[Xastir] Cygwin update

Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Fri Feb 2 22:30:54 EST 2007


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:21:43PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <pmaxfield at charter.net> flavor, containing:
> Hello everyone!  
>  
> As usual, I come to you with hat in hand, hoping you can get through my
> current dilemma.
>  
> I had been running Xastir successfully for quite some time, about a year.  I
> decided to try some updating. As I have mentioned here before, I'm not much
> of a programmer.
>  
> After performing the setup.exe at cygwin and supposedly updating to
> 6.8.2.0(202), I cannot start Xastir.  I type in "Xastir &" in the bash
> window, but Xastir never starts.
> If no one has any suggestions such as a path change or file name change or
> version difference, I figure I will have to wipe cygwin and start again.
> Are there any recommendations on how to do that without having to follow the
> whole readme.win32 instructions all over again?

Does it give any error messages at all?  Just not starting doesn't sound like
an error that would come from config file or path change issues.

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