Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/16/13:01:50
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:46:13AM -0600, David Kohn wrote:
>Hi Cygwin and Christopher Faylor,
There is no reason to personally address email to a mailing list.
>Just a quick suggestion, from someone who just went through
>downloading/installing Cygwin/Xfree86:
>
>It might cut down on confusion,etc, if on the Cygwin/Xfree86 page where it
>mentions downloads, you warn people in advance of problems they may
>encounter.
Hmm. You apparently found the XFree86 web page but you are sending
email to the wrong mailing list.
I have very little to do cygwin-xfree. It is maintained by other
people.
I've redirected this message to the correct list.
cgf
>Before they try installing Cyg/XFree86, they should first do the following
>w/ their CygWin:
> - update their cygwin to something reasonably current
> - subsequently grab the older version of ncurses (to avoid that
>cygncurses5.dll problem when launching X)
> - in the cygwin installer, make sure they select "Unix" linefeeds instead
>of "DOS" (to avoid that "font not found" problem)
>
>I found these links helpful in tracking down help and instructions, FWIW:
>
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00124.html
>http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-error-font-eof
>
>Other than that, the installation was straightforward and the install
>instructions in the User Guide worked great!
>
>Thanks for your excellent work and generosity in making these packages
>available to the public!
>Dave Kohn <kohn AT sctc DOT com>
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