Re: req. pointer to howto

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Johnson
ace like c:\cygwin (not where you've copied your packages). Then continue with the installation. Setup will give you a list of packages to install. Change the "default" to "install" and your packages will be selected for installation. Then proceed as you normally would, a

Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Johnson
I installed the below-mentioned latex 3.0.0-2 packages on cygwin 1.5.14-1 (WinXP) and it seems to work fine. Thanks to all who contributed to clarifying the problem and to Jan for providing the fix. -Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: It indeed segfaults under wine; it seems

latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-03 Thread Dave Johnson
don't remember the version number). I looked through the FAQ and email archive since December, and I find no mention of any latex problems, so I'm not sure if I've installed something wrong. I use latex extensively, so any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated. -Dave John

O_NONBLOCK has no effect on stdout

2003-06-01 Thread Dave Johnson
Setting stdout to non-blocking doesn't have an effect, calls to write() and the like block the process until the blocking condition is removed. Note that the fcntl() returns success. Running the below test program produces: under cygwin: $ ./test Starting, sleeping 2 seconds, hit ctrl-s test