[OT] rxvt/UTF-8

Hi, I'm quite sure this is not Cygwin related, but maybe someone can give me a pointer. I'm using rxvt without X to access all my hosts. Recently I added a box with UTF-8 output (Ubuntu 5.10) and found there is a special version urxvt somewhere, but I couldn't find it in the packages. Is there

Re: serial ports

Christopher Faylor schrieb: > Actually, "ls /dev/ttyS3" *does* display proper information. It is "ls /dev" > which does not show all virtual devices. You're absolutely right: $ ls /dev log= But I can even list ports that definitely do not exist: $ ls /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS1 ... $ ls /dev/tty

Re: serial ports

Dave Korn schrieb: > Trying to mix win32 perl and cygwin is a recipe for tears. Sure, use CPAN > modules, that is of course a good idea; but if the *nix one doesn't work under > cygwin, fixing it or rolling your own or even just using the bog-standard file > i/o features in perl is definitely fa

serial ports

Hi, I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook. This port is connected via an usb-adapter and referred as COM4: on Windows. I couldn't find any /dev/ttySx and I'm not sure if this is even supported. Is this possible under Cygwin? -- Oliver Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Curr

tetex/texdoc

Hi, I've installed: tetex-base 3.0.0-3 tetex-bin3.0.0-3 tetex-doc3.0.0-3 tetex-extra 3.0.0-3 tetex-x113.0.0-3 Trying to read the docs fails: $ texdoc web2c Unable to start 'C:\cygwin\usr\share\texmf\doc\programs\web2c.dvi': There is no appl

Re: permission denied while deleting the local copy of rsynced data

H.S. schrieb: > #do not include any temporary files, swap files, etc > - *~ > - *.swp Maybe you'd like to consider including the -C option. I'm setting up rsnapshot to rotate my backups on a regulary basis using hardlinks. Maybe that's also of interest for you. Don't forget to backup your SQL data

font

Hi, I'd like to use Courier New as font for Cygwin, but the only choices I've got are Lucida Console and Rasterschriftart. One solution is to use PuTTY to connect via ssh to localhost, but I think this is a bit of overkill. Is there another posiibility? -- Oliver -- Unsubscribe info: http

POSIX devices

Hi all, I'd like to inspect some MBR's from various devices. I have an external Firewire disk (x:), an USB stick (e:) and a flash card (F:, pcmcia). $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) C:\cygwin

Re: 4GB limit on FAT32

Hi Brian, Brian Dessent schrieb: > No. It's a fundamental limit of the FAT filesystem that will never go > away. Certainly nothing in Cygwin will affect it because Cygwin does > not implement any low level filesystem code of its own, it relies on the > windows API for that. I misunderstood a st

4GB limit on FAT32

Hi all, I was just playing with two partitions (m: NTFS, x: FAT32) to check whether the 4GB limit is still there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/m/size.test bs=100M count=47 47+0 Datens"atze ein 47+0 Datens"atze aus 4928307200 bytes (4.9 GB) copied, 290.58 seconds, 17.0 MB/s [EMAIL PR

Re: scripts

Ergun UYAR schrieb: > When I'm at the home directory and write "ls" script > to see the files in the cygwin directory it doesn't > list anything? > > Home directory includes no file? At least none of them are visible. Try: $ ls -a or try: $ touch test $ ls I strongly recommend reading the man

Re: find command in cygwin

lin q schrieb: > $ find . -type f -print $ find . -type f -print ./.bashrc ./.bash_history ./.bash_profile . . . $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 t636 1.5.15(0.127/4/2) 2005-04-18 12:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Everything works as expected here. Which version are you using? Oliver -- Unsubscribe in

Re: 1.5.14-1: child died

Hi Corinna, > Please test the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > I'm rather confident that it solves your problem. Sorry for delay, but I returned from a journey today. You are right, my installation works like charm again. Thank you very, very much! Regards, Oliver -- Unsu

Re: 1.5.14-1: child died

> Anyway, it could also be a permissions problem: maybe because its a > restricted user, the child process is in some way prevented from accessing > the object created by the parent and it can't notify it. But that's just > guesswork. I think your next most informative option might be to use >

Re: 1.5.14-1: child died

> I'm not sure what happened, but if I start Cygwin for a certain > restricted user I receive the following message: > > 9 [main] bash 3624 fork_parent: child 2756 died waiting for > longjmp before initialization > bash: fork: Bad file descriptor > bash-2.05b$ > > Everything worked fine, no

1.5.14-1: child died

Hi, I'm not sure what happened, but if I start Cygwin for a certain restricted user I receive the following message: 9 [main] bash 3624 fork_parent: child 2756 died waiting for longjmp before initialization bash: fork: Bad file descriptor bash-2.05b$ Everything worked fine, nothing was ins

xemacs, psgml, docbook xml v4.2

Uups, here is the rest... On my Debian Woody box everthing works fine, but on Cygwin 1.5.5. nothing happens. Anybody a hint, what I'm doing wrong? Regards Oliver -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentati

xemacs, psgml, docbook xml v4.2

Hi, I'm trying to parse (C-c C-p) the DTD, but it doesn't work. My document starts with: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";[ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: htt