Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 5 Feb 2003 11:06:42 -0000 Issue 998

[Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>]

> Subject: Re[2]: Beginners questions.
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:04:16 -0600
> From: Magus <magus1011ca@yahoo.ca>
> To: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
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> Hello Fred,
>
>   Thanks for the reply, it eased my mind a _lot_. I think I have
>   a fairly workable install of Cygwin and Xfree on my machine.

No problem.

SFFM> command.  I found that I had to run startx from /usr/X11R6/bin.
SFFM> Simply putting the directory into my path didn't work.

>  Interesting you should mention that. I have absolutely no
>   problem here on Win98 SE. Do you, like me, have the latest
>   version of Cygwin1.dll?

A few days old as of my posting date, same as on the web.
"cygcheck -cvr" gives

    cygwin              1.3.19-1

Doesn't seem like a -cvr kind of problem, it complains
that I have a badly formed file inquiry.  I've seen that
message with shell scripts that have and if(....), where
the shell mistook the "if"  logical expression as a query
for file existence, or something similar.  It happens
between the time startx calls xinit and the time when
my .xiinitrc script *starts* to run.  Since xinit is a binary
executable, I can't see what's going on in there.

>   I notice that you are with or in the Dept. of Electronics at
>   Carleton. Interesting coincidence, I'm a C. Tech. in
>   Electronics. Unemployed right now while I await an operation,
>   but still a C. Tech. I don't know how you knew, but I'm glad
>   you did. Thanks once again for the help and a belated "Happy
>   New Year" of the sheep.
>
> Best regards,
>  Magus

What's a C. Tech?
Thanks for the wishes.  Good luck in your job hunt.

Fred

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Fred Ma, fma@doe.carleton.ca
Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6