problem debugging xset command inside batch script (revised)

[6kbnowe02@sneakemail.com]

I have narrowed the problem down to the following:

It appears that I cannot run the xset command with the options I need from a
Windows/DOS command shell or batch file. For example, when I enter the
command 
	xset -q
the response is
	xset:  unable to open display ""
The same is true even if the xset command is called from within a bash shell
script which itself is called from a Windows/DOS shell. So it's not due to
bash or DOS. Rather, it's because the calling program doesn't have an X
display to communicate with.

As confirmation of this, I observe that the problem does not occur when I
call the same script from a Cygwin/rxvt shell because this shell has an X
display already defined.

It would be nice to be able to update the X font path on the fly and only
when I want to start up this particular application, but short of that,
adding the necessary font path to the permanent X font path would be OK too.
How do I do that?

Thanks,

jjo



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