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Tue, 14 Oct 2003

Tue Oct 14 16:27:35 2003 Local mirror of cygwin

The cygwin installation on my laptop is screwed up, so I decided to reinstall it. But the pipe got broken about 10 minutes into the download. When I tried to restart, I got "cannot load setup.ini from archive.progeny.com"

I recall this happening in the past.

Can anybody recommend a reliable mirror site for cygwin? Is there a local mirror? (I don't see one on mirrors.ccs.neu.edu).

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Tue Oct 14 16:23:31 2003 Update on mouse modifiers

This appears to be strictly an emacs problem, since I can do Ctl-mouse-3 to change fonts in xterm just fine.

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Tue Oct 14 13:04:13 2003 Shift/Control-Mouse Button in Emacs
These seem not to be working properly. They pop up the menu, but it flashes on the screen briefly, and then disappears again.

This is annoying primarily because I can't figure out how to change fonts in Emacs without using the mouse.

Pop-up menus that are attached to mouse keys without modifiers (eg Mouse-3) seem to be fine.

Also, Cut/Paste seems unhappy this morning; C/S-Ins works, but yesterday I could do it more transparently.

I suspect this is an ssh problem. I'm going to see if I can run SecureCRT and see if some of these issues go away.

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