* Newbie Question @ 2002-01-09 17:52 Paul Johnson 2002-01-09 18:05 ` Dylan Cuthbert 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Paul Johnson @ 2002-01-09 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin Having just installed Cygwin under Win98, I'm curious to know if I can change the screen height to 50 lines (or some other, larger, number). TIA, Paul -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Newbie Question 2002-01-09 17:52 Newbie Question Paul Johnson @ 2002-01-09 18:05 ` Dylan Cuthbert 2002-01-09 20:46 ` Gary R. Van Sickle 2002-01-10 10:55 ` Paul Johnson 0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Dylan Cuthbert @ 2002-01-09 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Paul Johnson, cygwin Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter the settings just as you would for a DOS box. Regards --------------------------------- Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. http://www.q-games.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Johnson" <paul@lynxrobotics.com> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:52 AM Subject: Newbie Question > Having just installed Cygwin under Win98, I'm curious to know if I can > change the screen height to 50 lines (or some other, larger, number). > > TIA, > > Paul > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* RE: Newbie Question 2002-01-09 18:05 ` Dylan Cuthbert @ 2002-01-09 20:46 ` Gary R. Van Sickle 2002-01-09 21:55 ` Dylan Cuthbert 2002-01-10 10:55 ` Paul Johnson 1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Gary R. Van Sickle @ 2002-01-09 20:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Dylan Cuthbert > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter > the settings just as you would for a DOS box. > *Way* better than that, use rxvt instead of... ugh... command.com, and you can just resize the window at will, while it's running. Check the FAQ and the last day or so on this list on how to set that up. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Newbie Question 2002-01-09 20:46 ` Gary R. Van Sickle @ 2002-01-09 21:55 ` Dylan Cuthbert 2002-01-09 22:24 ` Christopher Faylor 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Dylan Cuthbert @ 2002-01-09 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Gary R. Van Sickle, cygwin I didn't know you could do that - thanks for the tip! :-) It would be nice if Cygwin didn't install those standard command.com bash icons on the desktop or at least gave a few more pointers (suggestions) to using the rxvt package as a replacement - I just had a play with it and it seems to be rather good indeed... gone are my msdos'd bash days... Regards --------------------------------- Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. http://www.q-games.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:46 PM Subject: RE: Newbie Question > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > > Of Dylan Cuthbert > > > > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter > > the settings just as you would for a DOS box. > > > > *Way* better than that, use rxvt instead of... ugh... command.com, and you can > just resize the window at will, while it's running. Check the FAQ and the last > day or so on this list on how to set that up. > > -- > Gary R. Van Sickle > Brewer. Patriot. > > > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Newbie Question 2002-01-09 21:55 ` Dylan Cuthbert @ 2002-01-09 22:24 ` Christopher Faylor 2002-01-09 23:36 ` Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions) Dylan Cuthbert 2002-01-10 10:58 ` Newbie Question Paul Johnson 0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Christopher Faylor @ 2002-01-09 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:55:45PM +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > >I didn't know you could do that - thanks for the tip! :-) > >It would be nice if Cygwin didn't install those standard command.com bash >icons on the desktop or at least gave a few more pointers (suggestions) to >using the rxvt package as a replacement - I just had a play with it and it >seems to be rather good indeed... gone are my msdos'd bash days... What would really be nice is if "newbies" actually read the message that they get when they subscribe to the list which contains the following: Before posting, please check out following links: The Cygwin Web Site http://cygwin.com/ The Cygwin FAQ http://cygwin.com/faq/ Cygwin Bug Reporting http://cygwin.com/bugs.html The Mailing List Archive http://cygwin.com/lists.html Generic Web Searching http://google.com/ (type in cygwin plus your search term) Or, even if they read the email for the last week where this particular subject had already been done to death. cgf -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions) 2002-01-09 22:24 ` Christopher Faylor @ 2002-01-09 23:36 ` Dylan Cuthbert 2002-01-10 4:31 ` David Starks-Browning 2002-01-10 10:58 ` Newbie Question Paul Johnson 1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Dylan Cuthbert @ 2002-01-09 23:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin I'd hate to cause a war of words, however I've been using cygwin extensively for a while now (even going to the extremes of manually compiling gcc 3.02, rcs, apache on it, ok ok it wasn't that hard) and I've read the Faq and the user documentation numerous times. I'm sure there it is in there somewhere, but I don't recall any mention of rxvt in the documentation (apart from it being a supplied package) and because Cygwin supplied icons on my desktop I thought that was the way everyone was using it. I'm glad to know there's an alternative. (strangely enough in the package-list info it says rxvt is a VT102 emulator for the x-window system which kind of implies it can't be used under a non-X Windows configuration). I also had a few problems finding info to begin with - for example, It was really difficult finding documentation on the inetutils package, mainly because I didn't know that "inetutils" held the programs I wanted to use (ftp daemon etc). Maybe the documentation needs some expanded sections to address stuff like networking and extended security. (ie. for tips like "make sure you delete 'Everyone' from full access to all your drives/files etc once you install Cygwin") I have another question which isn't in the FAQ - is there any way to simply select *all* the *latest* packages for download from the Cygwin Setup utility? Maybe I'm overlooking a button or something? I'd also like to be able to turn off the automatic "cygdrive" or network-drive (\\machine_name) auto-mounts - is it possible? I'd still like to manually specify mount points for drives outside of the cygwin "path-space" maybe via fstab in /etc. Any thoughts? Seeing as the mail is big enough anyway, I'd like to mention that Cygwin is a great project - it provides not only a cheaper alternative to using Visual $tudio for development - it provides a *better* alternative. Regards --------------------------------- Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. http://www.q-games.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Newbie Question > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:55:45PM +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > > > >I didn't know you could do that - thanks for the tip! :-) > > > >It would be nice if Cygwin didn't install those standard command.com bash > >icons on the desktop or at least gave a few more pointers (suggestions) to > >using the rxvt package as a replacement - I just had a play with it and it > >seems to be rather good indeed... gone are my msdos'd bash days... > > What would really be nice is if "newbies" actually read the message that > they get when they subscribe to the list which contains the following: > > Before posting, please check out following links: > > The Cygwin Web Site http://cygwin.com/ > The Cygwin FAQ http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Cygwin Bug Reporting http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > The Mailing List Archive http://cygwin.com/lists.html > Generic Web Searching http://google.com/ > (type in cygwin plus your search term) > > Or, even if they read the email for the last week where this particular > subject had already been done to death. > > cgf > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions) 2002-01-09 23:36 ` Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions) Dylan Cuthbert @ 2002-01-10 4:31 ` David Starks-Browning 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: David Starks-Browning @ 2002-01-10 4:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dylan Cuthbert; +Cc: cygwin Neither rxvt tips nor instructions for installing everything with setup.exe are in the FAQ yet. I'm really sorry. Hopefully tonight? Meanwhile you'll have to search the email archives. (I think the FAQ tells you to do that anyway, before writing to the mailing list.) The problem with my FAQ maintainance has been that my connectivity to work (where all my Cygwin mail archives are carefully organised) from home (the only place I can maintain the FAQ) has degraded profoundly over the past few months. I had hoped that would be transient, but since it is persisting, I've recently been working to get everything in the right place(s). So things should improve soon. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* RE: Newbie Question 2002-01-09 22:24 ` Christopher Faylor 2002-01-09 23:36 ` Newbie Question (+ installation and security questions) Dylan Cuthbert @ 2002-01-10 10:58 ` Paul Johnson 1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Paul Johnson @ 2002-01-10 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin > What would really be nice is if "newbies" actually read the message that > they get when they subscribe to the list which contains the following: > > Before posting, please check out following links: > > The Cygwin Web Site http://cygwin.com/ > The Cygwin FAQ http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Cygwin Bug Reporting http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > The Mailing List Archive http://cygwin.com/lists.html > Generic Web Searching http://google.com/ > (type in cygwin plus your search term) I did all of the above before asking my question. I checked the FAQ and documentation and did several searches. I did not find an answer to my question, and have still not seen an answer to my question. Paul -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* RE: Newbie Question 2002-01-09 18:05 ` Dylan Cuthbert 2002-01-09 20:46 ` Gary R. Van Sickle @ 2002-01-10 10:55 ` Paul Johnson 2002-01-10 11:04 ` Console size on W9x - was " Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) 2002-01-10 11:43 ` Charles Wilson 1 sibling, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Paul Johnson @ 2002-01-10 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dylan Cuthbert, cygwin To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to set >25 lines on a DOS box using Win98. I was hoping that Cygwin itself had such a mechanism, or that there was a third party tool in use. Best Regards, Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Dylan Cuthbert [mailto:dylan@q-games.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:06 PM > To: Paul Johnson; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Newbie Question > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter > the settings just as you would for a DOS box. > > Regards > --------------------------------- > Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. > http://www.q-games.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Johnson" <paul@lynxrobotics.com> > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:52 AM > Subject: Newbie Question > > > > Having just installed Cygwin under Win98, I'm curious to know if I can > > change the screen height to 50 lines (or some other, larger, number). > > > > TIA, > > > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Console size on W9x - was RE: Newbie Question 2002-01-10 10:55 ` Paul Johnson @ 2002-01-10 11:04 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) 2002-01-10 11:43 ` Charles Wilson 1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) @ 2002-01-10 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Paul Johnson, Dylan Cuthbert, cygwin As a newbie, the first thing to learn is to search the Cygwin site and the mail archives first for answers to questions like these. Last time I looked, Win9x could set a window size up to 50 lines. Regardless, if you look at the Cygwin web site you'll find references to Chuck Wilson's site where you can get 'consize' if you like using the DOS prompt. Otherwise, you can use 'rxvt' which comes with Cygwin. The email archives is literally packed with discussions on this subject. You should be able to get yourself up-to-speed on this issue by looking there. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 01:55 PM 1/10/2002, Paul Johnson wrote: >To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to set >25 lines on a DOS box >using Win98. I was hoping that Cygwin itself had such a mechanism, or that >there was a third party tool in use. > >Best Regards, > >Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dylan Cuthbert [mailto:dylan@q-games.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:06 PM > > To: Paul Johnson; cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: Re: Newbie Question > > > > > > Just right click on the cygwin shell icon and click Properties, then alter > > the settings just as you would for a DOS box. > > > > Regards > > --------------------------------- > > Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. > > http://www.q-games.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul Johnson" <paul@lynxrobotics.com> > > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> > > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:52 AM > > Subject: Newbie Question > > > > > > > Having just installed Cygwin under Win98, I'm curious to know if I can > > > change the screen height to 50 lines (or some other, larger, number). > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > >-- >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/ -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: Newbie Question 2002-01-10 10:55 ` Paul Johnson 2002-01-10 11:04 ` Console size on W9x - was " Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) @ 2002-01-10 11:43 ` Charles Wilson 1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Charles Wilson @ 2002-01-10 11:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Paul Johnson; +Cc: Dylan Cuthbert, cygwin Paul Johnson wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to set >25 lines on a DOS box > using Win98. I was hoping that Cygwin itself had such a mechanism, or that > there was a third party tool in use. consize, and win95cmd or ReactOS-cmd. See here: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/consize. Disclaimer: provided as is, no guarantees, etc etc.. --Chuck -- 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
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