RE: problems with XFree

["Dennis Foreman" <dforeman at stny dot rr dot com>]

The message said to type "xterm -help", not "xfree -help". My error. Here is
what I got:

foreman@FOREMAN ~
$ xterm -help
bash: xterm: command not found

I suspect that it is because the xfree directories are not in the basic
cygwin path. Again, for newbies, one cannot assume that they will know how
to set this path or that it even needs to be set. To be a really helpful
application, these things should be considered.

As for the differences in xterm options between cygwin and SunOS, I will
prepare a list of differences and validation of the errors I have received.

regards,
D. J. Foreman
website: http://WWW.CS.Binghamton.EDU/~foreman

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Stuart Adamson
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 5:14 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
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Granted, the XWin man page is out of date now and could do with an update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