Cygwin gives die-hard Windows users a Linux environment on their PCs so that they can login to the BIC and edit files, run batch jobs, etc.
- Install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com. See Dale’s page on installation tips (http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/users/dale/helppages/cygwin/Cygwininstall.html).
- Install the X server so that the BIC programs may open X windows on your desktop. ‘’This will be slow if you want to run something like Display, but tolerable to run something like emacs.
- You may find the shell’s default font size too small. To get a bigger font:% You may want to poke around in =/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts= and experiment some more.
run xterm *-fn 10x20* -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg green -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash -l - To use ssh to connect to the BIC (at least with Windows XP SP 2 and Cygwin 1.5.4)
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Go to your Cygwin root directory and copy /etc/defaults/etc/ssh_config= to =/etc
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In ssh_config, make sure you have the following 2 lines:
ForwardAgent Yes
ForwardX11 Yes
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