[olug] Cygwin

[Brian Roberson]

Oops, almost forgot, here is the howto on xfree86-cygwin:

http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Roberson [mailto:brian at bstc.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:37 PM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: RE: [olug] Cygwin
> 
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
> 
> 
> It is very much like the Internet Explorer / Netscape 
> installer applications where it walks you through either 
> downloading and or installing the software. I have used it 
> for years, I just figured everyone already knew about it ;-) 
> I have used it quite a bit for writing applications on 
> winblows machines, as It basically mimic's every POSIX 
> semantic I would ever need, and the development environment 
> it what I am familiar with ;-) It is also great to use to 
> simply run shell scripts on your win box.
> 
> 
> > It would be great to know how to get this to work.
> > How many PC labs are out there (in high school and colleges) 
> > where they mirror the PCs.  To have cygwin with X windows 
> > configured on these machines would allow people (e.g. 
> > students) to use tons of X windows based tools off of a UNIX 
> > (Linux) server in the closet somewhere.  Lots of people could 
> > use GIMP, ghostview, and tons of other X based programs!
> > 
> > Is setting up cygwin to do this easy?   Is there one HOWTO document?
> > 
> > Thanks!!
> >  
> > --
> > Matt Payne, (402) 960-3871  Payne at ACM.org
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