RE: Info versus Man

Sent: 09 November 2003 21:48 From: Don Sharp > 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. So (for me) the choice is b

RE: Info versus Man

From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: 10 November 2003 18:31 > $ grep CLEAR /etc/pinforc > CLEAR-SCREEN-AT-EXIT=true > > It's amazing! Strangely enough I had actually done 'pinfo pinfo' ... and I tried 'pinfo -x pinfo' as a test and it didn't work. Several times. As I just tried it again and it _did

RE: a2ps header clipping problem

Sent: 14 November 2003 16:30 From: Igor Pechtchanski ..snip.. > > Should a2ps be configured to default to "Letter" instead of "A4"? ..snip.. >Yes, IMO - see . Why? It doesn't seem evident from the referenced posting. If it's a USA v Rest Of W

RE: pow math function pb.

Sent: 27 November 2003 15:29 From: Christopher Faylor > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:06:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Works for me with Cygwin 1.5.5 and recent developer snapshots. You > >didn't tell anything about the version you're using. > > And that's one of the reasons why we don't ha

RE: About Cygwin license

Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski > Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as > "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, connecting with a > proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon on Linux doesn't make the > client GPL'd (AFAIK). No

RE: deleting a file ending with a dot

Sent: 16 January 2004 16:15 From: Christopher Faylor > If you mean the "Sender" field, then, yes, this is one way to filter. > Or you can filter on the Mailing-List field or the List-* fields. > > It's really not too hard to figure something to filter on if you look > at the full headers. > > (and

RE: deleting a file ending with a dot

Sent: 16 January 2004 16:25 From: Christopher Faylor > Please! don't add clear text mail addresses in email messages. Argh! Sorry. I have to work to get Outlook to format as I want (remove addys) and then I manually put one in. Doh. Apologies again, the only explanation (not excuse) is that it's Fr

RE: deleting a file ending with a dot

Sent: 16 January 2004 16:34 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > >Sent: 16 January 2004 16:15 From: Christopher Faylor > > >> If you mean the "Sender" field, then, yes, this is one way to filter. > &g

RE: Fix for sshd service start failure problem

Sent: 24 January 2004 21:14 From: Christopher Faylor > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:57:53PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: ..snip.. >> Nice. This won't work for custom mirrors or hand-entered URLs, however >> (and yes, they're unsupported). > > Uh, correct. The program won't go onto all of the mac

RE: Fix for sshd service start failure problem

Sent: 26 January 2004 14:01From: Igor Pechtchanski On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Hughes, Bill wrote: ..snip.. > Surely it doesn't matter when the mirror was updated - if a group of mirrors > is up to date it doesn't matter which one was updated first (or last). > I can understand the d

RE: Keypress anomaly: maybe locality specific

Sent: 26 January 2004 16:06 From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > Hmm.. another case of weirdness staring me in the face.. > Off the top of my hat (WAG-style) I'd say this looks like a readline problem.. > > If you're willing to bare with me on some now-try-this debugging, I might be > able to help you o

RE: Keypress anomaly: maybe locality specific

More data: in zsh shift-3 actually echoes '£', but when enter is pressed I get the error message "zsh: command not found: \M-#" This e-mail transmission is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential

RE: (now OT) cygwin processes and system'ed processes using 100% CPU

> Sent: 28 January 2004 13:18 From: Dave Korn > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > > > *sigh* No, that's how mailing lists are supposed to work. > > Lists where the ML software forces the Reply-To to the list > > address are broken. See > >

RE: (now OT) cygwin processes and system'ed processes using 100% CPU

It may be Bad Form to respond to oneself but : > Sent: 28 January 2004 13:44 From: Hughes, Bill > > > Sent: 28 January 2004 13:18 From: Dave Korn ..snip.. > > 3>It limits a subscriber's freedom to choose how he or she > > will direct a > > response. >

RE: using setup to update cygwin

> Sent: 16 February 2004 13:48 From: Kevin Ison > > I have been using cygwin for a few months now and reading through the > documentation and FAQs it mentions that I can update the > software packages > installed with the setup program that I used to install cygwin. > > It doesnt seem to work t

RE: cygwin Mailing list

> Sent: 17 February 2004 16:00 From: Christopher Faylor ..snip.. > >> cygwin is not for newbies. (*evil grin*). > > > >Ooh, ooh, have we got ourselves a new catchphrase here? > CGF? Maybe even > >an acronym: "CINFN"? :-) > > Sounds good to me. Even though it's not true. I'd say that > most o

RE: ftp bug report

> Sent: 19 February 2004 13:32 From: Thomas Mellman ..snip.. > $ ftp somehost > Connected to somehost.com. > 220 somehost.3 FTP Server (Version 5.0) Ready. > Remote system type is VMS. > ftp> user mellman > 331 Username mellman requires a Password > Password: > 230 User logged in. > ftp> cd some

RE: Can't get list of download sites

> Sent: 20 February 2004 13:42 From: Christopher Faylor > > I suppose that theory will be corroborated soon as the > complaints flood > into this mailing list. Or not. > > FWIW, WFM. I didn't parse this last correctly as standard acronyms and thought cgf was having an even worse day than usual

RE: Can't get list of download sites

> Sent: 20 February 2004 17:01 From: Christopher Faylor > >>FWIW, WFM. > > > >I didn't parse this last correctly as standard acronyms and > thought cgf > >was having an even worse day than usual and had escalated WJM to the > >next level... Have a nice weekend, > > If I am understanding your mis

RE: cygpath bug (windows 2000)

> Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski ..snip.. > > > > Try the latest snapshot . > > > > > > Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore. > > But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error message: > cygpath: error converting "/

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

> Sent: 01 March 2004 16:45 From: Christopher Faylor > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful > >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It s

RE: read(): varblk tape records...(& Fix for : read())

> Sent: 05 March 2004 10:20 From: Corinna Vinschen ..snip.. > Unfortunately I can't run your testcase. My DDS tape drive > seems to be > broken. It can read, but it behaves weird when trying to write :-((( Unfortunately that seems perfectly normally for DDS drives. We even have a DDS3 that can

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

I didn't Think You Really Meant To Say That. But I think he meant exactly what he said - If you *DON'T* *REALLY* know what you're doing, only use rebaseall. If you do know the implications (or you've been told to by One Who Knows), then you can use rebase, but still be careful. > -Original

RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files

> Sent: 06 April 2004 14:10 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..snip.. > > Please can you tell me how to grep for an ASCII 00 (and for > that matter > anything from ASCII 1B to 1F, and 7F to FF)? I'm no expert but grep [\x00] foo.bar might be what you're after. > (Or, I suppose in general for any of 00

RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files

> Sent: 06 April 2004 16:20 From: Dave Korn ..snip.. > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill > > Sent: 06 April 2004 14:59 > > > > Sent: 06 April 2004 14:10 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ..snip.. > > > Please can you tell me how to grep f

RE: Does anyone know how to invoke a bash process via a dos batch program so commands after bash execute?

> Sent: 13 April 2004 19:33 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Does anyone know how to invoke a bash process via a dos > batch program so > > commands after bash execute? > > Do you want to wait for bash to finish or not? See below. ..snip.. > The batch file called from a batch file is a red herring

RE: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button enabled ?

> Sent: 16 April 2004 16:11 From: Dave Korn > > You've missed the main messages in most of those threads, > > which send you > > to the Setup snapshots page > > (). The > > "bloody hard" feature has already been implemented. And > > before you ask > > why

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

> Sent: 19 April 2004 17:35 From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) > For me (XP Pro) from cmd.exe, both notepad and write detach but from > command.com only write detaches, notepad does not. > ..snip.. > Yep, it certainly seems that some windows gui apps have the > behaviour of > detaching from

RE: [OT] Email address. Re: i want to re-download all packages... how?

> Sent: 23 April 2004 11:52 From: Dave Korn ..snip.. > There's a broad concensus among the spamfighting community > that there > isn't actually any email-address-snarfing software out there > that actually > does bother to attempt to demunge addresses. When non-munged > addresses are > out

RE: Re[6]: Visual Studio linking

> From: Christopher Faylor > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:02:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Alastair Growcott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ahem! ^^^ PCYMTNQREAIYR ?? Sorry, couldn't resist. (I know,

RE: Re[6]: Visual Studio linking

> Sent: 02 June 2004 18:43 From: Christopher Faylor > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:54:54PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: > >> From: Christopher Faylor > >> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:02:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> >> -Original Message- > >&

wtf 0.0.4-2 - Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Running wtf 0.0.4-2 on cygwin 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) under Windows 2000,looking for an acronym which is not in a database gives me an error of "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" if the unrecognised acronym is 'susea' or later. I.E. a search for 'a' to 'susd' returns nothing (blank) while a search for

RE: md5sum of a CD

>On 2003/09/01 11:06 Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:56:19AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello. >> >> How can one find the md5sum of a CD >> in Windows? >> >> In Linux, one can do >> >> $ md5sum /dev/cdrom >$ md5sum /dev/scdX >with X in 0..15 I don't have a /dev! M

RE: md5sum of a CD

>> From: Hughes, Bill Sent: 01 September 2003 11:20 >> >> >On 2003/09/01 11:06 Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:56:19AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> How can one find the md5sum of a CD >> >> in Window

RE: md5sum of a CD

>Sent: 01 September 2003 13:14 From: Corinna Vinschen > >Don't do this. Read the above document again, carefully. Using mount >is unnecessary. It was only necessary until Cygwin 1.3.3. Please >read again, beginning with the paragraph starting with > > "Since Cygwin 1.3.4 raw devices are acces

RE: md5sum of a CD

Sent: 01 September 2003 13:57 From: Corinna Vinschen >Thank you for your help. > >I've changed the description how to access raw devices. The way how to >mount these devices is entirely gone. Please read it again and report >back, if the description of raw devices is a bit clearer now. Definite

RE: md5sum of a CD

Sent: 01 September 2003 15:32 From: Corinna Vinschen >On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:12:32PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: >> to something like: >> "Windows NT/W2K/XP additionally support raw devices like floppies, disks, >> partitions and tapes. These are accessed from

RE: Majordomo results: RE: cygwin older/newer version downloadi

>Sent: 01 September 2003 18:57 From: Hannu E K Nevalainen > I get this garbage (below) from> > > Majordomo-Owner AT virginia DOT edu and Majordomo AT mutt DOT org > > for every post to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > >Anyone else see this? >What might be the cause? (Foul play?) >I've _no_ "relation"

RE: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

> Sent: 02 September 2003 09:49 From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:46:59PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > > > ("At least there's a big company behind it > > > that has the (legal) responsability for the quality of the program..") > > >

Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

I have tried rtfm, rtffaq, rtfa(rchive), I would appreciate some help if someone could point me in the right direction. I was having problems with man (among other things) not working so I decided to perform a complete uninstall and re-install. I un-installed everything, removed the remaining folde

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

Why is it I always find the problem after I post? There was no /etc/profile in my installation. I copied one from another machine and my installation appears OK, except for the man problem. I don't know if /etc/profile is mssing from the distribution or something happened to mine. regards, Bill

man 1.5j - can't find cat, tbl, nroff, less

When I try 'man grep' I get the following. /bin/cat: not found /usr/bin/tbl: not found /usr/bin/nroff: not found /usr/bin/less: not found Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat '/usr/man/man1/grep.1 '; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") |

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

Sent: 23 September 2003 15:26 From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > Why is it I always find the problem after I post? > > There was no /etc/profile in my installation. > > I copied one from another machine and my installation appears OK, e

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

Sent: 23 September 2003 16:20 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Look at the logs (/var/log/setup.log{,.full}). Did "base-files" get > installed? > Igor No. It's not in the cygcheck output either. Weird, I selected install for 'all' in setup and then de-selected ghostscript as I was playing with

RE: man 1.5j - can't find cat, tbl, nroff, less

Sent: 23 September 2003 17:32 From: Kevin Van Workum > I had the same problem this morning after changing the share permission on > my C-drive from Everyone, to Administrator and Kevin. Once I added > Administrators (note the "s"), the problem was fixed. I guess /bin/cat, > etc were owned by Admini

RE: home directory not created in cygwin installation

Sent: 01 October 2003 14:27 From: Igor Pechtchanski > This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty > seamlessly. On the other, we don't want to limit the more advanced users > by not letting them change the home directory on the fly (anyone doing > that, anyway?). One "sol

RE: home directory not created in cygwin installation

Sent: 01 October 2003 16:16 From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > Furthermore could $HOME be defaulted to \home\'current_user' if not > > explicitly set? >It already is, except it's "/home/$USER", not "\home\$USER&quo

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Sent: 02 October 2003 16:02 From: Igor Pechtchanski >On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Linda W. wrote: ..snip.. > > What's wrong with a resizable > > window? I really don't know -- does it require a Ph.D. to do? I've > > never done windows programming, so I really don't know, but is it really > > that diffic

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Sent: 03 October 2003 12:57 From: Hannu E K Nevalainen > > > Another place to check is the setup TODO list and WISHLIST in > > the README. > > > You can either download the setup source package, or check it out on > > > > > >

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Sent: 03 October 2003 14:23 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > Another place to check is the setup TODO list and WISHLIST in the README. > > > You can either download the setup source package, or check it out on > > > > > > o

Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me, but is 'ping' available in Cygwin from the prompt? I checked http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=ping and didn't see any likely candidates. I have almost everything installed, and short of using the perl or ruby modules I don't seem to ha

RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

Sent: 17 October 2003 12:59 From: Thorsten Kampe > > * Hughes, Bill (2003-10-17 13:31 +0200) > > Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me, but is 'ping' available in > > Cygwin from the prompt? > > > I have almost everything installed, and short of using

RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

> I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works. I corrected the case of the directory names in the windows environment variable and Cygwin now finds PING.EXE, just a note for the record. I know PTC etc, but would changing the (presumably cygpath) translation of the windows path to a

RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

Sent: 18 October 2003 13:57 From: Thorsten Kampe > > I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works. > > There's no sense in creating symlinks if you fix the PATH. > > Thorsten Without the symlink I have to use 'PING.EXE', with it I can use 'ping'. Cygwin has two main benefits for m

RE: Is there a 'ping' in cygwin?

Sent: 20 October 2003 15:37 From: Christopher Faylor >On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:09:59AM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: > >Sent: 18 October 2003 13:57 From: Thorsten Kampe ... > >Without the symlink I have to use 'PING.EXE', with it I can use 'ping'. > >Cygwi

RE: Is there a 'ping' in cygwin?

Sent: 20 October 2003 16:05 From: Hughes, Bill > I didn't do that is I 'PING' wouldn't work and 'PING.EXE' did, Doh! should be: I didn't do that as 'PING' wouldn't work and 'PING.EXE' did, > so I (mistakenly) assumed that I wou

RE: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..snip.. > Certainly ":" is reserved in Windows for use only with drive letters. Not strictly true - the colon is also used in NTFS for streams (or data forks). ..snip.. >> P.S. The mount type fix is still on my TODO list :-( They certainly are, that's why I have so m

RE: A good way to test if Cygwin isn't installed?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to run an idea past the list. > > I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on > the machine running the shell script. > > I do this by running a shell (from a network install of Cygwin if > necessary). > > If Cygwin is installe

RE: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

Hughes, Bill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ..snip.. >> Certainly ":" is reserved in Windows for use only with drive letters. > > Not strictly true - the colon is also used in NTFS for streams > (or data forks). > I realise this is not directly applicab

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is >>> USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell >>> Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. >>> Running Windows XP. >> [snip] >> >

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: ..snip.. >> If you have cygwin programs available to you, then use the mount >> command. If the only output from the mount command is of the >> "noumount" variety then cygwin isn't installed in any meaningful way. > > Personally I would consider t

RE: Fixing quoting in Outlook (Was RE: Request for a version/ rev ision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution)

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, David Christensen wrote: ..snip.. >> Is there a way to do it on MS Outlook 2003 SP1, other than manually >> deleting e-mail addresses? > > Searching the mailing list for the above acronym will bring > up a bunch of > threads with the discussion on how

RE: Fixing quoting in Outlook (Was RE: Request for a version/ rev ision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution)

Brian Dessent wrote: > "Hughes, Bill" wrote: > >> I have noticed that when I (have to) use outlook for any period >> there are two main effects: 1) I long for a real mail client. >> 2) I start to forget that real mail clients thread properly. >> >

RE:[OT] Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the w hole Cygwin release/ distribution

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote: ..snip.. >> Certainly. Just stand still right here for just one minute >> >>KER-SQUELCH-SPLAT-SMACK >> [sound of massive slap round face with a very wet kipper] >> >> That'll learn 'im! Ha, I've never

RE: Fixing quoting in Outlook (Was RE: Request for a version/ rev ision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution)

Brian Dessent wrote: > Fred Kulack wrote: > >> Yeah, I use Outlook Express or Lotus Notes. >> I never know what the hell you all are talking about WRT this >> topic... >> >> You mean you can display messages other than time (or another >> column) ordered? Hmmm... Interesting... > > Good god, ho

RE: http://rateless.com/ GPL violation?

Christopher Faylor wrote: > Does anyone know if there is source code available for the binary > downloads from ? > > I've sent a message requesting that they provide source code for their > programs but it seems like this is YA case of someone > assuming that they > get to us

RE: http://rateless.com/ GPL violation?

Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill ..snip.. >> Out of curiosity, what makes you think they are using cygwin code? > > Probably the link on the download page that says > "Precompiled binaries for c

RE: Bug: link.exe

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:02:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> The bottom line is, you can complain, but the better solution is to >> make your environment more foolproof against changes in one part of >> it. In case of MSDEV tools I suggest to put the MSDEV tool p

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:54:16 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> My write-in candidate: >> [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional in the >> extreme and can only result in embarassment and trouble. > > As a Christian, I agree with Gary. :) > > I

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > NB: Did anybody read "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury? > It's not about > jokes in the first place, but somehow this discussion reminds me > of the book in a fatal way. Me too, it also reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron". Bill -- ___

RE: rxvt doc problem

Jonathan Arnold wrote: > I followed the recommendation from the FAQ: > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC63 > > and installed rxvt, and I've run into a couple of problems. Nothing > major, but I thought I'd ask about them here: > > 1] The above FAQ entry says to see the file: > > /usr/share

RE: rxvt doc problem

Jonathan Arnold wrote: ..snip.. > 2] The man and/or info pages for rxvt are not formatted correctly. > It looks like the text markup is still in there. Here's the first few > lines of 'man rxvt': > > .YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .SH "NAME" .YODLTAGEND. rxvt (ouR > XVT) - a VT102 emulator for

RE: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

Christopher Faylor wrote: ..snip.. >> The snapshots page says that it's a stripped version. >> Who should I trust, the snapshot page or the FAQ? > > You should trust me when I tell you that the snapshots haven't been > stripped recently. > > However, oops, this means that the advice of using a s

RE: Multiple installations and 3PPs

Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Or is the following approach a promising one: [snip] > > Well, it was proposed once already, but nobody did the work: > > Get rid of the registry entries completly. Cygwin could use > something similar to /etc/fstab to manage its mount modes. How would it know where to fin

RE: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 21 11:18, Hughes, Bill wrote: >> I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ >> easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that >> for debugging, it removes a separate layer of potential pro

RE: is there a (cygwin?) method delivering the current version of windows?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: ..snip.. >> Ok; you're wrong :) > > That's hardly a correction... :-p > But I was, indeed, wrong. The real solution was to run > > $ perl -mWin32 -wle'print for Win32::GetOSVersion' > > otherwise Win32::GetOSVersion

How can I see key mapping in Bash

I apologise if this is a simple a question as it appears to be, but I've tried google etc. How can I find out what a key (or combination such as ctrl-C) is mapped to, in bash. I have tried various searches to little avail, I would appreciate a clue but am not expecting a detailed explanation. Tha

RE: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6

From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak Sent: 22 July 2004 16:49 ..snip.. > OK, the problem is with CVS - the managed mounts are working properly. > CVS assumes Cygwin is/runs on a case-insensitive (file)system, which is > usually the case. On managed mounts, however, the assumption fails, and > CVS comp

RE: [cygwin tips&tricks] Shortcut to vim in "Send to" folder

On 31 July 2004 01:03, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: ..snip.. > One cool thing I can add is that I've compiled my own version > of "run.exe" > with an embedded vim icon (the nice-looking one from the vim source), > and made that the icon for this shortcut. Looks nice. If anyone is > interested, I can

RE: File format - UNIX/DOS while installing cygwin ?

Robert Menschel wrote: ... > > If the original file is on Unix, and everything (including the FTP) is > under Cygwin, use the Unix format. Also look at the d2u and u2d commands as well, in case you use the 'wrong' ftp to copy your files. NB use 'd2u --help' , not man/info. Bill -- ___

Is it possible to pass parameters to rxvt?

Is it possible to pass a parameter to rxvt to start bash up in a specified folder? I suspect I don't know enough to construct the proper string. I normally start rxvt from a keyboard shortcut to the command D:\cygwin\bin\run.exe rxvt -name 17 -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i which works fine. I also

RE: Is it possible to pass parameters to rxvt?

Hughes, Bill wrote: > Is it possible to pass a parameter to rxvt to start bash up > in a specified > folder? > > I suspect I don't know enough to construct the proper string. > > I normally start rxvt from a keyboard shortcut to the command > D:\cygwin\bin\run.exe r

RE: Beginner question: Cygwin bash vs. cygwin/bin directory in DO S

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Nathan Green wrote: > >> I am a newbie using Cygwin. I noticed that Linux commands can be >> executed by running commands in the Windows Command Prompt in the >> cygwin/bin directory. What is the purpose of the bash shell provided >> by clicking on the Cygwin icon? > > Do

RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR, it really works.

Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase >> Sent: 23 September 2004 17:09 > >> We really need some *global* rules, e.g. SPF and some other, similar >> method, to get 99% of spamservers out of the internet. >> > > > Nahh. What we really

RE: subversion 1.0.6 in windows 98

Rob Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed the cygwin subversion 1.0.6 package on my windows 98 > machine (with cygwin 1.5.11). > Following the example in the manual, I can create a repository and > import files into it, but when I check it out, I get the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp/sv

RE: File permission problem

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:42:05AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to understand why one would want ntsec on by default and >>> smbntsec off by default? >> >> smbntsec doesn't work reliably given the variability of smb servers