Re: My attempt to use Cygwin seems doomed to failure in spite of...

2005-09-16 Thread Dan Armbrust
Kind of off topic, but and i use my modem/router's configuration to not expose my PC to the internet, rather than running a PC firewall. This does not give you the same protection as running a PC firewall. A PC firewall allows you to determine which applications are allowed to make connect

RE: My attempt to use Cygwin seems doomed to failure in spite of...

2005-09-16 Thread Reid Thompson
John Ormerod wrote: > ... all the willing help I've received - esp from Reid. I do > appreciate you all taking the time to give me info and clues etc. > > My conclusion is there is something on my system that > prevents Xwin.exe and / or xterm.exe from completely initialising. > > I've removed mo

My attempt to use Cygwin seems doomed to failure in spite of...

2005-09-16 Thread John Ormerod
... all the willing help I've received - esp from Reid. I do appreciate you all taking the time to give me info and clues etc. My conclusion is there is something on my system that prevents Xwin.exe and / or xterm.exe from completely initialising. I've removed most of the original text of this ap