What is xargs?

2007-10-12 Thread Hall Nation
I am new to cygwin/X. Using the above setup at the workplace.. I need to know about the xargs command. What does it do ? Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the

Re: What is xargs?

2007-10-12 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote: I am new to cygwin/X. Using the above setup at the workplace.. I need to know about the xargs command. What does it do ? As a newcomer to Cygwin and apparently to Unix, one of the most important commands to learn is 'man'. To find out what the 'xargs'

RE: OpenGL files

2007-10-12 Thread Phil Betts
Suresh Keswani wrote on Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:46 PM:: I have a small question relating to developing OpenGL applications *locally*: I have installed the gcc/++ compiler suite, freeglut library files and the OpenGL-related files via the setup program. However, compiling OpenGL programs

Re: What is xargs?

2007-10-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote: I am new to cygwin/X. Using the above setup at the workplace.. I need to know about the xargs command. What does it do ? As Gary said, the man (short for manual) command is your friend. As

Re: What is xargs?

2007-10-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote: I am new to cygwin/X. Using the above setup at the workplace.. I need to know about the xargs command. What does it do ? As Gary said, the man (short for manual) command is your friend. It's also important to note that not all commands whose name

Fatal error message

2007-10-12 Thread Kyoungsoo Park
Dear cygwin, I have the following error message when I typed startx (My window is window server 2003). A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/Xwin.log for more information. Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4 contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

Re: What is xargs?

2007-10-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote: I am new to cygwin/X. Using the above setup at the workplace.. I need to know about the xargs command. What does it do ? As Gary said, the man