Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages

- Original Message - From: "Joshua Elson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 13 October, 2002 16:17 Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages > Hmm, more on the virus emails. I received the below message with t

Empty latest/cygwin directory on mirrors.rcn.net

est/cygwin. I had tried to do a fresh full download/install from mirrors.rcn.net, and of course, the resulting cygwin installation was broken due to a missing CYGWIN1.DLL. BCNU//jle Joshua -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

Cygwin Mail List Server Ports for NT

Has anyone thought of or done any porting work for any mail list servers to cygwin (something like majordomo or ezmlm)? I found one ancient post in the archives from 1997 asking about a majordomo port, but not any replies. The general opinion appears to be that majordomo is a bear to configur

login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch

All, I think I've found a small bug in the login program code versus the man page regarding the last login feature. The man page indicates that the file necessary for storing the last login information is /var/log/lastlog, and this file was actually created with zero length automatically

Fw: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch

Forwarding to the list for the explanation of the file size of lastlog. BCNU//jle - Original Message - From: "Mark Bradshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joshua'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 04 January, 2002 15:40 Subject: RE: login 1.4-2

mkgroup -d with samba

Has anyone gotton mkgroup -d to work when using a samba PDC? Joshua McClintock Systems Engineer Singlestep Technologies Connect. Simplify. Manage. 2320 First Avenue Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98121 P: 206.448.9700 F: 206.448.2666 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.singlestep.com -- Unsubscribe

Resizable setup

PLEASE!!! For the love of all that is holly can the lead developer of the setup app please make it resizable!!! Render unto windows what is windows'. and leave the bad habits there too. Thanks, j -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://c

intel ddd cygwin

This is a general poll on several e.mail lists to see if anyone can help apologies if it is slightly off topic. We are trying to create a uniform development environment for Linux and windows based on the Intel compiler. Everything has been setup and is working well except for debugging. When at

undefined reference to _WinMain@16

Hello I am trying to build the expat lib (1.95.6) on Cygwin 1.3.22, and I keep seeing the above error during the 'make' step. From what I've read on the mailing list, it's a linking problem, but I'm no developer. I need expat as a dependency. Any help or a workaround?

undefined reference to _WinMain@16[Scanned]

Hello I am trying to build the expat lib (1.95.6) on Cygwin 1.3.22, and I keep seeing the above error during the 'make' step. From what I've read on the mailing list, it's a linking problem, but I'm no developer. I need expat as a dependency. Any help or a workaround?

No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

ed {base,dir}name() [1] yet? ;) [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00010.html -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

ntly worked around. But thanks anyway... -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

wide string methods, round two

uilt for Cygwin? I'm not as comfy with STL as I'd like to be so I don't have much of an idea where to look. Again, please CC me on replies. Thanks, -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: wide string methods, round two

some shared code? It'll really make my day if anyone on the list can shed some light on this issue and get the program to build. Again, please CC: me on replies. Thanks -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Rsync 2.5.0

Anyone know if someone is working on porting this latest version? -- 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: 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?

luded in cygwin sometime, but I'm waiting until the new setup.exe comes out to bother developers with it. In the meantime, you can get it at: http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/mklink-0.1.tar.bz2 The archive is around 10K, source, (stripped) binary, and some examples included. I'd also love some

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

missing C stuff when porting unix application

1. no _CS_PATH 2. no sys_siglist 3. no confstr 4. no memopen _CS_PATH and confstr looks easy enough to give it the values it wants. Removed code that handles sys_siglist Not sure what to do about memopen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

IO problems with Parrot using Cygwin1.dll-1.5.11-1

latest CVS checkout should build out of the box if you use a system ICU). The following command will illustrate the problem from the directory where Parrot was installed: $ perl t/harness --gc-debug --running-make-test -b t/pmc/threads.t Cheers Josh

Update: IO problems with Parrot using Cygwin1.dll-1.5.11-1

latest snapshot 20041004 and it worked great. Sorry to have troubled anyone. Cheers Joshua Gatcomb ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Return to "cygheap version mismatch detected"

atters, but this particular application is linking with -lcrypt, -lPacket, and -lwpcap for "setkey/crypt" and libpcap functions. I've put the source code up at http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/code/asleap-1.2.zip if anyone cares to take a look. Any suggestions on what else I can do

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this obscene content? This is not the question. Cygwin already provides the content. Therefore the question is: should it be removed? That is to take action beyond that which is already available to the user. Those actions being

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

Andrew DeFaria wrote: Joshua Kolden wrote: You argue that it should, because you asses some of the content as obscene, ... Joshua! How could continue to put forth obscene and offensive filth onto the Internet, even as a typo! ;-) You're only giving Gary more ammunition! Oh shit I'

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

There is also the issue of legal risk. Is the material illegal in any country (which would cause obvious difficulty for any user or maintainer in such countries) and do any of these countries apply their laws extra territorially (which might cause problems to anyone visiting a country with an

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this obscene content? This is not the question. Yes, it is. Arbitrary pronouncement, in light of this I see no flaw in my reasoning. The content exists, it has already been provided. "Should

Tell Me More

Hello fellow computer user, Imagine you having an on line computer technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week wherever you are in the world. Imagine not paying anymore hundreds of dollars for the service of a computer technician to troubleshoot your computer. … Imagine if the answer to your

Source Code for cygwin1.dll

Hello, I am wishing to release a version of a Mud codebase I created and have it packaged ready to run in windows. I am looking for the specific files I need to have packaged up to meet the requirements for the source of the cygwin1.dll. Are there specific files required for the dll and do I need

cygwin1.dll

Yes it is open source (not GPL but the source code is freely available for no fee of any kind, it is DIKU derived). The whole point of releasing this is for people who would never download or touch cygwin (or code for that matter) to simply run on their machines for building/testing purposes. A

RE: Source Code for cygwin1.dll

Is it just the cygwin-1.5.10-3.tar.bz2 file or do I need anything else? I remember hearing it is about 1.2MB in size so this sounds right. Thanks --Josh -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 7:29 PM To: Joshua Halls; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Program terminates with "cygheap version mismatch detected"

ciated with the changes implemented in Windows XP SP2, but I'm not certain. Has anyone run into a similar issue? Any suggestions? Thanks, -Josh -- -Joshua Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/ pgpkey: http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/pgpkey.htm fingerprint: FDA5 12FC F391 3740 E0A

Re: Program terminates with "cygheap version mismatch detected"

already removed all the cygwin1.dll's from my system except for the file in c:\cygwin\bin. After removing the other cygwin1.dll's, I rebooted, but the problem persists. Any other suggestions? Many thanks, -Josh -- -Joshua Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/ pg

Re: Program terminates with "cygheap version mismatch detected"

.). Well, I ran rebaseall, rebooted my system and still have the same results with this program. Any other suggestions? Many thanks, -Josh -- -Joshua Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/ pgpkey: http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/pgpkey.htm fingerprint: FDA5 12FC F391 3740 E0AE BDB6 8FE2

Re: Program terminates with "cygheap version mismatch detected"

c:\cygwin tree + Did a Windows Find on "cyg" and removed all files Reinstalled cygwin, rebooted. Same error. :( Any other thoughts? Possibly a problem with Windows XP SP2? I'm not sure what to try next. Thanks, -Josh -- -Joshua Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.jwu.edu/jwrigh

sshd buildup of CLOSE_WAIT leading to unable to function

Hi. I'm getting a situation on one machine where sshd will fail to accept connections in a way that says "connection refused" even though it is listening. The server shows a large (58) number of connections in CLOSE_WAIT. A Google search leads me to http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg01235

Re: sshd buildup of CLOSE_WAIT leading to unable to function

IP address. Only private key authentication allowed.) On 4/1/14, Joshua Hudson wrote: > Hi. I'm getting a situation on one machine where sshd will fail to > accept connections in a way that says "connection refused" even though > it is listening. The server shows a large (58)

Re: sshd buildup of CLOSE_WAIT leading to unable to function

The interesting detail is it would always stop at exactly 64 sockets open; which is the maximum number for which select() doesn't have to spawn a second thread. Problem disappeared. Given the traces I got the reproduction would involve somebody's deranged trojan SSH scanner. 64 to too low for Fai

How exactly does ctime work?

We had a weird incident involving ctime changing unexpectedly when mtime did not. On a normal UNIX system, we'd immediately say somebody changed the file and set mtime back, but on Cygwin, ctime appears to be synthetic. How exactly does ctime work on Cygwin? I can't find any useful documentation

STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

Whenever cygwin hasn't been running for awhile, launching it yields a lot of STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION in bash.exe $ cat bash.exe.stackdump 13779031 [main] bash 4212 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 13779775 [main] bash 4212 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to bash.exe.st

RE: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

/bin/rebaseall worked. Great, thanks man! -- 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

Windows 7 update broke Cygwin X?

gines 0005 xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error Fri, Sep 09, 2016 12:01:19 PM Any ideas about what how to fix or troubleshoot this? I use it all the time and it worked before this update. -- Joshua Hoke -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: Windows 7 update broke Cygwin X?

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 09/09/2016 18:03, Joshua Hoke wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> After a recent Windows update, I am unable to start Cygwin's X server >> anymore. I tried updating to the latest Cygwin by running setup again, >

Re: Windows 7 update broke Cygwin X?

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Joshua Hoke wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 09/09/2016 18:03, Joshua Hoke wrote: >>> After a recent Windows update, I am unable to start Cygwin's X server >>> anymore. I tried updating to the late

Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

Hi guys, i don‘t know if you wanted to report me this but if yes please tell me how to fix it i tried 3 houres… I am tired now ist 3 AM in Germany now…. Kind regard Joshua Sokolowski process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, touch C:/Users/Joshua/Desktop/Grafikrechner/projects/imageviewer-master

Issue during compilation

Hi, I am requiring to know where can I gain the latest cygwin1.dll for windows 10, the same process used on windows 7 works fine, but on windows 10 the following issue is reported on cmd: Finish with deleting all object files 2 [main] sh 18112 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST

openldap cygwin packages

Hey, Why was openldap-server (https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/openldap-server.html) considered obsoleted by (https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/openldap.html)? The openldap package only contains the client utilities. I am in need of slapd (the ldap standalone daemon) which was inc

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 we

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:

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

I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" section for the User's Guide. 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

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

ce. > > However, thanks for the changes. Joshua, are you willing to try to > adapt this to the documentation sources? Sure, looks fine. I just got back into town, so it won't be immediate. BTW, is my recent doc/dll-info.sgml patch OK to apply? __

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

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