grep: writing output: Permission denied [encoding issue?]

F-8 characters? That's inconvenient...I would much rather it gave me some kind of garbage characters. (I believe that's what happens if I use a non-Unicode encoding, and cat a file with non-ASCII Unicode characters.) -- Mike Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "For o

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

Sigh. I wasn't going to do this. But his flaming is so egregious... Andrew DeFaria wrote: Mike Maxwell wrote: Most of us don't look in the dictionary to find out what computer terms--or any other words--mean. I would guesstimate that you learned 99% of your vocabulary, c

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

ature). Thanks, that would be great! -- Mike Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/

Reboot vs. Restart Windows (was: latest iconv hangs)

in apps or services. That would be a good addition, I suspect. (I'm not familiar with DLL programming, but wouldn't it be quite easy for setup to tell whether Cygwin is running before the update starts, and tell the user to shut it down?) OK, I just went through the update proces

Re: latest iconv hangs

is "restart Windows" and it offers to do so then and there.) -- Mike Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: latest iconv hangs

Charles Wilson wrote: Mike Maxwell wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: > Did setup.exe warn you to reboot? Yes, it did. I assumed that when it told me that, it just meant to close down the bash process(es) that I had opened, and start them again. I did that. Did it instead mean I was suppo

latest iconv hangs

so I don't know how to re-install that. I'm running this from the bash shell, if it matters. -- Mike Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Oct 28 17:01:26 2006 Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 P

Re: xmllint stopped working?

16:46 -0400 From: Mike Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gerrit P. Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Mike Maxwell wrote: It appears that xmllint has stopped working in recent CygWin versions. Specifically

Re: xmllint stopped working?

Mike Maxwell wrote: ...here's a sort of minimal XML file that will trigger the error: ... &Clitic2; I should have mentioned, if I replace the entity '&Clitic2;' with its value ('"foobar"'), the xml file passes xmllint just fine.

xmllint stopped working?

wrong--but as I say, at least one other implementation of xmllint accepts it. And it could be that there's a better place to report this bug. I looked for an libxml site on sourceforge, but only found libxml2 (= libxml++). -- Mike Maxwell Linguistic Data Consortium

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

for the info-- Mike Maxwell P.S. I like your signature...in my case, my boss and I have a standing joke (err, we _are_ standing when we tell it) that the men's room is our primary meeting room. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

This is for anyone else who reads this thread, looking for a solution. Mike Maxwell wrote: > Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? In the end, that's what I did: a new install. Unfortunately, I haven't found every package that I had installed previously,

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

to the Power User > group or something else that you are a member of. That may be, but it won't happen quickly--our sys admin people are trying to put out fires resulting from the break-in. I won't try to say what I think of whoever broke in... -- Mike Maxwell L

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

+ 11 Administ 4096 Oct 2 12:53 cygwin/ Everyone is supposed to have write permission, but the group looks bogus. I tried chown, but don't have permission to do that. If I do re-install cygwin, how can I ensure that I re-install all the same apps? (Where does it keep its db

no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

ocal drive's root directory: $ cd ~ $ pwd /cygdrive/c I tried re-naming my old /home/ directory to /home/, but that doesn't seem to be sufficient. Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? -- Mike Maxwell Linguistic Data Consortium NomaxwellSpam at

Re: apropos, man -k, and makewhatis

he problem? Yes, thank you! It was indeed the path. -- Mike Maxwell Linguistic Data Consortium [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: apropos, man -k, and makewhatis

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > The messages from find indicate that you are not running the right > find (i.e., the Windows FIND command is in the path before the Cygwin > one). Yes, thank you! -- Mike Maxwell Linguistic Data Consortium [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubsc

apropos, man -k, and makewhatis

n editor, searched for 'find', found four lines, of which two actually execute. Tried running 'find' using the args in the 'makewhatis' script, and get an error msg, but a different one ("Invalid Switch"). 'makewhatis' has a revision date of 23 Mar