It is strange, that a fresh installation doesn't work. > > It runs now and improves the situation somewhat (at least 'ls' works > now), but I still don't have a home directory and 'less' doesn't work, > etc.
Please try this from a windows command line, to see if it builds your home directory. Replace P:\cybwin with your path. P:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "source /etc/profile" Al -- Caution crosser: Runnig Gentoo/Prefix on Cygwin/Vista. All stupid questions are related to that context. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple