[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated rxvt-2.7.2-12

2002-09-20 Thread Steve O
Hi, rxvt is a replacement for the Windows command window. This version fixes some bugs I put into the last version. - Fixed a bug that caused fixed width fonts to be interpreted as proportional width. Thanks to Ville Herva for helping find this. - Rewrote paste code. Please read /usr/doc

Re: New versions of setup.ini

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:32:28AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is the document setup.ini now being dynamically updated? Over the last >couple of days I have detected differences between successive versions that >are restricted exclusively to the timestamp (as in > >diff setup.ini.curr setup.i

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Soren A
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > We've seen it more than once. People don't understand that the same > program they used to install cygwin can be used to update their > installation with new packages. Chris is correct in this observ

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 12:05, Bruce Alderson wrote: > > Your suggestion came out fine. It has just been suggested hundreds of > > times in the past. > > Ah, I've been lurking on the list for ages - but not noticed the > request. Apologies. > > Anyway, would it be worth submitting a patch for th

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:05:07PM -0700, Bruce Alderson wrote: >> Your suggestion came out fine. It has just been suggested hundreds of >> times in the past. > >Ah, I've been lurking on the list for ages - but not noticed the >request. Apologies. > >Anyway, would it be worth submitting a patch

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Bruce Alderson
> Your suggestion came out fine. It has just been suggested hundreds of > times in the past. Ah, I've been lurking on the list for ages - but not noticed the request. Apologies. Anyway, would it be worth submitting a patch for the functionality, or is the dev rather closed? -mx signature.

Re: Rootless X windows

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:00:53PM -0700, David R. Fischer wrote: >Sorry but could not find in the archives. > >Is there a way to set up a rootless X-windows session? Redirecting to the correct mailing list. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reportin

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:50:54PM -0700, Bruce Alderson wrote: >> Eureka! Batch operations! > >Oh, heh, my suggestion may not have come out right. I meant something >like: setup --all or --all-dev ... so that one could use setup from the >shell, from a script, remotely, etc. Your suggestion

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 11:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: > How about > > "put food in your mouth now!" > > "move your jaws now!" > > "swallow masticated food now!" > > "digest food now!" > > "wipe your ass now!" > > The possibilities are endless. I'll take that as a no. The install

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Bruce Alderson
> Eureka! Batch operations! Oh, heh, my suggestion may not have come out right. I meant something like: setup --all or --all-dev ... so that one could use setup from the shell, from a script, remotely, etc. -mx signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:35:15PM -0700, Bruce Alderson wrote: >>How about "Run Cygwin Setup"? It's pretty self-explanatory from then >>on... :-) > >You'd actually be suprised ;-P I know that my eyebrows have just hit the ceiling. >We use cyg and the Gnu autotools for building our product on

RE: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 11:22, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > [snip] > > > Can we alter the website? > > 'Install cygwin now' > > "How do I add or remove packages?" > > > 'Add or remove pacakges now' > > > > "How do I install Cygwin in the first place?" >From the website. It at least gives us a c

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:47:14AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:45:45PM -0500, Richardson, Tony wrote: >> >I guess that you could untar everything appropriately, but you'd need >> >to run the post-install scripts

RE: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Bruce Alderson
> How about "Run Cygwin Setup"? It's pretty self-explanatory from then > on... :-) You'd actually be suprised ;-P We use cyg and the Gnu autotools for building our product on Win32 ... and I find myself walking devs through the effort of setting cyg up (and then later helping them set it up

RE: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > [snip] > > > Can we alter the website? > > 'Install cygwin now' > > "How do I add or remove packages?" > > > 'Add or remove pacakges now' > > "How do I install Cygwin in the first place?" > > Moral of the story: "Can't win, don't try." ;-) How abo

RE: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > Can we alter the website? > 'Install cygwin now' "How do I add or remove packages?" > 'Add or remove pacakges now' > "How do I install Cygwin in the first place?" Moral of the story: "Can't win, don't try." ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: h

Rootless X windows

2002-09-20 Thread David R. Fischer
Sorry but could not find in the archives. Is there a way to set up a rootless X-windows session? Thanks David R. FIscher -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

RE: cygwin mutt and maildir

2002-09-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 07:17 PM 9/17/2002 -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >The only way I can think this could be solved is through a method something like >how Rob's handling setup's local cache dir naming scheme, i.e. escaping >Windows-invalid characters with URLesque "%xx"'s. And that would pretty much >have to

Re: Error in my cygwin installation

2002-09-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 16:42, Antonio wrote: > Hello from Spain: > > I´m writting because i have a problem with Cygwin. I have installed the full > Excalibur Nios Development installation. When i try to execute Nios SDK > Shell from Excalibur Nios 2.0 label, a DOS cmd returns several messages as >

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:45:45PM -0500, Richardson, Tony wrote: > >I guess that you could untar everything appropriately, but you'd need > >to run the post-install scripts. > > Um. I think this is a really simple request. We've seen it

Error in my cygwin installation

2002-09-20 Thread Antonio
Hello from Spain: I´m writting because i have a problem with Cygwin. I have installed the full Excalibur Nios Development installation. When i try to execute Nios SDK Shell from Excalibur Nios 2.0 label, a DOS cmd returns several messages as "BASH.EXE: grep: command not found" and "Warning Could

Profiling with GPROF

2002-09-20 Thread agenkin
GPROF report contains all zeroes for time elapsed. Is profiling possible in cygwin? Or did I do something wrong? Thank you, Alex -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: Invisible link?

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 01:09:31PM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > >--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:08:33PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> >John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: >> >> Darn -- figured it out about 10 seconds after I hit send. It >> was of course

Re: Invisible link?

2002-09-20 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:08:33PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > >John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: > >> Darn -- figured it out about 10 seconds after I hit send. It > was of course a > >mount. I unmounted, created an empty /usr/lib and > >> then remo

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:45:45PM -0500, Richardson, Tony wrote: >I guess that you could untar everything appropriately, but you'd need >to run the post-install scripts. Um. I think this is a really simple request. We've seen it more than once. People don't understand that the same program th

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Schaap
On 20-9-2002 18:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andre Srinivasan wrote: > > >>... >>AS> Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. >> >>IP> It already IS a feature. The getopt function will stop processing >>IP> switches when it encounters the '--' op

RE: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Richardson, Tony
I guess that you could untar everything appropriately, but you'd need to run the post-install scripts. Instead of that I installed on one machine and then copied everything over to a network share. This allows Cygwin to be run from any machine on the network without doing an install on the local

Re: fetchmail 6.0.0 build problem due to gettext issue

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Tishler
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:22:05PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > Any suggestions on how to best fix this build problem will be greatly > appreciated? It appears that I can workaround the problem by executing: $ aclocal $ autoconf before doing the normal GNU build procedure: $ confi

RE: df --local

2002-09-20 Thread Rob Brown
OK, that will *mostly* work except for the cdrom drive issue. -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:29 AM To: Rob Brown Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: df --local Well, as I said before, unless you have invalid local

RE: df --local

2002-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Well, as I said before, unless you have invalid local mounts (i.e., without the drive name), all your local mounts will have a ":" as part of the name. Igor On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Rob Brown wrote: > Yea, except that I wanted this script to run on a bunch of machines, all > with different d

RE: df --local

2002-09-20 Thread Rob Brown
Yea, except that I wanted this script to run on a bunch of machines, all with different drive letters and configurations. Is there no other way for cygwin to know whether a drive is local or not? -Original Message- From: Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

Re: Building SpamAssassin for Cygwin

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 05:12:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Applying your patches doesn't work on 2.41 :-( What doesn't work? Does the patch fails to apply to 2.41? Or, doesn't work for 2.41? > The second "chunk" of your first patch is no longer required > for 2.41, its already in the

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Brian Keener
As a side note to what Chris wrote: How did you install Cygwin without using the setup program? Does it work? bk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: First Attempt at a cygwin Project

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:49:18AM -0600, Buntain, Dave wrote: >I've read the promotions on CygWin, but have not been able to find a >list of the CygWin API calls so that I can determine functional >capability of the Cygwin library. Can you point me to such a list ? "nm /usr/lib/libcygwin.a". S

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 01:32:37PM +, sara svensson wrote: >I have installed cygwin and now I whould like to install some packages from >the page: >http://cygwin.com/packages/ > >I can't find any information in the cygwin webpage that describes how to >install these packages. Can someone tel

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andre Srinivasan wrote: > ... > AS> Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. > > IP> It already IS a feature. The getopt function will stop processing > IP> switches when it encounters the '--' option. > > You know that and I know that (now). I was

Re: cvs cygwin1.dll

2002-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:26:42AM +, Guy Harrison wrote: >On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:35:53 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:42:50PM +, Guy Harrison wrote: >>>On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:58:16 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>wrote

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Andre Srinivasan
... AS> Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. IP> It already IS a feature. The getopt function will stop processing IP> switches when it encounters the '--' option. You know that and I know that (now). I was just suggesting that adding this to the man page will el

Permissions on /tmp not set by setup program

2002-09-20 Thread Toby Everett
I installed Cygwin 1.3.12-4 (at least that's the version number on the cygwin package) on my XP system this morning. The system installed without any problems, but after a reboot, I discovered that I couldn't start XFree86 when logged in using my normal account. My normal account is not a member

Re: New versions of setup.ini

2002-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the document setup.ini now being dynamically updated? Over the last > couple of days I have detected differences between successive versions that > are restricted exclusively to the timestamp (as in > > diff setup.ini.curr setup.ini.prev > 5c5 > <

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andre Srinivasan wrote: > ... > MS> There is a workaround, though. You can use > MS>cygstart --hide -- foo -s > > Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. > -andre. It already IS a feature. The getopt function

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Andre Srinivasan
... MS> There is a workaround, though. You can use MS>cygstart --hide -- foo -s Works for me. Add it to the man page and we'll call it a feature. -andre. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cy

Problem developing odbc driver

2002-09-20 Thread Ignasi Villagrasa
Hi everyone, This is a problem I had before the summer, and I haven't solved yet. I'm trying to develop a odbc driver for an existing database in order to get several query odbc application connect to them. I use cygwin compiler and don't get it work properly. I have been trying to detail the

Re: rxvt doesn't paste selections anymore?

2002-09-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Here is my experience on NT4.0, rxvt v2.7.2 Same results with July cygwin1.dll and latest from cvs. 1) Right-sift + insert works fine inside an rxvt window 2) Pasting across windows crashes. The setting of CYGWIN on my system brings up gdb. The interaction is shown below. I was also able to str

First Attempt at a Cygwin Project

2002-09-20 Thread Buntain, Dave
Dear Sirs: We are using GDB in a project development effort. I have been a Windows Programmer for several years, and the local team would like to have a GUI that would interface with GDB. I've read the promotions on CygWin, but have not been able to find

IPC & fixup_mmaps_after_fork

2002-09-20 Thread Maurice, Dale
I'm seeing the following errors in a program I developed long ago, and have ported to cygwin. It used to work fine with NT/B20 and an old version of cygipc, but now I seem to be having problems under Win2K with cygipc 1.11-1. I did a search and could only find some old mentions of this problem,

How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread sara svensson
I have installed cygwin and now I whould like to install some packages from the page: http://cygwin.com/packages/ I can't find any information in the cygwin webpage that describes how to install these packages. Can someone tell me how to do this? Please explain in detail. Thanks! ___

RE: Why rxvt?

2002-09-20 Thread Zieg, Mark
> Can anyone tell me what advantages this might have for running bash, > compared to the usual Windows command line window? The ability to resize the window arbitrarily is the deal-breaker for me. I've started a Cygwin FAQ for my workgroup. You might find this entry worth trying: http

Re: Building SpamAssassin for Cygwin

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:59:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > make -f binaries.mk spamd/spamc > make[1]: Entering directory /home/eye/develop/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.41' > gcc -g -O2 spamd/spamc.c spamd/libspamc.c spamd/utils.c \ > -o spamd/spamc > make[1]: Leaving directory /home/eye

owner and group in ntsec

2002-09-20 Thread Rellermeyer Bernd
I am using cygwin on XP Home and all files created outside cygwin have group 'None' as expected. But files created in the cygwin environment have the group from the /etc/passwd file. Where are those groups stored? When I check permissions with cacls I don't see any owner and groups which are attac

Re: Can't figure out how to pass command arguments via cygstart

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Schaap
On 11-9-2002 2:14, Andre Srinivasan wrote: >I'd like to invoke command foo and pass the -s switch to the command. >When I try > >cygstart --hide foo -s > >cygstart complains that it does not understand the -s switch. Is >there a way to do this? > Yes, that's a bit unfortunate. I don't t

Re: cvs cygwin1.dll

2002-09-20 Thread Guy Harrison
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:35:53 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:42:50PM +, Guy Harrison wrote: >>On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:58:16 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:09:37AM +, Guy Harrison wrote

Re: run -nw in cygwin

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Schaap
On 20-9-2002 12:55, Francois de Campagnolle wrote: > Hi, > > I know there's a link on cygwin site to some 'run.exe' that doesn't launch a > new win (a la runemacs.exe), but I doesn't seem to work on my win98. > Wouldn't it make sense to include sth similar in cygwin distro ? [or does > it alread

Re: PHP Apache module with PostgreSQL support

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Tishler
Andreas, On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:04:03PM +0200, Andreas wrote: > It won't work with the flag -lxml. What flag should I specify instead? I don't know and wouldn't without trying it myself. Sorry, but I have helped you as much as I can. Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

run -nw in cygwin

2002-09-20 Thread Francois de Campagnolle
Hi, I know there's a link on cygwin site to some 'run.exe' that doesn't launch a new win (a la runemacs.exe), but I doesn't seem to work on my win98. Wouldn't it make sense to include sth similar in cygwin distro ? [or does it already exist??] FRC -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

FW: How to update Tcl-Tk libraries in cygwin.

2002-09-20 Thread Robert Cragie
More relevant to this mailing list... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T Satish Kumar Sent: 20 September 2002 18:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to update Tcl-Tk libraries in cygwin. Hi,

New versions of setup.ini

2002-09-20 Thread fergus
Is the document setup.ini now being dynamically updated? Over the last couple of days I have detected differences between successive versions that are restricted exclusively to the timestamp (as in diff setup.ini.curr setup.ini.prev 5c5 < setup-timestamp: 1032515481 --- > setup-timestamp: 1032449

Re: Re: rxvt doesn't paste selections anymore?

2002-09-20 Thread Thomas Mellman
"Alistair Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 20.09.02 11:54:31: > Hi Tom, > > > > Shift-Left-click pastes fine. I copied the information out of an rxvt > > > terminal (Cygwin updated yesterday). > > > > > > > > Shift-Left-click? Are you left-handed? > > Poor shorthand for holding the shift

Re: Fw: Telnet Script?

2002-09-20 Thread Alistair Grant
Hi Tom, Thanks for the offer, however I'm not using expect at the moment. You might also like to think about using ssh. It allows you to execute commands remotely and do neat things like: tar cf - . | ssh "cat > file.tar" The syntax might not be quite correct, however hopefully it gives

Re: rxvt doesn't paste selections anymore?

2002-09-20 Thread Alistair Grant
Hi Tom, > > Shift-Left-click pastes fine. I copied the information out of an rxvt > > terminal (Cygwin updated yesterday). > > > > Shift-Left-click? Are you left-handed? Poor shorthand for holding the shift key down while pressing the left mouse button. > Anyway, I'm using the same version a

Re: rxvt doesn't paste selections anymore?

2002-09-20 Thread Alistair Grant
Hi Hans, I'm glad I was able to help a bit. Clicking the middle (scroll) button also works for me, as does Insert and Shift-Insert. I should have said that I'm running Windows XP SP1, although it has worked with W2K (various SPs) and XP without SP1. When I shut down XP SP1 I *do* have to kill

gdb segfaults with dumper core file

2002-09-20 Thread Doug Wyatt
Hi, I've been unable to find much in the archives about the dumper.exe tool and I'm almost as unfamiliar with gdb usage so ... I've compiled a program called pcps, which converts text to postscript and sends it to a printer. Under an admin login, it works pretty much correctly. But, under a no

Re: rxvt doesn't paste selections anymore?

2002-09-20 Thread Thomas Mellman
> Re: rxvt doesn't paste selections anymore? > From: "Alistair Grant" > To: > Cc: "Deragon, Hans" > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:13:24 +1000 > Subject: Re: rxvt doesn't paste selections anymore? > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: df --local

2002-09-20 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
> I am trying to write a script that checks the % free of local drives using > df. > > $ df -a > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > C:\cygwin\bin 19936633 5750854 14185779 29% /usr/bin > c:\cygwin\lib 19936633