Re: read(): varblk tape records...(& Fix for : read())

On Mar 16 02:09, Jason Winter wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > >Are you talking about the values in mt_gstat? See below. > > This mailing list rejects emails that contain source code (which isn't > 'attached' in a different file) so I can't easily show you what I mean: > > Function 'tape_status' in 'f

Re: ipcs shows no output

On Mar 16 11:10, Hemant Borole wrote: > Hi, > I have installed latest release of Cygwin on my Windows XP machine. > I wrote a program to create a semaphore. When I run it on Unix and do > ipcs I can see this entry in the ipcs > The same program I port to cygwin, and I see 0 ipc's > > I have my ip

Re: How do I reply?

How do I subscribe? DISCLAIMER. The contents of this email and its attachments are intended solely for the original recipients and express the views of the authors and not necessarily the Company. If you a

Re: How do I reply?

I access the Cygwin mainling lists through gmane.org, that acting as "virtual" news server (news.gmane.org) makes the mailing lists behave as newsgroups. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I subscribe? DISCL

Re: How do I reply?

Thanks Danilo, I'll give gmane a go. DISCLAIMER. The contents of this email and its attachments are intended solely for the original recipients and express the views of the authors and not necessarily the Co

RE: using gcc 3.3.3

Thanks. I seemingly compiled gcc 3.4 20040310 successfully, once I had installed bison and flex into cygwin. I'm going to try the decisive test tonight which will be to rename all the g++ files other than the one in gcc_34 directory, compile a C++ program, then rename the cygwin1.dll to cygwin2.dll

WhizzyTeX

I want to port whizzytex (http://pauillac.inria.fr/whizzytex/) to cygwin. It's quite trivial to port it, (http://pauillac.inria.fr/whizzytex/FAQ.html#cygwin), I want to make it available with the cygwin distribution. Is anybody currently involved in that? WhizzyTeX is an (X)Emacs minor-mode for

Re: read(): varblk tape records...(& Fix for : read())

Hello responders, Igor Yep, there you go. No. The mailing list does not reject email that contains source code. -- Christopher Faylor Cygwin Project Leader Red Hat, Inc. That remark is relative to what's in the source code, and from my experien

Re: Bug in GNU Emacs...

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, The Thodes wrote: > When I open the attached file (main.cpp) using "emacs main.cpp" (this works > without loading my ".emacs" too) on i686-pc-cygwin (Cygwin 1.5.5 on Windows > XP Home 5.1.2600 SP1), go to the beginning of any line that is not already > flush left, and press th

Cygwin Wiki

Hi, Has anyone considered setting up a Cygwin Wiki? (Could not find one with Google) as a supplementary knowledge base to the FAQs. Might help answer some of the chestnuts in this NG eg setting up Cron (Sorry not me, no time already hyper-stressed) zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":

Re: Cygwin Wiki

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, zzapper wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone considered setting up a Cygwin Wiki? (Could not find one > with Google) as a supplementary knowledge base to the FAQs. Might help > answer some of the chestnuts in this NG eg setting up Cron > > (Sorry not me, no time already hyper-stressed)

Readonly

Folks How do I setup Cygwin BASH for Readonly mode? Many Thanks, Martin Gainty -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Readonly

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Martin Gainty wrote: > Folks > How do I setup Cygwin BASH for Readonly mode? > Many Thanks, > Martin Gainty "chmod 511 /bin/bash". :-) If that's not what you meant, you'll need to state your question more clearly. Try re-reading . I

Re: Readonly

My 1st solution was to start bash.exe --restricted but your solution accomplishes the same objective. Thank You, Martin - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:18 AM Su

Re: perl_construct segfaults under cygwin

In case anyone else is ever stuck trying to figure this out, the answer is to RTFM. It turns out that in perl5.8.? you need to add a call to: PERL_SYS_INIT3(&argc,&argv,&env) before you do anything else with perl. This is documented in the Perl embed man page. Luke Diamand wrote: I'm seeing

Re: Readonly

Huh? My "solution" just makes the bash executable read-only. How does that help? Igor On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Martin Gainty wrote: > My 1st solution was to start bash.exe --restricted > but your solution accomplishes the same objective. > Thank You, > Martin > - Original Message -

Re: Readonly

If you chmod 511 /bin/bash.exe and run bash.exe you will encounter same capabilities as executing bash.exe --restricted There is a correlation between the 2 operations but I'm smart enough to say I don't understand what the bash binary is doing with --restricted flag. Thanks, Martin Gainty - Or

Windows 2k configuration

Does anyone have any information on configuring cygwin/rsyc on a Windows 2k server. I'm interested in knowing about required permissions and other settings that need to be configured. Thanks in advance. Tina __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more

Cygwin problems with Hyperthreaded machines?

I've been running into some severe problems with using Cygwin on Hyperthreaded machines. The problem mostly occurs when capturing the stdout from a program with the backquote operator, or using the shell command in makefiles. The captured values end up as blank sometimes. For example, in my

Re: read(): varblk tape records...(& Fix for : read())

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:00:45PM +, Jason Winter wrote: >> > >Yep, there you go. The unblocking information at that web page is also included in any bounce message that you get if your email does not go through. >>No. The mailing list does not rej

Re: How do I reply?

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:12:08AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How do I subscribe? Here is the last word on this subject: http://cygwin.com/ . This is the cygwin web page. It really should be no surprise that there is information about matters like this at that site. -- Christopher Faylor

Re: using gcc 3.3.3

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:49:20AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thanks. I seemingly compiled gcc 3.4 20040310 successfully, once I had >installed bison and flex into cygwin. I'm going to try the decisive test >tonight which will be to rename all the g++ files other than the one in >gcc_34 direc

Re: cygwin problems with Hyperthreaded machines?

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:55:14AM -0500, Chuck McDevitt wrote: >I've been running into some severe problems with using Cygwin on >Hyperthreaded machines. > >The problem mostly occurs when capturing the stdout from a program with >the backquote operator, >or using the shell command in makefiles.

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Although we have a moderately good workaround (an old version of cvs >compiled up), we have a long-standing problem with cvs in Cygwin that >I'm looking into finally. We get responses like: > My Cygwin compilation works fi

Trying to Make GNU's inetutils and get error.h: No such file or directory

When I run configure it finishes fine. Then I type 'make' and it soon comes back with 'xmalloc.c:37:19: error.h: No such file or directory' and dies. I can't find what package to install to get error.h. I understand that others have compiled inetutils (I'm using 1.4.2) under cygwin. I just u

Re: cp.exe bug

I get the same error with mv.exe I have a Makefile with the following statement [snip] all: mpget2decodes mv -f mpeg2decode ../mpeg2decode [/snip] Running make I get the following output (non-pertenant info deleted) [snip] $ make ... mv -f mpeg2decode ../mpeg2decode mv: `mpeg2decode' and `

Re: Using gcc 3.3.3

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:21:27PM -, Ben Taylor wrote: > I posted a message to 'google groups' and it didn't get any > replies in there. But then I started getting emails from you, so I thought > that the list was an email-based thing. google groups has (in my experience) a lag time of up to

RE: cp.exe bug

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 March 2004 17:36 > I get the same error with mv.exe > > I have a Makefile with the following statement [snip] > all: mpget2decodes >mv -f mpeg2decode ../mpeg2decode > [/snip] > > Running make I g

RE: cp.exe bug

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:17 PM > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of LarrysPCRemedies at aol.com > > Sent: 16 March 2004 17:36 > [ snip. ] > > #4) Just revert your coreutils. Didn't someone say it

Displaying The Cygwin Version

This is probably already been posted, but I cannot find the answer in the users guide, FAQ, or google... I've got Cygwin installed and working fine on my Win XP PC. I simply want to display the version of Cygwin I currently have installed. How ? Thanks, Phil -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

RE: Displaying The Cygwin Version

I hate when I post then find my own answer... I need to use cygcheck -s Sorry bout unnecessary post... I overlooked it and found the info in the users doc. Thanks, Phil -Original Message- From: Crescioli, Phil Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Displayin

Cant debug a Delphi application with cygwin bash opened

Hello All, I am coding an frontend application with Delphi 6 and using Postgre on Cygwin as a backend. The connection is made via dbExpress Driver. The problem is that i cant compile and run the application directly from the Delphi IDE. It compiles fine but takes too much time to connect to the

Re: Displaying The Cygwin Version

* Crescioli, Phil (2004-03-16 20:51 +0100) > This is probably already been posted, but I cannot find the answer in > the users guide, FAQ, or google... > > I've got Cygwin installed and working fine on my Win XP PC. > I simply want to display the version of Cygwin I currently > have installed. H

Re: Windows 2k configuration

* Christina Kingsberry (2004-03-16 16:33 +0100) > Does anyone have any information on configuring > cygwin/rsyc on a Windows 2k server. I'm interested in > knowing about required permissions and other settings > that need to be configured. less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rsync-2.6.0.README -- Unsubs

Re: Readonly

* Martin Gainty (2004-03-16 16:24 +0100) > If you > chmod 511 /bin/bash.exe and run > bash.exe > you will encounter same capabilities as executing > bash.exe --restricted Nonsense. > There is a correlation between the 2 operations but I'm smart enough to say > I don't understand what the bash bin

Question on Perl (.pl) association

How does one associate CYGWIN Perl with .pl extensions within CYGWIN environment? When I invoke CYGWIN in order to execute a Perl Script I need to state perl whatever.pl I would like to place an association for .pl to the Cygwin Perl Interpreter so when I invoke whatever.pl the associated Cygwin P

Re: Cant debug a Delphi application with cygwin bash opened

* Marco Antonio (2004-03-16 21:26 +0100) > I am coding an frontend application with Delphi 6 and using Postgre on > Cygwin as a backend. The connection is made via dbExpress Driver. > > The problem is that i cant compile and run the application directly from the > Delphi IDE. It compiles fine bu

RE: Question on Perl (.pl) association

I do what you would typically do in a *nix environment - i.e. make the first line of the script "#!/usr/bin/perl -w". Works just fine. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Gainty > Sent: Wednesday, 17 March 2004 7:57 AM > To: [EMA

Cygwin to make ext2fs, xfs, reiserfs aware in windows

Hi all, What would be best way to make cygwin dll aware of existence of UNIX file systems ext2fs, ffs, nfs, xfs and reiserfs. Currently with our software Crossmeta it will go through windows layer and the results will not be good. It will have the same problem of ls -l taking lot of time and s

"man" trouble

I haven't been able to find a reference to this, and it seems to have happened fairly recently... "man" has stopped working for me (latest cygwin, latest "man", latest groff installed)... when I "man" for anything in the manual, I get this error: troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc':

(slight off topic) CYGWIN Make file discrepancy

Mr Okamoto: Following your instructions to create a makefile for Perl within CYGWIN 1)h2xs -A -n Mytest 2)as per instruction I added Let's edit the .xs file by adding this to the end of the file: void hello() CODE: printf("Hello, world!\n");3)% perl

Re: "man" trouble

At 05:02 PM 3/16/2004, you wrote: >I haven't been able to find a reference to this, and it seems to have happened fairly >recently... > >"man" has stopped working for me (latest cygwin, latest "man", latest groff >installed)... when I "man" for anything in the manual, I get this error: > >troff:

Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association

* Martin Gainty (2004-03-16 21:56 +0100) > How does one associate CYGWIN Perl with .pl extensions within CYGWIN > environment? Same as in the Windows environment: "ftype" in connection with "assoc" (or more convenient with "associate" from the ResourceKit). > When I invoke CYGWIN in order to exec

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

On 16 Mar, Derek Robert Price wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Although we have a moderately good workaround (an old version of cvs > >compiled up), we have a long-standing problem with cvs in Cygwin that > >I'm looking into final

Re: Cygwin to make ext2fs, xfs, reiserfs aware in windows

At 04:36 PM 3/16/2004, you wrote: >Hi all, >What would be best way to make cygwin dll aware of existence of UNIX >file systems ext2fs, ffs, nfs, xfs and reiserfs. Currently with our >software Crossmeta it will go through windows layer and the results >will not be good. It will have the same pro

Re: read(): varblk tape records...(& Fix for : read())

Fascinating. You tell someone who is trying to help resolve your problem that they should "know better" and then send "thanks and regards". Considering that Cygwin is a Linux wrapper for Windows, I would expect you, of all people, to realise there are no true Cygwin programs 'out there' (esp. tape

strace cvs stops at /dev/tty read

Does Cygwin's cvs ignore your PATH setting, and directly use the Windows rsh.exe? Behaviour of /usr/bin/cvs seems to indicate it may be so. I can't rename rsh.exe to test this since XP "repairs" rsh.exe. I can't find out which rsh it's running since strace cvs fails: when it asks for a password,

RE: strace cvs stops at /dev/tty read

> Does Cygwin's cvs ignore your PATH setting, and directly use the Windows > rsh.exe? Behaviour of /usr/bin/cvs seems to indicate it may be so. Have you tried setting CVS_RSH? export CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/rsh may do what you want. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: read(): varblk tape records...(& Fix for : read())

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:21:55AM +, Jason Winter wrote: >>Fascinating. You tell someone who is trying to help resolve your >>problem that they should "know better" and then send "thanks and >>regards". > >Considering that Cygwin is a Linux wrapper for Windows, I would >expect you, of all peo

restarting interrupted setup downloads

When using mirrors.rcn.net, I often get connections dropped at ~ even megabyte points during the download when on a low speed connection. After setup has done it's best, I run the following in the local package directory (named "cygwin") to pick up the files that weren't correctly, and then run se

Problems with make on the latest Cygwin gmake

I just installed Cygwin from scratch and I'm having gnu make trouble. Given this Makefile ... A: find . -name xx \! -path \*foo\* B: find . -name xx \! -path \*foo\* >&1 .. Notice that "make A" and "make B" are virtually identical. $ make -f broke_make A