This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
RE: Cygwin/XFree
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: <george dot kinal at femmecomp dot com>
- Cc: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 20:27:01 -0400
- Subject: RE: Cygwin/XFree
George,
I just uploaded a new XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 that fixes the
spelling errors and includes the 'run' utility that functions similarly to
'start /B' so that you don't get tons of DOS boxes on Windows 95/98/Me.
This should appear on mirrors within 24 hours.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: george.kinal@femmecomp.com [mailto:george.kinal@femmecomp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:25 PM
> To: Harold L Hunt
> Subject: Re: Cygwin/XFree
>
>
> >
> > That's actually in startxwin.bat and I'll probably fix it
> tonight. Oddly,
> > you didn't complain about the next sentence that contains, "A
> previous verion
> > [...]". :)
> >
>
>
> AARGH! Not only did I get the wrong batch file name, but I missed
> "verion" too.... though I already edited my copy to say
>
> ..... except when some criteria were met. etc.
>
> It's a pity that there's no equivalent of the /B option in W98
> (with which
> I am stuck here), and system admin prefers to avoid dual-boot
> desktops for security reasons.
>
> Thanks again,
> George
>