Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Brief, simple guide to cygwin
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:05:37 -0400
Lines:	18
Message-ID:	<dbn6qg$d5o$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:	<1c42f0e05071203536bbdc3c2 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20050712103021 DOT 09a9a4b8 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <1c42f0e05071208117b2011e2 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
Mime-Version:	1.0
X-IsSubscribed:	yes

>If someone does have time to correct the misleading things I would be
>most grateful, as obviously I do not wish to spread misinformation!

>> rxvt - this is a 'terminal client' or an alternative to that dos box 
>> popup. You need it to display various programs (vim, mutt etc.) 
>> correctly.

I think this can be done using the default dos box, although rxvt is very 
nice because it works well OTOB.

>> The ISC Bind tools are extremely useful for DNS related queries. Among 
>> them are "dig", "nslookup", "host".

IIRC Windows comes with an nslookup by default.

I don't personally see anything else wrong, but I probably missed some. 



--
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/

- Raw text -