Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <004901c2f55f$9bb25890$93714e51@ellixia> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "kiwhan chung" References: Subject: Re: newbie Q: list of files I need to tweak/create to run cygwin Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:23:41 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 > I am completely new to linux/cygwin and read all the documentation, but > still I don't quite understand how to setup the cygwin. > > So far I was able to install the cygwin software and tweaked the cygwin.bat > file and created a home directory so that I can try some elementary > commands. Ultimately I'd like to run MCNPX and GEANT (both are particle > transport packages) on this platform, and I'd appreciate if anyone can tell > me which files I need to tweak/create to have xwindow working. cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com is the mailing list to ask this question. Sorry, I don't use X :-) > My extent of experience with unix is very shallow and I have never installed > any unix software by myself. I just used what was installed for me by the > sysadmin. > > I read User's Guide, FAQ and Installation Guide, but I still didn't have a > good picture of what steps I need to take to have the operational platform. There's documentation on for this stuff, including links on how to get Gnome/KDE running. Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/