Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Samuel Thibault (Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:08:31 +0800) > Version 3.8 of "brltty" has been uploaded. > > Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal. > Brltty is a background process (daemon) providing access to the Windows > Console for a blind person using a refreshable braille d

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thorsten Kampe, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 09:33:04 +0100, a écrit : > * Samuel Thibault (Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:08:31 +0800) > > Version 3.8 of "brltty" has been uploaded. > > > > Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal. > > Brltty is a background process (daemon) providing access to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. > Are packages from the Base category automatically installed? Yes, setup automatically selects everything in Base for installation, which by d

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 6 02:42, Brian Dessent wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? > > Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that an accessibility package doesn't make sense in the Base cate

need working cygwin tool for https download

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Marchywka
Hi, I tried lynx and curl on this and can't get either to work: https://www.affymetrix.com/analysis/netaffx/fullrecord.affx?pk=CANINE%3A1602952_AT Since I've never used https before, I'm not sure if I'm doing something stupid or there is a problem with lynx or the page is setup to defeat automat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.21-1

2007-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.21-1. This version is an update to the official version 4.21. This is mainly a security bugfix release, fixing a buffer underflow vulnerability. See http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2799 The Cygwin version is build from the vanilla sou

Re: need working cygwin tool for https download

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Mike Marchywka wrote: > curl --user-agent "Mozilla/4.0" --anyauth -d "logon=xxx" > -d "password=xxxc" -c cookies -L "https://www.affymetrix.com/analysis/netaf > fx/fullrecord.affx?pk=CANINE%3A1592474_AT" And what is the exact error or failure? curl works just fine with https, you can verify that

Re: need working cygwin tool for https download

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Marchywka
Thanks- I was hoping lynx would work as I use that for everything else. Apparently curl was just redirecting to a login screen. If I post to their form I can at least get the bad user/pw screen so it seems that curl, and for that matter wget, do seem to just fine. Now, I just need to figure out h

RE: Problem with /proc/registry

2007-06-06 Thread Long, Phillip GOSS
Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > Hi When trying to check some keys in the registry I ran into some > problems System is winxp and it doesn't matter if I'm administrator > Or not. > > ls -la /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/MountedDevices/ > Gives a long list of: > ls: cannot access > /proc/reg

cron functionality regression?

2007-06-06 Thread Thomas Berger
Hello, >From http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00319.html : > The changes (listed in /usr/share/doc/cron/CHANGES) don't appear to break > compatibility with 3.0. this seems to be a version of vixie cron which (contrary to the previous one) consistently (e.g. also in the manpage) does no

CVS 1.7.0 heap errors

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Ford
FYI, I'm seeing the following errors quite often with current 1.7.0 CVS and have been for some time. For instance, I can't use my CVS build to build Cygwin again. I've yet to have time to investigate much, and don't see that changing for some time :-(. 6 [main] ? (1584) C:\cygwin\bin\make.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:26:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 6 02:42, Brian Dessent wrote: >> Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> > Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? >> >> Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. > >Perhaps, but that does

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Dave
Brian Dessent wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? > > Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Last I heard, setup.exe was not particularly friendly wrt screen readers (cf. package selection). Hence the visually

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/6/07, Dave wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? > > Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Last I heard, setup.exe was not particularly friendly wrt screen readers (cf. package select

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:22:30PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 6/6/07, Dave wrote: >> Brian Dessent wrote: >> > Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? >> > >> > Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. >> >> Last

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 03:24:45 +0800, a écrit : > About the linux-utils dependency, it was needed in previous brltty > revisions, but not any more, so I'll drop it. You may want to update setup.hint from http://brl.thefreecat.org/brltty/setup.hint to fix them as soon as now without t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, DePriest, Jason R., le Wed 06 Jun 2007 14:22:30 -0500, a écrit : > It seems that when you trace the requirements of brltty down, you end > up with xorg, perl, and python packages getting installed. Python dependency is only hard for compile-time. Brltty doesn't itself use python. Only pytho

Re: cron functionality regression?

2007-06-06 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Thomas Berger" To: "The Cygwin Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:38 AM Subject: cron functionality regression? | Hello, | | From http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00319.html : | | > The changes (listed in /usr/share/doc/cron/CHANGES)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian Dessent, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 02:42:50 -0700, a écrit : > > Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? > > Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Indeed, but as pointed out by DaveK2: > Last I heard, setup.exe was not particularly friendly wrt scr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:24:45AM +0800, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Brian Dessent, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 02:42:50 -0700, a ?crit : >> > Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? >> >> Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. > >Indeed, but as pointed out by D

chgcheck.out

2007-06-06 Thread Carlos Robinson
Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Jun 06 14:50:17 2007 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS

Re: SWIG: Python 2.5

2007-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > SWIG maintainer, > > Support for Python 2.5 was added to SWIG in >= 1.3.30, but the distro > has curr: 1.3.29-2. As Python 2.5 is now in the distro, a SWIG update > is imperative to those of us building Python extensions. The Subversion Python bindings build fine,

replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Jerome Fong
Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is, I have scripts and programs developed and tested on my cygwin install. I want to be able to deploy everything that I am running on my machine.

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is, I have scripts and programs developed and tested on my cygwin install. I want to be able to deploy everything that

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:03:22PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: >> Hi There, >> >> I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin >> installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is, >> I have scripts and programs devel

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine]

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnstein
- Forwarded message from Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I would not suggest using "zip" as the mechanism for backing up and restoring. As has been noted 10497 times in this mailing list Windows ZIP does not properly save the bits needed to recreate things like symlinks. And, we'

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
[ Reply to the list please! ] David Arnstein wrote: > Will this alternate method work? I am thinking about trying this. > > 1. Archive the "Local Package Directory" that features in setup.exe. > 2. Restore the above to the new computer. Preserve file structure, but >don't worry about permiss

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Jerome Fong
Sorry, I'm not sure what am I suppose to tar up? Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:03:22PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a di

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:15:35PM -0700, Jerome Fong wrote: > Sorry, I'm not sure what am I suppose to tar up? You can't even hazard a guess? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jerome Fong wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:03:22PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is