On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am attempting to mount and run a necessarily reduced Cygwin and selected > applications from a 64MB USB stick drive. It's built incrementally (as > follows: include a .exe in /bin; then, if that fails with a "missing .dll" > message include the .dll too) and at approx 48MB usage including a massive > statistics application program it works just fine. > > I'd like to include X (specifically xdvi.exe to read .dvi files). In this > context the main system (i.e. complete Cygwin on a HD) is started by > > start XWin -multiwindow > run rxvt -display localhost:0.0 -e bash > xdvi test.dvi > > (that's for 98SE: in XP I omit "start") and this works faultlessly. > > As far as I know all components necessary to achieve the same end are > included on the stick (i.e. there are no more "missing .dll" announcements). > Unfortunately I must be wrong because even before starting rxvt I find XWin > is "very transient". By this I mean that after the command > "XWin -multiwindow" the X icon appears briefly in the system tray in the > taskbar, but then evaporates almost immediately. Then, of course, the rxvt > line fails because the display cannot be found. > > I have tried any and all of XWin &, XWin -multiwindow &, running XWin after > bash rather than before ... I cannot get it to "stay". > > I am sorry not to have made my circumstances any clearer than they are (e.g. > what's on the stick). AND I know it is disagreeable / impossible to offer > advice for non-standard systems. I attach a cygcheck -srv in case it is > obvious from that what further necessary component I still lack. > > Thank you for any help. > Fergus
Fergus, Since your goal is to save space, and unless you want to use X for other things, you might consider using a Windows GUI dvi viewer, e.g., yap.exe from the MiKTeX package, instead. With all of its associated DLLs it's just under 1M, and I doubt you can pare X down to take up so little space. If you do need X, however, good luck. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton