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From: "Lamb, Ronald F." <RLamb AT wcom DOT net>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: xterm does not run
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:25:15 -0500 
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/bin/bash does exist in d:\cygwin\bin and I am running
bash-2.03 as my shell

/bin is mounted to d:\cygwin\bin

Here is what cygcheck xterm.exe reports

bash-2.03$ cygcheck xterm.exe
Found: .\xterm.exe
.\xterm.exe
  .\libICE.dll
    d:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
      C:\WINNT\System32\advapi32.dll
        C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll
        C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
        C:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll
          C:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.dll
        C:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.dll
  .\libSM.dll
  .\libX11.dll
  .\libXext.dll
  .\libXpm.dll

Here is also what mount is showing

Device              Directory           Type         Flags
d:\cygwin\contrib   /contrib            user         binmode
d:\cygwin\bin       /bin                user         binmode
d:\cygwin\usr       /usr                user         binmode
D:\Cygwin           /                   system       binmode
d:\users            /users              user         binmode
d:                  /                   user         binmode

-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:04 PM
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; Lamb, Ronald F.
Cc: 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'
Subject: Re: xterm does not run


--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:42:41PM -0500, Lamb, Ronald F. wrote:
> >I have been having trouble getting the X windows client 
xterm to work with
> >cygwin
> >
> >I am getting the following message
> >!term: could not exec /bin/bash
> >
> >What am I missing in my setup?
> 
> /bin/bash
> 

Maybe.  Is the xterm binary a Cygwin binary?  I.E. Does 
cygcheck xterm.exe have
cygwin1.dll in the list?  If not then: Non-Cygwin programs do 
not understand
Cygwin paths.


=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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