Squashed commit of the following:

commit d74cec9e6c77e70b33883f517b1bb6f97b2ffa5e
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 14:33:06 2007 +0800

    updates.

commit 643b31f979a00ea5397206ca59f20bb58c62660e
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 14:32:35 2007 +0800

    added some .gitignore rules.

commit 1510d38798976753b435f32308e79acd9fcd2722
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 14:05:10 2007 +0800

    removed bogus use of 127.0.0.1

commit 3c91e89b01af20a0dacfdbc1fbeca1c67c796656
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 14:01:43 2007 +0800

    Verify that cygwin python is used under Windows.

commit ff160725c051eedb28a42d9dd69f0d8aa297e522
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 13:55:03 2007 +0800

    bump timeout for the node to terminate. killing the node leaves the servers running under cygwin

commit ec3bddb58e861f906bf39aee1fa818c3e9a50000
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 13:48:55 2007 +0800

    added back accidently removed files.

commit f9ea2f552d7f576ebfa878669925f4184a89257b
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 13:47:47 2007 +0800

    http://bugzilla.zeroc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2427, http://bugzilla.zeroc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2422

commit 8a309ca0036dba7ecbd577edb2d737fa41174a5a
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 10:06:53 2007 +0800

    added ruby support to the expect scripts.

commit 34597c1ee6d80d6754c9e925bd376125dd104a5f
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 24 09:26:10 2007 +0800

    added pexpect to git repository.

commit 4bd2e1f2b52bcb9906b03ac216db686b8229b545
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 18:49:51 2007 +0800

    numerous UNIX expect script fixes.

commit 25ab4a812f45a6e908d5d2d7ab03e557d79afa9f
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 16:47:08 2007 +0800

    generate configuration files for IceGrid icebox/iceboxd

commit 6bb57bf7ed21d7256963c228aaf0b20657367a47
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 23 15:16:55 2007 +0800

    added python & C# support to the expect scripts.

commit 08f1a59971ad3a52a4357069554dcc309b2d062b
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 22 14:23:53 2007 +0800

    java expect scripts complete.

commit 3918f4ff3beea3005001bc55c5502c0825d8b7ea
Author: Matthew Newhook <matthew@zeroc.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 22 13:30:31 2007 +0800

    first set of expect changes.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/java/allDemos.py b/java/allDemos.py
index c00db1f5ec7..627732e8753 100755
--- a/java/allDemos.py
+++ b/java/allDemos.py
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ def isCygwin():
     # versions return variations like "cygwin_nt-4.01".
     return sys.platform[:6] == "cygwin"
 
+if sys.platform == "win32":
+    print "allDemos.py only supports cygwin python under Windows (use /usr/bin/python allDemos.py)"
+    sys.exit(1)
+
 def runDemos(args, demos, num = 0):
     rootPath = "demo"
     if not os.path.exists(rootPath):
@@ -38,7 +42,10 @@ def runDemos(args, demos, num = 0):
         print "*** running demo in " + dir,
         print
 
-	status = os.system("cd %s ; %s %s" % (dir, "./expect.py", args))
+        if isCygwin():
+            status = os.system("cd %s ; %s %s" % (dir, "/usr/bin/python expect.py", args))
+        else:
+            status = os.system("cd %s ; %s %s" % (dir, "./expect.py", args))
 
         if status:
             if(num > 0):
@@ -80,11 +87,11 @@ if isCygwin() == 0:
     demos += [ ]
 
 def usage():
-    print "usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " --fast --trace --start=<demo> -l -r <regex> -R <regex> --debug --host host"
+    print "usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " --mode=debug|release --fast --trace --start=<demo> -l -r <regex> -R <regex> --debug --host host"
     sys.exit(2)
 
 try:
-    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "lr:R:", ["start=", "fast", "trace", "debug", "host="])
+    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "lr:R:", ["start=", "fast", "trace", "debug", "host=", "mode="])
 except getopt.GetoptError:
     usage()
 
@@ -108,6 +115,8 @@ for o, a in opts:
         if a not in ( "ssl", "tcp"):
             usage()
         args += " " + o + " " + a
+    if o == "--mode":
+        args += ' --mode ' + a
     if o == "--host" :
         args += " " + o + " " + a
     if o in ( "--fast", "--trace", "--debug"):