Thanks, Greg. I've been hung up w/health problems, which is why I have been so late replying to you.
I guess that with the install giving me desktop icon choices it never occurred to me cygwin wasn't supposed to run fromthere! I had read a lot of the faq more than once; if it said otherwise I certainly missed it. btw, I'm no UNIX guru but I've done a lot of simpler Open Server work. Thanks again; and soon I reckon I'll be up to the ls in search of my executable! oren On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Greg Chicares <gchica...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On 2011-07-09 16:45Z, oren goren wrote: >> on my emachine e525 W7 home premium I downloaded/installed per the >> gatech http mirror. >> >> accepting all install defaults I ended up with two desktop icons. >> >> (A) the cygwin logo named cygwin. I clicked on it and got (1) 2-3 >> sample/suggest command lines, (2) my user id, (3) the prompt. I didn't >> know which if any suggested command to take so exited. > > It's a *nix shell--specifically, 'bash'. It's not like a GUI program > that presents a menu from which you pick available actions. > > Try the 'ls' command (letter ell, letter ess, Enter). That should list > the files in the current working directory. And 'man ls' tells you > other ways to use that command. > >> (B) a folder icon labelled with the gatech url (%3a, %2f for :, /). >> The folder contained folder 'release' and file setup. 'release >> contained folder containing tars for unix commands. > > That directory caches everything that was downloaded. It just makes > it easier to maintain and update your installation. You don't have > to do anything with it yourself--just leave it alone. > >> Although the name 'setup' I have not discovered the way - if any - to use it. > > The 'setup' program just installs Cygwin. Now that you have it > installed, what were you anticipating you'd use it for? > > The "FAQ" and "Documentation" links below may help. > > -- > 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 > > -- Bless the beasts and children. -- 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
