gnuplot 4.2.2

2007-09-14 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Dear Dr. Volker Zell The gnuplot 4.2.2 has been released. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055 There is the cygwin version on that web. Is there a plan this version gnuplot to be intallabel from the setup? Sincerely yours Tatsuro MATSUOKA

Re: Cygwin-bug#20070914T0555: mksh getop bug

2007-09-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jari Aalto dixit: >I've ported mksh to Cygwin and we're considerign including it in the >distributions. Thanks, that’s great. Could you let me have a look at that, just out of interest, as I haven’t really understood the Cygwin packaging process myself, otherwise I had submitted one earlier. >Th

Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread D
I have installed a program called Fontforge (An outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I would like to update the editor, but when I try the uninstall commands cygwin does not uninstall the program can some provide help as to how to

Re: gnuplot 4.2.2

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Tatsuro MATSUOKA writes: > Dear Dr. Volker Zell > The gnuplot 4.2.2 has been released. > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055 > There is the cygwin version on that web. > Is there a plan this version gnuplot to be intallabel from the setup? It sh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-4.2.2-1

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* D (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:25:59 -0700 (PDT)) > I have installed a program called Fontforge (An > outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in > order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I > would like to update the editor, but when I try the > uninstall commands cygwin does not uni

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread D
--- Thorsten Kampe wrote: > It's not a part of the official Cygwin distribution. So how can we > know how to uninstall the program? > > A sufficient problem description would be fine. What happens when you > issue this command and why does it not uninstall the program? > > On the other han

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* D (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:56:03 -0700 (PDT)) > --- Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > It's not a part of the official Cygwin distribution. So how can we > > know how to uninstall the program? > > > A sufficient problem description would be fine. What happens when you > > issue this command and why does i

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Lou Losee
On 9/14/07, D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed a program called Fontforge (An > outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in > order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I > would like to update the editor, but when I try the > uninstall commands cygwin does not uninst

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Andrew DeFaria (Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:25 -0700) > >> Much less than the possibility of scp being present. And I'm not > >> necessarily against the idea of "well go out and get a working copy > >> of these programs" but often clients

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - > Command line tool. IOW why go through the bother to set up an sftp > server (I assume that needs to be set up) and picking and getting an - - - - - cut - - - - - vi /etc/sshd_config uncomment line: Subsystem sftp

RE: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 13:56, D wrote: > When I tried to ask the developer of the program how to remove the program > he indicated that the problem was not with fontforge, but with Cygwin, He is wrong. The command he provided is a simple delete of all the files that the installer should have

Re: gnuplot 4.2.2

2007-09-14 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
"Dr. Volker Zell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It should be mirrored soon. Thanks! I'll wait for it. Tatsuro -- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

RE: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 15:14, Dave Korn wrote: > On 14 September 2007 13:56, D wrote: > >> When I tried to ask the developer of the program how to remove the program >> he indicated that the problem was not with fontforge, but with Cygwin, > > He is wrong. > > The command he provided is a sim

Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-14 Thread Marko Loparic
Hello, Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin problem I have? I have tried to contact Red Hat but they did not seem interested in offering support for the type of problem I have (or perhaps I didn't reach the right person...). It is described in the cygwin list: http://cyg

'rm' immune to .exe magic?

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Just checking: is rm supposed to ignore exe magic, then? /artimi/software/firmware $ cp /bin/ls.exe /usr/local/bin/a2.exe (Makes no difference if I use "cp /bin/ls /usr/local/bin/a2" either). /artimi/software/firmware $ a2

Re: drag and drop to cygwin scripts ?

2007-09-14 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Keith Chiem wrote: Is it possible to write a script in cygwin, say bash or perl, create a shortcut to it in windows, and drag and drop a path or a url to it and have the script run and take it as an argument somehow ? --k If you drag and drop files onto a batch script, Windows will run th

reinstallation fail: cygwin1.dll not found

2007-09-14 Thread Zhen Cao
Dear all, I have installed cygwin on the folder "D:\cygwin", and it is okay but I have forgot to install "make". Maybe a mistake to delete all the contents in "D:\cygwin", but unfortunately I did. After I reinstall cygwin from scratch (also in d:\cygwin), I cannot use the shortcut on the desktop

Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello, I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as possible) on Cygwin and Linux. A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting output to the null device, or bit-bucket. If I write the following ls > nul It works as expected under Cygwin, h

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Lewis Hyatt
I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because every script would have to check for this... Any advice? Puzzled about nothing. J D

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Louie
> Did you check the Cygwin User's Guide? > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html > > It sort of explains it. > > -Jason > I wonder if this problem I'm having with postgresql is related: $initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by

RE: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 16:24, Andrew Louie wrote: >> Did you check the Cygwin User's Guide? >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html >> >> It sort of explains it. >> >> -Jason >> > > I wonder if this problem I'm having with postgresql is related: This line of reasoning is ju

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/14/07, Lewis Hyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the > > scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users > > create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because > > every script would hav

RE: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 16:09, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: > If I write the following > > ls > nul > > It works as expected under Cygwin, however under Linux I must write > > ls > /dev/null 'NUL' is a DOS device name, like COM1; cygwin implicitly supports it because when it passes the open call

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as > possible) on Cygwin and Linux. > > A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting > output to the null device, or bit-bucket. > > If I write the fo

Re: 'rm' immune to .exe magic?

2007-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > > > Just checking: is rm supposed to ignore exe magic, then? For now, yes. I tried it once, according to /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/coreutils- 6.9.README: -- coreutils-5.3.0-5 -- 2005-04-14 - Revert rm(1) implicit .exe handling, it broke libtool

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; seems like a compelling reason if you are going to be doing complex transfers, but if you are more familiar and comfortable with scp, then

Re: reinstallation fail: cygwin1.dll not found

2007-09-14 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Zhen Cao wrote: > I have installed cygwin on the folder "D:\cygwin", and it is okay but > I have forgot to install "make". Maybe a mistake to delete all the > contents in "D:\cygwin", but unfortunately I did. > > After I reinstall cygwin from scratch (also in d:\cygwin), I can

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: > DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not > > > > that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; > > seems like a compelling reason if you are going to be doing complex > > transfers, but if

can't boot gvim after cygwin update

2007-09-14 Thread kafe
Hi, recently I had my cygwin updated for cygnome. But after updating I can't start gvim in Xterm. It displays like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gvim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ And nothing happens. I tried to reinstall gvim from cygwin setup.exe. Problem remains. Thanks for your help! -- Unsubscribe in

RE: can't boot gvim after cygwin update

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 15:52, kafe wrote: > Hi, recently I had my cygwin updated for cygnome. But after updating I can't > start gvim in Xterm. It displays like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ gvim > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ > > And nothing happens. It's quite likely if you were to type "echo $?

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian Mathis wrote: On 9/14/07, Lewis Hyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because every script wo

RE::RE:can't boot gvim after cygwin update

2007-09-14 Thread kafe
Sorry I don't know how to reply here. I click "follow up" it just says "No such file" first, I don't get 53 but 57 after calling gvim. and the result is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gvim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $? 57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cygcheck 'which gvim' Error: could not find which gvim [EM

scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Sam Snitman
I am trying to use command line scp and sftp on a Windows NT 5.2 server that has cygwin installed. When I enter the ‘scp’ command or the 'sftp' command, it gives me the usage as if they are installed, however, when I try to connect to a remote server using the command ‘scp filename1 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Sam Snitman wrote: > I am trying to use command line scp and sftp on a > Windows NT 5.2 server that has cygwin installed. When > I enter the ‘scp’ command or the 'sftp' command, it > gives me the usage as if they are installed, however, > when I try to connect to a remote server using the > comma

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Sam Snitman
Brian, Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by "however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. > That's definitely not right" Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can you please elaborate what mounts are and about how to/risks of changing them to point to d:\cygwin inste

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Sam Snitman <> wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by > "however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. > > That's definitely not right" > > Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can > you please elaborate what mounts are and about how > to/r

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Sam Snitman wrote: > Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by > "however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. > > That's definitely not right" It means that when scp refers to /usr/bin/ssh it will be actually be looking for d:/cygwin2/bin/ssh.exe which -- I'm guessing -- doesn't ex

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Sam Snitman
Brian, Not sure why we have cygwin2 directory. There does not appear to be much under this directory only tmp and var directories and a log directory under var. I will check out the mount command. Thanks for your help. Thanks, Sam --- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Snitman wrot

Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

2007-09-14 Thread LDR
Brad wrote: Hi. I've just recently installed cygwin and I'd like to ask a few questions about networking. I've installed practically all the Cygwin packages but I'm frustrated by a couple of trivial little problems. For example, when I do a ping host the host can't be found; I have to put

RE: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread D
So basically take the command that is at the bottom and use that instead because I am on windows xp? --- Dave Korn wrote: > On 14 September 2007 15:14, Dave Korn wrote: > > > On 14 September 2007 13:56, D wrote: > > > >> When I tried to ask the developer of the program how to remove the pro

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: sftp gives you a familiar FTP shell; it is not just a command you run I understand that. you can list the files on the remote system and make decisions about what files you want instead of requiring that knowledge beforehand Simple. Just ssh ls /path. compare sftp>

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 9/14/07, D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So basically take the command that is at the bottom and use that instead > because I am on > windows xp? This has NOTHING to do with Windows XP. you went a traditional route to install from sources. a simple 'make uninstall' should suffice (in all good t

[BUG] python-2.5.1-2 file usr/bin/python2.5-config

2007-09-14 Thread René Berber
There is an obvious bug on the first line of that script. --- usr/bin/python2.5-config.orig 2007-09-15 03:58:10.671875000 + +++ usr/bin/python2.5-config2007-09-15 03:58:41.640625000 + @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/tmp/python.6884/usr/bin/python2.5.exe +#!/bin/python2.5.exe import sys im