RE: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
This is off-topic, it belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the answer is in that lists archives. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:43 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Default mounts : one redundant? >

RE: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Default mounts : one redundant? > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:39:12PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Nothing altered from th

New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
I've upload a smaller version of setup.exe with all Chris's fixes in it. Rob -- 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/

poor bash/sh while loop performance

2002-05-15 Thread Russ Jorgensen
I hadn't upgraded my cygwin installation for nine months or so, and when I did, I started having a peculiar performance problem with one of my shell scripts. When you pipe into a "while read xxx; do" loop, it's very slow. I wrote a little benchmark shell script to help me validate this belief, a

RE: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:50 AM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Default mounts : one redundant? > > > This is off-topic, it belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] And > the answer > is in t

RE: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:01 PM > To: Robert Collins; Bernard Dautrevaux; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Default mounts : one redundant? > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Robert Colli

RE: can't update cygwin

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
Please try with the latest setup.exe (it's been updated). Rob > -Original Message- > From: James Matthew Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: can't update cygwin > > > I get invalid page fault in setup.exe when I

Re: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread fergus
>> "You know better than to send this inquiry to the Cygwin list ..." >> "This is off-topic, it belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..." On or about 19th April all the XFree86 stuff became available at the Cygwin mirrors and for the first time required no special download or installation procedures.

RE: Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-15 Thread Schaible, Jorg
Hi Mark, >The spot where it says: > DWORD len = GetShortPathName (filename, NULL, 0); > if (len == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER) Ups. :) >By the way I noticed this while I was trying to add a -l >option to cygpath >which is similar to the -s option but it will convert a >muddled 8.3 name >like

Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Lee Goddard
Hi there. The latest setup.exe fails on my system: 100% CPU indefinetly and all the screen says is something like 'this space intentionally blank.' I've tried 10 different mirrors, it downloads something from them Itelling me if it can't or if the setup.ini is out of date in relation to the exe)

RE: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
Please quote the setup.exe version number when reporting bugs! Rob > -Original Message- > From: Lee Goddard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k) > > > Hi there. > > The latest setup.exe fa

RE: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Lee Goddard
Sorry - forgot the obvious: it is the latest version at the time of writing, which is 2.218.2.8. > > > > > Hi there. > > > > The latest setup.exe fails on my system: 100% CPU indefinetly > > and all the screen says is something like 'this space > > intentionally blank.' I've tried 10 different

Re: 1.3.11(CVS): Tar and bug with utime()?

2002-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:26:57PM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > Corinna, > > I have just downloaded, compiled, and installed the latest cvs sources, > however it is still doing the same thing. What further steps should I > take and what other information can I provide? Where are you extracti

Helpful Bug Reporting (setup.exe)

2002-05-15 Thread Dockeen
When you are reporting an error, try to think like someone who is trying to solve the problem! In the case of setup.exe problems make sure to include: (1) What version of setup you are using. Its on the first screen you get after running setup, right below the symbol. If you have any doubt that

Re: Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Schaible, Jorg wrote: > The reason why I just implemented -s (in 1999) was that GetLongPathName is > not available for Win95. If we have to be Win95-compatible still, you will > have to load the function yourself directly form the DLL and use > FindFirstFi

Re: Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:08:12PM -0400, Mark Blackburn wrote: > I forgot to mention that there are a total of 4 places where > GetShortPathName is used > Lines 92 110 131 144 > The same problem appears in all places. Aaargh! Thanks again. I've applied the same patch in all places. Corinna -

Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Re: gcc 3.1 [-mno-cygwin and __main ]

2002-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:28:55PM +1000, Danny Smith wrote: > --- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at >11:15:48AM +1000, Danny Smith wrote: >> >>Perhaps it's time to drop the -mno-cygwin support and just supply a >> >>cygwin hosted mingw32 targeted cross compil

Re[2]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Lee, 1. Which is the mirror that you were using when setup.exe hung ? From your description of the problem its not quite clear. 2. Are you doing install from internet or from local directory ? Or maybe it was just a download only run ? 3. Please supply the listing of your download directo

Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

2002-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:44:20PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus >not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from "ftp.cygwin.com"? You can't. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple B

Re: 1.3.11(CVS): Tar and bug with utime()?

2002-05-15 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Corinna, > Where are you extracting? /usr/src/gzip or C:\cygwin\usr\src\gzip >What filesystem... FAT32 > ...and is the parent directory writable? in /usr/src: drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 May 14 08:24 gzip/ in /usr: drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 May 9 07:23 src/

Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.7

2002-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:39:42PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Chris, > > >% date # PDT >Tue May 14 20:34:31 2002 >% wget http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe >... >% ls -lsF setup.exe >1168 -rwxrwxrwx1 Administ None 1195084 May 14 20:36 setup.exe* >% file setup.exe >setup.exe: MS Windo

Re[2]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Lee Goddard
At 14:32 15/05/2002 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >Hello Lee, > >1. Which is the mirror that you were using when setup.exe >hung ? From your description of the problem its not quite >clear. I've tried several mirrors, one at a time. >2. Are you doing install from internet or from local directory ?

Re: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:15:31AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> "You know better than to send this inquiry to the Cygwin list ..." > >>> "This is off-topic, it belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..." > >On or about 19th April all the XFree86 stuff became available at the Cygwin >mirrors and for

Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ "Thomas Schweikle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi! | | How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus | not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from "ftp.cygwin.com"? One way, dirty tricks inc., could be to set up a fake ftp.cygwin.com on your network that se

Re: RCS and absolute file parameter

2002-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:03:58AM +, Davide Montesin wrote: >Hi, > >I have installed cygwin on my >Windows machine. >I use rcs. I have found >a problem. >Some time I will use rcs with >absolute parameter in windows format >like: > >ci -d -u -x,v c:\temp\a.txt c:\temp\RCS\a.txt,v > >but the c

Re: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:53:30PM +0200, Lee Goddard wrote: >In every case, the systsem hangs with the dialogue box saying >"This space intentionally blank" (or such) and the window is shown >as "Not responding" in Windows' task manager, with 100% use >of a 1400 mhz CPU. I hate to chime in wit

Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

2002-05-15 Thread David T-G
Thomas -- ...and then Thomas Schweikle said... % % Hi! Hello! % % How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus % not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from "ftp.cygwin.com"? Do you have all of the files locally already, or are you limited by a firewall

question on gcc

2002-05-15 Thread Balint Kozman
Hi, I'm sorry if this was discussed before, but after looking at the mailing list archives, i still can't see the solution to my problem. I installed cygwin-1.3.10 using setup v2.218.2.6. After a full package installation gcc seems to be broken. If i try to compile anything, i get this erro

Re[3]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Lee, Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 2:53:30 PM, you wrote: LG> In two cases, my package dirs contain just setup.ini. LG> In one case, I have etc, which contains three files: last-cache, LG> timestamp, and last-mirror. The latter contains just the URI: LG> ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.re

Re[3]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Lee Goddard
Well, I had deleted it; but in another case, I have this, going with WIn2k defaults: C:\cygwin\etc\setup\last-cache C:\cygwin\etc\setup\last-mirror C:\cygwin\etc\setup\timestamp C:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log C:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full I'm happy to send the logs if you wish. One note, in the

Re: Helpful Bug Reporting (setup.exe)

2002-05-15 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 15 May 2002 06:38:24 +0600 Dockeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you are reporting an error, try to think like someone > who is trying to solve the problem! In the case of setup.exe > problems make sure to include: > > (1) What version of setup you are using. Its on the first > scr

Re[4]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Lee, On the 4th setup page (screen) you are prompted for "Local Package Directory". I am interested of the contents of the directory you entered on that screen and in any subdirectories of the above directory which loook like URLs. Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 3:55:32 PM, you wrote: LG> Well

Re[4]: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Lee Goddard
At 16:20 15/05/2002 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >Hello Lee, Hi >On the 4th setup page (screen) you are prompted for "Local Package >Directory". I am interested of the contents of the directory you >entered on that screen and in any subdirectories of the above >directory which loook like URLs. So

RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

2002-05-15 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Some more feedback: This version solves (for me) the problem of setup.exe crashing when 'Install from local directory' has been selected. Also, the 'Parsing Errors' information was more informative. It now tells which files it is having trouble parsing. Apparently, setup.exe looks for every 'set

I think my brain's gone flatline...

2002-05-15 Thread Lapo Luchini
...but I can find no way to see "long descriptions" from withing setup.exe I would bet a hand that it _was_ possible sometime... ?_? -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

2002-05-15 Thread Cliff Hones
> Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory tree below > the '/' mount point be documented, or should it be changed? Changed, please - or at least setup should run some sort of sanity check on the files it finds before trying to parse them. I got caught with something similar r

Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

2002-05-15 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! Gesendet von: Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: "Thomas Schweikle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kopie: Thema: Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable? >> "Thomas" == Thomas Schweikle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas> How can I install from an ftp serv

Re: Latest Setup.exe Fails (Win2k)

2002-05-15 Thread Jonathan Sambrook
Lee Goddard wrote: > > Sorry - forgot the obvious: it is the latest version at the > time of writing, which is 2.218.2.8. > > > > >> > >> > Hi there. >> > >> > The latest setup.exe fails on my system: 100% CPU indefinetly >> > and all the screen says is something like 'this space >> > intentio

locate and it's db

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Kunze
hi, i found some posts about it but nothing with a satisfieing answer. is it possible to create the db that is needed for locate? michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
Charles Wilson wrote: > Also, terminfo-5.2-2 changed in only one respect from terminfo-5.2-1: it > now uses the XFree86-4.2.0 terminal definitions for xterm-*. NOT the > ncurses-provided definitions. Hmmm... Perhaps this explains the trouble I've been having with the xterm-color definition of

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm thinking about making binmode the default, too. Woo - watch out. I use "cvs" (the cygwin port) in :pserver: mode, and recently, when I changed my system mount point to binmode, "cvs login" stopped working. I would do "cvs login", and it would prompt for a pas

Re: Proposed changes to ssh-host-config (was: SSHD does not start upon reboot, but manual is ok.)

2002-05-15 Thread Shawn Behrens
Hi, >> I have looked in the archives, and tried various dependency settings. "LanmanWorkstation" gets translated into "Browser" and works. "Server" does not work, it generates errors. "LanmanServer" gets translated into "Server" and works. "Tcpip" works too, and I think it is the preferred solut

Re: [ECOS] Multi-ICE support Status

2002-05-15 Thread Jonathan Larmour
benny wrote: > > Hi everybody, > I followed the nice instructions on > http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/multi-ice.html > and all was fine till the last stage when the linker complained on two > missed symbols in > ARM library toolconf: > > gcc -g -O2 -o multi-ice-gdb-server.exe -Wl,--subsystem,c

cygwin and windows98

2002-05-15 Thread Gary R Buell
do you have any perls of wisdom for installing Cygwin.dll on Windows98? what is wrong if Cygwin is installed on a Windows98 platform, pointers to /cygwin/bin added to the path setting, and no response in a command window when one of the Cygwin commands is entered? gary r buell usgs 3039 amwiler

diff 1.0-1 appears empty

2002-05-15 Thread Damon Muller
Just a question about the latest update to diff (on 13 May 2002 9:29 PM, mirror ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov/mirrors/cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/release/diff/, appears similiar on main ftp://cygwin.com/ site, too). Looks like a size of 46 bytes works out to no files in the archive. Is this a known proble

Re: cygwin and windows98

2002-05-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:05 PM 5/15/2002, Gary R Buell wrote: >do you have any perls of wisdom for installing Cygwin.dll on Windows98? >what is wrong if Cygwin is installed on a Windows98 platform, pointers to >/cygwin/bin added to the path setting, and no response in a command window >when one of the Cygwin command

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:41:08AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > I'm thinking about making binmode the default, too. > > > Woo - watch out. > > I use "cvs" (the cygwin port) in :pserver: mode, and recently, when I > changed my system mount point to binmode, "cvs

Re: cygwin and windows98

2002-05-15 Thread David T-G
Gary -- ...and then Gary R Buell said... % % do you have any perls of wisdom for installing Cygwin.dll on Windows98? Not necessarily, but I know that it should work; I run Win98 myself (and, in a quirky twist of fate, and amso from Atlanta :-) % what is wrong if Cygwin is installed on a Windo

Re: [ECOS] Multi-ICE support Status

2002-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:58:59PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > benny wrote: > > > > Hi everybody, > > I followed the nice instructions on > > http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/multi-ice.html > > and all was fine till the last stage when the linker complained on two > > missed symbols in > > ARM

RE: [ECOS] Multi-ICE support Status

2002-05-15 Thread benny
I think I found the problem after straggling for a while - the missing library is libmvcrt. After changing the make line to: make -w MULTI_ICE_INCLUDES="-I/cygdrive/c/Multi-ICE/Headers" \ MULTI_ICE_LIBS="-L/lib/mingw -L/cygdrive/C/Multi-ICE/Libraries -L/tmp/migdb/ build/gdb/multi-ice -ltoolc

Re: Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-15 Thread Joerg R. Schaible
Hi Corinna, "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Schaible, Jorg wrote: > > The reason why I just implemented -s (in 1999) was that GetLongPathName is > > not available for Win95. If w

Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Re: gcc 3.1 [-mno-cygwin and __main ]

2002-05-15 Thread egor duda
Hi! Wednesday, 15 May, 2002 Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I don't know how (when/if) cygwin will implement dwarf2 EH. Richard >>Henderson's patch was spot on, except for wrong use of -1 rather than 0 >>as sentinel for end of eh_frame table. >> >>My preference is to try to keep t

OT: Could not resist

2002-05-15 Thread Joerg R. Schaible
> Lee Goddard > perl -e "while(1){print rand>0.5?chr 47:chr 92}" I cound not resist : ///\//\\\/\\\/\\//\//\\\/\\///\\\//\\\/\\/\/\\/\\/// //\/\\\/\\/\///\////\\/\/\\//\/\\/\\//\//\/\\/\\\/\//\\/ \\//\\//\\///\\/\/\\\//\///\//\\/\\//\/\

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Shankar Unni wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > I'm thinking about making binmode the default, too. > > > Woo - watch out. > > I use "cvs" (the cygwin port) in :pserver: mode, and recently, when I > changed my system mount point to binmode, "cvs login" stopped working. I > would do

Re: OT: Could not resist

2002-05-15 Thread David T-G
Joerg, et al -- ...and then Joerg R. Schaible said... % % > Lee Goddard % > perl -e "while(1){print rand>0.5?chr 47:chr 92}" % I cound not resist : % % ///\//\\\/\\\/\\//\//\\\/\\///\\\//\\\/\\/\/\\/\\/// ... If an infinite number of monkeys ran this code, would we firs

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Rick Rankin wrote: >>Also, terminfo-5.2-2 changed in only one respect from terminfo-5.2-1: it >>now uses the XFree86-4.2.0 terminal definitions for xterm-*. NOT the >>ncurses-provided definitions. >> > > Hmmm... Perhaps this explains the trouble I've been having with the xterm-color > defini

MDaemon Warning - Virus Found

2002-05-15 Thread postmaster
The following message had attachment(s) which contained the viruses: >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject : A very excite game Date : Message-ID: AttachmentVirus name Action taken

Re: apache and php4 out-of-the-box

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Kunze
> See here: > http://flashexperiments.insh-allah.net/ApacheError126.html hello, i found my problem. libxml and postgres were missing. that brings me to my next question: y it _needs_ postgres? shouldn't i'm be able to configure something like that in my php.ini? which i couldn't find. where is i

problem running ssh after install

2002-05-15 Thread Betty_Cross
Hi, I am running on W2K and installed cygwin. However, when I try to ssh to any machine, I get the messages bash: ssh: command not found. Can someone please tell me what I may have done incorrectly during the install? Thanks. Betty -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread egor duda
Hi! Wednesday, 15 May, 2002 Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CW> Then, you switch to binmode, and do another cvslogin, resulting in this: CW> :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src Ay=0=h :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs A \r\n CW> :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src Ay=0=h The next time the

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Matthew Smith
I was bitten by this recently too. In addition to .cvspass and .cvsrc, you probably will need to run dos2unix on the files beneath the CVS directory under each directory of your cvs sandbox. cheers, -Matt Smith > > The only thing I could do was to go back to a "textmode" system mount. > > I use

Re: diff 1.0-1 appears empty

2002-05-15 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Damon, They did that on purpose for backwards compatibility. It's a placeholder and the "real" diff is located in the "diffutils" package. Cheers, Nicholas P.S. - You ever thought of porting realplayer to cygwin ;)? --- Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question about the lates

Re: locate and it's db

2002-05-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Michael, Am Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2002 um 18:10 schriebst du: > hi, > i found some posts about it but nothing with a satisfieing answer. > is it possible to create the db that is needed for locate? The script was posted several times to the list. I'm frequently posting a link to the script (m

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick Rankin wrote: > > > >>Also, terminfo-5.2-2 changed in only one respect from terminfo-5.2-1: it > >>now uses the XFree86-4.2.0 terminal definitions for xterm-*. NOT the > >>ncurses-provided definitions. > >> > > > > Hmmm... Perhaps this ex

cygwin & opensshd on .net enterprise server

2002-05-15 Thread Tony Hain
I am looking for any clues on how to make cygwin & opensshd work on a .net enterprise server, and found nothing in the mail archive. I had been running Mark's opensshd specific environment on W2k server without trouble. When I installed a fresh build 3615, OpenSSH_3.1p1 failed, so I thought I woul

Re: [ECOS] Multi-ICE support Status

2002-05-15 Thread Jonathan Larmour
Corinna Vinschen wrote: /cygdrive/C/Multi-ICE/libraries/toolconf.lib(toolconf.obj.b)(.text+0x2f):..\ > > > ..\t > > > oolconf.c: undefined reference to `_imp___pctype' > > > > > > Any ideas what library is missing (looks like something from Visual C?) > > > > Actually it looks like something from

CVS: binmode/textmode issues [Was: Re: Changes in latest snapshot]

2002-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
egor duda wrote: > CW> Then, you switch to binmode, and do another cvslogin, resulting in this: > > CW> :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src Ay=0=h CW> :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs A \r\n > CW> :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src Ay=0=h > CW> The next time the .cvspass file is read in, cvs is

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
AHA!!! CONFIRMATION!!! THANK GOD!! So, you're saying that removing the \r from the cvs-related ~/.dotfiles and from CVS/* ---fixed--- your problems when you switched to binmode mounts? --Chuck Matthew Smith wrote: > I was bitten by this recently too. In addition to .cvspass and .cvsrc, yo

Re: CVS: binmode/textmode issues [Was: Re: Changes in latest snapshot]

2002-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
[reply copied over to this thread] AHA!!! CONFIRMATION!!! THANK GOD!! So, you're saying that removing the \r from the cvs-related ~/.dotfiles and from CVS/* ---fixed--- your problems when you switched to binmode mounts? --Chuck Matthew Smith wrote: > I was bitten by this recently too. In

src files for setup : repeatedly offered

2002-05-15 Thread fergus
Having a few problems on W98/SE with setup.exe v.2.218.2.8 (md5sum 9689c564b7cc316b5650fce3f41e16e2 is it my imagination or has there been more than one 2.8?) including "incomplete installation" messages. But nothing intrinsically different to phenomena already reported by others. But my question

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
Yes. I had to do that a few months ago when I switched from all textmode to all binmode mounts. --Rick --- Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AHA!!! CONFIRMATION!!! THANK GOD!! > > So, you're saying that removing the \r from the cvs-related ~/.dotfiles > and from CVS/* ---fixed--- yo

Re: CVS: binmode/textmode issues [Was: Re: Changes in latest snapshot]

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
[Thought I'd reply in this thread as well...] Yes. I had to do that a few months ago when I switched from all textmode to all binmode mounts. --Rick --- Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [reply copied over to this thread] > > AHA!!! CONFIRMATION!!! THANK GOD!! > > So, you're saying

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Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Matthew, > I was bitten by this recently too. In addition to .cvspass and .cvsrc, you > probably will need to run dos2unix on the files beneath the CVS directory > under each directory of your cvs sandbox. Maybe it is also a good idea to include a little wrapper for d2u, (in the cygutils

Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?

2002-05-15 Thread Scott Prive
Hello, I had a .sh script that called Microsoft's "net use" command to mount drives under Win2k, and this worked: net use 't:' '\\myserver\share' However I needed to do this in Cygwin Perl so I could leverage an existing set of Perl libraries I have. For the life of me I could correctly execu

Re: [ECOS] Multi-ICE support Status

2002-05-15 Thread Jonathan Larmour
Jonathan Larmour wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > /cygdrive/C/Multi-ICE/libraries/toolconf.lib(toolconf.obj.b)(.text+0x2f):..\ > > > > ..\t > > > > oolconf.c: undefined reference to `_imp___pctype' > > > > > > > > Any ideas what library is missing (looks like something from Visual C?) > > > >

Re: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?

2002-05-15 Thread David T-G
Scott, et al -- ...and then Scott Prive said... % % Hello, Hello! % % I had a .sh script that called Microsoft's "net use" command to mount drives under Win2k, and this worked: % net use 't:' '\\myserver\share' Makes sense. % % However I needed to do this in Cygwin Perl so I could lever

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Sam Edge
Christopher Faylor wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 12 May 2002 00:49:43 -0400: > I'm thinking about making binmode the default, too. For what it's worth, I'd be happy with that. Only a few of the POSIX tools I can think of object to CR at the end of a line in text files

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Matthew Smith
Yessir. cheers, -Matt > AHA!!! CONFIRMATION!!! THANK GOD!! > > So, you're saying that removing the \r from the cvs-related ~/.dotfiles > and from CVS/* ---fixed--- your problems when you switched to binmode > mounts? > > --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Matthew Smith
> Maybe it is also a good idea to include a little wrapper for d2u, (in the > cygutils package?), to convert recursively all files from where you > start it? Or add an option to the executable to run it recursive down > a whole tree. Why? This is trivial to do. find . -type f -exec dos2unix {}

[PATCH] gettimeofday time travels V2

2002-05-15 Thread Philip Aston
Patch and changelog below, two new files attached (sorry couldn't figure out -N for cvs diff). Chat for the interested: Philip Aston writes: > Short of some unexpected wParam values, which I'll track down, I > now have this working. This turned out to be an incorrect value in winsup/w32api/

Re: Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-15 Thread Sam Edge
Jorg Schaible wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Wed, 15 May 2002 11:44:51 +0200: > If we have to be Win95-compatible still Please don't consider dropping 95 and NT4 support just yet! There are still plenty of us running these OSes for all sorts of reasons. -- Sam Edge -- Unsu

RE: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?

2002-05-15 Thread Scott Prive
Doh! I had a bad (meaning 'foolish' :-) feeling we overlooked the double-escaping just as I opened your email. Thanks for your reply David... -Scott -Original Message- From: David T-G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:15 PM To: CygWin Users' List Subject: Re:

Re: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?

2002-05-15 Thread David T-G
Scott -- ...and then Scott Prive said... % % Doh! *grin* % % I had a bad (meaning 'foolish' :-) feeling we overlooked the % double-escaping just as I opened your email. You sure it wasn't just a few seconds afterwards? :-) Been there, botched that. No biggie. Glad it all works for you,

Re: ASSISTANCE

2002-05-15 Thread Nicholas Wourms
LOL! This is the funniest thing I've read in ages...nah it just gets funnier every time I read it. Seriously though, can we blacklist this address? --- "DR.VINCENT OFFOR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friend, <> __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In short, I'm not at all sure how it worked before. I need to look at the > source for less to understand how it determines that a terminal is "not fully > functional" and proceed from there. > Well, it seems that the problem is specific to the wa

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RE: [ECOS] Multi-ICE support Status

2002-05-15 Thread benny
You are right! linker picked up the toolconf.lib that came with the rest of the RDI_GPL stuff. Now it works fine - I may contact the target through the MultiICE. Thanks, Benny > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jonathan Larmour > Sent:

Re: [PATCH] gettimeofday time travels V2

2002-05-15 Thread Philip Aston
Philip Aston writes: * From: "Philip Aston" * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com * Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 11:55:17 +0100 * Subject: [PATCH] gettimeofday time travels V2 Hmm... ironically my mailer wasn't running against the patched DLL :-) - Phil -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>I was bitten by this recently too. In addition to .cvspass and .cvsrc, you >>probably will need to run dos2unix on the files beneath the CVS directory >>under each directory of your cvs sandbox. >> > > Maybe it is also a good idea to include a little wrapper for d2u, (

Re: ASSISTANCE

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Re: xterm title not shown

2002-05-15 Thread Sam Edge
Alexander Gottwald wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Wed, 15 May 2002 17:37:16 +0200 (CEST): > > The title of xterm defined with option -T or -title does not appear in > > the title bar, instead the current directory is shown there. I do not > > know whether this is a prob

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Rick Rankin wrote: > > When I compiled the source *with* ncurses, less worked perfectly with > TERM=nxterm. Is there a reason that the Cygwin binary was compiled without > ncurses (e.g., minimize package dependencies)? That's probably the reason. If it doesn't use ncurses, then it probably

Re: Better solution for calling 'net use' from Cygwin Perl?

2002-05-15 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 15 May 2002 16:45:06 -0400 Scott Prive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a bad (meaning 'foolish' :-) feeling we overlooked the > double-escaping just as I opened your email. I normally build all file or directory strings using '/' and then convert them before passing them to any progr

Re: UPX & The "file" Command

2002-05-15 Thread Mark Edgar
> Anyway, I was wondering if someone who knows what the proper magic file > entries should be for detecting a UPX-compressed binary could supply > them (assuming there is a discernable signature for these files)? > > Likewise, if the magic file entry (-ies) could be added or submitted to > the

RE: I think my brain's gone flatline...

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
It's never been possible. Patches appreciated. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM > To: CygWin > Subject: I think my brain's gone flatline... > > > ...but I can find no way to see "long descriptions" from

RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:42 AM > Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory > tree below the '/' mount point be documented, or should it be changed? Setup would only look under '/' if yo

gcc compile error - Couln't duplicate my handle

2002-05-15 Thread David Reiter
Hi, I am trying to use gcc to compile a sample program and I get this error: 0 [main] gcc 2244 proc_subproc: Couldn't duplicate my handle<0x2C> for pid 1988, Win32 error 6 Also at the same time I get this windows box that pops up: "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem" /db-3.3.11/build_unix The NTVDM

RE: src files for setup : repeatedly offered

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
Sounds like a bug. It's low priority (as you can install), I will investigate this weekend. Rob > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: src files for setup

RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8 > > > > Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory > tree below > > the '/' mount point b

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