Re: lftp missing dependency?

2008-08-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm fiddling with some stuff that needs Cygwin for a customer on a > fairly pristine system, and thought I'd try to use lftp instead of being > stuck with 'doze ftp, however it gives error 128 when run. According to > cygcheck, it's missing libexpat, which seems to not be installed when > ins

Re: 1.5.25: Can't Change User's Home Dir [SOLVED]

2008-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Plana wrote: That's exactly what I read in the FAQ, but my system doesn't seem to be following that behavior. 1) Running "set HOME" in CMD.EXE gives the ff.: HOMEDRIVE=H: HOMEPATH=\ HOMESHARE=\\essrv07\rplana$ 2) /etc/passwd contains a Home entry that's prefixed with "/cygdrive/c/D

RE: 1.5.25: Can't Change User's Home Dir [SOLVED]

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Plana
> > That's exactly what I read in the FAQ, but my system doesn't seem to be > > following that behavior. > > > > 1) Running "set HOME" in CMD.EXE gives the ff.: > > > > HOMEDRIVE=H: > > HOMEPATH=\ > > HOMESHARE=\\essrv07\rplana$ > > > > 2) /etc/passwd contains a Home entry that's prefixed with >

Re: 1.5.25: Can't Change User's Home Dir

2008-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Plana wrote: That's exactly what I read in the FAQ, but my system doesn't seem to be following that behavior. 1) Running "set HOME" in CMD.EXE gives the ff.: HOMEDRIVE=H: HOMEPATH=\ HOMESHARE=\\essrv07\rplana$ 2) /etc/passwd contains a Home entry that's prefixed with "/cygdrive/c/D

1.5.25: Can't Change User's Home Dir

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Plana
Larry Hall wrote: > Richard Plana wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't seem to change my user's HOME dir so that it uses > > "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/" as its prefix. I've changed the > > home dir entry in the /etc/passwd file, but each time I connect, $HOME > > is still set to using "/home/"

Re: Text selected when I do double click in it

2008-08-29 Thread davidkont
Hi Larry, in principle I'm interested in continue with fvwm because it works very well, this issue is the unique problem that I see... Thanks anyway... davidkont wrote: > > Hello everybody, I have a question about cygwin and the text selected when > I do double click in it. > Well, the problem

lftp missing dependency?

2008-08-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
I'm fiddling with some stuff that needs Cygwin for a customer on a fairly pristine system, and thought I'd try to use lftp instead of being stuck with 'doze ftp, however it gives error 128 when run. According to cygcheck, it's missing libexpat, which seems to not be installed when installing lf

Re: Text selected when I do double click in it

2008-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
davidkont wrote: Hi Larry, I forgot say that I use fvwm... isn't possible do this with it? Never tried it but I don't see why not. 'rxvt' will work even without an X-Server running. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893

RE: Probably stupid make question

2008-08-29 Thread Phil Smith
Well, this is just ducky. I'm posting this so it goes in the archives and maybe saves someone else a LOT of heartache. Batch files treat incoming, unquoted equals signs as spaces! For the cross-compiling I'm doing, I have to use a .BAT file (or equivalent), because the cross-compiler is two-sta

Re: Text selected when I do double click in it

2008-08-29 Thread davidkont
Hi Larry, I forgot say that I use fvwm... isn't possible do this with it? Thanks!! Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > davidkont wrote: >> Hello everybody, I have a question about cygwin and the text selected >> when I >> do double click in it. >> Well, the problem is that I working much with copy/

Re: Can't Change Home Dir

2008-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Plana wrote: Hi, I can't seem to change my user's HOME dir so that it uses "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/" as its prefix. I've changed the home dir entry in the /etc/passwd file, but each time I connect, $HOME is still set to using "/home/" (which is under Cygwin's root). I've logg

Source repository for Cygwin's version of git

2008-08-29 Thread Matt Seitz
Is there a source repository for Cygwin's version of "git" that I could access? I wanted to try some modifications, and I thought it might be easier if I could use a source control tool to track any changes in the official Cygwin version. Sincerely, Matt Seitz -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Can't Change Home Dir

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Plana
Hi, I can't seem to change my user's HOME dir so that it uses "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/" as its prefix. I've changed the home dir entry in the /etc/passwd file, but each time I connect, $HOME is still set to using "/home/" (which is under Cygwin's root). I've logged off all cygwin shell

Re: Text selected when I do double click in it

2008-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
davidkont wrote: Hello everybody, I have a question about cygwin and the text selected when I do double click in it. Well, the problem is that I working much with copy/paste, and when I do double click in text in a list for example only selects text between point and point or between point and ba

Text selected when I do double click in it

2008-08-29 Thread davidkont
Hello everybody, I have a question about cygwin and the text selected when I do double click in it. Well, the problem is that I working much with copy/paste, and when I do double click in text in a list for example only selects text between point and point or between point and bar, and I want to s

Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7

2008-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:02:23PM +0200, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14:23AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>> On Aug 29 10:22, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed mounts,

Re: setup.exe crashes on cygwin package upgrade

2008-08-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> setup.exe crashes when I try to upgrade cygwin to the newest version. > > When I try to run setup.exe, it verifies no newer version exists, downloads > the > list of mirrors, and lets me choose packages, automatically marking those with > newer versions available for an upgrade. So far, so good

Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7

2008-08-29 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14:23AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 10:22, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed mounts, but will have another filename encoding for non-ASCII filenames. IIRC, I read

setup.exe crashes on cygwin package upgrade

2008-08-29 Thread Piotr Sulecki
setup.exe crashes when I try to upgrade cygwin to the newest version. When I try to run setup.exe, it verifies no newer version exists, downloads the list of mirrors, and lets me choose packages, automatically marking those with newer versions available for an upgrade. So far, so good. But one of

Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7

2008-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14:23AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 29 10:22, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: >>As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed >>mounts, but will have another filename encoding for non-ASCII >>filenames. IIRC, I read that all code for the old manag

Re: printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1.

2008-08-29 Thread Jason Tishler
Yaakov, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:25:49PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > > This is one option -- possibly a difficult one. > > Hmm, my mindreading isn't working so well today. What do you mean by > that? I guess I should have used another word instead of difficult

Re: html parser location:

2008-08-29 Thread Reini Urban
> According to Tamirat Tesfaye on 8/28/2008 11:49 PM: >> Dear Eric, I am working on an application that parses the content of >> HTML remotely and populate it in database. I have used perl for this. >> However the cygwin was saying that it was unable to locate the HTML >> Content Parser files. I

Re: html parser location:

2008-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE According to Tamirat Tesfaye on 8/28/2008 11:49 PM: > Dear Eric, I am working on an application that parses the content of > HTML remotely and populate it in database. I have used perl for this. > However the cygwi

Re: Text Mode and "$'\r': command not found" error

2008-08-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Clément LABORIE wrote: > >source ${PROJECT_DIR}/myBash.bash > . $'\r': command not found > > >echo ${PROJECT_DIR} > E:/project/... > > When I replace ${PROJECT_DIR} by Unix directory /cygdrive/e/project/..., > it works well. What version of bash are you using? Have you read point 6 in /u

Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano

2008-08-29 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/1 Tomi Belan wrote as "Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano" > Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences, > for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word > boundary). This causes a usability bug with the nano edit

Text Mode and "$'\r': command not found" error

2008-08-29 Thread Clément LABORIE
Dear all, I am currently working on a project using Cygwin to submit Bash files (developments are done under Windows, with Notepad for example). Here is my problem: I have installed new version of Cygwin, with set up mode "Dos Mode" instead of "Unix mode" because all of our files are in Window

Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano

2008-08-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 1 10:03, Tomi Belan wrote: Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences, for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word boundary). What you're looking for are perl regular expressions and they are o

Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7

2008-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 29 10:22, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: > As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed > mounts, but will have another filename encoding for non-ASCII > filenames. IIRC, I read that all code for the old managed mounts > has been removed from cygwin 1.7. > > I'm just curious:

Re: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)

2008-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 11:35, Auteria W. Winzer Jr. wrote: > Here's the steps in creating the CA request and self-signed cert: > [...] > /usr/bin/openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr I can reproduce the problem when entering a challenge password here. The strace shows that openssl tries to allocate

[1.7.0-29] info problem

2008-08-29 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi all, I catch a strange problem in 1.7.0-29 when info is dealing with gz compressed file. using the gz file, e.g. info -f bash.info.gz info is unable to reach all the nodes. for example using "n" for next, the 4th node is unreachable (4 Shell Builtin Commands) Cannot find node `(/usr/share/i

Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7

2008-08-29 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed mounts, but will have another filename encoding for non-ASCII filenames. IIRC, I read that all code for the old managed mounts has been removed from cygwin 1.7. I'm just curious: How would users of managed mounts transform their fil