Setting Cygwin terminal colors?

2002-01-10 Thread Jeff
The default light grey on black background of the terminal window gives me a great deal of eye strain. I would like to change the background color, default color of text, and the colors of highlights, reverse video, etc.-- just as I can with the two telnet clients I'm currently using. I've searc

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
Of course i've read every response for my message, but none of them are useful at the moment, because i was not asking about cygwin's internals, but about the workaround for "cvs co -r" command itself (that doesn't work without Attic directory presence) Alexei - Original Message - From:

Re: CVS 1.11: More info about my problem (i'm sorry about the demanding tone...)

2002-01-10 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
I'm so sorry about the demanding tone of my "cry for help", but i'm really very upset and confused. Here are the details of the problem: 1) The task: - i want to checkout a tagged snapshot of myproject, so i try a "cvs co -r mytag myproj" and receive the following: cvs [checkou

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2002-01-10 Thread
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telnet cannot see mount drive - another method

2002-01-10 Thread Tiffany Chan
I have try another method to "cd" to another server rather than using "mount" or "net use". In my case, I want to get/put files from w2k advanced server to/from HP-Unix Server. --- Cygwin in w2k HP-Uni

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Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-10 Thread anitak
Hi, By seeing these hot discussions of -mno-cygwin swich I started a canadian cross for building a mingw hosted SH targetted cross compiler on cygwin environment. I am stuck with the following problem. Will be very thankful if anybody guides me on this? Regards, Anita - Original Message

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RE: [Q]Windows PATH is not working..

2002-01-10 Thread Jonathan Simms
Hi SB, I'm kinda new to this too...here's what i think: >>leesb@leesb-kr ~ >>$ which notepad >>/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/notepad any time you access the filesystem *outside* of the cygwin install folder (and *nix-esque file structure), cygwin uses the above format C:\foo\bar.txt = /cygdriv

funny strstream bug (yes I know it's deprecated)

2002-01-10 Thread Brian Bull
People probably don't care about strstream any more but I still thought this was an interesting one. Self contained bug example follows: --- #include #include int main(){ std::string fred = " some_spaces_precede_a_single_exceedingly_long_

Child process assigned to wrong parent in xinit

2002-01-10 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hello, There is a bug in the control of processes of Cygwin. As I found it while installing XFree86 I am sending this report to both mail lists. My system is a Window 95-B with DirectX, CYGWIN_95-4.0, XFree86-4.1.0 I have put in ~/ a shell script .xinitrc for running xninit. The file is a modi

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
D'Oh! I had an old copy of the FAQ (the file mod date is Nov. 21 2000, but I'm not sure if that's the original mod time or the time at which I downloaded it). This copy of the FAQ did not mention the "paste-from-clipboard" readling action. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 17:53 2002

Re: rebase for setup (curl)

2002-01-10 Thread Kevin Roth
On 8 Jan 2002, at 13:26, Jason Tishler wrote: > All of the above appear to be non-relocatable: > $ file *.dll > cygcurl-2.dll: MS Windows PE Intel 80386 console DLL not relocatable > > How did you manage to accomplish this? Well, I'm no closer to understanding why it didn't work on my Win

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Karsten Fleischer > > It's not a major change. > SUSv2 doesn't say that you have to use /bin/sh for a shell. It even says > that $SHELL can name the user's favorite shell. > I know that you always have

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Comments? Questions other than "what are you smoking"? ;-) How long have you been somking it :}-. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.co

Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor > [snip] > >For Bourne style shells I use > > > >runme > filename 2>&1 > > > >This redirects stdout first and then stderr to whereever stdout is > >pointing. > > If this doesn't do

Re: gcc version 2.95.3-5: assert() does not work as expected

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:17:52PM +0100, Torrisi Fabio wrote: >Dear maintainers, > >Please consider the following bug: > >Problem: >assert does not work as written in the manual > >symptom: >If I register a signal handler for SIGABRT it does not get called by assert Yes, that was definitely a pr

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:25 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > See above why it doesn't. mingw != cygwin :}. > > If 'build' WERE to be tested automatically, independent to 'host', it would > come up with 'i686-pc-cygwin'. Thus, we'd effectively end up with the same > line you specified

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:16 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thus... returning to the ORIGINAL topic of this thread... I had recommended > the following to the OP: > > $ env CC=mgcc ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 > > My new understanding of switches gives me new perspective. 'buil

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Thus... returning to the ORIGINAL topic of this thread... I had recommended the following to the OP: $ env CC=mgcc ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 My new understanding of switches gives me new perspective. 'build' and 'target' will pickup the value of 'host'. In this context, you're t

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Stephan Mueller
" From: Gary R. Van Sickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] " > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On " > 2) Why does "paste-from-clipboard" stop just before the first newline " > in the clipboard contents while middle-mouse pastes the entire " > contents? Is there another undocumente

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Ouchies. I agree - yet another reason for cygwin ports to be updated > >by the maintainer :}. package/port ^^^ > If I am reading this correctly, this is not really a cygwin issue. It's > a cros

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:52:01PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>AC_CHECK_TOOL checks for tools with a ${host} prefix. AC_CHECK_PROG >>does not. >> >>In my opinion, this serves as another example that one cannot count on >

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'll stop apologizing for this after this message but I will reiterate > that I don't like this. I do get asked about this kind of thing all of > the time within and without Red Hat, though. I don't want to be in a > p

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:31:49PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >>> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are >>> proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted >>> algorithms from o

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Randall R Schulz > Gary, > > I was happy to learn about this: > > ># Make insert actually useful > >"\e[2~": paste-from-clipboard > Me too, since I didn't know about it myself until I went to answer t

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AC_CHECK_TOOL checks for tools with a ${host} prefix. AC_CHECK_PROG does > not. > > In my opinion, this serves as another example that one cannot count on a > configure script being up-to-date. Ouchies. I agree - yet another

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:45 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry... I left that out. Yes, I do have an accessible i686-pc-mingw32-gcc, > and I am looking at the configure script. It just searches for gcc. It > doesn't bother to look for the prefixed tool. Are you sure? Here's the out

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:04:47AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >It's not a major change. SUSv2 doesn't say that you have to use >/bin/sh for a shell. It even says that $SHELL can name the user's >favorite shell. Every UNIX system that I've ever seen uses /bin/sh. The SUSv2 says that system

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:44AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >> FWIW, I'm checking on this internally now. > >Please do so. I will. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwi

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:27 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are >> proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted >> algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably >> an issue, too.

Re: FW: ast on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:12:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >Chris, >I know you don't like private mail. No, I don't. I am redirecting this to the project mailing list. >But, could this statement from Glenn tame you a bit... If anyone looked at sources which have any restrictive license

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:20 PM Subject: RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > Ok. I need to return to asking some questions with my new understand

Re: rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
Follow the instructions for building cygwin on the cygwin web pages. (Look at the menu on the left). At a guess, you'll need to do more than just define MB_CAPABLE. Chances are, it's disabled because cygwin is not MB_CAPABLE :}. Rob === - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Ok. I need to return to asking some questions with my new understanding of --build, --host, and --target (which I'm incredibly grateful for and happy about). I have returned to working with OpenLDAP. The configure script is generated with autconf-2.13.1. It uses AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, which you say

rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined

2002-01-10 Thread RMDUVY
I want to rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined so wcstombs works when NULL is passed in as the first arg - wcstombs( NULL, wcstr, 0 ). Currently, this function always returns 0 because MB_CAPABLE is not defined when cygwin is initially installed. How do I rebuild libc.a? There are a lot of

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
> >>OK, more detailed. I allow only absolute pathes in $SHELL and don't > >>allow any *csh. If superuser then only shells from [/usr][/local]/bin > >>are considered trusted shells. If not superuser shells from other > >>directories are allowed, but if uid != euid or gid != egid the shell > >>an

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are > proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted > algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably > an issue, too. I don't know if something like "If the first four bytes of a file are

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
> FWIW, I'm checking on this internally now. Please do so. Karsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon Leichter wrote: > It's true that I don't usually patch the script myself and send it back. In > some cases, there isn't any organization to send the patches back to, e.g. > GDBM. This is not an unsubstaniated statement. I sent patches to GDBM years > ago, and nothing ever came of it. What

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I still don't understand why I'd want to symlink the binutils binaries. I > WANT the Cygwin binutils. They don't generate object code; they operate on > it. The Cygwin binutils do a fine job (as Cygwin binaries) operating

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Robert, This all now makes a lot more sense to me. Those switch definitions have confused me for a long time. Thank you. Jon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Robert Collins > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:28 PM > To: Jon Leich

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:31 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > Using `gcc -mno-cygwin' is switching the build environment t

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Lynn Wilson
/usr/bin/vi (aka /bin/vi) supports syntax highlighting based on the file extension of the file being edited. The files at /usr/share/vim/vim60/syntax/*.vim define the highlighting (vim60 may vary according to your version). The very last line of my ~/.vimrc is 'syntax enable'. This does the

Re: gcc under windows xp

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:49 PM 1/10/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hi there! > >i previously used cygwin under a windows 2000 environment, and it worked >really fine. (i more or less only use the gcc compiler and tools) >but i got myself a new machine, and - bad luck - it only really runs fine >under windows xp. So

gcc under windows xp

2002-01-10 Thread aon . 912166165 . 1
hi there! i previously used cygwin under a windows 2000 environment, and it worked really fine. (i more or less only use the gcc compiler and tools) but i got myself a new machine, and - bad luck - it only really runs fine under windows xp. So there i am on my win xp system, and, yes the cygwin s

Re: No stderr output

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:06:57PM +, Don Sharp wrote: >William S Fulton wrote: >> Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to >> disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to >> redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order

Re: No stderr output

2002-01-10 Thread Don Sharp
William S Fulton wrote: > > Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to > disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to > redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order it appears > on the console using something like > runme

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My statements are based on the standard. For those packages conforming > to AC_CAN0NICAL_SYSTEM my statements will make a difference. I'm saying > you should just get used to always doing it that way so that you never >

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jon Leichter wrote: > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Your wrapper script is a good idea but has the wrong name as has been > > pointed out already. It needs to be named i386-pc-mingw32-gcc and a > > copy as mingw32-gcc so that when specifying the --host=mingw32 or > > --host=i386-pc-mingw32 the config

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > No. Specify --host. The meaning is clearly documented in the autoconf > > documentation. > > For clarity: > > build - what OS the compilation is running on.. > > host - what OS the binaries created should run on. > > targe

Re: No stderr output

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:07 PM 1/10/2002, William S Fulton wrote: >Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to >disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to >redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order it appears >on the console using something

RE: Problem with winsup/cinstall compilation

2002-01-10 Thread Ralf Habacker
> - Original Message - > From: "Ralf Habacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:45 PM > Subject: Problem with winsup/cinstall compilation > > > > Hi, > > > > I've tried to compile a recent setup.exe from the cvs and got an error >

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Robert Collins > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > Autoconf 2.13 supports these options -

No stderr output

2002-01-10 Thread William S Fulton
Anything sent to stderr does not appear on the terminal. It seems to disappear into a black hole. I think it started when I was attempting to redirect stdout and stderr into the same file in the same order it appears on the console using something like runme 1>&2 > filename I tried all sorts of co

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: > No. Specify --host. The meaning is clearly documented in the autoconf > documentation. > For clarity: > build - what OS the compilation is running on.. > host - what OS the binaries created should run on. > target - what OS the binaries created should target their output

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Gary, I was happy to learn about this: ># Make insert actually useful >"\e[2~": paste-from-clipboard ...since it is not documented via "man readline," "man bash" nor in my rather dated hard-copy BASH manual. However, I now have two questions: 1) Where does one find complete and definitive in

RE: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Horne
Thanks that worked Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Randall R Schulz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vim and color Dan Horne wrote: > Hi > > term is s

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I hope I don't repeat anything from this thread, I've only been scanning it lightly. .. > obvious to me that unless you're building a project with a configure script > built by an up-to-date version of autoconf, none of what y

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Earnie Boyd wrote: > Your wrapper script is a good idea but has the wrong name as has been > pointed out already. It needs to be named i386-pc-mingw32-gcc and a > copy as mingw32-gcc so that when specifying the --host=mingw32 or > --host=i386-pc-mingw32 the configure script will find it appropria

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Dan Horne wrote: > Hi > > term is set to xterm. If I do ls -l --color (or set the ls alias to do so), > the listing is indeed in colour. Because 'ls.exe' is less careful about emitting color codes than vim is. You can even try this: within vim, type :se term=rxvt and the :r a file in.

FW: service won't start at boottime for w2000(w2k)/xp possible solution

2002-01-10 Thread Ed Eden
-Original Message- From: Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:08 PM To: cygwin (E-mail) Subject: service won't start at boottime for w2000(w2k)/xp possible solution Think i have a solution to the service startup problem for sshd/inetd. Try the dependency of lanmanworkstation and see

RE: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Horne
Hi term is set to xterm. If I do ls -l --color (or set the ls alias to do so), the listing is indeed in colour. Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Randall R

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Hmmm...perhaps ESR's Smart Questions document should also state: "Do not assume that respondents to your question on a mailing list will send the replies directly to you. Be sure to check the mailing list itself -- or the archives if you are not subscribed to it -- for replies to your quest

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Dan Horne wrote: > Thanks Randall > > upon further investigation (and putting .vimrc in my home directory on not > gvimrc doh) I've discovered that color-coding is working if I use the > command window. However, if I use rxvt, I lose color and instead get text > emphasis in bolds and underline

RE: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Horne
Thanks Randall upon further investigation (and putting .vimrc in my home directory on not gvimrc doh) I've discovered that color-coding is working if I use the command window. However, if I use rxvt, I lose color and instead get text emphasis in bolds and underlines. Obviously, I'm missing someth

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread John Marshall
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:44:28PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote: >> I'm trying to get the solution and sent this questions to cygwin list >> and to cvs list already twice -- but the result is poor -- i got no >> concrete answer! > > Berating volunteers is probably not going to help your cause. Ind

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dan, Most likely all you need to know is where to put your color scheme files. If you're doing it all from Vim's "rc" file, then you need to use the right one: "~/.vimrc" / "$HOME/.vimrc". The Cygwin-hosted Vim is a non-GUI, Unix-style Vim (just vim or vi), _not_ a GUI, stand-alone one (gvim).

vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Horne
Hi All how do I set up syntax color coding with vim under cygwin? I use gvim in the Windows environmnt, and that seesm to be working okay. I've looked at the cygwin doco I could find, and it discusses windows and Unix - I'm not sure where cygwin fits into the scheme of thngs. For instance, I adde

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexei Lioubimov wrote: > So, > Is it very difficult to give just a short answer? > Help, please! -- > I'm trying to get the solution and sent this questions to cygwin list and to > cvs > list already twice -- but the result is poor -- i got no concrete answer! > > But, > I CAN NOT USE ONE OF TH

RE: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-10 Thread Polley Christopher W
You wrote: >At 01:45 PM 1/10/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>Anyway, cron has no access to them. It's running under SYSTEM >>account which has only access to publicly available net drives, that >>is, drives which are available w/o any form of authe

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Alexei, Beyond the uncalled-for shouting and the demanding tone, there's a paucity of information in your cry for help. Please give is more details about your configuration: Cygcheck, the contents of any ".cvsrc" files. Likewise, please say more about what specifically you're attempting. Show

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Himsley
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:28:32 +0300 you wrote: >But, >I CAN NOT USE ONE OF THE MAIN DEVELOPMENT TOOLS -- CVS, >because "cvs co -r " is not working under Cygwin!!! > >I tried a "cvs co -r mytag myproj" and receive the following: > >cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open directory .../CVS/mypoj/Attic:

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

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Matthew Smith
> So, > Is it very difficult to give just a short answer? > Help, please! -- > I'm trying to get the solution and sent this questions to cygwin list and to > cvs > list already twice -- but the result is poor -- i got no concrete answer! Berating volunteers is probably not going to help your caus

CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
So, Is it very difficult to give just a short answer? Help, please! -- I'm trying to get the solution and sent this questions to cygwin list and to cvs list already twice -- but the result is poor -- i got no concrete answer! But, I CAN NOT USE ONE OF THE MAIN DEVELOPMENT TOOLS -- CVS, because "c

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:40:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: >>>If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. >>>IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That >>>means tha

Console size on W9x - was RE: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
As a newbie, the first thing to learn is to search the Cygwin site and the mail archives first for answers to questions like these. Last time I looked, Win9x could set a window size up to 50 lines. Regardless, if you look at the Cygwin web site you'll find references to Chuck Wilson's site where

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: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:45 PM 1/10/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Anyway, cron has no access to them. It's running under SYSTEM >account which has only access to publicly available net drives, that >is, drives which are available w/o any form of authentication >required. >No credentials, no au

RE: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
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. Best Regards, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Dylan Cuthbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: W

Re: resize command hangs from ssh session

2002-01-10 Thread James Garrison
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 01:08 PM 1/10/2002, James Garrison wrote: > >>I've searched the archive and can't seem to find anything >>applicable. My problem: [snip] > > Did you see this? > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00212.html > > Is it applicable? I'm not sur

Re: pdksh on windows compiles no but doesn't work?

2002-01-10 Thread Leigh Hebblethwaite
David, I have pdksh working. I had the same problems as you. The 'make check' action runs a perl script. The perl script requires some .ph files. These .ph files are perly versions of your system's .h files. I made the .ph files. However, I had to hack then a bit to get 'make check' to work.

Re: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Anyway, cron has no access to them. It's running under SYSTEM account which has only access to publicly available net drives, that is, drives which are available w/o any form of authentication required. The forked cron jobs are running in the same logon session even if they ar

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:37:41PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:13:01AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: >>Glenn found some test cases where mmap() failed and has also written a >>nice test program. I will get this to you later. He also states that >>the value

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: >>If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. >>IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That >>means that we can't use your patches. Sorry. > >I've never had the chance to loo

Re: resize command hangs from ssh session

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:08 PM 1/10/2002, James Garrison wrote: >I've searched the archive and can't seem to find anything >applicable. My problem: > >Win2000SP2 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.6(0.47/3/2) 2001-12-08 17:02 i686 unknown >OpenSSH_3.0.2p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f > >Open a Cygwin command shell (my

resize command hangs from ssh session

2002-01-10 Thread James Garrison
I've searched the archive and can't seem to find anything applicable. My problem: Win2000SP2 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.6(0.47/3/2) 2001-12-08 17:02 i686 unknown OpenSSH_3.0.2p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f Open a Cygwin command shell (my default is configured to 80x45) ssh to a RH Linux 7

RE: RXVT Font Question

2002-01-10 Thread fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
Try c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn "Fixedsys" -tn cygwin -e /bin/bash --login -i which gives a nice squarecut font and is (I think) the default for Windows telnet and loads of other MS stuff. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http

1.3.6 ssh Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

2002-01-10 Thread Daryl Spartz
The subject line problem, reported back in November, 2001 was stated to be fixed in message archive post http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00694.html by Jeff Mincy. I am running 1.3.6 and STILL have the problem (running on win2k) $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 POOLSIDE 1.3.6(0.47/3/2) 2001-12-

RE: How to return NaN?

2002-01-10 Thread Robinow, David
It's a bit more than slightly off topic. Try http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.c -Original Message- From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: How to return NaN? Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but i was wondering how best t

Re: libpng problems with png_info_init, png_read_destroy

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
'man libpng' reveals: png_read_init ---> png_create_read_struct png_write_init ---> png_create_write_struct png_info_init --> png_create_info_struct png_read_destroy --> png_destroy_read_struct png_write_destroy --> png_destroy_write_struct The old methods have been deprecated. They are current

How to return NaN?

2002-01-10 Thread Underwood, Jonathan
Hi Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but i was wondering how best to have a function of type double return NaN in C. I'm using the cygwin environment for developement (so gcc), but am looking for the most portable solution. Thanks Jonathan. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
> If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not > enough. IANAL > either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That means > that we can't use your patches. Sorry. I've never had the chance to look at the UWIN sources. It's proprietary. As I said before, the UWIN dev

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:03:26PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> , so I've rewritten the code from memory after looking at the sources. >> The differences are substancial, so no problem here either. > >I think that's ok. "Rewritten" should be enough. IANAL, IANAL, ... If you've actually loo

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive

2002-01-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 10 Jan 02, Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:07:35PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: > > On Thursday 10 Jan 02, Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > Did you see my previous mail related to using network drives > > > in ssh sessions, David? That's the crucial stuff. >

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