Re: X server won't start in win95a]

["Robert J. Cristel" <rcristel at sprint dot ca>]

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

> > Nope.  I have no networking.
> > > What do you mean by "no networking"  without TCP/IP you cannot use
> > > X.
> > Just a single machine with dialup.
> >
> >  As Raymond says this appears to be an
> > incompatibility with win9x versus winNT.  As you know, this is a
> > different code base.
> > > explain???? Which code base????
>
> There is no such thing of incompability between Windows9x and NT.  An
> application can be designed to run only on Win9x or NT.
>
> >
> > Microsoft internally has two different Windows sources, one
> > is Win9x and
> > the other is WinNT.
> >
>
> Oh really. I think Bill Gates keep calling you about this different sources
> for Windows.  Thanks for letting us know.  I made a note in my diary and I
> will do my best to tell the rest of the world.
>
> > But this isn't the problem as Raymond has Cygwin/XFree
> > working on both.
>
> Raymond problem is not same as yours.  Your problem is we even do not know
> what is your problem....
>
> > However, X doesn't work on my Win98 2nd installation.  I
> > would be happy
> > to supply you with a message dump if that would be helpful.  It would
> > require some sort of setup because X just comes up for a one
> > second and
> > you don't really see anything.
>
> What kind of special setup?  Setup like a CIA of FBI setup to trap the
> terrorists?

For example, a batch file that would contain command line redirects to
save
messages in a file.  Or do you have something even more constructive
than that
in mind?  You seem to be so full of ideas...

>
>
> Suhaib
>
> >
> > -Robert Cristel
> > Montreal, Canada
> >