From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2002-10-16 00:14:12
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Anthony Tuininga wrote: > 1) Installed MSYS-1.08 RC1 and noted that things such as ping and > tnsping (and perhaps other network access) do not work properly (cannot > resolve with the DNS) but work just fine on 1.0.7 > Don't know about this problem. I'll check tomorrow. But, these are just the Windows versions you have installed. Are you using Cygwin versions of ping and tnsping, that's not supported? > 2) copy/paste works fine with the bare shell but nothing is available in > rxvt. Or is there and I am just being blind? > Must be blind, I use it daily. Click and drag, leave the highlight. Ctrl-V in a MS product will paste the highlighted text. In rxvt, pressing the wheel down on the mouse or shift left click will paste in the rxvt window. For real fun try: gcc --help > /dev/clipboard start write Ctrl-V in the WordPad window More fun: Highlight this mail cat /dev/clipboard > MoreFun less MoreFun > 3) the list subscriber suggests that I search the archives before > posting but neglects to state how that ought to occur, and the link > given simply points to a method for browsing the archives, not searching > them; any clues on how that ought to occur? Other than Google, of > course, which doesn't allow you to search just __this__ list. Unless of > course I am being stupid here, too.... :-) > http://www.mingw.org has search capabilities for all of it's lists. You can search just this list with Google like so: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=active&q=%22mingw-msys%22+Searching+Archives&btnG=Google+Search > Thanks for any help. Other than these items I have been quite impressed > with how well everything works -- I can finally use something > approaching usefulness on a Windows platform.... :-) > You're welcome, Earnie. |