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RE: how I got an X server & xterm to run under cygwin
- To: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Subject: RE: how I got an X server & xterm to run under cygwin
- From: <darxus at chaosreigns dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:17:09 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: "Cygwin-Xfree at Sourceware dot Cygnus. Com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> I think you are making life a bit complicated.
> X-servers-v.10.tar.bz2 makes no use of Cygwin mount points, therefore no
> need
> to fool around with mounts.
>
> Simply unbzip2 and untar in a
>
> c:\usr
> directory.
> cd to c:\usr\bin\X11
> and start using startx or startdx batch files.
tar uses the mount points. I tried it several times. So if you cd \, and
tar -xvf X-servers*, things like rgb.txt get put in the wrong place.
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