Re: SSE & gcc 3.x

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Prince
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 08:00, Mike McCollister wrote: > The current version of gcc in Cygwin is 2.95. I was wondering when Cygwin > will start to use the 3.x version of gcc. Also, when will the Intel SSE > instruction become available for Cygwin? > If you aren't using setup.exe yet, it's tim

Eggdrop 1.6.12:Trouble in read Chinese(Complex)

2002-10-01 Thread Max Yang
I've ported Eggdrop 1.6.12 with Cygwin 1.3.12 Everything is fine until any channel names contain Chinese(Complex) My Bot has trouble in showing and storing that kinda Channels infos How do i slove it? p.s I'm using win2k pro Chinese(Complex) version

readline Bug! ;-) [was: Bash Bug! (was: Bug in rxvt 2.7.2 ...)]

2002-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hey, as long as we're shifting the blame, let's shift it correctly ;-) Details below... On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > As for the Ctrl-Left, this is something odd in bash. I > > > > can get the same behavior in a command window running bash, > > >

Bash Bug! (was: Bug in rxvt 2.7.2 ...)

2002-10-01 Thread Jelks Cabaniss
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > As for the Ctrl-Left, this is something odd in bash. I > > > can get the same behavior in a command window running bash, > > > or even by typing Esc O c. Bash running on Linux does not > > > seem to have this problem. I wrote, speaking about CTRL+Left: > > He

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Is just arogance nothing more. At least it shows a complete > unawareness of reality. You will never ever change a MS-Word user into > a VIM or EMAC user. And why would you? I have to say that I r

Re: cygwin on removable media ...

2002-10-01 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:11 AM 10/1/2002, Rafal Kedziorski wrote: >Hallo, > >I have small problem. I'm using cygwin with postgresql on w2k. It's >possible to install cygwin on removable media (iomega disk, CD, ..) so >that I can make small demontrations on every PC? not everyone can or >will install the software on

RE: Bug in rxvt 2.7.2: shift-pageup/pagedown ignored with -sk option

2002-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > Steve O wrote: > > > As for the Ctrl-Left, this is something odd in bash. I can get the > > same behavior in a command window running bash, or even by typing > > Esc O c. Bash running on Linux does not seem to have this problem. > > Here it crashes rx

Re: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe

2002-10-01 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Maybe Cygwin's version was linked with textmode.o or automode.o and yours isn't. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746

Re: ls -l /usr : where has /usr/bin gone ?

2002-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Alex, To expand on this a bit: /usr/bin exists only as a virtual mount point. You can create a bin subdirectory in /usr if you wish to see it in the directory listing. You will either have to do it through windows, or via the following sequence: $ mount -m | grep /usr/bin\" mount -f -s -b "C:/

Re: MESH FABRIC

2002-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, WENGCORP LTD wrote: > [All caps grammatically incorrect spam deleted] Perhaps it would make sense to add ALL CAPS subjects to the spam filter? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [I don't seem to I've replied to Chris off-list. Please, don't anyone follow-up to this message. Please. There's no need for it and nothing of value would be accomplished. Thanks,

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
[I don't seem to be able to stick to my vows about not responding lately, but I couldn't let this one go. Just hit delete now. There's nothing useful here.] On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:58:58PM +, Soren A wrote: >So, the existence or non-existence of Gmane doesn't have much to do with >wheth

Re: cygwin 1.3.12 build question

2002-10-01 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:21:45 -0700 Doru Carastan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know what versions for w32api and mingw packages were used > in the 1.3.12 release? The full, current source can be viewed on line at http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/?cvsroot=src .

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 30 Sep 2002 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. edu: I have finally decided that it would seem a little _strange_ if i _didn't_ get my 2c in here since some (with overall historical memory of past posts) will recall some rather strident messages authored by me

.dll question

2002-10-01 Thread Paul G.
Hi folks, Try not to add to noise for this list unless it seems necessary for something I am currently porting. That is my apology ahead of time. Does msvc/c++ load .dlls generated using gcc -shared -mno-cygwin? I've not ever had msvc/c++ so can't say one way or the

Re: [CYGWIN] PostgreSQL/cygwin installation

2002-10-01 Thread Rafal Kedziorski
At 22:04 01.10.2002 +0200, you wrote: >Rafal Kedziorski writes: > > > I have may be for someone stupid question. It's possible to install > > PostgreSQL with cygwin on CD or Iomega-Drive, so that someone can copy > > and start this installation without making anyone installation or > > configurati

Re: How do I get my .bashrc read at startup?

2002-10-01 Thread mstucky5
If I remember correctly... with older versions of cygwin the file /etc/profile contained the following statement test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc which would read .bashrc at startup. The above statement has been removed from newer versions. I think that the "proper" way to read .bashrc is

Re: full installation of cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Matt Graham
Nick: Did you go through a choose to install every package? That is...click view, and change all the "skips" to the current version number? Thats what I always do. You can explicitly choose to have gcc installed that way. Matt - Original Message - From: "Nick Guydosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: inetd + in.ftpd debugging question

2002-10-01 Thread Bruce P. Osler
Well, I'm not sure about this course. I was actually more inclined to suspect that there may be something odd with our device than with cygwin. Towards this end I figured I should be able to snoop the innards of the ftpd in order to figure out who/what's going on. At this point I'm suspecting t

RE: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Vasaru
Kris, I am no authority on the matter, but I believe most Cygwin/Win32 ports of "text-based" utilities deal with CRLF/LF by setting the O_TEXT flag and letting the (C) runtime translate the line endings for them. Instead of adjusting the file input mode, please note that you may want to adjust y

Re: New user question(s)

2002-10-01 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
At 10:15 AM 10/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hi List, > >I'm new to cygwin, running xfree86 version. I've attempted to look at the >faq and the >list archive and didn't see these questions. I think they're a result of >some mis- >understanding I have of UNIX. > >When I launch my cygwin window from t

Re: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe

2002-10-01 Thread Kris Warkentin
I'm actually quite certain that what you wrote would help. The issue is that cccp.c (the gcc preprocessor) does not do that and, as near as I can tell from the FAQ, shouldn't need to. That, however, is where I might be wrong. I'm wondering if the cpp shipped with Cygwin has been patched so that

Re: full installation of cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Nick Guydosh wrote: > not include gcc). I am not too sure what I did in the first case to get > the full installation - could you give a tip on how to force a full > installation. I haven't seen this question asked for a long time :) Here is how to install all Cygwin pack

RE: Bug in rxvt 2.7.2: shift-pageup/pagedown ignored with -sk option

2002-10-01 Thread Jelks Cabaniss
Steve O wrote: > As for the Ctrl-Left, this is something odd in bash. I can get the > same behavior in a command window running bash, or even by typing > Esc O c. Bash running on Linux does not seem to have this problem. Here it crashes rxvt, but not the bash console. WinXP. /Jelks -- Un

Re: New user question(s)

2002-10-01 Thread felixmendelssohnn
At 10:15 AM 10/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hi List, > >I'm new to cygwin, running xfree86 version. I've attempted to look at the >faq and the >list archive and didn't see these questions. I think they're a result of >some mis- >understanding I have of UNIX. > >When I launch my cygwin window from t

Re: inetd + in.ftpd debugging question

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:00:24PM -0400, Bruce P. Osler wrote: >Can anybody perhaps throw a hint over the fence to me about how I might >go about debugging this issue? How about trying the latest cygwin snapshot at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ ? If it is a problem in cygwin it might be fixed the

inetd + in.ftpd debugging question

2002-10-01 Thread Bruce P. Osler
I'm currently attempting to debug network boot (via ftp) of a networking device for which I'm responsible. The devices ftp client is based on a horribly antiquated vxworks kernel. The cygwin I'm using has been recently updated and includes inetutils release (1.3.2) The issue isn't one of comple

RE: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Vasaru
Nick, please refer to: "How is the DOS/Unix CR/LF thing handled?" in the cygwin faq: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC72 Also, read the documentation for the "mount" utility and the CYGWIN environment variable setting. If you want to make sure that the input to your "cpp" is translated no ma

cygwin 1.3.12 build question

2002-10-01 Thread Doru Carastan
Hi, Does anyone know what versions for w32api and mingw packages were used in the 1.3.12 release? Thanks, Doru Carastan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Curmudgeon Reply

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:31:53PM +0100, raphael wrote: >And dont forget to ask that people might ?To whom it might concern? instead >of cryptic shortcuts like TWIMC. Actually, as long as we're correcting people it is "To whom it may concern". Using an acronym in a greeting is, IMO, no big deal

Re: Curmudgeon Reply

2002-10-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Raphael, True. I use very few acronyms (but a few years doing DARPA-funded work will do that to you), but I do occasionally use that one. I usually figure that in context it's either obvious or at least would force people to think a bit. It's also immaterial to the content of the message. Ra

full installation of cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Nick Guydosh
I previously had a full installation of cygwin (683M, includes gcc),and had to remove it. I wanted to reinstall a full installation, but now it seems that no matter what i do I get a partial installation (about 28 MB , does not include gcc). I am not too sure what I did in the first case to

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Robinow, David wrote: >> From: raphael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., >> alt.os.cygwin) >> >> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > Please provide the URL of such a

Problems with Perl XS module in C++ on Cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Eric Benson
I'm having trouble building a Perl XS module in C++ on Cygwin. I've got Cygwin 1.3.12-2 and I've tried Perl 5.6.1 and Perl 5.8.0. This module has built and run successfully on Linux. I used the XS C++ guidelines in http://www.johnkeiser.com/perl-xs-c++.html The first problem is caused by the macr

Re: Curmudgeon Reply

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:49:31AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > TWIMC, > > When you post to this list (or any list, of course), please use subject > headers that are descriptive of the question you are asking. > > Subject headers such as "Beginner's Question," "Newbie Needs Help" or, god >

RE: NTTY

2002-10-01 Thread Gerald S. Williams
Karen Oakley wrote: > >could you please tell me what NTTY stands for?? thanks I seem to remember this having something to do with low-level line control in Unix. The following web page calls it a "Hardware Emulation Module" (Google is your friend): http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~aydin/files/PROGRA

RE: Help with Cygwin SSH

2002-10-01 Thread dwilson4life
sftp only if your remote system is running an SSHD as well. Or just forward the data port (20) as well as the command port (21). Otherwise, use Putty instead of SecureCRT ... its, smaller, faster, and pretty easy to configure. >Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:36:31 -0700 >From: "David Rothenberger"

mkfifo - anyone got a working version ?

2002-10-01 Thread Lavelle, Neil
Hi All, It's documented that the latest release of cygwin does not support mkfifo (I certainly get "Function not implemented" when I call it), however it also seems from a number of relatively old (> 1 year) discussions I've read on the developers list that there may be a working prototype or t

Re: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe

2002-10-01 Thread Kris Warkentin
> printf("This is a long string across\ > multiple lines"); > > or a backslashified #define is being concatenated. Now, if I use the Cygwin > cpp.exe, I get the following (expected) behaviour: Correction: I meant NOT being concatenated. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: [Mingw-users] Cygwin & MinGW

2002-10-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Alex Vinokur wrote: > > = > Windows 2000 > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 > = > > Directories /lib and /usr/include contain directory mingw. > How are files under mingw used? > P.S. Cygwin contains gcc (cygwin special), but not (mingw special). > See the http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.sh

Re: can I mount ext2fs on cygwin?

2002-10-01 Thread darryl
Quoting Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Darryl, Marcos, > > Much more to the point is the very recent thread "Beginner- need help in > understanding" (another one of those wonderfully non-descriptive subject > headers): Touche :o) Darryl -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: can I mount ext2fs on cygwin?

2002-10-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Darryl, Marcos, Much more to the point is the very recent thread "Beginner- need help in understanding" (another one of those wonderfully non-descriptive subject headers):

CR/NL problem with cpp.exe

2002-10-01 Thread Kris Warkentin
Hello, Our Windows hosted development tools are compiled under Cygwin and I'm observing a strange problem with Dos style text files not being pre-processed correctly. Specifically, something like this: printf("This is a long string across\ multiple lines"); or a backslashified #define is be

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Robinow, David
> From: raphael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., > alt.os.cygwin) > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Please provide the URL of such a reply. Stating that a thing is so > > without proof is not useful. >

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:25:00AM -0500, Lane, Frank L wrote: >As a newbie to cygwin I'd like to put a comment in on this one. > >Even if people are brusque, without being a downright rude, newbie's, >like moi, learn and more importantly are helped to learn what questions >are apropos on what lis

Re: [Novice]

2002-10-01 Thread valcauda Stéphane
thanks for all your answer. I will try XFree86 later. I've found what I want for now with PgadminII (managing PostGresQL with GUI interface). - Original Message - From: "raphael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [No

Re: can I mount ext2fs on cygwin?

2002-10-01 Thread darryl
Quoting Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't know if this helps but I have Linux running on 'server' > > and win98 on 'ppp' (see note below) > > > > Samba links the two - ppp accesse

Re: NTTY

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please check out the project web page for links to available information and ports: http://cygwin.com/ . If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is the best place to make observations or get questions answered. Information on the mailing list is available at the projec

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > a mail server [No Reverse DNS] with no reverse DNS entry. > X-RBL-Warning: This E-mail was routed in a poor manner consistent with spam >[2103]. > X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for s

Re: [Novice]

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:19:51PM +0200, valcauda Stéphane wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Cygwin on W2k. > I would like to know if there is a GUI interface with Cygwin. > I found XFree86 on the packages but before installing I would be sure > that it make what I want. > What is it exactl

Re: ls -l /usr : where has /usr/bin gone ?

2002-10-01 Thread Johan Bezem
Hi Alex, cf: 'man mount' Ciao, Johan Bezem CSK Software AG Alex Vinokur wrote: > > = > Windows 2000 > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 > = > > Hi, > > Directory /usr/bin exists but missing in ls /usr . > Any explanation ? > - > > Adm

Cygwin & MinGW

2002-10-01 Thread Alex Vinokur
= Windows 2000 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 = Directories /lib and /usr/include contain directory mingw. How are files under mingw used? P.S. Cygwin contains gcc (cygwin special), but not (mingw special). == Alex Vinokur mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://u

Re: Bug in rxvt 2.7.2: shift-pageup/pagedown ignored with -sk option

2002-10-01 Thread Steve O
> Hum... I can not only confirm this one, but also get a > reproducible crash if I press Ctrl+Left at the end of a line. Hi, I tracked down the -sk problem last night, it happens because XLookupString is only trivially implemented and returns 1 all the time. As for the Ctrl-Left, this is some

Re: How do I get my .bashrc read at startup?

2002-10-01 Thread Donald MacVicar
Lane, Frank L wrote: Have you setup your passwd file? man mkpasswd >Thanks to Randall for the bash(ing)!:-) > >How do I get my .bashrc read at startup? > > > > >Thanks, >Frank > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/b

Re: How do I get my .bashrc read at startup?

2002-10-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Frank, I've attached the two Windows shortcuts that I use to launch BASH, either in a console ("Cygwin.lnk") or in RXVT ("RXVT-AM.lnk"). You'll no doubt want to edit these for the particular installation directories, window sizes and colors and fonts and such. In case these shortcuts are not

How do I get my .bashrc read at startup?

2002-10-01 Thread Lane, Frank L
Thanks to Randall for the bash(ing)!:-) How do I get my .bashrc read at startup? Thanks, Frank -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http:/

Curmudgeon Reply

2002-10-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
TWIMC, When you post to this list (or any list, of course), please use subject headers that are descriptive of the question you are asking. Subject headers such as "Beginner's Question," "Newbie Needs Help" or, god forbid, "Question" are singularly unhelpful in describing the content of the q

ls -l /usr : where has /usr/bin gone ?

2002-10-01 Thread Alex Vinokur
= Windows 2000 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 = Hi, Directory /usr/bin exists but missing in ls /usr . Any explanation ? - Administrator@5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI /usr $ pwd /usr Administrator@5AT8S8CQEEX4QHI /usr $ ls -l total 2 drwxr-xr-x

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Lane, Frank L
As a newbie to cygwin I'd like to put a comment in on this one. Even if people are brusque, without being a downright rude, newbie's, like moi, learn and more importantly are helped to learn what questions are apropos on what lists. Per haps even more importantly we also learn how to frame our qu

Re: rsync mirrors & cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Alan schrieb: > Does anyone know of an rsync mirror for cygwin ? $ wget http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html && grep rsync mirrors.html --17:15:02-- http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html => `mirrors.html.1' Resolving cygwin.com... done. Connecting to cygwin.com[209.249.29.67]:80... connected. HTT

New user question(s)

2002-10-01 Thread Lane, Frank L
Hi List, I'm new to cygwin, running xfree86 version. I've attempted to look at the faq and the list archive and didn't see these questions. I think they're a result of some mis- understanding I have of UNIX. When I launch my cygwin window from the icon my .bashrc isn't run. Will someone pleas

cygwin on removable media ...

2002-10-01 Thread Rafal Kedziorski
Hallo, I have small problem. I'm using cygwin with postgresql on w2k. It's possible to install cygwin on removable media (iomega disk, CD, ..) so that I can make small demontrations on every PC? not everyone can or will install the software on his own computer. Best Regards, Rafal -- Unsubscr

rsync mirrors & cygwin

2002-10-01 Thread Alan Hourihane
Does anyone know of an rsync mirror for cygwin ? Alan. -- 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/

SSE & gcc 3.x

2002-10-01 Thread Mike McCollister
The current version of gcc in Cygwin is 2.95. I was wondering when Cygwin will start to use the 3.x version of gcc. Also, when will the Intel SSE instruction become available for Cygwin? Thanks, Mike McCollister __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Interne

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Lisi wrote: > > > > >Yes, your question made me wonder if it wouldn't be nice to have a > >cygwin-unix-questions mailing list, but then it occurred to me that then > >we'd have endless and indignant discussions of whether something is cygwin > >or unix

RE: [Novice]

2002-10-01 Thread Zieg, Mark
If you follow these steps... http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/InstallXWindows ...you will end up with something that looks like this: http://www.zieg.com/pub/cygwin-x11.jpg That's far from aesthetically ideal, but it's a decent default to customize from. -

Re: how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:43:40AM -0400, Robert Praetorius wrote: >> Also, if I am downloading files for later install, it seems to not >> work if I start with one machine and then later download some stuff >> from a different machine. The machine name is used in the directory >> path of the file

RE: how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Robinow, David
> From: Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: how do I know which system to choose when running setup? > > How do I know that I didn't pick the slowest, farthest away site in NA > for my cygwin downloads? You don't. Live with it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:30:53AM +0100, raphael wrote: >On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:22:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>However, this really side steps the issue. Five hundred "How do I get >>to the previous command in bash?" questions are not going to lead to >>new insight about cygwin.

Re: how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Donald MacVicar
Ed wrote: >>"Z" == Zieg, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > >Z> (1) The point of having multiple mirrors is so that everyone >Z> won't hit the same server, thus slowing it down. If we all >Z> said "use THIS one, it's the best"...then everyone would shif

Re: how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Ed
> "Z" == Zieg, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Z> (1) The point of having multiple mirrors is so that everyone Z> won't hit the same server, thus slowing it down. If we all Z> said "use THIS one, it's the best"...then everyone would shift Z> to it, and it would shortly be th

Re: [Novice]

2002-10-01 Thread Olaf Foellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:19:51PM +0200, valcauda Stéphane wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Cygwin on W2k. > I would like to know if there is a GUI interface with Cygwin. > I found XFree86 on the packages but before installing I would be sure > that it make what I want. What do you want ?

[Novice]

2002-10-01 Thread valcauda Stéphane
Hi, I've just installed Cygwin on W2k. I would like to know if there is a GUI interface with Cygwin. I found XFree86 on the packages but before installing I would be sure that it make what I want. thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: ftp and ncftp hangs: any ideas?

2002-10-01 Thread Jason Tishler
Rob, On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:44:40PM -0700, Rob Anderson wrote: > Any ideas on what to try? Unfortunately none, but debug. Although, I can offer one other data point under Windows 2000. I got ncftp to hang when initiating a data connection (e.g., ls, get, etc.) in passive mode, but *only*

Re: how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Praetorius
> Also, if I am downloading files for later install, it seems to not > work if I start with one machine and then later download some stuff > from a different machine. The machine name is used in the directory > path of the files that I download. So if I get some from one machine > and some more fr

RE: how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Zieg, Mark
(1) The point of having multiple mirrors is so that everyone won't hit the same server, thus slowing it down. If we all said "use THIS one, it's the best"...then everyone would shift to it, and it would shortly be the worst. (2) What's "fast for me" won't necessarily be "fast for you", because w

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how do I know which system to choose when running setup?

2002-10-01 Thread Ed
Howdy all! When running Cygwin setup I am asked to pick a server name where my downloads will come from. How do I know which is a good one to pick? I have avoided the ones with obviously foriegn (i.e. outside the USA, where I am), but is there any reason to pick one over another? Also, if I am

Re: can I mount ext2fs on cygwin?

2002-10-01 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if this helps but I have Linux running on 'server' > and win98 on 'ppp' (see note below) > > Samba links the two - ppp accesses a Samba share 'darryl' (my home directory on server) > >From a b

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread raphael
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:22:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > However, this really side steps the issue. Five hundred "How do I get > to the previous command in bash?" questions are not going to lead to new > insight about cygwin. Yes they will. These questions are asked by starting use

Re: maybe a stupid question: mail relay?

2002-10-01 Thread Henry S. Thompson
I use ssh port forwarding to achieve this (if I understand your request correctly), i.e. ssh -L 25:[remote system]:25 [remote system] and then tell your mailer that localhost is your SMTP server. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C F

Re: can I mount ext2fs on cygwin?

2002-10-01 Thread darryl
Quoting Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a way to mount ext2fs on a winbox? I heard about a program that > did that, but I think cygwin doesn't have anything to do that. It would be > great to rsync my two homes both in linux and windoze xD. > > > rgrds, > m4c. > Hi,

Re: where is my ñ and Ñ?

2002-10-01 Thread Cliff Hones
Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote: > > > > > I cannot have ñ and Ñ in my rxvt. How can I do this? > > > > > > Regards, > > > m4c. > >

can I mount ext2fs on cygwin?

2002-10-01 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
Is there a way to mount ext2fs on a winbox? I heard about a program that did that, but I think cygwin doesn't have anything to do that. It would be great to rsync my two homes both in linux and windoze xD. rgrds, m4c. __ Equipo Técnico

Re: where is my ñ and Ñ?

2002-10-01 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote: > > > I cannot have ñ and Ñ in my rxvt. How can I do this? > > > > Regards, > > m4c. > > Search the archives for .inputrc. > Igor I didn't find a t

Re: Login command

2002-10-01 Thread Bjoern Kahl AG Resy
Hallo ! This has been discussed some time ago, but anyway: On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, valcauda Stéphane wrote: > When I try "login " command with any of my windows NT account / password, > it doesn't work. > even after MkPasswd. > > Is it a problem of passwd or something else ? > I read the FAQ on

Re: Path to dynamic libraries

2002-10-01 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Pierre schrieb: > Thanks to everyone who replied to my question. > The actual problem I am faced to is that I compiled (and tested) a > program (ddd) under Cygwin installed as H:\Cygwin and then distributed > the binaries to students who are supposed to install it on their own > box. > The prob