problems with cygwin

[Ken Dibble]

Tarun Sharma wrote:

>Hi
>I have just installed cygwin on my Win XP system. But when I try to start
>windowmaker then it justs says cant start x-server at 127.0.0.1:0.0 . I
>tried few more things but couldnt succeed.
>Ihe porblem I am thinking is related to some configuration. I also tried to
>run XWin. which is running.And xterm can be connected to this.
>Can anybody help me in this problem.
>
Are you using the startXWin.bat file?  Trying to run multiple window 
managers concurrently?
If memory serves the people in this list usually refer you to the 
cygwin-xfree mailing list. (per http://cygwin.com/lists.html)

>Some other question I want to ask is :
>1. Can we have different users for cygwin. Because it just added one icon in
>start menu by which I can just run cygwin's bash shell.
>
Yes

>
>2. Some of the commands like more is not working on my system. I tried to
>search it in /usr/bin but its not there.
>

per Larry Hall:

I expect you really want 'less' but either way, visit 
<http://cygwin.com/packages/> to determine the package you should install
to get the utility you want.  This works for all utilities. ;-)



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>Please update me about these problems
>regards
>-tarun
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>

Proper problem reporting here:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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