[xcrysden] XCrySDen installation for Windows

[Tone Kokalj]

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 08:52 -0600, zubaer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a very new user of XCrySDen. I am having problems in XCrySDen
> installation for Windows. I am using compiled binary. When I open
> cygwin I see its home directory as 
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\myname\
> 
> I see "XCrysDen" directory here and it has all the files like (bin,
> Awk, contrib etc...). I have pasted xcConfigure files at ..\hossain2\ 
> When in the cygwin window I type ./xcConfigure it shows 
> 
> $ ./xcConfigure
> ./xcConfigure: line 39: cd: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or
> directory
> ./xcConfigure: line 70: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or
> directory

This is due to a whitespace in the directory name for $HOME (i.e. home
directory). 
This is not very smart. Please install cygwin under some different place
then: 
C:\Documents and Settings\myname\

For example, the default C:\cygwin would be a good place.

Regards, Tone