BitDefender prevents installation and execution of Cygwin and Cygwin-x

After upgrading to WinXP last month (I don't like to rush in to things) cygwin, cygwin-x, and NX-Client ceased to function. (To make a long story short, I had changed to BitDefender at the same time, but had forgotten that). I blamed the problem on the OS upgrade, not realizing that the

Typing Ctrl-Z does nothing.

Hi everyone! I just installed cygwin on a fresh Windows 2000 system (backup wouldn't restore a bootable system after HDD crash). There is nothing special about cygwin, I used all defaults on the download and setup.. Everything works fine except for ^Z. Typing ctrl-z does nothing - I really

Strange XWin startup problem.

Hi all! I have a clean (brand new, just downloaded, ...) installation of Cygwin/X. I perform the following steps: 1) Start cygwin by double clicking desktop icon. 2) In cygwin window: cd /usr/X11R6/bin 3) In cygwin window: startxwin.bat I get the X icon in the system tray, but nothing else (no

Strange XWin startup problem v2.0

Hi all! I have a clean (brand new, just downloaded, ...) installation of Cygwin/X. I perform the following steps: 1) Start cygwin by double clicking desktop icon. 2) In cygwin window: cd /usr/X11R6/bin 3) In cygwin window: startxwin.bat I get the X icon in the system tray, but nothing else (no

Re: [unsolicited] Re: Strange XWin startup problem v2.0

Dear Alexander: -kb worked. But I don't have ZoneAlarm... I'm using the Norton Internet Security firewall. (and, the second system that did not give me problems IS using ZoneAlarm). Strange. Thanks! donz Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Donald R. Ziesig wrote: I get

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Hopefully this is the way to subscribe to this list. donz