE: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-24 Thread Karl M
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:16:11 +0100 > From: corinna > Subject: Re: Please test latest developer snapshot > > On Feb 24 09:56, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > On 17 February 2011 07:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Apart from your testing and our fixing of

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-24 Thread Reini Urban
>> Please test latest developer snapshot Lots of perl builds and smokes passed with no new errors. -- Reini -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-24 Thread Kai Tietz
Yes, good progress. A lot of those x64 Win7 issues don't appear anymore for me and I didn't had now for some time no more forking issues. Thanks, Kai -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 24/02/2011 19:50, Bengt Larsson a écrit : Utf-8 and a number of 8-bit charsets, actually. I'm getting rather annoyed that people judge the program without looking at it. And it does use nl_langinfo(CODESET). make install should copy mg to /bin instead of /docs/Command, copy documentation

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
forgot about make install : install: strip installbin installdoc PREFIX=/usr #PREFIX=/usr/local BINDIR=${PREFIX}/bin DOCDIR=${PREFIX}/share/doc/mg3a DOCFILES=README README.misc README.programmer README.reference \ orig/mgprog.doc orig/README orig/tutorial SAMPDIR=${DOCDIR}/examples SAMF

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Bengt Larsson
Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Thanks for your informed criticism. But I haven't suggested it should be delivered with Cygwin. >make install should copy mg to /bin instead of /docs/Command, Yup >copy >documentation files in /usr/share/doc/mg3a and samples (dot files) >in /us/share/doc/mg3a/examples

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Bengt Larsson
Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > >forgot about make install : Again Super-helpful. Thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-24 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
One comment in-line... On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 22:47, Bengt Larsson wrote: > Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > Thanks for your informed criticism. But I haven't suggested it should be > delivered with Cygwin. > >>make install should copy mg to /bin instead of /docs/Command, > > Yup > >>copy >>documentat