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Re: Okay, I feel stupid


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:01:06AM -0800, Matthew L. Mandalek wrote:
> > How do I use cygwin to start a X console on my XP machine like I get on
> > the Rad Hat Fedora console?
> >
> Do you just mean a terminal window or do you mean an X desktop?
>
> To me 'console' means a text mode terminal, in that case all you need
> to do is run the cygwin object that should be on your desktop and you
> have something like wghat you're after.
>
> If you want a 'proper' Unix/Linux terminal then you need rxvt which
> you may or may not have downloaded with cygwin.

or xterm, of course.

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