Re: Can not get XWindows to Work in Cygwin/X .... I LOVE CYGWIN, USE IT EVERY DAY

2017-04-18 Thread Mike Rushton
n programs will show up. -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Mike Rushton Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:33 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can not get XWindows to Work in Cygwin/X I LOVE CYGWIN, USE IT EVERY DAY (Ok

Re: Can not get XWindows to Work in Cygwin/X .... I LOVE CYGWIN, USE IT EVERY DAY

2017-04-14 Thread Mike Rushton
(Ok I tried to send this to the list and it failed ... I had an image of my black screen in it) I still just get a blank screen. When i type xwin or startxwin . I found instructions to look for the variable "tty" under Windows Environment Variables in Control Panel and remove it but i

Re: Help with shortcuts

2014-03-02 Thread Mike Rushton
) On 3/2/2014 5:50 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Mike Rushton! Well thanks I will have to try that. My only other option was to create a menu and execute in from my profile ... and instead of shortcuts ... they would be options off a menu. I also found out you can create symbolic li

Re: Help with shortcuts

2014-03-01 Thread Mike Rushton
Well thanks I will have to try that. My only other option was to create a menu and execute in from my profile ... and instead of shortcuts ... they would be options off a menu. I also found out you can create symbolic links under Win 7, WIn XP (you must download this Junction Program) and als

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

2014-02-12 Thread Mike Rushton
, I've been using Cygwin for like 2 weeks ,,, On 2/10/2014 9:13 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: Well let me work at it tomorrow. I know how to do this on other unix systems, just that Cygwin is not acting as I am used too. I have done things like this on some versions of RHEL, UnixWare, Xenix

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

2014-02-10 Thread Mike Rushton
more use of the term Newbie :-) ) On 2/10/2014 8:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/10/2014 8:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: Can some one give me some hints about this ? I read the documentation and can't figure this out. I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='pri

Newbie Alias and Profile questions

2014-02-10 Thread Mike Rushton
Can some one give me some hints about this ? I read the documentation and can't figure this out. I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='printf "\033c"' But what .bashrc do I put this in ? in /ect/skel or the one my user directory. I put this code in and it seems to get overw

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

2014-02-06 Thread Mike Rushton
t ssh but am not sure if this is what I am looking for. This Cygwin is a great package to work with. I have been programming in some sort of shell script since 1992. On 2/6/2014 10:09 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:05 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: I see. What would you say to this

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

2014-02-06 Thread Mike Rushton
I see. What would you say to this ? I have to use an EDI translator - it runs under windows/dos and had unix versions I was trying this ... but the program needed to see the path of a config file ... after the -cp switch. /cygdrive/c/gentran61SA/lftran /cygdrive/c/gentran61sa/data/EDN -id

Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

2014-02-06 Thread Mike Rushton
That is good to know about that utility Cygpath. Maybe I will try it. What I was doing was going thru some scripts ... changing the paths ... clean in up stuff ... over the years I ended up with a lot of commented out sections of code ... and testing them. And this is a different approach

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Rushton
idea to use .sh and then you would know that it is a script. On 2/5/2014 4:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 2/5/2014 11:30, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/5/2014 1:25 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? No, the extension can be whatever you like

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Rushton
Thanks for all the help. What I am trying to do is convert some Korn Shell scripts to bash to run under Cygwin. I am wondering, does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? It probably does not matter. Some of the scripts had .ksh on the end of them. I want to make everything u