RE: Screen for cygwin

2002-10-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
It probably is (for some). I just added a reason why I use it sometimes (with X and all, btw, as my X connections over a VPN time out occasionally). Igor On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > Isn't the slow connection the most important criteria? > After all, most people who need

Re: sdiff related.....

2002-10-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
This is really off-topic for this list, as it has nothing whatsoever to do with cygwin. That said, try the -D option of diff (man diff, search for "-D"). Igor On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, dheeraj seth wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have searched amlost evrything mentioned on the cygwin site. > The P

RE: no dice yet on .net server?

2002-10-24 Thread Chris January
> Hello, > > I've installed cygwin on a Microsoft .Net Server machine (yes, a > "release candidate" build) just so that I can use bash, but it refuses > to run. I've noticed the web page says 'The Cygwin DLL works with > all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 versions of Windows > since Windo

Re: Windows 64 Bit Edition version?

2002-10-24 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/24/2002 1:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen any traffic on this list about 64 bit versions of Cygwin. If there's any efforts going on "out there", they haven't been communicated to the Cygwin community. For starters, you'd need an IA64+Windows port of gcc. Is there one availa

Re: Windows 64 Bit Edition version?

2002-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:52 PM 10/24/2002, Shankar Unni wrote: >On 10/24/2002 1:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I haven't seen any traffic on this list about 64 bit versions of Cygwin. >>If there's any efforts going on "out there", they haven't been communicated >>to the Cygwin community. > >For starters, you'd nee

Why chmod get invalid argument ?

2002-10-24 Thread Wu Kun
Hi, all: When I gnumake makefile of unix on Win2K, CygWin told me that: chmod: change the permission of "./lib/internal.config": invalid argument I checked that "./lib/internal.config" has not been created yet. But when I use another likewise tool, MKS for Developer, there is no such error rep

Re: Why chmod get invalid argument ?

2002-10-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hello, As presumptious as it may be to say it, I think we're all getting pretty sick of this one. Search the list. Or just rebuild your password file. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA P.S. It's "Cygwin" At 19:29 2002-10-24, Wu Kun wrote: Hi, all: When I gnumake makefile of unix on Win

Re: Why chmod get invalid argument ?

2002-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:29 PM 10/24/2002, Wu Kun wrote: >Hi, all: > >When I gnumake makefile of unix on Win2K, CygWin told me that: > >chmod: change the permission of "./lib/internal.config": invalid >argument > >I checked that "./lib/internal.config" has not been created yet. > >But when I use another likewise too

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.14-1

2002-10-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, Was it deliberate that 1.3.14-1 is categorized "Experimental?" Is it deemed in need of more widespread testing before graduating to "Current" status? Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 09:28 2002-10-24, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associa

Re: no dice yet on .net server?

2002-10-24 Thread tprinceusa
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:20 AM Subject: Re: no dice yet on .net server? > At 11:08 PM 10/23/2002, John Franco wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'v

Re: no dice yet on .net server?

2002-10-24 Thread CBFalconer
tprinceusa wrote: > ... snip ... > > > I witnessed a Microsoft lecture today where the speaker said over > and over again that .NET is the answer to everything, including > all applications currently running on any OS, but they will NOT > support anything which supports posix, although there may b

Re: no dice yet on .net server?

2002-10-24 Thread Michael D. Crawford
A while back I wrote an opinion piece about how OS vendors to developers a disservice by getting them to write their apps to platform-specific APIs: Freeing the Developer from OS Vendor Shackles http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/doc/why.html I think the posix subsystem in NT was originally meant to

Re: FW: bin dir not created during cygwin setup in Win2kPro

2002-10-24 Thread Jim Langston
I have cygwin installed now, this is a follow up report, as promised, as to the mess I found in the registry. There are differneces I find in the registry for cygwin (the one that worked after I deleted cygwin1) and cygwin1 (the one that was cygwin I had to rename cygwin1) I'm only showing regist

RE: ssh patches to fix installation issues

2002-10-24 Thread Morrison, John
The default umask has been changed, but the new /etc/profile won't have overwrote your old one. J. > From: Ross Smith II [mailto:ross@;smithii.com] > > Attached are three small patches to the following files: > > /bin/ssh-host-config > /bin/ssh-user-config > /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.4p1-5.READ

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