Re: Cygwin help!!!

2006-10-29 Thread anja_22
UUPPSS, hätte ich auch selbst drauf kommen können, naja manchmal eben nicht ...-) Danke dir für deine schnelle Antwort René Berber-2 wrote: > > anja_22 wrote: > >> Hallo, brauche drinegnd helfe mit CYGWIN >> >> ich wollte zum test folgenden befehl auf der Shell testen : >> echo "heute is der

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mike Maxwell wrote: Most of us don't look in the dictionary to find out what computer terms--or any other words--mean. I would guesstimate that you learned 99% of your vocabulary, computer or otherwise, without looking it up. So by that count, 99% of the words we know are our own arbitrary de

Re: Old versions of Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Champ Mendis wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . Thanks. > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:53 PM > Subject: Re: Old versions of Cygwin > >

Re: Old versions of Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/29/2006, Champ Mendis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Please don't commandeer threads. Start a new thread for a new subject. > This is a new subject. I need to run my code in Cygwin, What is the purpose of having new version which can not run. I am moving to

Re: Install failing and leaving unusable system

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Julian Hall wrote: > I know this has been discussed here before, but it seems that it's > something that happens to a lot of people, so it should probably be > fixed. It seems as though a fairly simple update to the setup program > might be helpful to people who have the prob

Re: Old versions of Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Champ Mendis
Hi Eric, - Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Old versions of Cygwin -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't commandeer threads. Start a new thread for a new sub

Re: Changing Windows "hidden" and "system" attributes?

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > > > > Well, for one thing, things like this don't work: > > > find . -type f -print | xargs attrib > > > > find . -type f -print | cygpath -w -f- | xargs attrib > >

Re: Old versions of Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't commandeer threads. Start a new thread for a new subject. According to Champ Mendis on 10/29/2006 8:49 PM: > Hi, > I tried the google and Yahoo to find old versions of cygwin. No success. > Is there any place where we can find installabl

Old versions of Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Champ Mendis
Hi, I tried the google and Yahoo to find old versions of cygwin. No success. Is there any place where we can find installable versions(Win binary) of archives of previous versions. Thanks in advance. Rgds, Champ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem rep

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-completion-20060301-2

2006-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash-completion, 20060301-2, is now available, replacing 20060301-1 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release; it swaps over to a cygport build, and adds completion support for cygport contributed by Reini Urba

Re: cygport bash_completion support

2006-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Reini Urban on 5/28/2006 9:32 AM: Whoa - that sat in my inbox waaay too long. > Hi Ian, Eric, > > Attached is bash_completion support for cygport. (cygwin only) > Put it into /etc/bash_completion.d/cygport > > Maybe it can be added to

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-29 Thread Mike Maxwell
Igor Peshansky wrote: FYI, there was a patch submitted that would allow detecting in-use files and retrying (instead of blindly scheduling them to be replaced on reboot). I'll ping the appropriate list to make sure it gets applied (so that the newer setup snapshots will have that feature). Tha

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows (was: latest iconv hangs)

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Mike Maxwell wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > And if you close all running Cygwin apps and services as recommended, > > As you will have guessed from reading this far, I'm old enough that it's > quite possible my memory is fading. But I don't recall seeing any msg > from t

Re: cygwin Digest 28 Oct 2006 14:33:34 -0000 Issue 5237

2006-10-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:16:28PM -0800, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: >>-- Forwarded message -- >>From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: cygwin@cygwin.com >>Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:16:09 -0400 >>Subject: Re: rxvt: Ctrl+C leaves child process of native processes >>On Fri,

Re: cygwin Digest 28 Oct 2006 14:33:34 -0000 Issue 5237

2006-10-29 Thread Hari Krishna Dara
-- Forwarded message -- From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:16:09 -0400 Subject: Re: rxvt: Ctrl+C leaves child process of native processes On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:40:36PM -0700, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: >When I hit ^C in a

Cygwin NTFS permission listing oddness.

2006-10-29 Thread Linda Walsh
I was messing with my theme libs and noted the following differences in how CYGWIN displays the attributes and Groups: -rwx--+ 1 Administrators None 214K Aug 7 2004 uxtheme.dll* -rwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 214K Aug 4 2004 uxtheme.dll-old* -rwxrwx---+ 1 Administr

Re: cron disables dialog window

2006-10-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Kevin Cella wrote: I have a script that runs and kicks off a windows program that opens a dialog where it automatically enters the necessary data and submits the result. It works beautifully if I run it through a cygwin shell, but not when executed as a cron job. When executed as a cron job, the

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

2006-10-29 Thread Linda Walsh
Joey Officer wrote: I have a script that I run, the script is: findme.bash: #!/bin/bash for i in $( ls *.gz ); do echo Searching $i zcat -c $i | grep $1 >> searchresults.txt echo Finsihed searching $i , moving on to the next file... done

Re: Cygwin help!!!

2006-10-29 Thread René Berber
anja_22 wrote: > Hallo, brauche drinegnd helfe mit CYGWIN > > ich wollte zum test folgenden befehl auf der Shell testen : > echo "heute is der 'date'" --> die Ausgabe sollte sein : heute ist der 29 > Oktober 2006 (oder so ähnlich, auf jedenfall sollte das datum angegeben > werden) Stattdessen s

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-10-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
[overly long reply] On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:58:59PM -0800, infoterror wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 06:41:51PM -0700, infoterror wrote: >gdiviney wrote: >>A one-hour compiler class assignment has become an all-day goose-hunt. >>Thanks Cygwin developers! Maybe someday I???ll have

Re: Changing Windows "hidden" and "system" attributes?

2006-10-29 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > > Well, for one thing, things like this don't work: > >and this is what > > find . -type f -print | xargs attrib > > > > Yes, I know that I could put a wrapper script around attrib to apply > > cygpath to the a

Cygwin help!!!

2006-10-29 Thread anja_22
Hallo, brauche drinegnd helfe mit CYGWIN ich wollte zum test folgenden befehl auf der Shell testen : echo "heute is der 'date'" --> die Ausgabe sollte sein : heute ist der 29 Oktober 2006 (oder so ähnlich, auf jedenfall sollte das datum angegeben werden) Stattdessen sehe ich sowas : heute ist

RE: sh files

2006-10-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
From: dubcek, Sunday, October 29, 2006 3:00 PM > Far from being a computer expert, here is what you need to know to understand my problem. > For years I worked basically in an UNIX environment. > For practical reasons, I am now using Windows XP. Two years ago, I downloaded Cygwin in the hope of fi

Re: sh files

2006-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to dubcek on 10/29/2006 12:59 PM: >>From the time I started using UNIX, I have made at least a hundred different > .sh files, all of which ran perfectly on my first version of cygwin. But > they don't work on the new version. What are the fa

Re: Problem building ImageMagick 6.3.0

2006-10-29 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: > I wanted to build the latest ImageMagick but the build fails for > me. I attach the cygport script and patch that I use (shamelessly > adapted from Yaakov's cygports version). > > It looks like libtool is not finding libstdc++.a (logsnippet below) > > Any ideas? The real

Re: Changing Windows "hidden" and "system" attributes?

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Thorsten Kampe thorstenkampe.de> writes: > > > * Lloyd Zusman (Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:49:51 + (UTC)) > > > > > > Cygwin offers the "-W, --windows" extension to ps and the regtool, > > > getfacl, and setfacl commands (to name but three) which offer > > >

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-10-29 Thread infoterror
Christopher Faylor-2 wrote: > > So you, infoterror, are also a student? That's interesting. > > Given the number of people in this mailing list from companies who run > Cygwin, it's hard to see how you could have any basis for your opinion. > > Hmm. Now I really understand why your opinion

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Teggy P Veerapen wrote: > [snip] > ps: Apologies if this message is not attached the thread; but I couldn't > make a reply to previous posts since I was not subscribed to the mailing > list. . HTH, Igor --

RE: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Thrall, Bryan wrote: > DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:01 PM: > > On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to > >> know if there is a command line tool to install some of this > >> packages. >

Re: using sshd as a non-administrator: minor issues and an aliasing question

2006-10-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * eyalroz (Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:18:26 -0700 (PDT)) > > > 3. How do I add new username/password combinations other than my real > > NT username and password? I want the sshd to only accept > > myalias/tehfauxpass instead of myrealuser/therealpass , and of

sh files

2006-10-29 Thread dubcek
Far from being a computer expert, here is what you need to know to understand my problem. For years I worked basically in an UNIX environment. For practical reasons, I am now using Windows XP. Two years ago, I downloaded Cygwin in the hope of finding an UNIX-liek environment. That worked fine. I

Re: gunzip 1.3.5 error reading from stdin on Cygwin [attn zsh maintainer]

2006-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bart Schaefer on 10/29/2006 10:52 AM: > On Oct 29, 5:14am, Vin Shelton wrote: > } Subject: Re: gunzip 1.3.5 error reading from stdin on Cygwin > } > } I've narrowed this down a little bit. It only happens under zsh; > } under bash, the r

cron disables dialog window

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin Cella
I have a script that runs and kicks off a windows program that opens a dialog where it automatically enters the necessary data and submits the result. It works beautifully if I run it through a cygwin shell, but not when executed as a cron job.  When executed as a cron job, the dialog window never

Re: gunzip 1.3.5 error reading from stdin on Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Oct 29, 5:14am, Vin Shelton wrote: } Subject: Re: gunzip 1.3.5 error reading from stdin on Cygwin } } I've narrowed this down a little bit. It only happens under zsh; } under bash, the recipe works without error. In zsh's main.c is this comment: * Cygwin supports the notion of binary or tex

Re: Install failing and leaving unusable system

2006-10-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Julian Hall wrote: I know this has been discussed here before, but it seems that it's something that happens to a lot of people, so it should probably be fixed. It seems as though a fairly simple update to the setup program might be helpful to people who have the problem. In script.cc, there

Reboot vs. Restart Windows (was: latest iconv hangs)

2006-10-29 Thread Mike Maxwell
This is my last posting on this. My suggestion is that the "reboot" message that appears sometimes when you update CygWin, and you have a CygWin process running, be changed to either "reboot Windows" or "restart Windows" (the latter is the preferred terminology in the Microsoft world, from wha

Re: gunzip 1.3.5 error reading from stdin on Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Vin Shelton
(added cc: to zsh-workers. The original message can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg73620.html ) Vin Shelton wrote: After upgrading my system this morning, I'm getting an error running gunzip when it reads from stdin. Steps to reproduce: wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org

Install failing and leaving unusable system

2006-10-29 Thread Julian Hall
I know this has been discussed here before, but it seems that it's something that happens to a lot of people, so it should probably be fixed. It seems as though a fairly simple update to the setup program might be helpful to people who have the problem. In script.cc, there are currently lines

Re: latest iconv hangs

2006-10-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Mike Maxwell wrote: > I won't get into the linguistics of it, but I think "reboot" is a little > more ambiguous than that. It would be nice if it said "reboot Windows", > and such a change would be trivial to make. I thought of re-starting > CygWin as _rebooting_ CygWin, since once I exit CygWin

Re: Piping to the 'read' command

2006-10-29 Thread Jim Easton
Hi, Fri, 27 Oct 2006 Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jim Easton on 10/27/2006 1:43 AM: > > This suggests to me that it is executing that read in a subshell that > > can't pass the variable back to its parent. This dispite the fact that > > it appears to be the same process. (see inserted echo $