mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Lee
Hello, I just installed cygwin with full. I find that I miss the command such as size.exe ar.exe, nm.exe, make.exe, awk.exe and strip.exe etc where can I find those packages to insall? are there any instructions I need to follow for installation? thanks. tom __

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Lee
From: Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mssing packages for cygwin Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:23:49 -0400 > I find that I miss the command such as size.exe ar.exe, nm.exe, > make.exe, awk.exe and strip.exe etc > where can I find those packages to insall? a

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Lee
Eric, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) To: Tom Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mssing packages for cygwin Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:40:50 + > I have found the packages to install. > However, when I type cpp.exe in msdos shell, I got the er

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-30 Thread Tom Lee
According to Tom Lee on 9/29/2006 10:23 PM: > Eric, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR - list policy is that you don't repeat raw email addresses, please Sorry about it. Will take care of it. > when I copy cpp.exe and all cygwin related dll to another computer, I >

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-30 Thread Tom Lee
> I read mount and cygpath manual, but still not sure if there is a way > that I can > run > tar cvf test.tar c:/test or > tar cvf test.tar c:\test > Actually, from either a DOS or a bash (or other cygwin) shell, you can do: tar cvf test.tar /cygdrive/c/test Get used to POSIX paths - cygwin i

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-30 Thread Tom Lee
tar cvf test.tar /cygdrive/c/test is nice to work. howver, can I mount /cygdrive/c as c:/ and run as tar cvf test.tar c:/test ? I have tar.exe djgpp and it works this way. djgpp is for the DOS world. If that's what you really want, you're better off using djgpp. But to your question, there

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-10-01 Thread Tom Lee
According to Tom Lee on 9/30/2006 11:24 PM: > > I don't undersand why "ls c:/test" works but not for > "tar cvf test.tar c:/test" Because ls does not parse its arguments, but upstream tar treats c:/test as meaning open the file /test on the remote machine named

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-10-01 Thread Tom Lee
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Tom Lee wrote: According to Tom Lee on 9/30/2006 11:24 PM: > > I don't undersand why "ls c:/test" works but not for > "tar cvf test.tar c:/test" Because ls does not parse its arguments, but upstream tar treats c

cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Tom Lee
Hello, after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with my tests except tar.exe. all of the following commands works cp.exe c:/temp/tuner.h c:/test/ mv.exe c:/temp/tt.h c:/test for tar.exe, tar test.tar c:/temp/* works. however, tar cvf c:/test.tar c:/temp/* and tar

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
Eric, thanks for your help. > > after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with > my tests except tar.exe. > > > I understand people here may like /cygdrive/c more than c:/. Just want > to know if it is an accident feature that all other commands can work > with c:/ ex

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
> I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib, etc, bin, var (and so on) directories scattered amongst your win32-style "Documents and Settings", "Program Files", "WINDOWS" (and so o

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
From: Eric Blake < > > I noticed that if I run those commands in a machine without cygwin > installed. > it still looks for c:\cygwin Which commands look for c:\cygwin when it is not installed? setup.exe, and all cygwin programs, honor your mount points. If cygwin has never been installed

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
> is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? > by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. > > I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ "or if that is too much typing for you, read 'man mount' for how you can shorten it to /c, by remounting cygdrive as '/')." thanks. I

cywin shared dll

2006-10-13 Thread Tom Lee
Hello, I copied all cygwin dll and *.exe to a different machine at c:\mycgwin where they have old cygwin installed. When I run grep.exe, it will complain that " system shared memory version mismatch detected - 0x75BE0084/0x75BE009C. This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions

Re: cywin shared dll

2006-10-13 Thread Tom Lee
Hi Eric, Thanks for your help. That's the problem. You should only ever have a single version of cygwin1.dll installed anywhere on your system. Delete the old copy, and just put the new one on the path. If I want to distribute one command for the end user to use and don't want to have a fu