To answer the question about Java, there is no "cygwin Java". You simply install the regular Java for Windows. You can invoke it from cygwin, since cygwin happily runs Windows executables. The one thing this does not accomplish is to give you Unix syntax for the Java command line -- you have to use Windows syntax for things like the class path (; not : for separator; full path name looks like C:\dir1\dir2\...\file.ext, etc.). This is because porting something to cygwin involves compiling from source. Also, something as subtle and complex as a Java virtual machine may really need to know that it's Windows underneath, etc. In other words, you really are better off using the Windows version of Java on Windows, even if you use cygwin primarily.
Regards -- Eliot Moss -- 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
