I installed the FreeNX Windows client (http://freenx.berlios.de/), hoping to access my server machine remotely. I didn't know it at the time, but the Windows client includes a Cygwin DLL -- and it clobbered by existing Cygwin installation, somehow (I forget the details -- I think it modified important registry settings).
Clearly FreeNX's documentation is lacking, in that it didn't warn me about this. But I was wondering -- how _is_ a vendor such as FreeNX supposed to distribute software that depends on Cygwin? How can they avoid having their own, separate, Cygwin installation on the user's machine? -- In the movie Ghostbusters, there's a sign in the background of one scene that says, "Danger! 10,000 Ohms!" I cannot explain to laymen why people like me think that is uproariously funny. -- Steven den Beste -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/