1.5.18: I give up...

2005-07-25 Thread David Masterson
Well, I've tried to install the latest version of Cygwin from mirrors.kernel.org onto my Windows-XP (SP2) system several times now without much luck. I'm pretty sure (based on previous usage and all the other people using it) that its a problem in my environment, but I don't know what. I'm

Re: gv: Unable to open the display.

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Dibble
lin q wrote: Hi, I just installed gv using the cygwin installer, I select Download from the internet option and the install process runs for quite a while. After that I run /usr/X11R6/bin/gv.exe and I saw this error, gv: Unable to open the display. What does that mean? Should I

Re: gv: Unable to open the display.

2005-07-25 Thread lin q
From: Ken Dibble [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gv: Unable to open the display. Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:03:43 -0500 lin q wrote: Hi, I just installed gv using the cygwin installer, I select Download from the internet option and

Re: gv: Unable to open the display.

2005-07-25 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:41 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote: From: Ken Dibble [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Subject: Re: gv: Unable to open the display. Date: Mon, 25 Jul

Re: gv: Unable to open the display.

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Hadfield
lin q wrote: ... My only purpose is to view a postscript file content and as I know I should run gv, so i installed gv package and then in cygwin shell I type /usr/X11R6/bin/gv.exe. If your only purpose is to view a Postscript file, have you considered using the native windows version of