Re: man -k : nothing appropriate

2003-10-18 Thread Alex Vinokur
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:23:30AM +0200, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > >"Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[snip] > >> > >> man makewhatis > >> > > > >$ makewhatis > >bash

Re: man -k : nothing appropriate

2003-10-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:23:30AM +0200, Alex Vinokur wrote: > >"Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[snip] >> >> man makewhatis >> > >$ makewhatis >bash: makewhatis: command not found > > >$ which -a makewhatis >makewhatis: Command not found. $ find / -

cygwin hanging/wedging, again

2003-10-18 Thread Ben Wing
i've heard no responses at all to my previous message concerning cygwin hanging. there appear to be various different problems going on. 1] calling telnet from within expect results in telnet.exe wedging with 100% CPU time. at one point i saw a send: invalid spawn id (4) while executing "send

Re: man -k : nothing appropriate

2003-10-18 Thread Alex Vinokur
"Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > > man makewhatis > $ makewhatis bash: makewhatis: command not found $ which -a makewhatis makewhatis: Command not found. -- = Alex Vinokur mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-18 Thread Paul Y. Peng
Many thanks to all of you who replied my email. My questions have been solved. I found cron.README. But I also learned that cron won't work properly with hiberate (thanks to Corinna Vinschen). I tried Igor Pechtchanski's suggestion of using run.exe and it works perfectly for me. Stephen Powell sugg

Re: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin

2003-10-18 Thread Francis Litterio
Edward Peschko wrote: > I've been searching for decent fonts in cygwin, and haven't found a really good > method > for doing so. You might find my Windows version of the classic X Window system 6x10 font useful: http://world.std.com/~franl/6x10.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Program too big to fit in memory - Previous hints didn't work

2003-10-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo E, [...] > the program I got a "Program too big to fit in memory" error message and it [...] > I run out of options, so I hope someone can give a hint what to do to make > my program run. What says `chycheck yourexe.exe`? You'll also need to count the Bytes wihch are eaten by the DLL's

sshd and cat

2003-10-18 Thread Asif Iqbal
Hi All Today is the first time I am using cygwin in my XP. I am trying to run cat and it says command not found Also when I try to start sshd it fails not finding /etc/sshd_config file The third thing I just noticed I can't copy using my mouse. Would you please help me finding the missing compon

1.5.5: Problem with Convert::ASN1 module and Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-18 Thread Russell Tokuyama
Hi, Just to let people know that the Perl 5.8.0 binary distribution installed with setup for the Cygwin 1.5.5 distribution has trouble with the Convert::ASN1 package. It wouldn't pass the "make test" and the problem appeared to be Perl reporting something other than Inf for POSIX::HUGE_VAL. I re

Re: Program too big to fit in memory - Previous hints didn't work

2003-10-18 Thread Elkin
Brian, I posted the cygcheck results as you suggest me. I'll appreciate any further suggestion you may have. Elkin "Brian Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Could you please attach cygcheck output as requested in > http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html ? > > WAG:

Patch for building libcrypt.a as a DLL

2003-10-18 Thread Charles Wilson
This should make life a little simpler for those apps that use libtool to build DLLs and depend on libcrypt -- since libtool tries very hard to ensure that all dependencies of a DLL are themselves DLLs. Corinna, please consider this patch. -- Chuck diff -urN crypt-1.0-2-orig/Makefile crypt-1.0-

Re: libiconv TSCII

2003-10-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Peter, Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2003 um 14:58 schriebst du: > Dear All, > I didn't find a libiconv specific mailing list, and googling around > suggested, that libiconv is occasionally discussed here (If anybody > has info about a libiconv specific mailing list, I would be more > than gla

Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.

2003-10-18 Thread Frank Slootweg
Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:46:13PM +0200, Frank Slootweg wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:39PM +0200, Frank Slootweg wrote: > > [deleted] > > > > So my problem is solved, but what about the g

Re: Smtp server

2003-10-18 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:50 AM 10/18/2003 -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Kris Thielemans wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I would appreciate if somebody >> could tell me if it's easy to set-up an smtp server (included in >> cygwin distrib) on my own PC. (I'll be travelling and won't be ab

Re: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!

2003-10-18 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> if anyone wants to try this. It would be good to confirm or deny > that this fixes the problem for everyone. I tried the posted simple shell script with the old and new bash.exe. Worked exactly as you predicted... Hung with the old, didn't hang (i.e. worked) with the new. cygcheck output atta

Re: Smtp server

2003-10-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Kris Thielemans wrote: Hi, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I would appreciate if somebody could tell me if it's easy to set-up an smtp server (included in cygwin distrib) on my own PC. (I'll be travelling and won't be able to use my regular smtp server as it doesn't allow access to exte

Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.

2003-10-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:46:13PM +0200, Frank Slootweg wrote: > Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:39PM +0200, Frank Slootweg wrote: > [deleted] > > > So my problem is solved, but what about the generic problem? IMO > > > ssmtp in a Cygwin environment

Re: man -k : nothing appropriate

2003-10-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:08:22PM +0200, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > From: Alex Vinokur > > > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 1:04 PM > > > > > $ man -k time > > > time: nothing appropriate > > > > > > $ man -

Smtp server

2003-10-18 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I would appreciate if somebody could tell me if it's easy to set-up an smtp server (included in cygwin distrib) on my own PC. (I'll be travelling and won't be able to use my regular smtp server as it doesn't allow access to external IP numbers). Of cours

Re: man -k : nothing appropriate

2003-10-18 Thread Alex Vinokur
"Hannu E K Nevalainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Alex Vinokur > > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 1:04 PM > > > $ man -k time > > time: nothing appropriate > > > > $ man -k file > > file: nothing appropriate > > > > What is wrong? > > Did you _mean_ "-

libiconv TSCII

2003-10-18 Thread Peter Jacobi
Dear All, I didn't find a libiconv specific mailing list, and googling around suggested, that libiconv is occasionally discussed here (If anybody has info about a libiconv specific mailing list, I would be more than glad to learn about it). My questions is, whether it is a reasonable assumption,

Re: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

2003-10-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Hughes, Bill (2003-10-17 15:07 +0200) > Sent: 17 October 2003 12:59 From: Thorsten Kampe >> * Hughes, Bill (2003-10-17 13:31 +0200) >>> Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me, but is 'ping' available > in >>> Cygwin from the prompt? >> >>> I have almost everything installed, and short of

RE: man -k : nothing appropriate

2003-10-18 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Alex Vinokur > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 1:04 PM > $ man -k time > time: nothing appropriate > > $ man -k file > file: nothing appropriate > > What is wrong? Did you _mean_ "-K" ? $ man --help man, version 1.5j k : same as apropos(1) K : search for a string in all pages

RE: Install problem

2003-10-18 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Peter Aarestad > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:59 AM > Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > In other words, this really shouldn't be a cygwin related issue ;-) > > You're almost certainly right. But I won't know for sure, because I > found that, shortly after I posted this, ALL of my Int

RE: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!

2003-10-18 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Christopher Faylor > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 8:06 AM > I've put a patched version of bash up at: > > ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/tmp/bash.exe > > if anyone wants to try this. It would be good to confirm or deny > that this fixes the problem for everyone. > > Btw, maybe this h

man -k : nothing appropriate

2003-10-18 Thread Alex Vinokur
$ man -k time time: nothing appropriate $ man -k file file: nothing appropriate What is wrong? -- = Alex Vinokur mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c++.perfometer ==

RE: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!

2003-10-18 Thread Norman Vine
Christopher Faylor writes: > > > I've put a patched version of bash up at: > > ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/tmp/bash.exe > > if anyone wants to try this. It would be good to confirm or deny > that this fixes the problem for everyone. > > Btw, maybe this has already been mentioned, but here

OpenGL and Cygwin

2003-10-18 Thread Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Hi, I apologize in advance if this duplicates questions already asked and answered: I have searched the cygwin/cygwin-apps mailing lists already, and there appears to be no clear answer, and most of the FAQs are a bit outdated. I have an opengl program that I wish to compile under the cygwin en