Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: bash-completion-1.0-1

2009-04-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: > Shipping it with cygport would probably be easiest, particularly since I > recently added the git-completion package which also installs into > /etc/bash_completion.d/. Another option would be submitting it for > upstream inclusi

Re: "Error opening terminal"

2009-04-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:49:28PM -0700, Colin Diesh wrote: >Sorry -- I used the setup.exe cygwin program to download the packages >and their distributions of it don't work. I actually just downloaded >and compiled ctris and ninvaders myself and they work fine (not as >awesome as I wanted but heh

Re: TTY write deadlock

2009-04-18 Thread Josh Stone
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > It took me a while to remember that this is a long standing bug. I > think it is possible to fix thanks to the changes in Cygwin 1.7 but it > isn't a trivial fix. I will still poke at this as I have time but > it may require a minor rewrite of the tty layer to get

Re: 1.7: Problem with Vista64b ACLs and sockets

2009-04-18 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 17 10:46, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, sure, but in that case, why not use the native ping? AFAIK the ICMP API doesn't provide all the data you need to emulate the usual UNIX ping output anyway. AFAIK, the native (e.g. the s

Re: "Error opening terminal"

2009-04-18 Thread Colin Diesh
Sorry -- I used the setup.exe cygwin program to download the packages and their distributions of it don't work. I actually just downloaded and compiled ctris and ninvaders myself and they work fine (not as awesome as I wanted but heh whatever :) I am curious why the binary I got from the setup

Re: "Error opening terminal"

2009-04-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:47:41PM -0700, Colin Diesh wrote: >I was trying to use some ncurses utilities in cygwin like ctris and >ninvaders but running these gives me the error > >"Error opening terminal: cygwin" > >I have ncurses installed, and the ncurses-demo's work as far as I can >tell -- so

"Error opening terminal"

2009-04-18 Thread Colin Diesh
Hello mailing list, I was trying to use some ncurses utilities in cygwin like ctris and ninvaders but running these gives me the error "Error opening terminal: cygwin" I have ncurses installed, and the ncurses-demo's work as far as I can tell -- so I was just wondering what was going on? T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: monotone-0.42-2

2009-04-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Version 0.42-2 of monotone has been uploaded. monotone is a free distributed version control system. it provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. it understands history-sensitive merging, li

Re: new user with an installation question

2009-04-18 Thread Dave Korn
avk800 wrote: > hello all, > > this is my first attempt to get out of the user world. I am trying to > install an open source GIS program called GRASS which requires Cygwin and i > cannot figure out how to start from the command line as setup.exe -X The command prompt can generally be found in

Re: set the PS1 env with SGR cause cusor problem

2009-04-18 Thread tianlijian
I have add the `\[', [\]' literal to the unprintable characters, however the problem still occurs in cygwin. In some other Linux distro, such as Fedora 9, the problem disappears. On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to