Re: Suppress newline under cygwin bash

echo -en "hello" and with a newline, echo -en "hello\n" Gareth On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote: > Howdy all! > > I have noticed that the two ways I have read about to suppress newline > characters in the echo command do not seem to be working. Here is what I > have tried: > >

Re: Suppress newline under cygwin bash

Robert, At 23:19 2003-01-27, Robert Mark Bram wrote: Howdy all! I have noticed that the two ways I have read about to suppress newline characters in the echo command do not seem to be working. Here is what I have tried: $ echo "hi there\c" hi there\c This is csh / tcsh's way of suppressing th

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

[...] > If that is NOT what you are suggestion -- e.g. that only tclsh83 should > be renamed -- why? Why is tclsh83 special? [...] [cough, ough!] Yes, yes, why?! Why is it the one and only cygwin app (except the specific applications, e.g. cygcheck, cygpath) that cannot do a "$ /bin/tclsh83.exe

Suppress newline under cygwin bash

Howdy all! I have noticed that the two ways I have read about to suppress newline characters in the echo command do not seem to be working. Here is what I have tried: $ echo "hi there\c" hi there\c $ echo "...using -n." ...using -n. $ Quoted or unquoted, the result is the same. I tried doing a

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: > William A. Hoffman wrote: > > I recently ran setup, and one of the new packages, I think gdb, caused > > a tclsh83.exe to be installed into /usr/bin. It would be nice if > > this were a full working tclsh83.exe, but it is not.However, it conflicte

bug: select() for sockets returned by accept() returns always ready for write (sel.always_ready 1)

Hi, I am using non-blocking sockets in a small server software. Select() seems to indicate that sockets returned by accept() are always ready for write. This causes 99% cpu usage since the socket gets always selected as writeable and after that write returns EAGAIN and again we go to the select

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: [sourcenav-user] Snapshot: Redhat's SourceNavigator version 5.2.0 native Win32 build

Mo DeJong wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:17:12 -0500 Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just uploaded a release of Redhat's Source Navigator now maintained at http://sourcenav.sf.net to the MinGW project. I have to admit that I am a bit conflicted about this action Earnie. While I ce

Re: Making zsh the default

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Virginia Mann wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but I'm a real newbie, so here goes > > What is the proper way to make zsh the default shell in Cygwin? I installed > it and can start it up by typing "zsh" at a bash prompt, but how do I make > it take the place

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a > "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable > permission bits would actually correspond to the executability > of a file? I

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Randall R Schulz wrote: > Max, > > If one took the "change-cygdrive-prefix" approach, could not one > achieve backward- or "convention-" compatibility with the symlink > "/cygdrive -> /"? Yes, that would work too. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repo

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Rafael Kitover wrote: > >> Often when I go between cmd and zsh, I get my copy/cp del/rm mixed >> up. This would also apply to folks who have to use both the unix and >> windows command lines on a regular occasion. Also to support simple >> Makefiles, batch files etc. in var

Re: Using cygwin and JAVA/JNI

Following up from recent emails about Java/JNI using Sun's JDK I'd thought I'd share my experiences. Up and until Cygwin-1.3.13 the test script below would compile and run as expected. The test produces a simple Java Native Interface (JNI) program which calls C code from a Java program using J

Re: cygpath question

Robert Mark Bram wrote: MMm.. this does not work for me. Like Larry, when I click and drag, all I get is the windows path, unquoted.. although if I take the time to put in quotes it works ok - but I want automatic quoting!!! $ cd C:\Rob\java bash: cd: C:Robjava: No such file or directory You

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

Rafael Kitover wrote: Often when I go between cmd and zsh, I get my copy/cp del/rm mixed up. This would also apply to folks who have to use both the unix and windows command lines on a regular occasion. Also to support simple Makefiles, batch files etc. in various packages. Making aliases or

Re: [sourcenav-user] Snapshot: Redhat's Source Navigator version 5.2.0native Win32 build

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:17:12 -0500 Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just uploaded a release of Redhat's Source Navigator now maintained > at http://sourcenav.sf.net to the MinGW project. I have to admit that I am a bit conflicted about this action Earnie. While I certainly appreciat

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

William A. Hoffman wrote: I recently ran setup, and one of the new packages, I think gdb, caused a tclsh83.exe to be installed into /usr/bin. It would be nice if this were a full working tclsh83.exe, but it is not.However, it conflicted with the working tclsh83.exe I already had in my path.

Re: cygwin Release process

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:54:25PM -0500, Scott Prive wrote: >William, > >The "ntsec" problem by all accounts was a one-time switch that burned a >lot of people. It seems like a great feature (not completely using it >myself), and when I upgraded to it I had NO idea of the impending >change. I sh

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Max, If one took the "change-cygdrive-prefix" approach, could not one achieve backward- or "convention-" compatibility with the symlink "/cygdrive -> /"? Myself, I have a bunch of symlinks for all the Windows drives, including my CD drives and diskette. Randall Schulz At 12:32 2003-01-27, M

RE: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Scott, "mount" is part of the "cygwin" package, so it should work if you've installed Cygwin. "man mount" is another story, however. A search for "man1/mount.1" on reveals that you need the "cygwin-doc" package. Sorry for my assumption that it is installed automa

More on "Signal 11" problem / GCC vs. 1.3.19+

Haven't found the problem, but I've narrowed it down some, so this is mainly to see if anybody's memory gets jogged: I'm gdb'ing "gengtype.exe", the executable that's "Signal 11"ing and killing the compile of GCC cvs HEAD on cygwin1.dll versions 1.3.19 and later. It's SIGSEVing on line 2382 of ge

RE: anyone have implicit linkage of gcc DLLs working in Visual C?

> lib /DEF:foo.def /OUT foo.lib Hey, thanks! After a little reverse engineering to verify VC's lib.exe produces .libs which reference a DLL of the same name as the .def (e.g. foo.dll) I've got this working. For reference, the syntax I'm using to build and link Atlas is gcc -mno-cygwin -shared -

RE: Cygwin Release process

William, The "ntsec" problem by all accounts was a one-time switch that burned a lot of people. It seems like a great feature (not completely using it myself), and when I upgraded to it I had NO idea of the impending change. I should have known better than to perform blind upgrades. I've been

Re: Cygwin Release process

I realize it is a volunteer effort, and a good one, it really makes windows much nicer to work with! I am not demanding or expecting anything. I am only trying to start a discussion that could lead to a possible solution. I think that this could be done without "much" effort, or the work of a

Re: cygwin Release process

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:15:01AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Bill, IMO you are missing a key point: > >Cygwin is volunteer maintained. No release manager volunteer, and no >stable release maintainer (who will maintain stable packages after they >become stale) have stepped up. > >The *only* way

Snapshot: Redhat's Source Navigator version 5.2.0 native Win32 build

I've just uploaded a release of Redhat's Source Navigator now maintained at http://sourcenav.sf.net to the MinGW project. Binary release: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/snavigator-5.2.0-2003.01.27-1.exe Source release: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/snavigator-5.2.0-2003.01.27-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: Cygwin Release process

Bill, IMO you are missing a key point: Cygwin is volunteer maintained. No release manager volunteer, and no stable release maintainer (who will maintain stable packages after they become stale) have stepped up. The *only* way you will get a stable release is to: 1) offer to take on all the extr

Re: libpcap cygwin....

> yes but how other programs(programs:hping,libnet...) that depend on > libpcap(and compile under cygwin)can understand where libpcap is sorry i'm > not a programmer. libpcap requires headers and libraries that are not a part of cygwin and cant be compiled with out them. If all you need are th

RE: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Hello Igor, Do I need a package to make the mount work? I typed in man mount, but it says notavailable, but I know i have installed most of the man pages for what I own? Thanks, Scott -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 2:

Re: dup(/dev/pipew) failed, handle 3C, Win32 error 6

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:57:38PM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> When I install the following (the latest?) cygwin release: >> >> C:\cygwin.new\bin>uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-4.0 WKSTN000Y 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) 2002-12-25 15:37 i686 unknown >unknown Cygwin > >The latest version of the cygwin1.dll is 1.3.1

Re: dup(/dev/pipew) failed, handle 3C, Win32 error 6

> When I install the following (the latest?) cygwin release: > > C:\cygwin.new\bin>uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-4.0 WKSTN000Y 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) 2002-12-25 15:37 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin The latest version of the cygwin1.dll is 1.3.19 . Perhaps you could upgrade to the latest dll (cygwin package in setup

re: dup(/dev/pipew) failed, handle 3C, Win32 error 6

To whom it may concern, (tried to find a bug list for cygwin, but this is the best I could do - apologies if it is the wrong place.) When I install the following (the latest?) cygwin release: C:\cygwin.new\bin>uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 WKSTN000Y 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) 2002-12-25 15:37 i686 unknown unknow

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Rob Siklos wrote: > running "mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /" will make all your drives > be subdirectories of "/" instead of "/cygdrive". And then when you run some script which expects /cygdrive, it will break. OK, the script is what is broken, but the path of least resistance is to use symlink

Re: Cygwin Release process

And, at the risk of raising tempers of those in the current round of this thread, can we please not cover old ground on this one? If you're not willing to look up in the email archives and review the old thread to make sure you're not interjecting the same arguments for and against, the result

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

running "mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /" will make all your drives be subdirectories of "/" instead of "/cygdrive". there is plenty about this if you search on google. I also suggest reading the cygwin faq from top to bottom - you'll find useful stuff that you weren't even looking for. Rob. -

Re: Cygwin Release process

Well, if I am the only person with this opinion, then you are right. I should stop complaining and burn a CD. However, I suspect that I am not alone in wanting a more stable cygwin.It will be hard to prove my case, as the folks that read this list and post to it, tend to be more developer ori

Re: gcc linking

David Meggy wrote: > $ cat prog.c > #include > > int main() { > char ** string; > asprintf(string, "Sfsdf"); > return 0; } > > > david@DURON1000 ~ > $ gcc -O2 prog.c -o prog > > david@DURON1000 ~ > $ ./prog.exe > > > > When I run the program I get a message from MS-Windows titled > "prog.exe >

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Scott Purcell wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I am not asking pre-posted question. But I love the cygwin > product. It makes life nice. But I am tiring a little of always > typing: > /cygdrive/c everytime I want to start at c: > > eg: > cp fun.class /cygdrive/c/make_lr/updates/. > > Is there a way

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Scott Purcell wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I am not asking pre-posted question. But I love the cygwin > product. It makes life nice. But I am tiring a little of always typing: > /cygdrive/c everytime I want to start at c: > > eg: > cp fun.class /cygdrive/c/make_lr/updates/. > >

Re: Cygwin Release process

William A. Hoffman wrote: > So, from the feedback I am getting, it really boils down to a "not > enough people to maintain the feature" issue. I don't think that > people don't think that a stable release of cygwin would be a bad > thing, it is just that there > is no one to maintain it. > > The l

Re: ssh x forwarding

Hi! > Not that this is sure to solve your problem, but it's a possibility: > ssh daemons can be configured to prohibit X forwarding. Try > > ssh -v -l Use the above if your sure you enabled x-forwarding in your ~/.ssh/config or in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. If not, a better idea would be to use

Re: Cygwin Release process

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > The "Keep" button is in the setup CVS already. Try a setup snapshot. These aren't auto-generated. The latest one doesn't have this in, yet. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Docu

Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Hello, I hope I am not asking pre-posted question. But I love the cygwin product. It makes life nice. But I am tiring a little of always typing: /cygdrive/c everytime I want to start at c: eg: cp fun.class /cygdrive/c/make_lr/updates/. Is there a way to do something so I can type the above but

Re: Cygwin Release process

Bill, The "Keep" button is in the setup CVS already. Try a setup snapshot. ;-) There does seem to be a tendency that most of the problems are introduced when a major new version of a package (*-1) is released. The *-[2-9] versions are usually bugfixes applied specifically to the Cygwin port of

jar.exe (part of Gcc) crash if started from non-cygwin shell

Jar.exe (now part of GCC!) crashes on *some* jar files, if it's started from a non-cygwin shell (e.g. CMD). Don't think it's a problem in jar per se, however. It works if it's started from another cygwin program (even "env"). And it works on many jar files (including all the Jars shipped with J

ftp server showing date as part of the file/directory name

Hello all, I'm running cygwin with dll v1.3.19. I have the ftp server running under inetd, and have the following behaviour: When I log in to the ftp server from a win32 client such as ws_ftp or cute ftp, the file and directory names include the dates. For example, the directory "/var" appears

Re: cygwin path problems

Scott, You're close, but missing some critical syntax. Your invocation: java -jar cygpath -m /usr/local/ags/libs/makeThumbs.jar simply passes to the "java" command the "-jar" option and the argument strings "cygpath" "-m", etc. You clearly want the to pass as arguments to "java" the result of

gcc linking

Hi, I've run into some difficulties with gcc/ld on the latest cygwin (downloaded friday). Below is an example. $ cat prog.c #include int main() { char ** string; asprintf(string, "Sfsdf"); return 0; } david@DURON1000 ~ $ gcc -O2 prog.c -o prog david@DURON1000 ~ $ ./prog.exe When I ru

cygwin path problems

I am having a hard time understanding the cygpath. I don't know why... But anyway. I am running Win2000. I have created a executable jar file that lives at /usr/local/ags/libs/test.jar And jar is good and runs from a dos window if I move the test.jar to C:/ Anyway, I am trying to run it through

Re: Cygwin Release process

The new View:Partial does help. I can now easily see what will get updated. It would be nice if there was a button, that set all of them to keep. Often times, I want to update only a single package, and that makes it easier. So, from the feedback I am getting, it really boils down to a "not en

RE: ssh x forwarding [SOLVED]

Patrick Nelson wrote: - My other Linux systems can connect to the remote sshd. Here is the output of a call: ---snip-- debug1: Sending command: evolution debug1: channel request 0: exec debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 debug1: channel 0: rcvd e

RE: ssh x forwarding

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Not that this is sure to solve your problem, but it's a possibility: ssh daemons can be configured to prohibit X forwarding. Try ssh -v -l to see what ssh reports regarding whether X forwarding was actually established, and/or check the sshd_co

RE: SSH and Home

You're absolutely right - I've gone through the process of changing to a name with no spaces but the problem persisted. After reading this I changed my etc/passwd file so that home was /cygdrive/d/home/kevinj and I'm golden Thank you, Kevin Jones Developmentor www.develop.com > -Original Mes

20030126 and bleadperl

PC09:/P/perl-current 521 $ ( mktest.pl 2>&1 ) >mktest.log & [1] 1716 PC09:/P/perl-current 522 $ C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** WFSO timed out for after longjmp. I've not seen this one before. -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 o

Re: ssh x forwarding

Not that this is sure to solve your problem, but it's a possibility: ssh daemons can be configured to prohibit X forwarding. Try ssh -v -l to see what ssh reports regarding whether X forwarding was actually established, and/or check the sshd_config file on the remote machine (if you have p

ssh x forwarding

In ssh you get x forwarding. But, I can't seem to get it working. A command like: ssh -l always responds with something like: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Is there some configuration that needs to take place in cygwin first? Yes I can log in by dropping the part and yes the i

tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

I recently ran setup, and one of the new packages, I think gdb, caused a tclsh83.exe to be installed into /usr/bin. It would be nice if this were a full working tclsh83.exe, but it is not.However, it conflicted with the working tclsh83.exe I already had in my path. Shouldn't the name of thi

GCJ and threads

Hi all, Any idea how to get GCJ and threads to work?? Thnx, Bart -- 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: Problems with NT user acount under Cygwin

Mercurio, Michael wrote: > Hi Cygwin users, > > Does anyone know of any tricks or gotcha's when setting up cygwin > with Windows NT such that Cygwin can authenticate using an NT > username and password for things like ssh password authentication, > telnet, etc? Its supposed to be just: - Set u

RE: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

Sorry. Better said as 2GB files. If this caused any confusion for you, check the email archives for the definitive answer! ;-) Larry Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:15:35 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

RE: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

This is a good question for the email archives. It's been asked and answered more than once. Cygwin curently supports only 32 bit word sizes. The tools will have trouble with file sizes larger than 4GB. Larry Original Message: - From: Heitzso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 27 Jan 20

Re: Cygwin Release process

Bill, This subject has been discussed before on this list. May I suggest you review the email archives if you plan to further pursue the discussion here? It would be a great help if any discussion of this topic covered some new ground. As it stands, the Cygwin distribution as available throu

Re: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

Heitzso wrote: > I'm trying to work with a 22G (yes, gigabyte) and have > noticed problems with > ls (wrong file size, significant over report) > tail (doesn't catch end of file) > I don't know about other utilities, but I wanted to get > these reported > > BTW, I greatly appreciate CYGWIN.

Re: Cygwin Release process

William A. Hoffman wrote: > What I am suggesting is taking the same approach as Debian. > Each package in Debian is in one of these states: > Stable, Testing, or Unstable. > > Stable packages - should work. We have this. Its called [curr] > Testing packages - working on becoming the next stable v

noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

I'm trying to work with a 22G (yes, gigabyte) and have noticed problems with ls (wrong file size, significant over report) tail(doesn't catch end of file) I don't know about other utilities, but I wanted to get these reported BTW, I greatly appreciate

RE: cygwin1.dll

Igor, Thanks for this info. The only Cygwin executables being installed will be those to support OpenSSH on that machine e.g. ssh-keygen,scp,sftp etc. I still do not have a clear understanding of how a user could "hijack" a cygwin process running as system account,effectively bypassing system secu

Re: Cygwin Release process

What I am suggesting is taking the same approach as Debian. Each package in Debian is in one of these states: Stable, Testing, or Unstable. Stable packages - should work. Testing packages - working on becoming the next stable version Unstable packages - all other packages, might be working towards

Who??

Hi, Since I got a little cranky about the problem with very slow pipe I/O when there was background CPU load (e.g., SETI@home), I thought I'd confirm that Cygwin 1.3.19 cures this problem (and, not incidentally, to leave a little something in the archive that should be easy for the next guy

1.3.19 Pipe I/O Working Well with SETI@home

Hi, Since I got a little cranky about the problem with very slow pipe I/O when there was background CPU load (e.g., SETI@home), I thought I'd confirm that Cygwin 1.3.19 cures this problem (and, not incidentally, to leave a little something in the archive that should be easy for the next guy to

Re: SSH and Home

On Monday 27 Jan 03, Thorsten Kampe writes: > >>> I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] > >> > >> Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble. Change > >> your username so it doesn't contain spaces. > > > > FYI, there was a long discussion on the list some months ago

Re: SSH and Home

Please do not send email to me and to the list. Thanks. * Igor Pechtchanski (03-01-27 16:37 +0100) > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100) >>> I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] >> >> Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but

Re: SSH and Home

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100) > > I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, and I have a > > problem with %HOME% > > No, you've got a problem with $USER/%USERNAME%. > > > I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] > > Do

Re: SSH and Home

* Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100) > I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, and I have a > problem with %HOME% No, you've got a problem with $USER/%USERNAME%. > I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble.

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >> In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a >> "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable >> permission bits would actuall

Re: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:09:50PM -, Kris Thielemans wrote: > (The tapes were generated with block size 20. Does that happen to be the > default?). Once the typical blocksize was 5120 bytes on tapes. Today it's varying but many drive types support different block sizes. > - This versio

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a > "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable > permission bits would actually correspond to the executability > of a file? I m

RE: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

Dear Corinna, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the blocksize. I've upgraded my cygwin installation to the very latest, and the problem seems to have disappeared. So, no worries anymore (I hope). (The tapes were generated with block size 20. Does that happen to be the default?). By th

Re: CD for installation

Raimund Hook wrote: > Hi > > I have just downloaded the entire package directory from a cygwin > mirror site, with the aim to get cygwin onto a CD for installation. > > Setup.exe recognises everything great, and I can run the installation > off my hard drive using a local package install. However,

Problems with NT user acount under Cygwin

Hi Cygwin users, Does anyone know of any tricks or gotcha's when setting up cygwin with Windows NT such that Cygwin can authenticate using an NT username and password for things like ssh password authentication, telnet, etc? I've gone through the section on ntsec and read the info on the cygwin

CD for installation

Hi I have just downloaded the entire package directory from a cygwin mirror site, with the aim to get cygwin onto a CD for installation. Setup.exe recognises everything great, and I can run the installation off my hard drive using a local package install. However, the entire size of the package d

Re: Making zsh the default

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Virginia Mann wrote: > Larry Hall kindly advised: > > >I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a > >clue. ;-) > > Are you kidding? That was the best clue you could have given! > My mental model was wrong. I was looking inside the system for > something that was in

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:19:47PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > This has nothing to do with each other. The mount -E flag doesn't > > > influence the permission bits. > > Then what is it supposed to do? I mean, if the man page says it m

SSH and Home

I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, and I have a problem with %HOME% I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' and my home env variable is set to d:\home\kevinj. Whenever I use ssh I get a message that says "Could not create directory '/home/Kevin Jones/.ssh'" I assume

AW: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

Hi David, something broke your HOME environment variable. While the value is basically OK, it seems that the variable itselft has not longer the correct type. To use system environment variables in another environemnt variable (or any other registry entry), the type of the string REG_EXPAND_SZ.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

Hello, Dan Please, try again in some hours. The setup.hint file that accompanies each Cygwin package contained incorrect version information for emacs-X11 and emacs-el. I've fixed this manually and once the setup.ini file is updated, you should be able to get the new versions. Thanks for the h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

Joe Buehler wrote: GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available. Actually, it seems to be only partially available. According to setup, only the "emacs" package has been updated, not emacs-el and emacs-X11 (both still at 21.2-11). /dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple B

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

Napísané dňa 2003.01.24 12:19, (autor: Pavel Tsekov): On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > > Napísané d??a 2003.01.24 04:16, (autor: Christopher Faylor): > > I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities > > available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:19:47PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > This has nothing to do with each other. The mount -E flag doesn't > > influence the permission bits. > Then what is it supposed to do? I mean, if the man page says it makes It handles the way executables are recognized.

Re: Mmap and semaphores?

Please check the sem_init return code first. Cygwin does not support process shared semaphores at the moment. Thomas Elliot Mednick wrote: Hello, I'm try to write a client server application that used shared memory and asemaphores. Appended is a simple test case. It works under Solaris using

Re: snapshots R us

I've similar experience, but I believe even stranger one. After installing 1.3.19, I saw the message about shared version mismatch, but the numbers were different, unfortunately I didn't write them down:-(. I made sure that I have really only one cygwin1.dll in the system. I also used sysintern