[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.5.14-1

I've updated the version of mathomatic to 12.5.14 Release focus: Code and documentation cleanups. Changes: Gave real and imaginary commands a useful argument. Fixed a sloppiness in command line parsing in function get_range(). See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt About: Mathomatic is a

Re: perl reading ^M on text mounts

Dave googlemail.com> writes: > > Have you tried setting the environment variable PERLIO? I'm not a heavy > PERL user, but I tend to have > > PERLIO=crlf > > if I'm likely to see CRLFs. Thanks, I tried that. It indeed seems to remove the \r but independent of the mount mode of the disk. I

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:38 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ? > > On Apr 21 12:59, Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] > > Ok, but the question remains: does cygwin still target windows 95? > > Just the setup tool has some problem, apparentl

Re: Windows 95 support ?

Hi, Gary R. Van Sickle, le Mon 24 Apr 2006 02:54:59 -0500, a écrit : > Mr. Thibault, do you have any interest in helping test out whatever I come > up with? I have a w95 qemu image which I can use for testing, yes. Regards, Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

sshd errors

I have a win2k sp4 machine with a recent cygwin on and have recently started getting the following errors when trying to connect to the sshd on this machine. 1918764614 [main] sshd 1032 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x45C000..0x45C040, done 0, windows pid 2284756, Win32 error 4

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Samuel Thibault > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:51 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ? > > Hi, > > Gary R. Van Sickle, le Mon 24 Apr 2006 02:54:59 -0500, a écrit : > > Mr. Thibault, do you have any interest in helping test out > whatever I > > come up with? >

RE: Can't print because .lnk makes printer name invalid

Jay Abel wrote: >I would love to know how to get lpr to just print directly to the printer's >IP address, but the above isn't as bad as it seems, since it keeps windows >and cygwin print jobs in sequence, and visible in the queue. > >I'm sure there is a better way, but the above worked for me. W

Re: useradd & user ids

--On 21 April 2006 17:18 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: You should see the RIDs in big installations with > 100.000 users... [...] You didn't have a look into http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html lately, I assume. The RID is mentioned right at the start. ;-) I did not see any mention

Re: Launch APP over SSH

Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Wesley Smith on 4/21/2006 1:59 PM: PS I also get the message WARNING: terminal is not fully functional . How do I get rid of this? Usually, this is an indication that the remote machine does not have a termcap/term

Re: useradd & user ids

On Apr 24 15:01, Owen Rees wrote: > --On 21 April 2006 17:18 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >You should see the RIDs in big installations with > 100.000 users... > > [...] > > >You didn't have a look into http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html > >lately, I assume. The RID is mentioned ri

Re: Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1

> Bruce Jones writes: > Version info: > Windows XP Pro SP1 > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 > Man 1.5p-1 > The makewhatis shell script generates an error message when $PWD contains a > space, e.g. "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/username" The me

Re: [Patch] man-1.5p does not compile on Cygwin 1.5.19

> Christian Franke writes: > Hi, > below are two patches to compile man-1.5p on Cygwin 1.5.19 > The first patch fixes a syntax issue in the build script (had it ever > worked ?-) Yes, in the ash times. > The second patch handles the now missing dirent.d_ino. Thanks.

Re: [Patch] man-1.5p does not compile on Cygwin 1.5.19

On Apr 24 17:35, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Christian Franke writes: > > > Hi, > > below are two patches to compile man-1.5p on Cygwin 1.5.19 > > > The first patch fixes a syntax issue in the build script (had it ever > > worked ?-) > > Yes, in the ash times. > > > The s

cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?

I am having I/O performance issues with Cygwin perl. For example (where "c/Perl/bin/perl" is the activestate version): - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/lcra/models/opt$ perl -v This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int (with 1 registered patch, see perl -

Re: useradd & user ids

--On 24 April 2006 16:50 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: but 'mkpasswd -l -c' offers me an entry with a uid that is my 6-digit RID plus 1. The -c option always adds the default offset. It's not intended for local accounts anyway. It's not just -c that adds the 1: mkpasswd.exe -d $US

RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?

On 24 April 2006 16:53, Neil E. Deeds wrote: > Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower under > Cygwin? Look up "emulation layer" in any good technical dictionary :) Or IOW, because it's doing a whole lot more work. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty

Re: Windows 95 support ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Corinna Vinschen >> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:38 AM >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ? >> >> On Apr 21 12:59, Samuel Thibault wrote: > [snip] >>> Ok, but the question remains: does cygw

RE: Windows 95 support ?

On 24 April 2006 18:09, Max Bowsher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> Perhaps, but as long as the Cygwin DLL etc do support 95, it seems that >> Setup should be self contained and not require W95 users (all dozen of them >> ;-)) to hunt dow

Re: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 24 April 2006 16:53, Neil E. Deeds wrote: >>Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower under >>Cygwin? > >Look up "emulation layer" in any good technical dictionary :) But, you forget. Cygwin is emulating linux a

Re: Windows 95 support ?

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:09:09PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >For this tiny minority, is it *really* worth the confusion of a >separate Cygwin setup bundle, as compared with the alternative of just >writing a FAQ entry explaining how to get the necessary prerequisites? IMO, no. I don't think ther

RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?

On 24 April 2006 18:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 24 April 2006 16:53, Neil E. Deeds wrote: >>> Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower under >>> Cygwin? >> >> Look up "emulation layer" in any good technic

Re: Windows 95 support ?

Christopher Faylor, le Mon 24 Apr 2006 13:22:51 -0400, a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:09:09PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > >For this tiny minority, is it *really* worth the confusion of a > >separate Cygwin setup bundle, as compared with the alternative of just > >writing a FAQ entry explain

Re: Windows 95 support ?

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:35:45PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Christopher Faylor, le Mon 24 Apr 2006 13:22:51 -0400, a ?crit : >>On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:09:09PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>>For this tiny minority, is it *really* worth the confusion of a >>>separate Cygwin setup bundle, as co

Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Hi, it's time again to release a new Cygwin version. We're on the way to 1.5.20, and we're hoping that this release solves or at least workarounds a couple of problems introduced in earlier versions. 1.5.20 is mainly supposed to be a bugfix release. A couple of changes we're especially interest

Re: Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1

Hello Bruce, Thank you for the report. This is a known issue in 1.6c (broken makewhatis), I must admit I goofed up. The fix is in 1.6d yet to be released (I did not rush a release containing only that fix as downstream packagers added fixes of their own promptly, saving me the effort). 1.6d is me

Re: [Patch] man-1.5p does not compile on Cygwin 1.5.19

Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Christian Franke writes: > Hi, > below are two patches to compile man-1.5p on Cygwin 1.5.19 > The first patch fixes a syntax issue in the build script (had it ever > worked ?-) Yes, in the ash times. BTW, ash interprets "&& foo" as "tr

Cygwin GTK 2.0 support for SVG files?

I'm trying to build and run denemo -- a gui front-end for lilypond. It uses GTK 2.0 and SVG files. When I run denemo, I get the following error message: path is /usr/local/share/denemo/pixmaps/staccato.svg Error is Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/local/share/denemo/pix

Re: Redirecting bash stdin

Eric Blake wrote: According to Dave on 4/21/2006 11:45 AM: I'm trying to get a mingw GUI application to pipe commands to cygwins bash by redirecting its stdin as described here . Why not just spawn bash with command line arguments, and use the -c flag

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Mon Apr 24 12:45:12 EDT 2006 Snapshot date: 20060424-12:43:32 Shared id: cygwin1S4 Service : cron Display name: CYGWIN cron Cu

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:53:39PM -0700, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>It's time again to release a new Cygwin version. >> >>We're on the way to 1.5.20, and we're hoping that this release solves >>or at least workarounds a couple of problems introduced in earlier >>versions. P

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The problem with Ctrl-C propagated to an unrelated child process > (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00556.html) should be fixed. It seems fixed in 20060421 and in 20060424 snapshots. Thanks a lot, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?

I read that Vista will have "Built-in NFS for Unix interoperability." When I first read this, I assumed it meant outside of SFU, but I suppose that isn't necessarily true. If it is true, you may want to wait for Vista, where all your problems will be solved! :-) Cary -- Unsubscribe info:

Unwanted Error

Hi, im new to useing cygwin and i'm having some unwanted errors. Well, im tring to compile some MUD files, but in order to do that, i get errors. But, i went to Cygwin.com and went tot he users guide, and the FAQ said if you get errors opening dir's you need to do this: bash$(thats always there)

Re: Unwanted Error

Xarax wrote: Hi, im new to useing cygwin and i'm having some unwanted errors. Well, im tring to compile some MUD files, but in order to do that, i get errors. But, i went to Cygwin.com and went tot he users guide, and the FAQ said if you get errors opening dir's you need to do this: bash$(thats

RE: Windows 95 support ?

Ok Sam, give it a try: http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/SetupInstaller/SetupInstaller.exe This installer contains the latest released Cygwin setup.exe (2.510.2.2) and msvcrt.dll version 6.0.9782.0, which AFAIK is the latest redistributable available. It won't overwrite a newer version o

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Max Bowsher > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Corinna Vinschen > >> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:38 AM > >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com > >> Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ? > >> > >> On Apr 21 12:59, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > [snip

RE: Windows 95 support ?

Gary - you should know better. Top-posting reformatted, to avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU, and raw email munged; you really should http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. > > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com ^ >

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Reintroducing the dirent member d_ino. 1.5.20 tries hard to return a useful d_ino value, which is supposed to be also the same as st_ino as returned by stat(2) in all cases, regardless of the obstacles to do this on Windows. Do you have strange file systems like

RE: Windows 95 support ?

> From: Eric Blake > > Gary - you should know better. No I shouldn't. > Top-posting reformatted, to > avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU, OMG I did top-post! How the ^*& did that happen? My sincerest apologies. > and raw email munged; > you really should http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#P

Re: Windows 95 support ?

"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > locate said source. However, it is not where this page < > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> indicates it is ("Source > code for setup.exe is available from http://cygwin.com/setup/."; - no, it > isn't, at least not for 2.510.2.2). Nor is there any i

Re: Windows 95 support ?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:05:51AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Eric Blake >> >> Gary - you should know better. > >No I shouldn't. > >> Top-posting reformatted, to >> avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU, > >OMG I did top-post! How the ^*& did that happen? My sincerest apologie