Make caused invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL

Hi all! I'm new to cygwin mailing list, and I had a problem using make utility. I've found that somebody had asked this before, but I couldn't find any answer to it. When I run make.exe under dos prompt, an error message window jumped out, saying that make.exe caused an page fault.

Re: Make caused invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:55:07 -0500 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I'd direct you to http://cygwin.com/bugs.html. > > Second, it's clear you are not using gcc/binutils for your > compiler/linker so you need to investigate and determine that > the mixed environment that y

Bugs Report: Problems about make utility under cygwin

Hi all! I tried to trace the make's source code, and found something strange. I added -g into Makefile of make source, and in my first attemp I used gdb under cygwin bash shell to run make. I traced into the job.c, line 2276, execvp (argv[0], argv); After running this statement, the program DI

Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter

larly puzzling why you would redirect > this here when there is > no guarantee that the original poster is even > subscribed to cygwin-apps. > > cgf > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:24:30PM -0800, Joshua > Franklin wrote: > >You might also try getting a free-mai

Re: cygwin Digest 9 Jan 2002 12:29:19 -0000 Issue 1677

Try this: start $(cygpath -w $(which notepad)) & or, just start c:\\winnt\\system32\\notepad.exe > leesb@leesb-kr ~ > $ which notepad > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/notepad > > leesb@leesb-kr ~ > $ cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/notepad > c:\WINNT\system32\notepad > > leesb@leesb-kr ~

Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

A while ago I was helping students that were new to bash and UNIX and I wrote a little guide in HTML. Late I put together "Cygwin-Lite" (Cygwin on a floppy) and added the guide. This was before the setup.exe changes that made a minimal install easy. I've stopped updating Cygwin-Lite but I think

possible patch for cygwin.bat

Here's a possible patch to include a couple rxvt lines REMed out. No changelog yet since I figure it needs comments. Anyone? --- desktop.cc-orig Fri Jan 11 10:38:12 2002 +++ desktop.cc Fri Jan 11 10:46:18 2002 @@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ make_cygwin_bat () backslash (concat (get_root_dir

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

> OK, I learned a few valuable lessons in the > couple of days last month it took me to > clue into install-info ("dir is a file?"), and > maybe this is more of a "pons asinorum" than > an "Instructions for opening are on the inside" > situation. > > That being said, I really would have appreciat

RE: $HOME Directory Relocation

> COMMON_DESKTOP=`regtool get > '\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell > Folders\Common Desktop'` > ALLHOME=`cygpath -u "$COMMON_DESKTOP/../.."` Don't know if you care, but the latest version of cygpath has -D and -A options that will output the "All Users' Desktop" dire

Re: cygwin Digest 15 Feb 2002 08:06:45 -0000 Issue 1759

Ralf, Is this presentation public domain? So it could be used in classroom networking classes at a uni to help explain socket programming? I think it could be helpful to others, as well. I think there are a few professors who read the list. > I'm sorry, I doesn't know that. You can find a > vi

Re: cywin!

Well, a quick search of the cygwin mailing list about Java would have unfortunately told you that Java is not "cygwin-aware". I run javac from cmd.exe for this reason. You might try wrapping your Java program in a script like: CMD.EXE /c "javaprog.exe" Hope it helps. --- "pramod m." <[EMAIL PRO

Re: How to create a windows link in script?

> I would like to be able to create a .lnk file to a > batch file (and ideally associate an icon with it) > from a bash script on a Windows 2000 machine. I've written a program that does just this. It's a fully scriptable and can set icons. I'm hoping to get it included in cygwin sometime, but

Re: cygwin!

DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional java developer >There is exactly no advantage to using CMD.exe to >initiate a Java SDK tool, or the Java interpreter of >JRE. I was under the impression that interacting with java's BufferedReader, etc. from within a cygwin bash shell was a Bad Idea because of

RE: How to create a windows link in script?

> The Windows term for these things is 'shortcut'. > Perhaps you want to call your tool mkshortcut? > Yeah, it's longer, but it's less ambiguous than > mklink. There's already enough confusion between > linking executables from object modules and hard and > symbolic links in the file syste

G++ Missing libraries in cygwin

programs that I have on my machine. Is this a known issue? Do you have any idea what I might be able to do to fix it? If you could let me know I would appreciate it. Thanks, Franklin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

Added setup.exe to User's Guide

I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here: Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment. Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

I put a several people's comments inline here. --- "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, a lot of the problem is probably that it is somewhat mysterious to > >me as well. The way I see it, everyone should use "All Users" unless they > >don't have local Administrators privlidge, r

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

I also added an apostrophe to "Contributor's" at -- 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/

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:23:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >I put a several people's comments inline here. > > I see that you didn't add a link for the CVS wishlist README as I suggested

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:56:00AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > I put a several people's comments inline here. > > I would still make the "Install For" explanation more direct. > Som

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> > I also added an apostrophe to "Contributor's" > > Should be "Contributors'" IMO (multiple contributors - > "intended for _people_") I thought long and hard about this, and decided that I thought that it is a Guide for Each Contributor (singular). But, if there is a general plurality that it

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:54:11PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > Suggestions for wording changes/expansion of the text. I believe most of your suggestions assume that the user has little or no knowledge of Unix. I'm operating under the assumption that most new users have kno

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> > I believe most of your suggestions assume that the user has little or > > no knowledge of Unix. I'm operating under the assumption that most new > > users have knowledge of Unix and will already have run into things like > > \r\n line endings, man, info, etc. > > IMHO my suggestions adds just

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > IMO; Don't _include_ the descriptions for 'cp' and 'mkdir' - instead find a > relevant pointer to earlier/ better/ whatever description. This is what I > wish I've had when I was a new user :-). > Nor do I thin

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:55:22PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, > >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked > >>utilities <

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the > cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is > really wonderful. It is just what we needed. Thanks! I don't rea

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

> C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec) > UID: 400(david) GID: 401(mkpasswd) > 401(mkpasswd) It looks like the your /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group files were not created correctly by the setup.exe postinstall process. Can you describe the process you used to install Cygwin? Oh, and running mkpas

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

ous installations I was able to create the home directory. > And set the variables in bash. > > How would I create the /dev directory and why isnt setup.exe not working > correctly? And why is bash_history in the c drive? > Thanks again, > Dave > > >From: Joshua

Re: Cygwin Newbie Question

--- david sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > passwd file: >david:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-IBM-311IWKNAA4G\david,S-1-5-21-1994407283-2032670471-1942978529-500:/home/david:/bin/bash > > uid=500(shidan) gid=513(None) Well, the above lines together look like a problem to me. I don't know why

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-doc-1.3-3

A new version of the cygwin-doc package is now available. This release includes the new documentation for setup.exe, brings the other documentation up to date, and fixes a few typos. Details about what has changed: -(Joshua Daniel Franklin) * setup-net.sgml: Add documentation for

Re: Most recent release

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:20:48AM +0100, Raymond Mardle wrote: > I'm a long time user of Cygwin (love the product) and yesterday I > installed it on a computer that I personally use, for the first time in > a number of years. I don't know if I did anything wrong but after the > installation ther

Re: Bug in GUI App WinMain Arguements

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:58:27PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > BB wrote: > > Also, according to the "Cygwin Users Guide", I have included the following > > line in the code. > > WinMainCRTStartup() { mainCRTStartup(); } > > It doesnt seem to be called. Is the User Guide correct? The same problem >

Re: [IDEA] Add words to cygwin documentation on how to use windows programs effectively

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:06:46AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Boy, I miss Joshua. It seems like David Starks-Browning is MIA, too, so > our FAQ is falling behind. I'm actually somewhat stable right now, staying with some in-laws with broadband and will be here for about a week. Then in l

Re: Add words to cygwin documentation on how to use windows programs effectively

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:30:07PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Joshua, > > I have a fix for the stylesheets: > > --- stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/html/dbl1ja.dsl~ 2003-07-26 12:21:54.0 +0200 > +++ stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/html/dbl1ja.dsl 2003-07-26 12:20:04.0 +0200 Da

"Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

ion of their complex setup? --There's basically nothing on Java except a sample about translating the CLASSPATH to DOS format. I'm not sure what else to put in. There are no Cygwin-native java compilers, right? Thanks. Joshua Daniel Franklin Attached is the text. __

RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> I would suggest adding a section on the PATH environment and its use > when invoking bash from DOS. I'm not sure what this means... maybe that you need to add c:\cygwin\bin to your DOS PATH to use the binaries from DOS? Could you provide a sample of what you mean? -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:55:13PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > --Q: Does anyone know of a page that lists command line configuration > > utilities included with Windows 95/98/ME vs. Windows NT4/2000/

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > > > I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with > > Windows" section for the User's Guide. > > > > If you'd like

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:18:07AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >If you'd like to look at it as a web page: > ><http://iocc.com/~joshua/tmp/using-effectively.html> > > > >I'm going to be leaving this broadband connection in under 48 hours, >

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > >backslash notation (\\COMPUTER\Printer Share), which must be escaped > > >from shells such as bash (COMPUTER\\Printer Share). If you have a > > > > Rather than talk about es

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User' s Guide section

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's &g

Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User' s Guide section

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:25:57PM -0500, Lisbeth Kellogg wrote: > I think it would be appropriate to discuss --login also. Sorry, but customizing bash is already discussed here: This new section is about Windows, not bash. It is true that u

Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:35:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Once again, having "CYGWIN=tty" isn't meaningful when running rxvt. > here at the end - just to emphasize it. Got it. > Oh... The paragraph about .lnk-files (included below for ref.): > The sentences "feels" long and windi

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

> This is in reply to Christopher Faylor's post > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01430.html > > With this in mind I will like you to consider publishing in the Cygwin FAQ > the guidlines one should use for distributing an (open source) application > outside the official net release. I beli

emacs on cygwin

I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: >Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? > >No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths,

RE: problem with "more" under cygwin-1.3.13-1

> * Jeff Johnston: > > > "set | more" only the first page is shown, it does not display > > > the "More" prompt, and the bash prompt appears at the bottom. > > > Try 1.3.13-2 if you haven't already. > > I'm used 13-2 and I can confirm Jeff's report. More seems to have > broken. I ported 'mo

Re: Is cygwin newlib reentrant??

http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/ IIRC there is some information about reentrancy in libc.info and libm.info -- have you read over that? __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe i

Re: UW imapd and cygwin1.dll 1.3.13-2

> The multiple cygwin1.dll version is generally a good idea, but for old apps > with only binaries available, it was nice to use multiple copies sparingly. > It would be nice to have a CYGWIN variable to disable the strict multiple > cygwin1.dll version checking feature. I don't know if this woul

Re: (minor) English grammatical revisions to htdocs/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. After all of the discussion resulting from your original mention > of documentation patches, I wouldn't have expected that you'd be > surprised by the lack of ChangeLog or sending patches against the wrong > source. > > However, thanks for

Re: Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible tocopy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)

> P.S. As an aside, I've just discovered that the -A flag is ignored or > non-functional on Win98... I'll look into that. A good place to look would be: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH "On Win9x systems with only a single user, -A has no effect; -D and -AD would have th

Cygwin and beginners to Unix (was Re: Window immediately disappears)

> Is there a good web page somewhere that will tell a newbie how to get around in > the shell and instruct him on the basic things he might want to do in it? I wrote this a couple years ago just for that purpose: http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/html/begin.html Even if this "Beginner's Guide"

Re: cygwin + gdb problems

Jennie, In case rebooting didn't fix it... > Starting program: /home/Jennie Nguyen/a.exe ^ I believe gdb may have problems with spaces in the path to the filename. Try moving to /tmp or editing /etc/passwd to remove the space from your /home directory. _

Re: Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)

--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH > > > > "On Win9x systems with only a single user, -A has no effect; -D and -AD > > would hav

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-doc-1.2

A new version of the cygwin-doc package is available for download. This is the first release to include texinfo versions of the cygwin User's Guide and API Reference. The info and man pages in this package are now compressed. Please note that this may cause the standalone info reader ("info") pro

Re: Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin

> I've just installed Cygwin from the Web onto a Windows NT 4.0 machine. I chose > the defaults plus the "man" package. On logging in, some things do not work: > > "man cmd" gives (for cmd = anything) > "/usr/bin/tbl: not found > /usr/bin/groff: not found" > > Both programs are installed, thoug

RE: Trouble with fresh install of Cygwin

> But the other problem persists. Could it be something about permissions? I > have > installed cygwin as a non-admin user (I don't have admin rights on my working > PC... it's a sad world). It certainly sounds like a strange problem. I suspect that: 1. It is not your Cygwin (Unix) permissions

Re: Problem with Win32/UNIX character set

> Yes. Add "codepage:oem" to your CYGWIN environment variable. > P.S. David (Starks-Browning), should this be in the FAQ? > FWIW, I haven't found anything related to codepage:* in the User's Guide > page on the CYGWIN variable, either. Can someone explain the "codepage" settings so I can

Re: Getting a new version of "patch" into cygwin

> The official cygwin copy of Larry Wall's "patch" program is mired at > version 2.5.0 (which was released way back in 1997). The currently > released version is 2.5.4 (which is still from 1999). 2.5.8 is available > from the ftp://alpha.gnu.org website >From searching the cygwin-annouce mailing

CYGWIN=codepage:oem in User's Guide

After researching a bit on the Internet, I think I understand what the codepage is and how it works in the CYGWIN environment variable. Please read this snippit of text meant eventually for http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html and give me any feedback about any errors: codepage:

Re: CYGWIN=codepage:oem in User's Guide

--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about the following (fixes small typos and adds the upcoming > codepage:none option): This looks good though I'd like to wait until "none" is actually a valid option for people reading the User's Guide. Thanks for the feedback. __

Re: cygwin

--- Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to cygwin. I have it all installed. > I was hoping I could take an ELF executable that I > made on my linux box and just run it in the cygwin > environment. No, Cygwin can only run Windows executables. What you're looking for is something like L

Re: cygwin

Try to keep replies on-list so others can learn and search the archives. --- Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have downloaded LINE now and tried it. > ldd on my app name gives ld.so.6 and ld-linux.so.2 > > LINE gives me the -2 error which indicates (I think) > that I need to above librar

Re: accessing cygwin functions from non-cygwin app

> while I was trying to understand this on my own I'm ready to give up. All I > intended was translating a coupld of filenames from cygwin to Win32 notation > in an otherwise Win32-only app. > I have a problem using it as the application cannot be expected to have > access to the perprocess class

Re: accessing cygwin functions from non-cygwin app

--- Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the answer, but you mainly missed the point: I want to dynamically > load cygwin1.dll (if at all present on the system) and call a single function > in it. The problem is not the process of loading the DLL and calling the > function (I'm not a

Re: A user friendly suggestion

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it would be a good idea to add either a mailto link or a simple cgi > form/link on the ml message. According to the bottom of http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html "For web archives, We are using MHonarc." So improvement needs to start th

Re: convert utility

> What caused me a problem in searching, is that convert is a rather > common word. From what I was told by an acquainance on a non > computer list, imagine that, since my initial post is this is part of > imagemagick. Currently downloading it so my question should be > resolved assuming I can

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-doc-1.3

A new version of the cygwin-doc package is now available. This release updates to the latest CVS of the cygwin documentation and has more straightforward build instructions. *** INFORMATION ON UPDATING CYGWIN *** To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link o

Re: RESOLVED: Using gcc to build a DLL discovered and linked at runtime

MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > After carefully inspecting the symbols from > generated dlls and dlls provided by TradeStation, > I found that symbols occurred with and without the > @decorations. e.g. PPI@4 and

RE: Command-line email?

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:40:26AM -, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > nail is good ( i use it myself) but it has a file called > aux.c/.h which > > cannot be created on win32 cause windows is irritating like > that (needed to > > extract and rename it on a linux machine.) just renamed aux > to au

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-doc-1.3

> This might be a phoney report but I think not. (Sorry : unfortunately I let > Norton correct the error as well as find it.) As follows: after updating > cygwin-doc the three shortcuts in Start -> Programs -> Cygwin (i.e. to API, > FAQ and UG) are unaltered and therefore still point to the previou

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-doc-1.3-2

A new version of the cygwin-doc package is now available. My apologies for the two releases so close together. This release fixes a postinstall script issue with the recent 1.3-1 release. *** INFORMATION ON UPDATING CYGWIN *** To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygw

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

> Don't want to disappoint people, but I found at least one info page that > is not properly displayed by pinfo, namely, the cvs info page. To > reproduce, "pinfo cvs" and follow the "Index" link. Then search for > "cvsrc". The link "~/.cvsrc" does not appear as a link in pinfo (but does > in in

Re: User Guide page out of date

> A note to the maintainer of the User Guide: the "regtool" information on > is out of date (so, for > that matter, is the regtool manpage). For more info, see "regtool > --help". I've fixed this in CVS. For future reference, it would be best t

Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?

> Any volunteers to document heap_chunk_in_mb? It's conspicuously missing > in the documentation, AFAICT. > > Although, hmm, I haven't seen many complaints about this recently. That's > odd. Maybe the overflow code in the new malloc is actually working. Sure. What does it do? :) _

Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?

> > Any volunteers to document heap_chunk_in_mb? It's conspicuously missing > > in the documentation, AFAICT. > > > > Although, hmm, I haven't seen many complaints about this recently. That's > > odd. Maybe the overflow code in the new malloc is actually working. > > Sure. What does it do? :)

Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?

> Here is what I have written as a possible contribution for the > Users Guide concerning adjusting the Cygwin memory limit: Thanks Charles, I will use this along with Jason's note about HKLM. Do you have any opinion on what section of the User's Guide it should be in? __

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

> > The source tarball for cygwin is 4.6M. I don't understand why this > > is a huge hardship but, frankly, I don't really care. > 4.6 MB times how many versions will I need to keep around? Before I removed > them from the Hercules site, I had four sets of the Cygwin DLLs, > corresponding to four

Re: Is there cygwin port of docbook?

> > I'm wondering whether there is cygwin port of docbook. > > I want to use it in my office, but I don't wanna bother to > > install a whole Linux OS just in order to use docbook. > > Someone, Me thinks the DocBook maintainer, posted a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a little while ago saying that

RE: Is there cygwin port of docbook?

com/~joshua/cygwin/docbook/ > > -Original Message- > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 7:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is there cygwin port of docbook? > > > > >

Re: Mkpasswd Documentation Deficit; Mkpasswd -c Working?

> > Pierre's recent suggestion to invoke "mkpasswd" with the "-c" option > > sent me to the documentation to learn what that option does. Neither > > "info" nor "man" document the "-c" option. > > Right, it's a very recent feature that has not made its way into the doc. > It was designed for eve

Re: info is not loading...

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:16:16AM -0800, Eduardo Osorio Armenta wrote: > > I have some troubles with > info > > a lot of packages show their information > but not the all > that i have under > /usr/info > > for example binutils.info Eduardo, This happens because some misbehaved packages over

Re: info is not loading...

gt; - Original Message - > From: "Joshua Daniel Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:43 PM > Subject: Re: info is not loading... > &g

Re: how to run a process from DOS within a cygwin .bat file

> 4. Writing technical documentation is not sexy, and is viewed as an > inferior role. This drives people away from the skill. Hey! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Advocacy

I wouldn't at all mind being able to put an --IGNORE-BELOW-- pre-footer in my emails, especially those sent from a certain free web-based email service. Their footer ads are not long but can be annoying. On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:23:33AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Does your corporate fire

Re: Advocacy

> Except that now, on reflection, I think that "--LONG-DISCLAIMER-BELOW-- " > would be better... So, people, don't change your signatures yet, until > this is finalized. I would prefer something without the word "DISCLAIMER" so that I could configure it to also remove non-disclaimer ads from cer

Re: Advocacy

--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > Except that now, on reflection, I think that "--LONG-DISCLAIMER-BELOW-- " > > > would be better... So, people, don't change your signatures

Re: New user / CD installation problems

> After writing the report in TeX (with emacs) I produce a PDF file > which I take to work to print out. It has to be checked there before > being issued, and if some small correction is needed I can't do it on > the spot, it means at least a day's delay. Hence Cygwin as a > solution. If this is

Re: setup snapshot?

On 12 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > Any other feedback on the increment setup snapshot? > > It is meant to fix the permission problems (another of which occured > today) that are plaguing new users. > > I'd really like to have a success story from an NT user with that > snapshot before maki

Re: New user / CD installation problems

--- Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. In text mode, I can't exit emacs with Ctrl-X Ctrl-C. To get out I > > > have to background it with Ctrl-Z and then find its process number > > > with ps and kill it. > > > > Do you have CYGWIN=tty? > > Never heard of it. Than

Re: "man mount" typo

> The "mount" man page has text that reads "Note that you if you..." which > should read "Note that if you...". Thanks. I'll fix this. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe

Re: cygwin gcc 3.4 and cygwin

> >If you want pickled eggs with your free beer, you may have to wait. Myself, I > >can't understand why the barman can't put the foam on the bottom > > But I don't like beer! What other beverages do you provide for free? This reminds me of the Monty Python "Bookshop" sketch with a customer dema

Article about Cygwin on UnixReview.com

Gagné reviews Cygwin 1.3.20: __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: No PIDs left, failure to fork, child state waiting for longjmp

> I see the behaviour when I try to compile Image Magick. This doesn't have to do with your PID issue, but why not use the precompiled Cygwin binaries on the ImageMagick site? I just downloaded it the other day. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum

Re: Info versus Man

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:41:45AM -, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > Try pinfo. If it doesn't find an info page it'll look for a man page. > > Except that under rxvt pinfo leaves the data on the screen where info and > man leave you back where you started. In a console it does what I would > expect.

Re: Learning zsh

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:32:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Lets recap: > 1) X posts a message about a non-cygwin topic Sorry, but X postings are off-topic for this list. (ducks) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: [PATCH] - /usr/share/doc path in cygwin-doc; WAS - RE: Strategy for Finding Cygwin/Unix info

> >> just found out that you can use > >> > >> > info Cygwin (no Man equivalent) > > > > Which needs a minor update WRT the new path > >e.g. "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/" > > > > OK, here's a patch for that: > > 2003-11-05 Larry Hall > * cygwin.texi: Add '/usr/share/doc[/Cygwin]' path. Thanks Hannu

Re: Third-party products that include Cygwin

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:26:34PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > Well, no one knows everything. :-) > > I've also noted: The more you learn, the more you know that you don't know. > (Is that correct/good English? Feels bad to me in some way). I think that's fine English, though I think

Re: snapshot cygwin1-20031212.dll.bz2

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:02:59PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Larry Hall wrote: > > > At 10:56 AM 12/17/2003, Ken Thompson wrote: > > > > >> -Original Message- > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > >> Of Christopher Faylor > > >> Se

Re: Minor documentation bug in cygwin user guide

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:57:06PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > Noticed this one while looking through the user guide, cygwin-ug-net.pdf, > section 3.5, pages 43-44. All the CYGWIN options have their default values > clearly documented except for: > - (no)ntsec > - (no)export > - error_start

Re: Minor documentation bug in cygwin user guide

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:00:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:37:08PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:57:06PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Noticed this one while looking through the user guide, cygwin-ug-net

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