Please help with 4NT and Cygwin problem?? (WinXP)

2004-08-03 Thread Daniel Miller
I'm running 4NT (current version) on a Windows XP system. Recently I got a spyware program on my machine which messed some things up. I removed the spyware, but I find that I cannot run any Cygwin utilities from the 4NT prompt anymore. When I run a program (such as cat, strace, gcc, make, et

Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP)

2004-08-03 Thread Daniel Miller
CyberZombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > OT: Any reason why you haven't moved to the Cygwin bash shell? IMO, > it's much better than 4NT (my prior command-line-of-choice prior to > Cygwin)... > No, I find 4NT to be more flexible than BASH... filename completion is

Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP)

2004-08-03 Thread Daniel Miller
CyberZombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>No, I find 4NT to be more flexible than BASH... filename completion is >>handier, especially when multiple filenames match what you type; >>editing of environment variables (especially PATH) with eset is >>unmatched by Bash, and t

Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP)

2004-08-03 Thread Daniel Miller
t says: 4NT 5.00U Windows XP 5.1 4NT Build 125 Windows XP Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Registered to Daniel Miller S/N CD600342 Looks like I'm running Windows XP, doesn't it?? That's what *I* thought... - But, when I run cygdrive -s, it says: Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics C

Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP) - 2 attachments

2004-08-04 Thread Daniel Miller
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:29:41AM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote: >>- If I run "ver /r" from the 4NT window, with my current directory on >>c: \ (which is my WinXP boot drive), it says: >>

Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP) - 2 attachments

2004-08-04 Thread Daniel Miller
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>gateway to this list. > > I found this in your cygcheck output as one of your environment > variables in the failing 4NT case: > > __COMPAT_LAYER = `Win98 DisableThemes ' > > This is the cause of your problems. I don't

problem with find/grep

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel Miller
On linux systems, I typically to global searches with a command such as: find . -name "*.[ch]*" -exec grep -H -n stuff {} \; and this works nicely. However, when I try the same command under Cygwin (from a 4NT prompt, not Bash), I get "find: missing argument to '-exec' ". I tried a vari

Bash: when is WinXP not WinXP??

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel Miller
I've been using WinXP Pro for awhile now, with few problems. Now, however, I'm using WinXP Home on one of our systems, and I keep finding things that work differently on it, which is *very* annoying... The most recent problem is running one of my Windows console utilities under Bash. Under WX

RE: Bash: when is WinXP not WinXP??

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel Miller
"Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Daniel Miller >> Sent: 12 October 2004 19:06 > >> Does anyone have any idea what XPHome is doing in the Bash >>

RE: Bash: when is WinXP not WinXP??

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel Miller
"Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Daniel Miller >> Sent: 12 October 2004 19:06 > >> under Bash. Under WXPPro/Bash it worked fine. However, under Home &

When is WinXP not WinXP?? - not *really* OT

2004-10-13 Thread Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I propose that this is *not* really off-topic, since the problems that I'm experiencing do not occur in cmd.exe, nor in 4NT, only in Bash. So it's something Bash is doing in its environment that is breaking S

Re: When is WinXP not WinXP?? - not *really* OT

2004-10-13 Thread Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Daniel Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I propose that this is *not* really off-topic, since the problems that > I'm experiencing do not occur in cmd.exe, nor

Re: When is WinXP not WinXP?? - not *really* OT

2004-10-13 Thread Daniel Miller
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>> Daniel Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>> >>> I propose that this is *not* really off-topic, since the problems that >>> I&#x

Re: problem with find/grep

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel Miller \(IMI\)
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Daniel Miller wrote: > > > On linux systems, I typically to global searches with a command such as: > > > > find . -name "*.[ch]*" -exec grep -H -n stuff {} \; > > > > and this works nicely. However, when I try the same co