On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:58:57PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I just found out that in the standard Cygwin Python setup it is not > possible to run the Python interpreter from a Win32 command shell. > (You get an error about the NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS machine even when C: > \cygwin\bin is in the path).
The following works: C:\>bash -c python Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 13 2007, 08:13:14) ... > The reason is that python.exe is a symbolic link to python2.5.exe. As > the Python interpreter itself is only about 43 Kb in size I suggest > copying the interpreter instead of symlinking (Zsh for instance does > the same). OK. Should I copy or make a hard link? Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- 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/