how to add /usr/X11R6/bin/ to the search path

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Re: texconfig and ed

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:36:15AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >I fetched the sources from GNU and build it because it is needed >really often. Builds straight forward OOTB. >[snip] >It isn't distributed with Cygwin, but I think it should. Me too. It is an oversight that it is *not* distribut

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: ed-0.2-1

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made the GNU version of the classic UNIX line editor 'ed' available for download. As noted on the cygwin mailing list, it compiled OOTB. (I haven't added any cygwin-specific documentation to this package since, AFAIK, none was needed) For a brief descripton of what this package is and what

Fw: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch

2002-01-05 Thread Joshua
Forwarding to the list for the explanation of the file size of lastlog. BCNU//jle - Original Message - From: "Mark Bradshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joshua'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 04 January, 2002 15:40 Subject: RE: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch <> > Lastlog is a

Re: texconfig and ed

2002-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jerome, Am 2002-01-05 um 23:50 schriebst du: > is it your `ed' or a one distributed within Cygwin ? I fetched the sources from GNU and build it because it is needed really often. Builds straight forward OOTB. > As far I remember `ed' compiled without difficulties, > and apparently ther

Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?

2002-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jeff, Am 2002-01-06 um 00:26 schriebst du: > This really helps. Are any commands that I can use in the crontab file > such as telling it to run a particular script on certain of the week? > Here's what I want to do: > I want to run pg_dump daily. And I have 7 scripts namely > mon, tue,

Re: process memory limit

2002-01-05 Thread John A. Turner
Christopher Faylor wrote: > >after digging through the mail archives and docs, I've checked > >out the sources in hopes of finding a parameter that could be > >increased > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00141.html damn... I sure wish I had found that - would have saved me hour

Re: process memory limit

2002-01-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
John, On April third on this mailing list there was a discussion of the "heap_chunk_in_mb" registry setting that controls the limit you're experiencing. Read those messages or search for "heap_chunk_in_mb" on Google: . Randall Schulz Mountain V

Re: process memory limit

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:33:36PM -0700, John A. Turner wrote: >[member of the "Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently" club...] > >I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory, >and I've gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice. > >Brief Summary >-

process memory limit

2002-01-05 Thread John A. Turner
[member of the "Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently" club...] I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory, and I've gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice. Brief Summary - it appears that a cygwin app can't alloc more than around 256MB, even

Re: texconfig and ed

2002-01-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour, is it your `ed' or a one distributed within Cygwin ? As far I remember `ed' compiled without difficulties, and apparently there is no `ed' package: in which cygwin tarball is `ed' distributed ? Thanks, Jerome BENOIT "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > Hallo Rodrigo, > > Am 2002-01-05 um

Re: Who is supposed to set SIGURG for OOB in rlogin/tcp/rcmd??

2002-01-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:47:17PM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote: > Hi, > > I am using rlogin to talk to a sun box, and have noticed that my rows & > columns are not being set, so I'm not getting good terminal > characteristics. After digging down into the rlogin code (and cross > comparing with som

Re: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch

2002-01-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:33:18PM -0600, Joshua wrote: > All, > > I think I've found a small bug in the login program code versus the man > page regarding the last login feature. The man page indicates that the file > necessary for storing the last login information is /var/log/lastlog,

Re: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch

2002-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Joshua, Am 2002-01-04 um 22:33 schriebst du: Sorry, I have no idea about lastlog. > As a side question, when I compile Cygwin programs locally, they seem to > be much larger than the binaries installed by setup.exe. For example, login > installed by setup.exe is 11,776 bytes; the log

Re: texconfig and ed

2002-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Rodrigo, Am 2002-01-05 um 12:24 schriebst du: > About the question of E. Reiner: > texconfig and ed > texconfig requires ed that is not inside cygwin. $ which ed /bin/ed Maybe someone should volunteer and contribute a `port' of `ed';) Gerrit -- =^..^=

Newbie ssh question

2002-01-05 Thread James Hall
I've recently installed Cygwin and XFree86 on my W2K machine, and am highly pleased with it. Main use is to run stuff on my machine at work, and saves constantly re-booting between Windows and Linux on my home machine. I consequently make much use of ssh and X forwarding. All works excellently,

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-05 Thread Jon Leichter
Hi Henning. You can use Cygwin's GCC. It's just a little more involved. Here's a short answer. When you configure, do so like this: $ env CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" ./configure --host=i386-pc-mingw32 Notice that your --host specification was a little off. The way that I have specified it is t

Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?

2002-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jeff, Please keep Cygwin related discussion on the Cygwin list. Am 2002-01-05 um 19:16 schriebst du: > Can you show the steps in setting up the crontab file > and the cron job? usage: crontab [-u user] file crontab [-u user] { -e | -l | -r } (default operation is

texconfig and ed

2002-01-05 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Sorry forgot to send the modified texconfig. In any case a better solution to the "ed" missing problem is to include in /usr/bin the following shell script, with the name "ed" : #!/bin/sh vim -e $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 exit Don't forget to make it executable chmod +wx e

Re: Cygpath -u Produces Junk When Given Empty Argument

2002-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:28:27AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >I invoked "cygpath -u" with an empty string by mistyping a quoted >environment variable name. It produced 10 garbage characters: Jonathan Kamens submitted a patch to fix this a couple of weeks ago. It will be in the next cygwin

Cygpath -u Produces Junk When Given Empty Argument

2002-01-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I invoked "cygpath -u" with an empty string by mistyping a quoted environment variable name. It produced 10 garbage characters: % cygpath -u "" \š a\š a % cygpath -u "" |od -c 000 \ 232 \t a \ 232 \t a 020 \n 012 These characters appear not to change across s

Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-05 Thread J. Henning Schwentner
Hi, I am trying to compile SDL-1.2.3 for mingw32 with cygwin-1.3.6. I use the following steps: $ ./configure --host=pc-i386-mingw32 # make It compiles without errors, but the outcoming SDL.dll has references to cygwin1.dll not to MSVCRT.dll. I have also installed Mingw32-1.1. D

texconfig and ed

2002-01-05 Thread Rodrigo Medina
About the question of E. Reiner: texconfig and ed texconfig requires ed that is not inside cygwin. My solution was to modify texconfig in order to replace the calls to ed by calls to ex (--> vim) It works fine. I include my modified texconfig, that also includes a small change to ajust a proble

Re: Anyone got mod_perl working?

2002-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Robert, Am 2002-01-05 um 04:37 schriebst du: >> "However, I think that building mod_perl under Cygwin is a not a good >> idea (yet). For example, you won't be able to build libapreq >> (Apache::Request): >> it requires some symbols from apache and under win32 it's impossible >> to link .dl

Re: Compiling Berkeley db for Ruby under Cygwin

2002-01-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Charles, Am 2002-01-05 um 07:39 schriebst du: > Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>>1. Use the correct linker flag `-L/path/to/librubys.a/' and look >>> if there is a lib named libcygwin-ruby16.a, isn't the name of >>> the import lib librubys.a or was it changed since 1.6.5 and 1.6.6? >> Ah, n

RE: how to add a specified path to PATH

2002-01-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Guenther Sohler > > Assuming you are using bash(this is the default) > > put following stetement into your ~/.bashrc file > > export PATH=$PATH: > > is the new path > Actually I think it's probably ma