Hi Folks,
I just installed cygwin on W98 and hit the problem with the pipe key on
W98/ME: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_5.html#SEC129
After googling to see what had already been tried, it became clear that
the problem was with readline. This workaround uses readline to
fix itself.
Just add the foll
Dai Conrad wrote on Monday, February 27, 2006 1:05 AM::
> I've been having a problem with updatedb for a while now. The
> symptoms are that late in the process it starts grinding my A: drive
> and I have to hit ctrl-C to kill it.
>
...
>
> Any suggestions or recommendations will be greatly app
Roberto Bagnara wrote on Monday, March 06, 2006 9:30 AM::
>
> what is and what is not noise depends on the application.
> In our applications we systematically use controlled rounding on IEEE
> 754 floating point numbers. In the end, what we obtain (in memory)
> are definite (i.e., provably corre
On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:14 AM Rizwan Kassim wrote (sort of):
> I haven't been able to find out how to do the following:
> I'd like to accelerate my car using the left pedal and find some
> other way of stopping it (maybe the pedal on the right).
>
> Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Cheers,
On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:25 PM Dave Korn wrote:
> It's insane.
>
> Unless you have the precision muscular control skills of a
world-class
> gymnast, a mouse always moves at least a little bit when you press
down on the
> button.
Which is one reason why I prefer a trackball - moving an
There goes your C: drive!
The --help options to commands should only be used when you already
know what the command does, but are unsure what parameters it takes.
Here endeth the lesson.
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Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> The symptoms are consistent with the pid reuse issue,
> although it is not common on NT4, AFAIK.
>
> A patched version is available as
> http://xx.xxx.xxx//bash.exe
> Please keep that url private.
>
> If you try it, let me know (or the lis
Hi Eric,
Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> Did you see the patch at
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00882.html? I predict it will
> fix your problem.
I had seen it, but at the time I hadn't drawn the connection between
the symptoms I was seeing and those the patch addressed (and
which I hadn't exp
David Bear wrote on Friday, February 09, 2007 4:56 AM::
> Okay, the problem is in quoting in shell scripts, I think.
It is. It's not a Windows problem and it certainly isn't a
cygwin problem.
Although spaces occur more often in Windows than on other
platforms, they can and do occur on Unix/Linu
zzapper wrote on Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:34 PM::
> zzapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:Xns98F49BF615AA2zzappergmailcom@
> 80.91.229.5:
>
>>
>> I used http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html as FAQ
>>
> # basic steps
> setup a windows password (if you have none)
> mkpasswd
Dave Korn wrote on Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:50 PM::
> On 15 March 2007 16:28, Phil Betts wrote:
>
> [talk list snipped, no need to x-post]
>
I didn't cross post, I set the reply to field to the talk list. I
just forgot to point out it was TITTTL'd.
> It's c
Mark S. Reglewski wrote on Friday, March 23, 2007 4:50 PM::
> Forgive a naive question from a naive user: should there be any
> formatting codes/escape sequences at all to work around in what's
> supposed to be a plaintext file?
> /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt gives this as it's last line:
Steve M. Robbins wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:05 AM::
> Howdy,
>
> I had installed cygwin and used it for some months. Then I had to
> install another tool (crestron SIMPL+ compiler) and discovered that
> cygwin no longer worked. It turns out that the SIMPL+ compiler is
> based around a
Igor Peshansky wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:27 PM::
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:34:07PM +0100, Phil Betts wrote:
>>>
>>> Any 3PP that forces one to use their (inevitably out of date)
>>> ver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:53 PM::
> The response time to bash command from the command line is very slow.
> For example, if I type "ls", it takes about 0.5 sec to get some
> output, and after the output, another 0.5 sec for the prompt.
>
> Likewise, my scripts are very s
John wrote on Friday, June 01, 2007 3:05 AM::
> I finished the script I have been working on. Unfortunately,
> this Pee Cee version won't even finish the full data run
> as it crashes with Zone Alarm. Since I have a long term good
> relationship with Zone Alarm, I have to write off cygwin.
>
> An
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:26 PM::
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:22:30PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
>> On 6/6/07, Dave wrote:
>>> Brian Dessent wrote:
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package?
Perhap
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 4:09 PM::
> Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't
> know what I and Ronald were talking about.
I'm so sorry, but my telepathy module has a malfunction. Until it's
fixed, I can only respond to what is actually written
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM::
> * Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:09:11 -0500)
>> Ronald Fischer wrote:
>>> From
>>>
>>>info d
>>>
>>> we can see that /usr/bin/d is supposed to honour a configuration
>>> file ~/.d.conf and that in this file, the boolean
Marko Loparic wrote on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42 PM::
> Hello,
>
> Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin problem I
> have?
>
> I have tried to contact Red Hat but they did not seem interested in
> offering support for the type of problem I have (or perhaps I didn't
>
Robert Kiesling wrote on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:02 AM::
> I need to set the X server option, "emulate3Buttons," in order to use
> the X clipboard with the Cygwin system's mouse. The FAQ tells me that
> I can add, "-emulate3buttons ," to the X server arguments.
> However, if I start the ser
Brian Keener wrote on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:31 PM::
> I have an application that I have been trying to gather info on and it
> hangs but it seems finding the pid is difficult for attempting to
> attach to it.
>
Use ps -el instead of -ef. That lists the winpids too.
Phil
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We seem to be getting a lot of messages along the lines of
"I ran xyz and it did nothing." The typical response is something
like "if you echo $? it is probably 53 which indicates a missing
DLL." This usually gives rise to a further email asking where
to get the missing DLL.
Attached is a short
Eric Blake wrote on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:56 PM::
> According to Phil Betts on 11/9/2007 10:15 AM:
If anyone missed this because of ultra paranoid virus filtering (it
had a .sh attachment), it's here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-11/msg00173.html
I didn't get a copy my
adamb wrote on Monday, November 19, 2007 5:12 AM::
> only found 1:
Maybe that's all *you* could find, but cygcheck almost certainly
would have found another. If you had followed the instructions
given in the first response you received from Eric, you'd almost
certainly have been up and running
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:57 PM::
> On Nov 28 15:24, patrick ficheux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to use recv() with MSG_WAITALL [...]
>
> Don't you read earlier replies on the list?
>
>
> Corinna
It seems he's running an old version of Brain which had a problem
Jay wrote on Friday, January 11, 2008 3:14 PM::
>> That's still somewhat wasteful, starting bash just to get a vim
>> alias - why not use the full name gvim, and bypass the bash process
>> to begin with?
>
> you right, i'm going to remove it, thanks.
>
> My main problem now is that for some rea
Fergus wrote on Monday, February 04, 2008 6:28 AM::
> Sorry to return to this old favourite. For ages (years) I have had
> both /usr/bin/ and /bin/ set in my PATH and cygcheck -srv reported
> both as d:\bin. I just removed the latter from the PATH and now get
> exactly one report of d:\bin.
> BUT
Anik Pal wrote on Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:05 AM::
> I am trying to using a library in my code whose default compiler is
> MSVCRT. When I try to compile that code in cygwin GCC environment I
> get the following errors
>
>
F:/geolog6.6.1/lib/libgeolog6.a(fileprintf.o):C:/development/ptc:(.tex
Anik Pal wrote on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:12 PM::
> Phil,
> Thanks for the info you provided. I'm not conversant with GCC.
> I remove the path for regular library like libm.a, and all the paths
> specified in posix , now my linker option is as follows
>
> -L/cygdrive/f/geolog6.6.1/lib -lcgg
Paul Leder wrote on Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:31 PM::
> Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> Bash has two variable namespaces - shell variables, and environment
>> variables. Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and
>> not just in the bash shell variable namespace?
>
> thanks - I had no id
PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:45 AM::
> -Mensaje original-
> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre
^^^ ^^^
> de Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> Enviado el: lunes, 11 de febrero de 2008 16:38
> Pa
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, February 18, 2008 12:12 PM::
> + echo "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty is existant but not a directory."
Perhaps:
+ echo "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty exists but is not a directory."
would avoid a typo (it's "existEnt"), and sound less like a Google
translation ;-)
Phil
bootleg86 wrote on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:28 AM::
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find the time of a file by doing this.
>
> filetime=`ls -l --time-style=+%a:%H:%M /tmp/1.txt | awk '{print $6}'`
>
> if [ -z "$filetime"]; then
> echo "File does not exist"
> else
> echo "Time file: $filetime"
> fi
Troy Bull wrote on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:45 PM::
> Greetings
>
> I use rxvt and I use the -fg and -bg to set colors. Where can i find
> a list of the colors that I can put in there. I know I can do the
> obvious ones, Black, White, Blue, etc but I also found "Wheat" and
> some other ones
Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:45 PM::
> On Nov 19 22:56, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Nov 19 14:49, Carlo Florendo wrote:
Trees removed to enable wood to be seen...
Table at 0x3BEE3000.
> 152 61108 [ma
Jonathan Ferro wrote on Friday, November 21, 2008 7:05 AM::
> Casual browsing recently revealed that one of my all-time favorite
> software packages, Emacs Calc, has returned to active maintenance and
> is part of the GNU Emacs distribution. My thought: why does my
> Cygwin installation not have
Eric Blake wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:42 AM::
> According to C-Programmer on 12/3/2008 6:29 PM:
>> But if I compile using the following command line argument:
>> $ gcc -mno-cygwin -o ioProg1 ioProg1.c
>
> Then you are no longer using cygwin, and this is almost more of a
> question for
TheO wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:48 PM::
>>> I understand why all these virtual directories are necessary at the
>>> absolute '/' root level. But here I refer to /cygdrive which is
>>> created inside the jail directory, which means in absolute path,
>>> /jail/cygdrive (/jail being the r
Brian Dessent wrote on Monday, December 08, 2008 2:31 PM::
> SO wrote:
>
>> I have problems opening remote programs using ncurses library.
>> Aptitude for example. Menus and other interface components are just
>> garbage on my term on windows vista. Is there a solution for that?
>
> The answer w
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:49 PM::
> The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists
> no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists.
>
> If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please
> send it to on
Steve Lefevre wrote on Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:02 PM::
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Steve Lefevre wrote:
>>> Hello -
>>>
>>> I'm desperately looking for a source for the tree command in cygwin.
>>> It isn't listed separately in any of the package sources that I
>>> looked at. I tried goog
Jay Foad wrote on Friday, January 16, 2009 12:24 PM::
> I have an application that wants to use mmap() to read a file, but
> only if it can guarantee that this will leave one or more zero bytes
> after the end of the contents of the file in memory:
>
> if ((filesize & (pagesize - 1) != 0)
>
On Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:48 PM Lee D.Rothstein wrote:
> MinTTY users,
>
> Please, if you would, review the attached 'man' page -- 'mintty.1'.
> Andy Koppe intends to fold it into the 0.3.6 MinTTY release.
>
> Comments, corrections, addtitions to this list, please.
I haven't checked all th
Andriy Sen wrote:
> Below is an example of the problem.
>
> G:\>cat test.s
> a
> 1
>
> G:\>cat test.s | grep -P "[^0]1"
> a
> 1
This is not cygwin-specific, so it is really OT for this list, that
being said...
grep -P treats the whole input as a single string, and outputs the
line (or lines) con
Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:37:46 +, Dave Korn
> wrote:
Please don't quote raw email addresses. It only feeds the spammers.
> > It's bash shell metacharacters. The '&' character terminates a
> command and
> >puts it into the background. The simplest way is to use single
q
Dave Korn wrote:
> Sounds more to me like you forgot to use the alternatives program to
> configure the alternatives and have been messing around manually in
its
> private data directories and broken it.
>
> (You're not the first person to do this. For some reason it seems
to
> be a hard-to-r
Jaroslav Rynik wrote:
> when I wanted to install, the program with cygwin (using package for
> NetBSD), the error message "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"
> came up.
This list is for X related questions only, setting the follow-up address
to the main cygwin list.
> However, I have instal
sudhap85 wrote:
>I am using windows 2008 machine. I have installed latest cygwin.
> Here I am facing problem with the "cat" "grep" commands. In command
> line its working fine. but In my scripts it's giving error.
So what's the error? Without this as a clue, we can only guess.
How are you r
Jaroslav Rynik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I wanted to install a program under Cygwin (NetBSD package of
> instalation program), the error message saying that no suitable C
> compiler was found appeared.
>
> However, during the instalation I reset all the components from
> "Default" to "Install". I
Marc Girod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to open a new file named 'Aux.pm' under GNU emacs, and this one
> hangs.
> Both in X and -nw modes.
>
> This is emacs 21.2.13 under cygwin 1.5.25-15.
>
> emacs works otherwise normally.
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames
Phil
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j.jovinbasil...@xxx.xx.xx wrote:
> I am getting the above message when i run ./configure from the
> extracted
> gcc-4.3.3 directory. I have attached the cygcheck.out for your
> reference.
>
> Let me know to get rid of this issue and to install verilog-perl on my
> cygwin
You have more than on
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 16 18:14, Julio Costa wrote:
> > That's your call. For me it's fine either way.
>
> Thanks, I'll release a new openssh package shorty.
^^
shortly
Fixed that for you (assu
Charles Wilson wrote:
> o Restore Alt-Space behavior (e.g. pass thru to windows, to
> allow access to Minimize/Maximze/Restore menu). Reported
> by Davide Dente.
You say "restore", but I've never seen this behaviour in rxvt. Did it
only make a transient appearance?
Alt-Space is used in emac
Charles Wilson wrote:
> * Add -uas (--unixAltSpace) option to bypass Win32 handling
> of Alt-Space key combination, and allow client (e.g.
> Emacs) to handle it instead.
Thanks for this Chuck.
I can't see what in my previous post got you so worked up, and was a
bit stung by your response. I
Tim Visher wrote:
> Maybe the context for my question would help. I'm attempting to
> follow advice from [Steve Yegge's My .emacs File
> article](http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/my-dot-emacs-file) in
> order to get useful cygwin bash interaction from within NT Emacs. He
> seems to be of the op
Polon Tang wrote:
> When the problem appears, the error seems to complain about
> cygwin1.dll version mismatch.
[snip]
> Is this a know issue? Is there any patch available to cure? Please
> help. Many thanks.
This is almost certainly because you updated cygwin without first
terminating ALL cygwin
Marc Girod wrote:
> Two more changes I noticed with 23.0.92 (with respect to 21.2):
>
> 1. mark-active stays t after use (e.g. in the *shell* buffer),
> with the result that the visual effect to mark the region gets
> sticky.
I can't help you here. I've not tried cygwin's 23.0.92 yet, but I
can'
Markus Wenke wrote:
> In early versions of cygwin, I've used "dialog" for some scripts.
> Now I want to start the script and "dialog" is not installed on the
> current cygwin version.
> I tried to install it with Cygwin-setup, but I can't find a packet
> named "dialog".
> Which packet do I have to
Ravenik wrote:
> I type "./configure" in xterm to configure package. The script runs
> very slowly - above 40 minutes. I suppose it should run faster on the
> E8400 2x3GHz CPU. Can I speed up / boost this ? Windows Task Manager
> shows "idle" process takes ~70%. Sorry if the question is stupid, I
Dan Moulding wrote:
> The other odd thing I noticed is that for some reason in Bash the
> readline functionality "horizontal-scroll-mode" defaults to "on" when
> running inside urxvt-X. Normally this should default to "off" (as per
> the Bash man page). When running Bash in an xterm window, it is s
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:27:27AM +0800, Pan ruochen wrote:
> >> you installed cygwin in text mode.
> >> So the output is DOS style, to have UNIX output
> >> you need to install in binmode
> >
> >I did get one cygwin distribution which can excute scripts both in
DOS
> >
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 19 17:55, Haojun Bao wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > Here's a test case to make find(1) assertion:
> >
> > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/bar: -p
> >
> > #this will not assert
> > find no-such-dir/
> >
> > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/c: -p
>
> I think the right answer here
There's a tree package available from here:
http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/release/
I've no idea if this was the origin of the posted binary, but
these packages DO come with source.
I used to find these packages quite useful, but many packages had
dependencies that conflicted with official cygwi
Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> You could try this:
>
> http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?call=fortran
Am I going blind, or is there no source available from there?
Phil
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Steven Woody wrote on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:32 AM::
> Hi,
>
> I am using gvim in X window of cygwin. I selected a font Lucida
> Typewriter same as I set for my windows version of gvim. Lucida
> Typewriter looks good in windows version of gvim, but in cygwin's
> gvim, it's ugly, looks like t
Mike Marchywka wrote on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:53 PM::
> $ cygcheck ./pktdump_ex.exe | sed -e 's/ /./g'
[snip]
> ..C:\WINNT\cygwin1.dll
^
This is asking for trouble. Although it's probably nothing to do
with the current topic, chances are that it's out of date and likely
to be the c
John Emmas wrote on Friday, August 22, 2008 1:54 PM::
> Just doing some searches on the internet, there seems to be an awful
> lot of misinformation / misunderstanding about what the various
> Cygwin-gcc compiler and linker flags do.
>
> For example, I saw one article that said that that flag -mn
Phil Ten wrote on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:27 PM::
[snip]
>
> Attached cygcheck.out
>
> It reports
>
> "Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path"
>
> but I double checked and could find only one cygwin1.dll
> on the server.
>
> Any help would be very appreciated.
>
> Phil Ten
Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:22 PM::
> Rob wrote on 10 September 2008 19:03:
>
>> Since I'll be doing this upgrade on close to 100 boxes,
>> I've been trying to devise a *relatively* unattended process.
>> In case it helps anyone in the future, here's a snippet of my cmd
>>
Zarathustra wrote on Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:03 PM::
> I'm having some problems with certain executables in my cygwin
> instalation.
> Some executables (such as xgettext) issue an "Access is denied"
> error. Any ideea on what's causing this?
I'd wager you don't have permission to access so
John Emmas wrote on Monday, September 22, 2008 11:09 AM::
> Hi - I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this question. I'm
> just starting to use Cygwin. Firstly, the Cygwin web site says that
> the current version is 1.5.25-15 but my install log says that it
> installed 2.573.2.3 so I'm a b
Dirk Napierala wrote on Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:51 AM::
> If I missed feedback to the thread below I have to apologize.
> Otherwise I would like to recall this (my last post)again
Please don't keep reposting the same message. You can google the
mailing list archives if you think you may ha
Nick Calvert wrote on Monday, October 20, 2008 10:17 AM::
> Thanks very much Larry, even if i cant solve this issue i at least
> know the cause.
>
> Sadly i cant find tfy.exe anywhere. I dont suppose anyone here still
> has a copy?
>
You didn't look too hard. It took me only 1 minute to uncov
On 13 August 2010 11:27, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
>>> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> > (snip)
>>> >> :curl -iI -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -s --
>>> >> "http://cygwin.com/setup.exe";
>>> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>> >> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:59:
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