> From: Dennis Foreman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I have discovered differences in the > parameters for > xterm between Xfree and my SunOS system. Some Xfree > parameters are deemed > invalid on SunOS. Some SunOS parameters don't exist in > xterm. XWin is the cygwin port of XFree86. I wouldn't expect XFree86 or the utilities to be command line compatable with OpenWindows. I would expect Xfree86/cygwin and utilities to be command line compatable as far as possible with XFree86 on other platforms however. > Some don't > work the same way, and some don't work on the cygwin as described in > cygwin's man pages (if I read the man pages correctly, -sb > for instance is > supposed to take an integer argument, but doesn't). Is this xterm you are talking about? If so you're reading the man page wrongly. The command line you want is "xterm -sb -sl 1000" where 1000 is the number of lines to save. The -sb just enables the scroll bar (you can have a scrolling xterm without a scroll bar) > Also, > when I get an > xfree error in cygwin, it says to type "xfree -help". Doing > so produces an > error. Out of interest - how do you get this error message to appear? "xfree -help" won't work because xfree isn't a program! If you have any examples for XFree86/cygwin behaving differently than XFree86 on other platforms then please post them. I'm guessing most will either have a good reason as to why they are different or be a slip or typo somewhere which will be easy to fix. Granted, the XWin man page is out of date now and could do with an update ... Stuart
