Hello, I am an experienced unix developer looking to port an X windows application that uses pseudo-ttys for communication (an xterm-like application), to xfree. I've got two problems. First, after downloading xfree and updating my cygwin installation (Windows ME), I still can't get the x server to start. A window appears then disappears. The log complains about not being able to find the "fixed" font, though the font files are all there. I scanned the archives which suggest the problem may be the file system mountings, but unfortunately I'm not sure how to even tell how my file systems are mounted let alone fix it. Can someone point me at the info I need for this?
Second, I have the application compiled, though the compilation errors I got suggested I may well not have the right code for dealing with pseudo ttys. This application has been compiled for just about every known variant of unix, all of which do something different to allocate a psuedo tty to an application and get the permissions and ownership of both ends set up correctly. I can't tell from any of the stuff I've read how cygwin handles this particular dark corner of the unix world. I've never found any reasonable documentation on this stuff and in the past have always learned from code fragments. Can anyone point me at either a sane, reasonably complete, description of how to do it or at a code example from a program that accomplishes it? Thanks. Warren Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://home.att.net/~wamontgomery)
