> 3) within the first few hours of usage, I ran a "find / -name > abc -print" > from the command-line, and my trusty Windows 2000 box > restarted.
If that crashed your windows box then that sounds like a bug in either Windows 2000 or base cygwin - rather than the Xfree86 port. > but i'm still amazed at how easily my robust kernel, > based on NT > Technology, came down. You amazed that it stayed up long enough for you to run the cygwin installer? ;) One thing to look at is memory usage. Cygwin is a bit hard on memory usage. Could it be that your exhausting memory and that's killing everything? > 5) it'd be nice if setup.exe showed the size (in bytes or > megabytes, etc.) > > of each package (it's in setup.ini). on my 56 Kb/s modem, > downloading a > large, unnecessary file takes a painfully long time, but a small > unnecessary file is not so bad. setup.exe is a base cygwin thing as well. You'll need to talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for that. > 11) also, what's all that /b stuff about in startxwin.bat? > gotos, etc. but > there is no /b ! (there is no spoon either ;-) start /b <app name> is supposed to start the app in the background. This is an NT only thing. However, I believe that we no longer need to use this as XWin does this anyway. There used to be a bug where without this flag server logging was broken but that got fixed a couple of months ago. Stuart