[plug] Windows X-client

[Peter Wilsmore]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:34:00PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:

> Oh well, as long as it's only _slightly_ offtopic. I mean, we have
> dreadfully high standards for ontopicness here, you know.

Oh yes I can tell from other posts.

> > but does anyone know of a free low priced X-windows client for windows.
> 
> A _client_ that is free and _also_ low-priced... hmmm, hmmm.... :)

I did actually mean to put a / in there - idealy I am after a free 
one but something low cost will do.

> God I'm a prat today :). 

quite ;P.

> However, I can now strongly recommend the Cygwin XFree86 - which is, quite
> literally, a port of XFree86 to Windows using Cygwin. In fact I'm using it
> right at the moment and it's great.
> 
> Go and have a look at
> 
>   http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/
> 
> and follow the very very good "downloading and installing" directions.

Perfect - exactly what I was looking for I knew this existed somewhere 
(I can remember someone telling me about installing it) and had just
started looking at the XFree86 web site to try and find it.

thanks,
  Peter