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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Mark Hadfield Subject: Re: gv: Unable to open the display. Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:46:00 +1200 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <42E5459F.3010701@alltel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes lin q wrote: > ... > My only purpose is to view a postscript file content and as I know I > should run gv, so i installed gv package and then in cygwin shell I type > "/usr/X11R6/bin/gv.exe". If your only purpose is to view a Postscript file, have you considered using the native windows version of Ghostscript and the viewer Gsview: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ I mean, Cygwin is a marvellous package for emulating Unix on Windows *where necessary* but in this case I don't think it's necessary. Disclaimer: I am not trying to start an "X sucks/X rules" flame war here. -- Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou" m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) -- 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/