Re: .Xdefaults not being read

2008-09-16 Thread thetrystero
Matt Wozniski-3 wrote: > > Ech, . Reformatted. > > You almost certainly *did* have cpp installed. > > On Ubuntu, for instance - > > $ dpkg -S `which xrdb` > x11-xserver-utils: /usr/bin/xrdb > > $ apt-cache show x11-xserver-utils | grep Depends > Depends:

how to start windows applications

2008-09-17 Thread thetrystero
i've just installed cygwin and am noticing some inconsistencies between executing commands from the command line versus executing them through a batch file. for example when I try to do start excel a.xls I get "bash: start: command not found" but if I put this in a batch file, a.bat say, and th