Re: chere does not add an entry in the context menu initiated within folders/drives (right clicking in an empty space while inside the folder/drive)

On 12/12/13 17:49, klonos wrote: chere adds context menu entries for when right-clicking on folders (under HKCR\Directory\shell\) and local/removable/network drives (under HKCR\Drive\shell\) but it doesn't add an entry to the folder/drive background context menu (HKCR\Directory\Background\shell a

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

On 30/11/13 18:29, Charles Butterfield wrote: -Original Message- From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] The xhere script should pass y:\apps to cygpath to get the cygwin path, which should be /cygdrive/y/apps. IIRC /cygdrive/y may not be visible via ls, but it should be usable.

Re: ncurses, Windows 8.1 64 bit

On 22/11/13 03:57, Michael Purves wrote: I'm having a great deal of difficulty getting my programs that use curses to compile with Windows 8.1 64 bit. I've been using/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw for the header and library files. When the compiler couldn't find some of the necessary head

RE: Cygwin's vanilla sed : capabilities and limitations

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Q1. Querying info sed reveals the expression matcher to be "greedy", > matching the longest possible string. Is there a way to make > it match the > shortest possible, so that echo aaabbbccc | sed 's/^.*b//' > (

RE: cygwin autoconf produces configure scripts with CR/LF

> -Original Message- > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Makino Takaki wrote: > > > The autoconf program, distributed with cygwin releases, produces > > 'configure' shell script with CR/LF. > > > > The problem occurs even if the directory is mounted

Setup / gcc-mingw packaging error

I just upgraded cygwin using the latest setup snapshot (2.340.2.3.2.3). Among the items upgraded were GCC mingw (20020817-4 to 20020817-5) and the cygwin dll (1.3.17 to 1.3.22-1) While uninstalling packages a message box appeared with the title sh.exe, saying that cygwin1.dll could not be found in

RE: dos2unix/d2u does nothing

I have seen similar behaviour to what Fred sees, but I can't remember if that was u2d or d2u. In that case the files had mixed use of \n and \r\n line endings. I presumed d2u/u2d detected a single \n (or \r\n) in the first X bytes, and assumed the file was already in the appropriate format. I 'fix

RE: gcc created exe: permission problems

I get the same symptoms (without the -ldb and -lutils which I don't have) Removing the -shared option from the gcc compile line fixes it for me. Dave NT SP6 cygwin 1.3.12-4 gcc 2.95.3-4 > -Original Message- > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 16 Oc