1.5.12: FPU affected by gethostname call

Dear cygwin team, the following c++ program (see below) is affected by a strange bug: floating point precision is decreased by uncommenting the call to gethostname(). Behaviour: * you get high precision if you do not call gethostname() * you get different values if the call is uncommented, i.e

RE: 1.5.12: FPU affected by gethostname call

Okay, sorry: the abs() function was defined as a template in the original code for historical reasons: template number abs(number) ... and so forth Changing to std::fabs() doesn't change anything in the behavior, however. At least now I know it's probably AMD FPU related. -Ralf > > Long doubl

Re: inetd anonymous ftp access

At 10:43 2003-03-20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:53:54PM +0100, Vito wrote: > ... > > please HLP MEE Keep cool. Did you check that "ftp" and "anonymous" are removed from /etc/ftpusers? Corinna Corinna, He said he did. Randall Schulz -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: logon as a service for XP home edition

Andrew, That's not true. Karl agreed (whether he knew it or not) to allow content to be added to messages he sends via that email account. Probably the mail service was billed as free, though I cannot concur with that description, given that the injection of commercial announcements must be ac

Re: How to increase stack size!!!

Matthew, Yes. It was only you. All the rest of us got together, discussed it and agreed, none of us thought it was about anatomical enhancement. You seem to have issues... Randy (Randy always takes over in these situations. I'll subdue him shortly. -- Randall) At 10:38 2003-03-20, Matthew Sm

Re: Install Scripts question

Martin, Setup does it all. Based on what you wrote, I'll assume you selected "Download from Internet" mode. Now just run Setup again and this time select "Install From Local Directory." Now the subsequent stages of the Setup wizard will differ from that the first time out. First Setup will ask

Re: cygz.dll

Martin, Generally, answers to the "where is" questions of this sort are at . The search for "cygz.dll" is this URL: . The result shows that it's part of the "zlib" package, whose current version is 1.1.4-1.

RE: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

Larry, It used to work for me, but a recent update has caused it to cease working for me, too. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which--wasn't there an ncurses update recently? Perhaps when it's convenient, I'll try to back up to see if that makes screen restore start working again. One other thing

Re: How to decide the file type in Cygwin?

Yang, Unix file systems don't store the the type of a file system entity in the directory entry used to access that entity, they stored in the so-called "inode." Once you have a name, use the stat(2) system call to get its inode information. From there you'll be able to determine what kind of

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

Hi, Some salient facts: Vim uses ncurses6: % cygcheck vim Found: D:\cygwin\bin\vim.exe D:/cygwin/bin/vim.exe D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll D:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6

Re: How to decide the file type in Cygwin?

-- Glenn Fowler Randall Schulz On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:38:17 -0800 Randall R Schulz wrote: > Yang, > Unix file systems don't store the the type of a file system entity in > the directory entry used to access that entity, they stored in the > so-called "inode." Once you have a

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

Larry, At 19:38 2003-03-24, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, Some salient facts: ... So, my bet is on the terminfo for cygwin as the locus of the problem, whatever it is. Other reasonable hypotheses are that there's problem in ncurses or in how Vim us

Re: procps and top output

Jurgen, What options to procps are you using to get that output format? I cannot reproduce it. Randall Schulz At 23:44 2003-03-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, Thanks for the nice procps package. However, are all values always shown as megabytes ? When top or procps are used, the size

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

rses6 and also fails to restore the window contents. Randall Schulz Larry Original Message: - From: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:14:55 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored Larry, At 19:38 2003-03-24

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

Pat, At 09:36 2003-03-25, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW: I am not a lawyer. And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored. Et tu? Until this alleged GPL violator receives a "cease and desist" order from an attorney, he has no reas

Re: Forum for sharing windows-specific 'bash' scripts.

Jason, I have a snapshot-generating script called "snap." It's attached. There is usage output via the "--help" argument and a little header commentary in the script itself. % snap --help # snap: Usage # -c Run target directory's "clean" program, if any # -D Place snapshot file

Re: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

Arthur, At 18:04 2003-03-25, Arthur I Schwarz wrote: How do I reinstall /etc/passwd & /etc/group to it's initial state? In a fit of efficiency I deleted some entries in both files to find out (later) that they apparently allow correct display of GID and UID for system files. Is there any way to r

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

Andrew, At 11:41 2003-03-26, Andrew M. Inggs wrote: ... Specifically for CD-R, I have had trouble doing this because the URL-encoded directories that setup.exe creates to keep track of which mirror you select are not ISO9660 or Joliet friendly. I usually just rename the directory before burni

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? Randall Schulz At 17:24 2003-03-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just outta curiosity, has anyone built Mozilla 1.3 on cygwin? thanks, JeffH -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Michael, At 21:32 2003-03-26, Michael F. March wrote: Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... Fi

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

At 14:15 2003-03-27, you wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! > >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin > >documentation poe

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Hi, You wrote "vmtools" and "vmware." Is that or ? Both? Something else? It's really just idle curiosity. I had never heard of vmtools before, so I had to go look it up (it's Java XML stuff) and so it doesn't sound related, but I just t

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Robert, Ah, right. I should have remembered that. I have VMware on this system (for a couple of months, now) and of course I installed the VMtools. I use VMware to run Linux under Windows since I now have a client who has some Java software that has to runs and build on both. Thanks for refres

Re: Ping program?

Sam, You don't say which version of Windows you're running, but NT, 2000 and XP all include a ping program. Is it insufficient for your needs? % type ping ping is /cygdrive/d/WINNT/system32/ping Randall Schulz At 08:24 2003-03-31, you wrote: I'm dying here. Does anyone have a ping program that

Re: command prompt window title

Anoop, At 11:38 2003-03-31, you wrote: I'm running cygwin's latest version 1.3.22-1. When I run cygwin from my desktop, it brings up a command prompt window with a title "Cygwin". I modified cygwin.bat to make my default shell tcsh. Anyway, after I run vi, the window title changes to "vi " where

Re: command prompt window title

At 15:19 2003-03-31, you wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Anoop, > > At 11:38 2003-03-31, you wrote: > > >... > > > >Anyway, after I run vi, the window title changes > >to "vi " where is the file that > >I'm editing.

Re: command prompt window title

At 17:02 2003-03-31, you wrote: > >Randall, > > > >Most likely there is no wrapper script. This is an option of "vim" > >itself. In vim, "help title". > > Igor > > Igor, > > That explains why I could not find documentation for the "title / > notitle" command when Thorsten mentioned it: I look

Re: (Aucun objet)

Jean-Luis, Even though you're using CYGWIN, which provides a very Unix-like environment and inside of which the PATH has a Unix-like syntax, the Sun Java compiler is a Windows application and it expects CLASSPATH to be formatted according to the Windows convention. The path components are sepa

Re: ls Question + bug?

Thorsten, At 06:42 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) (03-04-01 11:30 +0100) >> > IMO the sense of it is still there, even in NT. Can't tell about XP - but I > would be surprised if the changes were that many. XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. Hardly. NT 4 and 2000 h

Big Brother is Real

At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > ... > > XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. > [snip] > Thorsten ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of ). OH. MY. GOD. I installed SP3 on

Re: Big Brother is Real

iginal Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: Big Brother is Real > At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: > >On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > > > ... > &

Re: Big Brother is Real

Thorsten, At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) > At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. >> >> ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see

Re: Big Brother is Real

Herr Doktor Faylor, At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:24:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Thorsten, > >At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: >>* Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) >>> At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: >>>> On T

Re: Big Brother is Real

Chris, At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Maybe a gold star would help persuade me to stay... Sorry. cgf Randy (there he is again) -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Big Brother is Real

Chris, At 09:19 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: >>I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. >>You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to al

RE: Big Brother is Real

Günter, At 09:56 2003-04-01, you wrote: I missed out on that.. What does sp3 for win2k do? It opens a back door for MS snooping. DRM indeed! Btw. I only use amd cpu's. To my understanding they don't have the cpu id (I don't trust a software that allows me to turn the id of because obviously soft

Re: Big Brother is Real

At 10:10 2003-04-01, you wrote: A lisp would be already a good start. Just don't write programs with it... Hey! Lisp is my all-time favorite language! Corinna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

RE: Big Brother is Real

Günter, That first remark of mine was meant facetiously, of course. SP3 does more than just open a privacy hole (I assume). My guess (nope, I haven't done the research--I had my child-like naivete destroyed by Igor's URL just today!) is that it's during system update that you're going to be pr

Re: how do I configure ssmtp on pacbell.net?

Steve, At 23:34 2003-04-01, you wrote: I'm a pacbell dsl user. They gave me an IP address, but not a domain name. Are you sure? Perhaps they simply didn't tell you what it was. Is this you? % nslookup adsl-63-197-19-160.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Server: ... Address: ... Non-authoritative answer:

Re: cygwin license

Ehud, [ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS spy-ware. ] At 04:44 2003-04-02, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... I'm intending to do a similar thing - to make a CD w

Re: how do I configure ssmtp on pacbell.net?

At 07:25 2003-04-02, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Steve, > > At 23:34 2003-04-01, you wrote: > >I'm a pacbell dsl user. They gave me an IP address, but not a domain name. > > Are you sure? Perhaps they simply didn't tell y

RE: how do I configure ssmtp on pacbell.net?

Sergey, At 07:45 2003-04-02, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: Everyone may use free DNS service like dyndns.org. For example D:\>nslookup sokhapkin.dyndns.org Server: barney.leapstone.com Address: 10.10.30.21 Non-authoritative answer: Name:sokhapkin.dyndns.org Address: 216.220.64.102 D:\>nslookup 21

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

Charles, I must be missing something. At 00:29 2003-04-02, you wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Sorry, I haven't been following this thread. See below. I'll try to figure out which parts are missing, and reinstate them -- look for a new release (of terminfo-) sometime in the next week. Try the fol

Re: Make shows invalid contents

ou, Martin - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:12 AM Subject: Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored ...

RE: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME

Hannu, Here's the full set of recommendations: Yours: Stick to [A-Za-z0-9-_.] characters in filenames, settings and such. Plus: Write all your scripts to accommodate the presence of spaces and shell metacharacters in file names. This is a true pain in the ass... I wish everybody could

Re: cygwin license

At 10:40 2003-04-02, you wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting >I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS >spy-ware. ] Good answer. You've earned

Re: stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout

Christian, At 11:22 2003-04-02, you wrote: Hello, I have cygwin, it works fine but when I run it from a Win2k Telnet session it fails: *=== Bienvenido al servidor Telnet de Microsoft. *==

Re: cygwin license

Igor, At 13:34 2003-04-02, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 10:40 2003-04-02, you wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > >[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting > > >I w

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from system to system, though POSIX dictates a minimum value for this limit. If you've got to deal in some kind of open-ended argument list (lists of

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

John, Are you a famous composer? If so, are you _the_ famous composer? At 18:58 2003-04-02, John Williams wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from s

Re: cygwin license

At 20:21 2003-04-02, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Good answer. You've earned the star. Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal parade a slave would ride in the chariot with him. As the cheering throng to

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

Hi, Chuck, Thanks for the clarification. I have no idea what was up with the MIME encoding or whatever it was that glitched. At 20:16 2003-04-02, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Since there were no attachments, I placed the text embedded in the message into a file named "cygwin.ter

RE: Problem in tcsh

At 06:55 2003-04-03, Soumitra Pal wrote: Corinna, I did whatever you said. Current passwd is the following. ... But still the problem is not solved. Mine is latest cygwin. Thanks and regards, Soumitra. Soumitra, No one seems to have asked you about your readline options. I know next to nothing

Re: Big Brother is Real

Tim, At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: ... Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers depend on cygwin, which is

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

At 12:22 2003-04-03, Timothy C Prince wrote: ... "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." -- Lily Tomlin __ They may care. I doubt their chances of overtaking linux-ia64 or making back their investment in XP64 this year are overwhelmi

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

thout having to remove the old entry. Now if I switch back (rename "cygwin" in the above to "wcygwin" and "lcygwin" to "cygwin"), less works as usual for both standard input and file name arguments. Randall Schulz At 12:30 2003-04-03, you wrote: &g

Re: Pipe behavior

Steven, At 16:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: Hello, I have a question about pipe behavior. I wrote a simple program that does a printf, sleeps for 5 seconds and then another printf. If I run the program with the following way: $ ./simple | cat The output is delayed until the program finished. I g

RE: Pipe behavior

en. Can you help me understand why? Thanks Steven Original Message----- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pipe behavior Steven, At 16:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: >Hello, > >I have a question about pip

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

Igor, At 06:18 2003-04-04, you wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Just a thought - I'm not a lawyer, so you can safely ignore me > (although I am married with a lawyer.. does that help?) > rlc IANALBIMTO [1]? Hmm... Igor [1] I Am Not A Lawyer But I'm Married To One U

Re: How to access a Linux partition

Martin, At 14:06 2003-04-04, Martin wrote: How does Cygwin access a Linux partition? I guess you still need help from us "short-tempered chits," eh? There's no way to directly access a file system in Cygwin. Cygwin relies on Windows for file access. If you can find a file system driver for Wind

Re: Bash and xterm window title

Ajay, The preferred answer is: "Read the BASH manual, where the details of how to use the special escape codes recognized in the PS1 string are fully explained." To wit: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- PROMPTING When executing interactively, bash displays

Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

Chuck, At 15:52 2003-04-05, Charles Wilson wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Chuck, I was meaning to write this up earlier, but work keeps getting in the way. When I used your new termcap entry, "less" (when it's displaying output piped to it via its standard input but not when it

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

Chris, At 10:44 2003-06-05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: >But nevertheless send me an email in case you find out more about >since when typical unix/linux FSs support holes inside files ! Traditional UNIX has done this for at least 10 ye

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

Chris, At 06:53 2003-06-06, Christopher Faylor wrote: ... Nevermind. I was testing in a directory where I'd set the compression bit on. So much for my trustworthiness... "Never ascribe to malice something that can be explained by absent-mindedness." It's one of those Occam's razor things. I s

Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"

Peter, Make sure your scripts explicitly state /bin/bash as their shell. The default shell (i.e. /bin/sh) under Cygwin is ash, not BASH. It produces the diagnostic you mention when given that command. Randall Schulz At 00:56 2003-05-27, Peter Oosterlynck wrote: When using a line like "for (( i

Re: behaviour of "for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done"

Sam, At 03:17 2003-05-28, Sam Edge wrote: Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Tue, 27 May 2003 13:07:18 +0100: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote: > > Make sure that if your script uses Bash-specific features, it starts > > wi

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

Hi, The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. Randall Schulz At 13:40 2003-06-03, Biju G C wrote: cgf, When I reply to any mail from cygwin list it is going to the actual sender instead of [EMA

Re: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

At 15:54 2003-06-03, Biju G C wrote: --- Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The Reply-To: header (or, more precisely, control over it) belongs to > the originator of the mail, not to the list server or its administrator. > > Randall Schulz Then how i

Re: rsync and cygwin paths

At 10:06 2003-06-04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: > ... > > Please notice that there is a default prgoramm called "cygpath" that's > really useful to convert path- and file-names between the two version, > and it's not so hard to create "wrapper scripts" to conv

Re: rsync and cygwin paths

At 10:44 2003-06-04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 10:06 2003-06-04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > > > > ... > > > > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.htm

Re: redistributing cygwin1.dll

Yo! Presto Man, Where's that bait site you were going to set up? Or is it one of those hide-and-seek things? RRS -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Vim and the navigating with arrow keys

Brian, At 06:27 2003-06-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "True Vim'ers DO NOT navigate with arrow keys". I remember reading that somewhere. Certainly the "correct" way to navigate in Vim is with the H J K and L keys. Understood, acknowledged, yaddy yadda yaaa. That said - I "like" to use the

Re: Vim and the navigating with arrow keys

Brian, At 07:25 2003-06-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... However, I do take issue with your "practically flawless" line - for I still have the need to do CTRL-L refreshes with small files. Example: Simple text file with the following text: cygrunsrv -E cron Open in Vim, and do nothing but touc

Re: Windows NT installation 1.3.22-1

Panos, This question probably belongs on the general Cygwin list, no on Cygwin-XFree. I've added that list to this reply's distribution. Further follow-ups and replies should go there only. I believe you're expecting a CSH-equivalent shell (tcsh, e.g.). That shell is available under Cygwin, if

Re: The other side of bell-style

Michael, Cygwin was changed to use the system beep as of Cygwin version 1.3.21: From : Changes since 1.3.20-1: - Use MessageBeep for cygwin "bell". (Vaclav Haisman) So just update your Cygwin and you'll get what you want. Randall Schulz At

Re: bash : stderr & more (pipe for stderr)

Alex, At 00:25 2003-06-14, Alex Vinokur wrote: $ | more # works only for stdout $ |& more bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&' How to use pipe for stderr? BASH uses the Bourne and Korn shell syntax for redirection. You're using the CSH / tcsh variety. # Redirect standard out and

RE: Bash 2.05 not reading my ~/.bashrc

Dean, At 07:52 2003-06-16, Schulze, Dean wrote: I checked the mail archives for this problem before posting but found nothing of any help. A search engine that uses boolean logic (or something like Google) would help a lot. Use the domain-restricted Google search feature at (

Mozilla vis-à-vis Cygwin

Hi, A while back there was some talk about the feasibility of a Cygwin-based Mozilla. In perusing the release notes for Mozilla 1.4 () I noticed this: - As of Mozilla 1.4b, it is possible to build Mozilla for Win32 using GCC. See the win32 build

Re: changing bash window title

At 07:54 2003-06-17, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote: > Hi, > the bash window has title Cygwin by default .. whenever I do a telnet or > lynx .. it changes the title .. how do I restore it again or change it to > something custom .. > TIA > Sanjay Sanjay, The defau

Re: Mozilla vis-à-vis Cygwin

Michael, Oh, yeah... Another "D'Oh!" moment: Now that you mention it, I remember your post. Sorry to act like it was a discovery. Apparently the people who earlier mentioned an interest in Mozilla under Cygwin / Cygwin-XFree86 had only an idle interest. I'll admit it's not a priority for me, I

eBay Fraud (OT)

Hi, This is from the latest Risks digest (22.77--see ): -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:14:12 -0400 From: "John Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: eBay fraud Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, are working with eBay to determi

Re: Bourne Shell Programming on Windows

TAM, Cygwin includes ash, BASH and pdksh (as well as zsh and tcsh), so the answer is pretty much "yes," though with BASH you might want to investigate its Bourne shell compatibility mode. I'm unfamiliar with any details of pdksh's Bourne compatibility, but it should be pretty close or perhaps

Re: website broken

Hi, At 15:03 2003-06-25, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Rolf Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I view "www.cygwin.com", I get an empty page. > > /home/rcampbell> wget -S www.cygwin.com > --16:57:26-- http://www.cygwin.com/ >=> `index.html' >

Re: [[ ]] test always reports a "not found" error in bash shell scrip t

Michael, At 09:21 2003-06-26, MATTHEWS,MICHAEL (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: Thu 2003/JUN/26 0921 PDT Hello, I am porting a Linux build system to Windows XP by using the Cygwin 1.3.22-1 environment (see the attached text file for output from "cygcheck -s -v -r"). All of the bash shell scripts use th

Re: find -exec oddity

Ken, At 16:38 2003-07-07, Ken Dibble wrote: Ok, I'm an idiot. I've looked in the FAQ, searched the mail lists and checked sundry Unix sources (no, not the source code). Well, I doubt greatly that you're an idiot. Confusion is the prelude to enlightenment, after all... (Compare that with Eudora

Re: posix and win32 enviornment

Andrew, At 14:48 2003-07-07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Shankar Unni wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your program will not understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32 ones). Well, to be totally, utterly nitpicky, I believe "/WinNT/System32"

Re: Advice on where to look to solve a problem

Steve, This is elementary Unix script programming. Well, maybe intermediate scripting. The "find" command will do everything you want. Read the man page ("man find"). It's chock full 'o options. I do suggest you clarify your file age criteria. File time stamps have approximately second-level r

Re: send message/mail from command line

Andrew, The most minimal solution is "ssmtp." More fully featured is "exim." Man pages and extended documentation in /usr/doc/exim-* and /usr/doc/ssmtp-* are available for both of these. Randall Schulz At 18:52 2003-07-08, andrew goa wrote: Is it possible to send messages/mail from the command

Re: What's up with the Cygwin homepage?

Steve, So far this morning (I tried first around 7:00 am and just now, 9:25 am PDT) I get no response at all from the Web page and Setup.exe cannot retrieve its mirror list. If it's relevant, here's the DNS resolution of cygwin.com: Non-authoritative answer: Name:cygwin.com Address: 67.72

Re: Problems with @pathnames

Magnus, The @-file expansion feature is active only when a non-Cygwin program invokes a Cygwin executable. Try your examples from CMD.exe or COMMAND.exe and you'll see that @-file expansion works as advertised. Randall Schulz At 09:11 2003-07-15, Magnus Lewis-Smith wrote: Do you have to do an

Re: [PATCH] : make cygpath use multiple filename arguments

Mark, Cygpath will process multiple names when it's operating as a filter. I suggest that your patch be changed to print each converted argument on a separate line. Randall Schulz At 13:53 2003-07-17, Mark Blackburn wrote: Dunno if anybody will find this useful or not: Currently if you say:

Re: How to resolve a link?

David, Investigate the options to "test" (the binary or the BASH built-in) that detect symbolic links: -h or -L (they are synonymous) and the command "readlink" (as in "man readlink"). Again, this is stock Unix / Linux stuff. Randall Schulz At 18:23 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently,

Re: Skipping the /proc filesystem

David, At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: Maybe this is something any native *nix speaker knows, but I'm stull trudging up the learning curve. It is entirely non-Cygwin-specific, yes. If I do a (cygwin) find for some fragment of a filename, I get a whole pile of hits in the /proc/regist

Re: How to resolve a link?

Chris, At 18:29 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: >Recently, I was trying to do "strace Xemacs . . ." >First I got a "No such file" error, so I changed to do "strace `which >xemacs` " -- still a failure. > >which xemacs returns "/u

Re: How to resolve a link?

At 20:08 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote: ... >>>What would happen on *nix? >> >>The same thing as on cygwin. > >Really? > >Since Cygwin "strace" is not a Cygwin program, it does not get Cygwin >symbolic links resolved. Whereas on Unix or Linux, a symlink would be >resolved by the kernel if i

Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

Richard, You know, we heard you the first time... At 10:02 2003-07-23, Richard Anderson wrote: When I start Cygwin 1.3.22-1 and then try to shut down Windows XP using the normal Start / Turn Off Computer procedure, Windows pops up the "End Program - Cygwin ... Windows cannot end this program" dia

RE: Skipping the /proc filesystem

At 13:59 2003-07-23, Chris January wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: > >>I would wish to tell find not to get involved with the /proc filesystem > >>at all. Can that easily be done? > > > > Very easily: >

Re: Cygwin prevents normal Windows shutdown

Richard, For starters, you're sending two copies of your messges (some of them, anyway), both a To: copy and a CC: copy. Please try to avoid that. At 15:19 2003-07-23, Richard Anderson wrote: - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Anderson" <[EMAI

Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

and translate them into POSIX signals (SIGUP, say). Randall Schulz At 17:16 2003-07-23, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Cygwin apps don't know about and cannot respond to the system-generated messages that request that applications quit in preparation for the system to shut down o

Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash

Damien, Here's the stock Cygwin.bat file: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- @echo off D: chdir \cygwin\bin bash --login -i -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- All you have to do to substitute tcsh for BASH is change the last line. The options are slightly different, though (check the

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