Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Cliff Hones
Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> A twit hit a free software mailing list. >> On censoring fortune he did insist. >> ``Can't have limericks about pussies and dicks!'' >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! I don't think this is a limerick, though, which rather spoils the joke. A limerick has 5 lines w

Change login message

2005-01-07 Thread bella
Hi, When telnet to Cygwin server, it displayed CYGWIN_NT-5.0 (0.51/3/2) login: Can I change the above login message ? How ? Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:37:57AM +, Cliff Hones wrote: > Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > >> A twit hit a free software mailing list. > >> On censoring fortune he did insist. > >> ``Can't have limericks about *** and *!'' > >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! > > I don't think this i

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:43:55PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:47:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:16PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:26:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>

Error messages accompany manpage displays

2005-01-07 Thread Gene C. Ruzicka
In the current build, manpage displays are successful, but are accompanied by several error messages; viz., Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkorea

Re: "make all" and "make install" for smake

2005-01-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: $ smake bash: smake: command not found "make all" and "make install" suceeded, so why isn't smake a command now? tried deleting the INSTALL file, but had the same results. Schily Software is installed into /opt/schily by default. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Cliff Hones wrote: > Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > >> A twit hit a free software mailing list. > >> On censoring fortune he did insist. > >> ``Can't have limericks about pussies and dicks!'' > >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! > > I don't think this is a limerick, though, w

RE: Error messages accompany manpage displays

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gene C. Ruzicka > Sent: 07 January 2005 10:08 > In the current build, manpage displays are successful, but > are accompanied > by several error messages; viz., > > Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) > JNROFF LANG=ja_

Re: "make all" and "make install" for smake

2005-01-07 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
- Original Message - From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [..] > Schily Software is installed into /opt/schily by default. [..] sorry, not sure I follow you there. what or where is /opt/schily, please? thanks, Thufir -- _

Re: "make all" and "make install" for smake

2005-01-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: - Original Message - From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [..] Schily Software is installed into /opt/schily by default. [..] sorry, not sure I follow you there. what or where is /opt/schily, please? This is a directory. Try `ls /opt` and see if there is a direc

cygwin vx linux: output differences

2005-01-07 Thread Yves Krähenbühl - MTD
Same programme compiled under Cygwin writes output which differs form its LINUX-compiled version I apologise in advance if the question is too trivial but I am a simple user and not a programmer. I have written a small FORTRAN programme (see attachment) which reads and writes numbers in a file:

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 6 20:03, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Ah jeez deFaria: > > As an atheist I always wonder why christians can "turn the > > other cheek" > > but cannot seem to muster how to turn their eyes away! > > As a thinking man, I always wonder why atheists: > > 1. Hate Christianity, yet harbor no

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 6 21:18, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >How do you feel about the off-color content in the cygwin fortune files? > > > > [ ] Offended. Think about the children! > > [ ] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values. > > [ ] Don't care. Can we go

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Geoffrey KRETZ
The political correctness brainwashing machine has done its job quite well, AFAICS. Well, let's face it, I'm a woman. I'm by definition one of the disadvantaged groups of the society. The joke is this, I'm not at all offended by offensive jokes. I don't have to laugh if I don't like the joke, b

Re: EFS encrypted files & ssh

2005-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 6 14:10, Lapo Luchini wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is it normal that during an SSH connection EFS-encrypted files are not > accessible? > Is it for the way the SSH token autentication is made? I'm sorry, Lapo, but I have no idea what you're taking about. -

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Zachary Uram
Argh please enough with the pedantic and infantile America/American bashing. It's disgusting. Everyone act like mature adults PLEASE! Zach On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:29:03 +0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 6 21:18, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >

Re: Change login message

2005-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 17:17, bella wrote: > Hi, > > When telnet to Cygwin server, it displayed > > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 (0.51/3/2) > login: > > Can I change the above login message ? How ? Not that I'm aware of. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Hughes, Bill
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > NB: Did anybody read "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury? > It's not about > jokes in the first place, but somehow this discussion reminds me > of the book in a fatal way. Me too, it also reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron". Bill -- ___

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Brian Bruns wrote: As grown adults, who are capable of making our own decisions, we need to not let our religious views, or personal views for that matter, impede on others who have their own views. How dare you try to force that point of view on us! That's moral recusrion. -- Unsubscribe in

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excuses > > which generate 5 packages: fortune-mod (the binaries), > fortu

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 7 06:35, Zachary Uram wrote: > Argh please enough with the pedantic and infantile America/American > bashing. It's disgusting. Everyone act like mature adults PLEASE! The whole discussion isn't exactly mature. Time to move the discussion to cygwin-talk, I guess. I've set the Reply-To acc

Re: "make all" and "make install" for smake

2005-01-07 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/smake/ I *think* it's the same. the context is star and cdrTools. with regards to directories, ls / gives: bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib tmp usr var should I get packages from cygwin.com ? -- Thufir -- __

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-07 Thread Jason Tishler
Henry, On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:02:20PM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Jason Tishler writes: > > If you get any errors due to DLLs being in-use or read-only, > > then take the appropriate action and rerun rebaseall. > > Otherwise, you run the risk of fork() failing. > > /sur/bin/

RE: EFS encrypted files & ssh

2005-01-07 Thread Chris January
> Is it normal that during an SSH connection EFS-encrypted > files are not > accessible? > Is it for the way the SSH token autentication is made? Yes, it probably is. I belive the user's private EFS is encrypted using their password hash. If the SSH token was generated without using a password (

Re: "make all" and "make install" for smake

2005-01-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/smake/ I *think* it's the same. the context is star and cdrTools. with regards to directories, ls / gives: bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib tmp usr var should I get packages from cygwin.com ? No. Just try to figure out what the smake Makefile is

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: 07 January 2005 11:44 > To: cygwin; cygwin-talk > Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file. > > On Jan 7 06:35, Zachary Uram wrote: > > Argh please enough with the pedantic and infantile America/American >

Question about pthread_key_create

2005-01-07 Thread Johnny Willemsen
Hi all, A question, I had a look at the implementation of pthread_key_create. When an invalid key is passed, a EBUSY is returned. This looks very strange to me, isn't it better to return EINVAL just as the pthread_key_delete does? Also, shouldn't be the check be if (!pthread_key::is_good_object

newbie question about using gcc in cygwin

2005-01-07 Thread Emerson
Hi all: I want to know how to compile a program in cygwin using gcc. Here is my instance: 1>I install cygwin in c:/cygwin 2>I wrote a piece of code named test.c in E:/prog/test/test.c. AND suppose the program just printf "hello". How can i com

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
> [ ] Offended. Think about the children! > [ ] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values. > [ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about how > negative this list is now? > [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional > in the extreme and can only r

fuser

2005-01-07 Thread Chuck
I searched both the cygwin packages and gnu site for fuser but didn't find it. Did I miss it or is it not there? If not are there any plans to port fuser to cygwin? TIA -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:04:49PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote: >Expletive deleted. Well, thanks! That is in perfect keeping with the rest of this thread. Just imagine the consequences if you hadn't deleted that expletive. We'd have another long thread about whether the cygwin mailing list should

Cygwin installation problem

2005-01-07 Thread Herbert Eppel
Hello, I'm trying to install Cygwin on my Windows 2000 computer, but I have a problem ("Can't open database for writing" etc.). I had a look in the archive and saw that the problem has been discussed several times. The message that appears to be most relevant to my situation appears to be Larry

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:22:32AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote: >> >> Personally, I thought that them doing this was a sign of a more >> innocent time, where we didn't have to worry about every single >> word that came out of our mouth (or keyboard). >> >> Seriously guy, your type is one of the primar

mail list search engine on fritz this am

2005-01-07 Thread Dick Repasky
Hi, The cygwin mailing list search engine (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/) seems to be on the fritz this morning. Thought you'd want to know if you didn't know already, and I figured that the mailing address listed on the Internal Error page (sourceware.org) wouldn't get results. The error occure

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:25:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >NB: Did anybody read "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury? It's not about >jokes in the first place, but somehow this discussion reminds me >of the book in a fatal way. I read the book but I don't remember it too well. I've

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Chuck
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Yeah, it does. For the first time in history, there are now two lawyers for every human on the planet. Lawyers subsist almost entirely on a diet of lawsuits. Funny, I thought they ate food like the rest of us... Actually, when you think about it, it's impossible for that s

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Reini Urban
Kal Dee schrieb: Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) are meant to be in the cygwin distro... phpwiki optionally uses fortune to fill in fresh pages with some stupid quotes. nobody ever so far complained about those limericks. phpwiki pages are publicly accessabl

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead: >> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod >> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excus

Re: "make all" and "make install" for smake

2005-01-07 Thread Reini Urban
THUFIR HAWAT schrieb: as per Please ask further questions about a program not supported by cygwin at the right place. Jörg Schilling suggests using [EMAIL PROTECTED] therefore. $ pwd /home/Administrator/smake-1.2 $ make all NOTICE: Using bootstrap 'Makefile' to make 'all' cd psmake && sh ./MAKE-

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Terry Dabbs
I have an incident from the early 90s that is very close to this discussion: I worked at a division headquarters of large company, where we had hundreds of people who would log into their email account on the VAX. When logging in you would see a message of the day. The guy administering this got ti

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Daniel B.
William R. Knox wrote: ... If you don't like the fortunes, don't install them. Unfortunately, that argument (or admonition) doesn't quite hold water: * It requires recognizing that the fortune package is part of what you're installing. That doesn't happen if you select to install all of CygWi

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Terry Dabbs wrote: I worked at a division headquarters of large company, where we had hundreds of people who would log into their email account on the VAX. When logging in you would see a message of the day. The guy administering this got tired of the same old boring messages and started rotati

Cygwin and the GPL

2005-01-07 Thread Rob Rhoads
We would like to port our BSD licensed Open Source software from straight Windows to the CyCygwinnvironment, such that we are no longer using the Microsoft compiler tools and instead using the gcgccnd the CyCygwinibraries. Would this contaminate our project with the GPGPLWe would like to continue

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Francis Litterio
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Good thing I didn't install it at work, and that I don't work at a Megacorp > that has whole departments devoted to rooting through peoples' files looking > for reasons to fire them. IMHO, this is the single best reason for obfuscating the profanity with rot13. -- Fran

Re: Cygwin and the GPL

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:39:40AM -0800, Rob Rhoads wrote: >We would like to port our BSD licensed Open Source software from >straight Windows to the CyCygwinnvironment, such that we are no longer >using the Microsoft compiler tools and instead using the gcgccnd the >CyCygwinibraries. > >Would thi

f77 compiler

2005-01-07 Thread Dick Henry
Hi- I recently installed cygwin and have been testing various facets of it, namely the tasks that I usually perform on my sun workstation. All seems to work fine except I am having trouble with the fortran compiler. In short, a program that works fine on my workstation gives different output on

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Raye Raskin
Expletive deleted. Well, thanks! That is in perfect keeping with the rest of this thread. Just imagine the consequences if you hadn't deleted that expletive. We'd have another long thread about whether the cygwin mailing list should be censored. And then, of course, there's the children. ;-) Hey,

Re: Cygwin installation problem

2005-01-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Herbert Eppel wrote: I removed the burnatonce software and tried to reinstall Cygwin, but after 90% I get the same problem, i.e. I first get a warning message (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herb.eppel_new/temp/CygwinWarn1.jpg), This is no prblem and no error, just follow the hint displayed. i

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead: > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excuses > > > > which

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Raye Raskin > Sent: 07 January 2005 17:23 > Hey, Christopher, if you want to see something *really* offensive, > just take a look at this: > > ** > > This e-mail tra

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 07 January 2005 14:52 > Business issues are not the point here, though. My issue is that I > grant others the right to be offended by the type of language we're > talking about. It is a given that there are

RE: f77 compiler

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dick Henry > Sent: 07 January 2005 17:16 > In short, a program that works fine on my workstation gives different > output on my laptop using the f77 compiler from cygwin. > I have no idea what's going on. Nor does anyone else. "

Re: Cygwin installation problem

2005-01-07 Thread Herbert Eppel
On 07.01.2005 17:55 UK Time, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Herbert Eppel wrote: I removed the burnatonce software and tried to reinstall Cygwin, but after 90% I get the same problem, i.e. I first get a warning message (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herb.eppel_new/temp/CygwinWarn1.jpg), This is no p

Re: newbie question about using gcc in cygwin

2005-01-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:42 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote: >Hi all: > I want to know how to compile a program in cygwin using gcc. > Here is my instance: > 1>I install cygwin in c:/cygwin > 2>I wrote a piece of code named test.c in E:/prog/test/test.c. > AND suppose the program just prin

Re: fuser

2005-01-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:34 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote: >I searched both the cygwin packages and gnu site for fuser but didn't find it. >Did I miss it or is it not there? If not are there any plans to port fuser to >cygwin? No, it is not part of any current package, as a check of shows.

Similar problem

2005-01-07 Thread James
Hey... well I don't get the error message you're getting, but when my installation hits 90% the progress bar goes right to the end then it stops and just keeps using more memory until it uses it all then crashes. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-07 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Jason Tishler writes: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:02:20PM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> Jason Tishler writes: >> > If you get any errors due to DLLs being in-use or read-only, >> > then take the appropriate action and rerun rebaseall. >> > Otherwise, you run the risk of fork() fa

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-07 Thread Vin Shelton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry S. Thompson) writes: > > But of course then I'm stuck with other code that won't run because of > the two-different-bases problem. > > Anyway, thanks _very_ much for your help, it sounds like the xemacs > folks are really where this needs to be solved. Point is, this is a

glade_xml_signal_autoconnect doesn't find functions, symbols not exported?

2005-01-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
I'm porting I program I wrote under Linux to Windows using cygwin. It compiled without a single change, but when run, libglade's glade_xml_signal_autoconnect function did not find the signal handler functions, and issues errors like this: libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'some

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Mike
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Peter A. Castro might have said: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead: > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod > > > http://packa

cygwin installer/setup via commandline/scripts

2005-01-07 Thread Satish Balay
I'm looking for a way to do the following: - When installing cygwin - tell it a list of packages to install (perhaps from commandline or a script). Is this possible - without going through the list in the setup.exe GUI? - If cygwin is already installed - run some comand line tool/script - which

Re: glade_xml_signal_autoconnect doesn't find functions, symbols not exported?

2005-01-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I'm porting I program I wrote under Linux to Windows using cygwin. It compiled without a single change, but when run, libglade's glade_xml_signal_autoconnect function did not find the signal handler functions, and issues errors like this: libglade-WARNING **: could n

Re: "make all" and "make install" for smake

2005-01-07 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
since e-mails to joerg just get bounced, I put the question to the cdrecord-support list, but it seems very low volume. . -- Thu

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Cliff Hones wrote: De dah dah de dah dah de dah Sounds like the "world's filthiest limerick", which is apparently so potent that the bowdlerized version (further bowdlerized for spam filters :-) looks like De dah dah de dah dah de dah De dah dah de dah dah de dah De dah dah dah dah De dah da

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
OK, anybody still reading this thread probably already knows how to do this, but just in case, here's what you need to do to clean up your fortune files (other than just deleting them): First, make sure you have the tools you need and double-check that the "offensive" files are in plaintext: $ ls

Re: glade_xml_signal_autoconnect doesn't find functions, symbols not exported?

2005-01-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: gtk_widget_hide_on_delete is exported explicitly (at least in version 2.4.14 whioch is the latest available). That's the version I use (2.4.14-1, actually). All other packages are most likely in their latest versions, because I installed cygwin j

Re: f77 compiler

2005-01-07 Thread Tony Richardson
Dick Henry wrote: > In short, a program that works fine on my workstation gives different > output on my laptop using the f77 compiler from cygwin. Are you creating binary files? Just a wild guess (based on recently porting a Sun Fortran to cygwin), but then I'd assume you are running into big e

libxml2 and libxslt (was: Python packages that need updating to 2.4)

2005-01-07 Thread Matthew Harris
At the beginning of this week I reported that libxsl2-python and libxslt need to be updated to use python2.4/site-packages/. I have since determined that this also is an upstream problem: the configure.in scripts in Gnome CVS name python{2.3,2.2,...} but not python2.4. I have filed bug reports ag

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Mike wrote: Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune (fortune -o) before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then what's the problem? @ fortune sdesc: "Print a random, hopefully interesting, adage" category: Games requires: cygwin The problem is that it doesn't inform the u

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Mike
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Jon A. Lambert might have said: > Mike wrote: > > > >Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune (fortune -o) > >before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then what's the > >problem? > > @ fortune > sdesc: "Print a random, hopefully interesting, adage"

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Mike wrote: I would have been better informed about the nature of the package. How eloquent. Try 'man fortune'. man fortune doesn't work until after you've already downloaded and installed the offensive material on your machine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Jon A. Lambert wrote: Mike wrote: I would have been better informed about the nature of the package. How eloquent. Try 'man fortune'. man fortune doesn't work until after you've already downloaded and installed the offensive material on your machine. Yes but it *can* work just after you install it

RE: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Robb, Sam
> Yes but it *can* work just after you install it but before > you ever run > it! This part seems like a disclaimer if I've ever saw one: > > -oChoose only from potentially offensive aphorisms. Please, > please, >please request a potentially offensive fortune if > and onl

How do I downgrade to cygwin-1.5.10-3

2005-01-07 Thread Satish Balay
I'm seeing some wierd behavior - I'd like to downgrade to cygwin-1.5.10-3 - and see if this goes away. The cygwin setup gives the option of downgrading to cygwin-1.5.11-1 - but not cygwin-1.5.10-3. (I'm currently using the latest 1.5.12-1) How can I downgrade to cygwin-1.5.10-3? (I have the cygw

Re: Change login message

2005-01-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 7 17:17, bella wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When telnet to Cygwin server, it displayed > > > > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 (0.51/3/2) > > login: > > > > Can I change the above login message ? How ? > > Not that I'm aware of. Meaning that the line is compiled in.

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:25:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >NB: Did anybody read "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury? It's not about > >jokes in the first place, but somehow this discussion reminds me > >of the book in a fatal way. >

Compiling SRecord fails on Cygwin; succeeds on Linux/FreeBSD.

2005-01-07 Thread E. Weddington
Hello! I've been trying to build the SRecord package version 1.20: I'm using the Cygwin GCC compiler, 3.3.3. I've been getting failures during the link phase: g++ -o bin/srec_cat prog/srec_cat/arglex3.o prog/srec_cat/main.o lib/libsrecord.a lib/libsrecord.a(arg

Re: How do I downgrade to cygwin-1.5.10-3

2005-01-07 Thread Satish Balay
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Satish Balay wrote: > > I'm seeing some wierd behavior - I'd like to downgrade to > cygwin-1.5.10-3 - and see if this goes away. > > The cygwin setup gives the option of downgrading to cygwin-1.5.11-1 - > but not cygwin-1.5.10-3. (I'm currently using the latest 1.5.12-1) > >

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Daniel B. wrote: > Hey, too bad there's not a universal offensiveness rating system > (multidimensional, maybe like the geek code?) LOL. You mean, the "eek code"? :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_

Re: How do I downgrade to cygwin-1.5.10-3

2005-01-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:48 PM 1/7/2005, you wrote: >On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Satish Balay wrote: > >> >> I'm seeing some wierd behavior - I'd like to downgrade to >> cygwin-1.5.10-3 - and see if this goes away. >> >> The cygwin setup gives the option of downgrading to cygwin-1.5.11-1 - >> but not cygwin-1.5.10-3. (I'm

Re: How do I downgrade to cygwin-1.5.10-3

2005-01-07 Thread Satish Balay
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > If you can find a stale mirror that contains cygwin-1.5.10-3, then you > may find that you get the above message if you install it. Isn't that the challange? :). The few mirrors I tried are up2date.. > You'll get such a message for any packages you have

Re: How do I downgrade to cygwin-1.5.10-3

2005-01-07 Thread Satish Balay
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Satish Balay wrote: > I'm able to use 'tar' method to downgrade to 1.5.10-3 - and try a few > things out. But I can't make it permanant - as 'cygcheck -c cygwin' > gives 1.5.11 - and this breaks some other tools. ok - I just had to edit /etc/setup/installed.db - and change cyg

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Good thing I didn't install it at work, and that I don't work at a > > Megacorp that has whole departments devoted to rooting through > > peoples' files looking for reasons to fire them. > > IMHO, this is the single best reason for obfuscating the > profanity

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
The David Korn who is not the Korn Shell guy wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > > Sent: 07 January 2005 14:52 > > > Business issues are not the point here, though. My issue is that I > > grant others the right to be offended by the typ

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote: > ==> fortunes2-o <== > Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that > cocaine stuff > -- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in > Nuremberg trial > Is something like this even legal in Germany? -- Gar

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Most agree that it's a packaging bug in fortune, and that the > limericks file should be renamed limericks-o and ROT13'd. > End of discussion. Nononono, don't you try to force your end-of-discussion values on ME! I agree that at a minimum, the obfuscation you describe is absolutely required.

RE: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Jon A. Lambert might have said: > > > Mike wrote: > > > > > >Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune > (fortune -o) > > >before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then > what's the > > >problem? > > > > @ fortune > > sdesc: "Print a random, ho

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the > profanity at all? A number of people like them. Best, Rodrigo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Rodrigo de Salvo Braz" To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" Cc: Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the pro

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for > providing > > the profanity at all? > > A number of people like them. > > Best, > > Rodrigo A number of people like hard pore cornography too. Cygwin doesn't provide that, at

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Raye Raskin
- Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing > the profa

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the profanity at all? Hello? Anybody? Apparently some distros have split off the package into parts like fortune - the program with no data fortune-min - the quotes fortune-off - the stuff that'd ma

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Jon Lambert wrote: > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for > providing > > the profanity at all? > > > > Hello? > > > > Anybody? > > Apparently some distros have split off the package into parts like > fortune - the program with no data > fo

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > A number of people like them. > > A number of people like hard pore cornography too. Cygwin doesn't provide > that, at least not in visual form, at least not that I'm aware of. > > The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide thi

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: They *are* going into newsagents, pulling Playboy off the shelves, opening it up, reading it (probably hypocritically enjoying it too), and then whining about how offended they are and demanding that the entire world be made conform to their personal tastes and beliefs. It's in

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > Most agree that it's a packaging bug in fortune, and that the > > limericks file should be renamed limericks-o and ROT13'd. > > End of discussion. > > Nononono, don't you try to force your end-of-discussion values on ME! Heh... On most other mess

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote: ==> fortunes2-o <== Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that cocaine stuff -- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in Nuremberg trial Is something like this even legal in Germany? Why would you

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Most agree that it's a packaging bug in fortune, and that the limericks file should be renamed limericks-o and ROT13'd. End of discussion. Nononono, don't you try to force your end-of-discussion values on ME! [I'm not done forcing my morals on you...] I agree that at a m

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:26:26PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote: >> >>>==> fortunes2-o <== >>>Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that >>>cocaine stuff >>>-- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Gi

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: A number of people like hard pore cornography too. Cygwin doesn't provide that, at least not in visual form, at least not that I'm aware of. The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this obscene content? Same reason any other piece of functionality

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