Re: Window immediately disappears

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Michael,

This does not address your specific problem, which is reported here often...

However, what I do when this sort of symptom occurs is to start a CMD.exe 
console window and run the failing program from there. That way I can 
examine any diagnostics produced at my leisure, rather than having to try 
to catch a glimpse them in the small fraction of a second during which the 
console window is remains visible.

Eventually, I always recommend that people skip over the BAT file for 
launching Cygwin by: a) setting up relevant environment variables on a 
system-wide basis and b) creating a shortcut that directly launches your 
preferred shell or that shell within a RXVT window.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 23:16 2002-10-23, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I asked my client to install Cygwin so he could use some of the tools in 
> testing the software I'm writing for him.  Unfortunately, he knows almost 
> nothing about Unix, so I'm going to have to walk him through anything he 
> needs to do.
>
> He thinks he got it installed properly, but when he clicks the icon the 
> installer put on his desktop, the shell window appears briefly and then 
> immediately disappears.
>
> Any idea what's going on?  What questions should I ask him?
>
> He installed the software yesterday, so it's current.  I think he's using 
> Windows 2000 but I'm not completely sure until I ask him.
>
> Mike

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