ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-22 Thread Soren A.
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Re: win32 dia and HOME=/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% fix

2003-06-22 Thread Soren A.
his erronious understanding. Bash's "correct" HOME directory is what you TELL it is HOME unless you don't really mean it. Unlike some software systems, Cygwin's BASH (or any BASH) doesn't assume it knows better than the user. Soren A. -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
"Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Subject: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me > > Windows XP - High Explosive edition? ;-) > Heehee. I didn't choose it (to install). "HE" = "Home Edition". -- Unsubscr

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
"Soren A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Attachment decoded: cygcheck.2003.Jun.22 > --==_=_37794.70672821764D1BD3B9== Sheesh. Did Gmane trip me up? There WAS all this text before the a

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
s, or find another way to do this. Thanks anyway, although it is frustrating, it is a tiny bit gratifying to know that I was right about sensing that there was a "hole" in M$ tools provided for this task and that something exists to fill that hole. Soren A. -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
"Soren A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Huhh. I guess I am screwed, because NTRights.exe looks like it is what > I need, but it's only made available as a file in the NT/Win2K > Resource Kit, Hehe. Altavista to the rescue, when Go

example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-28 Thread Soren A
answers to anticipated questions from the idle onlookers ;-) ... : * yeah, am using AS Perl, that's because this is a piece of a WSH script. * what I'd like to end up with is a way to context|alternate-click on any filename in MSWindows Explorer and place the filename as *cygw

example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-28 Thread Soren A
answers to anticipated questions from the idle onlookers ;-) ... : * yeah, am using AS Perl, that's because this is a piece of a WSH script. * what I'd like to end up with is a way to context|alternate-click on any filename in MSWindows Explorer and place the filename as *cygw

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-28 Thread Soren A
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jun 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Soren A.:] >> I am trying to finish a test script that uses ActivePerl to call >> `cygpath` from itself (a system call, by open()-ing a pipe to capture >> the output of the tool

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-06-28 Thread Soren A
Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jun 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [posted and mailed] > > Hi! The ever-fascinating "cygpath" tool once again beckons to me to > plumb its depths ... Sorry for the dup posting. Please follow-up to the other twin if pos

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-01 Thread Soren A
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Soren Andersen wrote: > >> In short although I see what you are doing, I think it's too simple for >> many cases and its lack of robustness makes it only marginally useful to >> me (IMHO). If you could post some

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-01 Thread Soren A
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CygPath\Command] >> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash -c \"echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u >> '%l'`>/dev/clipboard\"" >> >> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\CygPath] >> @="&Copy Cygwin path" &

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-01 Thread Soren A
Doug VanLeuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Just goes to show. > I didn't want to get into asp but I created this wsh file > checkpath.wsf > --- > > > $MS_path_filename="c:\\bin\\gzip.exe"; > > $WScript->Echo(

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-01 Thread Soren A
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > It took a bit of work, but the perl5-porters mailing list had enough > nuggets to get it going. I wrote up the steps here: > > http://www.dessent.net/patk/archives/35.shtml That's a fsck-ing holy grail I s

phantom non-existent command "manpath"?

2003-07-01 Thread Soren A
Hello, I've a question on the cygwin port of `man' and it may turn out that it is pertaining to `man' in general everywhere. I have come across a shell script that is part of a software package, that uses the command output of `manpath' to fill the variable MANPATH: export MANPATH=`manpath`

Re: phantom non-existent command "manpath"?

2003-07-01 Thread Soren A
Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 01 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I've a question on the cygwin port of `man' and it may turn out that > it is pertaining to `man' in general everywhere. I'm sorry, my bad. I read more carefully after finding a

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
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Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 02 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Attachment: CygPathExpandSZ.reg > Attachment: REGexpandSZgen.p My newsreader is buggy, if I attach it makes the body text just vanish. Here's what accompanied those attached files when I hit &quo

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 02 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > "%CYGROOT%\\bin\\bash -c \"echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u > '%l'`>/dev/clipboard\"" + NewLine > > When I run the command I get an error. The proper quoting is > > "%CYGROOT%\bin\bash" -c "echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u '%

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 02 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I agree that REG_EXPAND_SZ is "nicer" in terms of not hard-coding > paths, but since $CYGROOT is non-standard I don't see that it matters > too much. Yes . (Finding this so much fun, there's nothing like throwin

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 02 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Oops, I left off a call to GlobalFree(hglbBuffer); before exiting. Or > maybe not, I'm not sure with this global heap business that you have to > use when working with the clipboard... Anybody know if the system

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 02 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > So, next escalation is to either write a dialogue (either in the C > version or sticking to scripting, maybe cook up a .WSH script). If > doing the scripting version, we'll have Perl do so

CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...)

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.os.cygwin:32852 ---end references--- > Soren A wrote: > >> The expansion encoded is of a variable %CYG

Re: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...)

2003-07-02 Thread Soren A
Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 02 Jul 2003 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have been using double backslashes! Does not seem to matter, still cannot get it working. But I discovered a significant bug in the Perl tool (REGexpandSZgen). Please throw out the one attached earlier

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c '

2003-07-05 Thread Soren A.
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I was wondering why I didn't have any CYGROOT set. [...] since > $CYGROOT is non-standard [...] A little more about $CYGROOT. It also makes the cygwin.bat file used by default to start bash more flexible. We can do something lik

Re: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...)

2003-07-06 Thread Soren A.
Yes, a bit OT, but could be useful to understand more about it... Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I cannot get the Registry to accept the entries now! Each time I try I > get the keys created OK, but the "command" is undefined (I am writi

RE: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...)

2003-07-06 Thread Soren A.
"Stephan Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Looks like it's the hex-encoded representation of some Unicode text > (each character is a 16-bit entity). For plain ASCII values (e.g. > English text), yes, you'll see every other byte as a zero. Gratitude! Thanks Stephan

Re: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...) - Copy_Cygpaths.reg.gz (0/1)

2003-07-06 Thread Soren A.
Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > But I cannot get the Registry to accept the entries now! Each time I > try I get the keys created OK, but the "command" is undefined (I am > writing of how we see the Registry in "regedit"). Somehow

Re: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...) - Copy_Cygpaths.reg.gz (1/1)

2003-07-06 Thread Soren A.
Copy_Cygpaths.reg.gz Description: Binary data

RE: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...)

2003-07-07 Thread Soren A
I had written: > Thus one > entry I examined looks like this: > > "TEMP"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,0 > 0,74,\ > 00,25,00,5c,00,54,00,45,00,4d,00,50,00,00,00 Mystery is done. There are two kinds of .REG file: ANSI and Unicode. The Regedit tool on WinXP ex

So now you're a BigShot now? (clarification re. "MinGW Glib")

2002-09-28 Thread Soren A
this well. If you are going to adopt the attitude that simply hacking out a basic, standard Autotool'd build-config is all that's required by the standard of Software professionalism / quality that you choose to adhere to, then please put a BIG logo or something on your site so that

Re: So now you're a BigShot now? (clarification re. "MinGW Glib")

2002-09-29 Thread Soren A
Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 11:23:21PM +, Soren A wrote: >> [Boringly long mail] > > *Yawn*, hmm? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't listen. Did you say something? Well,

Re: So now you're a BigShot now? (clarification re. "MinGW Glib")

2002-09-29 Thread Soren A
my expressive ability *when the topic demands it* and not to be required by List coercion (rules, peer pressure) to hold back or use only short words and phrases in short articles. I claim that if a French person implies I should do otherwise, there's a double standard being applied there at t

Re: So now you're a BigShot now? (clarification re. "MinGW Glib")

2002-09-29 Thread Soren A
f sincerity and as such detracts from the overall climate of a List. Soren A -- 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: So now you're a BigShot now? (clarification re. "MinGW Glib")

2002-09-29 Thread Soren A
"Chris January" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Chris Thanks for not ending your flame with a phony gesture of comraderie. THAT's how to do a flame right. :-) ;-) Soren A -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Cygwin port of the Unix 'script' utility.

2002-09-29 Thread Soren A
Alan Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > To compile the code I used: gcc -o script script.c -lutil > Hope this helps someone > > cheers > AlanE > > Here is the code if anyone is interested: Yes, Than

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
is of course theoretically possible but it isn't "normal" since most mass users employ a different client app (or at least a different mode in an application suite) to do the two different protocols (NNTP vs SMTP). To further the goal of fostering comfort on the Cygwin List, it could be ex

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
lue would be accomplished. Thanks, Soren A -- 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: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-10-01 Thread Soren A
led arrogant and erronious, I feel I should speak up. Experience (actual proof, empirical results) beats theory any day of the week. IMHO. Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentati

Re: Successful Build of rpm-4.0.3

2002-10-02 Thread Soren A
a nice contribution, probably beats heck out of merely providing a verbal description of "how you did it". Best, Soren A -- 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: Tk?

2002-10-05 Thread Soren A
nds cygwin perl, doesn't dictate that it must use a cygwin port of X (XFree86). Soren A -- 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: Patch to get bc 1.06 to compile under Cygwin with readline library.

2002-10-05 Thread Soren A
seful tool and sometimes shell scripts just don't come together at all easily without it. I cannot verify the need for or methodology of your patch, yet, but thanks for posting. Best, Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Tk?

2002-10-05 Thread Soren A
att.net/~perlspinr/perlproj/pTk/index.html Regards, Soren A -- 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: pasting clipboard always adds carriage return

2002-10-15 Thread Soren A
way to prevent this? I always see this also, on Win9x. WinME is descended from Win9x. That is, IMHO, the nature of the problem: it is an artifact relating to the Windows console in these M$ OSs. It isn't a "Cygwin problem" I think. I've just learned to live with it. It isn't fix

Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors

2002-10-15 Thread Soren A
x27;TERM cygwin', and the version I use doesn't do that. I recognize your description of the colors as the default cygwin `ls --colors' output, that's what it does when no LS_COLORS has been provided. HTH, Soren A -- Just say NO to YAHAAPs! (http://groups.google

Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages

2002-10-15 Thread Soren A
hive: encrypt' as a custom header in your newsreader settings? If not you may be leaving yourself open to spamming and address harvesting. Pls go to Gmane and read FAQs about how to practice safe "Gmane'ing". HTH, Soren A -- Just say NO to YAHAAPs! (http://groups.googl

Re: netinet/in.h and solution for `_impure_ptr' problems

2002-10-18 Thread Soren A
carefully whether you'd want to follow-up this posting with responses that ask about MinGW, before you hit the "send" command. Best, Soren A -- Just say NO to YAHAAPs! (http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm= Xns92991EB1F396ngrATT586ID%40204.127.36.1) -- Unsubscribe

Re: New cygwin & .dir_colors

2002-10-18 Thread Soren A
Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 16 Oct 2002 news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0210161304370.6818-20@;slinky.cs.nyu.edu: >> Sounds like an argument for a patch. Care to submit one? >> >> Larry > > I do (attached). :-D Good going! Soren A --

Re: export CYGWIN=tty

2002-10-30 Thread Soren A
rious hits from all the package and library names > included in the cygcheck output. I didn't know that, what a useful strategy. Yes, it will make a significant difference. Thanks for mentioning. Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug rep

Anyone w/ interest in groff-1.18 port?

2002-10-30 Thread Soren A
cent release of groff as a Cygwin standard package. 'groff-1.18.1' is the latest Gnu release. groff-1.18 offers ANSI color, possibly a very cool advancement to have for viewing manpages. "Inquiring minds want to know... [?]" Thanks, Soren A -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: looking for script - make typescript of terminal session

2002-10-30 Thread Soren A
nstalled because parts of that are prerequisite for 'script'. Also look for #includes in the top of his C file that are not needed. And so on. I've used Alan's port a little and it seems to work perfectly, once I had ironed out a couple of these build-time wrinkles. Thanks

Where it runs or what it Does?? (RFC)

2002-11-11 Thread Soren A
rize' or not, there IS a difference (between generic *nix perl and Cygwin perl). So my present analysis is that my module belongs in a base namespace of "Filesys::" and maybe could be named "CygwinPaths"? I think it would keep the maintainer of Cygwin Perl happy -- o

Re: Notice of intention to release Perl module specific to Cygwin

2002-11-13 Thread Soren A
permitting, I am going to be uploading v0.03 to my CPAN space (SOMIAN in the Authors index) tonight. I think this is the good one, the first real serious grown-up release that's actually ready to be used a little for some actual work (please don't try to design guided-missile con

Re: No subjects are nice

2002-11-14 Thread Soren A
t al) being abused by those creeps to any greater extent than they already are. It's just not worth it IMO. Regards, Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://c

Re: patch(1) (Win32) and path separators

2002-11-22 Thread Soren A
lways use a tool like patch frequently enough to remember such subtleties, myself. This was a helpful exchange because I was struggling with this just yesterday. {snippo} > Thanks again for the help. Yes, thanks! > Regards, > > Parish (who's going to make 'patch' an al

The Black Art of DLL Creation (revisited)

2002-11-22 Thread Soren A
Is it a science, or an art? [The following description pertains to the *July 2002* version of dlltool]. I am wanting to know about something relating to building of DLLs on Cygwin using the GNU Binutils tools. Up until this point I've been happy enough just letting recent GCC (ld) versions work t

Re: USER environment variable mystery

2002-11-23 Thread Soren A
ME *in cygwin.bat* (how can you expect to lie to Cygwin about who you are once you've logged in? -- there may be some way to do it but at first glance it doesn't sound logical). See if that works for you. Soren A -- Yes, it's really Sören, not Soren. -- Unsubscribe

Re: The Black Art of DLL Creation (revisited)

2002-11-25 Thread Soren A
A brief update. Partial replies to Gerritt. Self-corrections. Soren A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > The scenario is that I am trying to re-create the process of building > bleadperl [...] but one thing that > you can get from

Re: accessing cygwin functions from non-cygwin app

2002-11-27 Thread Soren A
sing that foregoing meant that the o.p. is trying to call cygwin functions using that MS equivalent of the dlopen() if I am not still totally in the dark. (whatitcalled). Bet that didn't help, Soren A -- Yes, it's really Sören, not Soren. -- Unsubscribe info:

bash isn't running my .bashrc!

2002-11-27 Thread Soren A
Actually, my .bashrc is running fine. The Subject: was a honeypot strategy. AFAICT by reading the Fine Documentation for bash, an *interactive* shell (one invoked with the option flag "-i") does *not* automatically cause the initialization to include source'ing of .bashrc in the user $HOME dir. I

Re: bash isn't running my .bashrc!

2002-11-27 Thread Soren A
quot; future archive searchers towards this helpful information. I am sure it is very likely that Chris or someone else will take issue, fine, I am content to let cgf have his views but I will keep mine. Best, Soren A -- Yes, it's really Sören, not Soren. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-01 Thread Soren A
ns should it have been made possible to cause all that "default" behavior to get activated. But instead it's the other way around, and users are at the mercy of package maintainers' ignorance or awareness of the importance of (at the very MINIMUM) placing AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in their

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-02 Thread Soren A
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 1038820917.2953.13.camel@lifelesswks:">news:1038820917.2953.13.camel@lifelesswks: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 11:36, Soren A wrote: >> At the very LEAST, something that does what AM_MAINTAINER_MODE >> causes, should ha

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: rxvt-2.7.9-2

2002-12-03 Thread Soren A
ven tho I am using Win98 (part of the time). If there is nothing that can be done at run time, can you suggest a place in the src code for me to start looking at, to change it at build time? Thanks, Soren A P.S. In case it isn't obvious to someone, what I would want to see instead of

Re: PATH

2002-12-04 Thread Soren A
ot;VPATH" is a mechanism existing in GNU make for explicitly telling make where to look for targets that might need to be remade (prerequisites). Please `info make' (or 'man make'). Soren A -- Yes, it's really Sören, not Soren. -- 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: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-04 Thread Soren A
BTW, as serendipity (or synchronicity) would have it, those who read DDJ might have noticed the article about Cmake (http://www.cmake.org/) that appeared in the latest issue. Cmake looks like it might be worth looking into (and yes it is Open Source software). Soren A -- Yes, it's r

Re: problems with CPAN and cygwin >1.3.12

2002-12-07 Thread Soren A
get a "free answer" eventually but you'll have done nothing for your karma in the process. Best, Soren A -- "So, tell me, my little one-eyed one, on what poor, pitiful, defenseless planet has my MONSTROSITY been unleashed?" - Dr. Jumba,

Re: [ANN] cyg-wrapper.sh

2002-12-07 Thread Soren A
ve Win32 ports". In this respect there is a further level of "nativeness" (or really, "dumbness") that could be specified, but we have no custom or convenient nomenclature for doing so. > [2] This form has been privileged because of the MsWindows 9x series. Hmmm. If you

Re: [ANN] Re: cyg-wrapper.sh

2002-12-09 Thread Soren A
Luc Hermitte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 08 Dec 2002 20021208193753.GA44134983@ORLYN:">news:20021208193753.GA44134983@ORLYN: >> > [2] This form has been privileged because of the MsWindows 9x >> > series. >> >> Hmmm. If you mean that people who run Win9x are more likely to be >> running old

Re: /tmp

2002-12-11 Thread Soren A
native tcsh shell (the other was off-List). I sure wouldn't find it worthwhile to use a different shell (that doesn't understand what Cygwin has to do with mounts, and so on), but if there's one thing I've learned, its that you can nenver tell another person what they should like in

Re: rxvt customization questions

2002-12-19 Thread Soren A
vered in a marathon late-night Googling session, with considerable effort to interpret poorly- written documentation, how to clear the entire rxvt console buffer and go back to (0,0): echo -ne '\033c' thus one can alias: alias cls="echo -ne '\033c'" TIA, Soren A

retval of pipelined cmd in bash

2002-12-20 Thread Soren A
Hallo Cygwains, [Heck, I dunno... "Cygwinauts"?]. I have a possibly OT question, that is, a bash shell question. Lacking the insight into the deepest reaches of shell-ology, I have come up empty on all attempts to solve this one for myself. (Those attempts have included doing `info bash' and read

Re: Perl package File::Spec confused under cygwin

2002-12-20 Thread Soren A
Authors directory of CPAN under my CPAN id, SOMIAN, or search on search.cpan.org (new pre-releases have shown up in the daily roundup, to my surprise). If you go back and rtfm on File::Spec and still cannot get the tools you are looking to get, then my module almost undoubtedly addresses your

Re: Perl package File::Spec confused under cygwin

2002-12-23 Thread Soren A
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 02:59:49 GMT, Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:36:58 -0800 "linda w (cyg)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> Note that Cygwin, like Unix, doesn't have a concept of >>> volume. Everything exce

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
all rhetorical and general-interest for me personally, since I already have Cygwin doing what I want it to in these areas. I am not calling for a change of any specific sort, just asking for discussion for the purposes of increasing general understanding. Soren A -- "So, tell me, my l

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
7;s shell environment. IMHO, correct programming (of all sorts) for Cygwin should always be using programmatical (documented API) means of composing path strings, not hard-coding (ASSuming) a particular path prefix to the drive volumes. Not In The Least Opionatedly Yours, Soren A -- "

RE: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
ewer and more-supported GNU help system, too, and if `man FOOdo' ever fails, the user should automatically think "Oh, let's try `info FOOdo' too" before getting upset or stressed over her inability to get instantaneous help on "FOOdo". Soren A -- "So,

Re: cygwin path problems

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
-performance are likely to be lacking, tho. So if you run into this trouble you might want to go download my Java class "CygwinShellInterface", written to translate Cygwin's posix filenames into Win32 ones that Java understands: http://home.att.net/~perlspinr/framesets/cygwin

RE: SSH and Home

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
r means than querying the current environment. Of course, once it is explained, it is obvious. I first thought, though, that ssh was broken (as in: badly ported, buggy). I still believe that by some means, this issue needs to be brought to the attention of new (and potential) ssh users IN BIG BOLD

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
is it exported? There is a difference between a shell variable that is _defined_ and one that is _defined_ and _exported_. A functional difference that matters very much when spawning any sub-processes. Agreeing to disagree, as usual, Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
ogram itself is a nightmare to use.) I suspect that my ignorance will now be showing, but: I just type `info [FooBar]' and the info display of FooBar just comes up. I don't know what 'pinfo' is or why I'd need it. Thanks, Soren A -- "So, tell me, my little one-

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-28 Thread Soren A
Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > At 10:50 PM 1/28/2003 -, Max Bowsher wrote: >>Soren A wrote: >>>I don't know what 'pinfo' is or why I'd need it. >> >>Anot

Re: make etc....

2002-09-17 Thread Soren A
ead to me as if you don't know for sure what `automake' does. I urge you not to experiment randomly and carelessly with that particular command. Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentat

Re: libpng not found.

2002-09-18 Thread Soren A
se see the libpng documentation, the libpng home page or the libpng mailing list archives for more information. Soren A -- 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: libpng not found.

2002-09-18 Thread Soren A
Shankar Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Soren A wrote: >> Your message text reading "my application" conveys ambiguous meaning >> to me. > > [ much detail deleted ] > > Could you maybe hav

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-20 Thread Soren A
cept* adding an explanation that "you'll use it to change or update your Cygwin system installation on an ongoing basis" for the main Cygwin page, right under the "Install Cygwin Now" icon(s) or close by. Soren A -- 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: How to install packages...

2002-09-21 Thread Soren A
ences of Cygwin developers, questions about the meaning of the number 42, etc. Please send notification of technical problems (bad html, broken links) concerning these web pages to http://cygwin.com/lists.html#cygwin";>the cygwin mailing list.

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-21 Thread Soren A
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 1032604599.10933.113.camel@lifelesswks:">news:1032604599.10933.113.camel@lifelesswks: > Soren, you should submit the changes as a diff for starters. > Secondly, if at all possible, submit a change against the website CVS. Ah. Second things first: I di

Re: How to install packages...

2002-09-21 Thread Soren A
t (accessing the cvs sources for Allegro) and could not. Regards, Soren A -- 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/

Trouble w/ autoheader -> autom4te error

2002-09-22 Thread Soren A
om4te --help' for more information. autoheader: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 at /usr/autotool/devel/bin/autoheader line 163 Any ideas about what's wrong here? Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwi

Re: Trouble w/ autoheader -> autom4te error

2002-09-22 Thread Soren A
this? I was told over at the autoconf List that I should be using 2.54 because 2.53 'is an early alpha release'. I wonder if there are users on List here who might have been using a Autoconf-2.54 they've built themselves from GNU mainline source? The package who's build con