Try to put a backslash before every space: Documents\ and\ Settings
and take care to respect lower and upper cases. Bye On 6/23/08, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM>, the Ubuntu help says > that if you download Cygwin, you can follow the Linux directions. I'm using > the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I downloaded the file to C. I type: > > cd C:\ > > So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is > sitting in C:\. So I type: > > md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso > > "No such file or directory." > > Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly application. > "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little paragraph. Incidentally, how > does one even go to the Desktop directory (which lies at C:\Documents and > Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, > Cygwin seems to reject it. > > - Ben > -- 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/
