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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:33:01 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: unable to open the display on local machine
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:12:56AM +0100, daniel43 AT gmx DOT ch wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have installed cygwin localy on a W2K PC.
>I have installed the package ghostview, using the setup.exe utility.
>Now, if I try to start ghostview, I type:
>$ gv &
>I get the error message:
>gv: Unable to open the display.
>
>I tried to set the DISPLAY variable:
>$setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
>But the setenv command is not known.
>So I tried with set:
>$set DISPLAY localhost:0.0
>But this does not seem to do anything.
>When I echo the variable DISPLAY:
>$echo $DISPLAY
>I just get a blank line.
>
>Help would be very apreciated.

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