Is there "losetup" utility inside cygwin?

2008-04-20 Thread Bo Xie
I am wondering whether there is a "losetup" utility inside cygwin so that I can simulate a .img file to a loopback block device inside cygwin... Any comments are welcome! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docu

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Brian Dessent wrote: Does anybody know what's going on here? Vista introduces a new state on every object, the Integrity Level (IL): low, medium, high, and system. But wait: somehow syslogd works. If all services are at the highest IL, then no lower IL should be able to use syslog()? But I

squid package is outdated; ed scripts

2008-04-20 Thread formes
Hello. Cygwin package of Squid is outdated and only 2.6 version package is availabe. It would be nice if 3.0 were too. It seems that cygwin ed doesn't support scripting, i.e. executing commands from stdin. Again, it would be nice if it did. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: flex-2.5.35-1

2008-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of flex available for downloading. This updates the package to the latest version available from sourceforge. flex compiles out of the box and the program seems to pass its test suite. The NEWS files is included below. To update your installation, click on the "Install C

'tr' Keeps Disappearing

2008-04-20 Thread Tim Daneliuk
OK, this is strange. After a recent update, cygwing informed me that 'tr' was missing. So, I reinstalled coreutils - several times. Each time, 'tr' is there the first time I start a shell. The next shell I start, it's missing again. Is this a know problem or is my hard drive haunted? --

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated tcltk-20080420-1

2008-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of tcltk available for downloading. This version is a refresh from sourceware.org. To update your tcltk installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Use setup.exe to update your installa

Updated tcltk-20080420-1

2008-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of tcltk available for downloading. This version is a refresh from sourceware.org. To update your tcltk installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Use setup.exe to update your installa

Re: bash script works on one PC, bombs on another?

2008-04-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I considered that, and edited the file using vim, and retyped that > line. Is that enough to eliminate that possibility? Nope, vim will happily preserve the line-ending convention of the file. Look for an indicator in the