Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

Yes. You're better off setting up a package server. See: From this you can control the packages installed but can use 'setup.exe' to install, which understands how to unpack packages, symlinks, and run postinstall scripts. Also, you'

Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

Vinod K Gupta wrote: I need to deploy cygwin and some addon software on about 100 Windows XP Pro machines in my department. It is taking about an hour to setup one machine. I thought of speeding up deployment by setting up one reference machine with all the packages customized to our needs, m

Re: tr command suddenly behaves differently

Logu wrote: One final point. It's considered bad netiquette to commandeer another thread. Replying to another's message and changing the subject is not the way to post to this list. Please just send email to the list directly when you want to start some new topic. It makes following a thre

Re: "replaced while being copied" - was ... RE: Solved partially by findutils 4.3 - RE: "inode changed", ...

Miller, Raul D wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Is the network drive running an older version of Samba? I am not an administrator of the systems running the network drives that have this problem (the one I documented is just the one where I most recently encountered this problem) and I do not know. A

Speeding up Cygwin deployment

I need to deploy cygwin and some addon software on about 100 Windows XP Pro machines in my department. It is taking about an hour to setup one machine. I thought of speeding up deployment by setting up one reference machine with all the packages customized to our needs, make a zip archive of C:

Re: cygwin as X terminal(s) ?

This is an X-specific question, and needs to go to the Cygwin/X list. Redirecting. On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Richard Foulk wrote: > Aloha, > > As someone pointed out you can use Cygwin with X as an X terminal. > For remote admin of a linux/unix box that's pretty handy. By invoking > this command from

Re: tr command suddenly behaves differently

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Easton on 9/24/2006 1:02 AM: > Pardon me for putting my oar in but the syntax of tr varies quite a > bit from system to system. It has been my experience that the only > reliable way of expressing the above so that it will work on cyg

Re: tr command suddenly behaves differently

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Logu on 9/24/2006 12:12 AM: > The /etc/profile had this code hence I thought it is bug in the cygwin > system. May be this is fixed in the newer versions. > - > case "`echo "$0" | /usr/bin/tr [:upper:] [:lower:]

cygwin as X terminal(s) ?

Aloha, As someone pointed out you can use Cygwin with X as an X terminal. For remote admin of a linux/unix box that's pretty handy. By invoking this command from Cygwin before starting X: x -broadcast you get a window that contains the whole remote desktop. Is there a way to create mul

GDB and debugging symbols

Try to debug the segment faults of Emacs-cvs buildings I have observed the following on which I would ask some comment. When one build the following test case with -g option $ cat hello.c #include int main() { printf("Hello, World!"); return 0;

Re: SwitchToFiber call problem with cygwin_NT-5.2 ? test case below

Rearick, Gabriele hp.com> writes: > > Hi all > > cygwin version: CYGWIN_NT-5.2 rearick3 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 > 08:34 amd64 unknown unknown Cygwin. > > I am uncertain if the platform above is an "officially supported" > platform, but apparently the same problem behavior is exposed on >

Re: tr command suddenly behaves differently

Hi, > According to Logu on 9/23/2006 4:46 AM: > > After analysing I found that the tr command did not work correctly. So > > the command > > $ /usr/bin/tr [:upper:] [:lower:] Sat, 23 Sep 2006 Eric Blake wrote > There's your problem. You didn't quote properly. Try: > $ echo [:upper:] [:lower:] >