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2017-08-16 Thread Ugly Leper
Looked at several mirror sites just this minute (1435 GMT Aug 16). All showing setup.ini with setup-timestamp 1502381207 (Aug 10) whereas most recent update seems to have been stamped 1502735714 (Aug 14). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwi

Starting from a Windows Command Prompt

2017-07-11 Thread Ugly Leper
Starting from a Windows Command Prompt, and using a syntax recommended from years ago I still start a bash shell with start /wait bin\bash (i.e. not just bin\bash) and a mintty shell with start bin\mintty (i.e. not just bin\mintty) and yet experiment shows that both simplified forms in brackets "wo

Starting xterm after XWin : sporadic error

2017-06-23 Thread Ugly Leper
After this in a Windows Command Prompt box: @bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>nul @bin\xterm -display :0.0 I have been getting this rather frequently 1 [main] xterm 5400 child_info_fork::abort: \bin\cygX11-6.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x50) != child(0x49)

Two undefined links after installing tcl-tk

2017-06-10 Thread Ugly Leper
Two undefined links after installing tcl-tk are /lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh -> ../tclConfig.sh /lib/tk8.6/tkConfig.sh -> ../tkConfig.sh There are no such .sh files at /lib or at /usr/lib (or anywhere else). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: Starting a xterm window

2017-06-09 Thread Ugly Leper
>> /usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0 >> /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set Thanks for all suggestions. Both the following fragments seem to work flawlessly. Both incorporate a waiting time for XWin to gain traction before xterm is called: 1. Starting a xterm console from a .cmd f

Starting a xterm window

2017-06-07 Thread Ugly Leper
Just getting a problem: this used to work but has stopped! >From within bash I can type $ run XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>/dev/null & $ /bin/xterm -display :0.0 and I am in a xterm window. Good; as intended. If I want to enter xterm straight from a Windows command prompt I try G:\> b

Re: find / without traversing /proc

2017-04-27 Thread Ugly Leper
The directory /proc is a bit special. More generally: What about "find /d0 without traversing /d0/d1 or /d0/d2"? The syntax $ find /d0 \( -wholename /d0/d1 -o -wholename /d0/d2 \) -prune -o -print works but is tortured; and can qualifiers e.g. -type f or -type d be incorporated? -- Problem report