[xcrysden] xcrysden-1.5.53-bin-cygwin under cygwin

[Tone Kokalj]

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 00:55 +0200, Danilo Addari wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm having troubles in running xcrysden 1.5.53 under the current release
> of cygwin (O.S. windows 7 pro 64 bit 6 Mb RAM). The program starts but gives the
> following error message:
> ERROR: while executing exec /xcrysden-1.5.53-bin-cygwin/bin/ftnunit
> couldn't fork child process resource temporary unavailable
> It looks as there is something wrong with Tcl/Tk (version 8.5 currently
> installed).

No, it seems like it cannot execute the fortran compiled binaries. 
Anyway, googling a bit about your error reveals that it
may NOT be connected to directly to the program you are running 
(in this your case xcrysden and its subprocesses).

Perhaps this is a valuable link:  http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall

Regards,
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