Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?

2012-04-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/20/2012 6:10 PM, Mike Kaganski wrote: Any code that may be executed (directly or indirectly) must have "x" under *nix. Windows had tried to make somewhat similar (with the same security concerns in mind) in its NT family, but it had to deal with file systems that have no notion of "executa

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 18:40, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: > It doesn't matter what $TERM says. It matters what terminal emulator > you are running. If mintty then follow the suggestion above... > >> Is there a general xterm configuration for overriding a specific >> colour? A few minutes on google di

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 18:41, Dotan Cohen <> wrote: > Thank you Andy. So far as I know I am using the default terminal, but > putting those lines in the file specified did not help. I did close > the Cygwin terminal and reopen it. > > Note that the blue text is being sent over SSH (VIM). I would i

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 15:10, Andy Koppe <> wrote: > Assuming you're using Cygwin's default terminal, stick this into ~/.minttyrc: > > Blue=0,0,191 > > And in case you want to change bold blue as well: > > BoldBlue=64,64,255 > > Adjust the RGB values as desired. The values shown are the default on

Re: cygwin-1.7.13-1: mknod console c 5 1 creates invalid device

2012-04-21 Thread stefano
Ladislav Michl triops.cz> writes: > > Dne 19.4.2012 19:21, Christopher Faylor napsal(a): > > Funny you should pick up on that. I actually had a sheet over my head > > with two eyes cut out when I was writing the ChangeLog. > > > > This should be fixed in the next snapshot. > Just checked cygwin