[Coco] Re: 6809 C compiler for Windows

John R. Hogerhuis jhoger at pobox.com
Wed Feb 9 02:40:18 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 22:49 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> > 
> > Cygwin takes a POSIX emulation along with it. It's a real dog. But it
> > does have a nice free X server built into it, which is about all I use
> > it for when I'm working at a Windows box.
> 
> Is that X-Server capable of accepting clients that are not on the 
> Windows box, and if so, what are the magical incantations needed to 
> convince it to do so?
> 
> And does Cygwin allow X-apps running on the Microsoft system to direct 
> their display to a remote X server?
> 

I'm afraid I don't know, but probably... I've only ever used the
X-server in Cygwin to connect to my Linux boxen and run the apps there.
To do that, open Cygwin, from the bash prompt,

ssh -X you at ipaddress

and that will get you a remote prompt from which you can run x apps.

-- John.






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