RE: Disaster recover with Cygwin?

Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I'm told I can network boot windows across the public internet ... It's much easier to use Norton Ghost with the "image boot" option. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docu

potential fix for cygwin's "no system bell" problem

I've just built a cygwin snapshot which should work around a problem with Cygwin's default bell not working. This was discussed here a while ago: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/threads.html#00895 http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/threads.html#00966 (and it may have even been menti

Re: Q: How to have cygwin start as the whole screen?

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:54:19PM -0800, martin cohen wrote: >An earlier version of Cygwin I installed starts taking up >the whole screen with multiple shells. The current version >starts with a single terminal window in what appears to be >a "multiwindow" mode. > >I have looked at the man pages f

Q: How to have cygwin start as the whole screen?

An earlier version of Cygwin I installed starts taking up the whole screen with multiple shells. The current version starts with a single terminal window in what appears to be a "multiwindow" mode. I have looked at the man pages for xinit and some others, but have not found how to open it the orig

[ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU CLISP 2.37 (2006-01-02)

ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany. It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard. It runs on most

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Maybe it's worth a little archive searching before putting much effort into generating alternative package configurations for consideration/use. Just a thought. Unfortunately I won't have much time to dig in the problem deeper until I remove my thesis from the TODO l

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

Lapo Luchini wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Dec 30 17:23, Brett Serkez wrote: > > I have rsync working over ssh on Cygwin. > > Me too. I'm using the standard version of rsync, so I guess the > socketpair call is still in use. I never managed to reproduce that problem, neither, on an

Re: mailx + cygwin

Crawford, Carl wrote: thanks. nice replacement. i am able to read mailx mailboxes. how do you set up mutt to send email thru a pop server, particularly one that has password protection? --carl edit .muttrc per /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/mutt-1.4.2.1i.README can also reference... http://w

second request: Unable to compile binutils from source

The following was previously submitted to this list (and received back from the reflector), but elicited no response or comment from the list participants. I'm a newbie to the list, so although I followed the reporting instructions in the web FAQ instructions I may be doing something wrong here

RE: mailx + cygwin

Someone told me use mutt. it is a nice replacement. -c-arl -Original Message- From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 11:04 AM To: Crawford, Carl Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mailx + cygwin On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Crawford, Carl wrote: > Igor,

Re: Inconsistent results from "du -sk ."

Eric Blake wrote: > According to Fred Ma on 12/30/2005 1:20 PM: >>When I repeatedly issue "du -sk ." within seconds of each other, the >>results are different, and there is no process running that could be >>changing the contents of the directory. Here is an illustrative >>session: > > du can onl

Disaster recover with Cygwin?

My local linux users group in Colorado is having a very interesting conversation about disaster recovery on their mailing list. Let's assume someone types fdisk on my windows boot partition and I need to recover. I'm told I can network boot windows across the public internet if I can open up enou

Re: mailx + cygwin

Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Crawford, Carl wrote: Igor, . I'm forwarding this to the appropriate mailing list, and setting the Reply-To accordingly -- please make sure your mailer honors it. Did you find a port of mailx to cyg

Re: mailx + cygwin

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Crawford, Carl wrote: > Igor, . I'm forwarding this to the appropriate mailing list, and setting the Reply-To accordingly -- please make sure your mailer honors it. > Did you find a port of mailx to cygwin? No, but I wasn't really looki

Re: snapshot ChangeLog link missing info

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:25:24AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/winsup-changelog-20051229-20060101 is missing >the actual winsup/cygwin changes: Yes, that always happens in the cross over between new years. It is not a bug that I'm really interested in tracki

Re: Fwd: xine-ui compile error

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:56:40PM +0530, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: >Sorry as could not send to cygwin-apps, i am forwarding here. Wasn't that a hint that cygwin-apps was not the proper mailing list for this type of inquiry? >I am getiting the following error when i try to compile xine-ui 0.99.4

snapshot ChangeLog link missing info

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/winsup-changelog-20051229-20060101 is missing the actual winsup/cygwin changes: ChangeLog for 20051229 to 20060101 -- winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog -- 2006-01-01 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- winsup/doc/ChangeLog -- 2005-1

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Dec 30 17:23, Brett Serkez wrote: > > I have rsync working over ssh on Cygwin. > > Me too. I'm using the standard version of rsync, so I guess the > socketpair call is still in use. I never managed to reproduce that problem, neither, on any of my hosts. (and I alwa

Re: http://www.dll-files.com offers cygwin1.dll, no sources

On Jan 2 09:22, V?clav Haisman wrote: > I am not a lawyer but my understanding of GPL is that they have have the > sources accessible if asked for [...] Read again. Especially helpful is the GPL FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AnonFTPAndSendSources Corinna -- Corinna Vinsche

Re: http://www.dll-files.com offers cygwin1.dll, no sources

Václav Haisman wrote: > I am not a lawyer but my understanding of GPL is that they have have the > sources accessible if asked for, at most. They imho do not have to > distribute it _with_ the sources. And the sources are accessible > throught Cygwin CVS => no problem. Your understanding is not c

Re: http://www.dll-files.com offers cygwin1.dll, no sources

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Reformatted top-post... > > Václav Haisman wrote: > >> Ville Herva wrote: >> >>> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index-c.shtml >>> >>> The same old story, if anybody's interested. >>> >>> Tried to email them via the contact form - haven't heard back. >> >> They