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Subversion on Cygwin on Japanese Windows XP

BKB wrote 1 month ago: I’m having a lot of problems with Subversion on Cygwin on Japanese Windows XP. I want to set u … more »

Tags: encoding, headaches, Shift JIS, Subversion, UTF-8

Fix for cpan bug on Cygwin with spaces in file names1 comment

BKB wrote 3 months ago: Sometimes it seems that the cpan which comes with Cygwin can’t untar files because of the spac … more »

Tags: bugs, Perl, CPAN

Passwordless ssh from Cygwin to Linux1 comment

BKB wrote 3 months ago: I wanted to set up a passwordless ssh login from Cygwin to a Linux computer. So I went off to the In … more »

Tags: headaches, My Mistakes, useful guide on web

Cygwin won't read .bashrc solved

BKB wrote 3 months ago: Today I had a problem with Cygwin failing to read .bashrc. I found a blog post about it by Pura Codi … more »

Tags: Bash

Changing directories to desktop on Cygwin2 comments

BKB wrote 5 months ago: I am using Cygwin on Japanese Microsoft Windows, and one big problem is that it is not possible to d … more »

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Japanese, encoding

Starting native Gnu Emacs from Cygwin on Windows1 comment

BKB wrote 5 months ago: I have the native Gnu Emacs for Windows, and I’d rather use that than the Emacs which is suppl … more »

Tags: GNU Emacs, Useful scripts, Perl, Microsoft Windows

Perl to take contacts from Excel to Outlook1 comment

BKB wrote 8 months ago: The following example script takes a list of names and emails from an Excel file and inserts them in … more »

Tags: Perl, examples, Microsoft Office, win32ole, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook

Setting Up Emacs for Lisp Hacking in Cygwin6 comments

lispy wrote 1 year ago: So there you are… hacking away merrily in Emacs with your nice tidy LispBox. But all the whil … more »

Tags: Emacs, Lisp

A Fly in the Rxvt Ointment

lispy wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been messing with Cygwin lately– so far mainly to grep source code files from multi … more »

Tags: Emacs

putty cygterm on windows

evadnoob wrote 1 year ago: Putty is a reasonably good enough replacement for “cmd” and the out of the box terminal … more »

*** multiple target patterns using CDT 5.01 comment

dreamlusion wrote 1 week ago: Problem Description If you want to build a project, using the Cygwin tool chain, that has dependenci … more »

Tags: CDT, Eclipse

bash script to check if a process instance is running2 comments

Pavan wrote 1 week ago: #! /bin/bash if [ $# -ne 2 ] then   echo “$0 process_name instances_count” … more »

Tags: Linux, technology, automation, Bash, Script, shell, Tools, Utility

Include Cygwin in your PowerShell Environment (Vista)

dantheman13 wrote 1 week ago: Want to include your Cygwin environment in your Windows PowerShell on Vista? Step 1. Open PowerShel … more »

Tags: Windows, Linux, Vista, PowerShell

tidy xml

evadnoob wrote 3 weeks ago: I found myself needing a simple way to format some xml.  The xml I had was all shoved onto one line … more »

Tags: Emacs

X Forwarding Using Cygwin

anwar wrote 1 month ago: Say that we want to access the GUI of remote linux machine from local Windows XP/Vista machine, usin … more »

Tags: Linux, X Forward, ssh, self log

gitk Not Finding Repos on Cygwin

kofno wrote 2 months ago: I’m using git on cygwin. For a while, gitk was not able to find any of my git repos. Everythin … more »

Tags: Git, gitk, Windows

"Masyadong mabilis ang mga pangyayari" + "I feel bobo"

raym0end wrote 2 months ago: Tuesday morning was really stressful, and the long lines and heavy traffic did not help at all (I gu … more »

Tags: Stratpoint_13130, stratpoint, friendster api, paco sandejas, Graduate Studies

registerimage 1.0 for Windows

fripp wrote 2 months ago: You can download it here Don’t download this version. Please, download the latest software ver … more »

Tags: News, innotek, virtualbox, Images, registerimage, Sun

Compiling and Installing GIT on windows under cygwin2 comments

techblogger wrote 3 months ago: Using GIT was one of the requirements of one of the project that I am doing. Here is how I installed … more »

Tags: F/OSS, Git, Open-Source, Perl, Vista, Windows


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