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From: Mark Ord <cygwin-list AT losthorizons DOT mailshell DOT com>
Subject: Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:40:15 +0000 (UTC)
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Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> A line, since gmane *thinks* I'm top posting.

I found this thread looking for any info on starting bind successfully as a
service (anyone?), hence the delayed reply...

> This is an off-the-top-of-my-head list of standard packages which are missing
> from the cygwin distribution:
> 
> bind

> mailx

I had a go at porting this around the same time I tried to port elm - it wasn't
much fun. aux.c didn't help any. ;)

> screen
> 
> In some cases we have packages which offer similar-but-not-identical behavior
> but in some cases (ping, screen) we don't have anything close, AFAIK.

I've been running screen on cygwin for years - originally using
http://dellelce.com/code/screen/ - though it wasn't long before being ^A^Z
trigger happy drove me nuts, and I made my own patch that disabled the suspend
and detatch (which is broken under cygwin) keystrokes.  

    http://www.alphalink.com.au/~ord/home/cygwin.html

I'm happy for someone to run with my patch and add it to the cygwin distro. If
not I could possibly handle the package, depending how time consuming it'd be.

Mark.

Btw, is gmane.os.cygwin serverly broken over nntp, or is it just me?



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