HELP: rxvt configuration

2002-03-23 Thread Philippe Bastiani
One week ago, i sent a message relating to rxvt... I made new experiments: a/ when I enter 'rxvt -tn rxvt -e /bin/tcsh', rxvt displays no menu Note: I obtain the same effect if i launch rxvt from the startxwin.bat file or from the menus od fvwm2. What do you think about this situation ? b/ when

Re[2]: [Possible BUG and a fix] Re[2]: Setup.Exe causes Application Error at 0x78001750

2002-03-23 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Robert, Saturday, March 23, 2002, 5:34:28 AM, you wrote: RC> Thanks for taking the time to look at this - I really appreciate that. RC> BTW: If it's reproducible, tell me the steps and I'll look too. Also, if RC> it's reproducible, try building with -DDEBUG. Yep! I found a way to reprodu

GREETINGS FROM ITALY....

2002-03-23 Thread
I know that you get these letters a million times a day... And you hear the same questions, the same hype... I'm just going to say that these systems that I will send you information about, maybe like your own, and work for me and I've come to realize that all this work we are doing for one syst

RE: Interesting Problem

2002-03-23 Thread Prentis Brooks
The host is an independent system, in this case. I have not tested within a domain... I will make such a test this week. On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Prentis Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:18

gcc, inetutils, & perl packages won't install

2002-03-23 Thread Stacy Marie
Background - I have to modify/run some programs for a Computer Science course I'm taking. I want to work at home, but I'm tired of telnetting into the machines at school over my slow modem. Someone told me about Cygwin and I thought it would be the answer to my problem. But unfortunately it is

Re: HELP: rxvt configuration

2002-03-23 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:22 AM 3/23/2002, Philippe Bastiani wrote: >Finally, a last question: >I set the SHELL environment variable in 'startxwin.bat': is it a right place >? >I don't understand why this variable is not properly set by the environment >(although tcsh is my default shell) This has been discussed in

Re: gcc, inetutils, & perl packages won't install

2002-03-23 Thread Martin Gramatke
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:45:30 -0700, you wrote: >Most things installed as expected (after 2-3 tries, anyway!), but I have 3 >packages which I cannort get installed: gcc, inetutils, & perl. I have the same problem, but it seems that these packages work anyway. regards Martin -- Unsubscribe info

Re: gcc, inetutils, & perl packages won't install

2002-03-23 Thread Stacy Marie
Thanks for the input, Martin, but gcc doesn't work for me. When I type g++ I get "BASH: g++: command not found" If I type gcc (which I wouldn't expect to work anyway since it's a C++ program not C) I get a whole slew of error messages that say "undefined reference to..." lots of things, inclu

RE: gcc, inetutils, & perl packages won't install

2002-03-23 Thread Tim Huckvale
Stacy, I'm getting exactly the same problem when trying to install inetutils. I was upgrading my existing cygwin, and tried many ways around this problem, ending up by deleting everything and re-installing the current cygwin (1.3.10) from scratch, using the current setup.exe. Despite the appare

Re: gcc, inetutils, & perl packages won't install

2002-03-23 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Tim, Am 2002-03-23 um 20:00 schriebst du: > I have just experimented a bit further. Perhaps someone can explain the > following mysterious dialogue in cygwin (my notes inserted in << >>): > timh@TOSH / > $ cd usr > timh@TOSH /usr > $ ls > doc include info libexec local man sbin sh

Re: gcc, inetutils, & perl packages won't install

2002-03-23 Thread Martin Gramatke
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 12:06:22 -0700, you wrote: >Thanks for the input, Martin, but gcc doesn't work for me. When I type g++ Sorry, propably I was wrong. I just did a gcc -v, it worked and then i assumed everything is fine... :-( regards Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#un

how to del files named #???#

2002-03-23 Thread hongxun lee
I dont know why such files were produced, and they cant be del with command rm. 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

Re: how to del files named #???#

2002-03-23 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ "hongxun lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I dont know why such files were produced, and they cant be del with command | rm. Thanks Learn how to use your shell.. meanwhile I use to escape the characters, so something like "rm \#\?\?\?\#" ought to work.. Maybe even "rm \#" and it will fill it

Re: how to del files named #???#

2002-03-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hongxun, [ This is not Cygwin-specific--it can occur on any Unix/Linux/POSIX system. ] Oh, but they can be removed using "rm." Cd to the directory in which the problematic files reside and issue this command: % rm -i * You will be presented with a prompt for each file in the directory. If

Fw: how to del files named #???#

2002-03-23 Thread hongxun lee
Thanks,rm -f \#*works well - Original Message - From: "Andrew Markebo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hongxun lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "cygwin mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: how to del files named #???# > / "hongxun lee" <[EMA

Re: procmail locking problem warning (was Re: procmail on cygwin)

2002-03-23 Thread Greg Matheson
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jason Tishler wrote: > I found an issue with my procmail build recipe that causes a mbox file > locking problem. > Occasionally, I would get errors such as the following in my procmail.log > file: > procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jt" > procmail:

Error calling CAT

2002-03-23 Thread K . Weinert
Sorry if this is not an intelligent question, I am not a programmer nor an administrator, I just want to run some Unix-Commands under Windows95, and cygwin appeared to be a very nice solution for this. I ran the install program, using the "Default"-option. It showed no error, but a box saying

Re: Error calling CAT

2002-03-23 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:14 PM 3/23/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sorry if this is not an intelligent question, I am not a programmer nor >an administrator, I just want to run some Unix-Commands under >Windows95, and cygwin appeared to be a very nice solution for this. > >I ran the install program, using the "De

Re: Error calling CAT

2002-03-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:38:32PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 10:14 PM 3/23/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Now when I type "cat" at the Dos-prompt or in the bash-Shell, it >>displays an error window saying "CYGINTL-1.DLL" not found. >> >>What did I do wrong? > >Good questio

slow find . -type d

2002-03-23 Thread Pavol Juhas
Hello, I am using find 4.1 under Cygwin 1.3.10 / WinXP. I have observed that find . -type d is about 3 times slower than find . and about 100 times slower than cmd.exe /C dir /B/S/AD $ time find . -type d > /dev/null 0.39s user 1.12s system 93% cpu 1.617 total $ time find . > /dev/n

Re: slow find . -type d

2002-03-23 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:08 PM 3/23/2002, Pavol Juhas wrote: >Hello, > >I am using find 4.1 under Cygwin 1.3.10 / WinXP. I have observed that > find . -type d >is about 3 times slower than find . and about 100 times slower than > cmd.exe /C dir /B/S/AD > >$ time find . -type d > /dev/null > 0.39s user 1

Re: slow find . -type d

2002-03-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
Pavol, Larry, My guess (yeah, I know) would be the "stat" call. Find without any file type-specific constraints like "-type d" or "-type f" only has to read directory entries. Nor do constraints such as "-name nameGlob" or even "-regex nameRegex" necessitate a stat call on every directory entr

S-Lang on cygwin: terminfo missing?

2002-03-23 Thread Warren Postma
Hello, I'm new to using S-Lang on cygwin (windows). Will S-Lang terminal handling (full screen text mode applications) work on Cygwin? I downloaded and compiled the S-Lang libraries okay in cygwin, but the following simple test fails: -- Source snippet: #include #include #include #include