Sorry for the 2nd mailing. I forgot to change the subject line, as often happens.
> Subject: Re[2]: Beginners questions. > Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:04:16 -0600 > From: Magus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello Fred, > > Thanks for the reply, it eased my mind a _lot_. I think I have > a fairly workable install of Cygwin and Xfree on my machine. No problem. SFFM> command. I found that I had to run startx from /usr/X11R6/bin. SFFM> Simply putting the directory into my path didn't work. > Interesting you should mention that. I have absolutely no > problem here on Win98 SE. Do you, like me, have the latest > version of Cygwin1.dll? A few days old as of my posting date, same as on the web. "cygcheck -cvr" gives cygwin 1.3.19-1 Doesn't seem like a -cvr kind of problem, it complains that I have a badly formed file inquiry. I've seen that message with shell scripts that have and if(....), where the shell mistook the "if" logical expression as a query for file existence, or something similar. It happens between the time startx calls xinit and the time when my .xiinitrc script *starts* to run. Since xinit is a binary executable, I can't see what's going on in there. > I notice that you are with or in the Dept. of Electronics at > Carleton. Interesting coincidence, I'm a C. Tech. in > Electronics. Unemployed right now while I await an operation, > but still a C. Tech. I don't know how you knew, but I'm glad > you did. Thanks once again for the help and a belated "Happy > New Year" of the sheep. > > Best regards, > Magus What's a C. Tech? Thanks for the wishes. Good luck in your job hunt. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6