AW: line.exe is missing

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Maier
> > after upgrading Cygwin the file /bin/line.exe is not there any more. > > It used to be there. > > > > Could you please check what has happened to this file? > > On the main Cygwin web page, to the left side there is a link to "Search > Packages". If you click that link and in the resulting s

Re: AW: line.exe is missing

2012-07-22 Thread Cliff Hones
On 22/07/2012 14:33, Paul Maier wrote: > I found out, that line.exe is in the package util-linux-2.17.2-1. > (http://cygwin.com/packages/util-linux/util-linux-2.17.2-1) > > But I automatically got the newer version util-linux-2.21-1 from the mirror, > where line.exe is _not_ included: > http://cy

Re: FAQ and Documentation translation to other languages

2012-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > I've wondered about this. My experience with Google Translate on > non-technical text to French (which I speak reasonably, though far from > fluently) is that it often works very well, though occasionally it > generates a bit of utter nonsense. It

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Linda Walsh! > I sometimes use "rmdir *" to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail

Re: problem with run.exe in Windows-startup (Autostart) directory

2012-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Paul Maier! > When I start a run.exe command manually, it hides fine both, the window and > the task bar entry; > but I have 3 scripts containing run.exe commands in the Windows startup > (autostart) folder, and there one (only one) script brings up an unwanted > entry in the task bar

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 22/07/2012 16:08, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! I sometimes use "rmdir *" to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions.

AW: problem with run.exe in Windows-startup (Autostart) directory

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Maier
> Greetings, Paul Maier! > > > When I start a run.exe command manually, it hides fine both, the window and > > the task bar entry; > > but I have 3 scripts containing run.exe commands in the Windows startup > > (autostart) folder, and there one (only one) script brings up an unwanted > > entry in

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! I sometimes use "rmdir *" to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions. You ar

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> Greetings, Linda Walsh! >> >>> I sometimes use "rmdir *" to clean up empty dir's. >> >> >> There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of >> directory removal in many cases. >> I would say, you

Problems building a program (see enclosed)

2012-07-22 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! This output from the script program is a capture of the attempts to build the PC side of a program called dc-load-1.0.3 which was written about ten years ago for the users of the Dreamcast, itself a former video game from Sega. --- $ make make -C misc make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/

Re: FAQ and Documentation translation to other languages

2012-07-22 Thread SPC
On the comments of Andrey, I've started with the translation into Spanish (from Spain) this afternoon. I have used the Google translator for a first translation and then review the results in detail. In this case the translation to Spanish provided by Google was acceptable. Of course, I didn't fro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.1-1

2012-07-22 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** emacs-24.1-1 *** emacs-X11-24.1-1 *** emacs-el-24.1-1 In addition, I have added the package *** emacs-debuginfo-24.1-1 for users who want to debug emacs with gdb. Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, mode

Cygwin site aesthetic error?

2012-07-22 Thread Andy
Visited http://www.cygwin.com. The navigation pane along the left shows white text on cyan background for both FF & IE. I checked my flat-panel display at http://www.ledr.com/colours/multi.htm and it doesn't seem to be the problem. I don't recall the site being coloured in such a hard-to-read ma

Re: Cygwin site aesthetic error?

2012-07-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Andy wrote: > Visited http://www.cygwin.com. The navigation pane along the left shows white > text on cyan background for both FF & IE. I checked my flat-panel display at > http://www.ledr.com/colours/multi.htm and it doesn't seem to be the problem. > I > don't

Re: Cygwin site aesthetic error?

2012-07-22 Thread Andy
Earnie Boyd users.sourceforge.net> writes: >On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Andy wrote: >> Visited http://www.cygwin.com. The navigation pane along the left >> shows white text on cyan background for both FF & IE. > > I don't see an issue in IE or Chrome. You might try clearing the > cached br

Re: AW: problem with run.exe in Windows-startup (Autostart) directory

2012-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Paul Maier! > With "scripts" I mean: > In the folder "C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start > Menu\Programs\Startup\" > I have 2 files with ending .lnk. They are normal Windows links. In their > execute line they have the following: > 1.) D:\Programme\cygwin\bin\run.exe

Re: Irssi returns error message after Perl update

2012-07-22 Thread Reini Urban
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: > After recently updating Perl to the most recent version (5.14.2-3), > I've noticed that Irssi (0.8.15-2) will return > the following error message: > > /usr/bin/irssi.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > cygperl5_10.dll: cannot open s

perl-libwin32 not in setup.ini

2012-07-22 Thread Pach Roman (DGS-EC/ESG2)
Hi, there is no entry for perl-libwin32 in the last setup.ini with setup-timestamp: 1342941674 Roman Pach -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: perl-libwin32 not in setup.ini

2012-07-22 Thread Pach Roman (DGS-EC/ESG2)
Sorry, my mistake, all is OK, the entry is included Roman Pach -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple