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Re: New Installation
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: New Installation
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 17 Oct 1998 00:16:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Boda,
[...]
>2. Do we need to set up /var /etc with mount?
Can be useful.
>3. How does one create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files on NT with Cygnus?
mkasswd
mkgroup
>
>4. How to use man pages from cdk-man-* ? Any tool or method?
Get ncurses, less, groff and man from
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
>
>5. Vi or some alternative please?
Get vim from
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
>
>6. Any good tools you suggest?
See
Earnie Boyd's homepage (http://freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/) and also
Michael Weiser's mini faq, which is posted here regularily.
>7. How to run X Programs? I have installed X Server (MIX Server) from TNT
>Lite and also have X11R6.3 libs from Mr. Mummit Khan's Site.
>How to configure them to work with me! Compelete instructions? Am I
>ambitious?
Should be not too difficult - if you have configured your X server as
appropriate, just run them :)
>
>
>7. I have a X11/Motif program and want to run on WinNT (+cygnus).
> Do I need to run always X Server? Is there no way X Server forms part of
>my executable?
No, you always need an X server.
>If yes, please let me know how to do it!
>
>Please help me!
>
>Thanks
>Gupta
Bye.
Michael.
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