Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {ghostscript/libgs8/libgs-devel}-8.63-1 - GPL

2008-11-26 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Ken Brown wrote: > This version of ghostscript seems to be incompatible with xdvi (on cygwin). eps graphics don't display I had the same behavior, but it was cured by making "rebaseall". Bye RM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygw

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {ghostscript/libgs8/libgs-devel}-8.63-1 - GPL PostScript interpreter

2008-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/26/2008 6:06 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/26/2008 11:11 AM, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: New versions of 'ghostscript/libgs8/libgs-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. This version of ghostscript seems to be incompatible with xdvi (on cygwin). eps graphics don't display, and I ge

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {ghostscript/libgs8/libgs-devel}-8.63-1 - GPL PostScript interpreter

2008-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/26/2008 11:11 AM, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: New versions of 'ghostscript/libgs8/libgs-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. This version of ghostscript seems to be incompatible with xdvi (on cygwin). eps graphics don't display, and I get the error message xdvik: read_fro

Re: SIGKILL vs. 1.7.0 snapshot

2008-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:36:17PM +, Eric Blake wrote: >I'm not sure in which snapshot this regression crept in, but kill is now >having >problems sending SIGKILL: > >C:\cygwin\bin>.\bash -c 'kill -9 $$' >C:\cygwin\bin>echo %ERRORLEVEL% >2304 >C:\cygwin\bin>cd ..\..\cygwin-2\bin >C:\cygwin-2

SIGKILL vs. 1.7.0 snapshot

2008-11-26 Thread Eric Blake
I'm not sure in which snapshot this regression crept in, but kill is now having problems sending SIGKILL: C:\cygwin\bin>.\bash -c 'kill -9 $$' C:\cygwin\bin>echo %ERRORLEVEL% 2304 C:\cygwin\bin>cd ..\..\cygwin-2\bin C:\cygwin-2\bin>.\bash -c 'kill -9 $$' 1 [sig] bash 3376 _cygtls::handle_ex

Re: open() and named pipes

2008-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >According to >http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/functions/open.html >the open() function shall fail and sets errno to ENXIO if >O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK is set, the named file is a FIFO, and no >process has the file open f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {pstoedit/libpstoedit0/libpstoedit-devel}-3.45-2: pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats

2008-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'pstoedit/libpstoedit0/libpstoedit-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Changed hardcoded path to ghostscript from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin pstoedit NEWS: === New or changed in 3.45: * Some minor corrections of war

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {ghostscript/libgs8/libgs-devel}-8.63-1 - GPL PostScript interpreter

2008-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'ghostscript/libgs8/libgs-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: GNU Ghostscript is Postscript interpreter capable of converting PS files into a number of printer output formats. Ghostscript can also render PS files into a number of graphic

open() and named pipes

2008-11-26 Thread Enrico Forestieri
According to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/functions/open.html the open() function shall fail and sets errno to ENXIO if O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK is set, the named file is a FIFO, and no process has the file open for reading. This is not the case on Cygwin, as demonstrated by the atta

Re: terminal window with tabs?

2008-11-26 Thread Danilo Turina
I use both mrxvt and screen (both alone and in conjunction) and I want to recommend them both to you. Ciao, Danilo Michael Renner wrote: Moin, I'm looking for a xterm replacement that can handle more than one shell in tabs. Maybe like KDEs konsole can. Any chance? -- Danilo Turin

Re: Rsync service problem when shutting down

2008-11-26 Thread Frank Fesevur
2008/11/25 Allan Schrum wrote: > cygcheck -s from my laptop attached. I established rsync as a service using > cygrunsrv: > > cygrunsrv -I rsyncd -e CYGWIN=nontsec -p /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/rsync.exe -a > "--config=/cygdrive/c/rsyncd/rsyncd.conf --daemon --no-detach" I solved this problem by add

Re: terminal window with tabs?

2008-11-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Michael Renner (Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:22:05 +0100) > I'm looking for a xterm replacement that can handle more than one > shell in tabs. Maybe like KDEs konsole can. KDE's Konsole runs fine under Cygwin (from Cygwin ports). Otherwise you could try console (console.sourceforge.net) Thorsten -- U

Re: Magnetic tape tools

2008-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 15:25, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > It > took over an hour to get to filemark 116 and all night to extract 6500 > files. Much slower than on My Linux boxes ( which are not an option > in this case). I haven't had to deal with MT in a long time, is there > a way to speed this up? Could I Mi

Re: Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 11:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:57:20AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Patch applied to the original sources of these docs. That will be > >in the docs for Cygwin 1.7. > > I've reworded this to use more correct English and removed the > comparison with U

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.3.9-1

2008-11-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.3.9-1) has been released and should be at a mirror near you real soon. This is an upstream release. NOTICE: === This version was built with named FIFOs support enabled. This is a slight change from previous versions, but appears not to cause any additional b