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RE: can't start X server
- To: "'CygwinXfree-List'" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: can't start X server
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:52:54 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Meier [mailto:fmeier@ifh.ee.ethz.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:13 AM
> To: CygwinXfree-List
> Subject: RE: can't start X server
>
> >Not so easy a lot of code needs to be modified so xfree can cope
> with DOS
> >file mode. It is on our agenda. However, User's Guide from Harold
> mention
> >it clearly and even has screen shots... that use UNIX mode for
> >installation....
>
> Sorry, where?
>
> Chapter "Installing Cygwin/Xfree86" in "Cygwin/XFree86 User's
> Guide", 0.0.05 2001-07-03, dowloaded from
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.pdf today, does
> not mention any interference with binary versus text mode. Nor does
> the README file in the binaries directory.
>
> Chapter "3.2 Text and Binary Modes" in "Cygwin User's Guide", 20.1.0
> 1999-02-08, contains a discussion. No recommendation or
> requirement.
>
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-installing.html
Sorry, you need to read once again a little more carefully and also have a
look at the screenshot in step 7, beside reading text. It has Install for
All and Unix boxes checked.
Suhaib
>
> Frank
>
> >People need to read first...
> >
> >Suhaib