how I got an X server & xterm to run under cygwin

[darxus@chaosreigns.com]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

> I think you are making life a bit complicated.
> X-servers-v.10.tar.bz2 makes no use of Cygwin mount points, therefore no
> need
> to fool around with mounts.
> 
> Simply unbzip2 and untar in a
> 
> c:\usr
> directory.
> cd to c:\usr\bin\X11
> and start using startx or startdx batch files.

tar uses the mount points.  I tried it several times.  So if you cd \, and
tar -xvf X-servers*, things like rgb.txt get put in the wrong place.

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