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2003-09-02 Thread Thomas Wolff
too. I'd appreciate your response, thanks and kind regards, Thomas Wolff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Updated: terminfo-5.5_20060323-1

2006-04-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
3715 Another note: There is a dangling link /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo Kind regards, Thomas Wolff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor mined 2000 release 12

2006-04-11 Thread Thomas Wolff
ange of terminals * Instant start-up * Runs on many platforms: Unix (Linux/Sun/HP/BSD/Mac and more), DOS (djgpp), Windows (cygwin, Interix) * Makefiles also support legacy systems -------- Thomas Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscrib

cygwin terminal problems

2004-11-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff wrote: > [I assume terminal emulation is all done in cygwin1.dll, so this > is the right mailing list?] Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > No, please repost at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have submitted the following bug (and a few others) at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.c

cygwin choking about _impure_ptr

2004-11-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
After my recent upgrade from cygwin 1.5.11 to 1.5.12, I often get a Windows pop-up error message: > The procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in the > dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. I tried reinstalling a previous version, updating again, the message remains. Fortunately, in

compiled cygwin.dll does not work

2004-11-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
mpiled with the patches for these two bugs, so that I can check if they fix them? Best regards, Thomas Wolff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: coreutils-5.3.0-3

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls x* > > x.exe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat > x > > bash: x: cannot overwrite existing file > > --> should have created "x" which does not exist > > It works for me on WinXP using bash 2.05b-17 inside a cmd window: > $ ls x* > x.exe > $ cat x.exe > x > $ ls x* > x x.exe

cygwin bug report: cursor reports interfere with DOS box scrollbar

2004-06-10 Thread Thomas . Wolff
other hand, cursor positioning (by ESC [ p ; p H) refers to the visible screen area. So application-driven cursor control and terminal feedback of cursor position are inconsistent and the feedback is useless for the application. Thomas Wolff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

[Patch] /etc/termcap missing eA capabilities

2005-08-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
ery much and kind regards, Thomas Wolff 2005-08-05 Thomas Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * termcap: Updated xterm and rxvt (from /usr/share/terminfo using infocmp) to include the eA capability in order to enable programs to enable the alternate character set. termcap

Re: [Patch] /etc/termcap missing eA capabilities

2005-08-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:46:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 8 13:19, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> 2005-08-05 Thomas Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * termcap: Updated xterm and rxvt (from /usr/share/terminfo >> using infocmp) to include the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor mined 2000 release 13.2

2006-12-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
legacy terminals. File handling enhancements: * Consistent setting of file access modes when cloning a file or creating a new file with executable permission. Thomas Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor mined 2000 release 14

2007-08-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
text mode (terminal) operation, supporting wide range of terminals * Instant start-up * Runs on many platforms: Unix (Linux/Sun/HP/BSD/Mac and more), DOS (djgpp), Windows (cygwin, Interix) * Makefiles also support legacy systems --------

Re: bug in 'cs' value of Xterm termcap (was: Updated: screen 4.1.0-20130513-1)

2013-11-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 27.11.2013 23:14, schrieb matthew patton: For whatever reason I set my newly installed environment to use 'xterm' mode and ran across this bug. The archives led me to http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00029.html and specifically # Set the hardstatus prop on gui terms to set the tit

cygstart fails

2014-01-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (happened on two systems, both on Windows 7 64 bit, with cygwin 32 bit; works with cygwin 64

Re: Is there someone who have a same problem ?

2014-01-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 22.01.2014 17:36, schrieb Adam Dinwoodie: On 22 January 2014 16:29, kou1okada wrote: Thanks ! It seems a result under the Windows 8.1, and verifying for SSL certificate is succeeded. Hmm, can someone provide results under the Windows 8 ? I checked it on 2 environments which are Windows 8 ver

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 18.02.2014 20:08, schrieb Christopher Faylor: We are contemplating releasing an interim 1.7.29 which does not incorporate Corinna's revamping of Cygwin's uid/gid handling. So, please check out snapshots, paying particular attention to the non-passwd/group parts of this file: http://cygwin.co

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.02.2014 23:24, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.02.2014 02:26, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it: If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty: cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly. Suggested fix: ... unset

Re: [PATCH] base-files-4.2-1: Change prompt if running with admin rights

2014-04-11 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.04.2014 03:39, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Achim Gratz! Christian Franke writes: Attached is an updated version of: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html I'll put this on hold until the AD integration has landed in Cygwin (which will require some larger changes any

Re: make error: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.‏

2014-05-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 01.05.2014 04:09, schrieb Richard H. McCullough: ... In the last week, "make" suddenly changed -- it does nothing but stop on every makefile. Sounds like you changed your PATH and have a different (non-cygwin) version of make now. What does `type make` say? --- Diese E-Mail ist frei von Vir

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor MinEd 2014.24

2014-06-06 Thread Thomas Wolff
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor MinEd 2014.24

2014-06-06 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 06.06.2014 20:32, schrieb Doug Henderson: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: MinEd 2014.24 (June 2014) I performed the Installation using Setup.exe version 2.850 (64 bit). Install (and reinstall) with only one

Re: Change PS1 when running as administrator

2014-06-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 16.06.2014 22:04, schrieb Frank Fesevur: 2014-06-16 21:06 GMT+02:00 Achim Gratz: Frank Fesevur writes: When I run as administrator I change my PS1 from "$" to "#" with these line in ~/.bashrc. if id -Gn | grep -i Administrators > /dev/null If anything I'd check for membership in group 544

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor MinEd 2014.24.2

2014-07-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
t/lists/listinfo/mined-editor> -------- Thomas Wolff mi...@towo.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen wrote in another thread about setting LANG: ... Andy and Thomas, please work out the best solution together. It should work in sh and csh. Then post it as reply to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00090.html so John can put it into the base-files package. Our worked-out

Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)

2009-12-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:21:40PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 2 18:21, Thomas Wolff wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote in another thread about setting LANG: ... Andy and Thomas, please work out the best solution together. It should work in sh

Re: UTF-8 in Cygwin console on 1.7

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe schrieb: 2009/12/8 Cliff Hones: Perhaps setup.exe should offer to generate a shortcut (as well as .bat and .ico) with, say, the Lucida font selected? Or just do so without asking? ... Yes it should. As I understood, however, this is not immediately easy because the format th

Re: UTF-8 in Cygwin console on 1.7

2009-12-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
[maybe continue on cygwin-developers?] Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/9 Cliff Hones I would guess the change is to file cygwin/fhandler_console.cc, and is simply to remove line 1616 [ cursor_rel (1, 0); ] (after case NULL:) Yep, except that the patch removes the (misnamed) IGN case altogeth

Re: Cygwin 1.7 - backquoting, carriage returns and the removal of binmode

2009-12-17 Thread Thomas Wolff
Ryan Dortmans schrieb: Hi, I have been having issues with backquoting DOS (text mode) programs in Cygwin 1.7. For example, for the following command: echo `example-prog` aaa I would expect output to be: hello world aaa However, the carriage return is being including in the output, resulting

Re: Revamp cygwin.com project page?

2010-01-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
Reini Urban schrieb: 2009/12/26 Kristopher Ives: Thanks. I can modify the colors and the logo idea was just to see what people thought. The design was very short work and was my attempt at giving back to the Cygwin project. I was needing feedback and wanted to know if this was a possibility.

Re: Revamp cygwin.com project page?

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:36:06AM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: I've set up a sample at ... ... But, since you asked. I *really* don't like the redesigned red left menubar. That's fine. It wasn't actually a design proposal but mor

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1 sprintf() with format string having 8th bit set

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/4 Joseph Quinsey In Cygwin 1,7.1, sprintf() with the format string having an 8th bit set appears to be broken. Sample code (where I've indicated the backslashes in the comments, in case they are stripped out by the mailer): #include int main (void) { unsigned ch

Re: changing cygwin's console window title

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
Collin Monahan wrote: I noticed Lynx kept changing my window title. According to the source code it was a call to SetConsoleTitle, part of the Windows API. ... Then I created a version of the program to compile under GCC. ... These may not be appropriate to use with an xterm window. Indeed.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: orpie-1.5.1-2

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andrew Schulman wrote: A new version of orpie, 1.5.1-2, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This release is a Cygwin-only update. The package has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7, removing dependence on some obsolete packages. I recommend that all users of Orpie in Cygwin upgrade to the ne

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: orpie-1.5.1-2

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
[ last section relevant for cygwin-apps, not sure whether this was an acceptable excuse for cross-posting :-\ ] Andrew Schulman wrote: 2010/1/8 Thomas Wolff: Works well in the cygwin console; in mintty, however, it just reports: /usr/bin/orpie.exe: error while loading shared libraries

Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 13.01.2010 07:48, ext Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/12 Niklaus Kuehnis: I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) from commandline. On Cygwin 1.5 printing used to work with a2ps but now

Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Wolff
Some additional notes on this: On 13.01.2010 07:48, ext Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/12 Niklaus Kuehnis: I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) from commandline. On Cygwin 1.5 printing use

Re: Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp

2010-01-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wiedmann wrote: how can in Cygwin the directory, which is in Windows configured as $TEMP, or a certain other directory, be redirected to /tmp? man mount ... didn't work: I tried mount -f E:\Temp /tmp mount -f 'E:\Temp' /tmp to escape the backslash -- Thomas -- Problem reports:

Re: Strange case of missing XWin

2010-01-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/14 Fergus: I installed portable Cygwin to a low-capacity USB stick by "picking" Base and then extras from the selection menu. Amongst other things I picked up xterm, Lyx, TeX. (I've done this item-by-item selection a few times in the past but not recently; and never

Re: gcc4: FHS nit

2010-01-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I just came across this in FHS[1]: > If a C preprocessor is installed, /lib/cpp must be a reference to it, > for historical reasons. Yes, it's nitpicking, and I personally don't really care, but adding a /lib/cpp -> /usr/bin/cpp-4.exe to the gcc4-core alternatives would

Re: Can't set variables in a while loop that is passed to the rest of the script.

2010-01-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Eric Blake wrote: According to Damo, David on 1/14/2010 3:39 PM: Hi, I had a script that worked on UNIX, but on Cygwin it does not work. When I set a variable in a while loop I can't use it after the loop. However, this worked in UNIX. Any ideas why? Yes. ksh vs. bash. http://tis

Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?

2010-01-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Niklaus Kuehnis wrote: 1. notepad /p prints to your default printer ... Yes, this printing command still works in Vista, and also the font switching procedure. Thanks for checking. Please note that 'nano' also doesn't support UTF-8 yet. ... So that may be why I get some strange behavior of n

[Re:] Language vs character settings [Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?]

2010-01-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
Niklaus Kuehnis wrote: ... As UTF-8 is generally the preferred charset, I would like to stick to it. Does changing the language, e.g. to de_CH, change umlaut handling? It doesn't seem to, here. That depends... If you just have LANG in your environment to indicate the UTF-8 character set, or ev

Re: .bashrc file not run

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 11.02.2010 15:55, Neil Blue wrote: Hello, This problem has me stumped. Me too, a while ago. ... When I login, the environment settings I put in .bashrc don't get run. If I source ~/.bashrc they are included as expected. Also I have added some configuration to /etc/bash.bashrc it does

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

2010-02-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
David Balažic schrieb: On 20 February 2010 00:08, David Balažic wrote: ... $LANG is SL , LC_* are undefined The proper name of the Slovenian locale is "sl_SI". "SL" is unknown. ... It smells like a bug. A non US locale should not disable UTF-8, or? Locales do come with their res

Re: terminfo [Re: console enhancements: mouse events etc]

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:00:28AM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: Actually, I just remember again that I though I should change the terminfo entry too. Just - where's the source to patch? http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/terminfo/ter

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor MinEd 2000.16

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
s a mailing list which can be subscribed at <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mined-editor> -------- Thomas Wolff mi...@towo.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: terminfo [Re: console enhancements: mouse events etc]

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 24.02.2010 01:56, Charles Wilson wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: Actually, I just remember again that I though I should change the terminfo entry too. Just - where's the source to patch? So, send me patches ag

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Packge updated: Unicode text editor MinEd 2000.16-1

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
. Thomas Wolff mi...@towo.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

terminals getting killed on parent's termination

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
In general, a GUI application started in the background, like a terminal, should detach itself from its parent process so that it survives if the parent is terminated. I've noticed the following sometimes surprising inconsistencies about this: mintty xterm & mintty & exit

Re: Non-canonical mode input via tcsetattr(), under mintty console

2010-02-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Dave Lee schrieb: Hi all, I was testing a program that uses non-canonical mode input via tcsetattr(). ... Specifically, I entered the chinese character "例" (which means "rule" or "example"). It occupies 3 bytes in UTF-8 representation: E4, BE, 8B. On standard console, the read() call returned

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 01.03.2010 16:24, Fergus wrote: ... >> Are you sure the directory name is really "."? Yes. I tried various mechanisms for testing this such as dir ". " rename ". " "mydir" etc all to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing: ls -al /m total 16 drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.50 Ja

Re: terminals getting killed on parent's termination

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 26.02.2010 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: In general, a GUI application started in the background, like a terminal, should detach itself from its parent process so that it survives if the parent is terminated. Says who? Common practice in Unix/Linux/X environments

Re: terminals getting killed on parent's termination

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 04.03.2010 08:49, Andy Koppe wrote: Thomas Wolff: Andy Koppe: Mintty has default handling for SIGHUP, i.e. it exits. Actually (another topic but related) mintty has a great feature here: it passed the SIGHUP to its client application and if that application catches and

Re: terminals getting killed on parent's termination

2010-03-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe wrote: Thomas Wolff: In general, a GUI application started in the background, like a terminal, should detach itself from its parent process so that it survives if the parent is terminated. Says who? Common practice in Unix/Linux/X environments. I&#x

Re: Strange symlink behaviour

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 10.03.2010 01:36, Alfred von Campe wrote: On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:44, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/9/2010 10:11 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: The solution was to use hard links in the tar file (which doesn't use up any more space), and when it was untar'ed on Windows, everything worked

Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 09.03.2010 20:41, William Lebow wrote: I've diagnosed this problem further. It is an interaction between cygwin and a security package called "Credant Guardian Shield" that my company installs on all of its laptops. I can't say specifically that it is a cygwin bug, but this bad behavior is n

Re: allow executing a path in backslash notation

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 10.03.2010 11:03, Ilya Beylin wrote: The problem is that DOS paths are treated differently, even within the same program. Take for instance, bash: $ builtin test -x "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe"&& echo ok yes $ builtin exec "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe" /C echo ok -bash: exec: C:\WINDOWS\system32\

Re: terminals getting killed on parent's termination

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Andy Koppe wrote: Thomas Wolff: Closing the terminal that a program was started from is not a completely unrelated event, this is also a matter of taste and use case but just using a command line to *start* an application does not indicate the intent that the command line should

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 10.03.2010 15:56, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/10/2010 2:38 AM, Olle Olsson wrote: Hi, I found the following http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. Thanks for the vote of confidence but since that was a fairly

Re: the .exe extension

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 12.03.2010 16:16, Eric Blake wrote: ... This is an area of active conversation; if you would like, you can test the latest snapshot and the experimental coreutils 8.4-1 to see if the behavior is more intuitive (that is, there are more situations where .exe is preserved across file moves

Re: cygwin.com website

2010-03-21 Thread Thomas Wolff
This guy just redid http://mingw-w64.sf.net/ and it looks GREAT! I highly recommend his work. There was another proposal and discussion about redesign in December and the idea to spend effort on this wasn't too well-received... :-\ Yet I dare to add my comments: * I would refrain from

Re: Fwd: cannot search for -a in man inside mintty under cygwin-1.7

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas Wolff
moo.tinys wrote: using mintty LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 mintty inside mintty: $ man man /- Pattern not found (press RETURN) q it's actually - $ LANG=C man man /- (no problem) q any idea? This was discussed here before but I'm not sure whether a solution was already outlined. The problem appeared o

Re: Fwd: cannot search for -a in man inside mintty under cygwin-1.7

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
'-', which is why your search didn't turn up anything. This isn't mintty-specific. Thomas Wolff: This was discussed here before but I'm not sure whether a solution was already outlined. The problem appeared on Linux too, some years ago, but has been fixed meanwhile. Differe

Re: Xcompose like input for UTF-8 ?

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 05.04.2010 09:46, Rurik Christiansen wrote: On 5/04/2010 5:59 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: Rurik Christiansen wrote: Is there a way to have something similar to Xcompose for utf8 input ? You can have actual Xcompose by running an X server and using xterm or rxvt-unicode. For t

Re: Getting characters to display properly in Cygwin/RXVT/man pages

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 27.04.2010 17:45, Bengt Larsson wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: When running a bash shell in rxvt and doing a man page I get weird characters in man pages especially around the often used "-" character. I've read about a few solutions, most revolving around UTF-8 and less and none of them fi

Re: Getting characters to display properly in Cygwin/RXVT/man pages

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 29.04.2010 07:32, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 04/27/2010 08:51 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Additional options: * Update groff (with setup.exe) for a man page fix. Could you expand upon that? I believe I already have the latest groff. Since you ran into the "weird characters for o

select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
If a terminal gets killed, its tty/pty is not properly closed. This is likely to confuse applications and let them hang, as observed with mined (thanks Andy for the report) and joe. On Linux and SunOS, a subsequent read() return 0 (indicating EOF); any further read() returns -1, errno indicating

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 29.04.2010 13:28, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 29.04.2010 12:53, schrieb Thomas Wolff: [on closed terminal] On Linux, select() indicates an exception and EIO. On SunOS, select() indicates both an exception and input (weird), Not weird, you appear to be misunderstanding select(). An

Re: Resizing a terminal window

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 04.05.2010 16:03, schrieb J. David Boyd: ... Locally, I can use the mouse to resize a window, and the $COLUMNS and $LINES variables are automatically filled in. On many remote xterm sessions, they aren't. Does anyone have any idea where to start figuring out what is wrong, and what I can do

Re: LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.05.2010 15:26, schrieb rushojp: "LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS" does not work. Only SJIS or CP932 support? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.05.2010 18:05, schrieb Andy Koppe: On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Jurriaan wrote: A very long sed script that's been working for ages (back from the 1.5 age) here has stopped working. It turned out sed doesn't like some strings anymore when environment variable LANG is empty. With LANG=AS

Re: cygwin 1.7 problems: network, path, file system

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Wolff
Just to finally provide some positive feedback: I installed cygwin 1.7 again this year and the problems I experienced with Hummingbird NFS do not occur anymore. Thomas, ping? On Jun 18 12:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I don't have hummingbird NFS installed, just Microsoft's NFS from SFU resp.

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

2009-04-02 Thread Thomas Wolff
[Should I have responded to cygwin-announce? Not sure.] Corinna Vinschen wrote on cygwin-announce: > Hi folks, > > > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-45. > > ... > > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-44 > === > > - A lot of character sets are sup

compilation with cygport spoiled by spaces in pathnames?

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
I tried to recompile inetutils (in an attempt to check the earlier reported problem of rlogin and telnet not supporting UTF-8 anymore since cygwin 1.7.0-45) and ran into a problem with spaces in $PATH which aborted the compilation: > cygport inetutils-1.5-4.cygport prep ... > cygport inetutils-1

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
[For some reason I'm not receiving the mailing list right now once again, so I hand-crafted the References and In-Reply-To headers of this mail, if that matter.] I had written: > Now with 1.7.0-45, after remote login, the encoding is always just > ISO-8859-1, while of course, if I have a UTF-8

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Wolff
On April 14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > ... the setting of the console would depend on the > > LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG setting when you start the first Cygwin process of > > a Cygwin process tree in that console. It would last for all Cygwin > > processes within the same process tree. > > This app

Re: Updated: rxvt-20050409-10

2009-04-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
> RXVT is a VT102 terminal emulator for both X and Windows. > This is a bug fix and feature enhancement release. > ... > CHANGES (from rxvt-20090409-9) > === > ... > o Restore Alt-Space behavior (e.g. pass thru to windows, to > allow access to Minimize/Maximze/Restore m

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor mined 2000.15

2009-04-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Unicode text editor mined 2000.15.2

2009-05-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
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Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]

2009-05-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 12 17:56, Andy Koppe wrote: > > > And here's another question. ?The utf8*.h files claim they have been > > > generated from the unicode.txt file of the Unicode 3.2 standard. ?Do we > > > have the script which generated the utf8*.h files? ?Can we regenerate > > > th

Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]

2009-06-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
IWAMURO Motonori wrote: > 2009/5/21 Thomas Wolff : > >> > Therefore, I propose to use *_cjk() when the language part of LC_CTYPE > >> > is 'ja', 'ko', 'vi' or 'zh'. > > The problem with this is > > 1. As you say,

Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]

2009-06-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
IWAMURO Motonori wrote to me by private mail: > I oppose your proposal because I think that it is useless for us. > > 2009/6/6 Thomas Wolff : >> the intention is that the "codepage" information should be the same >> for all locales having thbe "UTF-8"

Re: [PATCH] Add "@cjknarrow" modifier (was Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests])

2009-06-18 Thread Thomas . Wolff
2009/6/16 Corinna Vinschen : > On Jun 15 23:35, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: >> 2009/6/15 Corinna Vinschen: >> > If everybody agrees to this suggestion, here's the patch. >> >> Is the name of modifier prefix "cjk-" good? It influences not CJK >> characters but a part of symbols and European characters.

Re: [PATCH] Add "@cjknarrow" modifier (was Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests])

2009-06-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
I wrote: > Despite IWAMURO Motonori's withdrawal, I think symmetry would be the > right approach to take. The major aspect is how to reflect the actual > behaviour of existing terminal environments. ... > ... > The "locale interface" (syntax and semantics of LC_* strings) is defined > in a modu

default codepage

2009-06-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variable) seems to have changed from CP1252 ("Windows ANSI") to ISO 8859-1 ("Latin 1"). Was this change on purpose? Maybe the previous default should be kept, to meet backwa

Re: default codepage

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 22 16:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after > > starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variable) > > seems to have changed from CP1252 ("Windows ANSI"

Re: default codepage

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
> > > > On Jun 22 16:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > > > Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after > > > > > starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variable) > > > > > seems to have changed from C

Re: default codepage

2009-06-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Eric Blake wrote: > > > > > But wait - yet here's my question: Why is there a difference between > > > bash --login > > > and > > > bash > > > - where in the latter case CP1252 (or the default ANSI codepage) > > > *is* still the default? > > It must be that one of your startup scripts is ch

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2009-07-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
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Re: Incorrect codepage numbers in 1.7 guide

2009-07-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 19 21:28, Andy Koppe wrote: > > A couple of small mistakes in > > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-charsetlist: > > ISO-8859-13 and -15 have codepage numbers 28603 and 28605, not 28563 > > and 28565. > Fixed. I don't see it fixed o

Re: bash pipeline exit code - possible race condition?

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Wolff
David Antliff wrote: > >>I've noticed a strange problem with bash pipelines in Cygwin that > >>might indicate some sort of race condition. I cannot reproduce the > >>problem on a Linux system, but it seems easy to reproduce in > Cygwin. > > > > This doesn't appear to be a cygwin problem. I get occa

non-BMP character width

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi, I see one small remaining glitch with Unicode display; non-BMP characters (those with Unicode value > 0x) are displayed as two boxes. The reason is probably related to their representation as two surrogates at some point. I do not expect to have visible display of non-BMP in the cygwin c

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Vincent R. wrote: > Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering > cygdrive? Is there any reason for that ? Dave Korn wrote: > Go ahead. You can create a mountpoint anywhere you like, so if you want > MinGW-style /c, /d, etc., just use the 'mount' command or edit the fstab.

Re: non-BMP character width

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Can you please create a simple self-contained testcase? I'm not exactly > sure how this is supposed to work and if a solution exists. Is that a > problem for the non-UTF-8 case, too, or for UTF-8 only? Sorry for the late response; I see you reproduced the case meanwhile

Re: Encoding of German 'umlauts' - please explain

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
Ronald Fischer wrote: > Maybe someone could enlighten me about the following: > ... > That means, the German letter ü has encoding 0xFC. If I do the same on CMD > shell > (the 'od' used here comes from the Gnu Utilities for Windows), I see: > ... > That is, ü is encoded as 0x81. Why is this differ

Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?

2009-09-25 Thread Thomas Wolff
2009/9/23 Corinna Vinschen: > Right now, if you switch the charset via the setlocale function, you > also switch the charset used for console output. Andy wrote: > That's quite a unique advantage of the Cygwin console actually, > because it means you always get correct output even if you switch >

mailing list responses [Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?]

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
[meta-response, irrelevant for topic discussion] Corinna wrote: > Any reason you redirected your reply to the cygwin list? It doesn't > make much sense to disuss this in two lists and it's breaking the > threading on the cygwin-developers list for no apparent reason. No, sorry, I had been cross-

Re: The C locale

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 29 01:03, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: 2009/9/27 IWAMURO Motonori : LANG="ja" -> EUCJP LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP Hmmm, It is a difficult problem. I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy. But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like sys

Re: cygwin settings in cygwin.bat

2009-10-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
CygwinUser wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. It works. But just curious to know if I can change it inside cygwin.bat file?. mode con lines=40 cols=90 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/30/2009 01:37 PM, CygwinUser wrote: Hi, I would like to change the default settings for screen bu

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