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 the

Re: .Xdefaults not being read

2008-09-16 Thread thetrystero
Matt Wozniski-3 wrote: Ech, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU . 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: cpp, libc6 (=