On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:33:51AM -0800, David A. Case wrote: >On Fri, Jan 16, 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:07:04PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> >I don't know if SFU is the reason, but after installing it and rebooting >> >the computer I cannot open a rxvt terminal without running X. It >> >complains: >> >$ /usr/bin/rxvt >> >rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0 >> >> I hope this isn't the start of a lot of posts about SFU. I really don't >> want to get too bogged down in incompatibilities between cygwin and >> an essentially competing project. >> > >A few such posts are actually helpful, to warn people (like me) who might have >been tempted to install SFU. Based on posts like Gerrit's, I will probably >wait a while, since rxvt is far more important to me than is nfs. Knowing >that others find problems is useful information, even if no fixes are >forthcoming.
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