RE: cygwin-man

2002-04-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> DESCRIPTION >Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for >Windows. > Cygwin was up and running long before Red Hat came into the picture. Which is why it's not Redhatwin ;-). -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

glib threads

2002-04-07 Thread Dave Brondsema
I am trying to install glib 2.0.1 under cygwin (all the latest packages). Whenever I do a ./configure, I always get the following message. configure: WARNING: You do not have any known thread system on your computer. GLib will not have a default thread implementation. No "--with-threads=" opti

Problems installing CYGWIN

2002-04-07 Thread Ronald Vyhmeister
Because I wanted to install cygwin on several machines, I chose to download everything to the machine and then install from there. When I went to install, I don't know what it has done, but it gave me several errors that files do not exist. Bash did not get properly uncompressed, and I can't use

Re: cygwin-man

2002-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:38:48PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >I'll move around the BUGS stuff, I was going to add that to intro.3 >also. Good. >COPYRIGHT looks good? Yes. >I was already thinking that COMPATIBILITY seemed too wordy. Here's a >maybe better one: > >COMPATIBILITY >

Re: cygwin-man

2002-04-07 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
>> fact, Cygwin was once known as GNU/Win32.) > I don't think there is any reason to mention this. It is really ancient > history now. I have BA in History. :) >>As such, the user environment is more similar to a GNU/Linux system> >>than, for example, Sun Solaris. >I find the term GN

Re: ip.h & tcp.h

2002-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:00:58AM +0800, Wu Yongwei wrote: >Thank you for all the responses, even the one telling me not to SHOUT. A >message is better than nothing, and I shouted because it seemed no one >noticed my message. > >But I am not here to argue. I ask. Should I simply supply the ip.h,

Re: cygwin-man

2002-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:59:05PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >The majority of the tools Cygwin provides are part of the Free Software >Foundation's GNU Operating System. I don't know that this is true but, regardless, the term "GNU Operating System" doesn't make any sense to me. (In

Re: ip.h & tcp.h

2002-04-07 Thread Wu Yongwei
Thank you for all the responses, even the one telling me not to SHOUT. A message is better than nothing, and I shouted because it seemed no one noticed my message. But I am not here to argue. I ask. Should I simply supply the ip.h, tcp.h, and udp.h here? I did not because I am not sure about the

Re: cygwin-man

2002-04-07 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
OK everyone here is your chance to speak your mind about what someone who installs Cygwin and types "man intro" (expecting a revelation, no doubt) will see: INTRO(1) Cygwin INTRO(1) NAME intro - Introduction to the Cygwin Environment DESCRIPTION

Re: what am I doing wrong?

2002-04-07 Thread David Means
Looks like something that mutt depends upon is missing or does not have the execute bit set. Works like a champ on my system. try 'strace mutt -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Assuming you're on a linux system. If you're running Solaris, that'll be 'truss' instead. David On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 16

Re: Is there a way in cygwin to view mail?

2002-04-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Eli, Am 2002-04-07 um 21:23 schriebst du: > I would like to send out a mail like in solaris by using mailx > Or to just view my mail, what do I use in cygwin or what do I need > to setup to be able to use it. > Any info is appreciated > Eli Cygwin comes with mutt & ssmtp. Gerrit --

Re: ProFTPd ported to Cygwin

2002-04-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Stanislav, Am 2002-04-07 um 16:53 schriebst du: > I made some minor compatibility fixes in Proftpd, > now it compiles and runs under Cygwin. I'm having problems here: $ ftp localhost Connected to loreley.antigone.familiehaase.de. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.5rc1 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation

what am I doing wrong?

2002-04-07 Thread Eli Kleinman
$ echo hello | mutt -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). Could not send the message. or by just typing mutt -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mutt: Compose Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). thanks for any help Eli -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Is there a way in cygwin to view mail?

2002-04-07 Thread Jochen Küpper
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:23:03 -0400 Eli Kleinman wrote: Eli> I would like to send out a mail like in solaris by using mailx Or Eli> to just view my mail, what do I use in cygwin or what do I need Eli> to setup to be able to use it. I would strogly suggest XEmacs/Gnus -- that's what I use (on Cygwi

Is there a way in cygwin to view mail?

2002-04-07 Thread Eli Kleinman
I would like to send out a mail like in solaris by using mailx Or to just view my mail, what do I use in cygwin or what do I need to setup to be able to use it. Any info is appreciated Eli -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.

weird find bug?

2002-04-07 Thread Scott Evans
I'm running on Win2000 using an up-to-date Cygwin install. When I issue this command: find /cygdrive/d The contents of the last directory on my D: drive aren't reported. for instance, if /cygdrive/d contains: [d] $ ls -l total 1673 drwxr-xr-x4 scottDomain U0 Jul 24 2001

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rsync-2.5.5-1

2002-04-07 Thread Lapo Luchini
I have uploaded version 2.5.5-1 of the open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly.

Re: System Services in PS

2002-04-07 Thread David Postill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:22:01 -0500, you wrote: | Hi all, | | the ps -W command gives me most of the information I need for running | processes, except it doesn't list system services. I have looked through | the source and it doesn't look it makes a

RE: CC and GCC etc

2002-04-07 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Thankyou Lapo! I thought I had installed everything but you showed me up on that count. Slowly I learn.. Thank you again! Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lapo Luchini Sent: Monday, 8 April 2002 1:06 AM To: Mailing List: CygWin Subj

ProFTPd ported to Cygwin

2002-04-07 Thread Stanislav Sinyagin
Hello all, I made some minor compatibility fixes in Proftpd, now it compiles and runs under Cygwin. I proposed the patch to proftpd developers about a week ago, but the bug status hasn't changed since then (Bug ID 1569 at bugs.proftpd.org). Actually, the whole CVS repository hasn't changed e

Re: CC and GCC etc

2002-04-07 Thread Lapo Luchini
> I have neither GCC nor CC.. Then install it with the installer ( http://cygwin.com/setup.exe ), it's under the "devel" categoty, package name "gcc" and you could benefit of "make" too. Lapo -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529

Re: Port problem

2002-04-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo ioda, Am 2002-04-07 um 14:04 schriebst du: > What is your server OS and cygwin version ? NT4 Server & W2K Server $ cygcheck -c cygwin Cygwin Package Information Package Version cygwin 1.3.9-1 > Tests you made let me think there's still something wron

RE: CC and GCC etc

2002-04-07 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Hi Lapo! >> I have been trying to make some files and encountered an error message >> indicating "cc" could not be found. Someone suggested to me that I should >> make sure that: >> >> (a) GCC is installed on your machine > >Well if you nistalled GCC then just use GCC and not CC... >Or else creat

Re: CC and GCC etc

2002-04-07 Thread Lapo Luchini
> I have been trying to make some files and encountered an error message > indicating "cc" could not be found. Someone suggested to me that I should > make sure that: > > (a) GCC is installed on your machine Well if you nistalled GCC then just use GCC and not CC... Or else create an alias like "a

CC and GCC etc

2002-04-07 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy all! I have been trying to make some files and encountered an error message indicating "cc" could not be found. Someone suggested to me that I should make sure that: (a) GCC is installed on your machine (b) make is installed on your machine (c) the development packages for libc, plus graph

Re: Port problem

2002-04-07 Thread ioda
Hi Gerrit ! Thanks for helping Using Browser is a way to not use client for simple tests, since my protocol will be request/response so HTTP (in fact HTML !) is a trick ;0) Well get back to the trouble, I confirm there is no way for me to make it works (directly from IE), even if accessed locall

sgi opengl 1.2 headers and miscellaneous

2002-04-07 Thread Chan Kar Heng
greetings. sorry, i know this topic came up before, but i still can't seem to find the info i require. would like to know where i might find the headers for sgi's opengl 1.2 implementation. or are they already in the distribution packages? or should i use the headers that come with sgi's opengl

Re: unlink semantics

2002-04-07 Thread Chris January
> As a suggested fix, path_conv::check could returns ENOENT for a file if it > appears in the delqueue. I would submit a patch for this, but I am not 100% > sure how the delqueue is protected from multiple threads accessing it at the > same time. Sorry, _readdir would also have to check for a file

unlink semantics

2002-04-07 Thread Chris January
With respect to the 'Infinte Loop in "rm -fr"' thread, I believe the current semantics of unlink on Cygwin to be inconsistent with SuSv2. SuSv2 specifies the following: The unlink() function removes a link to a file. If path names a symbolic link, unlink() removes the symbolic link named by path