Re: DOS programs under "screen"

2009-05-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/5/1 Barry Kelly: >> ReadConsoleOutput() on the hidden console only >> gives you the cooked output in terms of character cell contents and >> attributes, whereas the raw output as it came from the console app >> would need to be sent to the pty to be displayed by the likes of >> screen. As far

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I think we decided in cygwin-apps that cygwin packages should be > numbered differently between 1.5 and 1.7 just for clarity since the > namespace isn't reflected in the package name. That matches my recollection. Even tho setup.exe/setup-1.7.exe know about the implici

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cvs-1.12.13-1

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > After upgrading, whenever I try to execute a CVS command on an > existing CVS repository, I get: > > $ cvs diff > cvs: gzip compression level must be between 0 and 9 > > $ cvs up > cvs: gzip compression level must be between 0 and 9 You don't, by any chance, have the fo

Re: Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
LM wrote: This is my first time using Cygwin. I was hoping to build and run some Open Source applications I tried out on Linux on my Windows machine through Cygwin. I downloaded and installed all the Cygwin files. Now I have some issues I'm having trouble resolving and would appreciate any help a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cvs-1.12.13-1

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Matt Wozniski wrote: >^^ Typo in your form letter Thanks... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: What is the most painless way to move Cygwin to another box?

2009-05-01 Thread David Christensen
Wes S wrote: > What is the most painless way to move Cygwin to another box? I've developed the habit of taking copies of the C:\cygwin\setup folder from time to time (usually before an update) and putting them into a date/time stamped folder (e.g. "holgerdanske-cygwin-20090412"). I also download

Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-01 Thread LM
This is my first time using Cygwin. I was hoping to build and run some Open Source applications I tried out on Linux on my Windows machine through Cygwin. I downloaded and installed all the Cygwin files. Now I have some issues I'm having trouble resolving and would appreciate any help anyone

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:44:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: I know they are downloaded from different directories release/ and release-2/ and installed into different versions of Cygwin [1.5] an

What is the most painless way to move Cygwin to another box?

2009-05-01 Thread Wes S
Maybe I'm not getting things but this seems to be a problem I can not get my head around. I have two w2k boxes on a home network. No domain controllers, just a home network. The box that has the install that works fine for me needs to have cygwin moved over to another box while I reinstall wi

[1.7] Weird error "grep: writing output: Cannot allocate memory"

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
Hi[ppo], I've been seeing these odd error messages scattered in amongst my grep output occasionally of late, and decided to spend some time tracking them down. It now seems to me that something very strange is going on with WriteConsoleW, as called from fhandler_console::write_normal(). T

Cygwin SSHD hangs intermitently during key exchange authentication or entering interactive session and creates zombie processes

2009-05-01 Thread Deepak K
Hi, When I try to log into the Cygwin SSHD server, it intermitently locks up and I have to kill the connection and try again. I have a scheduled task running which connects to the server every 10 minutes to synchronize files and this causes problems over time. Client C:\Program Files\Uni

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Dave Korn wrote: >> I must be feeling a little "special" today. Why should there be any >> relationship between 1.5 package numbers and 1.7 package numbers? > > I think that traditionally, if you found two Cygwin packages in the > wild witho

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Dave Korn wrote: >  I must be feeling a little "special" today.  Why should there be any > relationship between 1.5 package numbers and 1.7 package numbers? I think that traditionally, if you found two Cygwin packages in the wild without any other context, and they

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
jurriaan wrote: > If not, where can I find the link to the mailing list archive that > points out where the actual man-page for ps is kept? > I downloaded 86 megabytes of source as per the FAQ, and found only > 9 man-pages, and no ps.[0-9] amongst them. The source for the 'ps' man page is in th

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
William Sutton wrote: > I'll point out that there is also a significant difference between a > direct response and gratuitous insults. Then perhaps you shouldn't have responded to the direct response: > Use "procps" rather than "ps". with gratuitous insults: > speaking for myself and a lot o

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>> I know they are downloaded from different directories release/ and >>> release-2/ and installed into different versions of Cygwin [1.5] and [1.7] >>> but up to now different package versions have alwa

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cvs-1.12.13-1

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
> CVS is the 'Concurrent Versioning System', a widely-used package > for maintianing revision histories of source code.  This port is > based on the official cvs-1.12.13 'feature' release, as modified > by debian lenny (version 1:1.12.13-12, 03 Sep 2008). After upgrading, whenever I try to execute

Re: DOS programs under "screen"

2009-05-01 Thread Barry Kelly
Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/4/21 Barry Kelly: > > Windows implements console mode as a client-server protocol between the > > executable (ntvdm.exe for DOS apps) and winsrv.dll (hosted in > > csrss.exe), but the protocol isn't easily hookable. I guess one would > > have to hijack the console APIs, pe

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:15:27PM -0400, William Sutton wrote: > I'll point out that there is also a significant difference between a direct > response and gratuitous insults. I'll point out that there is a significant difference between an indignant reply to an innocuous direct response and a..

Re: DOS programs under "screen"

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:26:31PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >2009/4/21 Barry Kelly: >> Windows implements console mode as a client-server protocol between the >> executable (ntvdm.exe for DOS apps) and winsrv.dll (hosted in >> csrss.exe), but the protocol isn't easily hookable. I guess one would >>

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:27:59PM +0200, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: >From: Christopher Faylor >Date: Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:11:23PM -0400 >> >> Languishing aside, however, if someone is willing to provide a patch to >> provide a new option and new functionality, it will be given the

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread jurriaan
From: Christopher Faylor Date: Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:11:23PM -0400 > > Languishing aside, however, if someone is willing to provide a patch to > provide a new option and new functionality, it will be given the same > attention that we always give to patches. > something like this? If not, wh

Re: DOS programs under "screen"

2009-05-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/4/21 Barry Kelly: > Windows implements console mode as a client-server protocol between the > executable (ntvdm.exe for DOS apps) and winsrv.dll (hosted in > csrss.exe), but the protocol isn't easily hookable. I guess one would > have to hijack the console APIs, perhaps by stepping into the >

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I know they are downloaded from different directories release/ and >> release-2/ and installed into different versions of Cygwin [1.5] and [1.7] >> but up to now different package versions have always had different version >> nu

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I know they are downloaded from different directories release/ and release-2/ > and installed into different versions of Cygwin [1.5] and [1.7] but up to now > different package versions have always had different version numbers. > With the most recent update of unison this convention has been

[1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

2009-05-01 Thread Fergus
I know they are downloaded from different directories release/ and release-2/ and installed into different versions of Cygwin [1.5] and [1.7] but up to now different package versions have always had different version numbers. With the most recent update of unison this convention has been broken:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cvs-1.12.13-1

2009-05-01 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > CVS is the 'Concurrent Versioning System', a widely-used package > for maintianing revision histories of source code. This port is ^^ Typo in your form letter ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread William Sutton
I'll point out that there is also a significant difference between a direct response and gratuitous insults. William Sutton On Fri, 1 May 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:52:21PM +0200, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: From: Mark J. Reed Date: Wed, Apr 29, 20

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:52:21PM +0200, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: >From: Mark J. Reed >Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:31:13AM -0400 >>This has come up before; an archive search might save some repetition. > >Yes, sorry about that. I can understand that the output of ps is used >in s

RE: Perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'make install' not generating manual page for script

2009-05-01 Thread David Christensen
Reini Urban wrote: > Just a hint: Please do *NOT* use lowercase package names for non- > pragmas. See http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#namespace > "newest" is certainly a very very bad name, if it does not relate to > something like "use blead;" Thank you for your help. :-) Yes; bad la

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread jurriaan
From: Mark J. Reed Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:31:13AM -0400 > > This has come up before; an archive search might save some repetition. Yes, sorry about that. I can understand that the output of ps is used in scripts. I find it harder to understand that adding a new flag to ps would also break

Re: howto obtain the used space of "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information"

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
Matthias Meyer wrote: > chmod u+rx NO That is not what I said to do. That is not equivalent at all. If you don't understand why that chmod is not the same thing as I said to do, I refer you to my first advice: DO NOT MESS. Damn, I knew I'd regret telling you anything a

Re: howto obtain the used space of "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information"

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Dave Korn wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I backup Windows XP as well as Windows Vista by using rsyncd. >> Thats working fine. >> But I have a difference between the used space in source and destination. >> Some of this differences are justified in my exclusions of pagefile.sys >> and

Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I run cygwin in Vista: >> >> I can create a volume shadow copy with vshadow from the Microsoft SDK as >> well as map it to drive B:. >> >> I can access /cygdrive/b (bash) as well as B: (cmd) from terminals of the >> same user which h

Re: howto obtain the used space of "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information"

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I backup Windows XP as well as Windows Vista by using rsyncd. > Thats working fine. > But I have a difference between the used space in source and destination. > Some of this differences are justified in my exclusions of pagefile.sys and > hiberfile.sys. > Another p

howto obtain the used space of "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information"

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I backup Windows XP as well as Windows Vista by using rsyncd. Thats working fine. But I have a difference between the used space in source and destination. Some of this differences are justified in my exclusions of pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys. Another part, I am sure, by "System Volume Info

Re: Perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'make install' not generating manual page for script

2009-05-01 Thread Reini Urban
David Christensen schrieb: Cygwin: I've packaged a Perl script into a module distribution using ExtUtils::MakeMaker: http://www.holgerdanske.com/system/files/newest-1.012.tar.gz Just a hint: Please do *NOT* use lowercase package names for non-pragmas. See http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pau

RE: Moving Cygwin

2009-05-01 Thread Phil Betts
Tim Visher wrote: > Maybe the context for my question would help. I'm attempting to > follow advice from [Steve Yegge's My .emacs File > article](http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/my-dot-emacs-file) in > order to get useful cygwin bash interaction from within NT Emacs. He > seems to be of the op

Re: iconv: Xft UTF-8 rendering

2009-05-01 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: > So, I'm thinking maybe rebuilding libiconv against 1.7.0-46 might help, > since the one released back in November wouldn't have seen any of that > stuff during ./configure, and may have disabled "something". I rebuilt libicon