Re: Consol mode question

2006-07-14 Thread Richard Quadling
Glad to have helped. Maybe this should be an option for the installer? To add the cygwin/bin path to the system's path? On 14/07/06, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14 July 2006 08:40, Richard Quadling wrote: > I installed Cygwin using the setup.exe from Cygwin's site and MAY have > ad

RE: Consol mode question

2006-07-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 July 2006 08:40, Richard Quadling wrote: > I installed Cygwin using the setup.exe from Cygwin's site and MAY have > added the cygwin's bin directory to my PATH You did. >(if it wasn't done by the installation It isn't. > - can't remember). That was the vital step! cheers,

Re: Consol mode question

2006-07-14 Thread Richard Quadling
I tried JUST what you did. It worked. I've a windows only user and only recently installed cygwin. I created my hello.c, opened a CMD Prompt, typed gcc hello.c -o hello.exe and got no errors. Typed hello and got "Hello, world!". As expected. I installed Cygwin using the setup.exe from Cygwin's

Consol mode question

2006-07-13 Thread Benn Fine
Warning - old time unix user, unsure windows user newbie question: how do I use cygwin from a dos window, as seen in the example below from the documentation. Console Mode Applications Use gcc to compile, just like under UNIX. Refer to the GCC User's Guide for information on standard usage and op