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> > While I can run the Cygwin terminal window, there appears to be a very serious
> > issue as I can't run commands like "cd", "ls", or "cygcheck" either.
> 
> Can you tell us what this means?  How did you determine that you can't run these commands?

I opened the cygwin terminal and got the usual shell prompt.  I entered the "cd" or "ls" commands and got a command not found error.  I echoed  
$PATH and saw that the path didn't look correct (which is why I assume the commands couldn't be found).  I would have expected to see /usr/bin and 
/usr/local/bin in the path somewhere.  I didn't try giving the full path to these commands to see if the commands would have worked (I assume they 
would, but will confirm tonight).

I opened an Explorer session and went to C:\cygwin\bin and I could see the ls.exe and cygcheck.exe files were present so I presumed the issue was 
with the $PATH not being set correctly.

> > I can't run cygcheck or I would try to give the output as an attachment.
> 
> So you're saying c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe doesn't run from cmd.exe?
> True for c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe too?  What feedback do you get?

I got the command not found error when I tried to run cygcheck from the shell.  Stupidly, I didn't try with the full path to the file in the shell. 
I did open a windoz cmd window and ran the cygcheck command.  There were errors (which I didn't bother to record of course).  I will repeat this 
attempt and send the results this evening.

Sincerely,

Brian S. Wilson

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