Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:16:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com To: Daniel Senderowicz cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: incorrect dos version In-Reply-To: <200404201733.i3KHXvk07603@bicho.synchrodesign.com> Message-ID: References: <200404201733.i3KHXvk07603@bicho.synchrodesign.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Wrong list. All X-related questions should be addressed to the cygwin-xfree list. Redirecting. More below. On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Daniel Senderowicz wrote: > Hi, > > >>> I'm new to this list. I read the FAQ but I couldn't find an answer > >>> nor a fix for my problem. I just installed the latest cygwin version > >>> (1.5.9) on a PC running windows NT-4.0. Everything went OK, and I > >>> can run programs from the console. However when I try to 'startx' > >>> it comes back with the message "Incorrect DOS version". I was > >> > >>Check if you have any old DOS command line tools in your path with names > >>like any cygwin executables, i.e. grep, cut, tar, gzip etc. > > > >I'm a total neophite with windows, but from looking at what I get > >by typing 'path', there is nothing that resembles a unix-like > >command. Or I should do this search in a different way? > > You were right. I just renamed a directory ("util") containing > things like grep and tar, and the system started. However it now > stumbles into another problem. I'm attaching the Xwin.log file > below. > [snip] > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress I suggest looking at the Cygwin-X FAQ. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/