RE: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-21 Thread Stephano Mariani
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cygwin on Win 2000 > > FYI everyone... > > Command.com really *should* be there. You really *shouldn't* ever use it > directly, though. > > If you launch a console app which turns out to be 16-bit, NT/2000/XP > automaticall

Re: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-21 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
FYI everyone... Command.com really *should* be there. You really *shouldn't* ever use it directly, though. If you launch a console app which turns out to be 16-bit, NT/2000/XP automatically instantiates command.com (and then passes all of its operations back to CMD.EXE). I suspect the OPs

Re: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Lapo Luchini
> Mine was a clean install in each case with only the service packs and > some patches being added. I installed it from scratch every time but the first (of course...) but \winnt\system32\command.com is definitely there, in Win98 is widows\command\command.com.. be it an upgrade of a from scratch.

RE: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
t; -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo > > Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2002 3:37 PM > > To: Stephano Mariani > > Cc: 'Jason Tishler'; 'Anthony P Praino'; [EMAIL PRO

RE: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
t; To: Stephano Mariani > > Cc: 'Jason Tishler'; 'Anthony P Praino'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Cygwin on Win 2000 > > > > / "Stephano Mariani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Strange... I do not seem to have that file (I chec

Re: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Jason Tishler
Stephano, On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:47:28PM -, Stephano Mariani wrote: > I am quite interested to figure out why... did you install your win2k > over an existing windows version or was it a clean install? > > Mine was a clean install in each case with only the service packs and > some patch

RE: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Stephano Mariani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo > Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2002 3:37 PM > To: Stephano Mariani > Cc: 'Jason Tishler'; 'Anthony P Praino'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cygwin on Win 2000 > > / "Stephano Mar

Re: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ "Stephano Mariani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Strange... I do not seem to have that file (I checked three machines, | win2k Pro SP2, Win2k Pro SP1, WinXP Pro). Can be found on my Win2k Pro SP2, ahh well maybe something depending on your shoesize or something, definetly nothing for cygwin ;-)

RE: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Stephano Mariani
x27;Anthony P Praino'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cygwin on Win 2000 > > Stephano, > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:12:48PM -, Stephano Mariani wrote: > > Windows 2000 has no command.com. > > Sure it does: > > $ ls -l c:/WINNT/system32/command.c

Re: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-20 Thread Jason Tishler
Stephano, On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:12:48PM -, Stephano Mariani wrote: > Windows 2000 has no command.com. Sure it does: $ ls -l c:/WINNT/system32/command.com -rwxrwxr-x1 Administ SYSTEM 50620 Jul 26 2000 c:/WINNT/system32/command.com Whether or not someone would want t

Re: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-19 Thread Michael A Chase
To run the Cygwin programs from an MSDOS prompt, you probably need to add the Cygwin /bin directory (normally c:\cygwin\bin) to %PATH%. I normally put it at the end so MSDOS programs (e.g. find) don't get overridden by Cygwin at the MSDOS prompt. Setup.exe doesn't alter you path settings, so you

RE: Cygwin on Win 2000

2002-03-19 Thread Stephano Mariani
Windows 2000 has no command.com. Assuming you mean cmd.exe, did you forget to add the cygwin/bin directory into your PATH? Stephano Mariani > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Anthony P Praino > Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 8:58 PM >