Re: Network drive issue -- 'no such host or network path'

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
>> I use cygwin on a computer with mapped network drives. In the cygwin shell, I >> can list the contents of local drives, but not that of mapped network drives, >> even though I have no problem in DOS. It's frustrating because I can't use >> tab completion on a file on a network drive either. >>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New package {libarpack-devel,libarpack0}-96-1

2009-06-30 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi, The arpack library is now available for cygwin-1.7. The version 96-1 of libarpack-devel, libarpack0 have been uploaded. It is one of the package needed to fully compile Octave-3.2.x DESCRIPTION ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue p

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New package {libqrupdate-devel,llibqrupdate0}-1.0.1-1

2009-06-30 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi, The qrupdate library is now available for cygwin-1.7. The version 1..0.1-1 of libqrupdate-devel, libqrupdate have been uploaded. It is one of the package needed to fully compile Octave-3.2.x DESCRIPTION QRUPDATE IS A LIBRARY FOR FAST UPDATING OF QR AND CHOLESKY DECOMPOSITIONS HOMEPAGE

[ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.7] Updated: {octave,octave-devel,octave-doc}-3.2.0-2

2009-06-30 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions of {octave,octave-devel,octave-doc}-3.2.0-2 for cygwin-1.7 are available in the Cygwin distribution: This is a major relase versus previous 3.0.x For all the main changes http://www.gnu..org/software/octave/NEWS-3.2.html DESCRIPTION The GNU Octave language for numerical computat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.7] Updated: octave-forge-20090607-2

2009-06-30 Thread Marco Atzeri
New version of octave-forge-20090607-2 for cygwin-1.7 is available in the Cygwin distribution: This release is for octave 3.2.0 The octave-forge project contains contributed functions for GNU Octave which are not in the main distribution. Full documentation and FAQ are available at: http://

Re: Bug: /registry file system doesn't return len of default value of keys

2009-06-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 29 15:22, Linda Walsh wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 28 20:25, Linda Walsh wrote: >>> Known bug? Is it in the queue to be fixed someday? :-) >> >> Works in Cygwin 1.7 > > Hmmm...its still in testing? How stable is it? Quite stable, with kinks. I venture the guess t

Re: [ot] Permissions issue

2009-06-30 Thread Dave Korn
Jason Pyeron wrote: > On the local disk, C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\workspace\nitams\x.txt > > In wordpad I choose save and I get access denied. Please report bugs in wordpad to Microsoft, not us. (Well, I guess you did tag it OT!) > 22:29:45 wordpad.exe:2664QUERY INFORM

Re: Call for TESTING (was Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so)

2009-06-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 29 12:59, Warren Young wrote: > I scp'd a 1.6 GB file back and forth to a Linux server over GigE to a > fast new RAID-10. I tested 1.7.0-50 and 20090629. > > Results: > > On a 32-bit XP box, 1.7.0-50 gives about 15 MByte/sec for both upload > and download. (This box can't really hit Gi

RE: [ot] Permissions issue

2009-06-30 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:46 > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > On the local disk, C:\Documents and Settings\All > > Users\workspace\nitams\x.txt > > > > In wordpad I choose save and I get access denied. > > Please report bugs in wordpad to Mi

Re: git checkout problem

2009-06-30 Thread gauthier
Whitman, Steve wrote: > > I've been using git for a few weeks now and recently ran into a problem > that I just can't workaround. I tried updating to the cygwin 1.7 > release hoping that this would fix the issue but it didn't. I found > that a checkout of a branch "new_file_system" from the ma

Re: [ot] Permissions issue

2009-06-30 Thread Dave Korn
Jason Pyeron wrote: >> Jason Pyeron wrote: >>> On the local disk, C:\Documents and Settings\All >>> Users\workspace\nitams\x.txt >>> >>> In wordpad I choose save and I get access denied. >> Please report bugs in wordpad to Microsoft, not us. (Well, >> I guess you did tag it OT!) > > It is ma

Re: Network drive issue -- 'no such host or network path'

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
I've noticed a subtle detail to the original problem -- as I said in my first post, I can't list the contents drive U which is mapped to a network share (and therefore I can't use tab completion to traverse folders, or synchronise folders with unison etc...). However I've noticed that tab completio

Re: Another lftp issue

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
> >> But my version does dump core on 'cls -ltr'. > > > > Actually it seems to be just 'cls -l' that causes the fault. > > Odd, with 3.7.14 running on Cygwin 1.7.0-50 compiled via gcc-4 works > fine for me (both 'cls -ltr' and 'cls -l'). I've tried with both ftp > and sftp connections. Chris, pl

Re: Another lftp issue

2009-06-30 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mar 30/6/09, Andrew Schulman ha scritto: > Da: Andrew Schulman > Oggetto: Re: Another lftp issue > A: > Data: Martedì 30 giugno 2009, 17:26 > > >> But my version does > dump core on 'cls -ltr'. > > > > > > Actually it seems to be just 'cls -l' that causes > the fault. > > > > Odd, with 3.

Re: Call for TESTING (was Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so)

2009-06-30 Thread Warren Young
Corinna Vinschen wrote: What's still not clear is why the ssh process takes so much CPU. Too many buffer copies? It takes a surprising amount of CPU power to fill a gigabit pipe from userland. Double or triple that workload with unnecessary copies, and there goes your transfer rate, evapora

Re: Another lftp issue

2009-06-30 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Hey Andrew, > Chris, please test my draft lftp 3.7.14 package for 1.7: > > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin-1.7/lftp/lftp-3.7.14-1.tar.bz2 > > I compiled it with gcc-4.  On my XP host with Cygwin 1.7.0-50, this lftp > segfaults when I run > > open ftp.debian.org > cls -l > > Do you see the

RE: [ot] Permissions issue

2009-06-30 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:26 > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > >> Jason Pyeron wrote: > >>> On the local disk, C:\Documents and Settings\All > >>> Users\workspace\nitams\x.txt > >>> > >>> In wordpad I choose save and I get access denied. > >>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.3.5-1

2009-06-30 Thread David Rothenberger
The development package now includes the static libraries. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.3 for more details about the upstream changes DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software l

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {aprutil1,libaprutil1,libaprutil1-devel}-1.3.7-2

2009-06-30 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version the Apache Portable Runtime utilities library is now available for download. This version is built for Cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more details. This package includes plugins for ldap, PostgreSQ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {aprutil1,libaprutil1,libaprutil1-devel}-1.3.7-1

2009-06-30 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version the Apache Portable Runtime utilities library is now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more details. This package includes plugins for ldap, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. It is still linked aga

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.3.5-2

2009-06-30 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version the Apache Portable Runtime is now available for download. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.3 for more details about the upstream changes DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and mainta

Re: Call for TESTING (was Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so)

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Warren Young wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > What's still not clear is why the ssh process takes so much CPU. > > Too many buffer copies? It takes a surprising amount of CPU power to > fill a gigabit pipe from userland. Double or triple that workload with > unnecessary

commanline argument parsing

2009-06-30 Thread grischka
If I compile this snippet: #include int main (int argc, char **argv) { int i; for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i) printf("argv[%d] %s\n", i, argv[i]); return 0; } with cygwin GCC and then run it from CMD prompt: C:\cygwin\home\me> test \"stuff\" it prints this: argv[0] tes

cygwin, minimal resource demands, MinGW, Dev-Cpp, etc.

2009-06-30 Thread Richard Haney
I've been away from the gnu software development efforts for a couple of years, and I'm wondering what the current status of cygwin is as compared to MinGW gcc (and related tools), and Dev-Cpp (alias, Dev C++). Is there any comprehensive discussion comparing the _current_ resources (eg, gcc &

Re: commanline argument parsing

2009-06-30 Thread Haojun Bao
grischka writes: > If I compile this snippet: > > #include > int main (int argc, char **argv) > { > int i; > for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i) > printf("argv[%d] %s\n", i, argv[i]); > return 0; > } > > with cygwin GCC and then run it from CMD prompt: > > C:\cygwin\home\me> test

Re: Another lftp issue

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
> >> But my version does dump core on 'cls -ltr'. > > > > Actually it seems to be just 'cls -l' that causes the fault. > > Odd, with 3.7.14 running on Cygwin 1.7.0-50 compiled via gcc-4 works > fine for me (both 'cls -ltr' and 'cls -l'). I've tried with both ftp > and sftp connections. Gmane see

how to windows login from shell

2009-06-30 Thread Andrwe Lord Weber
Hi, is there a function to login as a user from the cygwin bash-shell? The reason I'm asking is I want to connect to M$ XP using ssh public key authentication. The connection itself is working fine but I can't use shares because of missing rights. I figured out that the login process isn't a r

fork and exec (was: Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc)

2009-06-30 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/6/23 Christopher Faylor: >>If posix_spawn() ever gets implemented in Cygwin to >>avoid the slowness of fork(), /bin/sh might well change to the first >>shell that supports it. > > It's really somewhat of an urban myth about Cygwin's fork being slow. > Cygwin's exec is also pretty slow.  I'm no

Sending data to a script over SSH

2009-06-30 Thread Chap Harrison
This question may well be non-specific to Cygwin, and perhaps more of an SSH or a Unix shell question. If you can suggest a better forum I'd appreciate it! The task is to fill out an Excel worksheet, copy a rectangular portion to the Windows clipboard, have a script read the clipboard, tra

Re: Sending data to a script over SSH

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chap Harrison wrote: This question may well be non-specific to Cygwin, and perhaps more of an SSH or a Unix shell question. If you can suggest a better forum I'd appreciate it! The task is to fill out an Excel worksheet, copy a rectangular portion to the Windows clipboard, have a script read