RE: Another rvxt vs. minTTY 0.3.4

; > It's working here. Just tried it with a 'configure' script. > Yeah, it worked all day for me today as well. Heavy duty makes, mix of Cygwin and native programs being invoked, plenty of CTRL-C's, never had one not get recognized. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Uns

RE: MinTTY 0.3.3

> From: Christopher Faylor > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:00:06PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Christopher Faylor > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> >Out of here... > >> > &

RE: MinTTY 0.3.3

appropriately held. I must have been misled. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: xterm and cut & paste

e drag and drop is total coolness. It pastes in a Win32 path though, which a few Cygwin apps probably won't be able to handle. Here's a two-for-one idea, free of charge: - Add a setting where the user can set whether he wants Win32 or POSIXy paths dropped. - Add a context menu when you

RE: MinTTY

> From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > Hey Andy, > > After a thorough 2-minute evaluation, I can give you the > following feedback: > > 1. Good work. > 2. Super fast. > 3. Cut and paste in a Unixoid terminal for Cygwin finally > conforms to Windows norms (AKA "

RE: MinTTY

t'd just be great to have a nice terminal that didn't require an X server and had Windows native-y configuration and copy/paste. We'll get to that 21st century yet! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

RE: MinTTY

Hi Barry, > From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:26 AM: > > 5. It needs a regular Windows installer. > > 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should > whip one up > > for you? >

RE: MinTTY

less a more thorough evaluation turns up some showstopper. Excellent work! -- Gary R. Van Sickle > From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > Hmm, looks very interesting, I'll give it a try and report > back to the class. I've been looking for a replacement for > my preferred t

RE: MinTTY

Hmm, looks very interesting, I'll give it a try and report back to the class. I've been looking for a replacement for my preferred terminal emulator, MedicineTTY, for quite some time. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle > From: Andy Koppe > > Hi, > > I'd like to

RE: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?

> From: Spiro Trikaliotis > > Hello Gary, > Hey Spiro, > * On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:42:34AM -0600 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > From: Spiro Trikaliotis > [...] > > > Oh, and Subversion is problematic, too. Because the SVN > developers > >

RE: printf goes to serial port?

> From: Alex Martin > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Alex Martin > >> > >> Well, I was using a port monitor to debug some of the > traffic between > >> my serial device, and my software, when I noticed the output > >> accidentally.

RE: printf goes to serial port?

ctly involved at all and you're saying "My non-Cygwin-related app was working fine, I changed a bunch of stuff in the app and also upgraded Cygwin, and now the app is broke and I'm thinking Cygwin could be to blame"? - Since your app is a GUI app, where did you expect your pri

RE: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?

[Followups set to -talk due to apropos but not-necessarily-Cygwin-specific devolution of the discussion] > From: Corinna Vinschen > > On Dec 19 10:29, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > From: Andrew DeFaria > > > > > > Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > > On

RE: printf goes to serial port?

ly at the core of your problem. > Any idea how to fix this? > Well, no, not really, since you've given very few details to go on. I'd SWAG that you've somewhere, somehow, redirected stdout to the serial port you're trying to talk to those devices on. > Tha

RE: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?

> From: Andrew DeFaria > > Mark J. Reed wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works" > 99.44% of the > >> time. Of course, since it's not the 21st century y

RE: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?

ut the > "right" mode. > Well, better stated, they assume they can treat all files - text, executables, jpegs, whatever - as if they were Unix-formatted text files. Of course, they're not, hence problems ensue. > Best regards, >Spiro. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

> From: Christopher Faylor > > The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and > cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am > contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were the historical reasons again, and why/how did they go away? -- Gar

RE: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

ire that, which was put off this time around? > > Windows will run under Cygwin 2.0 instead of vice versa. > Now THAT'S comedy! ;-))) Well, unless you were serious, in which case it's still good comedy. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

RE: Setup wants to revert my upgrade of Emacs

eck binary, that sounds like a setup.ini problem. 2. Unfortunately there's no way to get any of your choices on the package chooser page to stick. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/probl

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-20050409-9

s. Known issue? Suspected issue? I don't know how clipboard responsibilities are divided between rxvt and/or the server, so I'm not sure who to blame or where to look here. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: h

RE: cygwin g++ strictness

n themware. CSci doesn't begin and end with the CPU currently on our desks! > You can probably > ignore the warning on 32-bit platforms, but the better fix is > to make your code portable by using . > Well, yeah. There's always the option to not Do The Right Thing(tm), b

RE: cygwin g++ strictness

t only the correct answer, but the path of least resistance as well. Everybody wins! > I'd be surprised if there's > a programmer amongst us who can honestly say he wouldn't have > made that assumption. > Be surprised ;-). > John > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

1 ; cd /cygdrive/c/apps/bin ; pwd ; nohup ./start.sh \& ; ps -efW | grep java ; exit '" more than once. Regardless, as I believe others have already pointed out, the cygwin content of this thread is tending towards zero. I humbly suggest all parties involved take a break,

RE: inetutils 1.5-4, ftp + inline password immediately quits

ncftp of wget for doing this sort of thing, and don't look back. That will allow you to put all of those params on the command line. Both programs work great on Cygwin. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

RE: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved

if [ "${1}" = "" ]; then # No parameter given, open Explorer in the current bash directory. XPATH="."; else # Open the given path. XPATH="$(cygpath -w "${1}")"

perl-5.10.0-4 -> perl-5.10.0-5 update appears to break DateTime

ll DateTime") results in the same errors, and needless to say doesn't end up generating a working DateTime module. This same version of DateTime did work without error in 5.10.0-4 and does work with 5.8.8-4. -- Gary R. Van Sickle simple_test_case_datetime.pl Description: Bin

RE: chmod permission denied on windows 2008

ke such Cygwin-content-free snarking to the appropriate list please. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: path separator

7;t get misinterpreted like you've discovered. Hit the Googles for "shell quoting" and settle in for a long night of reading. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: how can I stop Windows setting HOME?

as real an issue as the OP may think. If it points to somewhere halfway sane (which it looks like it does for the OP, i.e. XP's idea of a user's home directory), it shouldn't "screw up cygwin". OP: What exactly is getting "screwed up"? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.39-19

e heretofore-assumed-NP-complete text file line ending problem which has plauged computer science since prehistoric times. Man I love living in the future. Thank you Eric for your doggedness in getting this implemented and (hopefully) accepted. Here's hoping this can default to "on"

RE: postinstall hang

Or is that asking for trouble again? > Dave, if literally all you need is an X server for Windows, use Xming instead: http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ I use this with an otherwise full-on Cygwin install and it works great. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

RE: FAQ suggestion

m game: [snip] Allow me to be the first to thank you, Dan, for contributing to the Cygwin documentation (or attempting to at any rate). While I of course cannot speak for anyone else, I am sure that all other professionals here appreciate your efforts. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe i

RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

> From: Bill Meier > > Gary R. Van Sickle writes: > > > > > > From: Bill Meier > > > or maybe KB/s for kilobytes/sec ? > > > > > > > It should be an option, but that begs an "Options..." dialog, which > > doesn&

RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

> From: Bill Meier > or maybe KB/s for kilobytes/sec ? > It should be an option, but that begs an "Options..." dialog, which doesn't exist. > > Bill Meier > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding names on managed

at, Inc. Compiled on Dec 14 2007 Yep, I can replicate your report. I'm doubt that it's incorrect behavior though: $ find /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/ /cygdrive/c/Program Files/ [...etc...] -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding names on managed mounts

ngs like ":" in them, which will choke Windows no matter what year is in its name. > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pro

RE: copying a million tiny files?

ink), and actually timed using XCOPY vs. Cygwin methods (cp in my case). It didn't make a significant difference. Ultimately what I think you run into in these sorts of situations is that you bump up against the slowness of the link (or physical disk) because, POSIX emulation or not, all your

RE: sftp removing writable bit

[snip] Cygwin Content-O-Meter(tm), as of a few dozen posts in this thread ago: +---+ | 0% 100% | | \ | | \| | \ | |O | +---+ Too bad nobody polices such things. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

Hi Paul, The Cygwin list is the appropriate place for followups: > From: Paul McFerrin > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Paul McFerrin > >> > >> I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 > file under > >> bzip2: > &g

RE: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

in your efforts to not update. Bite the bullet and update. Everything. With setup. The chances that you'll be able to piecemeal update a few apps to present-day versions while retaining a Cretaceous-era cygwin1.dll and have it be a pleasant experience are zero. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Un

RE: hacked package on server

Heheheh! He thinks he's on the [insert name of any other project here] mailing list! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: scripting and cygwin

> From: Phil Betts [] > > You're comparing chalk & cheese and complaining that your > mouth's full of grit. Oh man, that's goin' in the act! ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Prob

RE: CygWin and email clients

Try mutt. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: Jeremy T. Harrison > > I have tried with varied success to use "ssmtp" and "email" > as my email send applications under CygWin. For what ssmtp > was designed to do, it works fine

RE: script problem

> From: Lev Bishop > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 2:42 PM > Subject: Re: script problem > > On 3/2/07, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > The only downside to the switch that I've experienced is that my > > interactive shells take quite a bit longer to come up

RE: Difference Between CYGIPC And CYGServer

e queues). > > Even better. POSIX shared memory objects and message queues > are both implemented using file backed sharead memory which > works without help of cygserver. > Swt. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

RE: script problem

(one instance) + Xming comes out to ~20MB total, ~6MB for urxvt and ~14MB for Xming. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: script problem

or two interactive shells and leave them up all day) that it's not an issue for me. > BTW, nobody has yet to suggest a solution to my original > problems - XWin won't die during Windows shutdown. Try Xming as your X server instead, I've never seen this problem with it.

Old Flex

line ending troubles. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: bash scripting problem

I don't mean a proof-of-principle; I'm sure a suitable example can be contrived. What I'm looking for is a shell script "in the wild" that purposely has a carriage return embedded in it for reasons other than ending a line of the script. -- Gary R. Van Sickle --

RE: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

of a stackdump file, it is obviously human > > readable. It is an ascii file which has English words in > it. It was > > NOT clear to me that the OP had actually looked at it. > > Others obviously did understand that; [snip] Eli, you need to take this discussion

RE: device drivers - general info

more specifics i'll provide them. I can't simply > test this because I don't have the driver, and i won't buy it > ($900) unless i feel assured that i will be able to make it > work, hence this email. > > Regards, > > George Locke > -- Gary R. Van

RE: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

required by POSIX > can do so. Is this the reason? If so, do you know why POSIX requires this? At some point POSIX compliance ceased to be a goal of the Cygwin project, so I don't see that as an argument either way. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

solved (or will be when the next Cygwin build is released). -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

new bash > invocation. Also, you must consider how things should work > when stdin is a pipe containing \r\n data, since with pipes, > you can't prescan the first line of input to see what it > contains because you can't rewind afterwards. > What's going to br

RE: Problems with archiver "ar"

reat, great, great, greatgreatgreat grandchildren will be able to creat a plain text file on one computer and have it be understood on another. But I wouldn't put money on it. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

ine endings. Also, make sure any other tools you might wish to use to process text, cygwin or non-cygwin, do the same." The "/r/n vs /n vs /r" Crisis Which Shall Plague Computer Science Forever is most assuredly not merely a matter of "don't use notepad". -- Gary R.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

ile I'm all for saving a cycle here and there (q.v. the 1% make improvement ;-)), I have a hard time believing that ignoring the occaisional "\r" is even a blip on bash's radar compared with fork()ing et al. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

RE: Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make

ke [...] real23m13.115s ^^ 18 seconds saved (approx. 1%) user3m56.285s sys 3m2.261s So, I shall take that 18 seconds to also thank you for your great work. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Proble

RE: cygwin fork()

e when you see an LF that could perhaps have actually > >been a CR/LF. What we really want is > > AFAIK, Cygwin's lseek should handle seeking on text streams. > DJ implemented that years ago. > Last I looked, which was admittedly also years ago, it was "#if

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

> From: G.W. Haywood > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:53 AM > Subject: RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window? > > Hi there, > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > ... The main trick is (or at least used to be) getting > y

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

> From: mwoehlke > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:44 AM > Subject: Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window? > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: mwoehlke > >> Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your > >> likin

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

> From: mwoehlke [snip] > Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to > your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what > it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now

RE: A build problem of C++ code on Cygwin

I think it's mainly hand-rolled makefiles these days, but IIRC if somebody's using crusty enough autotools they'll get configures that do this to you. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: NTFS fragmentation

or any file beyond a certain size. I unfortunately do not recall what that size is. What happens as you change FILE_SIZE and/or BUFFER_SIZE in your script, to maybe a small multiple of your cluster size? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

le and copies them an (f)read/(f)write buffer at a time, while your Windows native program almost certainly simply calls CopyFile() (a Win32 API), bypassing a ton of library code. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Detecting intrusive programs in cygcheck (was: RE: SOLVED: sshd+ssh localhost connects, but don't reach the shell)

V programs, Google Desktop, etc etc etc, and at least prominently flag their existence, if not make some clear statement to the effect of "This program is almost certainly causing your problem, plus dozens of others you don't even know about. Uninstall it."? IIRC, Setup actually gi

RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates "No space left on device"

all my drives (up to 250 GB). > Shut it off and give it another try. Also make sure Google Desktop isn't running, or anything else that sits in the background hitting files "behind your back". -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

RE: slow share = slow scripts?

er: Much has, but the real problem is the very definition of the function. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: slow share = slow scripts?

everything to a fast (preferably local) drive/share and do your business there, if that's possible. It might be a win for you even if you did a copy-to-local/modify/copy-back sort of deal, depends on the situation. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

RE: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52

!= "Well Tested". You should be testing whatever program you're using to do backups, GNU, Cygwin, or otherwise. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Brian Dessent > > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > > > Sorry folks, this is going to probably have to wait until > the weekend. > > But I am still about 99.44% confident that this is solvable in a > > reasonably painless manner. > > Do

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > > From: Samuel Thibault > > > > Gary R. Van Sickle, le Mon 24 Apr 2006 23:20:55 -0500, a écrit : > > > > > > http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/SetupInstaller/SetupInstalle > > > r.exe > > > >

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Samuel Thibault > > Gary R. Van Sickle, le Mon 24 Apr 2006 23:20:55 -0500, a écrit : > > > http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/SetupInstaller/SetupInstalle > > r.exe > > Same result as when I manually copied MSVCRT.DLL to my system > for getting

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Brian Dessent > > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > > > Looking through the source tarball brings up another issue though: > > there's no copy of the GPL included with the source, nor > could I find > > one pending in cvs for an upcoming rel

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Brian Dessent > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > > > locate said source. However, it is not where this page < > > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> indicates it is > > ("Source code for setup.exe is available from > >

RE: Windows 95 support ?

lities under Paragraph 3 Subsection c) of the GPL Version 2 by making the following statement: "I received the software in question in binary format, with the offer of obtaining the sources from http://cygwin.com/setup/. Unfortunately, as the sources are not in fact located there, nor anywher

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Max Bowsher > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Corinna Vinschen > >> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:38 AM > >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com > >> Subject: Re: Windows 95 supp

RE: Windows 95 support ?

rsion of either the exe or the DLL. Works great for me on XP here. There'd be source for setup.exe 2.510.2.2 here as well if it was here: http://www.cygwin.com/setup/ or somewhere else that I could find it. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Samuel Thibault > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:51 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ? > > Hi, > > Gary R. Van Sickle, le Mon 24 Apr 2006 02:54:59 -0500, a écrit : > > Mr. Thibault, do you have any interest in helping test out

RE: Windows 95 support ?

access to a Win95 machine since... well, pretty much forever in PC-years, so the only testing I could do myself would be that it doesn't wreck anything with XP Pro and Home, and maybe ME if I can ressurect that machine. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Arbitraily Banning Maintainers From Mailing Lists Which They Need To Perform Their Duties

heart even though I felt it was necessary. Two of > those people are back today and sending email to cygwin lists > with no problem. > > Usually when I block someone, I block them from all of the > cygwin lists. > But, tonight, I have chosen to only block Gary R. Van Sickle &g

RE: [NON-WHINE] RE: mkstemp vs. text mode

More non-negative news: The Cygwin/X Server creates its own subdirectory and a bunch of files in /tmp and still appears to work fine. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary R. > Van Sickle >

[NON-WHINE] RE: mkstemp vs. text mode

> From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > > From: Gary R. Van Sickle > > > > > From: Christopher Faylor > > [snip] > > > Yes, I think it makes sense to open temp files in binary > > but I'll bet > > > that someone is relying on textmode beh

RE: The 20060324/20060326 snapshots hang on testcase

search a bit. ] > Ahem, without resolution to the minute that's going to help how again? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: Multiple cygwin installs

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cygwin", and put the DLLs or what have you in there. You make sure that it gets reference counted, that your Cygwin apps can find it (eg put it in the Windows PATH), and you're done. To keep versions dealt with correctly, you probably want to use In

RE: The 20060324/20060326 snapshots hang on testcase

d on me what the problem probably was. > > However, if you had narrowed this down to a specific failing > snapshot or mentioned where it was hanging or what it was > trying to do, I would have been able to figure this out much faster. > > cgf > Faster than 19 minutes? W

RE: bash, find | xargs grep

> Hi: > > (tried posting this to the comp.windows.cygwin usenet group > and got no response, so) > There's a comp.windows.cygwin USENET group? When did that happen? -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: _kbhit

> From: Shankar Unni > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:28 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: _kbhit > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Arend-Jan Westhoff writes: > >> I cannot confirm your assertion that msvcrt.dll and cygwin1.dll > >

RE: _kbhit

"Worked" and "Works" are not the same thing. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robb, Sam > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:09 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > I get the same can't-dupli

RE: How Can I Use the FtpCommand Function with Cygwin?

other > company, and there are good business reasons to avoid > changing them. Saying that the makefiles are going about > everything the wrong way is not an option. > Sometimes failure is not an option; it comes standard. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://

RE: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

N-processor > race-related bug. > > cgf Hyperthreding P4 3.4GHz "X-Treme Edition" (more cache?), 1Gig RAM. Maybe this is the one bug that HT actually masks instead of reveals. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

RE: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

86 Cygwin I don't have any of this stuff in $CYGWIN, might be worth a try to ditch it: " CYGWIN = 'server ntsec forkchunk:32768' " -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/

Gmsh Using Cygwin "Badly"

don't recommend it to people. Just having cygwin1.dll in your path is sufficient. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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: gnu make causes reboot

n-win. Bonus hint: Norton Antivirus counts as both a driver and the cause of almost every problem anybody has ever had with a computer, except for those caused by all other anti-anything software. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: _kbhit

y to > submit a patch. If not, ... well for my own project a kbhit() > function based on select() is sufficient, so that'll work for > me at least. > You may also want to look at MinGW. They actually link with the real msvcrt.dll. > --Michiel. > > Mich

RE: make: rm: command not found

to stop wrapping once it hits MS-DOS 4.0. I don't know why. > I think it was because they couldn't get the Installable File System thing working properly. Which is truly shocking really, considering Microsoft's otherwise-blemishless reputation when it comes to getting all things file

RE: cygwin bsod using make after configure on gcc

t was BSODing on you, but to tell you the truth it's been so long since I've seen one I don't know if it does anymore. If it does, it will probably be a driver, and then you're 99% of the way towards a solution. Hey, this would make a reasonably good Not-Entirely-Infrequently

RE: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

ce. > Last I checked it was "cause more problems than the viruses we purportedly protect you from would". Look guys, the bottom line here is that on-access virus scanners cause trouble. Not just for Cygwin, and not just particular ones. Scan your incoming email, scan your downloa

RE: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

27;t. The long non-rant answer would require a logical explanation from Microsoft as to why their filesystem infrastructure is completely incapable of properly handling removable media, and that is highly unlikely to be forthcoming. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

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