[Gloucs] Mandrake 9.1 and XFree86 4.3.0

[barrie HAYCOCK]

Thanks Sean - Will forward your reply!

Barrie Haycock

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Keane" <sean at eon.demon.co.uk>
To: <bjh at good-news.fsnet.co.uk>; "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Mandrake 9.1 and XFree86 4.3.0


> On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 10:49, bjh poked randomly at a keyboard and came up 
> with:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Can anyone help with this question please from Noel who is a member of
> > the Hereford LUG - thanks:
> >
> >
> > "Hello,
> >
> > I have Mandrake 9.1 and on the 1st cd is XFree86 4.3.0
> >
> > It is in three files with the ending .rpm.  This is the first one.
> >
> > XFree86-static-libs-4.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
> >
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to load these up onto a *Windows system* to get a
> > working X window there.
> >
> 
> Can't be done...
> He needs a windows executable ... such as XWin or something, or what's the 
> name of that emulator ... CygWin might be able to do it, but it would be 
> very slow!
> 
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