[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looks like initially a path problem, plus an X-problem > > I found out that at least one of the reasons grace and gracebat would not run > from the DOS command line Oh! You never said anything about cmd.exe. Naturally cygwin links only work in a cygwin shell. bash, ash, zsh, tcsh, ... pick your poison.
> was that the directory for cygX11R6.dll was not in the path. I fixed that and > also put the actual path for gracebat Well, using cygwin.bat would have solved that for you too. (And would have given you a nice bash prompt.) > . c:cygwinusrsharegracebin before c:cygwinbin, so a command would look Looks really funny, you lost your backslashes in the mail ;) > for the actual executables > before the symlinks. > So I run > c:mydir> c:cygwinusrsharegracebingracebat test.dat -hdevice JPEG > -printfile gtest.jpg > or > c:mydir> gracebat test.dat -hdevice JPEG -printfile gtest.jpg > > It runs instantly, but produced NO file gtest.jpg > > (Before adding the actual executable directory to the path before the bin, it > just hung there) > > > Also, if I try to run grace by clicking on its icon(not the symlink), it does > nothing > If I run > c:mydir> grace > it does nothing No wonder, half of it's paths are missing. Start it from a shell ... > > but if I do > c:mydir> ash > > $grace > I get back > grace>1 like you did here. > If I do > c:mydir> xmgrace > I get Can't open display > Failed initializing GUI, exiting > > So, it looks like an X-problem. How do I go about solving it?Αρχικό μήνυμα > από The X-problem seems to be that the X-server is not running. Try using startxwin.bat. (This one actually works if you "click" on it.) *shudder* Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D
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