Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 16 21:47, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:10:03PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > > It seems to be the O_TRUNC flag that's causing the problem. If I remove it, the > > open succeeds when the file doesn't exist. > > > > Here's the output of 'strace opentest /cygdrive/m/foo

Re: THANKS for a fantastic product

2004-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 16 13:21, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Figure cygwin developers rarely get kudos, but here's one! Cgywin is > exactly what I was looking for--a way of running ssh2-compatible > terminal shells for access to my production Solaris enviorments that > WORK the way they should. SecureCRT was my on

Re: THANKS for a fantastic product

2004-06-17 Thread Brian Wisti
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 16 13:21, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Thanks! It's always a relief to find that Cygwin is actually useful and working fine for some people :-) Corinna It's working pretty good for me as well. Cygwin + X lets me do a lot of UNIXy geekiness without having to reboot. So I

Re: Delete key... was home directory.

2004-06-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
,--- * Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html#s5 | People often complain 'my backspace key does not work', as if this key | had a built-in function 'delete previous character'. Unfortunately, | all this key, or any key, does is producing a code, and one only can | hope that the kernel tty driver a

Re: invalid mounts after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3

2004-06-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:54:46AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Well, I have some problems with 1.5.10, e.g. I couldn't build parts of >>libgcj (jv-convert), but it was possible to build a complete gcc-3.3.3 >>without libgcj. > If you want this 1.5.10 problem solved, you a

Problems with stdout(?) and latest CygWin

2004-06-17 Thread Øyvind Harboe
I just upgraded to the latest CygWin when gzip stopped working. When I downgraded gzip *only*, gzip worked again. I have CygWin installed with Unix text handling. $ gzip --stdout >foo rimi.bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/cdtworkspace/firmware/output $ gzip -t foo gzip: foo: invalid compress

Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs

2004-06-17 Thread Jani tiainen
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of John Cooper Sent: 15 June 2004 15:05 To: cygwin Subject: RE: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs The old native (non-cygwin) port of zsh would somehow detect if it was about to exec a Windows app, and run it as a back

Re: THANKS for a fantastic product

2004-06-17 Thread Lex Ein
Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Figure cygwin developers rarely get kudos, but here's one! Here's another:(Imagine Michael Moore reading this aloud:) I'm using Cygwin for remote sshd/vnc access to a four-armed triple-jointed servopneumatic robotic system which could fatally stab or crush someone if th

find the path for cygwin root from windows script

2004-06-17 Thread bertrand marquis
Hello, i need to be able to find where cygwin is install from a .bat script under windows to run cygwin programs. Does anyone has a solution to do that automaticaly ? thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot?

2004-06-17 Thread Andrew Makhorin
Hi, When I tried to access messages in the cygwin mailing list archive (using ms internet explorer 5), I got the following: Spambot detected. Hi, your web browser has triggered our spambot detection mechanism. <...> I understand the humor. However, cygwin is intended to run under ms

Re: is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot?

2004-06-17 Thread Jani tiainen
MLJC wrote: You should, maybe, upgrade your Internet Explorer because the current version is Internet Explorer 6. Or you could use Netscape Navigator, or Mozilla. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Makhorin" To: Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:49 AM Subject: is ms internet explorer 5 a s

Re: is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot?

2004-06-17 Thread Lex Ein
>>> When I tried to access messages in the cygwin mailing list archive >>> (using ms internet explorer 5), I got the following: >>>Spambot detected. >>>Hi, your web browser has triggered our spambot detection mechanism. >>><...> >>> I understand the humor. However, cygwin is intended to

Re: is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot?

2004-06-17 Thread MLJC
You should, maybe, upgrade your Internet Explorer because the current version is Internet Explorer 6. Or you could use Netscape Navigator, or Mozilla. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Makhorin" To: Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:49 AM Subject: is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot? >

Re: is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot?

2004-06-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Andrew wrote: > Hi, > When I tried to access messages in the cygwin mailing list archive > (using ms internet explorer 5), I got the following: > Spambot detected. > Hi, your web browser has triggered our spambot detection mechanism. > <...> > I understand the humor. However, cygwin

Re: is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot?

2004-06-17 Thread Andrew Makhorin
Thanks for help. It is interesting to note that ie 5 is detected as a spambot only when I try to access messages found via the search string. If I go directly to the list archive, I obtain messages without problems. Andrew Makhorin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

RE: Rxvt manpage from rxvt 2.7.10-4

2004-06-17 Thread chris
> Whoops, sorry for muddying the waters. I should have tested the script > before sending it (the original had more than a couple of bugs). Here's > one that actually works: > > s/^\.YODLTAGSTART\./\.YYODLTAGSTART\./ > s/\.YODLTAGSTART\./\n\.YODLTAGSTART\./g > s/\.YODLTAGSTART\. roffcmd // > s/\

Re: is ms internet explorer 5 a spambot?

2004-06-17 Thread alan . k . mackechnie
There are quite a few horrible spy ware apps that subtly intercept searches. One example is amazingautosearch which I had to remove from a PC last night. Get hold of a copy of spy bot and have a look at what's running on your machine HTH Alan Mackechnie Thanks for help. It is interesting to

Re: find the path for cygwin root from windows script

2004-06-17 Thread Luc Hermitte
Hello, * On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:12:00AM +0200, bertrand marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i need to be able to find where cygwin is install from a .bat script > under windows to run cygwin programs. > Does anyone has a solution to do that automaticaly ? cygpath -m / However, this

Re: Re: Can you help me?

2004-06-17 Thread boli
Thanks Larry, I have check the FAQ of CYGWIN, and find the solution for type international characters, but where can I locate ~/.inputrc file? I really feel odd about ~/. >At 04:39 AM 6/16/2004, you wrote: >>Why file name with Chinese characters can't be displayed correctly when I use comman >

PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Natalie Menk
The installed cygwin is version 1.5.10-3 and I use cygipc 2.03-2. MS Win XP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ psql --version psql (PostgreSQL) 7.4.2 contains support for command-line editing [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ipc-daemon2 & [1] 2840 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ initdb -D edge_

Re: THANKS for a fantastic product

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Lex Ein wrote: > Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > Figure cygwin developers rarely get kudos, but here's one! > > Here's another:(Imagine Michael Moore reading this aloud:) > > I'm using Cygwin for remote sshd/vnc access to a four-armed > triple-jointed servopneumatic robotic syst

how type characters from 0x80 to 0xff in text mode?

2004-06-17 Thread Andrew Makhorin
How can I type characters from 0x80 to 0xFF working with mc internal editor in text mode? If I open an existing text file containing such characters, they are correctly displayed, but I cannot type them. (I'm working under ms windows 95.) Thank you, Andrew Makhorin -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: Can you help me?

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, boli wrote: > Thanks Larry, I have check the FAQ of CYGWIN, and find the solution for > type international characters, but where can I locate ~/.inputrc file? > I really feel odd about ~/. In most shells, "~" expands to your home directory, a.k.a. "$HOME". So, ~/.inputrc is

Re: Minicom for Cygwin

2004-06-17 Thread Xantius
Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: Hello, Xantius! On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:27PM -0600, Xantius wrote: Please let me know if you have questions, if people are still interested in minicom, etc. Definitely. I'm personally accustomed to kermit, but I would love to see minicom as a cygwin package, i

How can I see key mapping in Bash

2004-06-17 Thread Hughes, Bill
I apologise if this is a simple a question as it appears to be, but I've tried google etc. How can I find out what a key (or combination such as ctrl-C) is mapped to, in bash. I have tried various searches to little avail, I would appreciate a clue but am not expecting a detailed explanation. Tha

RE: How can I see key mapping in Bash

2004-06-17 Thread Morche Matthias
bind -p or look into man bash and search for readline or man readline or help bind ... woah, what a disclaimer :-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Hughes, Bill > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > The installed cygwin is version 1.5.10-3 and I use cygipc 2.03-2. > MS Win XP > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ psql --version > psql (PostgreSQL) 7.4.2 > contains support for command-line editing > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ i

Re: Minicom for Cygwin

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Xantius wrote: > Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > > >Hello, Xantius! > > > >On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:27PM -0600, Xantius wrote: > > > >>Please let me know if you have questions, if people are still > >>interested in minicom, etc. > > > >Definitely. I'm personally accustomed to

Re: find the path for cygwin root from windows script

2004-06-17 Thread bertrand marquis
Luc Hermitte a écrit: Hello, * On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:12:00AM +0200, bertrand marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i need to be able to find where cygwin is install from a .bat script under windows to run cygwin programs. Does anyone has a solution to do that automaticaly ? cygpath

cygwin autoconf question

2004-06-17 Thread Chris W
I am trying to build a GTK app in windows, I think this is the last error I need to track down. When I run autogen.sh that is created by glade for windows I get this error. Please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 from the /target/sha

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Natalie Menk
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > > > [...initdb fails with postgresql 7.4.2] > > > o build against cygserver instead of cygipc > [...] ^ I build cyserver instead of cygipc and initdb wor

Re: Can you help me?

2004-06-17 Thread Rui-Tao Dong
> "boli611" == boli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: boli611> Why file name with Chinese characters can't be displayed boli611> correctly when I use comman "LS" under cygwin? There are boli611> just a cluster of "" there. What terminal did you run ls under? Chinese filename displays fin

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > > > > > [...initdb fails with postgresql 7.4.2] > > > > > o build against cygserver instead of cygipc > >

Re: bashrc

2004-06-17 Thread Chris W
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Type this at the bash prompt; $ MANPAGER="${MANPAGER}p ^INVOCATION" man bash and hit enter. What is that supposed to do? All I get is an error. p: not found Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/

Re: bashrc

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: > Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > >Type this at the bash prompt; > >$ MANPAGER="${MANPAGER}p ^INVOCATION" man bash > >and hit enter. > > What is that supposed to do? All I get is an error. That's supposed to show you the part of the bash manpage dealing with i

fetchmail

2004-06-17 Thread Harpreet Singh
i get the following error message when using fetchmail. I do have procmail installed on my machine as well. 1 message (1 seen) for at . skipping message @:1 not flushed my .fetchmailrc file looks like this poll with proto AUTO user '' there is '' here password "" mda '/usr/b

cygwin autoconf question

2004-06-17 Thread Neil Somos
Chris W had asked "where is the autoconf macro directory?". Is there any chance that it may be up to you to specify this by using either "-m dir" or "--macrodir=dir" ? neal -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: Minicom for Cygwin

2004-06-17 Thread chris
> Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > >>Hello, Xantius! >> >>On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:27PM -0600, Xantius wrote: >> >> >>>Please let me know if you have questions, if people are still >>>interested in minicom, etc. >>> >>> >> >>Definitely. I'm personally accustomed to kermit, but I would love to see >>

Re: Minicom for Cygwin

2004-06-17 Thread Xantius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: Hello, Xantius! On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:27PM -0600, Xantius wrote: Please let me know if you have questions, if people are still interested in minicom, etc. Definitely. I'm personally accustomed to kermit, but I would love

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-17 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 16 21:47, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:10:03PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > It seems to be the O_TRUNC flag that's causing the problem. If I remove > it, the > > > open succeeds when the file doesn't exist. > > >

Re: Minicom for Cygwin

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Xantius wrote: > chrisequatedyndnsorg wrote: > > >>Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > >> > >>>Hello, Xantius! > >>> > >>>On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:27PM -0600, Xantius wrote: > >>> > Please let me know if you have questions, if people are still > interested in minicom, etc.

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Natalie Menk
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > . > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > > > > > > > [...initdb fails with postgresql 7.

Latest snapshots and MIT-SHM extension

2004-06-17 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, With the latest cygwin1.dll snapshots I'm getting 'MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support' when run with XWin. This has appeared after 3rd June version, I recall. More debugging will be supplied, when I have worked out what's going on. Colin Harrison -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Latest snapshots and MIT-SHM extension

2004-06-17 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Colin Harrison wrote: > Hi, > > With the latest cygwin1.dll snapshots I'm getting 'MIT-SHM extension > disabled due to lack of kernel support' when run with XWin. This has > appeared after 3rd June version, I recall. > > More debugging will be supplied, when I have worked out

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Again, . > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > > > > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

RE: Rxvt manpage from rxvt 2.7.10-4

2004-06-17 Thread Chris Taylor
On Wed, June 16, 2004 10:54 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > > Whoops, sorry for muddying the waters. I should have tested the script > before sending it (the original had more than a couple of bugs). Here's > one that actually works: > > s/^\.YODLTAGSTART\./\.YYODLTAGSTART\./ > s/\.YODLTAGSTART\./

Re: Minicom for Cygwin

2004-06-17 Thread Chris Taylor
On Thu, June 17, 2004 7:57 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Xantius wrote: > >> >> I was able to setup a root user on my system. It was a PITA, but it did >> work. There was a howto out there somewhere that I followed. >> Unfortunatly I can't find it again, so I can't tell you

Re: fetchmail

2004-06-17 Thread David A. Case
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004, Harpreet Singh wrote: > i get the following error message when using fetchmail. I do have > procmail installed on my machine as well. > > 1 message (1 seen) for at . > skipping message @:1 not flushed Looks like you need to add the "-a" option to your fetchmail request.

RE: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs

2004-06-17 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John Cooper wrote: > > The point is that it's not about cygwin-vs-windoze apps. It's about > > apps-that-use-console-stdin-and-stdout vs. apps-that-display-a-gui; those > > that show a gui could usefully be detached, but those that read their input > > from stdin will bre

RE: bashrc

2004-06-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:37 PM > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: > > > Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > > >Type this at the bash prompt; > > >$ MANPAGER="${MANPAGER}p ^INVOCATION" man bash > > >and hit enter. > > > > What is that supposed to do? All I get i

RE: find the path for cygwin root from windows script

2004-06-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: bertrand marquis > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:26 PM Comments inline below... > Luc Hermitte a écrit: > > >Hello, > > > >* On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:12:00AM +0200, bertrand marquis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> i need to be able to find where cygwin is install from a .b

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Natalie Menk
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Again, . > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > > > > > > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL

Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs

2004-06-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Peter A. Castro (2004-06-17 22:13 +0100) > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John Cooper wrote: >> > The point is that it's not about cygwin-vs-windoze apps. It's about >> > apps-that-use-console-stdin-and-stdout vs. apps-that-display-a-gui; those >> > that show a gui could usefully be detached, but those

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Natalie Menk
--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:27 PM 6/17/2004, you wrote > >--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > >> > >> > [...initdb fails with postgresql 7.4.2] > >> > > >> o build against cygserver instead of cygipc > >> [...

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:45 PM 6/17/2004, you wrote: >--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 12:27 PM 6/17/2004, you wrote >> >--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: >> >> >> > >> >Now I get nearly the same fork errror message under postgresql 7.

Re: michael's openssh for windows

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Andreas, It's usually a good idea to send your Cygwin-related questions to the Cygwin mailing list instead of via private mail. Not only will you get access to the combined expertise of the list, which is more than any one person can provide, but your questions (and answers to them) will be archi

Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1

2004-06-17 Thread Natalie Menk
--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:45 PM 6/17/2004, you wrote: > >--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At 12:27 PM 6/17/2004, you wrote > >> >--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote: > >> >> > > > > > > >> > > >

how to see all cygrunsrv's? how to see all installed package in shell command?

2004-06-17 Thread news.gosonic.com
Hi group, two questions: 1. How can I see all my cygrunsrv entries? 2. How to see all installed packages in shell command. Many thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cyg

Re: how to see all cygrunsrv's? how to see all installed package in shell command?

2004-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, news.gosonic.com wrote: > Hi group, > > two questions: > > 1. How can I see all my cygrunsrv entries? In Win2k: My Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services FWIW, I'm thinking of adding a --list option to cygrunsrv, but don't have time to work on it at the

RE: Delete key... was home directory.

2004-06-17 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
> > Am I the only one that thinks reading a 12 page document, and possibly > > editing 5 different config files is a hell of a lot of work just to get > > the delete key to work?!?!?! > > You want to make the "delete key" delete in bash? No, he just wants the delete key to work as God intended it