Re: pedantic/misled/confused/passive-aggressive (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)

2009-01-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Christopher Faylor wrote: > Just to contribute something useful: Chuck Wilson, if you are reading > this, am I correct in assuming that you don't enjoy maintaining the > Windows version of rxvt? If so, should we consider deprecating rxvt in > favor

Did anyone download the Windows 7 beta?

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I know that we don't claim to support beta versions of Windows but I did manage to grab a copy of the beta iso and install it in a virtualbox (http://virtualbox.org/) virtual machine for playing. The system installed smoothly and boots quickly. It is fairly snappy except that I swear that, after

scsh-0.6.7-2: (date) fails to use local time zone after the first call

2009-01-10 Thread John Russell
According the the scsh manual, (date) is supposed to return the current date in the local time zone. However, in the Cygwin scsh-0.6.7-2 package, it only works that way the first time that (date) is called. After that, it returns dates in the UTC timezone. Test script: #!/usr/bin/scsh -s !# (d

pedantic/misled/confused/passive-aggressive (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I apologize for sidetracking the MinTTY thread. It was bugging me too much to see the same argument repeated a couple of days after they were already discussed. (I blame the choklat stout: http://www.southerntierbrewing.com/beers.html) As I've said, I think MinTTY is a nice program, getting bett

RE: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Christopher Faylor > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:00:06PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Christopher Faylor > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> >Out of here... > >> > >> If only that was really true. > > > >I thought there was a sp

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:00:06PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Christopher Faylor >> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >Out of here... >> >> If only that was really true. > >I thought there was a specific mailing list where such >Cygwin-related-co

RE: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Christopher Faylor > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >Out of here... > > If only that was really true. > > cgf I thought there was a specific mailing list where such Cygwin-related-content-free urinating contests were more appropriately held. I must h

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread newsletter
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Out of here... If only that was really true. cgf mmm Linux is about choice and not being forced to use a limited set of tools. If rxvt works for you than that's fine - use it. don't knock

Re: find assert

2009-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 12/30/2008 12:06 PM: > This is apparently caused by a symlink that looks like this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 cgf None 6 Jul 9 2005 n -> //none > > I don't remember creating that symlink. Apparently I was checking

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Out of here... If only that was really true. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: find assert (was Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys),...)

2009-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 1/9/2009 4:45 AM: >>> state.type is set in the calling function find() like this: >>> >>> while ( (ent=fts_read(p)) != NULL ) >>> { >>> state.have_type = !!ent->fts_statp->st_mode; >>> state.type = sta

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Matt Wozniski
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> Andy Koppe wrote: and the options dialog (which among other things allows you to configure it in an Xish way). >>> >>> What could be more Xish then X Resources, which rxvt pays total attention >>> to? >> >> That point

Re: find assert (was Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys),...)

2009-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 1/9/2009 4:45 AM: > That's what happens in gnulib's fts in case of returning FTS_NS: > > memset(sbp, 0, sizeof(struct stat)); > return (FTS_NS); > > So st_mode is 0 here, too and the same problem occurs. Here's w

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:40:35PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: This is YA point that has already been made. You are not adding anything new here. I'm not sure that a "YA" is - the closest I see is Yaakov but he didn't say anything about this

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Andy Koppe wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: What is the native Windows look and feel other than the Window frame? - scrollbar - right-click menu (also reachable via menu key) - options dialog, with font and colour selectors - copy&paste behaviour (copy-on-demand, Ctrl-Ins copies, shift-left click

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:40:35PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >>This is YA point that has already been made. You are not adding >>anything new here. > >I'm not sure that a "YA" is - the closest I see is Yaakov but he didn't >say anything about this AFAICT. In any eve

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Andrew DeFaria wrote: What is the native Windows look and feel other than the Window frame? - scrollbar - right-click menu (also reachable via menu key) - options dialog, with font and colour selectors - copy&paste behaviour (copy-on-demand, Ctrl-Ins copies, shift-left click extends) - drag&

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: This is YA point that has already been made. You are not adding anything new here. I'm not sure that a "YA" is - the closest I see is Yaakov but he didn't say anything about this AFAICT. In any event I feel I am adding something, which was a reason why both of these al

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:35:44AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:21:42PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> Michael Lemke wrote: I just don't get it. What's wrong with rxvt? I've been using it for years as my only terminal for cygwin

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Andy Koppe wrote: Michael Lemke wrote: I just don't get it. What's wrong with rxvt? I've been using it for years as my only terminal for cygwin and never understood why it isn't the default. I tried mintty the other day but couldn't find anything rxvt isn't doing. MinTTY's main distinctions

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:21:42PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Michael Lemke wrote: I just don't get it. What's wrong with rxvt? I've been using it for years as my only terminal for cygwin and never understood why it isn't the default. While I agree, rxvt does have p

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread KHMan
Andy Koppe wrote: Danilo Turina wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: I WANT TABS!! Well if tabs get in, I'll throw mrxvt out of the window (or out of the X-Window?). Sorry guys, I'm afraid there's no chance of me implementing those. See http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=8 I think

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

2009-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/10/2009 3:05 AM: >> $ touch a.cache-2 b.cache-2 >> $ echo [ -f *.cache-2 ] >> [ -f a.cache-2 b.cache-2 ] > > In your example, considering that the a.cache-2 and b.cache-2 have > been created by touch command, both the [ -

Re: Is it possible to incremental update of the existing installed cygwin.

2009-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/10/2009 5:17 AM: > Based on the above understanding, I want to know whether I can perform > a incremental update of my existing installed cygwin. Yes - rerun setup.exe without uninstalling, and it will pull in only the in

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Danilo Turina wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: I WANT TABS!! Well if tabs get in, I'll throw mrxvt out of the window (or out of the X-Window?). Sorry guys, I'm afraid there's no chance of me implementing those. See http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=8 I think something like Win

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-01-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Michael Lemke wrote: I just don't get it. What's wrong with rxvt? I've been using it for years as my only terminal for cygwin and never understood why it isn't the default. I tried mintty the other day but couldn't find anything rxvt isn't doing. MinTTY's main distinctions compared to rxvt

Is it possible to incremental update of the existing installed cygwin.

2009-01-10 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, I've a existing installed cygwin but it is not up-to-date. If I download all of the latest packages and then reinstall them, it will be time-consuming job. Furthermore, I found that the difference between my installed version of cygwin and the the latest distro, i.e., the actually change

python 2.6

2009-01-10 Thread George Ciobanu
Hi, Is there a plan to move a newer version of python, such as 2.6? Has anyone tried to incorporate it so far? Thanks, George -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: [1.7] gcc-3.4.4-3 gets reinstalled every time I run setup

2009-01-10 Thread Fergus
>> setup sees the package as new, and reinstalls it, every time. > At least it is in the category of annoying but harmless; you aren't missing any files necessary for gcc to work correctly. Also dummy upgrade packages and install helpers are repeatedly re-installed unless laboriously un-check

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

2009-01-10 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:36:26 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/9/2009 6:38 AM: >> But I cann't figure this out, see the following results on my box: >> >> $ echo [ -f *.cache-2 ] >> [ -f *.cache-2 ] > >That means there aren'

Re: automate SSH-HOST-CONFIG

2009-01-10 Thread Dmitry Semyonov
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:34, blazt wrote: > How can I automate this process? Create 'expect' script. You'll likely have to update it here and there after ssh-host-config upgrades though. -- ...Bye..Dmitry. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: