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Re: help for installing cygwin on Windows ME needed
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Subject: Re: help for installing cygwin on Windows ME needed
- From: rahul toley <rahul_toley at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:58:46 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Thanks for all your help. My cygwin is up and running.
Now I can proceed from here.
rahul
--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
>
> > Target Platform : Windows ME (problem ?)
> > Executable version :cygwin-1.1.8-1.tar.gz after
> > untarring and gziping (i use powerarchivers
> extracter)
>
> Please use Cygwin's setup program
> (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe).
> There are registry entries and desktop shortcuts to
> set up also.
>
> > Effect : If I execute any of the executables in
> the
> > cygwin directory under bin I see a black shell
> opening
> > and then gets killed. I cant makeout anything from
> > this.
>
> Cygwin programs don't work that way. Open a shell
> window, *then* run
> the programs from the command line.
>
> > Side Questions: which is the main executable. i
> > tried running cygpath.exe cygcheck.exe
>
> If you run setup, there's a "cygwin" icon on the
> desktop to click on.
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