RE: Logging all console activity to a text file

2008-03-23 Thread Hussein Patwa
Hi Brian, Thanks ever so much for your explanation. Once again I seem to be turning normality on its head. It's usually the more advanced things that come easy to me, yet the simple fundamentals elude me, hehe. Anyway, script it is. I can always manually (or why not push the boat out and do it

Re: Building perl-5.10.0

2008-03-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Reini Urban on 3/22/2008 10:48 AM: | The second problem is the +, the special Windows ACL, which should not | be here on a plain new cygwin installation. | POSIX access() doesn't check the additional ACL's, just the underlying | windows c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gd/libgd2/libgd-devel}-2.0.35-2:

2008-03-23 Thread Victor Paesa
Hi, Dr. Volker Zell writes: > > Hi > > New versions of 'gd/libgd2/libgd-devel' have been uploaded to a server near > you > > Cygwin NEWS: > > > o Fixed a bug in /usr/bin/gdlib-config: > >Before: > gdlib-config --libs >> -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetyp

Re: Logging all console activity to a text file

2008-03-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Hussein Patwa wrote: > Thanks for your very detailed post. I'm no Unix guru so I'll be honest and > say some of that wasn't entirely clear to me. It seems that, as what I'm > doing with cygwin is really pretty basic (compressing/decompressing, > subversion operations, ssh operations, etc), tryin

RE: Logging all console activity to a text file

2008-03-23 Thread Hussein Patwa
Hi Brian, Thanks for your very detailed post. I'm no Unix guru so I'll be honest and say some of that wasn't entirely clear to me. It seems that, as what I'm doing with cygwin is really pretty basic (compressing/decompressing, subversion operations, ssh operations, etc), trying a different shell

Re: Logging all console activity to a text file

2008-03-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Hussein Patwa wrote: > I'd like to log all console activity, both input and output to a text file > for later review. Uses for this could be, for example, demonstrating an > operation to someone unfamiliar with cygwin, or say, keeping a record of > console output for future reference. You should

Logging all console activity to a text file

2008-03-23 Thread Hussein Patwa
Hello, Apologies if this is a duplicate question, but I've only been able to find app-specific info so far. I'd like to log all console activity, both input and output to a text file for later review. Uses for this could be, for example, demonstrating an operation to someone unfamiliar with cygw

Python 2.5 thread problems

2008-03-23 Thread David
Hi. The following test script works under Linux (I leave it running until 50,000 and then hit Ctrl+C), but it crashes under Cygwin: SCRIPT START #!/usr/bin/python2.5 # This test starts lots of threads, but re-joins with them and calls the python # garbage collector import gc import th

Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (pleae reply from others)

2008-03-23 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello For people who did not concern this topic, I draw back the first mail from Vinod Gupta and his first and last mails. After I wrote the above, I have been thought about the issues. I am a one of the user of the cygwin. But I am an unofficial octave on cygwin maintainter. (my web http:/