text file or database for cygcheck -p or Cygwin.com / search?

2007-09-25 Thread LDR
The cygcheck -p option is a great tool. Although, I noticed today a number of problems in using it today along with the package search function at Cygwin.com. I also rummaged around one of the mirror FTP sites to see if I could find a text file that was the logical equivalent of a single dire

Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

2007-09-14 Thread LDR
Brad wrote: Hi. I've just recently installed cygwin and I'd like to ask a few questions about networking. I've installed practically all the Cygwin packages but I'm frustrated by a couple of trivial little problems. For example, when I do a ping host the host can't be found; I have to put

catgets man page and docs missing?

2007-09-10 Thread LDR
Are they? Google seems to think they exist. My config knows of none. Or, is my config screwed up? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: h

Feedback desired on setup.exe?

2007-06-30 Thread LDR
Downloaded Setup.exe 2.575, ~2007-06-28. Have updated thrice and all goes well. Lee -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

Re: Setup.exe version @ cygwin.com

2007-04-09 Thread LDR
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > LDR wrote: >> Since there seems to be "some traffic" on which version of setup.exe is >> causing (or not) which problems, might it not be a good idea to include >> the version number of setup.exe with the link to the binary on the next &g

Setup.exe version @ cygwin.com

2007-04-09 Thread LDR
Since there seems to be "some traffic" on which version of setup.exe is causing (or not) which problems, might it not be a good idea to include the version number of setup.exe with the link to the binary on the next version of setup.exe? Lee -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: IMSL and cygwin

2007-03-31 Thread LDR
Ruprecht Machleidt wrote: > Is there anybody out there who has tried to use the > Fortran77 IMSL (International Math and Stat Library > of Fortran77 routines) on cygwin? > > The problem with the IMSL is that it is sold only in compiled > form (by Visual Numerics and by Absoft). They don't sell > t

pmap doesn't work; reason?

2007-03-02 Thread LDR
not a critical command, to be sure. For each try of a process ID, it spits back: Bad system call Lee -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Sony Dual [CD/DVD] RW Drive Problems

2007-02-20 Thread LDR
I have one of those IEEE 1394 (Firewire) CD/DVD-RW+RW drives. When I recursively copy one directory ('x.ab') from my HDD to a DVD-RW in Explorer, everything looks good until I do an 'ls -l' on the drive. Then I see in the 'ls -l' output listing many copies of the directory as some kind of a binary

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR

2004-09-24 Thread LDR
Igor, First the bad news: eMail list sellers pay bozos to join mail lists and harvest the addresses! I sure wish that IETF would finish the specs on MTA authentication! Now, the good news: Thanks for your help. I very much appreciate it. Lee Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, LDR wrote

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR

2004-09-23 Thread LDR
I receive the Cygwin email lists in digest format. The email addresses are preserved in these. Isn't this unnecessary exposure? Can't names be harvested by subscribing to the list and then harvesting new addresses from each new digest? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: Cygwin/Windows GUI Integration Question, Thank You, Offer & Residual Question

2004-08-20 Thread LDR
gedt32.exe'. Anybody know why "3." didn't quite work and "6." was necessary? If there's interest, I'll write all this up as "Integrating Cygwin and Windoze", and include some comments on, and useful scripts and macros. Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

Cygwin/Windows GUI Integration Question

2004-08-20 Thread LDR
* How and where to add a node to Windows Registry (XP) - that creates a pull-down (right-click or "Tools") menu - from a Windows Explorer folder - that opens a Cygwin shell window to (makes it the working directory), either, - the current Explorer directory and/or, - the highlighted E

chmod -- Setting the sticky bit for/from the current directory

2004-06-28 Thread LDR
| The following script excerpt explains the problem best: #!/usr/bin/bash ... # Set the sticky bit and get the ownership & permissions of the # current dir right # Convoluted logic, here of moving up a directory level to change # the sticky bit on what was the current directory was required by: