Re: wiki

On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 09:07 PM, Larry Hall wrote: At 09:28 PM 12/24/2003, Robert Citek you wrote: ... http://www.atomice.net/cygwin ^^^ This is apparently a bad link. Backing up to www.atomice.net and clicking on the Cygwin link brings you to

wiki

There has been some discussion about wiki's in the archives http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ So, I thought I'd list some of the sites mentioned in the archives that have a wiki setup for Cygwin: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/WebHome http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/CygwinEn

Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

Hello Brian, Thanks for the feedback. At 06:34 PM 8/4/2003 -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >This is too generic a question. Cygwin is just a set of libraries that >provide a Unix-like environment to programs... the behavior you describe >would depend entirely on how those programs are written. Wit

cygwin to backup Windows data

Hello all, A chemist friend of mine at the FDA has some questions about Cygwin and how it interacts with Windows. Below is his e-mail message to me which he asked to forward to the list if I felt it would help. I have some questions of my own to ask him, but thought I would put it on the list f

Re: apt-get (was Re: setup.exe: ... )

Hello Robert, At 07:16 AM 3/6/2003 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Not that I'm aware of. I really need to refresh the dpkg port in cygwin >at some point. > >I had foolishly hoped that porting it would encourage the debian folks >who had been so keen on getting apt etc going to contribute apt, debc

Re: Terminal output from ssh much slower than putty

Hello Erik, At 07:55 AM 3/5/2003 -0600, Erik Vigmostad wrote: >Is there some way to speedup the output to my terminal? I would like >to use cygwin for ssh'g to various servers, but it is so much >slower that using putty that I can't. What exactly are you using ssh/putty for? On-line editting

apt-get (was Re: setup.exe: ... )

At 10:26 AM 3/5/2003 -0500, Steve Coleman wrote: >It wouldn't replace setup.exe since the initial install would still have >to be done but it might be a good idea to have something that could >check if there are updates to designated packages that are deemed >important to the specific Cygwin us

crib sheet: ssh single-login/no password ( was Re: ssh-keygen )

;connect to the server and it give "Permission Denied (Public Key)" :'( Since I have seen this type of question more than a few times, here's my crib sheet. Feel free to modify. Regards, - Robert - (c) 2003 - Robert Citek For OpenSSH 2.5.2 or greater under Cygwin: acce

compiling setup.exe (was Re: Distributing .ISO files.)

At 07:27 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> I'm still getting my feet wet with the Cygwin sources, CVS, patch, etc. >> For example, I downloaded the setup module and compiled it. Instead of a >> ~100 K file, mine was ~10 MB. It seems to work, but obviously, I did >> something wrong.

Re: Distributing .ISO files.

At 07:27 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Any corrections will also be sent to the list and linked with your message >into a thread. The result will be not just the correct instructions, but >also the whole change history. Can wiki do that? ;-) Yup. At least the wiki's I've used ar

Re: Distributing .ISO files.

Hello Igor, At 06:42 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Robert Citek wrote: >> [snip] >> In fact, I would have two items: >> 1) How can I redistribute Cygwin? >> 2) How can I create an ISO to redistribute Cygwin (probably a pointer to

Re: Distributing .ISO files.

At 11:35 PM 3/3/2003 -, Max Bowsher wrote: >Yes, please explain. Cygwin contains many packages the average user will >never want. Why would anyone download an .iso, when they can fetch just what >they need? And if someone wants a CD, to install on a non-connected >computer, they can just burn

Re: Distributing .ISO files.

At 03:19 PM 3/3/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I would like to post an .ISO file I compiled for myself to my website, >making it available to anyone who wants it. It is a snapshot of the >full distribution (less sources) from one of the mirror sites, to >allow for installation on Short

Re: Advocacy

Hello Igor, At 04:49 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >I believe the complaints were mostly about the *size* of the disclaimer, >not about its content. The content is reasonably standard and pretty >redundant, IMO. Which is why I proposed a way for people to allow >filtering it out (

Re: cpu and partition info

Thanks, Bruce, At 12:02 PM 2/26/2003 -0800, Bruce Dobrin wrote: >It took me about an hour to change/add enough to the perl GPL "hinv" port to >get it to work with cygwin ( hinv v 1.4pre2). I took your code and modified it. Works great under Cygwin. See below. I'm not quite sure what this code

Re: CD/DVD writers

At 06:08 PM 2/26/2003 +, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Wednesday 26 Feb 03, Maurício writes: >>Hi, >> >>Is it possible to write CD or DVDs using cygwin (obviously, giving >> that I have the appropriate equipment working under windows)? > >Try >

loopback devise (was Re: mknod implementation? ... )

At 08:37 PM 2/24/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:52:15PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>Does Cygwin have a loopback block device? > >No. > >As Randall correctly points out, the existence of the mknod command has >no bearing on the existence of functionality like

cpu and partition info

Hello all, Is there a /proc/partitions or a /proc/cpuinfo in newer versions of Cygwin? I'm looking for a way to determine cpu info and drive info from the command line. I'm using v1.3.14. Thanks in advance, - Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repor

partition devices

Hello all, On a dual boot Windows/Linux system, how can I determine which device corresponds to /dev/hda5? >From the docs, each /dev/sdaX is supposed to map to a partition. For example, /dev/sda1 --> partition 1 on first disk (drive C:\) When I use fdisk under linux, it tells me my disk has

Re: mknod implementation? any idea when it will occur?

At 01:28 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Please clarify what use your software makes of mknod. > >Do I guess correctly that what you really want are named pipes? I don't know about others, but I would use mknod for a loopback block device. Then I could mount images of filesystems, e

Re: GPL Violation

Hello DJ, At 06:10 PM 2/20/2003 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: >This is acceptable, but GPL 3b requires that you provide a *written* >promise to that effect. IMHO it only needs to be sufficiently legal >to be a binding contract - i.e. dated and authenticatable. How you >acheive that is up your lawyer

Re: GPL Violation

At 08:16 PM 2/20/2003 +0100, Andrew Markebo wrote: >/ Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >|> >|> I make cygwin1.dll.bz2 available so that people can run the >|> static binaries. >| >| If you provide the Cygwin DLL in binary form, you must provide >| the sources of that version as well. >

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

At 01:26 PM 2/14/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >So, that experiment was a bad idea. I turned off access again. Yet, I >still have the feeling that many people are downloading packages >directly (from mirrors I suppose) and then we get to experience the >maddening "I downloaded foo and it

Re: NT wrappers

At 07:43 PM 2/13/2003 +0100, Tino Lange wrote: >The "MS way" of scripting applications is generally *not* using the >commandline but using (D)COM. Exactly. Which is why I want to write a command-line wrapper for at least some of the DCOM functionality. >This can be done via lots of languages, v

NT wrappers

How can I discover what the command line options are to an NT program? I would like to write wrappers around some NT programs so that they are easier to use from bash. For example, I would like to write a wrapper so that something like this is possible: $ explorer --print http://sources.redhat

/proc in Cygwin - Awesome ( was RE: No more /proc/registry ... )

I am running an older version of Cygwin (1.3.14). Both 'cd /proc/registry' and 'ls /proc/registry' work just fine. In fact, 'cd /proc' works just fine, too. Until this thread started, I was not even aware that /proc existed under Cygwin. I cannot find any mention of it in the User Guide or the

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

At 10:50 PM 1/28/2003 -, Max Bowsher wrote: >Soren A wrote: >>I don't know what 'pinfo' is or why I'd need it. > >Another info viewer that looks nicer and uses intuitive key bindings >(lynx-like). Navigating info documents in info is a challenge to say the >least. Keybindings are vi-like. pi