Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Rothenberger wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: This does not happen if I use a non-cygwin (command-line) Subversion, or if I use TortoiseSVN. That's the reason why I write this mail here, and not on a Subversion list. Windows supports the conversion using Windows APIs, it's just not supp

Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: If that did what we wanted, then we wouldn't need the run package in the first place. The run command hides the console for console applications (or at least those that Windows thinks of as console applications) like xterm. "cmd" gives you that pesky console. Well, cgf sp

Re: problems with run

2006-07-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Taking this back to the list. I missed to adjust the To: field. Alexander Gottwald skrev: Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Upgrade from run-1.1.6-1 to run-1.1.10-1 gives me problems. Variables that have national chars gets wrong codepage I have narrowed it down so that

Re: [RFA] patch for run.exe -- ATTN: ago

2006-05-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 04:42 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > ??? the pipe code? or the setup_invisible_console code? or both? Actually I meant the setup_invisible_console code but I'll wait until you've got further information on the handle stuff. bye ago signature.asc Description: Th

Re: [RFA] patch for run.exe -- ATTN: ago

2006-05-18 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 02:45 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > run.exe currently launches clients without any stdio handles and without > any console at all. That's over-ambitious: what run REALLY should do is > launch the client with a *hidden* console and *working* stdio handles. > > Since run.ex

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.9-1

2006-04-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.8-1

2006-03-31 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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Re: 'run' command quirks

2006-03-31 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:17 -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > run has no problem with /cygdrive (it's linked with cygwin1.dll, after > all). What confuses it are the spaces in the path. From a quick look at > the run source, it parses the command line twice -- once to skip the > executable name,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.7-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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Re: Bug: run emacs: fatal error reading the windows environment

2006-03-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Alexander, does the latest "run" version have the stuff added to > regenerate the Windows environment before calling CreateProcess, > like cygstart has? No, sorry. I totally forgot this. I'll create new packages soon -- Unsubscribe info: http://

Re: problem with run command and the environment

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:06 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > In the case of run it's necessary to call CreateProcess for the > functionality required, but this also means that it has to be careful to > do so in a way that is compatible with Cygwin -- in this case syncing > the environment first. I'm

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > is there a Linux version of setup.exe ? I had run setup.exe in wine. This worked very well (last tried about a year ago) bye ago -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: STDOUT of non cygwin command lost - prob started after late Oct snapshot

2005-12-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Tom Rodman wrote: > I'm trying to create a simple test case, but will not be able to finish > it for a few days; at that time I will followup later with a post that > follows the problem reporting guidelines. Testcase: running windows netstat from xterm (or rxvt) $ netstat

Re: Cygwin logo

2005-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:34 -0800, Brian Dessent > I first had to make the basic logo > . This is not really a > new logo but rather the old one, just done in vector format with some > rounded edges, beveling, li

Re: Updated: run-1.1.6-1

2005-11-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 11:38 +0100, Jean-Francois Sygnet wrote: > I just want to tell you that since "run.exe" was moved > from X-startup-scripts-1.0.10-4 to run-1.1.5-2 > a command like "run ssh-agent Xwin ..." > does not work anymore: it takes 100% of the CPU forever) > I've looked at the source

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.6-1

2005-11-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:25 -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: > It would seem to me that making an arbitrary window application use > X11 to draw its windows would involve cygwin. > Would it be appropriate to move this to the Cygwin-X list? There has been discussion in http://cygwin.com/ml/win32-x11/200

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: > > Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and > > windows. You could trace all registry or file access of a program. Wine > > would be useful for remote program usage since it exports the display > > via X11. > > Thi

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running > Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under > Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a > Windows apps, well then just ru

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: run, Updated: X-startup-scripts, X-start-menu-icons

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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Re: PostgreSQL : Bad system calls

2005-10-31 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:32 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > According to the README, I wasn't running cygserver (and > > cygserver-config). I tried doing that, but get "bad system call" > > errors anyway. You must have set server in the CYGWIN environment variable too. CYGWIN="server $CYGWI

Re: RE:CYGWIN Installation-VIM ( CYGWIN Reinstallation)

2005-10-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 06:32 -0700, S.Sunil Kumar wrote: > Oknow If I want to install this new package of > CYGWIN..Is there is any need of Uninstalling the > previous (small one). setup is doing that for you > And how can we Uninstall (Even if there is no > need-Just for idea) ? just deselc

Re: RE:CYGWIN Installation-VIM

2005-10-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 06:18 -0700, S.Sunil Kumar wrote: > > I dont have Internet-Connection in my home. > So I would like to install it offline. Cygwin setup has a "download only" option which you can use if you have internet access. Download the files to USB Stick, portable harddrive or the like,

Re: CYGWIN Installation-VIM

2005-10-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 05:33 -0700, S.Sunil Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I have checked the following links. > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages > http://cygwin.com/packages/ > http://cygwin.com/packages/vim/ > > I can see the file lists only and not the EXE File. > If poss

Re: tar 1.15.1 broken

2005-10-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > Moving --exclude= to this... > > tar --exclude= -cvjf test.tbz2 > > makes it work. I remember... I hit those some time ago too. tar is now more strict where options can be put on the command line. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: Apache apx2s does not produce shared libs with mod_security

2005-10-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > apxs2 -c mod_security.c > /usr/share/apr-build/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic -O2 > -DAP_HAVE_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER -DCYGWIN -I/usr/include/apache2 > -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -c -o mod_security.lo mod_security.c && > tou

Re: [ITP] run.exe was Re: Running ssh in background [solution/patch]

2005-10-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > [ITP] I think I'll split run.exe from the X-startup-scripts package and > > create a new one which i'll continue to maintain. > > FINALLY! It's been on my TODO list for *ages*. Thank you! I'd like to put it in /usr/bin. How should I handle the

[ITP] run.exe was Re: Running ssh in background [solution/patch]

2005-10-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > You might make more traction by suitably patching the 'run' utility so > that it also supports pipes. Then you could use 'run' to launch the > standard /bin/ssh without the console window. done. check http://www.freedesktop.org/~ago/run.exe It is based

RE: Running ssh in background

2005-10-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Good guess. While I have no console window popping up anymore, the ssh > process does now no longer terminate and the Windows app hangs until I kill > the ssh process :( most likely run.exe does not support piping or piping data to a non-console appli

File permission problems with setup.exe

2005-10-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hi all, Updating cygwin two days ago revealed two problems with cywings setup.exe 1) corrupted /etc/setup/.lst.gz setup tries to read the file and stops. The error message in the logfile did not mention the filename. Deleting the broken file solved the problem 2) insufficent file permissions

Re: a feathiable solution displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?

2005-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Bobber Cheng wrote: > Had anyone found a feathiable solution displaying Windows program on > Linux via ssh / X? If the answser is no, i beg X gurus to give me any > advice how to implement it. Wine and VNC are not my choice. An alternative to Terminal client or cytrix is rd

Re: xargs still nok?

2005-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > # let find do the grouping, even faster than xargs! > $ time find . -name '*' -exec echo {} + >/dev/null Hm. nice! I never heard about that one. Seems to be quite new. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: xargs still nok?

2005-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, zzapper wrote: > >yes, you should rather write > >$ find . -name "*.cfm" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i host > > Is Xargs still reqd for > > find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; This is a speed issue. find -exec will spawn grep for each found entry while xargs will group as

Re: Unknown keyboard

2005-09-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Huszár, László wrote: > Hi, > > I've found these lines in my log file: > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "040E" (040e) > (EE) Keyboardlayout "Hungarian" (040E) is unknown > > Would you be so kind to help me ? The hungarian layout is detected since February 2005.

Re: Again, XWin crashes with cigwin-1.5.15-1 on Win98.

2005-04-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Rodrigo Medina wrote: > null screen fn ReparentWindow > null screen fn RestackWindow > InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init > InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned > InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init > InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned > ---Type to continue, or q to quit--- > > Prog

Re: Does cygwin support xim?

2005-03-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Duong Duong wrote: > I have ported a Vietnamese keyboard application from > linux to cygwin, but it can't run as I want. When it > ran, it warned that " Cannot load either en_US.UTF-8 > or vi_VN.UTF-8 lo. To use this program you must have > one of these locales installed". Des

Re: Workaround TeTeX installation failure? (TeXMacs)

2004-08-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Chuck White wrote: > The standard Cygwin installation fails to completely install TeTeX (2.0.2-1 > or 2.0.2-13), which causes TeXMacs installation to fail (required fonts not > found in nonexistent directories). In particular, the last part of the > installation script calls for creating a series

Re: Install failure

2004-08-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Jani tiainen wrote: > > In cygwin environment yes, in globally no. And GTK2-X11 is only package > so far that doesn't work when using setup. This is a known problem. The postinstall script does not set the PATH variable correctly so the program won't find the required dll > If I run postinstal

Re: text/binmode endless loop

2004-07-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > This shows write() being called repeatedly. The fact that > setmode_helper shows up a bunch of time doesn't mean that it is caught > in a loop. You can't infer that from strace. You'd need to confirm > that with gdb. But why does it change repeatedly from text to

text/binmode endless loop

2004-07-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
from an strace of XWin 63 1636203 [main] Xwin 1404 writev: 1 = write (3, 0x22ED50, 1), errno 2 63 1636266 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x120601, supplied_bin 0x0 62 1636328 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY set in flags 0x2 62 1636390

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20040725-1

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. > This version is a refresh from CVS on sources.redhat.com. With the new binutils I get these errors when compiling xorg-x11 Bitmap.o(.data+0x298):Bitmap.c: variable '_XtStrings' can't be auto-imported. P

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: > Take a look at next strace: > strace -o xinit.strace3 xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard same as in the first trace. Right after startup of sh -c "xkbcomp ..." it stops while waiting for some winsock operation to complete. > Can you find why X hangs whe

Re: XWin listens on too many TCP

2004-06-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Caphe Noir wrote: > This should be on a FAQ for Cygwin-Xfree somewhere > because the side-effect > is unintentional and misleading. Took me a month > corresponding back & forth > with a software vendor before I narrow it down to > Cygwin. From a user > perspective, all I coul

Re: XWin listens on too many TCP ports and killing existing connections.

2004-05-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Caphe Noir wrote: > From: "Alexander Gottwald" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've created a small testprogram which calls select with a timeout of > > 1 second. Get it from http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/select.tar.gz > > unpack and run it: > &

Re: OpenSSH configuration and many recent problems

2004-03-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Especially I don't see why this setting should have another default on > Cygwin as on any other OS. There's no difference between Cygwin and > other OSes which justifies this measure, right? Hm. Yes. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: OpenSSH configuration and many recent problems

2004-03-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > just wanted you to know, that OpenSSH 3.8 configuration seems to be the reason > for some of the recent problems presented here (e.g. AltGr not working, emacs crash). > I've had those problems, too. > Takuma Murakami suggested that I check

FD_SETSIZE and select

2004-02-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hi, The Cygwin/X source uses the assumption that FD_SETSIZE == 256 in many places. I'm currently adding a -DFD_SETSIZE=256 to the build commandline but I'm not sure if this has any sideeffects. Is select() capable of handling other sizes than 64 which is set in sys/types.h? bye ago BTW: plea

Re: No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar

2004-01-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Currently experiencing a weird problem in Cygwin on W2000: > > In a rxvt window, both " and ' behave in the same way: pressing either key > results in nothing on the screen, but pressing either key followed by > results in the expected ' or " appear

Re: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

2003-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Alan Miles wrote: > All, > > This is attempt 4 - I cannot seem to get the attachment there, since I get: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 5 bytes > (#5.2.3) You can place the files somewhere on the web and post a

Re: Question about the cpio-command

2003-07-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Hinterplattner Wolfgang wrote: > I have a scsi-tapedrive on my local machine. > How can I read from the tapedrive or write to the tapedrive with the cpio-command? > In HP-UX I have the device-file for my tape-drive ( for exaple: /dev/rmt/0m ) > How can I access the tape-drive

Re: freopen fails w/o complaining

2003-06-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
This is more appropriate on the cygwin mailing list. Forwarded it to them. Rolf Maier wrote: > Hello, > I am running Cygwin (MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin, bash 1.09b.0(9)). > freopen does not always work, the example below is a case in point. > I could find nothing on http://cygwin.com/faq.html nor u

Re: compiling netcat

2002-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello! > I want to get netcat running in under cygwin. > I guess you just have to compile it like in a normal UNIX enviorment. wrong mailing list. Forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > $ make linux > make -e nc - --unix XFLAGS='-DLINUX' STATIC=-static

Re: Files transfer question

2002-09-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Stephen Liu wrote: > My requirement is only for files transfer betwenn WinXP and "cygwin" not > via another software. On one host? Copy it through the filesystem. /cygdrive/x/ maps to drive x. If you still have problems with unix/dos lineendings, recode can solve these.

Re: [Fwd: XDMCP "No valid address" error...]

2001-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Arthur Taylor wrote: > I wasn't sure how to put this on the cygwin-xfree mailing list, but I > noticed that you were talking about an error back in Oct 9, 2001, which > I am now getting... > > I have cygwin on a Win2k machine using token-ring. Its a problem with the socket