Re: xemacs

Taras D wrote: Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me why the following has occurred. When I first installed cygwin, I pretty much just installed xemacs (no emacs and a whole bunch of other stuff). Xemacs could be started from the bash script (black background) with the command 'xemacs &'. It would st

Re: Strange message from updatedb

Phil Edwards wrote: > I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces > show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other > punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used. > I've not changed my opinion that updatedb is behind the times and is >

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

Andrew Makhorin wrote: > double get_time(void) > { struct timeval tv; > gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); > return (double)tv.tv_sec + 1e-6 * (double)tv.tv_usec; > } I would be suspicious of floating-point rounding errors here for the original problem you described. Why don't you try a tes

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

Andrew Makhorin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. >> It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer >> number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* >> with the same function. >> >> The expression 100 *

Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > From: Luke Kendall >> >> I wonder how many centuries of human endeavour has been >> absorbed because of the decision to use CR+LF as line >> endings in DOS? >> > > > To be fair, \r\n seems to go back to Gary Kildall's CP/M. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: Recent problem with Cygwin and Xemacs

Paul Mallas wrote: > A recent upgrade seems have broken xemacs on my Cygwin system. > > I was running xemacs version 21.4.19-1 with no problem. Every version > since that release (21.4.19-2, 21.4.19-3, and 21.4.20-2) tells me "X > server not responding" when I try to start xemacs. I usually just >

Re: How to login to another Unix workstation or Cygwin PC

Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Steve Boyd wrote: >> I'm a Cygwin newbie; spent the last 15 years in the tender clutches >> of hp-ux. Currently making the jump to Cygwin. I'm looking for a >> place to start when it comes to using things I was familiar with on >> hp-ux; rlogin, remsh, ftp, etc. Can anybo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

I also appreciate the work you are doing, Eric. But, (ooh, one of those dreaded buts!), I predict this will be a source of endless trouble, still. Like CGF said earlier, you want to encourage people to use binary mounts, yet their \r\n scripts are not going to work unless they run on a text-mo

Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

Dave Korn wrote: > On 30 August 2006 20:50, Silva, Russell wrote: > >> I've tried to reproduce the problem on a different computer without >> success. So, the problem appears to be specific to this particular >> machine. > > I've tried it with latest CVS. Still can't reproduce. > >> Are there an

Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

I read that Vista will have "Built-in NFS for Unix interoperability." When I first read this, I assumed it meant outside of SFU, but I suppose that isn't necessarily true. If it is true, you may want to wait for Vista, where all your problems will be solved! :-) Cary -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup

Natalia (Tasha) Belfiore wrote: > When I hit "next", it went to the grey "Progress" screen and started > to download, then an error box popped up that said: > > cygwin setup > Unable to get setup.ini from > > > I hit the "ok" button, and it took

Re: sshd and scp/sftp: slow throughput on windows machines

Max Stein wrote: > Unfortunately, the performance of the cygwin sshd server is very poor > when it comes to copying large files. I have made this observation on > several new and fast machines (3 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 100 MB/s Intel Pro > network card) running with Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. The

Re: fopen with UTF-8 chars in filenames

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:53:14PM -0700, Cary Jamison wrote: >> Paul J. Lucas wrote: >>> Is this known to work (or not work)? Apparently, it doesn't. >>> >>> FYI: I'm writing JNI code. The strings passed from Java to C a

Re: fopen with UTF-8 chars in filenames

Paul J. Lucas wrote: > Is this known to work (or not work)? Apparently, it doesn't. > > FYI: I'm writing JNI code. The strings passed from Java to C > are UTF-8. A string containing a non-ASCII character, e.g., an > 'e' with an accent, works fine with fopen() under Mac OS X. The > same JNI code

Re: /proc/mdstat?

Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello: > > Is there an equivalent to /proc/mdstat on Cygwin? > > Or, some other utility to give me the status of a software RAID > device? > > Thanks, > Neil Can't you just use diskpart? You could either pass it a script, using diskpart /s, or pass it a 'here' script: disk

Re: chere suggestion

Igor Peshansky wrote: >FWIW, I use the "Send To" menu with the following shortcut for vi: > >C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/rxvt.exe -display :0 -T vim -vb -sr -j -fn >00 -bg black -cr white -fg LightSteelBlue1 >"-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-14-14-m-0-iso88 >59-2" -e /usr/bin/vim > >

Re: chere suggestion

Dave wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> On 15 February 2006 17:05, Cary Jamison wrote: >> >> >>> I was just wondering how you get programs added to the Windows >>> Explorer 'Open with...' menu, and thought this might be a good >>> addition to

chere suggestion

I was just wondering how you get programs added to the Windows Explorer 'Open with...' menu, and thought this might be a good addition to chere. I would like to add xemacs, gvim, notepad, etc., to this menu. I know, PTC and all that, but if someone out there knows how to do it, I'm sure they c

Re: font

In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew DeFaria typed: > Cary Jamison wrote: > >> I'm always surprised at how many people recommened using rxvt. I use >> it once in a while, but there's just too many things I do don't work >> right unless I'm using the regul

Re: cdrecord and loopback devices

In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], surendar jeyadev typed: > Thanks. I got Ross Smith's version from the link on > . > > mkisofs seems to work fine but I have not burnt a CD > as yet. On Solaris > I am used to testing the raw image prior to burning > buy using the 'lofia

Re: font

In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) typed: > Chris Taylor wrote: >> Yes. Don't use the cmd-based cygwin interface. >> Use rxvt. > > Agreed. However, expect the occasional surprise when > running non-Cygwin console binaries since they won't > recognize that they are running on a te

Re: How to improve scp speed?

In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Dessent typed: > Cary Jamison wrote: > >> I think we all know that encryption is a factor. The site still >> states : > > No, I wouldn't say that we all know that. I just ran "openssl speed" > and on my very modest Athlo

Re: How to improve scp speed?

In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Holger Krull typed: > The low speed of ssh and scp is not because of the encyption. > The problem is the 64K limit for the window size in the protocoll. > Further information and a patch can be found here: > > http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ I think we a

Re: bash is crashing

Eric Blake wrote: > Are you running any sort of background program (virus scanner or > desktop search engine) that might be interfering with cygwin, so that > cygwin runs > out of available Windows processes sooner? What does 'ps -eaf' show, > when run from another console while your strace is run

Re: bash is crashing

Eric Blake wrote: > The collected strace would be huge, but may be the next step. Try and > pick out the tail end of the trace where the crash actually happens, > rather than the entire trace. But that will only point out what > syscalls were being made prior to the crash. Here's the trace from

Re: bash is crashing

Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Cary Jamison on 8/5/2005 6:40 PM: >>>> cd $LDIR >>>> while true >>>> do >>>> sleep 10 >> >> >> It appears to be crashing here in t

Re: bash is crashing

Cary Jamison wrote: >> Ok, I should have sent it too. There is probably a better way to do >> this, but here it is... >> >> #!/bin/bash >> >> # scp anything in the sync directory to the remote machine >> # and then move it to the done directory. >&g

Re: bash is crashing

Cary Jamison wrote: > I just ran setup again (the latest version) to get 3.0-11, and made > sure everything was stopped first. I've now got a proper sh. I'll > run my script for a while again to see if it still has problems. It's still crashing, so I'll look

Re: bash is crashing

Eric Blake wrote: > According to Cary Jamison on 8/4/2005 11:07 AM: >> Not Found: sh >> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe > > Not good. You need /bin/sh to do lots of things in cygwin. Rerun > setup.exe, and that should help. Perhaps the core dump is happening > when so

Re: bash is crashing

Eric Blake wrote: I have a simple script I sometimes run that monitors a directory for any files dumped in it (sleeps 10 seconds, processes any new files, and loops around). Since upgrading this script is causing bash to crash. It doesn't happen immediately, so I'm not sure where exactly in m

bash is crashing

I recently upgraded an older installation (see attached cygcheck). I have a simple script I sometimes run that monitors a directory for any files dumped in it (sleeps 10 seconds, processes any new files, and loops around). Since upgrading this script is causing bash to crash. It doesn't happe

Re: scp/ssh between two cygwin installations very slow

"Bernhard Ege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Connect.c is probably not quite cygwin friendly yet (or the other way > around), but I haven't found any alternative (though I haven't looked very > hard, only mildly hard ;-). netcat/ncp? Cary -- Unsubscribe i

Re: wtf 0.0.4-2 - Segmentation fault (core dumped)

"Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > ... > Pure coincidence! Drat, am I the only one who now regrets the fact that > "vi" comes alphabetically after "emacs"? ;-) Try xemacs! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Prob

Re: Local printer access question..

"Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Rick Rankin > --8<-- > > > Using a single page HTML print from IE6 in "zz.prn" > > > > > > These do "work": > > > D:\>print /