On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Sarah, Godfrey, Matthew & Vera wrote: > I have downloaded and installed cygwin on a windows XP machine. I have used > Johan Faxer's document on configuring cygwin. > > Why don't my commands like ls -la work? > How can I make sure that unix commands in the cygwin bash shell work normally? > How do I place cygwin/bin in the winXP path? Might that be my problem? > > I have used the net user postgres /homedir:"$(cygpath -w /home/postgres)" > command but NO c:\cygwin\home\postgres folder is created? What am I doing > wrong? > > TIA > Godfrey
Apparently you're using a non-official installation guide for Cygwin. You'd have to ask the author (Johan Faxer). If you do ask for help on this list, please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
