DBDOracle error on 1.3.22, ok on 1.3.20

2003-03-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I just upgraded from 1.3.20 to 1.3.22 and noticed the the DBDoracle module (1.13 and 1.12( Oracle.dll) fails on the new version. I tried recompiling agianst the same libraries on both cygwins, and though the compile gives the same output and result under both, the dll fails to load under 1.3.12

Re: DBDOracle error on 1.3.22, ok on 1.3.20

2003-03-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:59 PM Subject: DBDOracle error on 1.3.22, ok on 1.3.20 > I just upgraded from 1.3.20 to 1.3.22 and noticed the the DBDoracle module > (1.13 and 1.12( Oracle.dll) fails on the new v

rsync reliablility issue

2003-03-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
cygwin 1.3.22, I know the list hates rsync questions/problems ( is there is a better list for this?) but... I have been having somewhat aqrbitrary but continued reliability issues with rsync, I've been trying to use rsync to synchronize a fairly large number of machines from a central server.

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Bruce Dobrin
e/dobrin> echo $CYGWIN binmode tty ntsec nosmbntsec >From the Local cygwin window: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/dobrin> cd //margalo1/vol0/vol810 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/margalo1/vol0/vol810> Bruce Dobrin - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-30 Thread Bruce Dobrin
one's foreach loop thru a cracking program). representative passwd entries: SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: dobrin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11014:10512:Brucester,U-PRODUCTION\dobrin,S-1-5- 21-501104424-1911818820-14498641-1014:/home/dobrin:/bin/bash Thanks Bruce

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Here are

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Sorry, On re-reading that, it's not as clear as it could be, the example used in the previous e-mail ( below) was on a later version of cygwin, it is not the 1.3.2 machine referred to earlier in the message. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
e confused than ever... - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Sorry, On re-reading that, it's not as clear as it could b

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
cmd /view dfsmaster\\dfsshare System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. still confused... - Original Message - From: "Banville, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephen Banville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "&#x

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
exe /view dfsmaster\\dfsshare > poop cat poop \\DFSMASTER\dfsroot \\DFSMASTER\dfsroot\shots\vol780 \\DFSMASTER\dfsroot\pipe\usr_pasquini\trash The command completed successfully. - Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Banville, Step

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
quot; convert everything to windows") I'd really appreciate it.. In any case, Thanks Igor, for the time spent already.. Bruce D. - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

unable to autologin to 2003

2003-06-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
CTED]:/home/dobrin> echo $CYGWIN binmode tty ntsec Is there a known 2003 server issue, I searched the mailing lists pretty carefully, but sisn't turn up anything. telnet and non interactive rsh (rather than rlogin), work fine. Bruce Dobrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: h

rebaseall question/problem

2003-07-17 Thread Bruce Dobrin
(1.3.22-1; XP) Hi all, I run rebaseall and it dosn't seem to find the dll's that I am having grief with, but it does go looking for large number of dll's from a long gone kde2 install. ex /opt/kde2/lib/mega.dll: skipped because nonexistent lot's of these, but no other types of errors. How do

Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Before someone else brings this up: although blanking the "Unused by" does allow anyone to rsh into the machine. It also adds a nasty artifact in that anyone can login as anyone else by using the -l option (rsh hostname -l different_user). It looks like ever since 1.3.2 you have had to use a

xinetd/ init not working for me

2003-01-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
thing up. Oh, inetd works just fine, but I'd like to use xinetd if I could. thanks for any help. Bruce Dobrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http:/

Re: xinetd/ init not working for me

2003-01-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
no, the only 3 messages are: entering runlevel 3 no more processes left at this runlevel `init` service started - Original Message - From: "Sergey Okhapkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday

Re: xinetd/ init not working for me

2003-01-06 Thread Bruce Dobrin
ks, Bruce - Original Message - From: "Sergey Okhapkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 5:41 AM Subject: Re: xinetd/ init not working for me > OK, let's troublesh

Re: xinetd/ init not working for me

2003-01-06 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Thank you! Works perfectly now! - Original Message - From: "Sergey Okhapkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Bruce Dobrin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: RE: xinetd/ init not worki

OCR/Barcode recognition

2003-01-08 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Slightly off topic: I've been trying to compile "gocr" in cygwin with limited success (even when I get it to build, it doesn't work very reliably), has anyone had any luck with another OCR/barcode recognition package in Cygwin? ( I need something to reliably be able to extract barcode data from

xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I'm setting up rsyncd on a 1.3.18 win2000 and an XP box I've setup xinetd and init etc, when I "chkconfig rsync on" I get an immediate bluescreen. is this a known issue? (and is there a known fix?). didn't see anything in the mailing list on rsync and bluescreen or crash or xinet pertaining to t

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-09 Thread Bruce Dobrin
27;ve tryed this now on 6 machines (NT, 2K, XP) of all different configs and it bluescreens on all. - Original Message - From: "Sergey Okhapkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Bruce Dobrin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thur

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-13 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Don't know if this will help, but I went through 3 machines running init and rsync (nt, 2000 and XP) and all of them , at one time or another, I could trigger the blue screen by something as innocuous as : ( with rsync on) Stop init, rm /etc/rc.d/rsync, exit shell, BSOD. I think it odd that I

Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

2003-01-13 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Oh, and all of the 3 test boxes were completely different hardware (nt on a Boxx tech machine, 2k on an IBM workstation, and XP on a dell laptop). - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Re: SFU

2003-01-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I sue the NFS component for SFU on Many machines here (as well as Diskaccess, it's core app). Never had a problem, I've been doing it for 3 years now... - Original Message - From: "Jon LaBadie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:52 AM Su

Re: Linking Perl DBD::Oracle with Oracle 9.2 stropped OCI.DLL

2003-02-24 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I thought the Doc was somewhat convoluted, so I won't say RTFM, though it is all there... here is a quicky: 1 Make sure you have installed the COMPLETE Admin/developer version of 9.2 ( with all libs!!! and headers not just oramts.lib under /ora92/oci/lib/msvc) You must install ALL.. 2 make s

Re: cpu and partition info

2003-02-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
It took me about an hour to change/add enough to the perl GPL "hinv" port to get it to work with cygwin ( hinv v 1.4pre2). example code: #!/usr/bin/perl #open (FD, "/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/DESCRIPTION/System/CentralProces sor"); if (-e "/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWA

Re: cpu and partition info

2003-02-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
ly sent a little as an example...) - Original Message - From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: Re: cpu and partition info > > Thanks,

df & non mounted network drives

2003-03-07 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi, (running on 1.3.20) "df ." seems to work fine on traditionally mounted network drives, but not on UNC (//server/share) drives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/dobrin> cd //billabong/dist [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/billabong/dist> df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on df: `.'

rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9

2004-03-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
around for using the most recent version of rsh ( from 1.3.2-26)? thanks. Bruce Dobrin example: rsync -rluzv -e "rsh" --timeout=100 --size-only matilda:/c/dist_and_install_files/dist/sysadm_general/ /c/ rsh : unknown option -- server -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9

2004-03-29 Thread Bruce Dobrin
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 >From: Igor Pechtchanski >To: Bruce Dobrin >Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:33:05 -0500 (EST) >Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 &g

Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9

2004-03-29 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Thank you Igor! Both of those work perfectly. As usual, you hit it dead on. Bruce D. - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:

Is "Patch" broken?

2004-04-08 Thread Bruce Dobrin
...is my usage broken? I haven't used Patch in a while, but I've been trying to patch DBD::Oracle1.15, and the seemingly innocuous patch is being totally rejected: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/c/temp/DBI/patched-DBDO1.15> patch -p0 -F 3 < pch.1 patching file dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.xs Hunk #1 FAILED at 1

DBD-Oracle error building on cygwin1.5.9

2004-04-22 Thread Bruce Dobrin
eAppend. Well, the patch didn't work for me, and now I'm wondering if there is anyone out there that has gotten this thing to build on cygwin! I'd hate to have to go back to perl 5.6. Thanks Bruce Dobrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: DBD-Oracle error building on cygwin1.5.9

2004-04-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
to "OCILobWriteAppend". so: Remove liboci.a (created when you run "perl Makefile.pl", but not removed on "clean"). Add: OCILobWriteAppend to the oci.def file. and everything should work. ( at least it does for us) - Original Message - From: "B

shell cmds crapping out with large numbers of files

2004-05-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
{uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 THEODOLITE 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin } I need to process very large numbers ( up to 100,000) of imagefiles. I noticed my foreach loops start crapping out when the number of files grows near 1500. It feels like a 32bit memory addressing

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
1: got message "cannot open (null) for reading." message a couple of times when installing from a local (network) directory onto a new XP machine, followed by a failiar message indicating more info in setup.log.full. Nothing out of the ordinary noted in that file. 2: the dropdown for each

slow cygwin rcp/fast w2k rcp

2002-03-15 Thread Bruce Dobrin
mB/s)). We don't notice a particular speed difference between the two on our 100mb machines, in fact, cygwin's rcp is much faster over the 100mb (about 4mB/s) than it is on the gigabit. I tryed it on a different brand of gig-e card and had nearly the same results. Any ideas? Bruc

Rsync from cmd prompt

2002-05-01 Thread Bruce Dobrin
/temp/poop" And a few othter permutations local to local it works fine. Anyone have a suggestion? I'm sure I just have a syntax problem. (1.3.10) Thanks Bruce Dobrin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.co

"+" entry doesn't work in hosts.equiv

2002-09-18 Thread Bruce Dobrin
over 2000 constantly changing hosts, and keeping the hosts.equiv updated is a bit of a nightmare.. (I've been getting around this for the last number of months by having an empty passwd field in passwd file, but this is a bad solution) Thank you, Bruce Dobrin -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: cygwin and XP

2001-12-21 Thread Bruce Dobrin
lly tell it to re-install) Bruce Dobrin - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Cary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:50 PM Subject: Re: cygwin and XP

Fingerd?

2002-01-04 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Is there or has anyone out there had any luck compiling fingerd? If not, does anyone know of a good non-cygwin alternative. I checked the list and found very little on this.. Thanks Bruce Dobrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Finger

2002-01-07 Thread Bruce Dobrin
ows me to run another program instead of "finger" if I can find one has anyone got any ideas? thanks Bruce Dobrin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

recent rshd/mkpasswd

2002-02-01 Thread Bruce Dobrin
27;t bring up any of my recent list additions I hope I haven't asked so many stupid questions that I'm being filtered:)) Thanks for any help Bruce Dobrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http:/

RE: Re: PerlTk under Cygwin?

2005-11-16 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Don't know if you have solved this yet, but there is a special build that does indeed work. It is a version of tk800.025 with a patch. I can't find it right now but I found it with a bit of digging about 2 weeks ago. There was a tk800.024 for native win and tk804.xx for X11. they both seem t

RE: PerlTk under Cygwin?

2005-11-16 Thread Bruce Dobrin
aakov S (Cygwin Ports) Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:05 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: PerlTk under Cygwin? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Dobrin wrote: > It is a version of tk800.025 with a patch. I can't find it right now > but I found it with

Cygwin Setup Command Line

2005-12-28 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi all, Is there anything new in automating Cygwin setup since the short command line list at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00526.html (Referenced in the Cygwin-apps Homepage)? ... And do these commands still work? Since this is a slow week I'm once again digging into tryi

RE: Cygwin Setup Command Line

2005-12-28 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Larry Hall (Cygwin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 4:18 PM To: Bruce Dobrin Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup Command Line On 12/28/2005, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > Is there anything new in automating Cygwin setup since the short > command line list at: > h

Tcsh .history file growing out of control

2006-01-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi All, This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that is 4 to 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once again right in the world.

RE: Tcsh .history file growing out of control

2006-01-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
rowing out of control Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Hi All, > > This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last > 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I > can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file tha

Perl NET::SERVER module acts strangly in cygwin

2006-02-23 Thread Bruce Dobrin
HI All, Perhaps this is the wrong list for this, but as it is Cygwin specific... Anyone have any experience with the perl NET::SERVER module? I have been re-writing some of my perl servers using the NET::SERVER::PREFORK (v.90)module. All is well on Linux but in Cygwin (1.5.18) everything works f

"Last" or equiv for Windows login?

2006-05-04 Thread Bruce Dobrin
on any given remote machine... But I can't figure out how to find out who is/was logged into the windows console (desktop or whatever you want to call it). Any ideas? Thanks Bruce Dobrin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

RXVT copy/paste issue

2006-06-29 Thread Bruce Dobrin
So it seems that rxvt (native win) copy paste now works independently on each rxvt window. How do I get the selection into the clipboard. I am used to being able to copy paste between rxvt windows and other windows apps. I dug through the recent mailing lists and don't think I found anything that

Perl failure

2006-07-12 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi, I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 to XP sp3 and cyg1.5.19 (to be fare, I also cleaned up the perl code a bit). The script checks versioning and build info on about 600+ windows systems.

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Bruce Dobrin
, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on > cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 > to XP sp3 and cyg1.5.19 (to be fare, I also cleaned up the perl code > a b

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Dobrin
: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl failure On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:53:09AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl > > on

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-19 Thread Bruce Dobrin
s >>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:06 AM >>To: cygwin@cygwin.com >>Subject: Re: Perl failure >> Bruce Dobrin wrote: >>>Hi, I stripped down the code to a small testable bit. The problem seems to >>>occur when I reach 256 forks on a cygwin1.5.18 or 19 but not on

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-20 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Sorry Corinna But actually, I never saw your reply, which is odd since I keep all the cygwin.com mailing list items for a week, but I also have only ever seen 1 of my own additions to the thread(!), and I never received my initial email through the mailing list and only got confirmation that it

Is there a physical port aware terminal program in cygwin

2004-10-08 Thread Bruce Dobrin
We hate HyperTerminal, is there a cygwin alternative for talking over a serial port? Agetty handles the other end so well, I'd love to get a terminal program for accessing serial devices. Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://c

RE: Program to "talk" to serial port?

2004-10-19 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I got it working with very helpful suggestions from list people last week. You need to unpack on a linux box and change every reference to reserve word "aux" to something else, next comment out the tweak the code to disable the root checking, like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/c/temp/minicom/minico

RE: Perl-tk?

2004-11-18 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I've been using the tk800 native windows functionality for years with cygwin. You just have to recompile/install with each perl change. If I remember correctly, with the most recent cygwin/perl/tk800.024, I haven't even had to patch it. The big headache is that you need to play games with rebase

Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

2005-04-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
se 0x0, m.BaseAddress 0x6181, m.RegionSize 0x46, m.State 0x1 I tried rebasing the mplayer stuff and also recompiling. All for naught. I'd hate to re install cygwin If I don't have to. Thanks. Bruce dobrin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

RE: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

2005-04-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I did use rebaseall -T /usr/local/bin But I've always been a bit hazy as to what the proper format for rebaseall was -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:14 PM To: Bruce Dobrin; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Any f

RE: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

2005-04-26 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Re: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall? Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > I did use rebaseall -T /usr/local/bin > > But I've always been a bit hazy as to what the proper format for > rebaseall was That won't work. The argument to -T is a filename of a file

RE: Customize setup program. Autoinstall

2007-11-06 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Because I keep seeing this, and because at least once a year I have to fight through the disparate and confusing documentations and various mail logs. Here is how I use setup for unattended FULL and custom installs, with examples: The key command you are looking for looks something like this:

Update apparently not current

2008-03-19 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Has the cygwin1 been reverted to -7? Are these fixes in the -11? Am I crazy (don't answer that)? Bruce Dobrin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FA

RE: Update apparently not current

2008-03-19 Thread Bruce Dobrin
, 2008 11:26 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Update apparently not current Bruce Dobrin wrote on 19 March 2008 18:16: > Hi, > I just tried to update from 1.5.25-7 to 1.5.25-11 using the installer > pointed at http\\:mirrors.kernel.org and although it did upgrade some > things ( at

Magnetic tape tools

2008-11-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I found a need to read Tar Archives from a LTO 4 tape and only had a Vista Box to do it. After messing around with SFU, gnu-tar etc I installed Cygwin and As expected, was able to mt to filemark 117 and begin extraction (/dev/nst0). Which was better than I could do with any other tool, the P

RE: identical scripts don't behave identically

2009-07-08 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I'll bet one has a carriage return ( and/or line feed) and the other doesn't which would fail on an incomplete last line. I've been burned by this many times. Always end the script by hitting the enter to avoid this. -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...

Re Graphics Magic on Vista

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I noticed that others had a problem running Graphics Magick (gm.exe) on Vista but saw no solution in my search of site:cygwin.com. It appears to me that (for once) Vista isn't completely fault. If you do a cygcheck on gm.exe you will noticed "Error: could not find cygdpstk-1.dll". I found this o

RE: How to make GraphicsMagick ('gm.exe') work? and 'cygdpstk-1.dll'

2008-04-22 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Ideally, the maintainer will note this thread and take action. Bruce -Original Message- From: Lee D. Rothstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:04 PM To: Cygwin Cc: Bruce Dobrin Subject: Re: How to make GraphicsMagick ('gm.exe') work? and 'cygdpstk-1.dll

RE: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

2008-05-20 Thread Bruce Dobrin
If all you really want is to get this to work then I should mention that Wget appears to want lowercase (http_proxy rather than HTTP_PROXY) as well as wanting the USE PROXY set to "on" in the .wgetrc file. You could script your various rc files to change case, or you could just set the proxy in t

Can't make Wodim see my cd

2008-05-27 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi all, I noticed that the newest release includes the cdrecord replacement wodim. This is nice because I'm sort of stuck when I want record DVD's. Here is the issue: I'm on Vista Ult. A version of cdrecord that I built myself back when Dinosaurs ruled the earth (WDRE) runs great, but doe

Defrag and some other exe not seen by cygwin on XP64

2008-11-13 Thread Bruce Dobrin
This is weird I couldn't find it in my search of the site; I was on a XP64 machine and tried to run the defrag command from the Cygwin shell and it could not locate the command. I could see the command via the cmd shell. Below I cd usng the cmd shell on 64bit XP and using ls it is not seen a