Re: Interesting looking terminal emulation for cygwin

2007-08-13 Thread Gareth Pearce
Stephen Barclay wrote: Gareth Pearce wrote: Stephen Barclay wrote: All, I have been using Ponderosa for a while, but something is not 100% with thier terminal emulation, when paging up/down in editors (nano/pico etc) there are artifact characters left on some lines.. I know this if off

Re: Interesting looking terminal emulation for cygwin

2007-08-13 Thread Gareth Pearce
Stephen Barclay wrote: All, I have been using Ponderosa for a while, but something is not 100% with thier terminal emulation, when paging up/down in editors (nano/pico etc) there are artifact characters left on some lines.. I know this if off topic, but has anyone else seen this? and if the

Re: aspell

2006-10-13 Thread Gareth Pearce
On 10/12/06, Gareth Pearce I suspect you don't have nroff installed. If that is not the problem, it works for me - That would be too easy. I already check that and nroff is indeed installed. As for "works for" you, I suspect that you have an old version of aspell

Re: aspell

2006-10-12 Thread Gareth Pearce
Wynfield Henman wrote: I am trying to run down a problem with using aspell with cygwin. aspell: International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4) Cygwin: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30 Symptom: (run the following on the bash or zsh command line)

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-17 Thread Gareth Pearce
Eli Zaretskii wrote: code, perhaps with some Cygwin-specific changes). Contrary to what some people said in this thread, I don't see any problems that could hamper the Cygwin build of Make if it supported drive letters, since Windows doesn't allow colons anywhere else in file names anyway. Of c

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-1, libsasl2-2.1.19-1, libsasl2-devel-2.1.19-1

2004-10-13 Thread Gareth Pearce
ying to compile openldap with cyrus-sasl support. > > It seems > > libsasl2-devel > > is missing the following files: > > /usr/lib/libsasl2.dll.a > /usr/lib/libsasl2.la > > Can you fix this ASAP > Fixed in -3 (which I hope will be up shortly) Regards

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-1, libsasl2-2.1.19-1, libsasl2-devel-2.1.19-1

2004-10-13 Thread Gareth Pearce
via a pluggable approach. See http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html for more information. --- Gareth Pearce Panareef Pty. Ltd. (http://www.panareef.com/) To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads se

RE: Aspell - Ispell

2004-04-01 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Gareth Pearce wrote: > > > It should be relatively easy to write a very simple script called ispell > > which calls 'aspell -a $@' > > I think that works at least... can't say I've tried it. > > Such a script exists: /usr/share/aspell/

RE: Aspell - Ispell

2004-03-29 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > > > > I would support this for another reason: ispell is integrated with the > various emacsen and gives my such features as flyspell (on-the-fly spell > check). I just did a clean reinstall of Cygwin and spent a while > tracking down the latest ispell release - it would be som much better if >

RE: 1.5.10 release?

2004-03-27 Thread Gareth Pearce
> >WADR to CGF's hard work, I can tell you even before it is released that > >1.5.10 has bugs. So do 1.5.11, 1.5.12, etc. With a software project of > >sufficient size, it's a given. The question is, do the bugs bite *you*? > >Have you tried 1.5.9? If you had problems with it, have you tried a

RE: gcc problem

2004-03-02 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > g++ is in a separate package named gcc-g++, be sure you have installed > this too. Then you need to link against libstdc++ when using gcc as > driver: > gcc -o gtest gtest.cc -lstdc++ > or you use g++ as driver which includes libstdc++ automatically: > g++ -o gtest gtest.cc Just want to d

RE: Built GCC 3.3.3 on Cygwin, should I use it?

2004-02-18 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > I am using Cygwin and GCC to become familiar with posix, common unix > tools, and to learn c and c++ programming (plus learning win32). So I have > never compiled any of my programs with -mno-cygwin, but I noticed that it > doesn't work when I use GCC 3.3.3, just as you said it wouldn't (and

RE: Built GCC 3.3.3 on Cygwin, should I use it?

2004-02-18 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > I've tried to rebuild a number of programs I have written using GCC 3.3.3 > and > every single one of them seem to work as they should. Many of them are > Win32 > GUI programs (written in C++), some are programs using posix functions. > > So my question is: What problems can I expect if con

RE: Cygwin Mailing list

2004-02-17 Thread Gareth Pearce
> While I do not claim any kind of authority, could I suggest perhaps a) > being a little nicer to newbies (it isn't that hard really) and b) if > you feel the need for a post without any useful content (perhaps just > saying "search the archives") to send it just to the author of the mail > in que

RE: Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 now Free

2004-02-17 Thread Gareth Pearce
As mentioned in my last email - please start reading the message archives so you can avoid unnecessarily reopening topics which have already been dealt with. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: Cygwin Mailing list

2004-02-16 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > Hi, > > I suggest that cygwin mailing list add in the subject "(Cygwin)", so we > can easily identify and manage the mails which coming from cygwin > mailing list. As obviously you're a mailing list professional, I'm sure you checked the mailing list archives before posting on this topic.

RE: Can't compile hello world???

2004-02-16 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > Hello > > A have a big problem. I can't compile a simple hello world program with > the gcc compiler in cygwin. > > Here is the error: > > Any one have a idea to solve the problem?? *sigh* Use g++. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: G++ for CygWin

2004-01-28 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > (gnu separated out its frontend from its backend with v3.3) > > AFAIR, the only significant difference between gcc.exe and g++.exe is > that > gcc.exe assumes files are C by default, and hence calls out to the cc1.exe > compiler, whereas g++ assumes programs are C++ by default, and so calls

RE: Why 2 DLL names?

2003-12-22 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > Greetings, > > Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows. > After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were > created: > > libxx.dll.a > cygxx-1.dll > > I guess I was only expecting: libxx.dll. > > Why were the 2 names generated and w

RE: how to become root to change ownership

2003-11-19 Thread Gareth Pearce
Your post is offtopic for cygwin-apps - I've cc'd cygwin instead. Although its possible that your almost offtopic there as well. Since it isn't clear that what your experiencing is a cygwin problem only > > somehow the permissions on my main drive became garbled. > How do I go about fixing thi

RE: mixing MSVC++ and gcc C++ libs/dlls ?

2003-10-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > I doubt that. If I am not completely wrong, .net uses bytecode (like Java) > aka. CIL (Common Intermediary Language). > (http://www.msdnaa.net/Resources/Display.aspx?ResID=373 ) > > I would not know how you can combine cil code with obj. files. If somebody > knows more I would love to read ab

RE: mixing MSVC++ and gcc C++ libs/dlls ?

2003-10-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Hi! > > The FAQ tells me that only C object files can be mixed. > > Is this true for MS .NET and gcc 3.x since I expect both to be conform to > the > ABI standard ? > Gcc 3.0 attempted to conform to the c++ abi - it was wrong - so they fixed lots of things and 3.2 has a different abi. Howev

RE: std::ofstream causes segfault in 1.5.x

2003-10-12 Thread Gareth Pearce
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of thomas > Sent: Monday, 13 October 2003 1:07 AM > To: Corinna Vinschen > Subject: Re: std::ofstream causes segfault in 1.5.x > > On Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2003 at 10:34:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >

RE: Is a function actually inlined?

2003-10-08 Thread Gareth Pearce
version offhand...) Regards, Gareth Pearce > > > How can one know if a function requested to be inlined is actually > inlined? > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.0.7-2

2003-09-07 Thread Gareth Pearce
> you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Editors" and then click on *giggle* - a little too much cut and paste from mine i see ... almost made this mistake myself copying from igors... Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nano-1.2.2-1

2003-09-06 Thread Gareth Pearce
ng the instructions at the above URL is guaranteed to provide you with the info that you need. - Gareth Pearce Cygwin Nano Maintainer. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

Re: ctrl-c swallowed

2003-09-01 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > >I don't know if this is the "officially correct" answer or not, but I > > > >find that ^C doesn't work right with some programs when run from > > > >CMD.EXE unless I have the "tty" flag added to the CYGWIN environment > > > >variable. The users' guide has

Re: please include ispell package as an optional download in cygwin

2003-08-30 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Let me know if I can do anything to help get this package included. Thank > you very much for providing cygwin. It's a big help to me.\ aspell is on its way (waiting for cygwin 1.5 - for no particually good reason)... it is 'compatiable' with ispell and supposedly far superior. Regards, Gare

Re: GCC: Split it ?

2003-07-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
maintainership offers ... actually but miscellaneous opinions are more likely to occur. > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote: > > > > IMHO, this looks like a PTC situation.. > > > > prehaps more likely MOTC. ;) > ^^ > &qu

Re: GCC: Split it ?

2003-07-22 Thread Gareth Pearce
> IMHO, this looks like a PTC situation.. prehaps more likely MOTC. ;) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Problems with Nano

2003-06-21 Thread Gareth Pearce
- Original Message - From: "Doug Jenkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: Problems with Nano > Hey everyone, > I've noticed a few items with nano and wanted to see if anyone else has > experienced this. First up, the usual inf

spell and nano (was reply to cgf about gpl violation)

2003-04-06 Thread Gareth Pearce
(crossing to cygwin incase it might inspire someone) > use nano; for the same reason the (webpage) nano binary uses PDcurses rather than > ncurses so no termcap files are needed. I think the cygwin provided > version of nano is far superior as things like spell check would > actually work, This wo

Re: nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread Gareth Pearce
Igor's analysis of the situation seems sound, I'm forwarding this to nano-devel incase the nano-developers are interested in handling this situation more gracefully. (once again - if it did work in the past) Regards, Gareth - nano cygwin packager. - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchan

Re: nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hmm, unable to reproduce your problem here so far, prehaps some more details would be useful. Regards, Gareth - nano packaging type guy. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 6:05 PM Subject: nano and T

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Off the top of anyone's head, is there any major reason why it should not > build? > Theres a few assembly bits that (from my experience attempting to port it to alpha OSF/1 - with gcc 3.3) - I would be a bit worried about possibly - although possibly a non issue since this is x86. When I last t

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Gareth Pearce
Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... Gareth _

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Nano 1.2.0

2003-03-16 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hi, Welcome to another release of the Nano package, the pico clone with many extensions, all while remaining very small indeed. (For those a little lost at this point, its a text editor, reasonably powerful given its size and ease of use) This is the first release of the stable 1.2 branch - a

Re: Mixing / and \ path separators

2003-03-13 Thread Gareth Pearce
essage- |=> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |=> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:53 AM |=> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |=> Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators |=> Importance: High |=> |=> |=> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:43:28PM +1100, Gareth Pea

Re: Mixing / and \ path separators

2003-03-12 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Cygwin "likes" paths with backslashes in them. It now just wisely > assumes that such paths are windows paths. As I'm sure you know, > you don't use '/' to denote a UNIX path. ^ meanness detected. Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: nano editor : v.1.2.0 released

2003-03-09 Thread Gareth Pearce
My holidays end today, I'll look into stoping being slack and try to release asap. 1.1.11/12/pre1/pre2 all had issues - but i havent noticed anything much reported back against 1.2.0 on the nano-devel list - so it should be fine. Gareth Pearce - nano 'maintainer' (for lack

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

2003-02-28 Thread Gareth Pearce
- Original Message - From: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Curtis Siemens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Curtis Sieme

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xerces-c-2.2.0-1

2003-02-10 Thread Gareth Pearce
might be worth noting that this version isnt backwards source compatible... (mainly due to namespace I suspect) Time for me to work out what I need to fix with my code... Gareth - Original Message - From: "Abraham Backus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread Gareth Pearce
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:13 AM Subject: Re: Why won't my files link? > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:09:27PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > >Chris, you're skim-reading too fast... > > > >Chr

Re: gzip bzip2

2003-02-04 Thread Gareth Pearce
- Original Message - From: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:09 AM Subject: Re: gzip bzip2 > ignore my previous message: replace the "z" by a "j", not the "x". > > The stuff

Re: Clippy Sightings in Cygwinland? (was: RE: Can't see full list in setup.exe)

2003-02-01 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > -- > Gary R. Van Sickle > Brewer. Patriot. > (And somebody damn well better be incapacitated with laughter right now, because > I busted my KIESTER typing all that in.) you mean you havent hard coded aalib into your mail program? - shame upon ye! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Bug in g++: Testcase exits with segmentation fault

2003-01-13 Thread Gareth Pearce
When a program crashes crashes on cygwin - also crashes in the same way on a platform other then cygwin - its quite obviously not a cygwin problem and therefore the original author of said software should be contacted. In this case you do indeed have to report this error to the gcc website. Given

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.0.5-1

2003-01-09 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Note that if this is the first time that you've run the new GUI version > of setup, it will currently download the whole cygwin net release again. > After this point it will only download what is needed. Huh?? Hmm is this paragraph Really old, or ... did i miss something :P Gareth -- Unsubsc

valgrind

2003-01-01 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hi, Has anyone atempted to port valgrind to cygwin? I thought it was something that would be good to do, but its looking like quite a big job, given that its tied so strongly to the linux kernel. I could keep ripping it to bits until it compiles - but I am guessing the end product will be useless

Re: Quit EMacs

2002-12-27 Thread Gareth Pearce
- Original Message - From: "Oodini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 8:17 AM Subject: Quit EMacs > Hello, > > I don't succeed to exit from EMacs ! > > Ctrl-X... OK > Ctrl-C... Bip ! sounds like you havent set your cygwin environment variable

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Gareth Pearce
This is a BAD idea (TM). Gareth > Just stick cygwin1.dll in your windows\system32 folder. > > -Original Message- > From: John Seeliger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP > >

Re: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

2002-12-08 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Your are using textmode mounts. Worx fine with binmode: Thanks for trying this out. I'm not using textmode mounts; and it doesn't seem to be working fine with binmode. Contrast the two methods of textfile creation in the following snippet: ~> mount c:\Cygwin\bin on /usr/bin

Re: Trouble compiling a trivial C++ program involving cout

2002-12-06 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hi all, I have a C++ program (resource.cpp): #include "iostream" ... cout << value; ... On compiling with "g++ resource.cpp", I get: resource.cpp:18: `cout' undeclared (first use this function) I've tried: g++ -I /usr/include/c++/3.2/ resource.cpp in which case I get the following: cc1p

Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Gareth Pearce
(doesnt point out anything about which list setup discussions is supposed to be on...) I accidently deleted the email i was going to reply to - so no context sorry... But I thought I would point out another lovely feature of the continuing to install after after incomplete downloads - as well

Re: compiling clicq, problems with c++

2002-11-18 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Hi, > > I was trying to compile clicq, an icq client for linux, for cygwin. > However I'm a little new to C++ although not to programming in > general. Here is what I got problems with: > > 1. during make, gcc reported that the definition for AF_INET was > missing. since I knew it was located in

Re: Using Setup only to install (not to download)

2002-11-12 Thread Gareth Pearce
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:32:21AM -0500, Robert J. Cristel wrote: > >Max Bowsher wrote: > >>I don't use setup to download, only to install. > > > >Sounds like a damn good idea to me. How do you do it? Would you be so > >kind as to share the details with us? > > Is this a trick question? Just

Re: xerces-c , ... [xerces-c Bug Crash Solved]

2002-11-07 Thread Gareth Pearce
FOUND IT!!! *dances about crazily* *cough* okay back to reality I thought it was dieing in fopen - but i was wrong - it was dieing in strcasecmp utils/Compilers/GCCDefs.cpp - is very stuffed up it includes string.h and cygwin string.h - #define stricmp strcasecmp - which is the only reason wh

Re: xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-1 available for review/upload

2002-11-07 Thread Gareth Pearce
> 1) fixed issue where the cygxerces-c2_1_0.dll wasn't being included (my tar > include file didn't get updated). > 2) added patch from Gareth for nasty bug in DOMDocumentTypeImpl.cpp > 3) changed back from -2 to -1 in version, following conventions at > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html > > source

Re: odd seg fault with xerces-c [solved - sort of - evilly] libstdc++ bug??

2002-11-02 Thread Gareth Pearce
conflicting. Gareth Pearce - wonders if hes missing something fundamental. - Original Message - From: "Gareth Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 9:41 PM Subject: odd seg fault with xerces-c > Hi, > > A p

odd seg fault with xerces-c

2002-11-02 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hi, A project I am working on recently added xerces to its requirements ... so I compiled up a cygwin version of the library having seen reports of it working now. I installed it and all the tests and samples run and seem fine. However my application now dies and its singal handler hangs, partway

Re: export CYGWIN=tty

2002-10-29 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Larry, Daniel, > > I don't routinely use the "tty" option of the CYGWIN variable, but when > I've experimented with it, I've seen symptoms like those reported by Daniel > if I set the tty option after a shell is started and then run a program > such as Vim that changes the tty modes. When the pro

RE: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Gareth Pearce
from the ssh manpage: -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file. "Enables X11 forwarding". This is NOT what I want to do. I simply want to get a login session on the remote machine. This problem is really getting to me now.

Re: Cygwin version of GNU Nano does not accept CTRL-C

2002-10-16 Thread Gareth Pearce
dropped nano-devel since this would be offtopic for there now. > >Perfect, just added "CYGWIN=tty" to the environment variables and all is >fine. Thanks. good > >Maybe a dumb question. Why does Cygwin not automatically update >environment variables as part of the installation? Or at least a

Re: Cygwin version of GNU Nano does not accept CTRL-C

2002-10-16 Thread Gareth Pearce
>Hello > >I don't know if anyone has noticed, but it appears that when CTRL-C is >pressed in Nano it is not recognized under Cygwin. Is this normal behavior >under Windows, is the CTRL-C somehow intercepted and stripped out? I am >using WinXP. As mentioned in the cygwin archives - the

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-10 Thread Gareth Pearce
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Gareth Pearce wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Gareth - idly ponders why the grep he installed himself on this dec machine > > doesnt have --include. > > Hmmm, you did install GNU grep, didn't you? this is offtopic but - yeah ..

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread Gareth Pearce
> To add to my tests I reported in my previous mail: > - I am on my NT PC > - I telnet (using cygwin's telnet) to my NT PC > - \cygwin\cygwin, emacs- nw > > This is a lot better than when I telnetted from my linux box. The display is > ok now. However, arrow keys don't work (they get entered as AB

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

2002-10-09 Thread Gareth Pearce
>Ok, I can live with that. For my understanding, what >does the -R expand then? I had visualized that -R >with grep was simular to ls -R. Where ls -R magically >displays all files with out having to specify a search >path. So I was thinking that grep -R magically >searched all the files wit

Re: your command request

2002-10-09 Thread Gareth Pearce
> BTW, did someone try to build on cygwin gcc 3.2 with ada support ? Try the message list archives - I believe a binary was offered for download from someone in the last couple of months. Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cy

Re: grep = * vs grep = * > foo

2002-10-08 Thread Gareth Pearce
>Thanks, cgf, That makes sense. > >But one more comment > >"grep = *.* > delme" from the XP prompt does NOT >create the infinite loop. It acts like the bash >shell. well obviously - delme doesnt contain a period. Gareth _ Send an

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-05 Thread Gareth Pearce
> I'm not sure how or why this was fixed, but it seems like this > is fixed in the current cygwin snapshots and so will be fixed in > the 1.3.13 release. > > We're still having some problems with the DLL, though, so I don't > have an ETA for the official release. you must ofcourse realise that it

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-04 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Due to the high frequency of spam e-mail > received from *@hotmail.com this domain > has been denied e-mail access to this > account. Your message has been deleted from > the server. umm ... why should posters have to put up with peoples auto kill messages - its a mailing list :P Ofcourse - i

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-04 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Due to the high frequency of spam e-mail > received from *@*.ru this domain > has been denied e-mail access to this > account. Your message has been deleted from > the server. woah - thats harsh... blocking an entire country. Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [UPDATE]Artistic Style 1.15.3-2

2002-09-26 Thread Gareth Pearce
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:12:59PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote: > >(1) - either i am not getting cygwin-announce anymore - or this should of > >been an announce message... > > Check the archives. Aye - indeed I should of ... bad gareth. *slaps wrist* -- Unsubs

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [UPDATE]Artistic Style 1.15.3-2

2002-09-26 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hmm, 2 things (1) - either i am not getting cygwin-announce anymore - or this should of been an announce message... and (2) - I think its usually recommended that you suggest that people email the list rather then the maintainer. Makes the maintainers life a bit easier (and helps the maintainer

Re: SETUP: new setup.ini with md5 sums crashes setup 2.192.2.24 on W98SE

2002-05-03 Thread Gareth Pearce
Just a question... are you using the latest setup off the web page? - I think I rememebr chris faylor mentioning something about putting up a new version of setup which at least ignores the md5's ... rather then the yet-to-be-ready version which will actually pay attention to them. Regards, Garet

Re: 1.3.10 memcmp() bug

2002-04-25 Thread Gareth Pearce
>On Tuesday 23 April 2002 23:41, Sami Korhonen wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Tim Prince wrote: > > > On Tuesday 23 April 2002 22:04, Sami Korhonen wrote: > > > > I wasnt sure wheter I should post about this on gcc bug report list >or > > > > here. Anyways, it seems that using -O2 flag with gc

Re: hmmm possible gpl problem?

2002-04-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
Okay ... not to push this on too much further hopefully, but i felt that i should respond to this one... > >Adrian Prantl wrote: > >>>okay - i dont claim to know anything much about gpl ... >>>but - http://www.tux.org/pub/security/secnet/tools/nat10/ >>>(which is the only place I found it in a

hmmm possible gpl problem?

2002-04-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
, this looks faulty, but thought i would post it here for someone with more experience in such matters to comment. Regards, Gareth Pearce -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken,1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Gareth Pearce
> >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >>Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for >>all >>subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I >>was >>afraid Cygwin would never reach such heights again. Boy am I relieved! I >>guess there'

RE: Strange behavior

2002-03-03 Thread Gareth Pearce
>Floating point comparisons should _always_ be done via a confidence >interval, not bitwise equality. As for determinism, I don't know what >the logic circuits look like, so can't and won't comment :}. > >Rob confidence intervals are indeed the only way... but as to determinism ... its a functi

Re: Cygwin seg faults using dyn. memory

2002-02-21 Thread Gareth Pearce
> >cygwin seg faults when i attempt to assign values to >allocated dynamic memory. The same code isn't >seg-faulting on a Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A machine. > > is there a setting where the heap needs to be >adjusted? are there libraries i need to include that >i haven't? > >here's the embarass

Re: setup.exe

2002-02-10 Thread Gareth Pearce
Good - that left the mark on the archive. > >Gareth Pearce wrote: > > >>>On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 06:31:01PM -0800, Michael wrote: >>> >Setup.exe seems to crash and burn rather ungracefully if setup.ini is >>> >missing it's timestamp and version

Re: setup.exe

2002-02-10 Thread Gareth Pearce
> >On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 06:31:01PM -0800, Michael wrote: > >Setup.exe seems to crash and burn rather ungracefully if setup.ini is > >missing it's timestamp and version lines at the top. > >Doctor, doctor! It hurts when I do this... > >Luckily that will never be an issue for cygwin setup. >

RE: /dev/registry

2002-02-04 Thread Gareth Pearce
> > > > > > How about adding a /dev/registry fhandler to Cygwin? Registry keys would >be > > directories and values in the registry files. I'm willing to try coding >this > > if people think it's a good idea. It allows shell scripts to easily >access > > registry keys as well as programs. > >

Re: pthread_create or STL problem?

2002-01-24 Thread Gareth Pearce
- Original Message - From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Haksun Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: Re: pthread_create or STL problem? > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 17:40, Haksun Li wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > > > > >

Re: Compiling Berkeley db for Ruby under Cygwin

2002-01-03 Thread Gareth Pearce
ummm could it possibly be that the dll is in ruby\bin - and your lib path on the compile line is ruby\lib ? - but then the name cygwin-16.dll seems wrong so maybe you typed that little snippit out incorrectly. Gareth >Even as a Linux user, I probably stay as confused about compiling >under cyg

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nano-1.0.7-1

2001-12-26 Thread Gareth Pearce
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