Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine

2010-02-06 Thread David Flood
That'll teach me to answer emails without access to my complete archives. I didn't recognize the name so forgot the previous thread that resulted in the new instructions. I'll fire up my install and let it run for awhile and see if it also messes up after some time. Dave KD7MYC

[Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Locher W7GH
Hello All, I'm very pleased to have recently installed XASTIR on Cygwin here. (I installed Cygwin for the purpose of running XASTIR. I went the Cygwin route because I'm considering dabbling with other Linux apps on Cygwin.) However I've run into a vexing problem: suddenly if I

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine

2010-02-04 Thread David Flood
Rob, How recently did you install and which set of installation directions did you use? If you had an installation previous to the recent upgrade in Cygwin, I've found that doing that upgrade isn't worth it. Kill the Cygwin directory (or at least everything but the Home sub direcotory) and

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Locher W7GH
Hi Curt and David, and thank you for venturing to answer my question. Unfortunately I left out a crucial fact the first time around: XASTIR worked just fine for a few days when I first installed it. So I don't think that the problem is with the installation. (And for the record, I