On Wednesday 20 Jun 01, Kevin Slover writes: > Question then about the permissions...I have searched through the opendx > mailing lists, and have > found no documentation on what permissions should or ought to be. Is > there an issue with the > owner of the file, or is it the read/write/execute permission?? Being > new to the whole x-server > world, I am still attempting to understand this concept of running Unix > programs in a windows
On UNIX, the main dx "dispatch" script would have the proper permissions and all you would have to do is make sure the command was in your $PATH. So I wouldn't expect it to come up in the opendx mailing lists. With Cygwin, it gets rather more complicated, because Win9x (in particular) has no concept of "permissions". Cygwin implements a workaround for this. OpenDX developers with no Cygwin experience are not likely to know about these details. I've not tried OpenDX on Cygwin myself, so I'm not sure what's gone wrong. I recommend you read the Cygwin FAQ entry "Why doesn't my shell script work?", then look at your dx scripts and see if you can spot the problem. If this gets much more complicated (and is not otherwise relevant to OpenDX in general), it might be more appropriate to take this to the cygwin or cygwin-xfree mailing list. Hope this helps. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Starks-Browning | [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMBL Outstation -- | The European Bioinformatics Institute | Wellcome Trust Genome Campus | tel: +44 (1223) 494 616 Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK | fax: +44 (1223) 494 468 -------------------------------------------------------------------
