cygwin newbie. This is going to seem very low-key compared with the level of posts I see here but would really appreciate some help with a few things just to get started pls. I have checked the FAQ and lists but they are too advanced for where I am right now with cygwin.
I installed cygwin( CYGWIN_NT-5.1)without any problems at all. Clicked the Win desktop icon and the up came the Window and bash prompt. However I then tried:- find / -name “*.c” –print (and again later with –type f argument) This ran, found a few .c files but continued running for a very long time – longer that expected. Even from / I though it seem too long. Many files appeared seemingly (from the displayed path name) as “registry-type” (UUID’s in pathname) under /proc. The machine eventually crashed! I do mean the machine itself btw and not just cygwin. The PC is running Win XP sp3 on a FOXCON mobo with 4Gb installed Crucial ram (passed by memtst). The disc layout is “unconventional”. For historic reasons, the boot partition is on F: and the system partition on C: This F: partition is in fact a logical partition residing in an extended partition. Cygwin is installed in F:\cygwin I later tried running vi and that hung within the cygwin terminal window – but I think maybe that is because not one of the installed programs as I cannot find the vi exe anywhere. I would though have expected a “not found” error. (And using “find” to find it crashes!). I tried “which vi” and that gave /bin/vi Finally, I just tried running “ed!” and got this:- $ ed 1 [main] -bash 1580! _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: something failed for pid 0: re s 1580, hProcess 0x6E1, wr_proc_pipe 0x758 vs. 0x758, Win32 error 6 I’d like to use cygwin – can someone pls help? thanks -- 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