RE: Returned mail: Host unknown

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Sorry folks if you had been getting mails bounced.
I had enough of spam. On average 5 to 10 spam per day comming
because
the idiots colecting my e-mail addresses from mailing lists.
Although i had over 200 IPblocks banned at the router level, still
some of the spammers were getting through.  Majority of the spammers
seems to have accounts at psi.net and popsite.net, so psi.net and
popsite.net IP Netblocks had been completely banned.

Sorry about the bounced messages.  Please send messages through
cygwin and cygwin-xfree list if your message bounced... it means
your IP block belongs to an ISP from whom I received repeated junk
mails.


To answer your questions, you are absolutely on the right track.
The devices must be accessed via Win32, but X will run on Cygwin.
The only /dev/xxx X will need from Cygwin is /dev/conin (/dev/tty)
which is needed for xterm, xinit and xdm etc.  Accessing hardware
memory via
Cygwin will slowdown X to unacceptable level and may cause problems.
The example driver for OS/2 from Holger is a very nice hack which he
wrote to offer /dev/mem and /dev/io which are missing on Windows and
OS/2.

After you have looked at the source code and you have your
suggestions, we could discuss and plan on how to do it.
Your help will be highly appreciated.

Suhaib

>
> Ok, I'm gonna look at it now.
>
>
> Oooohhh!!   This is right up my alley!  I'll keep you
> posted on any progress
> I make.  I need to do some research of course, but at
> first glance its
> giving me warm fuzzies..
>
> I need to map out what the driver does, and who loads it
> where, etc..
>
> I will need some help with the cygwin1.dll, etc - since
> those ports/memory
> addys need to be mapped into cygwins drive structure, I'm
> also assuming that
> cygwin will need to be present (X will need to be able to access
> /dev/<whatever> in cygwin's dir structure)..  It may be
> possible to create a
> device that makes those things present no matter what,
> but then we get into
> some issues with how do we do this in NT, as opposed to Win98..
>
> I'll keep reading, but let me know if I'm on/off track
> with some of this
> thinking..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:sssiddiqi@ipass.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:06 AM
> To: Mike MacDonald
> Subject: RE: Cygwin CD
>
>
>
> Have a look at the http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/xfree.
> There is a XF86SUP.SYS driver from OS/2 which we need to port
> to Windows NT.  It should be ported using MSVC or other Win32
> compiler, but not Cygwin for peformance reasons.  It has a lot of
> ASM code
> in it,.  This what actually holding XFree86 port (X-server) for
> Cygwin (Windows).  I lack the expertise and knowledge of
> assembly language and devices drivers.
>
> If you could get it ported to Win32 using MSVc or another Win32
> compiler
> you would be of great help and would make X-servers functional.
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of
> > Mike MacDonald
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:55 AM
> > To: 'ssiddiqi@nspm.ipass.net'; 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> > Subject: RE: Cygwin CD
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to help with XFree stuff?  I'm
> > kinda new to X,
> > and Cygwin, and I don't have alot of time to spend on
> > stuff, but I do have
> > about 20 years of programming experience including ASM,
> > and who knows what
> > else..  (12 years professional - I'm working at GTE now
> > as a developer)..
> >
> > My constraints are that this is not a part of my job
> > right now, and I don't
> > use my computer at home anymore - so anything I look at
> > has to be during
> > breaks, or when I have time...
> >
> >
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