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Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:33:51 -0800
From:	"David A. Case" <case AT scripps DOT edu>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: SFU installed -> rxvt problems
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:07:04PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >I don't know if SFU is the reason, but after installing it and rebooting
> >the computer I cannot open a rxvt terminal without running X.  It
> >complains:
> >$ /usr/bin/rxvt
> >rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0
> 
> I hope this isn't the start of a lot of posts about SFU.  I really don't
> want to get too bogged down in incompatibilities between cygwin and
> an essentially competing project.
> 

A few such posts are actually helpful, to warn people (like me) who might have
been tempted to install SFU.  Based on posts like Gerrit's, I will probably
wait a while, since rxvt is far more important to me than is nfs.  Knowing
that others find problems is useful information, even if no fixes are
forthcoming.

..dave case


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