On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, john paterson jr wrote: > Thank you, Curt. I'll try that and let you all know of my (hopefull) > success.
Ok. BTW: I'm the one that wrote the Cygwin install for Xastir, and did 100's of installs way back when to document the procedure. Nowadays I wouldn't go that route for Windows: I'd try VMWare Player (free), andLinux (free), or VirtualBox (Sun Microsystems, free) before I'd go with Cygwin. Cygwin was the _first_ method of getting Xastir going on Windows. I wrote the install doc. at users' requests, not because I wanted to run it under Windows myself. hi hi I've been Windows-free at work and at home for about 16 years now. Every once in a while I need to do a TinyTrak/OpenTracker setup via Windows, but that's about it. My kids are doing Lego Mindstorms robot programming and need Windows for that. :-( We're trying to get the Mindstorms software running under VirtualBox now but can't get the USB IR tower to show through to Windows. If that fails we'll try VMWare Server (also free) because one boy has only Linux on his box now. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir