Re: lpr problem (was: Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?)

2003-03-22 Thread Rick Rankin
Dept of Computer Science, Univ of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, > Hong Kong > tel +852 2358.7000 / dir +852 2358.6989 / fax +852 2358.1477 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai > > - Original Message - > From: Rick Rankin > To: Charles Wilson, "Ge

Re: Will lpr be updated to enable printing to a postscript printer?

2003-05-29 Thread Rick Rankin
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Gilles Civario in his 5/14 posting (Subject: Re: a2ps and > printer) indicated a simple lpr.c patch that enabled printing to > a postscript printer via cygwin lpr (which tends to be in the > path for utilities such as a2ps or enscript). > The next rele

Re: patch in cygutil/lpr

2003-06-13 Thread Rick Rankin
Gilles, I will make sure this gets into the "official" version, although I have no control over when it will be released. That's up to Chuck Wilson. --Rick --- gilles civario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I've found that the new version of lpr provided with cygutils-1.1.4 no longer

Re: Local printer access question..

2003-07-27 Thread Rick Rankin
Try setting your PRINTER environment variable to LPT1 or LPT2, whichever is appropriate. --Rick --- Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am using cygwin (dll 1.3.22) under Windows 2K Pro. > > An attempt to use lpr results in: > > lpr: can't open 'prn' for writing > lpr: The p

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-28 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am using cy

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-29 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Igor Pechtchanski > > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-29 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > --- "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor

RE: Local printer access question..

2003-07-29 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:16 PM > > > > > Was my writing unclear? > > > > No, no, it was my late night

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

2003-07-30 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

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

2003-07-30 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >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 Eff

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

2003-07-31 Thread Rick Rankin
OMPUTER\\Printer Share). If you have a > > > > > > Rather than talk about escaping backslashes, why not just use > > > //computer/printer ? > > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:52:23PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > OK, so I need to read *all* my m

Re: Raw lpr outputs extra page

2003-08-08 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rodrigo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I want to report an extrange behavior of lpr. > First my instalation: > /proc/version: > CYGWIN_95-4.0 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 > > Date of lpr: > 244224 Jun 13 19:40 /bin/lpr > > Printer: HP-DeskJet 670C, Standard instalation

Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:30:23AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: > >linda w (cyg) wrote: > >>What were the _original_ design goals of Cygwin -- i.e. as sponsored > >>by "RedHat"? > > > >Cygwin predates RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/history.html (t

Re: Fw: cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-26 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:23 PM 1/26/2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:30:23PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) > wrote: > > >At 05:55 PM 1/26/2003, David Christensen wrote: > > >>However, I still say there is a Bash/Cy

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:21:18PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >Chris, > > > >At 13:59 2003-02-14, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:50:48AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > >>>On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Ch

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:08:15PM -0800, Rick Rankin wrote: > >> I was also thinking of creating a '/dev/tty' file in the archive which > >> was just a real file containing the words "Hey! What are YOU

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > >On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many p

Re: tetex 2.0.1-1 listed under 'previous' in setup.ini

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Rankin
I was just discussing this with Jan Nieuwenhuizen, and I believe he's going to take care of it. --Rick --- Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed when tetex and lilypond were released yesterday, that only > lilypond showed up in setup.exe. Checking the downloaded setup.ini made >

Re: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Rankin
Do you know for sure which lpr you're using? Win2K has one in C:\WINNT\system32. --Rick --- Charles Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble with cygwin lpr printing to my default Win2k printer. > A search of the archives revealed many mailings from people who > similarly could not pri

RE: setup.exe: something besides C++?

2003-03-05 Thread Rick Rankin
I have a question. Do contributions to setup require the same copyright assignment as contributions to the dll? I've looked at the contributions page, the FAQ, and the assignment form itself, and the answer doesn't appear obvious to me. I have some 250+ boxes I deal with, and an unattended setup/

Re: 1.3.20-1: signal 11 when compiling XEmacs-2.4.12

2003-03-06 Thread Rick Rankin
Michael, XEmacs' dumping method does not work with gcc 3.x. This is a known "bug" in the Windows version of XEmacs (not sure if it works on Unix/Linux or not). Use the portable dumper (--pdump) option to configure and you should be good to go. --Rick --- Michael Lipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: setup snapshot?

2003-03-11 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other feedback on the increment setup snapshot? > > It is meant to fix the permission problems (another of which occured > today) that are plaguing new users. > > I'd really like to have a success story from an NT user with that > snapshot be

Re: RXVT Problem with buffering of application output.

2003-03-19 Thread Rick Rankin
In the absence of addtional context, I would say that this is a Perl issue, not an RXVT issue. By default, Perl buffers STDOUT. If you add use IO::Handle; STDOUT->autoflush(1); to the script below, you'll see the prompt just fine in RXVT, at least with CYGWIN=tty HTH, --Rick --- "Fletcher, Bob

Re: perl localtime returns gmttime

2003-11-11 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Kirill, > > Sunday, November 9, 2003, 6:29:09 PM, you wrote: > > > I have update perl to 5.8.2 . > > After that i did find symptomatic insane behaviour of "local" function. > > Now it returns GMT time. > > Does anybody unite with me ? > >

Re: perl localtime returns gmttime

2003-11-11 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Kirill, > > > > Sunday, November 9, 2003, 6:29:09 PM, you wrote: > > > > > I have update perl to 5.8.2 . > > >

Re: lpr -l misbehaviour

2003-11-13 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rodrigo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all! > I have just installed cygutils-1.2.2 > 'lpr -l' is still repeating the last byte of a file as I have > explained some months ago in the message: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00451.html > > As I don't see any mention

CygUtils patch for last char repeat bug in lpr

2003-11-25 Thread Rick Rankin
ce spools to the specified device.\n" " -Denable debugging output.\n" +" -lprevent -> processing. By default, standalone" +" characters are converted to ." " -P device spools to the specified device.\n" "\n" "Notes:\n&qu

RE: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-29 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Blair P. Houghton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I've found the problem. > > By more careful use of the -d=flags option to make, I traced it down to the > second of two "subdirs" > targets, and then turned off the NOECHO command (by taking it out of the > script line in the Makefile >

Re: two versions of cygwin 1.5.7 in the wild

2004-01-31 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a few hour period during which an older version of cygwin 1.5.7 > was released. I hope this doesn't cause any problems. The correct version > is dated '2004-01-30 19:32'. Is this output from uname? I just

Re: two versions of cygwin 1.5.7 in the wild

2004-01-31 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Frédéric_L._W._Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > There was a few hour period during which an older version of cygwin 1.5.7 > > was released. I hope this doesn't cause any problems. The correct version > > is dated '2004-01-30 19:32'. >

Re: How can I get Cygwin to see the NT ERRORLEVEL Environment Variable

2002-02-22 Thread Rick Rankin
ERRORLEVEL is a variable that is set and maintained by cmd.exe. The Cygwin (actually bash) equivalent would be the variable $?, e.g., some_command param1 param2 ... if [ $? != 0] then # The command failed fi There are a number of possible variations on this syntax. The equivalent exists for cs

Re: Printing locally

2002-03-05 Thread Rick Rankin
What kind of printer is it? If, for example, it's a Postscript printer and you cat plain text to it, you will get nothing. You would need to use enscript or a2ps to convert the plaint text to Postscript. Printing through Notepad would do this for you. Just a thought. --Rick --- Brian Salter-Duke

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and > /etc/group, setup.exe pass the "-d" flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup; otherwise, > ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP use

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Rick Rankin
I've never seen setup run mkpasswd or mkgroup when /etc/passwd or /etc/group exist, so I believe you're right, Chris, in saying that this is just a first time setup issue. Personally, I just didn't want to see a first time user around here get stuck with a 30 minute install process because setup b

PostgreSQL-7.2 still marked test?

2002-03-20 Thread Rick Rankin
Just out of curiosity, what's keeping PostgreSQL marked as test? I was under the impression that the primary issue was a problem in the Cygwin 1.3.9 DLL that was fixed in 1.3.10. --Rick __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage

RE: Printing PostScript file

2002-04-04 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Paul Dilip K NPRI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other thought about printing postscript files from cygwin; still can not > print. > Somehow the printer is unknown even with hostname and device name. > > Dilip Paul > > -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Setup 2.194.2.24 available?

2002-04-12 Thread Rick Rankin
When I run setup 2.194.2.22, it reports that 2.194.2.24 is available; however, when I go to cygwin.com and click "Install now", it downloads 2.194.2.22 (according to the splash screen, anyway). I cleared my browser cache, just in case, and redownloaded, but still got 2.194.2.22. Can anyone else ve

Re: Setup 2.194.2.24 available?

2002-04-12 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:00 PM 4/12/2002, Rick Rankin wrote: > >When I run setup 2.194.2.22, it reports that 2.194.2.24 is available; > however, > >when I go to cygwin.com and click "Install now", it down

Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?

2002-04-16 Thread Rick Rankin
Hmm... I've set no special options regarding case sensitivity, but completion with both upper and lower case drive letters works fine, i.e., both ls c:/ and ls C:/ show me the contents of the root directory on drive C. I *do* have the directive set show-all-if-ambiguous on in my .inputrc. Do

Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?

2002-04-16 Thread Rick Rankin
rive/d/ > lrwxrwxrwx1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 e -> /cygdrive/e/ > lrwxrwxrwx1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 f -> /cygdrive/f > lrwxrwxrwx1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 g -> /cygdrive/g/ > lrwxrwxrwx1 RSchulz None 94

Re: lpr problem (was: Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?)

2002-04-21 Thread Rick Rankin
I'll spend a little time and try to fix it up. Generally, lpr has worked for my original intent, but when I wrote it, I never intended to publish it. I posted the source a year or two ago in respose to someone's printing question, and was very surprised when Chuck asked for permission to include i

Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-14 Thread Rick Rankin
In the course of doing a complete reinstall from scratch, I discovered a set of circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2. As distributed, /usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm is a symlink to ../x/xterm-color which is a symlink to ../n/nxterm. This can be verified by running tar -tvjf terminfo-5.2-2.ta

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
Charles Wilson wrote: > Also, terminfo-5.2-2 changed in only one respect from terminfo-5.2-1: it > now uses the XFree86-4.2.0 terminal definitions for xterm-*. NOT the > ncurses-provided definitions. Hmmm... Perhaps this explains the trouble I've been having with the xterm-color definition of

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick Rankin wrote: > > > >>Also, terminfo-5.2-2 changed in only one respect from terminfo-5.2-1: it > >>now uses the XFree86-4.2.0 terminal definitions for xterm-*. NOT the > >>ncurses-provided defin

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
Yes. I had to do that a few months ago when I switched from all textmode to all binmode mounts. --Rick --- Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AHA!!! CONFIRMATION!!! THANK GOD!! > > So, you're saying that removing the \r from the cvs-related ~/.dotfiles > and from CVS/* ---fixed--- yo

Re: CVS: binmode/textmode issues [Was: Re: Changes in latest snapshot]

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
[Thought I'd reply in this thread as well...] Yes. I had to do that a few months ago when I switched from all textmode to all binmode mounts. --Rick --- Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [reply copied over to this thread] > > AHA!!! CONFIRMATION!!! THANK GOD!! > > So, you're saying

Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In short, I'm not at all sure how it worked before. I need to look at the > source for less to understand how it determines that a terminal is "not fully > functional" and proceed from there. > Well, it seems

Re: ctrl-c in rxvt

2003-09-11 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0700, Patrick Peralta wrote: > >I installed Cygwin a few days ago on Windows XP along with rxvt > >2.7.10. It works great except for ctrl-c when trying to break > >out of certain programs (such as ping). It w

Re: ctrl-c in rxvt

2003-09-11 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:32:03PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > >--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0700, Patrick Peralta wrote: > >>>I installed

Re: ctrl-c in rxvt

2003-09-12 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:54:10PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > >--- Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>We can't get decent bug reports without begging, so, just feel lucky > >>that the system works at all.

Re: ctrl-c in rxvt

2003-09-12 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:54:10PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > > >--- Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>We can't get decent bug reports without

Setup installation order?

2003-09-16 Thread Rick Rankin
I ran into a situation I hadn't seen before a few days ago when I used setup to update my Cygwin installation from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4. What happened was that there were several packages, in addition to cygwin-1.5.4, that had updates available. Setup downloaded the updates, then uninstalled the old pack

Re: Setup installation order?

2003-09-16 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > I ran into a situation I hadn't seen before a few days ago when I used > > setup to update my Cygwin installation from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4. What > > happened was t

Re: Installed 1.5.5, need to back off to 1.3.22

2003-10-09 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "David M. Karr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Larry" == Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Larry> At 08:30 PM 10/9/2003, Karr, David you wrote: > >> I have version 1.3.22 installed on another box. On a new box, I > decided > >> to go for broke and install 1.5.5. Un

Re: Installed 1.5.5, need to back off to 1.3.22

2003-10-09 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "David M. Karr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Larry" == Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Larry> At 08:30 PM 10/9/2003, Karr, David you wrote: > >> I have version 1.3.22 installed on another box. On a new box, I > decided > >> to go for broke and install 1.5.5. Un

RE: Installed 1.5.5, need to back off to 1.3.22

2003-10-10 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Karr, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At end. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --- "David M. Karr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>>> &quo

Xerces-2.3.0-3 still marked as test?

2003-10-10 Thread Rick Rankin
It seems that Xerces-2.3.0-3 is still marked as test. Is that correct or an oversite? --Rick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://c

RE: Installed 1.5.5, need to back off to 1.3.22

2003-10-10 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Triza UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- "Karr, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At end. > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Rick

Re: gcc -dM -E -xc /dev/null & g++ -dM -E -xc /dev/null

2003-10-13 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:22:28AM +0200, Alex Vinokur wrote: > >gcc -dM -E -xc /dev/null > > and > >g++ -dM -E -xc /dev/null > > produce the same output. > > > >Is this a feature or a bug? > > It is not a bug. Try it on linux. > > >How can

Re: Impossible to exit rxvt, now

2002-01-21 Thread Rick Rankin
This *appears* to be a problem handling EOF. I've included some strace output that will hopefully shed some light on the problem. If this points someone to an obvious solution, great. If not, it'll be at least a couple of days before I'll have a chance to look at it in more detail. Oddly enough,

Re: Impossible to exit rxvt, now

2002-01-21 Thread Rick Rankin
OK, forget the last one. The message about 1.3.9 appeared just after I hit send. -- Rick --- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This *appears* to be a problem handling EOF. I've included some strace output > that will hopefully shed some light on the problem. If this point

Re: Need a customised version of PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on cygwin

2002-01-26 Thread Rick Rankin
I can build it for them, but I don't have a way to make it available to them. If someone can provide a site for them to get it from, I'll do the build. What options to configure, other than --enable-debug, do you need? --Rick --- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 200

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with initdb on Cygwin

2002-01-26 Thread Rick Rankin
ctly the reported behaviour! > > > > Greetings, > > Joerg > > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > > Rick Rankin wrote: > > > &g

Re: bug in path traversing in 1.5.19 snapshots

2005-12-23 Thread Rick Rankin
>From: Krzysztof Duleba >To: Cygwin >Subject: bug in path traversing in 1.5.19 snapshots > >Hi > >There is a funny bug in the 1.5.19 family, maybe in earlier versions too. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >$ cd /usr/.../var > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/.../var >$ ls >ls: .: No such file or directory > >Note th

Tetex-bin dependence on obsolete package clear?

2006-01-10 Thread Rick Rankin
According to setup.ini, tetex-bin currently depends on package clear; however, clear is obsolete and, IIRC, has been absorbed into ncurses. Tetex-bin already has dependencies on various ncurses packages, so is the dependence on the clear package still real? In other words, does the clear package

Re: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-05 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest cygwin snapshot at: > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > should fix the startup problems that some people were seeing. I'd > appreciate feedback on that fact so that we can get a new release > out quickly. > > Please try the snapsh

Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-11 Thread Rick Rankin
After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem creating files on network drives using tar. For quite a while now (a couple of years, at least), I've been using tar to back up several directories to a network share, and had no problems up through version 1.5.9. However, with 1.5.10-3, I

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-11 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:02 PM 6/11/2004, you wrote: > >After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem creating files on > >network drives using tar. For quite a while now (a couple of years, at > least), > >I've been using tar to back up several directories to

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-11 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 05:02 PM 6/11/2004, you wrote: > > >After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem creating files > on > > >network drives using tar. For qui

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-15 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 11 14:02, Rick Rankin wrote: > > After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem creating files > on > > network drives using tar. For quite a while now (a couple of years, at > least), > >

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-16 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 15 14:48, Rick Rankin wrote: > > --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 11 14:02, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > > After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem c

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-16 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Rick Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 15 14:48, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 11 14:02, Rick Rankin wrote: > > &g

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-16 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:10:09AM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > > OK, it *must* be something specific to the particular share I've been > working > > with. I just mapped some other drives from ot

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-16 Thread Rick Rankin
--- "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:14:49PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > > --- "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:10:09AM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > >

Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar

2004-06-17 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 16 21:47, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:10:03PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > It seems to be the O_TRUNC flag that's causing the problem. If I remove > it, the > > >

Re: Rationale sought: XEmacs 21.5.16 (test) build disabling MS windows toolkit

2005-08-22 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi, > > I had a play with the XEmacs 21.5.16-1 build (which is the [test] > version atm). I noticed that, unlike the 21.4.17-1 and 21.4.15-1 build, > XEmacs could not be started using the native MS windows toolkit. > > A quick look at the source package confirmed tha

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-21.4.20-2/xemacs-tags-21.4.20-2/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.20-2

2006-12-15 Thread Rick Rankin
- Original Message From: Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 8:55:50 PM Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-21.4.20-2/xemacs-tags-21.4.20-2/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.20-2 >Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> A new version of 'xemacs' has

Re: Printing to network printers

2008-12-16 Thread Rick Rankin
> From: Steve Rainbird > > How can I print to a network printer? > > I know if its attached to a server I can say > > lpr -d //server/printer file > > > But what do I do if the printer isn't attached to a server and is just a > printer > on the network? You should be able to add the printe

Re: Printing to network printers

2008-12-16 Thread Rick Rankin
> From: Steve Rainbird > > "Rick Rankin" wrote in message > news:189950.11753...@web65613.mail.ac4.yahoo.com... > >> From: Steve Rainbird > >> > > > >> How can I print to a network printer? > >> > >> I know if i

Re: Printing to network printers

2008-12-17 Thread Rick Rankin
> From: Steve Rainbird > "Rick Rankin" wrote in message > > [snip] > > > > Well, by default it does. A couple of (hopefully) obvious questions: Is the > file you're trying to print (PRINT.BALANCES.20081203083027) a simple ASCII > file, >

Re: how can I stop Windows setting HOME?

2008-06-06 Thread Rick Rankin
- Original Message > From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 3:27:10 PM > Subject: Re: how can I stop Windows setting HOME? > > anadem wrote: > > > > > I didn't mean that %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% are not set (not sure if you >

Re: argparse for cygwin python

2012-01-17 Thread Rick Rankin
- Original Message - > From: Jason Tishler > To: xxx@xxx > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:23 AM > Subject: Re: argparse for cygwin python > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:04:46PM -0500, LMH wrote: >> I have a python script and when I try to run it I get an error for no >>