[Fwd: HTML (texi2html) documentation for all cygwin packages?]

2002-04-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hi *, > > have you install the tetex-beta-4 package ? > `texi2html' is available there. > > Bye, > Jerome > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello *, > > > > I'm looking for a complete HTML documentation converted using texi2html. > > If it's not available, then ho

Using cygwin from win32 (MS VC) app

2002-04-15 Thread Kristopher Buschelman
I have a legacy application which is built with Microsoft Visual Studio and I would like to take advantage of a few features of the cygwin API, namely the file utilities for converting to/from POSIX paths. It seems that the easiest manner for me to do this is to create a DLL with gcc which contai

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread Elmar Haneke
J. Grant wrote: > I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you > considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use > the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment? (Debian) GNU/Linux is an Linux-Distribution using GNU-GPL. GNU/Windows in analogy should be

Re: HTML (texi2html) documentation for all cygwin packages?

2002-04-15 Thread Richard Hoefter
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "complete HTML documentation", but if you just > want to convert your already installed docs to HTML, That's exactly what I want. > I was about to look for > something similar myself. It looks like there is a home here: > > http://t

Re: Using cygwin from win32 (MS VC) app

2002-04-15 Thread Jesper Eskilson
"Kristopher Buschelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then, from the MS-VisualStudio c language code, I make DYNAMIC calls to the > wrapper routine via GetProcAddress It works fine, but making the > wrapper is a bit less than desirable, not because of the dynamic call -- > which I want anywa

Control-O hangs rxvt

2002-04-15 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Friday 12 Apr 02, Christopher Glaeser writes: > Control-O in emacs via a telnet session hangs rxvt. Is there a way to remap > Control-O so that it can be used in emacs to insert a new line? If not, is > there a way to un-hang rxvt after using Contorl-O? I don't have any problem using C-o in

Re: sshd/cron seteuid() problem in latest CVS

2002-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:21:32AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > Using the latest CVS, I am getting the following Event Log error messages: > > o fatal: setuid 19695: Operation not permitted > o (CRON) error (can't switch user context) > > with sshd and cron, respectively. After some de

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread J. Grant
Hello cgf, The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts straight. Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the Lindows case this was hinted at reciently. JG Christopher Faylor wrote

Re: Setup for CET?

2002-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:34:10AM +0200, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Hi! > > How do I have to set up cygwin to show local time? If tried various > things, but time in cygwin will stay at UTC. > > Any hint where I could look next? I've allready tried: > > LANG=de_DE > TIMEZONE=CET > TZ=CET > LC_

Getting price for Cygwin contract?

2002-04-15 Thread M. Tavasti
I have tried for few weeks to get price tag for 'Cygwin contract', but no success. I've entered my contact info on web form few times, and last week I've send also email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but no response. I don't know if it's just sales people aren't interested to spend they time with anybody

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread Tim Prince
On Monday 15 April 2002 04:22, J. Grant wrote: > Hello cgf, > > The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not > entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts straight. > > Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the > Lindows case

No souch file or directory /usr/man/cat1/ls.1.gz

2002-04-15 Thread misi misi
Hi, I become the error message: No souch file or directory /usr/man/cat1/ls.1.gz if i try d:\ man ls from a dos box. I hawe installed cyqwin with Netinstall 5.5 /NetSupport/. On the master i not have the problem. Some ideas? Thx Mike __ D

Re: HTML (texi2html) documentation for all cygwin packages?

2002-04-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Richard Hoefter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by "complete HTML documentation", but if you > just > > want to convert your already installed docs to HTML, > > That's exactly what I want. > Ah, I see now. What you want ins't texin

Re: HTML (texi2html) documentation for all cygwin packages?

2002-04-15 Thread Richard Hoefter
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > Ah, I see now. What you want ins't texinfo->HTML, it's info2html: > > http://info2html.sourceforge.net/ > > No texinfo sources necessary. (Again, I haven't tried this, but it > looks easy to use.) > Well, that's it. Thank you! -- Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: python 2.2.1 on Cygwin

2002-04-15 Thread Jason Tishler
Jochen, [Sorry for the sluggish response time...] On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:38:06PM -0400, Jochen Küpper wrote: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to comp.lang.python as well. Why not just cross post? Although the use of cross posting should be min

Re: No souch file or directory /usr/man/cat1/ls.1.gz

2002-04-15 Thread Michael A Chase
From: "misi misi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 05:54 Subject: No souch file or directory /usr/man/cat1/ls.1.gz > I become the error message: > No souch file or directory /usr/man/cat1/ls.1.gz > if i try > d:\ man ls > from a dos box. > I hawe installe

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: >The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not >entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts >straight. So, sending this email RMS was a joke, then? Are you guys personal friends who enjoy a good la

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Tooley
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 10:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > >The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not > >entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts > >straight. > > So, sending this email RMS w

Re: Bug - GAWK prints wrong CR when called outside from cygwin

2002-04-15 Thread Markus Brandt
Hello, on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:03:29 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:53:53PM +0200, Markus Brandt wrote: >> Hello, >> >> when gawk is called outside the cygwin runtime, i.e. called from a command >> prompt under Windows, and it's input is redirected to a pipe with an ou

Re: Getting price for cygwin contract?

2002-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 03:23:30PM +0300, M. Tavasti wrote: >I have tried for few weeks to get price tag for 'Cygwin contract', but >no success. >[snip] >This is bit ridiculous, everyhing for free works, but when you are >willing to pay, you can't. I've just spammed every internal Red Hat sales

Re: No souch file or directory /usr/man/cat1/ls.1.gz

2002-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:47:14AM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >From: "misi misi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I hawe installed cyqwin with Netinstall 5.5 >> /NetSupport/. On the master i not have the problem. >> >> Some ideas? > >1. If you used Netinstall 5.5 to install Cygwin, talk with whoever you

load user preferences ?

2002-04-15 Thread Marc Chantreux
Hi all, I've just came back to windows and reinstalled cygwin. when i open a new cygwin term, my user preference is not loaded. I guess it is because of my home directory location : mc@MILLENIUM:~# pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix mc@MILLENIUM:~# ls -A .Xdefaults .bashrc .gi

Probs installing sshd on NT 4 Enterprise Server

2002-04-15 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have an NT 4 Enterprise Server, Service Pack 6, 128-bit, IE 6, fully patched, acting as the primary domain controller, and just installed Cygwin for sshd capability. I tried to follow Tom Erdely's instructions per http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp. His fixperms scripts looks decent, bu

Re: load user preferences ?

2002-04-15 Thread Marc Chantreux
> > >>mc@MILLENIUM:~# pwd >>/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix >>mc@MILLENIUM:~# ls -A >>.Xdefaults .bashrc .gimp-1.2 .lftp Mail _viminfo >>.bash_history .cpan.irssi .ssh Xdefaults >> >>but i was worked fine on an older install. Any idea to fix that ? >> > > >Yes.

Re: Control-O hangs rxvt

2002-04-15 Thread Christopher Glaeser
> > Control-O in emacs via a telnet session hangs rxvt. Is there a way to remap > > Control-O so that it can be used in emacs to insert a new line? If not, is > > there a way to un-hang rxvt after using Contorl-O? > > I don't have any problem using C-o in emacs in rxvt. You'll have to > solve t

Re: Control-O hangs rxvt

2002-04-15 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:07:55 -0700, Christopher Glaeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding your use of C-o, emacs, and rxvt, did you also include a telnet > session? Here is the sequence we are using to cause the problem. > > - Starting from Win XP > - cygwin > - rxvt > - unset DISPLAY >

Re: load user preferences ?

2002-04-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:02 PM 4/15/2002, Marc Chantreux wrote: >>>mc@MILLENIUM:~# pwd >>>/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix >>>mc@MILLENIUM:~# ls -A >>>.Xdefaults .bashrc .gimp-1.2 .lftp Mail _viminfo >>>.bash_history .cpan.irssi .ssh Xdefaults >>> >>>but i was worked fine on an o

1.3.10-1: bash-2.05a-3: "Bad file number" using redirector >

2002-04-15 Thread Mark Edgar
When using the standard '>' or '>>' redirector to redirect output to a file on a NetWare directory, I get a "Bad file number" error. I also have ash-20020131-1 installed, and it does not have this problem. # Here is the problem: bash$ cat >/cygdrive/h/foofile foo cat: write error: Bad file numb

Re: od -x

2002-04-15 Thread Matthew Smith
od -xIntel processors are little endian. cheers, -Matt Smith The od utility doesn't seem to behaving properly. With the -x option, it reverses bytes e.g. 5245 4f43 when it should be 4552 434f. With no options, I can detect no correspondence to the actual input data and no pattern whatsoever.

Re: load user preferences ?

2002-04-15 Thread Marc Chantreux
> > >>the only problem noticed is that the $HOME is not set ... if you see my lines, you >>you can see that it's done. >> > > >I can see what's done? That HOME is set? You mean to >"/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mc/_unix"? I believe you're asking for >a leap of faith on my part that isn't

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread Warren Postma
Quoth JG: > Hello RMS, > I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. ... I think we should all refer to his Stallman-ness, as "GNU/RMS". As for Cygwin, I think the RedHat representative said it best: It's their baby, so they get to name it. In the case of the Linux kernel,

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread Roberto J Dohnert
Warren Postma wrote: >Quoth JG: > >>Hello RMS, >>I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. ... >> > >I think we should all refer to his Stallman-ness, as "GNU/RMS". As for >Cygwin, I think the >RedHat representative said it best: It's their baby, so they get to name >it.

Re: extra cygwin OutputDebugString spew

2002-04-15 Thread C. J.
>On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:38:09PM -0700, C. J. wrote: >Every time a cygwin process is started, I get a line like: >>3196: cYg 610F5EE0 >> >>on my OutputDebugString monitor. >>Is this really necessary > >Yes. > >>and can we ditch it for the release cygwin1.dll? > >No. > >cgf Thanks for

Re: extra cygwin OutputDebugString spew

2002-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:20:40PM -0700, C. J. wrote: >>On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:38:09PM -0700, C. J. wrote: >>Every time a cygwin process is started, I get a line like: >>>3196: cYg 610F5EE0 >>> >>>on my OutputDebugString monitor. >>>Is this really necessary >> >>Yes. >> >>>and can we

[PATCH] cygutils:conv.c: Prevent truncation of file if 0xFF is encountered

2002-04-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello ;) Today a colleague of mine was struck by a bug of dos2unix/unix2dos utilities i.e. if the code encounters 0xFF in the file being processed it erronously thinks that this is the EOF and stops processing. The result is that the original file is truncated to the position of the 0xFF characte

Porting stuff to Cygwin

2002-04-15 Thread Milton Calnek
Hi all, I'm looking for pointers... I'd like to port a software package to cygwin. I've looked and it seems that it has not been done in the current versions. From what I've read, it looks like someone did/tried it a few years ago... I didn't read about any success stories. So... the packag

Re: [PATCH] cygutils:conv.c: Prevent truncation of file if 0xFF is encountered

2002-04-15 Thread Chris January
> Hello ;) > > Today a colleague of mine was struck by a bug of dos2unix/unix2dos > utilities i.e. if the code encounters 0xFF in the file being processed > it erronously thinks that this is the EOF and stops processing. The > result is that the original file is truncated to the position of the >

[PATCH] gettimeofday time travels

2002-04-15 Thread Philip Aston
(Resent with appropriate subject in case the original was missed in the discussion thread). How about the attached quick and dirty fix? - Phil 2002-04-14 Philip Aston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * times.cc (hires::usecs): Sync counter every ten minutes to work around suspend bug

setup.exe: uninstall not working correct

2002-04-15 Thread Rene
Hi, when I uninstall a package with the current setup.exe it unlinks all files except for the last one listed in the /etc/setup directory. For example when I uninstall the vim-6.1-2 package the last file listed in the /etc/setup/vim.lst.gz file is usr/share/vim/vim61/vimrc_example.vim and this f

Re: [PATCH] gettimeofday time travels

2002-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:58:48PM +0100, Philip Aston wrote: >How about the attached quick and dirty fix? I'm sorry but I don't think a quick and dirty fix is justified if there are other alternatives. I haven't seen any other alternatives discussed yet. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Porting stuff to Cygwin

2002-04-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:35 AM 4/15/2002, Milton Calnek wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm looking for pointers... I'd like to port a software package to >cygwin. I've looked and it seems that it has not been done in the >current versions. From what I've read, it looks like someone did/tried >it a few years ago... I didn't

Re: GNU/Windows

2002-04-15 Thread J. Grant
hello cgf, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > >>The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not >>entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts >>straight. >> > > So, sending this email RMS was a joke, the

installing cron on Win2K under cygwin

2002-04-15 Thread Leonard Jacobs
Is there a simple document that explains how to get cron working as a service under cygwin? I have been perusing the list archives and see a consistent set of questions dealing with the trials and tribulations of using cron/crontab but cannot locate the basic help and configuration files. I a

Re: installing cron on Win2K under cygwin

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Leonard Jacobs wrote: > Is there a simple document that explains how to get cron working as a > service under cygwin? > > I have been perusing the list archives and see a consistent set of > questions dealing with the trials and tribulations of using > cron/crontab but cannot locate the basic

Re: Getting price for cygwin contract?

2002-04-15 Thread M. Tavasti
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hopefully someone will wake up and call you. > > I'm very sorry that you were having this kind of problem. If you don't > hear from someone within the next few days, please send me personal email > and I will escalate this. Thanks for your help,

setup.exe 2.194.2.24 "Download from Internet" misbehaviour

2002-04-15 Thread Nikolaus Schmitt
Using setup.exe v2.194.2.24 to download cygwin modules from the internet, the following happens: Settings: - Local package directory = N:\upload\cygwin (networked drive) - Connection type: direct - Download site: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at Choosing another download site, the directory mentioned in ste

fetchmail still corrupts files ?

2002-04-15 Thread Marc Chantreux
Hi all, I'm trying to use a fetchmail/procmail/rxvt/mutt/vim solution to read my messages. I have two problems : 1. fetchmail seems to corrupt my boxes. I've found lot of messages in the archive about a bug in W2K but it was for an old version of fetchmail. does someone knows if fetchmail-5.9.