vi "W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file" on large read-write file

When attempting to edit a *writeable* file of "zero" lines but 53 MB in size (no newlines), vi appears to hang. Ctrl-C is followed by the response W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file following which it appears that one is editing a new file. Quitting without writing succeeds.

The tcsh manual vs tcsh initialization; fix for slow startup

1. The tcsh manual states: onintr is ignored if the shell is running detached and in system startup files (see FILES), where interrupts are disabled anyway. But: >grep onintr /etc/csh.cshrc onintr - onintr Is the manual incorrect or is the initialization

RE: tcsh hangs after updating to cygwin 1.5.7-1. Expires with "Out of Memory"

> > > I have experienced exactly the same problem! On two different machines > > > running XP. > > > > I'm running XP *and* I'm using tcsh on a regular basis and I'm not able > > to reproduce that effect. > > Well, I know of at least one way to cause this problem! My cygwin > installation was runn

XFree86 fails to see/render TrueType fonts

Hi XFree86 fails to render TTF fonts on my computer. This is true for the bundled fonts/TTF/* as well as the Windows fonts. There are two problems: 1. XFree86 does not appear to include the X11 fonts/TTF directory in the font path by default. This can be shown by removing the Luxi fonts in the

XFree86 Start Menu shortcuts broken -- run.exe at falt?

Hi My Cygwin root is C:\Program Files\Cygwin. The space appears to cause the automatically-created Cygwin-XFree86 shortcuts to fail. Run.exe pops up a dialog saying that it can't find Files\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe" xclock -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 for example. It occurs even if the sh

Cygwin 1.5.5-1: cp to network 100% slower than cmd's copy

Hi I am aware than Cygwin network operations are slower than native Windows operations, but is a factor of 2-3 reasonable? >time cp 15MBfile /cygdrive/i/1 0.18u 2.04s 0:19.96 11.1% >time cp 15MBfile //igl/home/2 0.21u 1.77s 0:20.20 9.8% >time cmd /c copy 15MBfile i:\3 1 file(s) copied. 0.

rxvt-2.7.10-3 man page errors

Hi There's a curious glitch in the rxvt man page: igl-freehand:~ >man rxvt > /tmp/tmp /usr/bin/tbl::310: `.' not last character on lin /usr/bin/tbl::310: giving up on this table /usr/bin/tbl::776: `.' not last character on lin /usr/bin/tbl::776: giving up on

Cygwin 1.5.5-1: whois misbehaviour

Hi By my reading of the man page, the Cygwin whois appears to ignore the --version and --verbose options that are listed in the man page and/or built-in help. It also appears to me that it ignores the WHOIS_SERVER environment variable: >setenv WHOIS_SERVER whois.stanford.edu >whoi

Error reports and queries

Hi 1. I installed OpenSSH (and therefore OpenSSL) under Cygwin. My shell is tcsh. When my shell starts up, it gives an error because the last line of /etc/profile.d/openssl.csh has an error in the last line. This should be "endif" not "fi". 2. If tcsh is invoked from the command line (for exam