Patent question, libtiff, LZW -- Attn: Corinna
I swore off LZW for another two years: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00138.html given that IBM has a patent on LZW which they are using in their fight with SCO (e.g. they do not appear ready to renounce the patent). However, IBM's patent, I now learn, is on an algorithm called LZMW, not the same LZW used in libtiff. And all of Unisys' LZW patents are dead. Hence, according to this discussion by the libtiff developers: http://www.asmail.be/msg0054702569.html it appears that as of 2004-07-24 the LZW code was put back into the mainline libtiff development tree (instead of kept separate). Further, both ImageMagick and GD are re-enabling LZW code. Even debian-legal (Debian!!) has no problem merging LZW code back: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg00091.html So, to release the latest version of libtiff (3.7.0beta2) I need to do one of the following: (1) get permission from Red Hat (it's their server, after all) to publish an LZW-enabled libtiff (2) rip the LZW stuff back out I'd prefer (1). Corinna? -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [OT] Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on y our syste m."
On 8 Oct, Robin Bowes wrote: > Try setting it to: Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Notice two things: > > 1. No quotes round your name - they're only required if you have special > characters in your name. > > 2. angle brackets round your email address. Well, I tried: "Luke Kendall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Luke Kendall" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Luke Kendall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Luke Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and in each case got mail with headers like this: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test 7 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:01:02 +1000 (EST) To: Luke Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.349 tagged_above=0 required=6.3 tests=AWL, NO_REAL_NAME X-Spam-Level: (Luke Kendall) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Kendall) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave a really bad From: address of From: "Luke Kendall"@... So in short, I tried everything I could think of. Like I said, I don't think this feature works properly in my MUA (Postilion). And yes, I should update to some other one, and I will, and in the meantime I'll suffer from this problem, which seems fair enough. Thanks for the suggestion, though, Robin. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Shiny Icon
Hey all. I made this shiny 32-bit 48x48 icon for Win XP, which you're free to use if you like that kind of thing. I just found that with the rest of my desktop being high-colour with drop shadows, that the Cygwin icon looked a bit plain. Have fun. http://sodawaterrhubarb.nickhowes.co.uk/cygwin.ico nicky h -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [OT] Re: Spurious "You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on y our syste m."
"Luke Kendall"@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: On 8 Oct, Robin Bowes wrote: Try setting it to: Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Notice two things: 1. No quotes round your name - they're only required if you have special characters in your name. 2. angle brackets round your email address. Well, I tried: "Luke Kendall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Luke Kendall" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Luke Kendall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Luke Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and in each case got mail with headers like this: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test 7 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:01:02 +1000 (EST) To: Luke Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.349 tagged_above=0 required=6.3 tests=AWL, NO_REAL_NAME X-Spam-Level: (Luke Kendall) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Kendall) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave a really bad From: address of From: "Luke Kendall"@... So in short, I tried everything I could think of. Like I said, I don't think this feature works properly in my MUA (Postilion). And yes, I should update to some other one, and I will, and in the meantime I'll suffer from this problem, which seems fair enough. Thanks for the suggestion, though, Robin. I found this from the postilion home page (http://www.postilion.org) under "nagging bugs" (!) : "Entering a Full Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Full Name) format address in the preferences widget will not work properly. Setting the address in the format [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Full Name) in each mailbox's configuration will work. To do this, open the "Mailboxes" window, select the mailbox, right-click, choose "Edit" from the menu, and enter your address in the From: and, optionally, the Reply-to: fields." Worth a try. Alternatively, bite the bullet and find a MUA that works. R. -- http://robinbowes.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: patchutils 0.2.30-1
Patchutils (a suite of programs to perform useful manipulations on unidiff-format patches) has been updated to new upstream version 0.2.30 (from 0.2.30pre1) All previous Cygwin-local patches were merged upstream in this release. The upstream ChangeLog is shown below: 2004-07-15 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * configure.in: Version 0.2.30 (stable). 2004-07-15 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/filterdiff.c (display_filename): Better padding for file number. 2004-07-07 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/diff.c (read_timezone): New function. (read_timestamp): Use it. Suggested by Shawn Wagner, for parsing another common traditional date format. 2004-07-03 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/filterdiff.c (syntax): Explain --number-files a bit more. * src/filterdiff.c (hunk_matches): Don't call file_matches() unnecessarily. 2004-07-02 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/filterdiff.c: New --number-files option for lsdiff/grepdiff. * doc/patchutils.xml (lsdiff): Document it. 2004-05-19 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/filterdiff.c (hunk_matches): Small correction. 2004-05-14 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/patchutils.xml (interdiff.1): Clarify requirement for reference files being exactly the same. 2004-05-07 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/patchutils.xml: For grepdiff -n output format refer to the lsdiff man page. * src/filterdiff.c (main): Prevent -n being accepted by filterdiff. 2004-05-06 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/patchutils.xml: Include --hunks/--lines/--files in lsdiff man page. * src/filterdiff.c: Fixed --help output. * src/filterdiff.c: Added --files option, based on work by Sérgio Monteiro Basto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. * doc/patchutils.xml: Document it. * tests/lsdiff12/run-test: Avoid using /dev/stdin, which is not available on Cygwin set-ups. * tests/flip*/run-test: Use /bin/echo instead of the shell builtin. Patch from Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Max Bowsher. -- To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I would appreciate it if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read all of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rsync-2.6.3-1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Version 2.6.3-1 of the open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer has been uploaded. If you're not sure what version do you have you can use the following command: $ cygcheck -c rsync Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus rsync2.6.3-1OK If you're using 2.6.2-2 or earlier version you should upgrade to avoid some known security problems. If you use 2.6.2-3 you only need to upgrade if you need/want the new version, as there are no known bugs in it (yet). Please notice that 2.6.2-3 already contained a back porting of the august security fix. rsync-2.6.3-1-src.tar.bz2 size: 594393 MD5: 3b114d672f3e0fc727a3157a2368c404 SHA1: 52aa37d24e4aef4590a408efa3a86652349556b7 rsync-2.6.3-1.tar.bz2 size: 146864 MD5: 3fd17049658428ec923ddc0e66aea7d4 SHA1: 2b2bf8773b102fd72da0bc7aef5a37c7b9f6d80d If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkFp0wwACgkQaJiCLMjyUvs7JgCfeaCECMW7XnNBS0Rq9rt//ssy mN4AoKZ5LkGKbn1qnD2uqw4bfWM0AEFZ =+iqx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:33:00PM -0400, Philip Gladstone wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Ok. I've changed the algorithm in select. It only opens a DGRAM >>socket now, one time per thread. It uses this to terminate the socket >>thread, if necessary. This socket is never closed until the thread >>terminates. >> >>It sounds like this would more or less fix the problem that you're >>seeing. Would you mind trying a new snapshot? >> >>http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > >This fixes it for me! Thanks immensely. That's good news! Thanks for the fast feedback. I've cc'ed the cygwin mailing list since this has been a long standing problem. For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks like a change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded "slows down to a crawl with Symantec AntiVirus" problem. This may also improve the performance of things that use sockets slightly. So, I'd appreciate reports on the latest snapshot. Does it fix any problems? Cause any problems? No change? In this one case, I'd like to hear "me toos" since the change was to a fundamental part of cygwin and it is in socket code, which has proved to be problematic. So, I'd like to know if things still work on Windows 9x and all flavors of NT. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ "Things" would be, openssh, telnet, ftp, rsync, etc. Anything which uses sockets or communicates via TCP/IP. I've reset the reply-to for this message to the cygwin mailing list, so if there is further Cygwin/X discussion necessary, please make sure that it goes to the cygwin-xfree mailing list. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)
Wget appears to still work. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?) > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:33:00PM -0400, Philip Gladstone wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Ok. I've changed the algorithm in select. It only opens a DGRAM > >>socket now, one time per thread. It uses this to terminate > the socket > >>thread, if necessary. This socket is never closed until the thread > >>terminates. > >> > >>It sounds like this would more or less fix the problem that you're > >>seeing. Would you mind trying a new snapshot? > >> > >>http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > > >This fixes it for me! Thanks immensely. > > That's good news! Thanks for the fast feedback. > > I've cc'ed the cygwin mailing list since this has been a long > standing problem. > > For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks > like a change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded > "slows down to a crawl with Symantec AntiVirus" problem. > > This may also improve the performance of things that use > sockets slightly. > > So, I'd appreciate reports on the latest snapshot. Does it > fix any problems? Cause any problems? No change? > > In this one case, I'd like to hear "me toos" since the change > was to a fundamental part of cygwin and it is in socket code, > which has proved to be problematic. So, I'd like to know if > things still work on Windows 9x and all flavors of NT. > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > "Things" would be, openssh, telnet, ftp, rsync, etc. > Anything which uses sockets or communicates via TCP/IP. > > I've reset the reply-to for this message to the cygwin > mailing list, so if there is further Cygwin/X discussion > necessary, please make sure that it goes to the cygwin-xfree > mailing list. > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Fwd: ncftp hang after the first file download - Fixed by the new snapshot - 20041010
The 20041010 snapshot finally fixed the ncftp hang problem. Great and thanks!--- Begin Message --- Hi there, under cygwin 1.5.11 and also the 2004-Sep-07 snapshot, ncftp hang after the first file download. I used get *.pdf command. ftp does not have this problem under mget. I'm wondering whether this problem has been experienced by others as well? Thanks. --- End Message --- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
