RE: Installed fine and yet having issues...

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David J Jones
> Sent: 15 July 2004 17:55

> Hello,
> ? I am knew to the list and after spending 3 days of looking 
> over docs, faqs
> and web pages I have resigned myself to asking now.? I am 
> using Windows XP
> Pro with the latest install of Cygwin.
> Everything seemed to install fine with no errors however when 
> I start up the
> bash shell, I cannot even use the simplest of commands.? 

  At this point in your post, it would have been a good idea to explain
*why* you can't even use the simplest of commands.  Is your keyboard broken?
Do your fingers perhaps not work?  Does bash not accept input?  Do you get
an error message?  Does your computer halt and catch fire, or reboot?
Nobody's going to know what the answer to your problem is if you don't
actually tell us anything about what the problem itself is!

> I 
> have attempted to
> go by the advice others have give to what I think were 
> nothing seems to work.?

  Oh look!  No details about what that advice was, or in what way it didn't
work.

> I am not striving to run X11, I 
> mainly just wish to
> use gcc and related things like make and configure.? 

  Reading between the lines, I can just make out the first hint of a clue as
to what the problem might actually be.  Did you actually tell setup to
install gcc and the various other development tools?  They're not included
by default.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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