Re: cp -p gives error message

At 02:20 PM 6/4/2004, you wrote: >$ cp -p foo /h/Home/ >/bin/cp: setting permissions for `/h/Home/DW/foo': Permission denied > >This happens when copying to a network drive but not to /c . > >The datestamps get copied over. >execute permission (as seen by the "*" which trails the file name when doi

Re: Thousands' grouping flag in printf() format string

At 02:18 PM 6/4/2004, you wrote: >I'd like to ask whether there is any intention to implement the X/Open >extension ' (0x27) printf() format flag. (Numbered argument specifications >work (thanks to Jeff Johnston), and they are an X/Open extension too.) > >I encountered this problem using cygwin-1.5

Installation problem. Help needed!

Hi, I am new to Cygwin. I want to install it on Windows XP. Well, every time the installation procedure stopped at 99%, and then jump up a dialog, it shows: Runtime Error! Program::..mporary internet files\Content.IE5\HC7NHXD\setup[1].exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate i

Re: Interesting response to off topic message

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 09:19:54PM -0500, Will Senn wrote: >Do you normally thrash people for these types of mistakes without >reading the entire thread? Yes. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader[EMAIL

Interesting response to off topic message

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher, I appreciate your stomping the X thread, it was confusing to have it going in both lists. I wanted to answer your question as to why I 'moved' it to the cygwin mailing list. It was a MISTAKE, get it? Or, really a series of mistakes: 1. I re

Re: rxvt, ssh and utf8

James Garrison wrote: > So, DOES the rxvt in Cygwin support UTF8? If yes, how do I > enable it (There's nothing in the man page). Well I don't know about Unicode box/line drawing characters but I've always found that applications that expect to use the line drawing characters (such as mc) only w

Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:24:11PM -0500, Will Senn wrote: >I have read the thread on this error and while interesting and >captivating, it doesn't appear to apply to my installation. This is the wrong mailing list for Cygwin/X problems. If you were reading this discussion in the cygwin-xfree mai

new snapshot seems better

I think I've fixed the problem that manifested in the last cygwin snapshot. It seems to be passing the test suite now. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: WinXP can only run one cygwin background job?

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:11:27 -0400, wrote: >On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:30:11PM +0100, zzapper wrote: >>Sorry, >>I realise this must be an old Cygwin chestnut, But I've only just >>noticed that WinXP only seems to run one background job at a time. I >>presume I'm stuck with behaviour >> >>[1] - ru

Re: WinXP can only run one cygwin background job?

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:30:11PM +0100, zzapper wrote: >Sorry, >I realise this must be an old Cygwin chestnut, But I've only just >noticed that WinXP only seems to run one background job at a time. I >presume I'm stuck with behaviour > >[1] - runningcheckbot --url http://www.url1.co.uk >[2]

RE: Installing what I have after "Download Incomplete"

The packages successfully downloaded should install fine. Try "Install from Local Directory" and see what happens. If you get an error, try a few or even one package at a time to get something installed, and to isolate which package is causing the error. If I correctly remember my experience, so

Re: Cygwin Here and $HOME

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor, Thanks, the link was apropos (adj). I dig the rxvt, didn't even know there was such a thing (and if you hadn't noticed, I am unashamed!). re:posix and $HOME, bummer - it MUST be right, then. I will suffer through it :( Later, Will Igor Pechtchansk

Re: decoding sshd failure

At 08:27 AM 6/4/2004, you wrote: >On Friday 04 June 2004 07:40, Andy Rushton wrote: >> Someone wrote: >> >>>Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d >> >>> >> >>>Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey? I think I've done >> >>>everything right, but no joy. I can login using t

Re: decoding sshd failure

At 06:38 AM 6/4/2004, you wrote: >On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:18, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 10:13 PM 6/3/2004, you wrote: >> >Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d >> > >> >Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey? I think I've done >> > everything right, but no joy. I can lo

Re: Cygwin Here and $HOME

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Will Senn wrote: > All, > > I have a couple of questions for y'all, but first the background: > > I like to be able to right click a folder in explorer and have a menu > item : Cygwin Here that opens a Cygwin command prompt at the folder > that I have selected. I wrote this reg

Re: Cygwin Here and $HOME

This works (using rxvt) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\RxvtHere] @="bash Prompt Here" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\RxvtHere\command] @="C:\\cygwin\\bin\\rxvt.exe -bg white -fg black -sr -sl 1000 -fn \"Fixedsys\" -ls -e /usr

Re: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor, Thanks for letting me know what the problem was. I will say, in my own defense that there are those of us, with a less linear train of thought, who actually appreciate finding associative dissonances in the static of what some like to call the 'We

Re: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Will Senn wrote: > [snip] > Oh and Igor, is this what you were nagging me about? It just occurred to > me what you meant - won't happen again - I promise :) Will, If you mean "creating a new thread vs. replying to an existing message", then yes, that's exactly it. I wouldn't

Cygwin Here and $HOME

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I have a couple of questions for y'all, but first the background: I like to be able to right click a folder in explorer and have a menu item : Cygwin Here that opens a Cygwin command prompt at the folder that I have selected. I wrote this registry

WinXP can only run one Cygwin background job?

Sorry, I realise this must be an old Cygwin chestnut, But I've only just noticed that WinXP only seems to run one background job at a time. I presume I'm stuck with behaviour [1] - runningcheckbot --url http://www.url1.co.uk [2] + runningcheckbot --url http://www.url2.co.uk/ zzapper (

cp -p gives error message

$ cp -p foo /h/Home/ /bin/cp: setting permissions for `/h/Home/DW/foo': Permission denied This happens when copying to a network drive but not to /c . The datestamps get copied over. execute permission (as seen by the "*" which trails the file name when doing ls -F) does not get copied over. I d

Thousands' grouping flag in printf() format string

I'd like to ask whether there is any intention to implement the X/Open extension ' (0x27) printf() format flag. (Numbered argument specifications work (thanks to Jeff Johnston), and they are an X/Open extension too.) I encountered this problem using cygwin-1.5.10-3 on an XP. Illustration: --

RE: cygwin gcc performance

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 6:08 PM > > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Matthieu VIAL wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Could someone explain me why gcc cygwin compiler take so long to build a > > > simple hello world program

Re: Problem with spaces embedded in filenames

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred, Many thanks for your assistance on this. It worked like a charm. Kinda weird how the output of the sed command produced the correct list, but tar didn't receive the same. I like the new command better anyway, no sense writing | sed -e s/\ / /

RE: cygwin gcc performance

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 6:08 PM > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Matthieu VIAL wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Could someone explain me why gcc cygwin compiler take so long to build a > > simple hello world program compared with mingw ? > > Cygwin is a POSIX emulation layer. Usin

Re: cygwin gcc performance

--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Also, in the future, please *attach* your cygcheck > output to your messages > as an uncompressed text attachment, instead of > including it inline, since > that produces false positives in archive searches. > Igor Looking at the Cygwi

Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor, 1. I started a new thread, hence the - revisited suffix. 2. I didn't reply to a message 3. I mistyped the mailing address, sue me. 4. Thanks for sending it on to the correct list. Have a sunny day :) Will Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | First, please s

RE: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? > > > > > > Either "lpr" or,

Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

First, please start a new thread instead of replying to a message from an unrelated thread -- otherwise it screws up the threading. Second, you've sent this to the wrong list -- redirecting this to cygwin-xfree. Igor On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Will Senn wrote: > All, > > I have read the thread

Questions regarding dlltool and linking to MSVC dll

Hello: I've been trying to use dlltool to generate an import library to link to a MSVC 6.0 generated dll (libmySQL.dll) with only partial success. The dll has been stripped so I ran a copy of pexports.exe, version 0.43, against it to produce a .def file with all of the stdcall @nn additions to

Re: Recent change in redirection handling?

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ashok Vadekar wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:32:46PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Incidentally, why do you redirect to NUL rather than to /dev/null? > > I usually end up having trouble when I try to use native windows > excutables in bash scripts. Redmond and I don

could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I have read the thread on this error and while interesting and captivating, it doesn't appear to apply to my installation. I heard cygwin switched to X.org from XFree86 over licensing, etc. I decided groovy, my cygwin installation is getting a bit

Re: Recent change in redirection handling?

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:32:46PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ashok Vadekar wrote: > > > I have a bash script that ran cleanly under 1.5.9x, that now exhibits some > > disturbing behaviour under a recent upgrade. The gist of the problem is that > > the execution of > >

Re: `touch' created wrong file without giving error

Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 4 08:41, Peter J. Acklam wrote: > > > I tried creating a file named " foo ", i.e., with two leading > > and two trailing blanks using "touch". It turned out that > > "touch" created the file, but without the two trailing blanks. > > It might b

Re: Missing /usr/bin/ipc-daemon2

Problem solved! Through a lucky guess, I got a checkbox to appear in setup.exe next to the name of the package that ipc-daemon2 belongs to, and I figured I should check it. After the installation, I still couldn't find the usr/bin directory, where I heard ipc-daemon2 lived, but that's because I was

Fork, xemacs 21.4.13, and shell-mode

Hi, I use shell-mode in xemacs with cygwin. This works great on a unix system, but with the cygwin version, xemacs sometimes goes crazy and takes 100% of the CPU and I often have to kill xemacs. I think it's related to shell-mode because sometimes when I kill a shell-mode window, the CPU usag

Re: Recent change in redirection handling?

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ashok Vadekar wrote: > I have a bash script that ran cleanly under 1.5.9x, that now exhibits some > disturbing behaviour under a recent upgrade. The gist of the problem is that > the execution of > compact /c file.exe >NUL > which used to run and produce no output (due

Re: Strategy to process all tokens on a line through "cygpath -w", ignoring non-path tokens

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Karr, David wrote: > I have a situation where I have a command line that I need to preprocess > with "cygpath -w", changing all tokens which represent paths to convert > them to their windows equivalent. All other tokens should pass through > unchanged. Is there already a can

Re: Missing /usr/bin/ipc-daemon2

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Barry wrote: > Could someone tell me a way to download cygwin that will include > ipc-daemon2? My installation from several months ago had an empty user/bin > directory, and it was still empty after downloading every package. Then I > deleted the desktop shortcut and the cygwin

Re: cygwin gcc performance

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Matthieu VIAL wrote: > Hello, > > Could someone explain me why gcc cygwin compiler take so long to build a > simple hello world program compared with mingw ? Cygwin is a POSIX emulation layer. Using the POSIX emulation is bound to be less efficient than running the native app

Re: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > [snip] > > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? > > > > Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "ensc

Re: looking for autoexpect

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Hello dear mailing list participants, > > I somehow miss autoexpect in cygwin environment. > Have I overseen it or was it indeed not included? Whenever you need to locate some file in the Cygwin packages, the Cygwin package search page at

Re: file not recognized:File format not recognized

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, c dana wrote: > I am a novice at cygwin. > I edited a file "test.c" with notepad in windows. > Then I compiled it with gcc in cygwin by typing: > $ gcc test.c > However I got the following error message: > > test.c: file not recognized:File format not recognized > collect2: ld

Recent change in redirection handling?

I have a bash script that ran cleanly under 1.5.9x, that now exhibits some disturbing behaviour under a recent upgrade. The gist of the problem is that the execution of compact /c file.exe >NUL which used to run and produce no output (due to the redirect) now actually puts the output into

rxvt, ssh and utf8

I'm using rxvt to open an SSH session to a RedHat Enterprise Linux system. On that system I want to run an ansi-based app that happens to use Unicode UTF8 encoding for box-drawing characters. I can't seem to get rxvt to correctly interpret the UTF8. It just displays the 3-byte UTF8 sequences as th

Strategy to process all tokens on a line through "cygpath -w", ignoring non-path tokens

I have a situation where I have a command line that I need to preprocess with "cygpath -w", changing all tokens which represent paths to convert them to their windows equivalent. All other tokens should pass through unchanged. Is there already a canned solution for this? What would be a reasonab

RE: Don't use 2004-06-03 snapshot

I discovered trying to use it to see if it helped with the ssh cygheap problem I have :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Don't use 2004-06-03 snapshot Th

Don't use 2004-06-03 snapshot

There is some sort of serious problem in the 2004-06-03 snapshot which causes random core dumps. Don't use it. Sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't notice the problem. My local build works fine but the snapshot dies randomly. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Missing /usr/bin/ipc-daemon2

Could someone tell me a way to download cygwin that will include ipc-daemon2? My installation from several months ago had an empty user/bin directory, and it was still empty after downloading every package. Then I deleted the desktop shortcut and the cygwin directory (cygwin wasn't listed in the ad

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a doc? Well color me surpised, who'd of thunk it? I've been using cygwin for nigh on 20 years, well, at least since B19 and I never knew. I thought it was a sort of modern day heath kit that you had to figure it out for yourself. Go figure. Nice

Re: decoding sshd failure

On Friday 04 June 2004 07:40, Andy Rushton wrote: > Someone wrote: > >>>Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d > >>> > >>>Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey? I think I've done > >>>everything right, but no joy. I can login using the password just fine. > > Sorry, I mis

Re: compilation errors gcc 3.2

sankarshan wrote: > hi all, > I am trying to build gcc 3.2 sources on cygwin- but i > cant get past errors like undefined reference to > _fputs_unlocked... > ive provided some screen dumps below ... guess it'll > be useful...please help...thanx. Since configure detects if these functions are ava

Re: decoding sshd failure

Someone wrote: Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey? I think I've done everything right, but no joy. I can login using the password just fine. Sorry, I missed the start of this thread so I don't know who the original author

Re: `touch' created wrong file without giving error

On Jun 4 08:41, Peter J. Acklam wrote: > I tried creating a file named " foo ", i.e., with two leading and > two trailing blanks using "touch". It turned out that "touch" > created the file, but without the two trailing blanks. It might > be that a file name with trailing blanks can't be created

Re: decoding sshd failure

On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:18, Larry Hall wrote: > At 10:13 PM 6/3/2004, you wrote: > >Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d > > > >Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey? I think I've done > > everything right, but no joy. I can login using the password just fine. > > T

cygwin gcc performance

Hello, Could someone explain me why gcc cygwin compiler take so long to build a simple hello world program compared with mingw ? Thank you test.c : #include #include int main(void) { printf("Hello\n"); } $ time gcc test.c -o test real0m2.409s user0m0.291s sys 0m1.994s $

Re: cvs checkout fails in directory that can be accessed via both textmode and binmode mounts

Hi Pierre, > You have exposed an old bug in Cygwin. [...] > I am wondering why the bug is not exposed in 1.5.9 > Care to strace it? Well, the same thing happens in: cygwin 1.5.9 / cvs 1.11.6-3 cygwin 1.5.5 / cvs 1.11.6-3 I guess that I either checked out this directory somewhere else and moved

PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > > Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the double-slash > > form used in Windows. Thus the following should work: > > > > bash$ cat myfile.txt > //Dc1irv/l

looking for autoexpect

Hello dear mailing list participants, I somehow miss autoexpect in cygwin environment. Have I overseen it or was it indeed not included? With Best Regards -- +++ Jetzt WLAN-Router für alle DSL-Einsteiger und Wechsler +++ GMX DSL-Powertarife zudem 3 Monate gratis* http://www.gmx.net/dsl -- U