Alexander wrote: > alright... i admit it, i'm a hopeless newbie, but this is really frustrating > me... I've succesfully installed cygwin and the supporting files, but when I > try > to open the batch file, it opens a single cmd-like window that doesn't respond > to anything. is it possible that it's responding poorly to my hardware (i > have a > laptop)?
No, unless the laptop is an Apple laptop ;-) OK, seriously now, do you see bash running in Task Manager's processes? Does the contents of cygwin.bat look correct? What happens if you open a Windows Command Prompt and do what the batch file does? -- René Berber -- 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/