RE: XWinClip - bunzip2 - problem solved!

[Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>]

Bing!!! Give that man a cigar!
Nope, better than that, I'm going to register my copy of Cygwin, dammit!

Thanks Harold.

J



-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 3:27 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XWinClip

Make sure that you have the latest cygwin1.dll from yesterday's release
(run setup.exe again).  Several issues related to the now default
``ntsec'' option were corrected, and one of these fixes may resolve your
problems.

Harold

Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:

>Hi Bradey,
>
>
>       Thanks for helping.
>
>       Nope, it's not that.
>       For one thing, this IS happening on a local drive.
>The NTFS security and permissions and ownership are set properly.
>       As for the Cygwin ownership and rights, I am the file's owner and
have all
>rights to it.
>
>As an aside, I went though the whole user/password procedure a while ago
>when I couldn't start X anymore because the user I was logged on as did not
>exist as a local user (domain user), and Cygwin's policy concerning such a
>situation had changed.
>
>Maybe this is another manifestation of the problem that that policy change
>caused.
>
>Um, could someone send me the XWinClip Test 06 source code in a zip file
and
>I'll build it...
>
>Anyhow, I'm not sure what version of XWinClip I'm currently running, but
>after a paste or two, it starts taking a lot of CPU and doesn't work
>anymore.
>
>If that is still going on in the Test 06 source, I might perform an
analysis
>and figure what is going wrong with it.
>
>J
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
>Behalf Of Bradey Honsinger
>Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:13 PM
>To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
>Subject: RE: XWinClip
>
>I saw that just the other day--I didn't have the appropriate permissions to
>a directory on a network share, so bunzip2 couldn't create the new file
>without the .bz2 extension. The "Permission denied" message is a hint, I
>think :)
>
>Try copying the file to a local directory that you know you have
permissions
>on--Cygwin's /tmp is a good candidate. Double-check the permissions in
>Explorer, and make sure you're the owner of the directory. You may also
want
>to double-check that you've run mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd if you're in a
>domain.
>
>  - Bradey
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jean-Claude Gervais [mailto:jc.gervais@videotron.ca]
>Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:56 AM
>To: Cygwin-XFree
>Subject: XWinClip
>
>
>Hi,
>
>            I've followed the posted instructions for downloading and
>installing XWinClip, but for some odd reason, I get the following error
when
>trying to extract the .EXE:
>
>
>
>
>>bunzip2 xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2
>>
>>
>
>bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
>bunzip2: Permission denied
>        Input file = xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2, output file =
>xwinclip-Test06.exe
>bunzip2: Deleting output file xwinclip-Test06.exe, if it exists.
>/home/jc
>
>
>
>
>I've also tried this on a totally different computer and gotten the same
>result.
>Anyone have a clue as to what the problem is?
>
>
>
>