"No absolute path for shell:" error

[Douglas Spearot <dspearot at uark dot edu>]

I am new to Cygwin/X, so I apologize if this question is stupid.  I can't
seem to figure out what I am doing wrong.

I am trying to run an application using Cygwin/X.  Testing that my X-server
is running properly using 'xterm' seems to work fine.  However, when I run
my application (called 'A' here):

$ A test.txt

I get an error:

No absolute path found for shell: A

Flipping through the mailing list archives, I found another post that asked
a similar question.  The suggested fix was to update to patch 203.
Following that post, I typed xterm -v to find out what patch I was using:

$ xterm -v
Cygwin 6.8.2.0(202)

I'll assume that this means that I am using patch 202.  I re-installed the
code using the setup.exe program making sure that I included "xorg-x11-xwin:
Cygwin/XX server" version 6.8.2.0-4.  I still got the same error "absolute
path" error.  xterm -v indicated that I was still using patch 202.  Finally,
I tried re-running the setup.exe program using the 'Exp' button to download
the latest version of everything.  xterm -v still indicated that I was using
patch 202 and I still got the same "absolute path" error as above.

Am I not downloading the latest patch correctly or am I not setting up my
X-server correctly?

Thank you for your help.

-Doug Spearot

 



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