RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-19 Thread Axelle Apvrille
> So it seems that is linked to emacs; can you > read/write your file under > another editor (like vi)? just to confirm it's > really an Emacs problem. I haven't got vi, but I tried a simple notepad under Windows, and I modified my file without problem. > Yes, this is an environment variable tha

RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-19 Thread Axelle Apvrille
Hi, Actually initially the problem was I did not know who's causing the problem: Cygwin, Emacs or CVS... Now, well, it looks more like an Emacs problem. I'll probably follow up to some group regarding Emacs. Bye. Axelle. --- "Robinow, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > If I log on th

Problem compiling - unix compatible but using winsock2

2002-02-19 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody! To clarify my problem reported last week: My program lists #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include

RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-19 Thread Axelle Apvrille
Just wanted to let those who have followed this thread that I found the solution. You were right, this is no Cygwin problem, but an Emacs bug. It doesn't recognize correctly the "w" right for RCS/CVS files. The fix is to put (setq vc-ignore-vc-files t) in the .emacs file. Thanks for your help l

Order of -l on the command line, compared to linux..

2002-02-19 Thread Andrew Markebo
Hello! What is the diff between linker on linux and cygwin linker?? Basically, the problem is that gcc -lX11 foo.o works on linux, but not cygwin (missing symbols), on cygwin I have to do it the order: gcc foo.o -lX11 Is it a new feature in the gcc 2.96-version on my linux-ma

foobaz-unsubscribe-bp=ispelunker.comu@cygwin.com

2002-02-19 Thread B.P.
B.P. -- 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[2]: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dani, Sorry, but I don't know nothing about mysql programming and I can't help. Still I think you have some kind of programming error, not a bug in mysql or cygwin themselfs, though I don't have any time to look at your code - you should find out yourself. Still, for the record I am forwar

Fwd: Re: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Pavel Tsekov
This is a forwarded message From: Dani P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pavel Tsekov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 18, 2002, 9:45:51 PM Subject: Core dumped just only with strcat! ===8<==Original message text=== I've trying lots of things and after 1 day with it,

Re: print command setting in config.ps for cygwin

2002-02-19 Thread Jason Tishler
Gene, On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:22:11PM -0800, Gene C. Ruzicka wrote: > But the online User's Guide > for Cygwin says that the lp, lpr commands don't > work in Cygwin, and that the MS print command > should be used to print from a cygwin command > line. See attached for my latest PostScript

RE: proftpd on cygwin?

2002-02-19 Thread Stephano Mariani
I have had success with many ftp daemons on cygwin. ProFTPd was one of them... some minor tweaks needed, but nothing much to it... perhaps these were only due to my peculiar configuration. Stephano Mariani > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behal

Re: Your Cygwin question / cygreadline

2002-02-19 Thread Jason Tishler
Wayne, Please post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of sending private email. On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:41:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did you ever arrive at an answer as to how to address the missing > cygreadline.dll? Why are you asking me? > It cropped up when I was working/playing

Re: Fwd: Re: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:45:35PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > I've trying lots of things and after 1 day with it, I've achieved to work > part of the code. What I did? I just declared my array before a MYSQL_RES > variable. I had: > > MYSQL_RES * result; > char petition[500]; This is basic C k

Re: Fwd: Re: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:14:38PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:45:35PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > I've trying lots of things and after 1 day with it, I've achieved to work > > part of the code. What I did? I just declared my array before a MYSQL_RES > > variable. I h

Re: Fwd: Re: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Andrew Markebo
Basically this problem smells like you have managed to mess up the memory/stack before this, and well, memory problems is often 'detected' by the program crashes on some other location.. So start looking around at the code, what is done before these calls. /Andy (with detected I mean th

Re: od

2002-02-19 Thread David
Hi Mark, Thank you for your reply to my message about the od utility: I wrote: >> I created at test file with 4 characters in it: >> >> HTTP >> >> Then, I run od -bcx and I get: >> >> 110 124 124 120 012 000 >> H T T P \n \0 >> 5448 5054 000a You wrote: > That is cor

Re: Proposed patch for bash (completion spec problem related)

2002-02-19 Thread Chet Ramey
> Possible patch for bash to fix the problem noticed by Jason Tishler in msg: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00581.html > > > --- subst.c.old Mon Nov 5 07:19:50 2001 > +++ subst.c Mon Feb 18 16:58:50 2002 > @@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ > break; > >i = te /* +

Using windows graphics routines

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Dilip K NPRI
I am trying to use windows library specifically graphics library for plotting from my cygwin program. I need to use windows routines like: GETWINDOWCONFIG, DFLIB, SETCOLORRGB, $GCLEARSCREEN. I have a folder wich is called visual. How to go about linking the required windows VISUAL FORTRAN li

RE: Updating the DLL build instructions

2002-02-19 Thread Roth, Kevin P.
If you will use a piece of code as an "example" for your DLL building docs, I have a suggestion: use tftp... I'd like to obtain TFTP code in the form of a .DLL instead of an .EXE. I need to ultimately give it COM interfaces for use from within Visual Basic 6. It's already part of inetutils, and t

Status of Inventor on CygWin

2002-02-19 Thread Piyush Kumar
Anyone has an idea of inventor on Cygwin without running X? The same question about Qt? Is there hope for getting Qt / Inventor in the form of OpenGL and GLUT on cygwin, where one could just link a project with -lxxx and it would run on windows? Thanks for your comments, --Piyush -- Unsubscri

Re: od

2002-02-19 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Himsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 06:03 Subject: Re: od > > >You can see that the hex values in the last line are reversed. > > >I think they should be 4854 5450 000a. >

Re: od

2002-02-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sir, You have got to be kidding. For the record, the x86 architecture is little-endian, PowerPC, e.g., is bid-endian. On the off chance that you're running Windows NT (and Cygwin???) on an Alpha, I have to admit I don't know which byte ordering it uses. You will get the 16-bit output you wan

Re: od

2002-02-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:03 AM 2/19/2002, David wrote: >Hi Mark, > >Thank you for your reply to my message about the od utility: I wrote: > > >> I created at test file with 4 characters in it: > >> > >> HTTP > >> > >> Then, I run od -bcx and I get: > >> > >> 110 124 124 120 012 000 > >> H T T

Re: Proposed patch for bash (completion spec problem related)

2002-02-19 Thread AJ Reins
--- Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Possible patch for bash to fix the problem noticed by Jason Tishler in msg: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00581.html > > > > > > --- subst.c.old Mon Nov 5 07:19:50 2001 > > +++ subst.c Mon Feb 18 16:58:50 2002 > > @@ -1339,

how to remap backspace and delete keys for 'info'?

2002-02-19 Thread Thomas L Roche
When I'm in 'info' and try to scroll backward a page using the backspace key, I get *Info Help* instead. Since I also get help when I hit C-h, I suspect my backspace maps to C-h instead of DEL. (FWIW using the delete key () gets the response > Unknown command (~). ) Note also that I get this beh

Re: Re[2]: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Dani, You should really give us more info about the fault like say, the actual line number. Compile with -g option, run in gbd, it should tell you where it crashes, send us as much info as possible. I do not have experience in mysql but I did have a look at the code. If you are crashing in teh my

Re: od

2002-02-19 Thread Mark Himsley
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:03:55 GMT you wrote: > > > Then, I run od -bcx and I get: > > > > > > 110 124 124 120 012 000 > > > H T T P \n \0 > > > 5448 5054 000a > > > > That is correct in this little-endian platform, see > > http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/l/little-endian.html > > I

Re: Updating the DLL build instructions

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:38:29AM -0500, Roth, Kevin P. wrote: >If you will use a piece of code as an "example" for your DLL building >docs, I have a suggestion: use tftp... > >I'd like to obtain TFTP code in the form of a .DLL instead of an .EXE. I >need to ultimately give it COM interfaces for

How to create a windows link in script?

2002-02-19 Thread Roland Glenn McIntosh
I would like to be able to create a .lnk file to a batch file (and ideally associate an icon with it) from a bash script on a Windows 2000 machine. Does anyone have any suggestions? I think "ln -s" used to work, but has since been improved? Anyway, this does not provide the functionality for t

openssh publickey authentication problem

2002-02-19 Thread Guy Amir
Hi,   We are trying to run shell scripts and binaries on remote machine (NT and Unix) by using ssh (openssh 3.02). The NT (2k and 4) network has PDC. The Cygwin version is 1.3.9. From NT to Unix the public key authentication is working good (RSA and DSA both). From Unix to NT it doesn't wo

RE: od

2002-02-19 Thread Roth, Kevin P.
David - I agree with you that the little-endian representation can be somewhat confusing; however, as Mark pointed out, it's not likely to ever change... I've had my own "struggles" with od's idea of output formats, and have come up with a few options along the way. Here's some that will help,

inputstream!

2002-02-19 Thread Pramod Mambalam
i'm sorry, but i just had this question and i thought you might be able to help me. if i write a simple java program that uses a BufferedReader reader object wrapped from System.in and then try to read a line from user and then echo it back, cygwin for some reason already has stuff on the stream

od commands

2002-02-19 Thread David
Hi Kevin I used od -txz and it's exactly what I was looking for. I couldn't get the z argument to work before you commented on my request. Thanks very much to you and everyone. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bu

1.4.5 gnu sort 2.0.16 extremely slow under Win98 (tiny default buffer)

2002-02-19 Thread Patrick Tufts
I looked at the temp files sort creates and noticed that they were around 700 bytes (bytes, not kilobytes) in size. The normal behavior of sort is to create temp files of around 16kB in size. When I use the --buffer-size option to force a large buffer, like --buffer-size=20 (200MB) sort comp

Re: TCSH startup scripts failure

2002-02-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:23:54PM -0800, Michael wrote: > Hi > > As of the latest version of Cygwin, there is a flaw in the tcsh startup > scripts in /etc and /etc/profile.d that causes tcsh to fail if $HOME > contains a space (eg "/home/John Smith") > > Lines such as > if ( -r $HOME/.csh

RE: od

2002-02-19 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi Randall, no need to hack od because of endianess, we are on *nix after all, so pipe it thru: dd conv=swab If needed often, put it in a wrapper shell script or an alias! Testing portably if you want it swapped or not is left as an excercise for the reader 8-) Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: How to create a windows link in script?

2002-02-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Roland, Well, I was going to say this: If this is a one-off sort of thing, just use Windows Explorer (i.e., the Properties dialog) to set the icon on the ".lnk" file (shortcut) that results from invoking "ln -s ". However, I find that the resulting .lnk file won't allow the icon to be chang

Re: Proposed patch for bash (completion spec problem related)

2002-02-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:27:54PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:05:01AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:06:36PM -0800, AJ Reins wrote: > > > Possible patch for bash to fix the problem noticed by Jason Tishler in msg: > > > http://sources.redhat.c

RE: od

2002-02-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Heribert, Ahh, yes, my old friend dd and his funky command syntax (inspired by some old IBM command language, if I'm not mistaken). The Swiss Army Knife of Unix data transfer. Thanks for reminding me. However, I don't see a 4-byte equivalent to "conv=swab" in the manual page, so this will

Re: Proposed patch for bash (completion spec problem related)

2002-02-19 Thread Jason Tishler
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:05:01AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:06:36PM -0800, AJ Reins wrote: > > Possible patch for bash to fix the problem noticed by Jason Tishler in msg: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00581.html > > > > [snip] AJ, thanks for trac

cygreadline5.dll redux

2002-02-19 Thread James Garrison
This file appears to be missing. Before someone jumps on my case and says "Search the archives" I'd like to point out that a) The archives are highly polluted with messages containing cygcheck output that lists cygreadline5.dll. A search for just "cygreadline5.dll" returns hundreds of h

Re: cygreadline5.dll redux - resolved

2002-02-19 Thread James Garrison
I am using the most current installer. However, I just solved the problem by forcing it to reinstall the readline package. For whatever reason, the library was missing even though the installer thought the package was installed. Andrew Markebo wrote: > Just a quick note, which installer did yo

Re: cywin!

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Franklin
Well, a quick search of the cygwin mailing list about Java would have unfortunately told you that Java is not "cygwin-aware". I run javac from cmd.exe for this reason. You might try wrapping your Java program in a script like: CMD.EXE /c "javaprog.exe" Hope it helps. --- "pramod m." <[EMAIL PRO

Re: cygreadline5.dll redux

2002-02-19 Thread Charles Wilson
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00011.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00855.html http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygreadline5.dll http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01619.html http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC32 Sigh. --Chuck James Garrison wrote:

Re: cygreadline5.dll redux

2002-02-19 Thread Robert Collins
> b) The archive search engine is too stupid to understand > quoted strings meaning adjacency, so that searching for > 'cygrealine5.dll "not found"' is equivalent to searching > for the individual words. Since 'found' appears in cygcheck > output, this does not reduce the number

Re: cygreadline5.dll redux

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:24:51AM -0600, James Garrison wrote: >This file appears to be missing. > >Before someone jumps on my case and says "Search the archives" >I'd like to point out that > >a) The archives are highly polluted with messages containing > cygcheck output that lists cygreadline

Re: Registry freedom

2002-02-19 Thread Doru Carastan
> >The Cygwin + custom GNU tools > >installer I created installs this tools for system wide use by various > >product installers. The default location is %SystemDrive%\wrtools to > >avoid cluttering an existing C:\cygwin. > > It would hardly be cluttering to produce an /opt/wrtools. That's what

Re: cygreadline5.dll redux

2002-02-19 Thread James Garrison
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:24:51AM -0600, James Garrison wrote: > > Hmm. A mailing list search of the stupid search engine with > "cygreadline5.dll not found" unearthed this within a few clicks: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01619.html > > If this do

recvfrom and timeout signal

2002-02-19 Thread Piotr Stępień
Hi All, I try to implement timeout for recvfrom: struct sigaction action; action.sa_handler = alarm_signal; action.sa_flags = 0; sigemptyset(&(action.sa_mask)); /* ignore all known signals */ sigaction(SIGALRM,&action,NULL);/* ensures that

Re: cygreadline5.dll redux

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:57:43PM -0600, James Garrison wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:24:51AM -0600, James Garrison wrote: >> >>Hmm. A mailing list search of the stupid search engine with >>"cygreadline5.dll not found" unearthed this within a few clicks: >> >>htt

Re: recvfrom and timeout signal

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:28:02PM +0100, Piotr St?pie? wrote: >Hi All, > >I try to implement timeout for recvfrom: > > struct sigaction action; > action.sa_handler = alarm_signal; > action.sa_flags = 0; > sigemptyset(&(action.sa_mask)); /* ignore all known signals

Problems compiling latest snapshot - cygwin-src-20020219.tar.bz2

2002-02-19 Thread ptsekov
Hey there! ;) The latest snapshot as in the subject fails to compile. The error occures when the make commands tries to execute in winsup/w32api, which is empty. The snapshot itself does contain a win32 directory but its empty. I check the source of the stock 1.3.9-1 and it doesn't have any files

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-6.51-3

2002-02-19 Thread Dario Alcocer
The Ghostscript package has been updated to fix a bug reported by Greg Bond related to operation on text-mode mounts: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00400.html This release of Ghostscript is an "X-less" version (i.e. one that doesn't require X11), and so can be used without t

Re: od

2002-02-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sir, > > You have got to be kidding. 22:53:33 fred@appel:~$ uname -a Linux appel.lilypond.org 2.4.18-pre9-benh #1 Sat Feb 16 20:51:15 CET 2002 ppc unknown 22:53:37 fred@appel:~$ echo http > http 22:53:43 fred@appel:~$ od -bcx http

Re: Problems compiling latest snapshot - cygwin-src-20020219.tar.bz2

2002-02-19 Thread Chris January
> The latest snapshot as in the subject fails to compile. The error > occures when the make commands tries to execute in winsup/w32api, > which is empty. The snapshot itself does contain a win32 directory > but its empty. I check the source of the stock 1.3.9-1 and it doesn't > have any files in t

Re: recvfrom and timeout signal

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:51:59PM +0100, Piotr Stepien wrote: >Christopher, > >Hope this working test case is small enough. I removed all unecessary code. >Please let me know if you need anything else. I wasn't asking for personal email. That's precisely why I set the Reply-To and Mail-Followup

creating a root/superuser under cygwin????

2002-02-19 Thread jose_gonzalez
Hi: creating a root/superuser under cygwin How to do it? Thanks. -- 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: Why not a news server?

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:57:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Please go to http://cygwin.com/ and post a news item. Hmm. I guess the excitement about this doesn't extend to actually doing this very minor thing. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug r

Re: Problems compiling latest snapshot - cygwin-src-20020219.tar.bz2

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:45:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The latest snapshot as in the subject fails to compile. The error >occures when the make commands tries to execute in winsup/w32api, >which is empty. I re-added w32api and mingw to the snapshot sources. cgf -- Please do not send

BUG with 1.3.9 : -mno-cygwin target still depends on cygwin1.dll

2002-02-19 Thread Vincent GOMEZ
Hello, I'm currently working on a cygwin32 port of DevIL (http://openil.sf.net). I get strange results when trying to compile the libs with -mno-cygwin (we prefer to not depend on cygwin unix emulation as we don't need it, we just use standard C functions) The problem is that i get dlls that s

Re: BUG with 1.3.9 : -mno-cygwin target still depends on cygwin1.dll

2002-02-19 Thread Chris January
> I'm currently working on a cygwin32 port of DevIL (http://openil.sf.net). I get strange results when > trying to compile the libs with -mno-cygwin (we prefer to not depend on cygwin unix emulation as > we don't need it, we just use standard C functions) > >The problem is that i get dlls that sti

Re: How to create a windows link in script?

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Franklin
> I would like to be able to create a .lnk file to a > batch file (and ideally associate an icon with it) > from a bash script on a Windows 2000 machine. I've written a program that does just this. It's a fully scriptable and can set icons. I'm hoping to get it included in cygwin sometime, but

Re: BUG with 1.3.9 : -mno-cygwin target still depends on cygwin1.dll

2002-02-19 Thread Edouard Gomez
Chris January ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It seems libtool is not passing the -mno-cygwin flag through when it starts > linking the DLL. > > Regards > Chris > I forgot to say one important thing : Before we fixed some bugs to the code, the libtool was close to produce a cygwin independant lib

Re: BUG with 1.3.9 : -mno-cygwin target still depends on cygwin1.dll

2002-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:52:13AM +0100, Vincent GOMEZ wrote: >Hello, > >I'm currently working on a cygwin32 port of DevIL (http://openil.sf.net). Sorry, but I beg to differ. 1) It's "cygwin" not "cygwin32". 2) You're not working on a cygwin port if you are linking with -mno-cygwin. Assuming

RE: How to create a windows link in script?

2002-02-19 Thread Stephan Mueller
The Windows term for these things is 'shortcut'. Perhaps you want to call your tool mkshortcut? Yeah, it's longer, but it's less ambiguous than mklink. There's already enough confusion between linking executables from object modules and hard and symbolic links in the file system. Also, since t

clisp as a shell

2002-02-19 Thread Guy Worthington
I'd like to try clisp as a shell and am just fishing in the hope, that this has already been done. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http:

Re: BUG with 1.3.9 : -mno-cygwin target still depends on cygwin1.dll

2002-02-19 Thread Edouard Gomez
Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry, but I beg to differ. 1) It's "cygwin" not "cygwin32". 2) You're not > working on a cygwin port if you are linking with -mno-cygwin. > 1 - Sorry for this mistake 2 - I'm working on a cygwin port because i use the cygwin environment (shel

Re: BUG with 1.3.9 : -mno-cygwin target still depends on cygwin1.dll

2002-02-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Edouard, You're using the cygwin tools to do what is basically a cross-compile. However, libtool in particular doesn't grok that "gcc -mno-cygwin" == "cygwin hosted mingw compiler". So, there are problems. Search the archives -- this was recently discussed on the main list. There was a big "

Re: clisp as a shell

2002-02-19 Thread Neil Zanella
I think you can just add it to /etc/shells and run chsh to set it as your default shell. Why do you want to do this? Bye, Neil On 20 Feb 2002, Guy Worthington wrote: > I'd like to try clisp as a shell and am just fishing in the hope, > that this has already been done. > > > -- > Unsubscribe

Re: cygwin!

2002-02-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Joshua, I don't know what this is supposed to help with, because Cygwin will launch non-Cygwin programs just fine, and that includes the full suite of Java SDK tools, the JRE subset thereof and any program written in Java and requiring one of the previous two. There is exactly no advantage to

Avail for test: gdbm-1.8.0-4

2002-02-19 Thread Charles Wilson
TEST RELEASE. PLEASE test to see that this DLL doesn't break your existing gdbm-dependent applications -- like CVS. It seems okay to me, with my limited tests, but... Note that merely updating cyggdbm to this new version will NOT magically enable CVS to host repositories on text mounts; nor wil

Re: cygwin!

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Franklin
DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional java developer >There is exactly no advantage to using CMD.exe to >initiate a Java SDK tool, or the Java interpreter of >JRE. I was under the impression that interacting with java's BufferedReader, etc. from within a cygwin bash shell was a Bad Idea because of

RE: How to create a windows link in script?

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Franklin
> The Windows term for these things is 'shortcut'. > Perhaps you want to call your tool mkshortcut? > Yeah, it's longer, but it's less ambiguous than > mklink. There's already enough confusion between > linking executables from object modules and hard and > symbolic links in the file syste