xrdb fails to update properties

[Horace Redelmyer <hredelmyer at cogeco dot ca>]

I am running cygwin on a recent windows 7, 64 bit box. cygwin is 
completely up to date.

The problem is that xrdb when run from a cygwin bash shell will not 
change the resources database. I have tried all sorts of variants of the 
command to no avail. xrdb -query always shows nothing and my xterms 
behave as if no resources have been loaded.

However, should I run xrdb -merge on my linux box with the display set 
to my cygwin box, the resources are successfully loaded. Not only that, 
xrdb -query run on the windows 7 box in cygwin shows that the resources 
have been properly loaded.

Does anyone have a clue as to what might be going on?

Thanks
Horace


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