On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>AFAIK, you wouldn't want to install X without also installing some >>other things like bash, at least. I would think you'd want other tools >>like 'cp', as well. Since people always complain that the minimal >>installation for cygwin (which is the default) doesn't have enough >>stuff in it, I don't really understand why the minimal installation + X >>would have too much. > >One scenario is the stand-alone xserver which just acts as terminal for >remote access.
How would you manage remote access if you didn't at least have bash, though? Run xterm + cmd.exe, maybe? cgf