Re: XWinClip

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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?
>
>
>