fortune & strfile [autarkic or not]

Hi. Recently, I asked if it was feasible or not to run Cygwin’s fortune separated on any Win32 system. Christopher Faylor was not amused about my question due to a misunderstanding, sorry for that. First, it’s not my aim to "cherry pick" (as to quote Brian Dessent) integral parts of the Cygwin pr

Autarkic fortune/strfile usage possible?

Hi, I wonder if "outsourcing" of both fortune and strfile executables is possible, so these programs might be run independently on a Win32 system lacking the regular Cygwin environment. Is it feasible somehow to supply just the indispensable Cygwin library (or libraries) to Windows, so fortune and

compiling woes (httping 0.0.3 make error)

Hi Brian! > > $ make install > > gcc -ansi -O2 -c -o error.o error.c > > error.c:1:21: ncurses.h: No such file or directory > > make: *** [error.o] Error 1 > Well, does /usr/include/ncurses.h exist? No, I can't find ncurses.h anywhere, although ncurses had been installed. Entering the command:

was: httping 0.0.3 make error

Dirk Sondermann wrote: > try make CC='gcc -ansi' or replace the first line of the makefile by > CC=gcc -ansi. Hallo Dirk, Thanks for the reply. Taking your suggestion into account, I'll get (after updating the Makefile): $ make install gcc -ansi -O2 -c -o error.o error.c error.c:1:21: ncurse

httping 0.0.3 make error

Hi, I didn't work with make so far, and would like to install httping 0.0.3 by Folkert van Heusden (http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/httping) for the current Cygwin release. Did anyone manage to compile this program? I read the FAQ items concerning make and verified that MAKE_MODE is set to unix.

was: bash loop troubles

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > If I guessed correctly at what you're trying to accomplish (create aliases > *in your current shell* to duplicate cmd.exe's syntax for switching > drives; not at all obvious from the above description), and how you're > doing it (from the inside of a bash *script*), you

bash loop troubles

Hi, I tried to run the following bash script: for drive in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z do alias ${drive}:="cd /cygdrive/${drive}" done I guess, the syntax for the loop is okay, if I replace the alias line with a simple echo command: echo $drive I get a b ... and so

ls question

0 1. Mar 12:00 M?ller Is there any way of changing this ls behaviour, i.e. enabling *full* support for umlauts (8-Bit ASCII) somehow? May I influence this with an entry within the .inputrc config file? I've set the following there: set convert-meta off set input-meta on set meta-flag on set

Re: assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash

.. The only way in the past of getting to work properly for keyboard macros was ANSI.SYS. Any other suggestions? Greetings, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash

Well, this has nothing to do with the actual question I posted, neither rxvt nor bash are the point: I'm seeking a possibility to enhance the cmd.exe in order to allow closing/exiting it via simple Ctrl+D - not more, and not less. Any other ideas perhaps? Regards, Svartsjel -- +++

assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash

xit >nul' command, so hitting Escape closed the Dos console, it required ANSI.SYS to be loaded. Any new suggestions for Windows XP? Best wishes, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min.

aspell within cygwin?

Hi, how can I use aspell in conjunction with Cygwin (vim)? greetings, svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repor

How to automatically process file/dir names?

fortunes-o, index_2.htm, index2.html. How would you accomplish that? Many thanks in advance, and best wishes! svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

was: How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?

Thank you, Max, Igor and Andrew for your suggestions! Yes, I knew the cygdrive-prefix possibility already, nevertheless: thanks, Corinna! I assume Max' softlink solution will please my laziness best. It's somewhat strange I didn't come up with this little trick myself... Best wish

Question concerning fortune

% Another one % And finally, a third one % and now we compile the corresponding .dat file, fortune (or rather strfile?) assumes four different quotes because of the last '%' that precedes the . It's not exactly a bug, though... Best wishes, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mai

How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?

commands like chmod, cp, mv etc. Among others I'd like to use the automatic command line completion which doesn't work for /cygdrive/... either. Any suggestions? Best wishes, Svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die