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Re: bash ...
The grey blank window that you are seeing is X. You just have to figure
what you want to put on it. :-)
Have fun.
Scott.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Khushwant Sidhu" <sid@bms.umist.ac.uk>
To: "Scott Alexander" <salexander@taz.qinetiq.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: bash ...
> Scott Alexander wrote:
> >
> > If you have XWin.exe in the /usr/x11R6/bin directory then it should be
> > installed. Im not sure what doesn't exist when you say:
> >
> > "and X is a soft link to XWin (which doesn't exist)"
> >
> > If you go to the /usr/X11R6/bin directory and type "./XWin.exe" what
> > happens?
>
>
> Scott,
>
> I get a full screen (grey) blank window labelled Cygwin/XFree86
>
>
> (thanks for your time)
>
> sid
>
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