Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-30 Thread Soren Andersen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:45:26PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Umm, guys, aren't we getting carried away here? I mean, perl is a great > tool, but wouldn't something simpler, like > c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u '%1'` > /dev/clipboard" > suffice? If that command string c

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-30 Thread Soren Andersen
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:09:15PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > I was playing around with this because it seems like a handy idea. > I use Cywin perl, but the differences shouldn't be very great. Anyway, > I came up with the following oneliner that does what you mention above > (passed %1 as

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-30 Thread Soren Andersen
Hi! Regarding reply by Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jun 2003 > > Here's a little thing I cooked up that I find very useful, I call it > > dodos. It lets you run any DOS/Windows program and call it with unix > > arguments. For example, you could type "dodos notepad /etc/alia

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-30 Thread Soren Andersen
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:17:01PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Soren, > you also wrote: > > I am trying to finish a test script that uses ActivePerl to call `cygpath` > > {... stuff ...} > > open(CTH, '-|', "C:/cygwin/bin/cygpath $MS_path_filename") > > or die "Could not open() c

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-27 Thread Soren Andersen
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:13:31PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > s/Tischler/Tishler/ Sorry ;-) > > LocalSystem" user. I don't know what OS Jason is talking about as there > > is no such user "LocalSystem" on WinXP (yet XP is decended from NT). > > The built-in Windows "LocalSystem" account map

Inline-0.44 fails test on Cygwinperl 5.8.0 (xpstd article)

2003-06-23 Thread Soren Andersen
Hello Cygwinauts, Perl5-Porters, Ingy, The current release of Inline.pm won't build for me on the latest cygwinperl (Gerrit's most recent release, 5.8.0-3). I tried running 'test' from CPAN's shell and then went into manual analysis mode, produced some output build logs (attached to this message)

port query: any "fping"? & cygwin headers

2003-06-11 Thread Soren Andersen
Hey! Hello all. Has anyone ever ported the network tool "fping" to cygwin? I came across some Google results that seemed to be viable but it appears not (I don't have the complete URL I checked, but it was a site that showed a dir listing under a software project named "mon". maybe some of you kno

Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:15:25PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: > > The problem is: what GUI? > > Exactly. {...} > Not me ;-) I have no idea what gvim is actually good for. > The non-GUI version runs very nicely inside of xterm or r

Re: Cygwinperl & tar on Win9x (really tar)

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:28:22PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Soren Andersen wrote: > > Hello Cygwinauts, > > My system is Win98 and I suspect from absence of reports concerning this > > that somehow this isn't affecting people on other-derived M$ Windows > > pl

Cygwinperl & tar on Win9x (really tar)

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
Hello Cygwinauts, I'd like to report a problem I encountered recently try to run CPAN(.pm) on Cygwinperl to ... you know what CPAN does. My system is Win98 and I suspect from absence of reports concerning this that somehow this isn't affecting people on other-derived M$ Windows platforms. All of

Re: Mount table in registry

2003-06-06 Thread Soren Andersen
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:39:31PM +0200, Sebastian Miele wrote: > > Would making a libmount.a (or, better yet, cygmount.dll) be a good > > idea? Then programs can link against it and be guaranteed that they > > can read mounts or verify mount locations. I know Cygwin exports > > getmntent() and

Re: rsync and cygwin paths

2003-06-05 Thread Soren Andersen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:33:34AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > However for many purposes it's feasible to write some simple-minded > heuristics that make the determination about when and how to apply > "cygpath." I currently use a BASH script that uses a simple "case" > statement to paper o

Re: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-05 Thread Soren Andersen
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:54:16AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > Soren Andersen wrote: > > >Now sharing the drive space between the cvs tool (and cpan, too!) works, > >I think (haven't actually tried cvs yet but had to work on cpan a few > >minutes ago, and discove

Re: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-03 Thread Soren Andersen
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:04:11PM -0400, Soren Andersen (me) wrote: {snip} > What: The entire logical partition is mounted on Linux using a mount > point /linms-common/ and the CVS area is under that > (/linms-common/SOMIANCVSROOT). A parallel arrangement (mountpoint > differing bu

CPAN module Filesys::CygwinPaths uploaded today

2003-06-03 Thread Soren Andersen
ase last year). Please see the module POD (Perl Plain Old Documentation) which will be installed as a manpage (or `perldoc ...') at install-time, for more detailed information. Soren Andersen -- See my OpenPGP key at https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=6050 GnuPG pu

sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-03 Thread Soren Andersen
nderstand that everything relating to *nix-like perms on Win9x is a complete kludge since there's no user-id -based access control on such a lame platform, that has any real meaning or "bite". On WinNT-derived MS platforms it might be a different story. Best Regards, Sore

Notice of intention to release Perl module specific to Cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread Soren Andersen
[posted today to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (via Gmane) in order to try to get Cygwin's worthies in the loop]. Subject: Where it runs or what it Does?? (RFC) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:56:00 -0500 --- [[EMAIL PROT

Re: ANNOUNCE: mrxvt - a tabbed rxvt hack for Win32 (in development)

2002-11-04 Thread Soren Andersen
[posted and mailed -- sorry, no Subject: in 1st sending, this is re-sent to Rui and the Cygwin List] Re: ANNOUNCE: mrxvt - a tabbed rxvt hack for Win32 (in development) On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:29:36, Rui Carmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been hacking together a "multiple" rxvt

Install abnormal: latest SSH package

2002-03-19 Thread Soren Andersen
ht you ought to know. Best, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: CYGWIN variable: impact of options under Win9x

2002-03-19 Thread Soren Andersen
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:44:22 +0100, "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:22:28AM +0000, Soren Andersen wrote: > > Now I am looking at setting CYGWIN thus: > > SET CYGWIN=export noenvcache glob:ignorecase title nostrip_title >

FTP client using Open-SSL?

2002-03-19 Thread Soren Andersen
I have no reason to think ATTWN supports that. TIA, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

CYGWIN variable: impact of options under Win9x

2002-03-18 Thread Soren Andersen
e with them not set (i.e., *sshd*)?? My Cygwin installation at this moment: Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.10 DLL epoch: 19 [...] Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002 Shared id: cygwin1S3 Thanks, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Any existing routine for CPU-id on Cygwin?

2002-03-06 Thread Soren Andersen
FAR better, but just to prove that I am telling the truth when (in my other recent List msg) I maintain that I am not a C programmer... I cooked up my own solution using the ANSI library functions below. And then wrapped it in a autoconf macro so it can be included in "aclocal

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-01 Thread Soren Andersen
ivial hurdle. Maybe somebody else will therefore get there before me, but I thought I'd offer you assurance now that at least one pair of eyeballs out here will be looking into this. Luck, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting

/dev/clipboard protection fault on Win98

2002-02-24 Thread Soren Andersen
Anybody else having troubles like this? Regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Is window manipulation available in perl?

2002-02-13 Thread Soren Andersen
programmer discipline in that you'll perforce become oriented towards writing very portable scripts that don't lazily over-rely on UNI*-POSIX'isms nor on Win32-isms. Not that there aren't specific occasions when your goal is to do something very platform-specific and so no

Close to libiconv now?

2002-02-08 Thread Soren Andersen
libiconv using some hacked autotools support, last july. Any updates on that topic? Regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

change in behavior of bash (recent or not)?

2002-01-24 Thread Soren Andersen
tch script with this invocation of bash: D:\win98_Cygwin\bin\bash --noprofile --norc -c \ "echo -n WINSET USERNAME=`/bin/whoami.exe` >/cdv/c/_session_user.bat" (The line is not broken at "\" in my batch script of course: email limitations). Running it seems to accomplish t

Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?

2002-01-21 Thread Soren Andersen
that the last arg to mount had to be a POSIX path?? You seem to be supplying two win32/DOS paths as args to `mount'. Is this good to do? Thanks Gerrit! Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-19 Thread Soren Andersen
scolding put that time to productive use (or even -- gasp -- answering the question!), we could probably have seen the completion of a `mach' kernal come out of it (for instance). It amazes me that some folks here are so addicted to reacting angrily and acting like superior, stuffy old aunt

CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?

2002-01-19 Thread Soren Andersen
g Cygwin. I've got a system for doing this that is somewhat flexible and automagical (in a teeny tiny minor way) and I am going to post about it in another message. Best regards, Soren Andersen -- Religion is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build a house or to kil

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-17 Thread Soren Andersen
n co-workers. Life is bigger and far more incomprehensible than that small intellectual notion, and so is our ultimate interdependence. Happiness, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Doc

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-17 Thread Soren Andersen
ment made by developers of Cygwin caused a general intractable deafness to user feedback which is intended constructively. Best regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

"RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-16 Thread Soren Andersen
(for today) to whatever it is that `setup' does. I am not currently involved in hacking on `setup' so I won't be contributing any patches on this issue; it will have to fall to someone else to (maybe) implement this, for the time being (other priorities are just unrefusab

RE: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Soren Andersen
ussion, but because no-one has > disagreed in any substantial way with what you are saying, and no-one has > steppted forth to do it Oops! I must be slipping ... if I'm not getting somebody to strongly disagree with me ...heh heh Best regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscrib

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Soren Andersen
gitating..." Sounds pretty frightening! ;-) I am picturing "Spike" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (American TV show, sorry for the non-global reference) emerging from the shadows with that malevolent smirk on his face, saying "I've been cogitating.." ;-[

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Soren Andersen
and a lot of info exists in them. FAQs are only any good if a user finds them and reads them, of course. And they may need constant upkeep and re-writing to be really useful. Best Regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-13 Thread Soren Andersen
to develop and verify a list of resources to send such visitors to. The task (of writing up re-directions for some of these categories or inquiries) can be done once, -- to set up more precise explanations and info at the site; or it can be done as its been done, repeated over and over again

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
ve met better Ur-nitpickers in my time. But pretty darn good! ;-) Best Regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
On 8 Jan 2002 at 19:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:29:14PM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: > >This lack of sponsorship maybe is also part of the noted tendency for > >minGW priciple persons to manifest some, uhh, let's say testiness. > > I

Re: Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak')

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
at would hold true most of the time, regarding how out-of-date the manpages might be? Someone reading this might know. Thanks, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: IMAP c-client under Cygwin

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
On 8 Jan 2002 at 22:56, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Am 2002-01-08 um 21:16 schriebst du: > > I want to develop a Perl solution for accessing an IMAP server and doing > > things like querying messages in a folder named blahfoo, telling the > > server to move messages from blahfoo to cowpuddle, etc.

Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
ll get resolved peacefully and harmoniously. The one thing I hope is that the collective attitudes at minGW never get to the point where people "over there" (some of whom are also "people over here") have forgotten the debt of appreciation they owe to cygwin, for being t

IMAP c-client under Cygwin

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
f their service -- once they start charging they promise "no ads! -- ever"). Check their site for details. This is the server I wish to access with the software I am aiming to develop. My GUI email client, Pegasus v4, has unfinished and problematical IMAP support. Thanks, Sore

IMAP c-client under Cygwin

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
f their service -- once they start charging they promise "no ads! -- ever"). Check their site for details. This is the server I wish to access with the software I am aiming to develop. My GUI email client, Pegasus v4, has unfinished and problematical IMAP support. Thanks, So

Re: Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak')

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
On 7 Jan 2002 at 13:11, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: "Soren Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > creating more updated man pages for (many of the core) Gnu apps we use ... > > http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/gnumaniak-1. &

Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak')

2002-01-06 Thread Soren Andersen
any other, newer, in any way 'better' rpm for Cygwin which i should know about? Best to cygwin in the New Year, Soren Andersen -- Soren Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwi