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RE: problems with XFree
- From: Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:13:38 +0100
- Subject: RE: problems with XFree
> From: Dennis Foreman [mailto:dforeman@stny.rr.com]
> I have discovered differences in the
> parameters for
> xterm between Xfree and my SunOS system. Some Xfree
> parameters are deemed
> invalid on SunOS. Some SunOS parameters don't exist in
> xterm.
XWin is the cygwin port of XFree86. I wouldn't expect XFree86 or the
utilities to be command line compatable with OpenWindows.
I would expect Xfree86/cygwin and utilities to be command line compatable
as far as possible with XFree86 on other platforms however.
> Some don't
> work the same way, and some don't work on the cygwin as described in
> cygwin's man pages (if I read the man pages correctly, -sb
> for instance is
> supposed to take an integer argument, but doesn't).
Is this xterm you are talking about? If so you're reading the man page
wrongly.
The command line you want is "xterm -sb -sl 1000" where 1000 is the number
of
lines to save. The -sb just enables the scroll bar (you can have a
scrolling xterm
without a scroll bar)
> Also,
> when I get an
> xfree error in cygwin, it says to type "xfree -help". Doing
> so produces an
> error.
Out of interest - how do you get this error message to appear? "xfree -help"
won't work because xfree isn't a program!
If you have any examples for XFree86/cygwin behaving differently than
XFree86 on
other platforms then please post them. I'm guessing most will either have
a good
reason as to why they are different or be a slip or typo somewhere which
will be easy
to fix.
Granted, the XWin man page is out of date now and could do with an update
...
Stuart