RE: Server Test 38: "invalid switch: /B"

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Windows 95/98/ME does not allow /B switch, Windows NT/2000 does.  Edit your
startxwin.bat and remove the /B switch from it or use startxwin9x.bat from
the latest build, it is in startup-scripts.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert J. Cristel [mailto:rcristel@sprint.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 7:41 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree
> Subject: Server Test 38: "invalid switch: /B"
> 
> Here's the remaining console window which I got by changing
> startxwin.bat "@echo off" to "@echo on":
> 
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32 -engine 4
> >
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B rxvt -fn "Lucida Console-12" -e
> bash
> > Invalid switch - /B
> >
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms
> red -fg yellow
> >  -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
> > Invalid switch - /B
> >
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B mxterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms
> red -fg yello
> > w -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
> > Invalid switch - /B
> >
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B twm
> > Invalid switch - /B
> >
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>REM set stty=intr ^c susp ^z start ^q stop
> ^s quit ^\\ e
> > rase ^?
> >
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>
> >
> >
> 
> Is there a way to save more stuff so we could see what happened?
> 
> Best Regards,
> -Robert Cristel
> Montreal, Canada
> 
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