Possibly this is a slight simplification, but broadly speaking is the following an accurate description of things?
Assuming all necessary paths exist, Windows executables (fc, for instance; can't find much else that's any use) can be called from within Cygwin; and vice-versa (ls, md5sum, diff; any number of useful others). That's why find, sort, etc can be problematic, if a user ends up calling the alternative version to that required. Lately (can't remember when it started) I've been unable to use nano from outside Cygwin: I get a "Error opening terminal: cygwin" message. (On the other hand, pico works fine.) Please can you tell me whether this is a minor correct-able glitch in nano or whether there's a deeper problem (like, I've misunderstood the dual-use principle described above). Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
