Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/13 Cyrille Lefevre: > give a try to puttycyg which support both ssh, telnet as well cygwin. The OP is insisting on running the Windows versions of telnet and ftp, and those won't work in puttycyg either. Same in any other terminal based on 'pseudo terminal' (pty) devices. Andy -- Problem

Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

2010-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/12 Niklaus Kuehnis: > I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am > unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) > from commandline. > > On Cygwin 1.5 printing used to work with a2ps but now all umlauts are > replaced by strange ch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cvsps-2.2b1-1

2010-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
A new release of cvsps, 2.2b1-1, is now available for download, leaving 2.1-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream marks it as development rather than stable, but it has several bug fixes over the previous release that can aid in converting a CVS repository with branc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Removed: cogito-0.18.2-2

2010-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
Now that cygwin 1.7 has been released, and upstream cogito 0.18.2 was marked deprecated several years ago, the cogito package is no longer part of the cygwin distribution. If you absolutely need cogito, you can download it from setup-legacy.exe for cygwin 1.5, or rebuild from upstream sources. Ho

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sharutils-4.7-2

2010-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
A new release of sharutils, 4.7-2, is available, leaving 4.6.3-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is an update to build against cygwin 1.7, using gcc 4, and to update the documentation layout to match recommended practice. Using shar on text mounts continues to have the possibility that line endings

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: asciidoc-8.5.2-1

2010-01-12 Thread Eric Blake
A new version of the asciidoc package, asciidoc 8.5.2-1, is now available for download, leaving 8.4.5-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with release notes listed below. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/. DESCRIPTION: AsciiDoc is

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Nellis, Kenneth a écrit : Thank you, Jeremy. BTW, I deal with legacy machines that don't know from SSH. :-( Hi, give a try to puttycyg which support both ssh, telnet as well cygwin. advantage over windows terminal, you may make it a full screen. you may also switch the font encoding to UTF-8

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libogg-1.1.4-1/libogg-devel-1.1.4-1/libogg0-1.1.4-1

2010-01-12 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version the libogg, libogg-devel, and libogg0 packages are now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with upstream changes listed below. DESCRIPTION: Ogg project codecs use the Ogg bitstream format to arrange the raw, compressed bitstream into a mo

Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

2010-01-12 Thread rmpbklyn
try using pdf creator and make it shared, then you can use it have you tested printing a plain text from command shell eg my.txt > lpt1 or the like Niklaus Kuehnis wrote: > > Hi, > > I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am > unable to print text files with non-

Re: Problems running courierauth (UNIX-sockets) - more information

2010-01-12 Thread Oliver Meier
Hi There I have more information concerning my courierauth problem strace of authdaemon gives me: -- snip -- 254 158676 [main] authdaemond 38964 path_conv::check: this->path(C:\cygwin\usr\local\var\spool\authdaemon\socket.tmp), has_acls(1) 691 159367 [main] authdaemond 38964 alloc_sd: uid

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/12 Nellis, Kenneth: > Thank you, Jeremy. BTW, I deal with legacy machines that don't > know from SSH. :-( > > Well this gets more interesting, at least to me... > With LANG=UTF-8, man uses the Unicode HYPHEN character (U+2010) > to break long words at the right margin, and uses the Unicode >

RE: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Thank you, Jeremy. BTW, I deal with legacy machines that don't know from SSH. :-( Well this gets more interesting, at least to me... With LANG=UTF-8, man uses the Unicode HYPHEN character (U+2010) to break long words at the right margin, and uses the Unicode MINUS character (U+2212) to prefix comm

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/12/2010 04:52 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks! What way do you guys suggest to convert all existing symlinks to the .lnk style? Complete reinstall with setup.exe? Hope there is a second option... ;-) There are quite some hits for: find / -exec grep '!' {} \; Right. And 'find' wou

RE: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread sbremal
Thanks! What way do you guys suggest to convert all existing symlinks to the .lnk style? Complete reinstall with setup.exe? Hope there is a second option... ;-) There are quite some hits for: find / -exec grep '!' {} \; /Balazs > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/12 sbremal > I am afraid the winsymlinks option is an installation time setting, is it? : No, but it only affects newly created symlinks. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

RE: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread sbremal
Hi, I am afraid the winsymlinks option is an installation time setting, is it? : --- sbre...@katz /usr/bin $ set | grep CYGWIN CYGWIN=winsymlinks CYGWIN_PATH='H:\Bazsi\cygwin\' sbre...@katz /usr/bin $ which awk /usr/bin/awk sbre...@katz /usr/bin $ awk /usr/bin/awk: /usr/bin/awk: cannot execut

RE: Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2

2010-01-12 Thread Karl M
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:48:34 +0100 > From: corinna > Subject: Re: Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2 > > On Jan 11 22:39, Karl M wrote: >> >> >> Hi All... >> >> I just tried out the latest snapshot and had two problems on a Vista >> Business SP2 machine. >> >> The first problem was that

Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/12/2010 12:08 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because > LANG=UTF-8 causes man pages to be formatted with U+2010 hyphens, > which aren't supported by Windows, so I took another's advice and > installed mintty, which seemed to work just fine u

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/12/2010 11:44 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear? I only compared the old and the new format. The new format using UTF-16 is used by both styles of s

various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

2010-01-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because LANG=UTF-8 causes man pages to be formatted with U+2010 hyphens, which aren't supported by Windows, so I took another's advice and installed mintty, which seemed to work just fine until I tried to use FTP or Telnet (the Windows version

Re: Perl, abs_path from Version 5.10.1-1 to 5.10.1-2 changed behaviour (no longer uses fast_path?)

2010-01-12 Thread Reini Urban
Thorsten Gunkel schrieb: Hi *, I have a perl script, which stopped working, when I recently updated cygwin to 1.7. Here is a small demo script which shows the problem. It just calls abs_path() with different values and prints the output. It would be great if anyone could confirm that they also s

Re: Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2

2010-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 22:39, Karl M wrote: > > > Hi All... > > I just tried out the latest snapshot and had two problems on a Vista Business > SP2 machine. > > The first problem was that in bash shell launched from the cygwin.bat file in > a console > window, the backspace did nothing. > > I also rec

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear? I only compared > >the old and the new format. The new format using UTF-16 is used by both > >styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style. >

Re: Question about yacc linking on new mingw-w64 cygwin patch.

2010-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:22:24PM -, Renaud Meunier wrote: >I am trying to build gcc using cygwin on my new win64 machine. > >I have downloaded the latest mingw code >(mingw-w64-trunk-snapshot-20091222.tar.bz2) and followed the instruction >in mingw-w64-howto-build.txt. > >However I have the f

Perl, abs_path from Version 5.10.1-1 to 5.10.1-2 changed behaviour (no longer uses fast_path?)

2010-01-12 Thread Thorsten Gunkel
Hi *, I have a perl script, which stopped working, when I recently updated cygwin to 1.7. Here is a small demo script which shows the problem. It just calls abs_path() with different values and prints the output. It would be great if anyone could confirm that they also see this behaviour. #!/bin

Question about yacc linking on new mingw-w64 cygwin patch.

2010-01-12 Thread Renaud Meunier
Dear all, I am trying to build gcc using cygwin on my new win64 machine. I have downloaded the latest mingw code (mingw-w64-trunk-snapshot-20091222.tar.bz2) and followed the instruction in mingw-w64-howto-build.txt. However I have the following error: gengtype-parse.c:952: undefined reference t

Re: 'as it was replaced while being copied'

2010-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 10:04, Charles Wilson wrote: > $ cp ../*cpp . > cp: skipping file `../tactical_transmit_msg.cpp', as it was replaced > while being copied > cp: skipping file `../test.cpp', as it was replaced while being copied > cp: skipping file `../test2.cpp', as it was replaced while being copied > cp

Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

2010-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 15:59, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am > unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) > from commandline. Did you read the User's Guide, especially http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/se

Re: Cygwin upgrade

2010-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/12/2010 07:16 AM, Tod wrote: On 1/11/2010 3:58 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/11/2010 03:46 PM, Tod wrote: I'm upgrading to 1.7.1 from the previous version which I was pretty good at keeping up to date. I ran into a problem installing openssh which locked the install forcing me to

How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

2010-01-12 Thread Niklaus Kuehnis
Hi, I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) from commandline. On Cygwin 1.5 printing used to work with a2ps but now all umlauts are replaced by strange characters (i.e. the u with diaeres

Re: Cygwin upgrade

2010-01-12 Thread Tod
On 1/11/2010 3:58 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/11/2010 03:46 PM, Tod wrote: I'm upgrading to 1.7.1 from the previous version which I was pretty good at keeping up to date. I ran into a problem installing openssh which locked the install forcing me to cancel. I stopped the openssh servic

Re: Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp

2010-01-12 Thread Lee Rothstein
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Thomas Wiedmann (Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:24:57 +0100) wrote >> how can in Cygwin the directory, which is in Windows configured as $TEMP, or >> a certain other directory, be redirected to /tmp? > man mount My approach is different, I solve the problem on the Windows side f

ACEs for system - sysprep

2010-01-12 Thread Pavel Kudrna
Hello, there are no ACEs for SYSTEM in / and below. This causes that during the cloning process (using Sysprep) after minisetup changes computer SID and corrects the old one in NTFS ACLs this correction is not performed in cygwin directories. Is my reasoning correct and if so should't cygwin Se

units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Jari, Could you please update your units package, at the same time fixing the location of the data file to be FHS compliant by passing "--datadir=/usr/share/units/" (including the trailing slash) to configure? Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

cppunit: rebuild for gcc4

2010-01-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Ross, Could you please build the lateset cppunit with gcc4? The last release was built with gcc3 and does not work with a gcc4-compiled package. Thanks, Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: htt

Re: Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp

2010-01-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thomas Wiedmann (Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:24:57 +0100) > > how can in Cygwin the directory, which is in Windows configured as $TEMP, or > a certain other directory, be redirected to /tmp? man mount -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/