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

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> 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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Yes, but you can put X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2 in a directory called c:\temp
and extract everything in temp ythen move them around?

Suhaib