From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Mingw (gcc 2.8.1) and sh/bash 12 Mar 1998 19:54:36 -0800 Message-ID: <19980312135633.16771.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: afn06760 AT afn DOT org Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:04:35 GMT >From: afn06760 AT afn DOT org >Subject: Re: Mingw (gcc 2.8.1) and sh/bash >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > >Since stdout redirection is broken in b19 between crtdll.dll programs >and cygwinb19.dll programs, the portion of the Ming lynx make that does >this fails, and you have to go back and run a batch file in Dos mode to >make it happen. > >This is also the case in Dos batch files that used to work under b18, >such as man.bat: > > sh zcat %1 | nroff -man - | col | less >will fail if nroff, col, or less are not cygwin programs. > The cygwinb19.dll and sh.exe updates listed on Christopher Faylor's page have fixed this problem. Be sure to set CYGWIN32=notty before starting bash. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) SEARCH ENGINES WITH gnu-win32 mail archive RELATED INDICIES: http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=gnu-win32&r=1&w=2#gnu-win32 http://www.findmail.com http://www.search.com add gnu-win32 or gnuwin32 to the search criteria. Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".