[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-13

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This is a bugfix release. This p

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-4

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This is a bugfix release. This p

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > The real question here is what does he need the Windows PATH for? Agreed, it depends what purposes OP wants it for and whether it absolutely positively has to be the exact windows path(*) or not. For complete accuracy from within a cygwin environment you'd probably have t

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/30/2009 08:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Simply start the Windows command prompt and type in echo %PATH%. You must need to re-read the subject line, since your suggested method does not actually answer the question asked. Indeed! You're right. So then the answer is that yo

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Simply start the Windows command prompt and type in echo %PATH%. You must need to re-read the subject line, since your suggested method does not actually answer the question asked. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: package 1.4.18-1 -- Light SMTP client with support for server profiles

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Jari Aalto wrote: > PACKAGE DESCRIPTION > === > > Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msmtp > License : GPL > "package 1.4.18-1"? I think your auto-announce/macro-replacement script missed a replacement. The subject line should read "msmtp-1.4.18-1 -- Light SMTP..." -- Chu

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/30/2009 06:40 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Just to clarify since there seems to be a little confusion concerning what the OP needs. Gary's suggestion will convert the value of the PATH environment variable as the shell used to run cygpath sees it to a value which is acceptable by Windows-native

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Robert Pendell wrote: >> >> P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and >> patch defaulted to /tmp. > > I noticed that too... > > Ken Brown wrote: >> >> That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-12-01, ??? wrote: > >>> $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "echo >>> $PATH". >>> This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be >>> off-topic for this list. > >> What i mean is that, how to onl

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-01, ??? wrote: > > $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "echo > > $PATH". > > This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be > > off-topic for this list. > What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windo

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
2009/11/30 ︶ㄣ無名氏: > What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, > `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem". As I understand it, by the time you're in a Cygwin bash shell, the environment variable has been changed by the Cygwin DLL, and the original Windo

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Huang Bambo
2009/12/1 �屺��o名氏 : > What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, > `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem". > > `echo $PATH' would display the path of cygwin: > echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > D

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread ︶ㄣ無名氏
What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem". `echo $PATH' would display the path of cygwin: echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > $PATH returns the value of PAT

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

2009-11-30 Thread wynfield
I have no problem with Japanese-Kana or Chinese-Kanji characters related with cygpath. Some jibberish directory or file names might exist from legacy mis-encodings or non-recogizable character sets, but this would not be a cygpath issue. > On Nov 30 09:14, ??? wrote: > > The proble

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Robert Pendell wrote: P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and patch defaulted to /tmp. I noticed that too... Ken Brown wrote: That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /etc/profile. Then things should work as in linux. Indeed. But a question

Environment variable documentation

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) could use some expansion. For example, it's not stated exp

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Chip Panarchy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28variable%29 On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/30/2009 07:44 AM, nwpu053...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. > > $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "ec

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Robert Pendell wrote: > Is there a reason for not using the cygwin /tmp folder by default? Dunno. I can't think of a good reason for it but that doesn't mean there isn't one. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: >> On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: > >>> I guess a side question here is if TMP does not exist then should it >>> be defaulting to the system wide TEMP variable, the one defined in >>> .bashrc for the user or shoul

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: >>> >>> Ken Brown wrote: Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP >>

Re: 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) XWin conflict with Microsoft Outlook 2003

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/30/2009 08:56 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote: I am encountering a peculiar problem with Cygwin 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) The administrator has the package installed, with a vbs script that invokes a couple of batch files to get Cygwin and X started, when starting a local xterm. X problems are best di

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/30/2009 07:44 AM, nwpu053...@gmail.com wrote: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "echo $PATH". This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be off-topic for this list. -- La

Re: getopt bugs

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Bugs? Linux-incompatibilities, ok, but bugs? Well, a bug is defined as operating differently than documented, and we are documented as striving for linux compatibility where possible. > > (and given the first bug, > > there is no way to unset the POSIXL

Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/26/2009 04:30 PM, Reinier Post wrote: Dear list, I've been using Cygwin daily for years and I'm very happy with it. But today it threw a nice puzzle at me. I must confess I became a list member just to report it. ... Please don't commandeer another's email thread for your own purpose

Re: Unknown problems with cygwin-1.7 install on windows 7 host

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 10:57, Rance Hall wrote: > I apologize for the vagueness of this post, but I dont know how to > track this down as the Windows error messages do not help much. > > I have windows 7 professional, and just installed cygwin-1.7 beta. > > As far as I can tell, the installation works and all

Re: getopt bugs

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 16:54, Eric Blake wrote: > Cygwin 1.7 getopt has made some strides towards being more Linux-compatible, > but there are still a couple remaining bugs recently detected by the m4 > testsuite. Bugs? Linux-incompatibilities, ok, but bugs? > On Linux, setting optind=0 forces a re-evaluat

Unknown problems with cygwin-1.7 install on windows 7 host

2009-11-30 Thread Rance Hall
I apologize for the vagueness of this post, but I dont know how to track this down as the Windows error messages do not help much. I have windows 7 professional, and just installed cygwin-1.7 beta. As far as I can tell, the installation works and all is well with the cygwin world. However, the s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: >> I guess a side question here is if TMP does not exist then should it >> be defaulting to the system wide TEMP variable, the one defined in >> .bashrc for the user or should it even be created at all? I posted an >> strace and it

getopt bugs

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
Cygwin 1.7 getopt has made some strides towards being more Linux-compatible, but there are still a couple remaining bugs recently detected by the m4 testsuite. On Linux, setting optind=0 forces a re-evaluation of getenv("POSIXLY_CORRECT"); this can be useful if a program wants to parse multiple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A search of the mailin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: >> >> Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side >> effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP >> and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A

Re: How "beta" is the beta 1.7?

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:06:18AM -0600, Rance Hall wrote: >The timeline for 1.7 going stable is any day now. (late November, >early December) > >I am running a windows 7 box that I want to install the new 1.7 > >Ive used older versions of cygwin so I know what to expect as far as >usage goes, but

Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:56:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 30 15:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Andy Koppe wrote: >> >2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: >> They are actually listed in all CJK character sets (checking i18n >> data). Whether this was really used or not, it makes their view as >> "pre

Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:19:07PM -0800, LiuYan ?? wrote: > >I'm using Cygwin for several years, it help me very much in my work. > >There's a tiny issue: after downloaded in several years, the total size of >my local setup packages directory had grown up to G bytes, while a fresh >setup packa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: package 1.4.18-1 -- Light SMTP client with support for server profiles

2009-11-30 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msmtp License : GPL A SMTP client that can be used to send mails from Mutt and probably other MUAs (mail user agents). It forwards mails to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider), which takes care of th

My original report of xterm breaking with the new termcap

2009-11-30 Thread Eliot Moss
... as Corinna requested :-) ... Fairly easy to follow forward to the maintainer's diagnosis that a termcap entry is too big, which causes this failure. Cheers -- Eliot --- Begin Message --- The new termcap causes my xterm to segmentation fault. When I back out just the termcap line of this upd

Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 15:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: > >2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: > They are actually listed in all CJK character sets (checking i18n > data). Whether this was really used or not, it makes their view as > "presentation forms" weaker. > > >>_I_ use those [wide ASCII chars] in file

Re: cyg1.7 - DOS character remapping: change request.

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/29 Linda Walsh: I'm aware that this would reserve the 'display forms' of those chars and map them them to their real forms when interpreted within cygwin. I don't see this to be a problem. But it is a problem. It would make it impossible to use the wide

How "beta" is the beta 1.7?

2009-11-30 Thread Rance Hall
The timeline for 1.7 going stable is any day now. (late November, early December) I am running a windows 7 box that I want to install the new 1.7 Ive used older versions of cygwin so I know what to expect as far as usage goes, but these questions weren't covered in the FAQ as far as I could tell.

1.5.25(0.156/4/2) XWin conflict with Microsoft Outlook 2003

2009-11-30 Thread Larry W. Virden
I am encountering a peculiar problem with Cygwin 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) The administrator has the package installed, with a vbs script that invokes a couple of batch files to get Cygwin and X started, when starting a local xterm. The first .bat file sets up some variables then does a %RUN% XWin -mu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A search of the mailing list archives shows that the default /etc/

how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread nwpu053...@gmail.com
how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 07:31, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/30/2009 4:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 29 18:22, Robert Pendell wrote: > >>On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > >>>Ken Brown wrote: > I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar > behavior to w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2009 4:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 29 18:22, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar behavior to what Angelo and Robert reported, but it doesn't happen i

possible cygwin_select problem: rtorrent freezes under cygwin 1.7

2009-11-30 Thread Bogdan
Hi, I've compiled and installed a console torrent client rTorrent 0.8.5 under cygwin, following instructions here: http://rtwi.jmk.hu/wiki/rTorrentOnWindows The problem is that rTorrent freezes for random-length periods of time with 100% CPU use. That same version of rTorrent does not freeze on

Re: [1.7] cvs over ssh hangs on completion

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 22:42, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: > I have cvs on a client machine connecting to a host over ssh. The cvs > procedure finishes, but the connection does not terminate until I hit > ctrl-c. The cvs process is then left running on the host. Regular ssh > connections (ie interactive login) do not

Re: `cygwinpath -D' could not display the Chinese character

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 09:14, ??? wrote: > The problems occurs again. Nothing has changed in this code. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 29 18:22, Robert Pendell wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > Ken Brown wrote: > >> > >> I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar > >> behavior to what Angelo and Robert reported, but it doesn't happen if I > >> export TMPDIR=/tmp bef