Hi Thanks a lot for the excellent instructions.. Manish
Suhaib Siddiqi wrote: > > > > Hi > > I am VERY NEW to OpenDX. > > I am trying to install OpenDX on win98 (Pii 350, 128 MB RAM). I have > > downloaded the OpenDX windows version and also the free Xserver > > for windows. > > > > What are the correct steps that I have to follow to get it up and > > running from > > scratch > > 1) Download OpenDX ZIP file - which you have already done? > > 2) Unzip OpenDX ZIP file and place the OpenDX directoru on your > C:\ drive > > 3) Download X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2 (sorry due to space problems > Cygnus requires all the hosted developers use only Bzip2 format archives) > You can get X-servers from: > ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/contrib/X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2 > > 4) Download Bzip2 for Windows from: > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2 > > 5) Using a DOS shell bunzip2 the X-servers archive > > cd <to-directory-where X-server-v-1.0.tar.bz2 is> > > bzip2 -d X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2 then hit enter key > > 6) Using Winzip or a Tar utility for Windows, untar > X-servers-v-1.0.tar > > 7) You will have now a directory called user. > > move to your C:\drive or to watever drive you have space > > 8) From DOS shell, cd to user\bin\X11 directory > > cd \usr\bin\X11 > > 9) start X-server first using startdx,bat file > > startdx > > 10) Then cd to OpenDX\bin directory from you DOS shell > cd c:\opendx\bin > > 11) start OpenDX using one of the batch file, for example: > > editor > > 12) Now you should have VPE pannel in your X-server root display area > with DXEXEC already runing in the background. > > Suhaib > > > > > > > thanks > > Manish > > > > "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" wrote: > > > > > At last there is a free X-server for Windows. As a demo, > > > I captured the screen with OpenDX. Check out > > > > > > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/xfree/screen.jpg > > > > > > and then download from > > > > > > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/xfree > > > > > > It is not a professional X-server. It does has some problems > > > but you cannot beat the price (free) for its powerful > > capabilities, and at > > > least a year of spar time I spent on > > > this project. > > > > > > Suhaib
