Connecting to Access with Python from within Cygwin

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Latest
Hello, I've written a small script in a Windows Python envoronment. This script accesses an MS Access database using the win32 odbc module. These are involked using this line: import odbc, dbi However, I greatly prefer the Linux/X look and feel for development, so I'd like to use this script fro

Re: subversion 1.4.6-1 dies with new cygwin install

2008-06-17 Thread René Berber
Brian wrote: With a new cygwin install, subversion 1.4.6-1 dies on execution. Under XP, it silently exits. Under Vista, it launches the "This program has stopped working" dialog. This doesn't happen with a machine upgrading its version of cygwin, only on a new install. I've verified this by wipi

subversion 1.4.6-1 dies with new cygwin install

2008-06-17 Thread Brian
With a new cygwin install, subversion 1.4.6-1 dies on execution. Under XP, it silently exits. Under Vista, it launches the "This program has stopped working" dialog. This doesn't happen with a machine upgrading its version of cygwin, only on a new install. I've verified this by wiping a cygwin inst

Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var

2008-06-17 Thread Mike Mueller
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > I have a program (native win32) that is capable of launching > sub-processes, using apr (apache portable runtime), which is essentially > a wrapper around CreateProcess in the Windows API. My program creates a > modified environment (

Re: Is There a Reason for Limited "/dev/com" to 16 Ports?

2008-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:34:04PM -0400, Paul Rogers wrote: >Should "devices.in" really have a limit of 16 "/dev/com" ports when the >"ttyS" ports are allowed up to 64 values (max of 63 since it is a >zero-based index)? You really should be using /dev/ttyS for linux compatibility. The fact that

Is There a Reason for Limited "/dev/com" to 16 Ports?

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Rogers
Should "devices.in" really have a limit of 16 "/dev/com" ports when the "ttyS" ports are allowed up to 64 values (max of 63 since it is a zero-based index)? I changed the upper limit on the "com" range for 1.5.25 to "64" along with the "ttyS" range and it compiles and allows using the "/dev/co

Shift-Tab for Backwards Completion

2008-06-17 Thread Frank Jacobs
I've used the solution below so that I can go back in the completion list in Bash via the SHIFT-TAB keystroke. However, I can only get it to work when running in an xterm window (where $TERM=xterm). It doesn't work in the plain-ol' Windows console window (where $TERM=cygwin). The research that I'v

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {octave,octave-doc,octave-devel}-3.0.1-1 and octave-forge-20080507-1

2008-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Marco Atzeri wrote: | strip and dependencies are useful in any case. | Strip seems to reduce the oct around 50% less. | | Should I add something to my cygport script, or a | patch to cygport package is needed ? I just committed a patch to cygport C

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {octave,octave-doc,octave-devel}-3.0.1-1 and octave-forge-20080507-1

2008-06-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" ha scritto: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Marco Atzeri wrote: > | --- "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" ha scritto: > |> Since .oct files are just DLLs, should they be > |> treated as such by cygport (and perhaps > rebaseall)? > | > | I am not sure ab

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: {hdf5,libhdf5_0, libhdf5-deve}-1.6.7-1

2008-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Marco Atzeri wrote: | I put the hdf5 in a separate directory just to have | a more clean /usr/include structure as | hdf5.h call tens of other HDF5 header. The problem is that dependent packages expect them in /usr/include, and have no way of knowi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {octave,octave-doc,octave-devel}-3.0.1-1 and octave-forge-20080507-1

2008-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Marco Atzeri wrote: | --- "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" ha scritto: |> Since .oct files are just DLLs, should they be |> treated as such by cygport (and perhaps rebaseall)? | | I am not sure about what you mean. | Could you clarify a bit? cygport would:

Re: New mirror checker in operation

2008-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I am running a new mirror checker on the cygwin web site. It should do >>a much better job of finding valid mirrors. The mirror check process >>now runs multiple times a day validating that files on the

Re: New mirror checker in operation

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: | I am running a new mirror checker on the cygwin web site. It should do | a much better job of finding valid mirrors. The mirror check process | now runs multiple times a day validating that files on the mirrors are | up t

Re: start ssh port forwarding at boot time

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > /usr/share/doc/autossh-1.4a/README.Cygwin has information about how to set > > this > > up using autossh and cygrunsrv. > > Since you're the Cygwin maintainer of autossh, I have a question: > shouldn't the service be installed with "-y tcpip"? just like sshd, to > avoid problems at startup.

Re: Mirroring

2008-06-17 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-06-17 13:15Z, Josh McCamey wrote: > > I am wondering how I can host a public cygwin mirror. > > I've been looking online for a while and the best info I could find > was @ http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html > So I have everything, but how does one get added to the m

Mirroring

2008-06-17 Thread Josh McCamey
Hey, I am wondering how I can host a public cygwin mirror. I've been looking online for a while and the best info I could find was @ http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html So I have everything, but how does one get added to the mirror list? Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {octave,octave-doc,octave-devel}-3.0.1-1 and octave-forge-20080507-1

2008-06-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" ha scritto: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Marco Atzeri wrote: > | Hi all, > | new versions 3.0.1-1 of octave, octave-devel and > octave-doc > | and new version 20080507-1 of octave-forge have > been uploaded. > > Since .oct files are just DL

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {octave,octave-doc,octave-devel}-3.0.1-1 and octave-forge-20080507-1

2008-06-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Marco Atzeri ha scritto: > > --- "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" ha scritto: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Marco Atzeri wrote: > > | new versions 3.0.1-1 of octave, octave-devel and > > octave-doc > > | and new version 20080507-1 of octave-forge have > > been upl