Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 6:12 PM Bill Stewart wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:49 PM Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin > wrote: > >Windows protected your PC >> Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. >> Running this ap

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

2022-01-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin
line does not help. Opening direct from Chrome gets the following error message. Windows protected your PC Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk. Setup 2.915 still works fine. Thanks - Barry Disclaimer: State

RE: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

2020-09-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin
senix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/full_papers/noer/noer_html/noer.html Oct 18. See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-talk/2005q4/001601.html - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.htm

RE: non-persistent storage?

2019-12-13 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin
>On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:08 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >>Erik Soderquist sent the following at Thursday, December 12, 2019 5:45 pm >> >> On Thu 2019-12-12 (21:59), Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin >> wrote: >>> >>> If the temp fil

RE: non-persistent storage?

2019-12-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin
~/.bash_logout when it exits. One could use that to clear a temp file out of /tmp. If the temp file was created by mktemp and the name saved in an environmental variable, each bash shell could have its own file with not risk that an instance of bash would erase another instance's file. That a

fdupes option

2019-12-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin
added after the current cygwin version (1.50-PR2-3; current version is 1.6.1). I would appreciate it if the maintainer would release a version that implements the -t option. Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

RE: script.exe is missing from util-linux 2.32.1-1

2019-01-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Rusty Lemur sent the following at Thursday, January 24, 2019 11:30 AM > >I noticed that script.exe is not included in util-linux 2.32.1-1. I had >to downgrade to util-linux 2.25.2-2 before it was installed. This is >a tool that I use heavily, so if it is being migrated to a different >package (not

RE: License question (Distribution of cygwin1.dll

2018-05-07 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
e out >the source code? See page and LGPL links: https://cygwin.com/licensing.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.bundling-cygwin - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: Searching full, portable Cygwin package for windows and NOT just the installer

2018-02-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
scan the downloaded packages with your AV, and then install. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscr

RE: setup takes a long time

2018-01-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
sign. https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00275.html FWIW, I still wouldn't mind having a command line option that skips rebase and postinstall scripts when nothing has been updated. Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

Setup request

2018-01-27 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
be possible to have setup always skip rebase & zp_* when not packages are updated, or at least have a command line option to skip rebase and running zp_*? I'm not a developer, so I cannot contribute a patch. Sorry. Thanks for considering this. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herei

RE: Updated: Cygwin 2.9.0-1

2017-09-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ckaging of cygwin-doc needs to put the appropriate files there. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page

2017-08-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
one is looking for a regex needs to be >> documented. > >Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes: > >You rather have the wrong expectations w.r.t. the text you are >attempring to match. >> Found 769 matches for /usr/share/ > >If you click on one of those results you'l

Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page

2017-07-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
re/ Found 0 matches for ^/usr/share Found 0 matches for ^\/usr\/share\/ Found 0 matches for \^\/usr\/share\/ Found 0 matches for \^/usr/share/ Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

BUG: winmain GetCommandLine only returning program name and path with no arguments

2017-05-13 Thread Mike Barry
Below is a sample program that demonstrates that the GetCommandLine function is not returning the command line arguments. I attached cygcheck.out. #include #include int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR szCmdLine, int sw) { char* text = GetCommandLine(); pr

RE: open IE from command line

2016-12-21 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
you have a Windows shortcut to IE, try cygstart "C:\[path to shortcut]\Internet Explorer.lnk" For the record, these work for me: cygstart "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" cygstart "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "http://www.google.com"; - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
vious. >> A version number would be nice too. > >I'd agree that adding "cygwin" to the setup program would be nice >but it's certainly not the windows "way", lots of programs use just >"setup.exe". I've nominated "getcygwin

RE: BashHere Prompt

2016-05-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ere /bin/bash.exe "%L" It would open the containing folder for the highlighted file or folder. BTW, chere started working again when they gave me a new box. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: BashHere Prompt

2016-05-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Kevin J. Duling sent the following at Thursday, May 26, 2016 1:48 PM >Several years back, I wrote a utility to create a "Bash Here" prompt >similar to the "Command Prompt Here" WinXP powertoy, but I really didn't >have any way of sharing it with others. > >It doesn't really bundle in to a package,

file permission problem

2016-04-15 Thread Barry Gold
h x ~ % ll x -rw-rw-r--+ 1 barry None 0 Apr 15 18:13 x ~ % ll . drwxrwx---+ 1 barry None 0 Apr 15 18:13 ./ ~ % cd bin ~/bin % ll . drwxr-xr-x+ 1 barry None 0 Apr 15 18:12 ./ ~/bin % touch x ~/bin % ll x -r--r--r--+ 1 barry None 0 Apr 15 18:13 x ~/bin % - If I create a file in my home

RE: faster opening Cygwin from Explorer window

2016-03-20 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
the highlighted file or folder. Not perfect, but better than nothing. Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe "%L" Start in: [leave blank] I don't remember whether there might be any customizations in .bashrc that helped this to work, so YMMV. BTW, c

RE: locate and updatedb

2016-02-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Byron Boulton sent the following at Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:21 AM >On 2/17/2016 11:00 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: locate >> Byron Boulton sent the following at Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:43 >> AM >>> On 2/16/2016 5:55 PM, Buchbinder, Bar

RE: locate and updatedb

2016-02-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Byron Boulton sent the following at Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:43 AM >On 2/16/2016 5:55 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> >> This is technically OT since this involved a non-cygwin tool. >> >> find is slow compared with a non-Cygwin tool, specifically d

RE: locate and updatedb

2016-02-16 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
r.) Here's how I use dir *in the abstract* for drives C: and D:. (Note: the /a: option of dir lists all files, including hidden ones; /o:n sorts by name.) for D in /c /d do "$(cygpath "${COMSPEC}")" /c dir /s /b /a: /o:n "$(cygpath -w "$D")"

RE: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup

2015-11-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
not >be present. It look like those links are created by /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh. You could try just removing /etc/hosts, /etc/protocols, /etc/services, and /etc/networks, being careful to delete the symlink and not the target, and then re-run /etc/postinstall/base-files-mk

RE: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup

2015-11-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
will be /cygdrive/d/dir, not /d/DIR. YMMV. But pre-creating c:\cygwin\etc\fstab seems like the best option. Good Luck. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

RE: Can MKS Toolkit and Cygwin safely co-exist on Windows servers?

2015-11-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
mpany can >demand support from someone. Cygwin is "free" and support is really just >this email list and "WJM". :) I believe that paid support is available from Red Hat. http://www.redhat.com/services/custom/cygwin/ - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made

RE: Command echo

2015-11-16 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ow) than when started directly or under cmd Hope that helps. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Documentation problem with the UG - POSIX devices?

2015-11-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ion, not the first? Best wishes, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Bad Address with /cygdrive paths

2015-10-22 Thread Barry Roberts
handed to me by the operations team, and cfengine was probably used to configure them and install cygwin. I'll forward this to them and see if they can identify an issue with their process. Thanks, Barry -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg

Re: Bad Address with /cygdrive paths

2015-10-21 Thread Barry Roberts
Attached is the strace output. Thanks, Barry On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 12 18:59, Barry Roberts wrote: >> I've used cygwin for lots of years, and this is kind of weird to me. >> My operations guys set up some Windows Server 2012 R2 se

rebase by setup

2015-10-14 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Running setup in unattended mode runs rebase even if nothing is installed. Is this intended/necessary? I run setup every day when I boot and rebasing is time consuming. Not really a problem but it is annoying. Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

Bad Address with /cygdrive paths

2015-10-12 Thread Barry Roberts
onfiguration problem or a known issue that my searches haven't uncovered yet. Thanks, Barry Roberts -- 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] Updated: php-5.6.14-1

2015-10-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
/c> cygcheck -c php Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus php 5.6.14-1 Incomplete I uninstalled, redownloaded and reinstalled. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: sl-5.02-1

2015-09-02 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
; >I guess my packaging train wasn't fast enough. > >These are really funny btw: http://manpages.org/sl/6 >https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/pull/31 >https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/pulls Please upgrade to ver 5.04. It has unicorns! - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: Default Architecture of Package Search/List Pages

2015-09-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:59 AM >On Sep 1 15:50, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:35 AM >> >On Sep 1 12:36, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: &

RE: Default Architecture of Package Search/List Pages

2015-09-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:35 AM >On Sep 1 12:36, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> On the cygwin package search and package list pages, the >> architectures are listed with 32 bit first/default. >> >> x86 x86_6

Default Architecture of Package Search/List Pages

2015-09-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
On the cygwin package search and package list pages, the architectures are listed with 32 bit first/default. x86 x86_64 If it is known that currently the majority of cygwin users are using 64 bit, might it be appropriate to make 64 bit the default? Thanks for considering this. - Barry

RE: suggestion for setup.exe: on quiet mode start window minimized option

2015-08-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
indows will follow the instructions ("Start in:", "Run:", etc.) in the shortcut. In cmd: start /min From a command line (though not a bash shell when cygwin, bash, or maybe mintty are being updated): cygstart --minimize or cmd /c start /min - Barry Disclaimer: Statem

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
be sufficient? What about using setup's "download without installing" option? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

RE: getent services enumeration glitch

2015-08-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
for all this time. Makes me wonder how >often getservent is used in the wild... Not that I know what getent is, let alone having ever used it, shouldn't finding a bug that old merit a gold star? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-27 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ent the new -D option. Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
nment. See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00977.html Sorry, I'm not a coder and cannot contribute a developer a cannot propose a path. As previously: "Just a suggestion, not a request." Best wishes, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: File permissions different inside and outside cygwin root

2015-06-02 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Yaakov Selkowitz sent the following at Tuesday, June 02, 2015 3:01 AM >On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 19:01 -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> For goodness sake, do not do this. Do not break your computer because Cyg

RE: File permissions different inside and outside cygwin root

2015-06-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
nheritable permissions from this object's parent". - Check "Replace all child permissions with inheritable permissions from this object". - Select the account under which you use cygwin. - "Edit". - "Full control". - "OK", etc. Or something like that. Again, you play with the Security tab at your own risk. Good luck, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: Problem with posix flags and permission denied on domain computer

2015-05-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
JirĂ­ Engelthaler sent the following at Tuesday, May 19, 2015 2:44 AM >I'd like to hear an answer from Corinna Vinschen pls. She's on vacation.

RE: Is it possible to display English phonetic alphabet in Mintty?

2015-04-20 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ers had been switched to Courier New. Only one was Lucida Console. Interesting, several did say what font they were. I interpret that as meaning that when Lucida Console doesn't have a glyph, Word substitutes Courier New. I hope that helps, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.4.692-1

2015-04-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
the screen is all messed up. Loading vim directly in the same window works fine. Since vim132 seems to not work and seems not be needed, might it be reasonable to remove the dependency on tcsh? Anyone who really wants to use it can install the prerequisites and debug it themselves. Thanks for

RE: less color option

2015-04-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
;right way please advise. Just a guess: The man page says "[MS-DOS only]". Cygwin is not MS-DOS so I wouldn't expect this to work with less compiled for cygwin. If you were using the MS-DOS version, you would still need to specify xcolor. Hope that helps, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated package: pdftk-2.02-1

2015-02-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
There is no 64 bit pdftk package. Is that an oversight? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-14 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
gs" into "C:\Documents and Settings\myusername". I'll stop here since I don't know much about junctions. But I hope that the above helps. Good Luck, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

setfacl man page

2015-02-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
The setfacl man page does not document the new -b and -k flags. However, they are documented by setfacl --help . - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

RE: Missing Mirrors

2015-02-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Barry wrote at February 06, 2015 9:23 AM > A lot of mirrors have just dropped off the mirror list. > > I count 30 this morning. 124 are listed on the page saved by Wayback > Machine on 2014-12-26 The numbers above count http and ftp from the same server as 2 mirrors. Counting d

Missing Mirrors

2015-02-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html A lot of mirrors have just dropped off the mirror list. I count 30 this morning. 124 are listed on the page saved by Wayback Machine on 2014-12-26 - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http

RE: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

2015-01-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
the filename is >with minimal distractions about how to achieve that. Then, I can focus >on figuring how those files came about, and how the differences arose. Not a Cygwin solution but the following should give real names. cmd /c dir /b /a: (The /a: makes sure that hidden files are listed.) - Ba

RE: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
t is just a repeat of sdesc. The requires line can help one from downloading far more than one wishes. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

RE: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-02 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
lt-in and so does not require spawning >> another process. > >The same is true of printf. Converting \n line endings to \r\n might work for you when you paste into a Windows app. It does for me. cygpath -aw foo/bar | putclip -d - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.14-7

2014-09-30 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ge Information Package VersionStatus bash 4.1.14-7 OK See also https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/bash/ https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/bash/ Wait. Give it time and 4.1.14-7 will show up on your preferred mirror. Or try a different mirror. - Barry Disclai

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6

2014-09-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Eric Blake sent the following at Monday, September 29, 2014 5:29 PM >On 09/29/2014 03:23 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Eric Blake (cygwin) sent the following at Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:14 >> AM >> >> Using the new version of bash, two scripts t

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6

2014-09-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
or message, but only when the problem function exports are not being exported. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Any hints about what I should look for to make export of my bash shell functions reliable? Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6

2014-09-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ction. From a user standpoint, why would one want to use --wordexp? What is the effect of turning on this mode? Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
he function of /dev/null ), so one can test for that. c:\> if exist c:\Windows\nul echo y y c:\> if exist c:\Windows\explorer.exe\nul echo y c:\> - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

man-db requires line

2014-06-21 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
On 32 bit cygwin. man wasn't working for me; it complained was missing iconv. The man-db requires line includes libiconv2. cygcheck -c reported that libiconv2 was OK. I installed libiconv. man now works. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of

RE: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

2014-04-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
nsensical. That's not sarcasm. I work in an intellectual property office at NIH. I spend a significant part of my working day trying to explain why the US government cannot do things that is just normal business for everyone else. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: Current mirror size

2014-03-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jon TURNEY sent the following at Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:18 AM >On 10/03/2014 20:09, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Jon TURNEY sent the following at Monday, March 10, 2014 12:17 PM >>> On 10/03/2014 09:36, Alexander Kurilo wrote: >>>> could anyone

RE: Current mirror size

2014-03-10 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
= T + $3 ; N++ }; END { print N, T }' 9601 54669681355 32 bit is 55G in 9.6k files. curl -s ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/cygwin/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini | \ gawk '/^install: / || /^source: / { T = T + $3 ; N++ }; END { print N, T }' 7179 44743121652 64 bit is 45G in 7.2k files. - Barry

RE: Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
>On 2014-02-26 17:08, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> It is also a lot bigger than the previous version. >> >> 730624 2013-11-07 13:45:22 setup-x86.old.exe >> 2366464 2014-02-25 13:28:35 setup-x86.exe >> >> Is that expected or is that an ind

Problems with new setup

2014-02-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
an the previous version. 730624 2013-11-07 13:45:22 setup-x86.old.exe 2366464 2014-02-25 13:28:35 setup-x86.exe Is that expected or is that an indication something? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

RE: sox - package is broken

2014-02-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
file takes, >> but no sound. But I can hear the sound using VLC-win32 or WindowsMediaPlayer. The following works for me. /bin/cp path/file.wav /dev/dsp or cat path/file.wav > /dev/dsp See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices - Barry Disclaim

RE: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-16 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ing an option character. Some of us avoid redirections because we do it so rarely that getting it correct becomes a long experimental process. But as an alternative to redirection, one can test for an empty path. if [ ! -z "$2" ] ; then NATIVE="$(cygpath -ml "$2")" ; fi - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe

2014-01-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ike about cygwin is the ability to install without admin privileges. Others probably appreciate that, too. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

RE: cygstart fails

2014-01-14 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ectory >(happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit; >works with cygwin 64 bit) -- Thomas Happened to me yesterday. I installed popt and cygstart worked. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http:

RE: C:\Windows\System32\drivers oddness

2013-12-27 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
tp://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00375.html has a work-around, but I don't have admin privileges so cannot use it. Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: beep perl script

2013-12-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
7.26) of cygwin1.dll. That was fixed in version 1.7.27. <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-12/msg9.html>. Make sure that your installation is up to date. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

RE: Change in behavior of bash / if [

2013-12-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
d can no longer be reproduced. Sigh. Eric, thanks for all the time you put into addressing this issue. Best wishes, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. The following is for the archive in case this comes up again. (Really because I wrote it befo

RE: Change in behavior of bash / if [

2013-12-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Eric Blake sent the following at Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:08 PM >On 12/17/2013 08:02 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Today, a script that I use every day stated giving me the following >> error message. (I grant that it might have started earlier and I &

Change in behavior of bash / if [

2013-12-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
t it. Let me know if you want/need more information. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

RE: something is wrong with cygwin's mirror checker

2013-11-13 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
I doubt that there's anything that you can do, but I wonder if anl.gov cannot find something that it is looking for at the cygwin/sourceware end and that that has contributed to this problem at anl.gov and at least some of the other mirrors. Best wishes, - Barry Disclaimer: Stateme

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: cygcheck-dep-1.0-1

2013-11-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
at is correct, how does one use the information given by -I? What can one do with it? Thanks again, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

RE: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

2013-11-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
issue for others and I appreciate the effort that went into addressing it. Best wishes, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, November 04, 2013 3:31 PM >On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:13:41PM +, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >[E] wrote:> >>Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] sent the following at Monday, November >>04, 2013 1:28 PM >>>

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
need a script to customize /etc/passwd, /etc/group, create /home/$user, and maybe re-run some of the scripts in /etc/postinstall/. Ideas for updating from a master installation without setup available upon request. (I suspect that this method is not supported by this list since setup is not used.) Go

RE: Install puts home in /c/Users

2013-10-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Would the ability setting environmental variable in /etc/profile do the job? To expand on http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00977.html - Perhaps it would be useful to have a way to override any environmental variable provided by Windows via text file. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made

Update readpst?

2013-10-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Cygwin is 0.5.3. Current version seems to be 0.6.61. http://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/ Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:06 PM >On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:59:57PM +, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >[E] wrote: >>>Does setup for 64 bit cygwin need to be 64 bit? Might all this >>be avoided if setup-x86_64.exe were itse

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Does setup for 64 bit cygwin need to be 64 bit? Might all this be avoided if setup-x86_64.exe were itself 32 bit application? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

RE: Running setup-x86_64.exe without admin privileges

2013-09-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
with upx failed with an error message: upx: setup-x86-64.exe: CantPackException: can't pack new-exe The next time you update it, and if it is not too much bother, you might compile so upx works. Or not. I'm not complaining. Thanks again, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are no

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
lities can be >used with a minimum of fuss or trouble. Thank you for the explanation. Still, I'd like to urge the setup-meisters to keep those of us without admin rights in mind. If we have to compile setup ourselves, many of us will be staying with 32 bit for a long time. Thanks

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
.exe that differ only in the manifest be burdensome to the maintainers? Etc. * not a request Thanks for considering this. And thanks to everyone for their contributions to Cygwin. Best wishes, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports:

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
h: $ cat setup.exe > foo2.exe Again the files were identical. However, ls showed permission for foo.exe (made under cmd) as rwx while foo2.exe made under bash was rw-. Both open fine from Windows Explorer. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ain but save it with the name foo.exe. Windows may be remembering that the file used to be called setup*.exe. That memory might not get copied. For what it's worth, I think that setup should be renamed to something like getcygwin just to avoid this issue. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made

RE: Process command lines for Cygwin processes no longer viewable in Windows task manager as of Cygwin 1.7.21

2013-07-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Tom Honermann sent the following at Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:53 PM Does this (or a variation thereof) do what you want? c:\cygwin\bin\procps -A --format cmd - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: MSYS mode (continue)

2013-07-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
is only a suggestion/example. As long as we're making suggestions about environmental variables. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00977.html - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: offline cygwin install question

2013-06-27 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ing it down but mounts set in fstab to C: are a possible problem, as are lack of environmental variables set in Windows. Good luck, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

2013-06-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ons-0.dll is missing from my system. > >cygcheck -c reports no incomplete packages. The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and cygutils-x11. Install cygutils-extra. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports:

RE: [BUG REPORT]sed -e 's/[B-D]/_/g' replaces unexpected characters

2013-06-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Lavrentiev, Anton sent the following at Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:44 AM >> The character ordering is based on the default Windows ordering for the >> locale, and that's dictionary ordering, apparently. > >Ah, I see what you meant here. There's an elaborated explanation: > >http://www.gnu.org/softwa

Problem with FAQ heading

2013-06-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.msvs-mingw 6.19. How do I use cygwin1.dll with Visual Studio or MinGW? This section doesn't actually mention MinGW except in its heading. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem re

RE: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
ions >in order to run, but bash doesn't know that. Use cygstart >/path/to/setup.exe to work around this. Another thing to try is to rename setup.exe. On Windows 7, getcygwin.exe works for me. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem

RE: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-21 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Fedin Pavel sent the following at Monday, May 20, 2013 10:00 AM > And following the same logic we would need to teach our find.exe (already > mentioned on this list) to understand Windows options instead of UNIX > options... FYI, Windows find = grep c:\> find /? Searches for a text string in a

RE: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

2013-05-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Rick Patterson sent the following at Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:09 PM >I am wondering why installing VIm installs so many other things: After >doing a default install of Cygwin, and then not finding VIm, I added VIM >to the install as well, but found it greatly increased my Cygwin install >as follows

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