Re: setup.exe troubles

2005-04-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:32:26 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Bernhard Ege wrote: >> I have accidently overwritten some of the mirrors that setup.exe offers >> and I would like it to start out fresh. My problem is however that I >> cannot see anyway to reset the list. >> >> So, how do I make setup.exe

Re: Couple of scripts to remove duplicate packages

2005-01-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:56:10 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:48:11AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>> That's a nice attempt. However, I can see that you're not aware of >>> Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl (which does that and much, much m

New dependency for perl-5.8.2-1

2003-11-08 Thread Michael A Chase
When I tried to run 'perl -v', I got a complaint about cygcrypt-0.dll not being found. The error went away after I installed the crypt package. Crypt is not listed in Perl's requires line in setup.ini. I am not sure if this is a completely new dependency since I only run WinXP every few weeks. -

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cygwin shell here]

2003-10-10 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:51:46 -0600, bob wrote: > That fails when I try to run it: > > Unknown key prefix. Valid prefixes are: >root >HKCR >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT >config >HKCC >HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG >user >HKCU >HKEY_CURRENT_USER >

Re: list manager: please remove e-mail address from 2003-08/msg01549

2003-08-30 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:04:35 +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > "Christopher Faylor" wrote >>> I ask again: why aren't fake adresses allowed? I'd love to know the >>> policy that stands behind it. >> >> There is no reason for you to use your real address in your message if >> the site policy bothers

Re: sorry about the spam

2003-08-26 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:49:35 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I just checked in a new version of the spam blocker which worked well in > testing but died a horrible death in production. > > Sorry about the spam/viruses that came through. It should give us a better appreciation for how much you

Re: patch to cygwin1.dll

2003-03-10 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:39:28 +0100 COTTO Daniel FTRD/DMI/CAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want, you can use this patch and you can add it to a next > version of cygwin1.dll. Please read http://cygwin.com/contrib.html . -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriat

Re: Advocacy

2003-03-03 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:22:16 -0800 (PST) "Peter A. Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:42:16AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >>> I feel that you should review their responses to you, determine if they >>> are truely s

Re: cygwin rsync bug with windows shares

2003-03-03 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:22:49 -0500 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am *so* tempted to add a filter to strip this crap out of email sent > here. > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:05:27AM -, Sheridan, David wrote: > >PLEASE READ: The information contained in this email is confident

Re: Solving: Quotes in $PATH not translated properly

2003-02-24 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:22:54 +0100 Harald Kierer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a current problem when invoking cygwin is: if the Windows PATH > variable has quoted paths then cygwin won't translate those paths to > POSIX properly, so you end up with an incomplete $PATH: > > T:\bin>echo %PATH% > "C

Re: Installation problem, file "cygintl-2.dll" missing

2003-02-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:08:47 + (UTC) Roger Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I attempted to install Cygwin on a Windows 2000 system, downloaded > the files first using "setup.exe," then ran setup to install. All packages > were selected for download and installation, and setup was run f

How to get out of cygwin mail lists

2003-01-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:00:48 +0100 Peppino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I doubt this will do much good since you didn't read the responses to the last person who sent such a request to the list, but if you visit (http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple) and follow the instructions given there you

Re: Default Text File Type

2003-01-12 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:25:19 -0600 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone explain the meaning and implications of the Setup option to > select Default Text File Type ( DOS or Unix)? I couldn't find it in the > FAQ or User's Manual. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC74 http://cyg

Re: PATCH: libwin32 0.191 builds and tests on Visual Studio, Cygwin, MinGW and Borland5.5.1

2003-01-12 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:50:16 +0100 Rafael Kitover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be incredibly cool if this patch could be applied to the > libwin32 currently on CPAN, as that was its purpose. If there is > anything I can do to make this a reality, please let me know. The package maintaine

Re: Installing the Win32:: modules for Cygwin Perl

2003-01-11 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:20:13 -0800 Rafael Kitover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a patch for libwin32-0.191 to build under Cygwin Perl, both 5.6 > and 5.8. This is based on the work of Clive Nicolson a while back. >   > This will give you the core Win32 methods, as well libraries like > Win32

Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.5p1-3

2003-01-11 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:54:08 -0800 John David Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When attempting to install this update I get an error message saying that > > > "cygwin1.DLL" is not installed. Where do I get it and how do I install it, > > > since the automated install process can't? Setup.e

Re: What is the difference between Cygwin and GCC releases ?

2003-01-10 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:01:32 - Aaron Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone give me a pointer on this, ie either explain or point me to the > relavent documentation please. > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Mac :})

Re: tar.bz2

2003-01-10 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:49:16 -0500 David Robinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DEEPA SIVASANKARANE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  could someone please tell me how to extract from a tar.bz2 > >format ? > bzip2 --help > tar --help > info bzip2 > info tar The problem with all those is that they byp

Re: Fwd: Cygwin

2003-01-09 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:51:00 +0100 (MET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Everytime I start cygwin.bat I get the following message: > ---cut- > > 9 [main] bash 400 init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for > checking, > Win32 er

Re: System() command

2003-01-07 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:55:09 +0200 Maor Avni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this very simple C program: > > #include > > int main() > { > char a[] = "echo echo testing 123"; > system(a); > return 0; > } > > I compile it with gcc and everything works fine, until I run it under > Win2K

Re: Start up tcsh window?

2003-01-04 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:18:52 - John Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edit your cygwin.bat file? > > @echo off > > C: > chdir C:\cygwin\bin > > tcsh > > start tcsh for me. Doesn't log me in, but... I don't > use tcsh. > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

Re: Fw: cygwin Questions

2002-12-26 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:03:05 -0500 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:58:58PM +0800, Adrian Chong wrote: > >But, I can't see the package "fileutils" in setup.exe. Now I have to > >download from FTP manually. > > http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > http://cygwin

Re: Fw: Cygwin Questions

2002-12-26 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:42:05 +0800 Adrian Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run the setup.exe again, I can see all packages have "Keep" value in > the "New" column. That means > I have installed everything. But anyway, I have tried to reinstall but > no help. > > Windows version: Windows 20

Re: Command not found?

2002-12-26 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:14:22 +0800 Adrian Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just changed to Cygwin 1.3.17-1 from 1.3.2. I found that those > simple commands such as mkdir, > ls,...have been removed for this release and I get "Command not found" > when running them. What > happens? Is this

Re: Bug somewhere between cygwin, gcc and cvs

2002-12-25 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 13:22:17 -0500 Arkadiy Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded latest stable CVS code (1.11.2) and compiled it under cygwin. > "cvs co", "cvs login" and "cvs commit" worked, but not "cvs update". Since you are trying to build a version of CVS in advance of the versi

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:27:18 -0600 John Seeliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, John Seeliger wrote: >> >>> How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Win

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:27:18 -0600 John Seeliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, John Seeliger wrote: >> >>> How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Win

Re: Perl package File::Spec confused under cygwin

2002-12-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:36:58 -0800 "linda w (cyg)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of >> volume. Everything except network paths (//host/dir) are >> based on a single root directory. > --- > But Unix does have a concept of a mount point

Re: Perl package File::Spec confused under cygwin

2002-12-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:27:50 -0800 "linda w (cyg)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > File::Spec is supposed to provide a OS independent way of parsing and > creating pathnames. For example, a 'splitpath' can product a volume > $dir and $file. Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of v

Re: Request for bashhere.inf

2002-12-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:06:40 -0700 Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attached is the only one I seem to have, but I know there was > another one floating around which seemed a bit better. The problem > is that I don't know much about INF files (seems to be an arcane > knowledge) so I do

Re: How to unsubscribe?

2002-12-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:37:00 -0500 Adam Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I unsubscribe from this list? I doubt this will do much good since you didn't read the responses to the last person who sent such a request to the list, but if you visit (http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple)

Re: Cygwin deinstall

2002-12-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:27:41 +0100 a12 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following your suggestion I mail this entry to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are still not paying attention. Your initial question was 'How do I uninstall Cygwin?'. The FAQ I pointed you to does answer that question. If you bother t

Re: Setup not loggin?

2002-12-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:15:12 +0100 Javier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that both setup log files (setup.log.full and setup.log) on > the setup dir, are from Nov. 29th (and I've run setup and made changes > several times since) > > Is ths a bug? A feature? Yes. During the first inst

Re: Cygwin deinstall

2002-12-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:41:23 +0100 a12 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I remove completely Cygwin ? Read the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 . It answeres that exact question. Please stop using the wrong list. If it weren't a FAQ, this quiestion would belong on [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: subsrcibe

2002-12-17 Thread Michael A Chase
On 17 Dec 2002 12:30:43 +0700 Nugroho Nursuwito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > subscribe > Posting this request, especially misspelled, does nothing except annoy the list members. Please read the entire page before you post again. http://cygwin.com/cygwin/lists.html -- Mac :}) ** I normally

Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

2002-12-12 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:12:56 -0800 Shankar Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael A Chase wrote: > > > # Ignore case while completing > > set completion-ignore-case on > > Hmm. Thanks! Now that I RTFM more closely, I also see "set > complete=enhan

Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

2002-12-12 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:07:37 -0800 Shankar Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soren A wrote: > > > [...] you can nenver tell another person what they should like in > > a shell. > > Well (sorry for OT drift), the main thing was the case-insensitive > filename completion, which is invaluable on

Re: "The system cannot find the path specified" - from bash shell

2002-12-09 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:41:47 + Andrew Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed cygwin, and it all installed fine. I used the > recommended 'setup' installer, and installed it all to "C:\cygwin\". > Whenever I run the bashshell, I get: > > The system cannot find the path specifi

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:05:24 -0500 (EST) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, there's also apparently a cygwin port of 'script': > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01371.html It's also easy to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to a file. I found myself doing it often enough that I

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:08:07 +0200 Ryan Budge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ive attached a screen cap of the window. Sorry... I don't have script > like I do in BSD to give the output in text. Or am I being silly... The latter. You can cut and paste text from a console window in by pressing Alt-

Re: Can't run Macro Express from within Cygwin bash shell

2002-12-04 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:36:57 -0500 "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:46 PM 12/4/2002, Jack Twilley wrote: > > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael A Chase writes: > > > >Jack> Your solution works wit

Re: Can't run Macro Express from within Cygwin bash shell

2002-12-04 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:09:25 -0800 Jack Twilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael A Chase writes: > > [...] > > Michael> If it's a MSDOS/Windows executable, it won't know anything > Michael> about Cygw

Re: Can't run Macro Express from within Cygwin bash shell

2002-12-04 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:12:20 -0800 Jack Twilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably a general question and not application-specific. > > I can run the application from a cmd window in Win2kAS with a command > line like this: > > c:\progra~1\macroe~1\meproc.exe /Fj:\diesel\scripts\Perfm

Re: How to make setup.exe download everything?

2002-12-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:08:21 -0500 Francis Litterio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently tried to use setup.exe to download everything from the latest > Cygwin release, but setup.exe only lets me download packages that are > not already installed. > > I need to download everything so I can ins

Re: How to make setup.exe download everything?

2002-12-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:02:03 -0500 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If what you mean is to download *all* of the cygwin release you can do that > using the cygwin installer (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe) option `Download > From Internet' and set your download directory to wherever o

Re: unsubscribing

2002-11-27 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:45:05 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > gives me when pasted: > > Not Found > > The requested URL /ml/#unsubscribe-simple was not found on this server. > > with a change in my URL window to > http://cygwin

Re: ls --color on windows 2000

2002-11-07 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 12:23:14 -0300 Nelson Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First Michael, thnx for your (quick) answer! :) > > Well in my case (win2k pro) the ansi escape sequences are shown as > is i.e. > > ?[01;34mMy Games?[0m?[01;34mresin-2.1.2?[0m > ?[01;34mMy Music

Re: ls --color on windows 2000

2002-11-07 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:45:04 -0300 Nelson Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any means of making ls --color work on windows 2k ? As far as I > know ME+ OSs from MS removed ANSI color support. How can I overcome this? > is there any replacement for cmd.exe or ansi.sys that I can use o

Re: ls --color on windows 2000

2002-11-07 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:45:04 -0300 Nelson Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any means of making ls --color work on windows 2k ? As far as I > know ME+ OSs from MS removed ANSI color support. How can I overcome this? > is there any replacement for cmd.exe or ansi.sys that I can use o

Re: gcc (as.exe) install error

2002-11-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 16:11:49 -0800 Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is the (merely) potential conflict between the output of Danny's > compilation ("test.exe") going to lead "gcc" to produce an "Invalid > argument" error? Especially when the assembler runs (or would run) before

Re: gcc (as.exe) install error

2002-11-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:14:25 -0600 Danny Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed cygwin 1.3.14-1 (according to cygcheck). gcc is > unable to compile c source code (gcc claims to be version 3.2). > > Example code from "test.c": > > --- > #include > int main(){ > printf("h

Re: seek help for libungif

2002-11-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:17:54 +0800 »ÆËÉ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Thank you for reading my letter. I'm a graduate student in the > Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I want > to use libungif. But I can't gunzip it after I download it from the > website http:/

Re: Perl 5.6.1: Problem with CRLF/LF conversions

2002-11-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:52:51 +0100 Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > warum verweißt du ihn auf perl5.8? > ist es nicht wünschenswert, daß perl dateien im text-mode öffnet? > bzw. sie nur genau dann als binär behandelt, wenn man binmode() aufruft? Bable Fish translation (not many of us unde

Re: pavel (porting c code from unix to windows )

2002-10-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:10:51 +0200 Pavel Rozenboim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: nemrut cesetevi [mailto:cesetevi@;hotmail.com] > > Sent: Tue, October 22, 2002 2:50 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: re:pavel (porting c code from unix to windows ) > This means that either program wa

Re: cygwin copy

2002-10-15 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:38:15 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Michael A Chase wrote: > >> You could also create restore_mounts.bat the same way and run it in a MSDOS > > window. The mount command does not depend on cy

Re: cygwin copy

2002-10-15 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:37:46 -0700 Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > % cygcheck mount > Found: D:\cygwin\bin\mount.exe > D:\cygwin\bin\mount.exe >D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll > D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll >D:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL > > Does this not mean that the m

Re: cygwin copy

2002-10-15 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's interesting that all three replies to this message mentioned the > registry... While Vince should only have mentioned that it's *currently* > held in the registry, Pavel actually recommended exporting it

Ask again please

2002-10-14 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 04:56:24 -0700 (PDT) mehernosh mohta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to setup an intranet mail on my windows > network. So I tried to install cyrus imap of version > 2.1.6. But while compiling i used to get the following > problems. > > So please try to help me out. Or

Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages

2002-10-13 Thread Michael A Chase
On 14 Oct 2002 06:36:02 +1000 Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 05:04, Gregg C Levine wrote: > > Folks, don't roar at me, but I am seeing a number of messages arrive here, > > infected. One came with a message via Robert Collins, twice, > Can you point me at the

Re: cygwin 1.3.12 build question

2002-10-01 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:21:45 -0700 Doru Carastan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know what versions for w32api and mingw packages were used > in the 1.3.12 release? The full, current source can be viewed on line at http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/?cvsroot=src .

Re: man : List of all commands in a section

2002-09-30 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:37:06 +0200 Alex Vinokur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to get list of > * all section > * all commands in some section ? Type try info or pinfo. That's as close as you are likely to get and a lot closer than you'll find in MS Windows' help system. -- Mac :

Re: sourceware.cygnus.com going away

2002-09-30 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:32:02 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to pull the plug on the old host name "sourceware.cygnus.com" > soon. sources.redhat.com and its alias cygwin.com will continue to work > as always. > > If you are referring to sourceware.cygnus.com for

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-30 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For these reasons, I completely support the idea of creating an > independent newsgroup. So file the proposal. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter:

Re: wordexp function

2002-09-30 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:06 +0200 Franck Leray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the unix wordexp function included in a cygwin package ? Visit http://cygwin.com and follow the "Setup Package Search" link. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask S

Re: ncftp's lls requiring /bin/more

2002-09-29 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:29:01 +0800 Greg Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another ncftp peculiarity is lls, which won't work because it > requires /usr/bin/more. > > The manual says you can set the environmental variable, $PAGER, > but that didn't work for me. > > I forced lls to work by li

Re: sysvinit for cygwin?

2002-09-28 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 01:01:53 -0300 Ariel Manzur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 18:32 27/09/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:44:51 -0300 Ariel Manzur > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >>> is there a 'sysvinit' package for cygwin? I'm only interested in being able >>> to switch con

Re: sysvinit for cygwin?

2002-09-27 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:44:51 -0300 Ariel Manzur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a 'sysvinit' package for cygwin? I'm only interested in being able > to switch consoles using alt-f1 to 6, I understand the program 'init' is > the one that manages that. Is there at least a 'clon' of that for

Re: Cygwin: name of an lwp-request script (HEAD) clashes with /bin/head

2002-09-27 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:31:41 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When installing LWP through CPAN, the installation creates the GET, HEAD > and POST scripts in /usr/bin. On Cygwin, the name HEAD clashes with an > existing program, /bin/head.exe (Cygwin assumes a ".exe" ext

Re: cvs executes illegal instructions

2002-09-27 Thread Michael A Chase
\PalmDev\pilrc-2.8\cygwin1.dll > Cygwin DLL version info: > DLL version: 2.0.1 > DLL epoch: 19 > DLL bad signal mask: 19005 > API major: 0 > API minor: 3 > Shared data: 1 > DLL identifier: cygwin > Mount regist

Re: Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

2002-09-25 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:41:14 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been doing things like creating template files, finding where > Cygwin is installed via Cygpath, and modifying the template with sed > and copying it to the appropriate user desktop directory. > > I don't suppose there's an

Re: gcc doesn't work but seemed to install fine...

2002-09-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On 22 Sep 2002 20:53:57 -0600 Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just used the cygwin setup program to install gcc on my d: drive on > my windows 2000 professional pc. > > The install seemed to go fine. From the command line I can get the > version of gcc: > > bash.exe-2.02$ gcc -v > Using built

Re: expat installation problem

2002-09-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:49:57 +0200 Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I encountered problems concerning the installation of expat (1.95.4-1). > After > $ tar xjvf expat-1.95.4-1-src.tar.bz2 cd expat-1.95.4 # ? > $ ./expat-1.95.4-1.sh all > > the script breaks with: > ... > + reconf-cygwin.sh >

Re: gcc specs file format

2002-09-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 19:42:26 -0700 "Paul D. DeRocco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but I don't see it. I grepped all the gcc.info* files (indeed, all > the *.info* files) for "specs", and read the matches in my editor. I found a > bunch of mentions of the specs file, but no explanation of i

Re: Bash local builtin and redirection problems

2002-09-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:00:14 +1000 Ray Pimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have successfully installed Cygwin on Windows 2000 SP3. However, when I > attempt to run a bash shell script that works fine under Linux, two > problems occur. > > 1. The bash "local" builtin does not seem to work. Erro

Re: df --local

2002-09-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:46:13 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, egor duda wrote: > > > Friday, 20 September, 2002 Rob Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > RB> OK, that will *mostly* work except for the cdrom drive issue. > > > > The proper way is to

Re: Why rxvt?

2002-09-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:17:45 -0700 "Paul D. DeRocco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me what advantages this might have for running bash, > compared to the usual Windows command line window? I noticed in the readme > that rxvt can leave child processes running if you close the window

Re: Open bash at the current explorer directory?

2002-09-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:01:33 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should be /etc/profile (note the absense of ".") and ~/.bash_profile. > I think ~/.profile is used by ksh... For login shells, bash will fall back to ~/.profile if ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_login aren't

Re: I can't run my make-file

2002-09-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:44:57 + melba selco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When i write > make Arguments to 'make' are targets, not files. Run `make --help` for a short help, `info make` for the full details. > there is an error... > > make: cc: Command not found > make: *** [universe] Erro

Re: cvs executes illegal instructions

2002-09-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:10:44 -0700 Steve Kelem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm running cvs 1.11 on Windows 2000, and the latest cygwin inside tcsh > 6.11.00. > If I run "cvs commit" from tcsh, it runs a bit, and then brings up a > popup: Darn. I forgot to also ask for the _exact_ comman

Re: cvs executes illegal instructions

2002-09-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:10:44 -0700 Steve Kelem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running cvs 1.11 on Windows 2000, and the latest cygwin inside tcsh > 6.11.00. > If I run "cvs commit" from tcsh, it runs a bit, and then brings up a > popup: > > 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem > The NTVDM CPU has encounte

How to get out of cygwin mail list

2002-05-23 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 23 May 2002 12:55:20 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > some body plz tell me how to unsubscribe from the list > I doubt this will do much good since you didn't read the responses to the last person who sent such a request to the list, but the instructions are included at the bottom of ev

Re: bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

2002-05-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 22 May 2002 09:27:06 -0700 Kevin Layer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Your /usr/bin and /usr/lib mounts are incorrect. There were some problems > >> with that with some versions of setup.exe, but I think that has been fixed > >> now. > > I had the latest version of setup.exe (as of y

Re: bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

2002-05-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:38:23 -0700 Kevin Layer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What does cygcheck -s say? > > Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics > Current System Time: Tue May 21 20:37:06 2002 > > Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 > > Path:C:\ODI\OStore

Re: bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

2002-05-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 21 May 2002 17:29:42 -0700 Kevin Layer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >D:\bug>PATH C:\Cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin > >D:\bug>sh -i >$ make >echo /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin >/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin >/c/winnt/system32/cmd >Microsoft Wi

Re: readline behaves differently from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5

2002-05-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 21 May 2002 10:10:47 -0500 "Zhou, Zhongyu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have just upgraded my cygwin (bash) from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5, and it broke > one of our development scripts. Basically what it did was, to drop the > backslash from the input. My readline version is 4.2a-1. >

Re: Question

2002-05-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 20 May 2002 22:58:48 -0400 corey grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I have downloaded the packages needed, how do I run Cygwin on my > Windows 98 Operating system? > Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the answer to my query. Reading the instructions given at http://cygwin.

Re: pine dumps core on exit

2002-05-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 20 May 2002 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The diagnosis of your problem is correct. Your problem comes from the fact > that you have chosen "DOS" over "UNIX". You will need to change it "unix". > This is one of the symptoms of the error. Your addressbook

Re: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken and I'm not much better

2002-05-16 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 16 May 2002 22:29:13 +0600 Dockeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to mention in my last email, I am going senile. > > Next thing you know, someone will be telling me Reagan > isn't president any more. True, Reagan isn't President, but Bush is. So you aren't doing so bad. -- Ma

Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

2002-05-16 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 17 May 2002 08:21:06 +1000 Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 8:11 AM > > > Directories contrib\ and latest\ are obsolescent, but

Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

2002-05-16 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 17 May 2002 03:31:36 +0800 D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Harig, Mark A." > >I think I see now. I was simply letting 'setup.exe' use its defaults. > >It defaults to using 'c:\cygwin' for the Root Install Directory and > >'c:\cygwin' for the Local Package Directory. I assumed

Re: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?

2002-05-15 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 15 May 2002 16:45:06 -0400 Scott Prive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a bad (meaning 'foolish' :-) feeling we overlooked the > double-escaping just as I opened your email. I normally build all file or directory strings using '/' and then convert them before passing them to any progr

Re: Helpful Bug Reporting (setup.exe)

2002-05-15 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 15 May 2002 06:38:24 +0600 Dockeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you are reporting an error, try to think like someone > who is trying to solve the problem! In the case of setup.exe > problems make sure to include: > > (1) What version of setup you are using. Its on the first > scr

Re: Cloning Kit!

2002-05-14 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 14 May 2002 00:26:28 -0500 "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah hell. What a SUCKER I am! I bought this guy's kit, and now I don't even > know which one is me. But I pity the me who drank all my beer, because when I > find me I'll be in a heap of hurt, I can tell me th

Re: cygwin setup freezes

2002-05-13 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 13 May 2002 14:38:39 +0200 Sander Timmermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The several download directories I created and any setup.ini files I > could > find related to cygwin. But I think they were in those dirs. > 2002/05/13 13:43:01 Starting cygwin install, version 2.218.2.4 > 2002/05/

File::Spec::Unix::canonpath under cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Michael A Chase
A recent exchange of email in [EMAIL PROTECTED] (below) indicated that File::Spec::Unix::canonpath() has changed for Perl 5.7.3. Part of the change removes a Cygwin specific hack that prevented canonpath() from combining runs of "/" into a single "/". There was a note at that point in the code w

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 06 May 2002 16:32:25 -0400 Christopher Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is anyone here already reporting this to perlbug? I am willing to, but if > >someone has already reported it, there is no need for a 'me too'. > > It wasn't yet clear to me if this was a bug, so I hadn't yet th

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 06 May 2002 11:56:03 -0400 Christopher Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, unless I am totally overlooking something, this looks to be a > step > backward. Will the following regexp - > > $^O =~ m/^(?:qnx|nto)$/ > > cause a match under cygwin in perl 5.8)? I can't see how

Re: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

2002-05-04 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 4 May 02 14:11:37 PDT Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you aware that 'install from internet' also makes the install > > sets available? > > When I read the instructions a month ago, I got the impression that > 'install from internet' would not save the downloaded packa

Re: Keyboard Problems

2002-05-03 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 3 May 2002 05:53:01 -0500 Patrick Quinnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 installations, 1 at work and 1 at home. The > setup at home does crazy things with the keyboard. I > have to play games with the SHIFT key to get simple > UNIX commands : I have to hit the SHIFT key to get

Re: How to set system PATH for cygwin on nt?

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:26:43 -0500 Dave Bodenstab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My background is Unix and I'm *very* new with NT... so this has, > I'm sure, a very simple solution. > > Trying to get inetd to work, the doc's say to set the system PATH. > How? What file contains the settings? Som

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